Maria of Yugoslavia
Queen consort of Alexander I (1900–1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For her mother, see Marie of Romania.
Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1934 as the wife of King Alexander I. She was the mother of King Peter II. Her citizenship was revoked, and her property was confiscated by the Yugoslav communist regime in 1947, but she was posthumously rehabilitated in 2014.[1][2]
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Queen consort of Yugoslavia | |
Tenure | 3 October 1929 – 9 October 1934 |
Queen consort of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | |
Tenure | 8 June 1922 – 3 October 1929 |
Born | Princess Maria of Romania (1900-01-06)6 January 1900 Friedenstein Palace, Gotha, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German Empire |
Died | 22 June 1961(1961-06-22) (aged 61) Chelsea, London, England |
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House | Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (by birth) Karađorđević (by marriage) |
Father | Ferdinand I of Romania |
Mother | Marie of Edinburgh |
Religion | Eastern Orthodox |
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