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  Royal Genealogies Part 13
Peter succeeded to the throne under the regency of his uncle, Prince Paul (1893-1976), after his father's assassination in 1934.
In 1941, during WW II, the Yugoslavs ousted the pro-Axis administration of the regent.
Peter assumed full control and brought his kingdom into the war on the Allied side, whereupon the Germans invaded and occupied Yugoslavia.
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  Brief History of the Dynasty
Three Regents were appointed King Peter II great-uncle Prince Paul - married to Princess Olga of the Hellenes - became the Prince Regent.
Shortly afterwards on 27th March, 1941 Prince Paul was unseated in a coup and the young King Peter II was declared of age.
Yugoslavia was divided to satisfy Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and German demands and a puppet Croat state proclaimed.
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  24TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alexandra of GREECE was born on 25 Dec 1926 in Greece?.
She was married to Peter II of YUGOSLAVIA (son of Alexander II of YUGOSLAVIA and Marie-Mignon of ROMANIA Queen of Yugoslavia) on 20 Mar 1944 in London.
Peter II of YUGOSLAVIA was born in 1922 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia - son of Alexander II.
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 Peter II of Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peter II (6 September 1923 - 3 November 1970) wasthe last King of Yugoslavia.
Peter II (Petar II), of the Karadjordjevic dynasty, succeeded in 1934 after the assassinationwhile on a state visit to France ofhis father, King Alexander I, under a regency headed by his father's cousin, Prince Pavle.
King Peter was deposed after World War II by Yugoslavia's ConstituentAssembly on November 29th, 1945, whilestill in exile.
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
King Peter II (Serbian Cyrillic: Краљ Петар II Карађорђевић) (6 September 1923 3 November 1970) was the last King of Yugoslavia.
On March 27th, 1941 King Peter II, then 17, was proclaimed of age, and participated in a British-supported coup d'état opposing the Tripartite Pact.
King Peter II was forced to leave the country with the Yugoslav Government following the Axis invasion; initially the King went with his government to Greece, and Jerusalem, then to the British Mandate of Palestine and Cairo, Egypt.
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 King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic
Peter was the oldest son of Alexander I Karadjordjevich.
Peter was underage at the time, so the country was ruled by Regency led by Prince Paul Karadjordjevich, son of Arsen, brother of King Peter I Karadjordjevich.
From London, Peter II supported the chetnik movement of General Drazha Mihailovich, whom he had appointed the Minister of Army, Navy and Air Force, at the beginning of 1942.
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 AllRefer.com - Peter II, king of Yugoslovia (Yugoslavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Peter's personal rule began with the German invasion (Apr., 1941) of Yugoslavia.
His troops were soon defeated and Peter fled to England, where he headed a government in exile.
Peter protested the action and remained in exile.
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 Peter II - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A grandson of Peter I and the son of the czarevich Alexis, he succeeded on the death of Catherine I. He was too young to rule, but he willingly lent himself to a court intrigue, led by the Gallitzin and Dolgoruki families, which resulted in the fall of the all-powerful minister, A. Menshikov.
Peter was betrothed to Catherine Dolgoruki, but died of smallpox on his wedding day.
Peter Popham waits with the faithful and the unbelievers drawn to St Peter's Square at the end of Pope John Paul II's forceful, paradoxical life.(News)
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 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a kingdom in the Balkans which existed from the end of World War I until World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Because Peter II, the eldest son of Alexander was a minor, a regency council of three, specified in Alexander's will, took over the role of King.
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was soon divided by the Axis into several entities: Hungary and Bulgaria annexed some border areas, Croatia was made into the Independent State of Croatia, and a rump Serbian state was created under the administration of Milan Nedic, which still recognized Peter II as King.
Peter II, who had escaped into exile, was still recognized as King of the whole state by the allies.
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 Brief History of Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yugoslavia (the land of the southern Slavs) was formed in 1918 as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes under king Peter I, its capital in Belgrade (the Roman Singidunum).
After the start of World War II, Yugoslavia tried to maintain a neutral stance, but on March 1941 it was forced to sign a treaty of alliance with Germany setting off tumultuous protests that resulted in the deposition of the regency by the military.
Peter was made king and the alliance with Germany was repudiated.
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 Michael Parenti: The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was built on an idea, namely that the Southern Slavs would not remain weak and divided peoples, squabbling among themselves and easy prey to outside imperial interests.
Yugoslavia was the one country in Eastern Europe that would not voluntarily overthrow what remained of its socialist system and install a free-market economic order.
Yugoslavia's sin was not that it had a media monopoly but that the publicly owned portion of its media deviated from the western media monopoly that blankets most of the world, including Yugoslavia itself.
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Nemanjic pedigree of the Royal House of Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is chiefly due to king Peter II and crown prince Alexander descending maternally from, respectively, Maria of Romania and Alexandra of Greece.
However, of course queen Maria of Yugoslavia was the daughter, biological and genetical heir, of her mother Marie of Edinburgh, whose all ancestors thus are ancestors of Alexander and his family.
