Prince Andrew | |
Birth Date: | 28 June 1929 |
Birth Place: | Bled, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Slovenia) |
Death Place: | Irvine, California, U.S. |
Place Of Burial: | New Gračanica Monastery, Third Lake, Illinois (1990–2013) Saint George's Church, Oplenac (since 2013) |
House: | Karageorgevich |
Father: | Alexander I of Yugoslavia |
Mother: | Maria of Yugoslavia |
Spouse: | |
Issue: | Princess Maria Tatiana Prince Christopher Princess Lavinia Marie Prince Karl Vladimir Prince Dimitri |
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Андреј Карађорђевић; 28 June 1929 – 7 May 1990) was the youngest child of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Maria of Yugoslavia.
In 1934, when he was only five, Prince Andrew's father, Alexander I, was assassinated and his elder brother Peter succeeded to the throne as King Peter II of Yugoslavia.
After the fall of the monarchy in Yugoslavia, Prince Andrew went into exile in London, where, after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.
In 1947, Prince Andrew was a guest at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.[1]
Andrew was a prominent Rotarian.[2]
On 2 August 1956, he married his third cousin-once-removed Princess Christina 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 (a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II). They had two children, both of whom were godchildren of the Duke of Edinburgh:
The couple divorced in London on 31 May 1962.
On 18 September 1963, he married his second cousin Princess Kira Melita 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.[3]
Andrej married thirdly Eva Maria Anđelković, (26 August 1926 – 13 December 2020) on 30 March 1974 in Palm Springs, California, USA.[3] The couple had no issue.
Andrew was found dead in his car in Irvine, California, U.S., on 7 May 1990. The death was determined to be suicide by carbon monoxide.[3] 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.
Andrew's paternal grandparents were King Peter I of Serbia and Princess Zorka of Montenegro, while his maternal grandparents were King Ferdinand of Romania and Princess Marie of Edinburgh.[4] [3]