‘My name was petar!’ Life story of Aleksandar Karađorđević: ‘He came and said that I am his half-brother, as Jovanka Broz told me
Kurir 31.07.2024
MY LIFE STORY “I was born on 17 July 1945 in apartment 212 of the Claridge's hotel in London, which Winston Churchill and the British government temporarily declared Yugoslav territory at the request of my father, King Peter II, so that the heir to the throne could be born on the soil of his homeland.
According to some stories, soil was even brought from Yugoslavia and placed under the bed on which my mother, Queen Alexandra, daughter of Greek King Alexander, was lying. Although childbirth is expected to be an intimate event, it was anything but, as there was also a commission from the Yugoslav government present to make a report that everything was in order, which is customary when a child is born into a royal family,” begins the life story for Kurir of Crown