thepompandcircumstance:These three women are the only ones born from royalty that are recipients of

thepompandcircumstance:

These three women are the only ones born from royalty that are recipients of the honorific “Righteous Among the Nations”. Such an honor, written in Hebrew as חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, is given by the State of Israel for non-Semitics who risked their lives for the sake of aiding Jews from annihilation upon orders by the Nazi Party.

1. HRHAlice of Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece received the title for sheltering the Cohens in her household at Athens. Upon being questioned by the Gestapo, she used her hearing disability to her advantage and pretended that she could not understand them.
2. HMQueen Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess in Bavaria used her German connections and influence as consort to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from deportation.
3. HM the Queen Mother of Romania, Princess Helen of Greece assisted thousands of Romanian Jews within 1941 to 1944.

The Duke of Edinburgh spoke of his mother’s actions, 

“I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress.”