Milan Stojkov: KRALJEVI SRBIJE (Tekst: Milan Stepanović)

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The Exhibition of Paintings by Milan Stojkov

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Dear Visitors,

It is a pleasure that The Kings of Serbia exhibition of the renown Serbian artists Milan Stojkovis taking place at the White Palace. I believe that there is not a better place for this artist topresent to our public his work inspired by the rulers from our long and rich history. Portraits aresomehow a neglected form in our contemporary art, although our best painters from the pasthave been making them and many examples can be seen here at the Royal Compound.

I hope that your will enjoy your visit and this unique artistic experience.

HRH Crown Prince Alexander II

Belgrade, August 2012


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Biography ofMilan Stojkov

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Milan Stojkov was born on 22nd January1955 in Sombor, into a family of painters that gaveus famous Serbian painters Sava and Dragan Sto-

jkov. It was only logical for Milan to lean towards artin such an environment. His artistic talent is twofold:painting and architecture. Milan had his rst exhibi-tion, way back in 1972 in Odzaci, where the publicgot to know him through a display of miniatures.

However, Milan was drawn towards func-tional understanding of art, especially the creativeexpression in an architectural form, which led to hisenrolment in Architectural studies at the Universityin Belgrade. During the course of his studies he con-tinued to actively pursue painting, foremost oil oncanvas and lesonithe, and his focus of interest was,of course, architecture of towns, especially Somborwhere he was born.

These themes stayed with him till the present

day, which is why he made several series of the townsforgotten landscapes. During his professional workhe always had the need to shape the architecturalexpression and present it in an art form, rather than

just as functionality in itself. This is why contextuality,role and sense within the larger architectural senseof its surroundings of the building being designed,were crucial to him. While designing any given build-

ing, he always followed his inner painters sense ofharmony and composition, rather than looking at

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a building per se, alienated from its surrounding. Astudy of composition also happened in the form of astill life series of paintings. Milan had a few independ-ent and several group exhibitions of his architectural

works, shaped in an art form for the occasion.Within the painter sphere of his being, he

got especially interested in a forgotten authentictechnique of icon painting on glass. It had a longtradition in Sombor and a nearby village of Stapar,as it started around the middle of the 18th century.As a result, Milan made over ten icons on glass, butalso an unique icon on glass, the only of its kind inthe world, that Mr Stojkov made for the Monasteryof Saint Archdeacon Stefan in Sombor. Milan stillpursues this technique today, but his interests nowalso lie in creation of his own artistic expression inpainting, which is based on composite portraits ofpeople that left a signicant mark on history.

These portraits contain the most important

elements of life and work of their protagonists, aswell as mandatory presence of buildings that left amark on these persons and the age at which theylived. This concept of portraying persons where thepainting is a picturesque story about where the per-sons lived and what they accomplished, is in fact theresult of two dierent interests within one and thesame person, namely Milan the architect and Milan

the painter, and the understanding of unbreakableconnection between people and their living areas.In the same way as humans shape the houses andtowns they live in, the buildings and streets shapethe people inhabiting them. A more active approachto portrait painting in recent years resulted in inter-est in Serbian royal dynasties, since Serbia, with itsfourteen kings, is among the oldest independent

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(1217-1228)

Stefan the First-CrownedKing (1217-1228)

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Second son of the Great Prince Stefan Ne-manja ascended to the Serbian throne in 1196, atstate congress in Studenica. After their father died,Stefan came into conict with his older brother Vu-kan, and after devastating interpersonal clashes thetwo quarrelling brothers were nally reconciled bythe youngest brother, monk Sava that returned to

Serbia from Mount Athos, bearing the mortal re-mains of their father Saint Simeon. At rst marriedto Eudokia, the daughter of emperor Alexios III ofByzantine, and subsequently to Ana, granddaughterof ruler Enrico Dandolo of Venice, Stefan strived tomaintain balance among the powerful neighbors(Byzantine, Bulgaria, Venetian Republic and Hun-gary) and preserve, even expand independence and

unity of the Serbian state by either diplomatic ormilitary means. In 1217 Pope Honorius sent Stefan acrown, in this act Stefan became the king and there-fore equal to rulers of surrounding states. In this wayStefan became the rst ruler of Serbian lands to becrowned as king, hence the title First-Crowned. Atthe same time, by eorts of Nemanjas youngest son

