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Grandson of King Umberto II (1946). Pre-unification Modena: Lorenzo: 7 February 1996: Austria-Este [eu 2] Great-grandnephew of Franz Ferdinand, adopted heir of Duke Francis V (1846–1859). Hereditary: 1859 [238] Parma: Carlos: 18 August 2010: Bourbon-Parma [eu 7] Great-grandson of Duke Robert I (1854–1859). Also one of the contested heirs to ...
Peter II as a young child. Third son of King John IV and Queen Luisa, [2] Peter was created Duke of Beja and Lord of the House of the Infantado.. Following his father's death, his mother became regent for the new king Afonso VI, Peter's elder, partially paralyzed, and mentally unstable brother. [3]
A King's Heritage: The Memoirs of Peter II King of Yugoslavia. Cassell; Tomasevich, Jozo (1975). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: The Chetniks. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9. Weinberg, Gerhard L. (2004). A world at arms : a global history of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alexander is the only child of King Peter II and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. He held the position of crown prince in the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia for the first four-and-a-half months of his life, until the declaration of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia later in November 1945, when the monarchy was abolished.
Furthermore, King Peter chose Voivode of Vasojevići Miljan Vukov Vešović to be his bridesman during his wedding to princess Zorka in 1883. Upon being asked by his future father-in-law prince Nicholas why he chose Miljan amongst various Voivodes of Montenegro, he replied that he chose him because of heroism and relation describing him as ...
Peter II Alexeyevich [alt 1] (23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730) [alt 2] was Emperor of Russia from 1727 until 1730, when he died at the age of 14. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich [ a ] and Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg .
The Vlastimirović dynasty was the first royal dynasty of the Serb people. Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (r. 913–959) mentions that the Serbian throne is inherited by the son, i.e. the first-born, [1] though in his enumeration of Serbian monarchs, on one occasion there was a triumvirate. [2]
Maria Sophia Elisabeth of Neuburg (6 August 1666 – 4 August 1699) was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Peter II from 1687 until her death in 1699. A popular queen, she was noted for her extraordinary generosity and for being the mother of the famously extravagant John V of Portugal.