Aleksandar Karađorđević (In Serb: АлександарКарађорђевић ), often called Alexandre of Yugoslavia or Alexandre of Serbia , is the official applicant with the throne of Serbia under the title of Alexandre III of Serbia .

Biography

Wire of the king Pierre II of Yugoslavia and Alexandra of Greece, it was born in a room from the Hôtel Claridge from London the July 17th 1945. Continuation 212 of Claridges Hotel was yielded by the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia on June 17th, 1945 to make it possible Aleksandar Karađorđević to be born on the Yugoslav territory. Pierre II, who never did not abdicate, died in the the United States in 1970. Aleksandar thus decided at this time not to take the title of king, but never made statement in public in order to give up its dynastic rights for the throne of the Royaume of Yugoslavia.

In 1972, it married the princess Maria da Glória of Orleans-Bragance, of the Brazilian imperial family. They had three children: Pierre (born the February 5th 1980) and the twins Philippe and Alexandre (born the January 15th 1982). Its marriage ended in a divorce in 1985 and it remaria the same year with Katarina Batis.

In 1991, it visited for the first time the Federal republic of Yugoslavia. After the fall of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, the Parliament serbo-Montenegrin given certain royal assets to Aleksandar and it could, as from the summer 2001, to settle with the Old Castle (Stari Dvor) of Belgrade. Since, he is the obliged guest of the majority of the great events European society men and, in company of his wife, takes part in many caritative activities. The Yugoslav press and governmental civils servant address to him with the title of Its Majesty, crown prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic .

Sources

• Genealogy of the kings and the princes of Jean-Charles Volkmann Edict. Jean-Paul Gisserot (1998)

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