Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia

Prince Andrew
Prince of Yugoslavia
Spouse	Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (m. 1956 - div. 1962) Princess Kira of Leiningen (m. 1963 - div. 1972) Eva Maria Andjelkovich (m. 1974 - his death)
Issue
Princess Maria Tatiana Prince Christopher Princess Lavinia Maria Prince Karl Vladimir Prince Dimitri
Father	Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Mother	Maria of Romania
Born	28 June 1929(1929-06-28)
Died	7 May 1990(1990-05-07) (aged 60)

Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Карађорђевић) (Bled, Slovenia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 June 1929 – 7 May 1990) was the third son of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888–1934) and Maria of Romania (1900–1961), the second daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania (1865–1927) and Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938).

Exile

After the fall of monarchy in Yugoslavia he went to exile in London, where after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.

First marriage

He was married on 1 August 1956, in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany, to Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (born 10 January 1933), daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and wife Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, out of which marriage were born Princess Maria Tatiana (born 18 July 1957) and Prince Christopher (4 February 1960 – 14 May 1994), who died in a bicycle accident. The couple divorced in London in 1962 due to the adultery of his wife with Robert Floris van Eyck, a London poet, artist and art restorer, who later became her second husband.^[1][2]

Second marriage

On 18 September 1963 he married Her Serene Highness Princess Kira of Leiningen (18 July 1930 – 24 September 2005), daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. The couple had a daughter, Lavina Maria, who was born 18 October 1961 while her father was still married to Christina of Hesse (thus making it necessary for him to adopt her legally on 15 February 1965 after marrying her mother)^[3] and two sons, Prince Karl Vladimir (born 11 March 1964) and Prince Dimitri Mihailo (born 21 April 1965). Kira and Andrej divorced on 10 July 1972.

Third marriage

Andrej married thirdly Eva Maria Andjelkovich (born 26 August 1926 in Serbia) on 30 March 1974 in Palm Springs, California. The couple had no issue.

Death

He was found dead in his car in Irvine, California on 7 May 1990. The death was determined to be suicide by carbon monoxide.^[4]

Ancestry

Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia

Peter I of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

Persida Nenadović

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Nicholas I of Montenegro

Zorka of Montenegro

Milena Vukotich

Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia

Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern

Ferdinand I of Romania

Infanta Antónia of Portugal

Maria of Romania

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Marie of Edinburgh

Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

References

1. ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939908-1,00.html
2. ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835176,00.html?promoid=googlep
3. ^ Genealogy of the Karageorgevich family
4. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p10152.htm

External links

• Royal House of Yugoslavia
• Landgravial House of Hesse-Kassel
• Princely House of Leiningen

Persondata
Name	Andrej Of Yugoslavia, Prince
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	28 June 1929
Place of birth	Bled
Date of death	7 May 1990
Place of death	Irvine