Sava, Stefan also became theautocephalous SerbianArchbishop. Like his father, Stefan the First-Crownederected a grand memorial church Monastery ia(between 1208 and 1220), and wrote The life of SaintSimeon. In the later years of life Stefan was often ill,so his oldest son Radoslav became co-ruler, bear-ing the title Young King. Stefan the First-Crownedentered monastic order at his deathbed as monk Si-

mon, and died on 24th of September 1228.

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( , 45x60, 2011)Stefan the First-Crowned

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(1228-1234)

Stefan RadoslavKing (1228-1234)

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The oldest son of King Stefan the First-Crowned. He was born in his fathers rst marriageto Eudokia, daughter of the emperor Alexios III ofByzantine. As aheir to the throne, Radoslav ruledthe area of Zahumlje, and later, already as his fa-thers co-ruler, he got to rule over the Zeta area(1222-1228). After Stefan the First-Crowneds volun-

tary abdication in favour of his oldest son, Radoslavwas crowned Serbian king by his uncle, Serbias rstArchbishop Sava. Being married to Ana, daughter ofKing Theodor Angelo of Thessaloniki, Radoslav, as ason of one and husband of another Greek woman,himself felt Greek. This inuenced him to sign dec-larations and money (that he started minting) byname of his mothers Byzantine ruling family branch

of Ducca. He erected the outer narthex in monasteryStudenica. Radoslav was left without the protectionof Theodor, his powerful father-in-law, when he wasdefeated at Klokotnica by the Bulgarian king John IIAsen. In Serbia, after the defeat of emperor Theodor,the gradually mounting discontent with his rule andmeddling of his Greek wife in aairs of state, in 1233

led to an inevitable upheaval of the feudal land-owners that overthrewRadoslav. In his place, theycrowned his younger brother Vladislav. After theswitch, Radoslav spent some time in Dubrovnik andDrac, where his wife Ana left him. Upon his return toSerbia, Radoslav entered a monastic order and tookthe name Jovan.

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(1234-1243)

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Second son of Stefan the First-Crowned,ruled after his older brotherRadoslav (1228-1233),who was leaning towards Byzantine. In an upheavalof feudal landowners, Radoslav was overthrown inthe late 1233, and the following year Vladislav wascrowned the King of Serbia. Turning to Bulgaria,Vladislav got married to Beloslava, daughter of King

John II Asen of Bulgaria, the most powerful Balkansruler at that time. He came into conict with Hun-gary because King Bela IV tried to possess Hum, oldancestral land of Serbian rulers. Several years later(1242) a Tatar invasion swept through Serbia, andamidst all the confusion that this caused through-out Hungary and the Balkans, Vladislavs rule was se-riously jeopardized. This was so especially because

of the death of his powerful father-in-law, EmperorJohn II of Bulgaria, and around the middle of 1243his rule was overthrown, the throne was taken overby his younger brother Uros. During the King Vladis-lavs rule, in 1236, his uncle, the First Serbian Arch-bishop Sava died in Trnovo (Bulgaria). The followingyear, Vladislav transported the mortal remains tohis memorial church, monastery Mileeva (built be-tween 1234 and 1236), and strongly advocated thecreation of Savas saintly cult among the people. Af-ter losing the throne, Vladislav got the power overpart of the seaside areas, and the last record of himwas from 1267.

