Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ( sr, italic=yes, Jelisaveta Karađorđević / Јелисавета Карађорђевић; born 7 April 1936) is a member of the royal
House of Karađorđević
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, a
human rights activist
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and a former presidential candidate for
Serbia
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.
Yugoslavia
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abolished its monarchy in 1945 and decades later
broke up
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into
several countries.
Biography
Princess Elizabeth was born in the
White Palace,
Belgrade
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as the third child and the only daughter of
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Pavle Karađorđević, Павле Карађорђевић, English transliteration: ''Paul Karageorgevich''; 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was prince regent o ...
(
prince regent
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of Yugoslavia 1934–1941) and
Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark
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Princess Olga was a daughter of Princ ...
.
Her older brothers were
Prince Nicholas
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and
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, who married, firstly,
Princess Maria Pia of Savoy and, secondly, Princess Barbara of
Liechtenstein
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.
She is a paternal second cousin of
Queen Sofía of Spain
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and
King Charles III
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, and a maternal first cousin of
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
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and his siblings,
Prince Michael of Kent
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and
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
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.
She is also a maternal third cousin of king
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
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. She is a great-great-granddaughter of
Karađorđe
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, who started the first Serbian uprising against the Turks in 1804.
Her godmother and namesake was her maternal aunt
Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark
Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark (; 24 May 1904 – 11 January 1955) was the middle daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia.
Early life
Princess Elizabeth was born on 24 May 1904 at the Tatoi P ...
.
A businesswoman and writer, she is the author of four storybooks for children and she has created two perfumes- "Jelisaveta" and "E". Permanently settled in
Belgrade
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, she lived in Villa "Montenegrina", which was owned by her mother, Princess Olga, the wife of Prince Regent Paul. The Villa has been recently sold off by the Princess.
Education
Princess Elizabeth was educated in
Kenya
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, the
United Kingdom
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and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, finally she studied the history of fine art in
Paris
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. She speaks
English
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,
French,
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
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* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
,
Italian
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and
Serbian.
Personal life
Princess Elizabeth was married to Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010), an American
Jewish
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dress
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manufacturer
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and close friend of the
Kennedy family
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. They married on 21 January 1961 and were divorced in 1966.
Nancy Mitford
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, ed. Charlotte Mosley, ''Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford'' (1993), p. 394 They have two daughters (and three granddaughters):
*
Catherine Oxenberg
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(b. 22 September 1961) briefly married
Robert Evans
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in July 1998 and had the marriage annulled nine days later. She married
Casper Van Dien
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on 8 May 1999. They had two daughters and divorced in 2015. She also has a daughter, born in 1991, from a previous relationship.
**
India Riven Oxenberg (b. 7 June 1991)
**Maya Van Dien (b. 20 Sep 2001)
**Celeste Alma Van Dien (b. 3 Oct 2003)
*
Christina Oxenberg
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(b. 27 December 1962) married
Damian Elwes
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in May 1986. They later divorced.
Princess Elizabeth's second marriage was to
Neil Balfour of Dawyck (born 1944) on 23 September 1969 and they divorced in November 1978.
[ They have one son]["BALFOUR, Neil Roxburgh", ''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Limited, 2002), p. 88] (and four granddaughters):
*Nicholas Augustus Roxburgh Balfour (b. 6 June 1970)[ married ]Jonkvrouw
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Stéphanie de Brouwer (b. 1971) in 2000. They have four daughters:
**India Lily Balfour (b. 17 October 2002)
**Gloria Elizabeth Balfour (b. 11 November 2005)
**Olympia Rose Balfour (b. 27 June 2007)
**Georgia Veronika Stefania Balfour (b. 10 September 2010)
In 1974, she was briefly engaged to the actor Richard Burton
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, after his first divorce from Elizabeth Taylor
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.[Judith Weinraub]
"THE PRINCESS'S AWAKENING: Consider the world as Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic sees it"
''The Washington Post
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'', 12 July 1991, accessed 30 October 2021
Princess Elizabeth married a third time, to former Prime Minister of Peru
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Manuel Ulloa Elías (1922–1992) on 28 February 1987.[ They separated in 1989, although the marriage was never officially dissolved. In 1992 Ulloa Elías died, which made the princess officially a widow.
