Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (29 June 1928 – 12 April 1954), also known in Britain as Prince Nicholas and in Serbia as Nikola Karađorđević ( sr-cyr, Никола Карађорђевић), was the younger son of

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, also known as Paul Karađorđević (, English transliteration: ''Paul Karageorgevich''; 27 April 1893 – 14 September 1976), was prince regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the minority of King Peter II. Paul w ...

by his wife

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. Born in

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, he died in a road accident in the UK.

Biography

Known as "Nicky", he was educated in England at

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and was a frequent social escort to

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, sister of

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. The press often linked them romantically and speculated on a possible marriage between them. Prince Nikola died unmarried in 1954, survived by his parents, Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia; older brother Prince Alexander and younger sister, Princess Elizabeth; also his maternal grandmother,

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(Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark) and his maternal aunts, Princess Elizabeth, Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach, and

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (born Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, ; 27 August 1968) was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Gran ...

Death

Nikola died in a road accident at

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, now in

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, England, some five miles from the home of his aunt, the Duchess of Kent. He was driving himself alone towards London, on his way to a meeting with Princess Margaret the same evening, to attend a full-dress rehearsal of a play being performed by a group of young socialites. His car was found overturned in a ditch by the side of the road, and he was injured but alive. He was taken to a hospital in

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, but his life could not be saved. His funeral service was held in London at the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...

on 17 April 1954, and his body was then sent for burial at the

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. On 28 September 2012, his remains were exhumed from the cemetery in Lausanne and transferred to

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. Together with his parents, he was reburied in the Karađorđević family mausoleum in

Oplenac The St. George's Church in Oplenac ( sr-cyrl, Црква Светог Ђорђа на Опленцу, Crkva Svetog Đorđa na Oplencu), also known as Oplenac (Опленац), is the mausoleum of the Serbian and Yugoslav royal house of Karađorđe ...

, near

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, on 6 October 2012.

Ancestry

He was a paternal grandson of

Arsen Karađorđević Prince Arsenije "Arsen" of Yugoslavia ( / ''Arsenije Karađorđević''; 16/17 April 1859 – 19 October 1938) was a Dynasty#Dynasts, dynast of the House of Karađorđević and ancestor of the current cadet branch of the Royal Family which ruled Yu ...

, Prince of Serbia and Princess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato. He was a maternal grandson of

Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (, romanized: ''Nikólaos''; 22 January 1872 – 8 February 1938), of the Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg, was the fourth child and third son of King George I of Greece, and of Queen Olga. H ...

and

References

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