Natalija Obrenović

Natalija Obrenović , into Serb Cyrillic, НаталијаОбреновић (born with Florence the May 14th 1859 - died with Saint-Denis the May 8th 1941) was the wife of Milan IV Obrenović, prince de Serbie, who became king de Serbie under the name of Milan Ier.

Its name of young girl was Natalia Keško. His/her father, Pjotr Keško, were a Moldavian colonel engaged in the Russian army and his/her mother, the Moldavian Pulchérie princess, it also, belonged to the aristocratic family of the Sturdza. According to the legend, in her childhood, a monologuist of good adventure had predicted to him that it would carry a crown but that it would lose it.

October 17th 1875, it Marie with the prince of Serbia Milan IV Obrenović, from which it had a son in 1876, Alexandre. From their union was born a second wire, Serge, who survived only five days.

In 1882, Milan IV becomes king under the name of Milan Ier; Natalija becomes queen of Serbia.

Milan Ier was unsteady. And from the political oppositions the two husbands separated: king Milan, in a preoccupation with a balance, was rather in favor of the Austria-Hungary while the queen leant for the Russia. Natalija Obrenović leaves Serbia with young prince Alexandre.

In 1888, while the queen takes water with Wiesbaden, king Milan takes again his son. The divorce is required and obtained. It will be cancelled thereafter.

January 3rd 1889, king Milan abdicates. The Natalija queen becomes regent and control surface for her Alexandre son.

In 1891, a radical cabinet, favorable to Russia, is formed. The queen seems to triumph. But, by fear of a revolution and fear of the return in Serbia of king Milan Ier, the queen is invited to leave the country.

In 1893, the young prince Alexandre, who wants to exert the full powerss before his majority, organizes a coup d'etat. He points out his father near him and the Natalija queen, who was in exile with Biarritz, returns to Belgrade in May 1895.

In 1900, it is opposed highly to the marriage of his/her son with Draga Mašin, because the young girl does not have royal blood. King Alexandre banishes it of Serbia for his opposition to their union. Ex-king Milan takes again to him also the way of the exile.

In 1901, ex-king Milan Ier dies in exile with Vienna. And in 1903, king Alexandre and the Draga queen are assassinated. The Natalija queen, become the only heiress of the dynasty of Obrenović, converts with Catholicism; she distributes all her heritage and becomes nun.

The queen spends the last years of her life in exile.

She dies in Saint-Denis in France in 1941.

Natalija Obrenović had written its Mémoires , but they were not published. They are preserved in the files of the Vatican.

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