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(1243-1276)

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Third son of Stefan the First-Crowned as-cended to the throne in the middle of 1243. He gotmarried to Helen of Anjou, who was a relative ofKingKarl I of Sicily and Naples. She was, without adoubt, one of the most signicant Serbian queens.King Uros kept good relations with most of neigh-boring countries, and sent military aid to Hungarian

king Bela IV, Nicean emperor Theodore II Laskaris,and later his enemy Epirean despot Michael II Angel.In the late 1260s he came into conict with Hungaryover Macva, and was in one clash with the Hunga-rians taken prisoner. Then he married his son Crown-Prince Stefan Dragutin with daughter of HungarianKing Stephen V Catalina. At the time when his rulewas the strongest, King Uros, like his predecessors,

erected a memorial church Monastery Sopocani in1265. During the last decade of his rule, Uros select-ed his older son, Dragutin, to be his co-ruler, who,due to his fathers wishes to strengthen centralistrule, did not get power over part of state like heexpected. This made Dragutin, with the aid of Hun-garian army, confront and defeat his father in battleat Gacko, subsequently overthrowing him from thethrone. After being overthrown, King Uros entereda monastic order and as monk Simon, died on 1st ofMay 1277.

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(1276-1282)

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Oldest son of King Stefan Uros I ascendedto throne in 1276, after defeating his fathers troopswith the aid of Hungarian army, which was met withdisapproval from feudal landowners and the clergy.In order to keep himself in power Dragutin put partof the state under direct rule of his mother, QueenJelena and another part of the state under rule of

his younger brother Milutin. During the course ofhis rule, he leaned on Hungary, and his troops oc-casionally attacked Byzantine border areas. In1282, while touring town Jelec, Dragutin fell o ahorse and suered a severe leg fracture, leavinghim immobile for a long time. That same year, atstate congress in Dezevo near Ras, Dragutin abdi-cated in favour of his younger brother Milutin. Still,

he got the power over an area north and west ofMorava, all the way to Hungarian border. Hungar-ian queen Elisabeth and king Ladislav IV motherand brother of Dragutins wife Katelin gave himpower over areas of Macva-Bosnian prefecture,as well as Belgrade, which for the rst time everfound itself under Serbian rule. Between 1301 and1311 he and his brother Milutin fought a lot. KingDragutin erected a number of memorial churches,among which isthe seat of Serbian Archbishop, thechurch of Saint Achilles in Arilje, which was blessedin 1295/96. Dragutin ruled his lands until his deathon 12th March 1316, and he died a monk, under thename of Teoktist.

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(1282-1321)

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Younger son of King Stefan Uros I ascendedto the throne after the congress at Dezeva in 1282.He gave his brother Dragutin the power to governthenorthwestern part of the country, and his moth-er, Queen Jelena, was left to govern the southernparts untill 1309. His reign, the longest in serbian his-tory, began with a conict with Byzantium, through

which Milutin expanded state territory by conquer-ing of northern and middle Macedonian provinces.Later he came into conict with Bulgaria and Tar-tars, and the hostilities with Byzantium ended withhis marriage to underage Simonis, daughter of Byz-antine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos. Betweenyears 1301 and 1311 he disputedhis brother Dragu-tin, and later on came into conict with Croatian Ban

Pavle Subic. Subsequent to an attempt to stir up ariot against him in 1314, Milutin had his son and heirStefan deprived of his sight. After the death of hisbrother Dragutin, Milutin occuppied his provinces,inprisoned his son Vladislav, and soon afterwards(1319) came into conict with Hungary. He estab-lished the rst serbian legislation and had foundedmore monasteries and churches than any other ser-bian ruler and therefore is called the holy king. Heerected or restored forty monasteries and churches,among which stand out the church of Vavedenje inHilandar (1293), Our Lady of Ljevis in Prizren (1307),Banjska Monastery (between 1312 and 1316), Churchof St George in Staro Nagoricane (1313) and Gracani-ca Monastery (1321). He died on October 29th 1321.

