Word: karageorgevitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name was a bitter surprise to the Slovene part of Jugoslavia. It had been promised that Queen Marie's third son would bear a Slovene name (TIME, Aug. 19). Andrew, even when spelled Andreja, is not Slovene but Greek. St. Andrew is the Patron Saint of the Karageorgevitch family, ruling house of Jugoslavia...
...present Alexander Karageorgevitch is no kinsman of the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch. For a century past the Karageorgevitches and the Obrenovitches have been snatching from each other the throne. On the night of the murder, the Dictator-King of today was a mere student prince in St. Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however...
...person of the King is inviolable. He bears no responsibility. He cannot be judged. He appoints a successor, in case of need, and a regency, if necessary. "The Karageorgevitch Dynasty is declared hereditary...
Since even the Dictatorship of Signor Benito Mussolini pales beside such preventions, the one title fit for His Majesty Alexander Karageorgevitch,* last week seemed to be "Alexander the Absolute...
...Royal Family of Yugo-Slavia has, at present, no son and heir. The birth of a boy to Queen Marie will, therefore, ensure a direct descendant for the Karageorgevitch dynasty...