Seen this error on the BBC today, and earlier in other media. It concerns the relationship of Prince Philip to the Russian royal family. BBC says his "aunt Ella" was killed in the murder house in Ekaterinburg. Many media are using The Crown as a guide.

Philip and his mother were much more closely related to the Russian royal family than The Crown says. Philip's grandmother and Empress Alexandra were sisters. A third sister was Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia. Philip's mother and the murdered Romanov children were 1st cousins

o the tsar and tsarina were Philip's great-uncle and aunt, and the murdered kids in the Ekaterinburg cellar were 1st cousins once removed. (Philip was also a great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, as is Elizabeth II. Nicholas II was a grandson of Christian IX.)

(Philip's father's mother was also a Russian princess.)
Back to Philip's grandmother, Victoria of Battenburg and her sisters Alix (Empress Alexandra) and Elizabeth. They were duaghters of Queen Victoria's daughter Alice. So Philip is a cousin of Elizabeth II on mom and dad sides.

Now The Crown, and what it missed. Philip's great-aunt Elizabeth was widowed when her husband, a Russian grand duke, was killed by a bomb thrown by a revolutionary. Elizabeth was a great beauty, and very charismatic. She reacted to her husband's murder by beoming a nun.

During the Russian Revolution, she was one of a number of royals sent to the Urals. In July, 1918, she and several princes were thrown down a mineshaft, and grenades were dropped on them. Forensic evidence showed she lived for days and tended to the wounded. They all starved.

Seems like historic trivia, but bear with me. Grand Duchess Elizabeth was Philip's mother's aunt. When Philip's mother, Alice of Battenburg, was stricken by a mental disability and terrible personal problems, she followed the example set by Grand Duchess Elizabeth, became a nun.

It is a such an obvious situation of intergenerational trauma. the Crown left out the fact that Alice of Battenburg stayed in Athens during the war and hid Jews. When the British army found her, she was starving. She had given all her food away.

Alice is commemorated in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations, gentiles who saved Jews in the Holocaust. She is buried on the Mount of Olives, in a chapel built to house the body of her aunt, Grand Duchess Elizabeth.

Philip said at the service commemorating her wartime heroics that his mother would have seen what she did as duty, not as heroism. I think it's a look into Philip's personal psyche, and his own sense of duty.