House Karadordevic | Name Prince of Siblings Peter II of Yugoslavia | |
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Burial New Gracanica Monastery, Third Lake, Illinois (1990–2013)Saint George's Church, Oplenac(since 2013) Issue Princess Maria TatianaPrince ChristopherLavinia MariaPrince Karl VladimirPrince Dimitri Spouse Princess Eva of Yugoslavia (m. 1974) Children Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia Parents Maria of Yugoslavia, Alexander I of Yugoslavia Similar People Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Maria of Yugoslavia, Princess Christina Margaret | ||
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Карађорђевић; 28 June 1929 – 7 May 1990) was born in Bled, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, subsequently Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Slovenia. He was the youngest child of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888–1934) and Maria of Yugoslavia (1900–1961), daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania (1865–1927) and Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938).
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Exile
After the fall of the monarchy in Yugoslavia, he went into exile in London, where, after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.
Marriages and Issue
On 2 August 1956, he married his third cousin-once-removed Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (10 January 1933 - 21 November 2011), in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany. She was the eldest child of Prince Christoph of Hesse and his wife Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, her mother being a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. They had two children:
The couple divorced in London on 31 May 1962.
On 18 September 1963, he married his second cousin Princess Kira of Leiningen (18 July 1930 – 24 September 2005), daughter of Karl, Prince of Leiningen and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. They had three children:
They were divorced in Frankfurt am Main on 10 July 1972.
Andrej married thirdly Eva Maria Andjelkovich (born 26 August 1926 in Serbia) on 30 March 1974 in Palm Springs, California, USA. The couple had no issue.
Death
He was found dead in his car in Irvine, California, US on 7 May 1990. The death was determined to be suicide by carbon monoxide. His remains were initially buried in New Gračanica Monastery, Third Lake, Illinois. They remained there until 2013, when they were returned to Serbia and buried in Saint George's Church, Oplenac on 26 May 2013.