After attending the funeral of Shimon Peres on Friday, Prince Charles of Wales made a secret visit to his
Prince Charles at Peres funeral in Jerusalem
grandmother’s tomb in Jerusalem for the first time.
The clandestine trip leaked out and began to appear on social media.
The British Royal Family refrains from making formal visits to Israel
due to the sensitive political situation, according to a story by Adam
Berkowitz in Breaking Israel News (BIN).
Princess Alice in 1903
Princess Alice of Battenburg, the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh, is the paternal grandmother to the 67-year-old heir to the
British crown. She is buried in a crypt under the Russian Orthodox
Convent Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives, according to
BIN.
When Princess Alice died in 1969 she was originally buried at St
George’s Chapel, Windsor. But her final request was to be buried at the
Russian orthodox convent on the Mount of Olives, near her aunt
Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess of Russia, who was murdered by the
Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
The Grand Duchess was later declared a Russian Orthodox saint. In
1988, her wish was realized and she was re-interred in a crypt below the
church, according to BIN.
In 1994, Alice was confirmed “Righteous Among the Gentiles” by the
Yad Vashem Holocuast Memorial for sheltering Jewish friends at her home
in Athens, Greece for 13 months during World War Two while the city was
occupied by the Nazis.
Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene
Prince Philip attended the ceremony honoring his mother at the Yad
Vashem Memeorial in Jerusalem, marking the first time a member of the
royal family visited Israel. More than 85 percent of the Greek Jews were
taken to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Prince Phillip and his sister, Princess Sopie, visited their mother’s
crypt before Friday’s ceremony honoring Peres, according to BIN.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia canonized as St. Elizabeth Romanova
Source: Godreports