Prince William to pay FIRST ever visit to his great-grandmother Princess Alice's tomb
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TODAY Prince William will pay his first ever visit to the tomb of his great-grandmother Princess Alice of Battenberg, whose last wishes were to be buried in a crypt below a Russian Orthodox church in east Jerusalem.
By MARTINA BET
Prince William attends Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem
The Duke of Cambridge, who is on a five-day visit to the Middle East, will visit the tomb of his great-grandmother at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem on the last morning of his tour.
Princess Alice, the deaf-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is particularly lauded in Israel for sheltering a persecuted Jewish family during the Holocaust.
On Tuesday, Prince William was thanked for the courage of Princess Alice by Evy and Philippe Cohen, the descendants of Rachel Cohen, who wa...