Petar II Karadjordjevic

Last King of Yugoslavia, son of Aleksandr I who was assassinated in 1934 while on diplomatic mission to Marseille to meet French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who would later die from his injuries in the attack. King Petar II was the only European Monarch buried on American soil dying in Denver, Colorado in 1970 after one of the earliest attempts at a liver transplant being buried in Liberty, Illinois in a Serbian graveyard. He was repatriated back to Serbia in 2013

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King Petar II schooled in Great Britain in his youth and ascended to the throne at age eleven following his fathers murder, however due to his age a regent, Regent Prince Paul, served in his stead until he had come of age. Prince Regent Paul appears to have done all that he could but after a visit from the American future chief of the CIA Donovan on 1-23-41, who stated that should Yugoslavia align with the Axis the United States would not speak peaceably on Yugoslavia's behalf at the end of the war, then two trips to Nazi Germany to discuss politics with Adolf Hitler felt he was left with no choice but to align with the Axis Powers if he wanted to see Yugoslavia spared from war. Two days after the signing of the pact a coup was enacted under orders from General's Simovic and Mirkovic to declare King Petar II of age several months prior to his 18th birthday. The new government had not officially declared a stance towards nazi Germany, however Hitler made plans for the invasion of Yugoslavia anyways, and acted on them immediately. April 6, 1941 Belgrade suffered severe bombings in 4 separate raids at 6AM, 10AM, 2PM, and 4PM and by the end of the day thousands of civilians were dead or wounded and nearly a quarter of the city was leveled. King Petar II, along with most of the rest of the Government, was forced to flee the country doing so in a rather heroic fashion as the nazi's closed in looking for them. The young King managed to escape, and by April 18th the Yugoslavian Royal Military Forces were defeated, peace terms were signed in the form of unconditional surrender, and partisan warfare would begin soon after.

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King Petar II would remain in exile in Great Britain for the duration of the war where he would complete his college education at Cambridge. At an American Red Cross event he met his future wife, Alexandra, the last Queen Consort of Greece. Following the war the King and would-be Queen moved to the United States to settle in the Chicago, and later California areas. Strangely Petar II's wife was the last Queen Consort of Greece, as well the last Queen Consort of Yugoslavia. Neither of them would ever set foot in Yugoslavia again due to the regime of Jozif Broz (Tito) who would rule Yugoslavia until his death in 1980.