Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (Aleksandar Pavlov Karađorđević; born 13 August 1924), is the eldest son of late Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, who acted as Regent of Yugoslavia in the 1930s, and his wife, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark.
Alexander was born at White Lodge, Richmond Park, United Kingdom, and is currently 1374th in the Line of succession to the British throne.
On February 12, 1955, Alexander married Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, daughter of King Umberto II of Italy and of his wife, Princess Marie-José of Belgium. The marriage took place at Cascais in Portugal where the bride's father was living in exile. The couple had met on the 22 August 1954 royal cruise of the Agamemnon hosted by King Paul and Queen Frederika of the Hellenes.
Alexander and Maria Pia have a pair of twin sons born in 1958, a second pair of twins being born during the marriage five years later:
- Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia (b. 1958)
- Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (b. 1958)
- Prince Sergius Wladimir Emanuel Marie of Yugoslavia (born 12 March 1963)
- Princess Helene Olga Lydia Tamara Maria of Yugoslavia (born 12 March 1963), married Thierry Gaubert
Alexander and Maria Pia divorced in 1967, and in 2003 she married Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, himself divorced from Princess Yolande de Broglie-Revel.
On November 2, 1973, Alexander married in a civil ceremony Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein (b. 9 July 1942), a cousin of that principality's monarch, in Paris. They have one son:
- Prince Dushan Paul of Yugoslavia (born 25 September 1977)
Alexander is one of the four founding members of the Serbian Unity Congress. He is patron of the Center for Research of Orthodox Monarchism.. He lives in Paris.
On 17 February 2008, Alexander issued a statement condemning the declaration of independence by Kosovo.
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