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Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ( sr, italic=yes, Jelisaveta Karađorđević / Јелисавета Карађорђевић; born 7 April 1936) is a member of the royal
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, a
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and a former presidential candidate for
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.
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abolished its monarchy in 1945 and decades later
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into several countries.


Biography

Princess Elizabeth was born in the White Palace,
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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 ...
(
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of Yugoslavia 1934–1941) and
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. Her older brothers were
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and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, who married, firstly, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy and, secondly, Princess Barbara of
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. She is a paternal second cousin of
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and
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, and a maternal first cousin of
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and his siblings,
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and
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. She is also a maternal third cousin of king
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. She is a great-great-granddaughter of
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, who started the first Serbian uprising against the Turks in 1804. Her godmother and namesake was her maternal aunt
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. 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
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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
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and
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, finally she studied the history of fine art in
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. She speaks
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and Serbian.


Personal life

Princess Elizabeth was married to Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010), an American
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and close friend of the
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. They married on 21 January 1961 and were divorced in 1966.
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They have two daughters (and three granddaughters): *
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(b. 22 September 1961) briefly married
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in July 1998 and had the marriage annulled nine days later. She married
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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) *
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(b. 27 December 1962) married
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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
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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
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, after his first divorce from
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.Judith Weinraub
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Princess Elizabeth married a third time, to former
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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,
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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
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, in equal parts, heirs to his entire estate. This included all real estate at
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: the
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(Old Palace) in Belgrade, its surrounding land and forest, and the White Palace, with its appertaining houses. On 2 August 1947,
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, then vice president of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...
, 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
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,' was abolished in 2001 after the deposing of
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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
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. In 2013, it was announced that the villa "Crnogorka" (Montenegrin), in Uzička Street,
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, was to be returned to Princess Elizabeth. The villa was bought by
Princess Olga Olga ( orv, Вольга, Volĭga; (); russian: Ольга (); uk, Ольга (). Old Norse: '; Lith: ''Alge''; Christian name: ''Elena''; c. 890–925 – 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following ...
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
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.


Politics

Princess Elizabeth recognized early the dangerous signs that would turn the former
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upside down in a bloodbath of historic religious and ethnic rivalries long suppressed by
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rule. She spoke out in
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and
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on behalf of bridging the gap between ethnic hatreds. Working behind the scenes through
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programs, she also journeyed to the
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in 1989 to ask Monsignor Tauran, then Holy See Secretary for Relations with States, to help improve relations between
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and
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communities in Yugoslavia. In December 1990, she created the Princess Elizabeth Foundation, a non-political,
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after foreseeing the crucial importance of a vehicle to address the tension brewing just below the surface. Since the subsequent
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, 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
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Bishop Sava and the
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of Belgrade, along with the Yugoslav Minister for Religious Affairs to attend a conference in
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that was hosted by
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, the
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. * She decided to run for
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in the
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, despite her cousin
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having objected that the Royal Family should stay out of politics. After the end of
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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
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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
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and others) for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in
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.


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
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(Sultanate of Sulu).


Ancestry


See also

*
Politics of Serbia The Politics of Serbia are defined by a unitary parliamentary framework that is defined by the Constitution of Serbia in which the president, currently Aleksandar Vučić, is the head of state while the prime minister, currently Ana Brnabić, i ...
* 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 ...


References

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