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King Milutins older son ascended to thethrone after the death of his father, waging a strug-gle with two contesters to the throne his youngerbrother Konstantin and his cousin Vladislav (Dragu-tins son). He won the support of gentry and thechurch, and also claimed that his sight was restoredby the will of God (he was blinded by his father in

1314). During his reign he lost a part of the westernterritories to a Bosnian Ban, and in 1329 and 1330 hesuccessfully waged war against Byzantium and Bul-garia, thus signicantly expanding state territory ofSerbia. Between 1327 and 1331 King Stefan erectedhis biggest memorial church Monastery Visoki De-cani (nished in 1335), after which he was named De-canski. Besides the cult of his ancestor Nemanja (Saint

Simeon), the saintly cult of Stefan Decanski is themost prominent amongst the Serbian people. Earlyin 1331 Stefan unexpectedly came into conict withhis son and heir to the throne, young King Dusan,but the conict ended after three months with recon-ciliation between father and son, with Duan beingleft in power of the Zeta province. Still, by the end ofthe summer, induced by his loyal gentry, Dusan led ascarce army again against his father who resided ina castle in Nerodimlje, and when King Stefan ed toa nearby fortress Petric, Dusan surrounded the townand forced his father to surrender and resign from thethrone. King Stefan Decanski died on November 11th1331 as a captive of his son in Zvecan.

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(1331-1345) (1345-1355)

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After he imprisoned and dethroned his fa-ther Stefan Decanski, who soon died under vaguecircumstances, Dusan ascended to the throne as ayoung man, with big expectations of the gentry forthe new ruler, who had already proved himself an ex-cellent military leader, to lead Serbia into conquestthat would enable the powerful landlords to acquire

new regions and riches. After he married Helena,sister of Emperor Ivan Aleksandar of Bulgaria, andsettled his relations with Dubrovnik and Bosnia,King Dusan could commit himself to the conquestof neighboring Byzantine provinces, so he seizedtheentire region of modern day Macedonia and north-ern Greece by the year 1345, including Mount Athos.He successfully waged war against the Hungarian

army on the north, and by the year 1348 he con-quered Epirus and Thessaly, so his country spreadfrom the Corinthian gulf on the south to Danube onthe north. He proclaimed himself Emperor by theend of 1345 in conquered Serbia, and elevated theSerbian archdiocese to rang of patriarchy, which wasunanimously accepted by the state congress heldlater on in Skoplje. Dusans Code, the foundation of

Serbian law, was proclaimed at the state congress inSkoplje in 1349. Duans most signicant memorialchurch was the Saint Archangels Monastery besidePrizren. Emperor Dusan died suddenly on December20th 1355, and is the only sovereign of the Nemanjicdynasty that has not been canonized.

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Son of Emperor Dusan, already while Dusanwas proclaimed emperor in 1371, Uro was crowneda king and heir to the throne. At the time he tookover the throne, Uros was only nineteen years old,and Duans sudden death weakened the stability ofthe empire. Thessaly and Epirus were soon put un-der independent rule by Dusans half-brother Sime-

on (Sinia) who also proclaimed himself emperor.Certain areas of the empire that were ruled by theempowered and increasingly independent feudallandowners, in subsequent years were almost com-pletely exempt from empire and state government.Uro was not nearly as capable a ruler as his father,and although strikingly good looking, he was youngin sense as his contemporaries noted, meaning not

mature enough to rule an empire, which left himremembered as Uro the Weak. Singlehanded land-owners fought their own wars against other statesand among themselves, and Dusans noblemanVukain Mrnjavcevic even got the title of emperorand Uros co-ruler in 1365. Serbian empire ceased toexist after Battle on Marica against the Ottomans,in September 1371, and emperor Uro died in the

beginning of December same year, leaving no heir,and so the Nemanji ruling branch, that ruled overSerbia for two centuries, was extinguished. As hismemorial, Uros built monastery Matjece on BlackMountain near Skopje.

