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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.
Serbia and Yugoslavia were among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1,700,000 (10.8% of the population) people were killed and national damages were estimated at 9.1 billion dollars according to the prices of that period.
Serbia and Montenegro opted to stay on in the federation and at the combined session of the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro held on April 27 1992 in Belgrade, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was passed thus reaffirming the continuity of the state first founded on December 1 1918.
Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills.
Alexander 1888-1934, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34), son and successor of Peter I. Of the Karadjordjević family, he was educated in Russia and became crownprince of Serbia upon the renunciation (1909) of the succession by his brother George.
Alexander (Alexander Karadjordjević), 1806-85, prince of Serbia (1842-58), son of Karageorge (Karadjordje).
Miloš or Milosh (Miloš Obrenović), 1780-1860, prince of Serbia (1817-39, 1858-60), founder of the Obrenović dynasty and of modern Serbia.
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