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Princess Alexandra Karoline of Schaumburg-Lippe, member of the House of Lippe, intended German royal bride for Alexander. Alexander I (Serbian: Александар I Обреновић, romanized: Aleksandar I Obrenović; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903) was King of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, [1 ...
The May Coup (Serbian: Мајски преврат, romanized: Majski prevrat) was a coup d'état in the Kingdom of Serbia which resulted in the assassination of King Alexander I and his consort, Queen Draga, inside the Stari Dvor in Belgrade on the night of 10–11 June [O.S. 28–29 May] 1903.
In 1901, Dimitrijević participated in the organisation of the first failed attempt to murder the unpopular and pro-detente with Austria-Hungary King Alexander. On 11 June 1903 the plotters succeeded when Dimitrijević and a group of junior officers stormed the royal palace and killed King Alexander, his wife, Queen Draga and three others ...
The funeral of king Alexander at Belgrade. The assassin was a member of the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO or VMRO) and an experienced marksman. [72] Immediately after assassinating King Alexander, Chernozemski was cut down by the sword of a mounted French policeman, and then beaten by the crowd.
They made a plan to kill the royal couple—King Alexander I Obrenović and Queen Draga. On the night of 28/29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), Captain Apis personally led a group of Army officers who murdered the royal couple at the Old Palace in Belgrade .
The End of the Obrenović Dynasty (Serbian: Крај династије Обреновић) is а Serbian historical drama television miniseries which depicts events that led to the May Overthrow and assassination of the last Serbian king from the Obrenović dynasty, Alexander, and his close family.
Pola Negri as Madame Maria Draga/Queen Draga of Serbia; Roland Young as King Alexander; Basil Rathbone as Captain Alex Pastitsch; H. B. Warner as Colonel Stradimirovitsch; Anthony Bushell as Lt. Iwan Petrovitch; Reginald Owen as The Prime Minister; May Boley as Mascha; Frank Reicher as The General; George Baxter as Chedo; David Newell as Adutant
[2] The attackers threw the corpses of King Alexander and Queen Draga out of a palace window, ending any threat that loyalists would mount a counterattack." [3] General Petrović was then killed when Vojislav Tankosić organized the murders of Queen Draga's brothers. [4] The conspirators installed Peter I of the House of Karađorđević as the ...