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(1882-1889)

Milan ObrenovicKing (1882-1889)

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Son of Milos and grandson of Jevrem Obren-ovic (brother of Prince Milo Obrenovi), Milan as-cended to the Serbian throne as a fourteen year oldboy, after the murder of his cousin Prince MihailoObrenovi in Koutnjak in 1868. When he became ofage he took over control of the state from the gover-norship in 1872. During the rst years of his reign his

domestic policy relied on the army and his foreignpolicy on Russia. In the years 1876/77 Serbia was atwar with the Ottoman Empire, and by the decisions ofthe Berlin Congress in 1878 its territory was expandedandSerbia gained full independence. The Secret Con-vention was signed in 1881 with Austria-Hungary,and next year Serbia was proclaimed a kingdom, withPrince Milan as the rst Serbian King after more than

ve centuries. After suppressing the Timok rebellionin 1883 King Milan began a persecution of his politi-cal opponents, and in 1885 unsuccessfully waged waragainst Bulgaria. Years of marital misunderstandingsended in divorce from Queen Natalija in 1888. OnFebruary 22nd 1889 Milan abdicated to the thronein favor of his son Aleksandar, only two months afterSerbia adopted a new constitution which was the

most liberal to date. In the next years he traveled backand forth to Serbia, and in 1897 King Aleksandar ap-pointed him commander in chief of the active army.They came into conict after Aleksandars decision tomarry Draga Masin, and shortly after Milan died in Vi-enna on February 11th 1901.

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(1889-1903)

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The son of Milan Obrenovic ascended to thethrone as an underage boy, after his father abdicat-ed in 1889. With a coup dtat in April 1893 he ac-quitted the government and the governorship fromduty, declared himself an adult and acceded to thethrone. As soon as next year he repelled the liberalConstitution from 1888 and reinstated the previous

one from 1869. Constantly struggling between theinuences and conicted political interests of hisquarrelling parents (King Milan and Queen Natalija),Aleksandar nally bended towards the politics of hisfather, brought him back to Serbia and appointedhim commander in chief of the active army, andfrom 1897 with his help gradually increased mon-archy dictatorship, weakening the parliamentarism.

For years, Aleksandar had an aair with Draga Masinborn Lunjevica, his mothers lady-in-waiting, whowas already a widow, twelve years older than him.Although his parents felt strongly against it, the Kingannounced his engagement to Draga Masin on July8th 1900, and the wedding ensued two weeks later.Under the inuence of Draga the King considerablychanged his politics and turned towards the radicals

and Russia. Soon after, an aair about Queen Dragasfalse pregnancy followed, which led to a decline ofpopularity of the royal couple amongst the people.Autocratic reign of the King and the unpopularity ofthe Queen in military circles led to a conspiracy ofarmy ocers and the brutal murder of the royal cou-ple on May 29th 1903.

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(1903-1921)

Petar KaradjordjevicKing (1903-1921)

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Prince Aleksandars son and grandson of theSupreme Leader of the Serbs Karadjordje ascendedto the throne already in his adult age, after the mili-tary coup dtat (May Overthrow ) and the assas-sination of King Aleksandar Obrenovic and QueenDraga. Born during the reign of his father, after thereturn of the Obrenovi Dynasty in 1858, Petar had

to live outside of Serbia. He received his educationin Switzerland and France. In 1870 he joined theForeign Legion and was decorated with the Legionof Honor for distinguished valor shown in battle.He took part in the Bosnian-Herzegovina uprisingunder the assumed name of Petar Mrkonjic, and in1883 he married Ljubica, the oldest daughter of theMontenegrin Prince Nikola. After spending a decade

in Cetinje, Petar and his sons moved to Geneva. Hekept in touch with his followers in Serbia and withthe Russian court. After his ascend to the throneand his coronation, King Petar portrayed a model ofconstitutional monarch. During his reign Serbia tookpart in three wars (two Balkan Wars and World WarI), and in 1914 the aging King transferred his royalprerogatives to his son Aleksandar. With his army

and his people he endured the Albanian Golgothaand exile on Corfu. With the union od Serbs, Croatsand Slovenes in 1918 Petar became the King of a newcountry and received the title The Liberator. He wasthe most beloved Serbian ruler, he errected his me-morial church Church of St Djordje in Oplenac, anddied on August 16th 1921.

