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  My Family
Alexander of Carisbrooke (Marquess) was born in 1886.
Alexander of Wurttemberg (Duke) was born in 1804.
Alexander of Yugoslavia (Prince) was born in 1982 in Washington, District of Columbia.
sneakers.pair.com /roots/b2.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Karageorgevitch (Aleksandar Karađorđević / Александар Карађорђевић, born July 17, 1945) is the current pretender to the abolished thrones of Yugoslavia and Serbia.
Alexander is the only child of Peter II, the last king of Yugoslavia, who was from the Karageorgevitch dynasty, and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.
Alexander is the only grandchild of Aspasia Manos, wife of King Alexander I of the Hellenes, and therefore the only living royal, apart from his three sons, who has their ancestry: from a monarchical perspective, mostly reigning princes of Moldavia and Wallachia, as well as their families.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crown_Prince_Alexander_of_Yugoslavia   (1561 words)

  
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In November 1999, Crown Prince Alexander convened a large conference in Budapest for the representatives of the Democratic Opposition in Serbia.
The eldest son and heir HRH Prince Peter was born in 1980 in Chicago, Illinois; and fraternal twin sons HRH Prince Philip and HRH Prince Alexander were born in 1982 in Fairfax, Virginia.
In 1985, Crown Prince Alexander married Katherine Batis of Athens.
www.royalfamily.org /family/hrhcpa_bio.htm   (805 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - King Alexander I
Born on 16 December 1888 in Cetinje, Montenegro, Alexander Karadjordjevic was the second son of King Peter I, who came to power as constitutional monarch of Serbia in the violent coup of 1903 that saw the downfall of the Obrenovic dynasty.
On 6 January 1929 Alexander abolished parliament and the constitution and established a dictatorship, unable to appoint a cohesive government from among the numerous squabbling political factions.
Alexander was considering restoring a form of parliamentary government when, on 9 October 1934, while on a state visit to France, he was assassinated in Marseilles by a Macedonian activist (allegedly acting with Croat separatists).
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/alexander_serbia.htm   (693 words)

  
 Yugoslavian Royal Family
Prince Alexander was from the House of Karageorgievich and was elected Prince of Serbia in 1842 but was forced to abdicate in 1859 in favour of Prince Milosh (1780-1860) from the House of Obrenovich.
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.
www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/Yugoslavian_Royal_Family.htm   (750 words)

  
 Alex_bio
He is the fraternal twin of Prince Philip and he is third in the line to the Throne after his elder brother Hereditary Prince Peter and Prince Philip.
He is the son of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and HIRH Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans Braganza.
Prince Alexander is the grandson of the HM King Peter II and HM Queen Alexandra.
www.royalfamily.org /family/alex_bio.htm   (273 words)

  
 History 1918-1941
Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic was selected to rule, and in May 1919 the Paris Peace Conference officially recognized the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later named the Kingdom of Yugoslavia - yugo meaning south - land of the southern slavs).
Alexander's cousin, Pavle, began to reorganize the government, and appointed a Serb, Milan Stojadinovi, to run the cabinet as Prime Minister.
Yugoslavia was angered and frightened because Italy, of whom it had long been wary, harbored the killer.
www.unc.edu /~kgrim/SerbiaGroupSite/history2.html   (494 words)

  
 Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Throughout his childhood Crown Prince Alexander lived in hotels with his rootless parents or at boarding school in England.
The family lived in London for many years, where Crown prince Alexander worked from 1989 onwards to restore democracy to Yugoslavia.
The family know live in the place where Alexander's father was born, and spend most of their time on charity work in Serbia and Montenegro.
www.dr.dk /aroyalfamily/person_alexander.htm   (109 words)

  
 Drakulic - A King for the Balkans
Prince Alexander could hardly believe that this was happening, that he was standing here, in Belgrade, in front of all these people, who had come to greet him and to listen to their long-absent, almost forgotten prince.
Alexander had been born there in 1945 and had spent his whole life abroad without much prospect of ever returning as king of Yugoslavia.
Alexander had courtesy enough to address the crowd in the Serbian language, even though he did not speak it at all - that was a measure of how much he really believed he would take back the throne one day.
www.ucis.pitt.edu /eehistory/H200Readings/Topic1-R2.html   (2385 words)