The kings of Yugoslavia rose to their kingship, not because of any medieval roots (that anyway were acquired only by having Maria of Romania as Peter II’s mother), but by succession within the House of Karageorgevich, the dynasty originating from George the Black, a successful nationalist rebel leader in early 19th century.
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 My Family
Parents: Peter II of Yugoslavia (King) and Alexandra of Greece (Princess).
Children were: Peter II of Yugoslavia (King), Tomislav of Yugoslavia (Prince), Andrej of Yugoslavia (Prince).
Alexander of Yugoslavia (Prince) was born in 1982 in Washington, District of Columbia.
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 23RD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marie-Mignon of ROMANIA Queen of Yugoslavia was born in 1900 in Rumania - dtr of Ferdinand.
Alexander II of YUGOSLAVIA (son of Peter I of YUGOSLAVIA and Zorka of MONTENEGRO) was born in 1888 in Montenegro - Son of Peter I. He died on 9 Oct 1934 in Marseilles - assassinated on visit.
Andrew III of YUGOSLAVIA was born in 1929 in Yugoslavia - son of Alexander II.
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 King Peter II of Yugoslavia
Father of Alexander Crownprince of Yugoslavia, he became king at age 11 after the assassination...
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 Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923 - 1970) - Find A Grave Memorial
He became King of Yugoslavia at the age of 11 in 1934, after his father, Alexander I was assassinated in Marseilles, France.
The country was ruled until 1941 by Prince Paul, a regent, when Peter began his rule.
In 1965 when the monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia, he lived in the United States.
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 Timeline Yugoslavia
Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, commander of the royalist Chetniks, for bravery and devotion to the Orthodox Church and the exiled monarchy.
Later on the treaty of friendship with Yugoslavia was abrogated; Hoxha began purging high-ranking party members accused of "Titoism"; Soviet Union began economic aid to Albania.
1992 Apr 27, The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro.
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 A Commoner Looks at a King -- Monday, Mar. 20, 1944 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Yugoslavia's youthful Peter II turned up in London last week, summoned by a commoner, to test his chances of remaining king.
Peter kept as mum as a king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon.
The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne.
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 Self-Styled "Orders of Saint John" I
It is claimed that they received a charter from King Peter II of Yugoslavia in 1969 and a renewal of this in 1970, purportedly signed by the King when he was in extremis in hospital in Chicago.
Prince Vladimir of Yugoslavia's [42] connection with this body is unfortunate and was for a while assisted by Prince Serge Troubetzkoy (until the latter's death) who again hoisted his banner to the Saint John masthead.
This lady is the daughter of a cousin of the late King Peter II and has been twice married; Princesses of the Royal House of Yugoslavia do not retain their royal styles or titles after marriage.
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 Yugoslavian Royal Family
For strategic purposes Alexander had travelled by boat from Yugoslavia to Marseilles and was due to meet up with his wife in Dijon/Lyon for the final journey to Paris.
Yugoslavia was proclaimed a Republic on 29 November in 1945 and the monarchy abolished without Referendum.
Peter died in Denver Hospital Colorado following a liver transplant, and he was buried at the St. Sava Monastery Church in Libertyville Illinois the only king to be buried in the United States.
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 Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia - Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Serbian Cyrillic Њ.К.
After the end of World War II, the ex-royal family was banished from the country, and their goods confiscated.
She is concerned in the Serbian Kara or evi as regent for his nephew King Peter II of Yugoslavia) and of the House of Kara or evi (born 7 April 1936) is a member of the vast and fascinating continent are examined with a focus on views of Africa we do not often see.
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 RoyaltyDigest
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Death of Princess Paul of Yugoslavia-Royalty Digest-Princess Paul of Yugoslavia, the former Princess Olga of Greece and sister of Princess Marina Duchess of Kent died October 16th, 1997-Yugoslavia-7-189-78
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 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller
On her death in 1928 the relic was entrusted to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, a Member of the Order, and is now in a religious sanctuary in Serbia-Montenegro.
It was to his son, King Peter II, that history entrusted the modern continuance of the Order, which remained uninterrupted until the German invasion of Yugoslavia forced the young monarch into exile.
King Peter II was a descendant of Czar Paul I and Queen Victoria.
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 WHKMLA : History of Yugoslavia, 1941-1944
In (greater) Croatia, the Ustasa committed atrocities targeting the country's Serb minority causing refugees fleeing into Serbia proper in such a rate, that the German authorities (administrating Serbia proper) were alarmed and advised the Croatian government to moderate their actions.
In Yugoslavia, two resistance organizations emerged, the royalist Serb CETNIKS and the communists PARTISANS, under the leadership of JOSIP BROZ TITO.
In the cause of the war it turned out that Tito's partisans were the most important political factor in the resistance; Germany's interest was to have as few German troops tied up by the occupation of the country as possible and to leave policing to locals, such as the Croats.
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