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An Australian historian has reportedly found that Kate Middleton’s great-aunt and Prince William’s great-grandmother have a lot in common. According to the findings of Michael Reed, a historian from Ilim College in Australia, both women not only worked as nuns but also received mental health treatment.
Gertrude Middleton was reportedly the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge’s great-grandfather, Noel Middleton. On the other hand, Prince William’s great-grandmother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, who was the mother of the late Prince Philip. Both Gertrude and Alice have been said to have served as nurses in World War I after becoming nuns. But their stories didn’t end there, as they experienced their fair share of trauma.
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Reed said: “They basically lived parallel lives, a few years apart. Both were volunteer nurses in connection with the Red Cross: Gertrude during the First World War and Princess Alice during the first and second. Both acted as dedicated social workers for the homeless and disadvantaged and proved to be generous financial benefactors. But most surprising of all was the revelation that Gertrude, like Princess Alice, had been a patient in a mental hospital. Her stories are both fascinating and sad.”
In her early days, Gertrude reportedly studied at an all-girls boarding school, which was quite close to the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where Kate and William had their first meeting as undergraduates. The actual working member and her great-great-aunt also have some similarities. For example, Gertrude used to play tennis like Kate. She also liked lacrosse. Gertrude even knew how to play the piano as did the mother of three, who surprised everyone with her performance during a Christmas carol concert in 2021.
While Gertrude joined the Anglican Epiphany Convent in Cornwall as a nun, Alice founded an order of Greek Orthodox nursing nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. However, later in life, the former had to go to the Lawn Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Lincoln in the 1930s. But in March 1942, at the age of 66, she died. Princess Alice was transferred to a sanatorium in Switzerland in 1930. She took her last breath in 1965 at Buckingham Palace. She was 84 years old at the time.
Several previous reports have also spoken about the Duke of Edinburgh’s difficult past. After his death in April 2021, news of his childhood resurfaced with the BBC saying: “He had endured an exceptionally turbulent childhood. She was just over a year old when her father was sent into exile by an army court martial following Greece’s calamitous defeat in a war with Turkey.”
Although the family eventually took refuge in Paris, the facility did not last long because in 1930, her mother suffered the mental breakdown described above and ended up in the sanatorium. In addition, Philip’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece, “also freed himself from many of his responsibilities as a father, closing the family home in St-Cloud and thereafter leading a rather aimless life, wandering between Paris , Monte Carlo and Germany, interspersed with sporadic and unsuccessful interventions in Greek affairs,” the BBC added.
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