Through her Foundation “World In Harmony – Mundo En Armonia” she has developed community involvement in Greece since 2003, when the Greek Royal Family returned to the country, and has supported many and disparate social groups. 

“Gina Bachauer” Scholarships (in cooperation with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation): The “Mundo En Armonia” Foundation, assisted by the Friends of the Music Society, offered scholarships to young musicians. The latter have had the opportunity to study alongside the best musicians and thus promote their music career.

Greek community kitchens & families in distress: The “Mundo En Armonia” Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation “Galene” and the Bodossaki Foundation, distributed food to 400 persons approximately on a daily basis in the Athens center, through its community kitchen. The “Mundo En Armonia” also collaborated in a feeding programme covering the needs of 60 children each weekend. Moreover, the Foundation offers food to various schools in Athens.

Roma community (in cooperation with Coca-Cola Tria Epsilon). The Foundation has assisted children of the Roma community, offering sandwiches and packs of juice to the Aspropyrgos 12^th & 7^th Elementary Schools. It also offered dance lessons in parallel, an extra-curriculum activity that took place every week.

The Foundation has also collaborated with the Diocese of Florina in the reconstruction of a student dormitory and a Seniors’ Day Center, following the aftermath of the seismic activity in the area, and offered school supplies to the children of the Cathedral’s playground. It has also helped Greek refugees repatriated from Russia, offered financial assistance to the school for impaired students in Verhea and, in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Athens, offered financial assistance and relief to the victims of the September 7 earthquake.

Quoting Princess Irene from an interview granted to Stavros Theodorakis in the emission “Protagonistes” [“Leading actors”] in 2010, her share of the damages paid by the Greek State for the confiscation of the royal property was distributed to the Greek relief programs, because “we can serve the world, and this is how History evolves, but through another way, in private”.

Through her Foundation “World In Harmony – Mundo En Armonia” she has developed community involvement in Greece since 2003, when the Greek Royal Family returned to the country, and has supported many and disparate social groups. 

“Gina Bachauer” Scholarships (in cooperation with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation): The “Mundo En Armonia” Foundation, assisted by the Friends of the Music Society, offered scholarships to young musicians. The latter have had the opportunity to study alongside the best musicians and thus promote their music career.

Greek community kitchens & families in distress: The “Mundo En Armonia” Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation “Galene” and the Bodossaki Foundation, distributed food to 400 persons approximately on a daily basis in the Athens center, through its community kitchen. The “Mundo En Armonia” also collaborated in a feeding programme covering the needs of 60 children each weekend. Moreover, the Foundation offers food to various schools in Athens.

Roma community (in cooperation with Coca-Cola Tria Epsilon). The Foundation has assisted children of the Roma community, offering sandwiches and packs of juice to the Aspropyrgos 12^th & 7^th Elementary Schools. It also offered dance lessons in parallel, an extra-curriculum activity that took place every week.

The Foundation has also collaborated with the Diocese of Florina in the reconstruction of a student dormitory and a Seniors’ Day Center, following the aftermath of the seismic activity in the area, and offered school supplies to the children of the Cathedral’s playground. It has also helped Greek refugees repatriated from Russia, offered financial assistance to the school for impaired students in Verhea and, in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Athens, offered financial assistance and relief to the victims of the September 7 earthquake.

Quoting Princess Irene from an interview granted to Stavros Theodorakis in the emission “Protagonistes” [“Leading actors”] in 2010, her share of the damages paid by the Greek State for the confiscation of the royal property was distributed to the Greek relief programs, because “we can serve the world, and this is how History evolves, but through another way, in private”.

Her difficult life, the hardships and the mental disease did not bend Alice’s personality, quite the contrary; they fortified her character, gave her force, stamina and self-denial for the good cause.

Alice took over the organization of one of the biggest soup kitchens in Athens. She worked daily so as to offer to starving children as much food as she could secure and would then share the left-overs with their hungry parents.

The first winter of the Occupation was tragic. Princess Alice lost twenty-six kilos at the time, a proof that she, too, suffered along with the rest of the Greek people.

In October of 1943 Princess Alice hid a Jewish family in her house; an act both brave and extremely dangerous, for which she later received honours.

Alice kept on working on a daily basis at the children’s soup kitchens. Additionally, however, she had now took over two asylums for deserted and orphaned children, one for boys and one for girls, and she had also placed nurses offering home care to destitute people in poor neighbourhoods of Athens.