]
Property status
After the death of King Alexander I, and during the Regency administration (of Regent Prince Paul, Radenko Stanković Radenko Stanković (April 26, 1880 – December 5, 1956) was Regent of Yugoslavia for the underage Peter II from 1934 to 1941, alongside Prince Paul, the head of the regency, and Ivo Perović.
The son of a priest, he was born in Néramogyor ...
and Ivo Perović) that followed, the City of Belgrade District Court issued Decree N° 0.428/34 on 27 October 1938. The decree, which became official law on 4 March 1939, pronounced King Alexander I's underage sons King Peter II, Prince Tomislav and Prince Andrew
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, in equal parts, heirs to his entire estate. This included all real estate at Dedinje
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: the Royal Palace
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Africa
* Abdin Palace, Cairo
* Al-Gawhara Palace, Cairo
* Koubbeh Palace, Cairo
* Tahra Palace, Cairo
* Menelik Palace
* Jubilee Palace
* Guenete Leul Palace
* Imperial Palace- Massa ...
(Old Palace) in Belgrade, its surrounding land and forest, and the White Palace, with its appertaining houses. On 2 August 1947, Edvard Kardelj
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, then vice president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, issued a decree that confiscated all these properties from the royal Karadjordjević family. This followed an earlier decree in March 1947, stripping the family of their citizenship.[Royal Office (Serbia) official website, "The 02nd of August 1947 Decree", Accessed 20.09.12, ]
His decree, the 'National Assembly of the Presidency of the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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,' was abolished in 2001 after the deposing of Slobodan Milošević
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. The new government of Yugoslavia restored to all members of the royal family both their citizenship and the use of the entire royal complex in Dedinje
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. In 2013, it was announced that the villa "Crnogorka" (Montenegrin), in Uzička Street, Dedinje
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, was to be returned to Princess Elizabeth. The villa was bought by Princess Olga
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in 1940, and taken by the state in 1947. It was owned by the Serbian government and used as the official residence of the Ambassador of Montenegro
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.
Politics
Princess Elizabeth recognized early the dangerous signs that would turn the former Yugoslavia
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upside down in a bloodbath of historic religious and ethnic rivalries long suppressed by Communist
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rule. She spoke out in Europe
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and America
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on behalf of bridging the gap between ethnic hatreds. Working behind the scenes through United Nations
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programs, she also journeyed to the Vatican
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The Holy See
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in 1989 to ask Monsignor Tauran, then Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, to help improve relations between Catholic
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and Orthodox
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Religion
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communities in Yugoslavia.
In December 1990, she created the Princess Elizabeth Foundation, a non-political, not-for-profit organization
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after foreseeing the crucial importance of a vehicle to address the tension brewing just below the surface. Since the subsequent civil wars
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
, her efforts have focused heavily on transporting medical supplies, food, clothing and blankets to refugee camps, in addition to finding homes for children victimized by war and placing older students in schools and colleges in America.
Before the breakup of Yugoslavia began in 1991, she invited the Orthodox
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Bishop Sava and the Mufti
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of Belgrade, along with the Yugoslav Minister for Religious Affairs to attend a conference in Moscow
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that was hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev
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. This was the second international gathering of political and religious leaders committed to world reform that included Mother Teresa
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, the Archbishop of Canterbury
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, the Dalai Lama
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, Al Gore
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and Carl Sagan
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.
*
She decided to run for President of Serbia
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The curr ...
in the 2004 Serbian presidential election
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, despite her cousin Alexander's
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having objected that the Royal Family should stay out of politics. After the end of World War II
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, the Royal Family was banished from the country, and their goods confiscated. "In case of victory," she stated, "my priority would not be to return to a monarchy
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, but to form a real State." She got 63,991 votes or 2.1%, finishing in 6th place out of fifteen candidates.
In 2002, Princess Elizabeth received the first Nuclear Disarmament Forum Award, the ''Demiurgus Peace International'', (accompanying president Vladimir Putin
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, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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, Ted Turner
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and others) for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in Zug
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, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
Arms
Princess Elizabeth was granted heraldic arms on 20 June 2008. Her motto translates into English as ''Service Is Love In Action''.
Honours
*
Grand Patron of the Order of the Fleur of Lys (United Kingdom).
*
Dame Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl
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(Sultanate of Sulu).
Ancestry
See also
*Politics of Serbia
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* 2004 Serbian presidential elections
*Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Pavle Karađorđević, Павле Карађорђевић, English transliteration: ''Paul Karageorgevich''; 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was prince regent o ...
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