  
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Alexander is the son of King Petar II, who left Yugoslavia in 1941 after Nazi Germany overran his country and died in exile in 1970.
Princ Aleksandar Karadordevic, zajedno sa svojom suprugom Katarinom i sinovima Aleksandrom i Filipom, boravio je na poziv Vlade Republike Srpske od 26.
Princ Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, zajedno sa svojom suprugom Katarinom i sinovima Aleksandrom i Filipom, boravio je na poziv vlade Republike Srpske (RS) od 26.
members.tripod.com /~srbin_iz_srpske/princes_visit.html   (5772 words)

  
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1949: Princess Dietmut and Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein
1972: Princess Margarita and Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Parma
1999: Prince Umberto and Princess Sofia of Bulgaria (*20.11.1999)
www.angelfire.com /de/verenasroyalty/MTDtwins.html   (1548 words)

  
 My Family
Philip of Yugoslavia (Prince), Alexander of Yugoslavia (Prince).
Edward (Prince of Wales) was born on 15 Jun 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Edward (Prince of Wales) and Joan (Countess of Kent).
sneakers.pair.com /roots/b8.htm   (1291 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Crown Prince arrives in Serbia
Prince Alexander was met at Belgrade airport by a crowd of well-wishers, including religious and political leaders.
Prince Alexander was born in London on 1945.
The prince received a hero's welcome on his first visit in 1991 and since then has supported the opposition from abroad.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/973873.stm   (282 words)

  
 Royal Wedding of HRH Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones
Prince William and Tom Parker Bowles (Camilla's son) will serve as witnesses to the civil wedding ceremony, which is conducted by the Royal Borough's Superintendant Registrar, Clair Williams.
Prince Harry, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Princess Anne and her husband Timothy Laurence, Major Bruce Shand and Laura Parker Bowles will be among the guests attending the civil marriage.
Prince Charles and Camilla will arrive and depart from the Guildhall in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI painted in Royal claret livery, which was used by The Queen for over 25 years.
www.etoile.co.uk /Events/CC_Wedding.html   (1195 words)

  
 Kosovo Is Only Part of the Problem in the Balkans
Even at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union gradually lost control over Yugoslavia, Albania and Romania, while the West barely contained the perennial Greek-Turkish disputes, despite the fact that both countries were NATO members and therefore, at least formally, allies.
Yugoslavia represents the classic example of what can go wrong in the transition from a communist society.
For a number of years after the demise of old Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav federal presidency, which was meant to represent both Montenegro and Serbia, remained a mere cipher designed to obscure Mr.
www.iht.com /articles/1999/02/20/edkara.t.php   (1173 words)

  
 CNN.com - Yugoslavia embraces monarchy again - July 12, 2001
Yugoslavia's new reformist leaders scrapped a communist-era decree which stripped the royal family of citizenship and property rights.
The prince said restoring the monarchy is not a priority and his primary concerns are the needs of the impoverished people.
The Karadjordjevics are a Serbian dynasty that expanded its rule when Yugoslavia was formed after World War I. The royals fled the country in 1941 to escape the Nazis and have lived in Britain since World War II.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/12/yugoslavia.monarchy/index.html   (333 words)

  
 DPI
On a visit last month to Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the election, the most recent of a number of trips since he was first allowed to set foot on Yugoslav soil in 1991, Alexander pointedly avoided the former royal palaces and estates he hopes eventually to recover.
Alexander agrees that Milosevic must face justice for his alleged crimes but, like Kostunica, thinks this should be meted out by national courts, not the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague.
Alexander would be more amenable to negotiations and discussions on Kosovo." But despite their shared royal heritage, Leka Zog, who lists his occupation as "king" on his passport, sees Kosovo as "a wall to come between us.
www.unmikonline.org /press/wire/im2111pm.html   (9630 words)

  
 Alexander of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, the current pretender.
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born 1924, son of Prince-Regent Paul
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born 1982, son of Crown Prince Alexander
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_of_Yugoslavia   (118 words)

  
 CNN.com - Exiled Prince calls for Yugoslav unity - October 7, 2000
Yugoslavia's exiled Crown Prince Alexander is urging all the opposition elements in Yugoslavia to give their backing to Vojislav Kostunica in his task of rebuilding the country.
In an interview with CNN, the Prince said he had known Kostunica since 1991 and believes he has all the right attributes to lead Yugoslavia to political and economic recovery.
Yugoslavia was a kingdom prior to World War II, and the Royal family was forced into exile after the communists came to power.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/07/yugoslavia.crown.prince   (307 words)