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Aleksandar KaradjordjevicKing (1921-1934)

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Petar I Karadjordjevics second son spenthis childhood in Cetinje, he received his educationin Geneva, St. Petersburgh and Belgrade, and wasannounced Crown Prince and heir to the throne in1909, after his older brother Djordje renounced thethrone. He was commander of Serbias First Army dur-ing the First and the Second Balkan war, and was an-

nounced the Regent of Serbia in June 1914. He wascommander in chief of the Serbian army in World WarI, and made a strategic withdrawal through Albania tothe island of Corfu. After the liberation of Serbia andall of the Southern Slavic lands and the unicationof Serbs, Croats and Slovenes into a common statein 1918, Aleksandar became a regent, but already anundisputed ruler of the new state. He was crowned

king after his father died in 1921. He got married in1922 to princess Maria of Romania, they had threesons, Petar, Tomislav and Andrej. Due to party andethnic clashes the new state was politically unstable,so he suspended the constitution and established apersonal regime, and several months later changedthe name of the state to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Hereorganized the state administration and territorial

division of the country (nine provinces and the city ofBelgrade), and in 1931 proclaimed a new constitution(known as the October Constitution). In the externalpolitics he depended on Small Entente and France,while in internal politics he advocated Yugoslav In-tegralism. He was assassinated in Marseille on 9thOctober 1934.

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Petar KaradjordjevicKing (1934-1945)

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First-born son of King Aleksander and QueenMaria acceded to the throne after his fathers assas-sination in Marseille, 1934. As he was underage, thethrone was transferred to regency with prince regentPavle Karadjordjevic. In a coup dtat on 27th March1941 the regency was overthrown and King Petar IIproclaimed of legal age. Due to an attack by fascist

Germany, capitulation of the army and dissolutionof the country, the young king was already in April of1941 forced to emigrate to Greece and then Egypt,in June he went to London where he continued hiseducation and joined the Royal Air Force. Politi-cally, he was absolutely under the inuence of WarPrime Minister Winston Churchill. In 1944 King PeterII called on troops loyal to general of kings army in

homeland, Draza Mihajlovic to join forces with Mar-shal Titos troops of the Peoples Liberation Army,and also certied the creation of joined governmentTito-Subasic. After the end of the Second World War,elections in November 1945 and proclamation of anew constitution in January of 1946, the Monarchywas ocially abolished, and Yugoslavia became arepublic. Kings court of the Karadjordjevic and King

Petr II stayed in exile, and the king, together withwife and son Aleksandar, rst lived in London, andlater in the United States. He died on 3rd day of No-vember 1970 in Denver, Colorado.

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The only son of King Petar II and Queen Ale-ksandra was born in London in 1945, where his fa-ther lived in exile after the German occupation of Yu-goslavia in 1941. Early in 1946, when monarchy wasocially abolished, the royal family Karadjordjevicstripped o their citizenship and all their assets con-scated, the King was, together with Crown PrinceAleksandar, forced to share the faith of numerouspolitical emigrants from his country, so he lived inGreat Britain, USA, France and Italy. Crown PrinceAleksandar II was educated in Switzerland, USA andGreat Britain, learned to speak several languagesand pursued a career in international business. Afterthe death of his father (1970) he decided not to usethe title of King, but did not renounce his title, or the

dynastic right to the throne. He married Her Imperialand Royal Highness Princess Maria da Gloria of Or-leans and Bragana of the Imperial Family of Brazil,and in that marriage three of his sons were born: theeldest son and heir Prince Peter (1980) and fraternaltwin sons Prince Filip and Prince Aleksandar (1982).The marriage ended in 1983, and in 1985 CrownPrince married Katherine Batis of Athens. In the

1990s, during the time of the ght against the totali-tarian regime, Crown Prince and his frequent pres-ence in Serbia represented an important support topro-democratic forces. Since summer of 2001, afterthe changes that took place in October 2000, CrownPrince and his family have been living in The RoyalPalace in Belgrade.

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