King Peter wanted to fly to Yugoslavia And parachute in! Karađorđević: I learnt of my father’s death three day later on the radio!

“I learnt of my father’s death on the radio. A friend came over – I was doing my military service in Germany at the time – and said, ‘Alexander, please come, you need to hear some terrible news.’ And that is when I heard a BBC broadcast announcing that Peter II, King of Yugoslavia, had passed away and that ‘they waited for three days to inform the general public in order to be able to first inform the King’s family.’ And I, his only son, heard it on the radio. I