He served in both the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War and was exiled from Greece along with his family in 1922.
When Philip was only 18 months old, the family was exiled from Greece and settled in Paris, where they relied on relatives for handouts.She did not see Philip again until the funeral of her daughter Cécilie, who died in a plane crash at the age of 26 in 1937.
In 1993, the remembrance center bestowed the title of Righteous Among the Nations on Alice and a year later, Philip traveled to Yad Vashem and planted a tree in her honor.
Philip’s oldest sister married Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, a German aristocrat who went on to become a Nazi — though he did eventually turn on Hitler.Philip is said to have had a close relationship with Cecilie, who married her cousin Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by RhineMonths later, the family met a violent ending when Cécilie, eight months pregnant with her third child, died in a plane crash alongside her two sons and husbandSophie married her second cousin, Prince Christoph of Hesse, when she was just 16Christoph died in a plane accident in 1943 and Sophie married Prince George William of Hanover three years later, going on to have another three children