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Draga and King Alexander I, c. 1900. Despite Draga (aged 33) being ten years older than King Aleksandar, the couple married on 5 August 1900 in a formal ceremony. When Aleksandar announced their engagement, public opinion turned against him, viewing him as a besotted young fool in the power of a "wicked" seductress.
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 1903, while young George and Alexander were in school, [citation needed] a slew of conspirators pulled off a bloody coup d'état in the Kingdom of Serbia, known as the May Overthrow, in which King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered and dismembered.
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 .
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 ...
As King Alexander and Queen Draga had no heirs, Nikodije was considered the potential heir to the Serbian throne, [3] [4] [5] while it is also considered that Draga's sole thought was "in what way will she use the influence she had on the young King, to be able to hand over Serbia to the despotic rage of her brother". [6]
King Alexander I of Serbia and his unpopular wife Queen Draga were assassinated inside the Royal Palace in Belgrade on the night of 28–29 May 1903. Other representatives of the Obrenović family were shot as well. This act resulted in the extinction of the House of Obrenović, which had been ruling Serbia since 1817.