Her niece, Queen-Mother Helen of Romania, saw to it to send her some food whenever she could, to keep her sustained.

She wrote to her son Philip in October of 1943: “I am almost identical as I used to be, bar the twenty-six kilos I lost two years ago which I fortunately did not gain back. You will be pleasantly surprised when you see me again with a descent attire, it is just my face that has more wrinkles”.

In January 1949, Princess Alice founded a Nursing Order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sorority of Martha and Maria. She founded a house for the Order in a little village, north of Athens, and carried out two fund-raising tours in the USA, in 1950 and 1952, in an effort to gather money for her good cause, since the whole of her personal property was spent on the projects she had carried out. 

On the day of Queen Elisabeth’s coronation in 1953, Alice heads her family in Westminster Abbey in her monastic garb.

When the Colonels’ coup broke up in Greece in 1967, Alice left for England where she stayed, originally in Windsor Castle and then in Buckingham Palace.

On 11 April 1963 Alice was awarded the title of the Righteous Among the Nations for the act of putting her life in danger in order to save the lives of Jews. In October 1944 her children, Philip and Sophia, went to Jerusalem to receive the medal.  Prince Philip said in his acceptance speech: “As far as we know, she never mentioned to anyone that she had offered shelter to the Kohen family, at a time when Jews were persecuted all over Greece and were in danger of arrest and transfer to the concentration camps. I reckon she never thought and she obviously considered this was an ordinary human act which helped some of her fellow human beings in their time of distress”.

Her difficult life, the hardships and the mental disease did not bend Alice’s personality, quite the contrary; they fortified her character, gave her force, stamina and self-denial for the good cause.

Alice took over the organization of one of the biggest soup kitchens in Athens. She worked daily so as to offer to starving children as much food as she could secure and would then share the left-overs with their hungry parents.

The first winter of the Occupation was tragic. Princess Alice lost twenty-six kilos at the time, a proof that she, too, suffered along with the rest of the Greek people.

In October of 1943 Princess Alice hid a Jewish family in her house; an act both brave and extremely dangerous, for which she later received honours.

Alice kept on working on a daily basis at the children’s soup kitchens. Additionally, however, she had now took over two asylums for deserted and orphaned children, one for boys and one for girls, and she had also placed nurses offering home care to destitute people in poor neighbourhoods of Athens.

Her niece, Queen-Mother Helen of Romania, saw to it to send her some food whenever she could, to keep her sustained.

She wrote to her son Philip in October of 1943: “I am almost identical as I used to be, bar the twenty-six kilos I lost two years ago which I fortunately did not gain back. You will be pleasantly surprised when you see me again with a descent attire, it is just my face that has more wrinkles”.

In January 1949, Princess Alice founded a Nursing Order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sorority of Martha and Maria. She founded a house for the Order in a little village, north of Athens, and carried out two fund-raising tours in the USA, in 1950 and 1952, in an effort to gather money for her good cause, since the whole of her personal property was spent on the projects she had carried out. 

On the day of Queen Elisabeth’s coronation in 1953, Alice heads her family in Westminster Abbey in her monastic garb.

When the Colonels’ coup broke up in Greece in 1967, Alice left for England where she stayed, originally in Windsor Castle and then in Buckingham Palace.

On 11 April 1963 Alice was awarded the title of the Righteous Among the Nations for the act of putting her life in danger in order to save the lives of Jews. In October 1944 her children, Philip and Sophia, went to Jerusalem to receive the medal.  Prince Philip said in his acceptance speech: “As far as we know, she never mentioned to anyone that she had offered shelter to the Kohen family, at a time when Jews were persecuted all over Greece and were in danger of arrest and transfer to the concentration camps. I reckon she never thought and she obviously considered this was an ordinary human act which helped some of her fellow human beings in their time of distress”.

The following venues were named after her

• Alexandra Avenue in Athens
• Alexandra Square in Piraeus (“Passalimani”)
• Alexandra Avenue in Corfu
• Alexandra Maternity Hospital (with special competence on conducting research and fighting post-partum maternal mortality).

The following venues were named after her

• Alexandra Avenue in Athens
• Alexandra Square in Piraeus (“Passalimani”)
• Alexandra Avenue in Corfu
• Alexandra Maternity Hospital (with special competence on conducting research and fighting post-partum maternal mortality).