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Although plump, Maria was a noted beauty in her youth and resembled her sister, Elisabeth. The family spent their holidays at Peleș Castle near Sinaia. In 1922, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was invited to Peleș Castle, and introduced to Maria. Maria and Alexander fell in love, and were engaged with the support of Maria's father Ferdinand I.
Three years after their wedding, Maria Pia gave birth to the couple's set of fraternal twin sons. Another set of twins was born to Maria Pia during the marriage five years later, this time a girl and boy: Prince Dimitri Umberto Anton Peter Maria of Yugoslavia (born 18 June 1958)
Our Lady of Medjugorje (Croatian: Međugorska Gospa), also called Queen of Peace (Croatian: Kraljica mira) and Mother of the Redeemer (Croatian: Majka Otkupitelja), is the title given to the visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said to have begun in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat children in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time in SFR Yugoslavia).
Medjugorje [note 1] (Serbo-Croatian: Međugorje, pronounced [mêdʑuɡoːrje] ⓘ) is a village in the municipality of Čitluk in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Карађорђевић; 28 June 1929 – 7 May 1990) was the youngest child of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Maria of Yugoslavia. Personal life
Maria of Romania: Ferdinand I of Romania (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) 6 January 1900 8 June 1922 9 October 1934 husband's death: 22 June 1961 Alexander I: Alexandra of Greece and Denmark: Alexander of Greece (Glücksburg) 25 March 1921 20 March 1944 29 November 1945 kingdom abolished: 30 January 1993 Peter II
Milena's Serbian mother, Danica Pavlović-Barili (1883-1965), a descendant of Karađorđe Petrović, founder of the House of Karađorđević, ruling family of the Kingdom of Serbia and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia, has served as lady in waiting to Queen Maria of Yugoslavia and was tasked with improving her Serbian language. [3]
Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (German: Christina Margarethe Prinzessin von Hessen; 10 January 1933 – 22 November 2011) was a German princess.A first cousin of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, she was the wife, from 1956 to 1962, of Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, a son of Alexander I of Yugoslavia.