Prince Philip added to the world, he added to Britain, and he added to the Commonwealth. In conclusion, I will use his own words, which he said in Israel when his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was being honoured as Righteous Among the Nations. He said, "We did not know, and, as far as we know, she never mentioned to anyone, that she had given refuge to the Cohen family at a time when all Jews in Athens were in great danger of being arrested and transported to the concentration camps."—we did not know—"In retrospect, this reticence may seem strange, but I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress. You must also bear in mind that she has been well aware of the Nazi persecution of the Jews for many years.