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Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1934 as the wife of King Alexander I.
Eastwell Park as it appeared between 1843 and 1894 (south facade). Marie was the eldest daughter and second child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the former Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, respectively the son of Queen Victoria and the daughter of Emperor Alexander II.
In English, the family name can be anglicized as Karageorgevitch (e.g., as with Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch and Prince Philip Karageorgevitch) or romanised as Karadjordjevic. Its origin is as a patronym of the sobriquet Karađorđe , bestowed upon the family's founder, Đorđe Petrović , at the end of the 18th century.
On 8 June 1922, he married Princess Maria of Romania, who was a daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. They had three sons: Crown Prince Peter, and Princes Tomislav and Andrej.
Alexander and Maria da Gloria divorced on 19 February 1985. Both of them married for the second time. Maria da Gloria married Ignacio de Medina , Duke of Segorbe (b. 1947), while Crown Prince Alexander married Katherine Clairy Batis , the daughter of Robert Batis and his wife, Anna Dosti, civilly on 20 September 1985, and religiously the ...
On 2 August 1956, he married his third cousin once removed Princess Christina of Hesse (10 January 1933 – 21 November 2011), in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.She was the eldest child of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II).
Prince Peter attended the reburial of his grandparents King Peter II and Queen Alexandra, great-grandmother Queen Maria, and great-uncle Prince Andrew in the Royal Family Mausoleum at Oplenac on 26 May 2013. The Serbian Royal Regalia were placed over King Peter's coffin, having Peter placing the Karađorđević Crown. [6] [7] [8]
Katherine is one of the two daughters of Robert Batis (1916–2011), a factory owner and director and President then Honorary President of the Fostiras Football Club, [1] and wife Anna Dosti (1922–2009).