What relation is the chain-smoking nun who comes to live at Buckingham Palace in season 3?

Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a Greek royal, led an utterly fascinating life. Among other things, she: was born deaf but learned to speak and read lips in multiple languages; fled Greece and lived in exile twice; served as a combat nurse in the Balkan Wars; sheltered a Jewish family during the Holocaust; experienced delusions in her mid-forties and was involuntarily committed to a Swiss sanitarium, where psychoanalysts diagnosed her religious fervor as a sublimated, unrequited love and Sigmund Freud himself treated her by x-raying her ovaries to accelerate menopause.

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