  
 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Michael Sneed :: The King is dead . . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sneed hears his son, Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, may be readying plans to disinter his father from St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Libertyville and move his remains to a family mausoleum in Serbia.
He was forced out of Yugoslavia by Adolf Hitler and the occupying Axis forces and spent much of his adult life in England and the United States, where he died at the age of 47.
Prince Alexander reputedly plans to transfer the king's remains to a family mausoleum in Oplenac, Serbia.
www.suntimes.com /news/sneed/82613,CST-NWS-sneed04.article   (607 words)

  
 News Archive 2000
HRH Prince Giovanni of Bourbon-Two Sicilies died on December 25 in Madrid at the age of 67.
Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, one of the last surviving great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and a first cousin of the late Queen Ingrid of Denmark, died on December 20, the eve of his 81st birthday.
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the effective ruler of his country during King Fahd's illness, is favorable to reform and critical of the United States.
www.royaltymonarchy.com /news/2000.html   (732 words)

  
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Glittering scenes during the receptions held on the occasion of the wedding of Princess Maria Pia and Prince Alexander: on the left, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Braganza, on the right, Monseigneur Le Comte and Madame La Comtess de Paris.
HRH The Duchess of Braganza, born HIRH Princess D. Maria Francisca of Orleans-Braganza, who was the sister of Madame, married the Head of the Portuguese Royal House in Petrópolis, Brazil, in 1942, and was the mother of the present Duke of Braganza.
HRH The Countess of Barcelona wears the splendid diamond and pearl tiara that was part of the jewels given to her by King Alfonso XIII on the occasion of her wedding to the then Prince of the Asturias, in 1935 in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome.
www.angelfire.com /realm3/casasavoia/eight.html   (547 words)

  
 Italian Orthodox Royalty - Sicilia Ortodossa
In 1896, Prince Vittorio Emanuele, the future King of Italy (he ruled for 45 years), wed the statuesque Elena Petrovich, daughter of Nicholas I of Montenegro.
She was the first Italian queen in centuries to take an active interest in works of charity affecting the lives of common people.
In 1955, Maria Pia, daughter of King Umberto II of Italy (who reigned briefly in 1946), married Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.
www.siciliaortodossa.org /dynasties.htm   (410 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yugoslavia broke up not as a result of ''foreign plots'' but because the leaders of its various entities, most of them intoxicated by a poisonous blend of negative nationalism and Marxism, ended up in bloody conflict and did not want to compromise for fear of losing power.
When communism collapsed in Europe in 1989, Yugoslavia was the most economically developed country in the region.
Yugoslavia can return to its traditional position as a force for good in the Balkans, rather than remain the Continent's disaster story.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Jul_10/3.html   (1033 words)

  
 Line of Succession
HRH The Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales (1948)
103Archduke Stefan of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (Stefan Habsburg) (1932)
Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, Prince of Denmark (1967)
members.aol.com /JENCCHS/line.html   (369 words)

  
 Obituary: Cyrus Vance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The news of Cyrus Vance's death on January 12 brought back the memory of a golden autumn afternoon in 1992 we spent discussing the intricacies of the Balkans at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
At that time I advised Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, who had made Vance's acquaintance some years before, and we were to meet again at the lovely lakeside villa of Daniel Boyer, a joint friend.
Owen did not have a problem with the fact that the settlement had to be based on the illogical and immoral recognition of administrative boundaries between Yugoslavia's former constituent republics as fully-fledged international frontiers.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic/NewsST011602.htm   (1423 words)

  
 RTE News - Air-strikes to continue until aims are reached - NATO
Javier Solana said that the air-strikes had been taking their toll, but that NATO was not waging a war against Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia says that a passenger train has been hit in a NATO attack, causing casualties.
Morning Ireland: Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia gives his analysis of the situation.
www.rte.ie /news/1999/0412/kosovo.html   (497 words)

  
 Kokkalis Program
Djindjic visited Harvard for the first time in April 2000 as a leader of the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia, when he participated in a summit at the Kennedy School sponsored by the Kokkalis Program (Yugoslavia: Prospects for Democracy).
He was accompanied at that conference by numerous other opposition figures, including Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Milan Protic, Miroljub Labus, and Vesna Pesic.
Prime Minister Djindjic’s dynamism and commitment to the development of his country and the broader region was inspirational to the many students engaged in the study of leadership and public service who were present at the event.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /kokkalis/leaders_djindjic.html   (458 words)

  
 Line of Succession to the British Throne
HRH The Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales
Prince Michael of Kent (excluded by marrying a Roman Catholic)
Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (excluded by marrying a Roman Catholic)
www.britroyals.com /succession.htm   (184 words)

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