His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia, Aleksandar II Karađorđević (b. July 17, 1945) is the son of Peter II, the last king of Yugoslavia from the Karadjordjevic dynasty. Alexander styles himself Crown Prince of Serbia, but Serbia is today a republic and, although widely respected within the nation, the position Alexander claims currently has no official constitutional status.
On July 1, 1972 at the Villamanrique de la Condesa, in Seville, Spain, he was married to Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans-Braganca. They had three sons, Hereditary Prince Peter (b. 1980) and twins Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and Prince Philip of Yugoslavia, (b. 1982). They were divorced in 1985. Crown Prince Alexander married Katherine Clairy Batis, daughter of Robert Batis and his wife Anna Dosti, legally on September 20, 1985, and religiously the following day, at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Notting Hill, London.
Aleksandar, born in a London hotel suite declared Yugoslav territory for the occasion in 1945, advocates the restoration of a constitutional monarchy in Serbia.
Aleksandar said he was not seeking a role like neighboring Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon II who was the first and so far the only ex-monarch to regain political power in eastern Europe, becoming prime minister after elections in 2001.
Aleksandar, whose father fled when Nazi Germany overran Yugoslavia in 1941 and was banned from returning by the postwar communist government, served in the British army and then became a London-based businessman.
Peter II (Petar II), of the Karadjordjevic dynasty, succeeded in 1934 after the assassination while on a state visit to France of his father, King Alexander I, under a regency headed by his father's cousin, Prince Pavle.
On March 27th, 1941 King Peter II was proclaimed of age, and participated in a British-supported coup d'état opposing the Regent's signing the Tripartite Pact.
King Peter II was forced to leave the country with the Yugoslav Government following the Axis invasion – initially King Peter II fled to Greece, and Jerusalem, to the British Mandate of Palestine, and then to Cairo, Egypt.
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