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Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia
Militant + Campaigner + Princess
Female
Born
Apr 7, 1936
Age
77
Hometown
Belgrade
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia is a Serbian and Yugoslav Princess, a member of the House of Karageorgevich, a human rights activist and a former candidate for President of Serbia. She is also known as Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic.
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CHILDHOOD
1936
Birth
Born on April 7, 1936.
TEENAGE
1947
11 Years Old
On 2nd August 1947, Edvard Kardelj, then vice president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, issued a decree that confiscated all these properties from the royal Karadjordjević family. This followed an earlier decree in March 1947, stripping the family of their citizenship. His decree, the ‘National Assembly of the Presidency of the People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,’ was abolished in 2001 after the deposing of Slobodan Milošević.
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TWENTIES
1961
25 Years Old
Princess Elizabeth married Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010), an American clothing manufacturer, on 21 January 1961 in a civil ceremony in Manassas, Virginia. The couple had two daughters together: actress Catherine Oxenberg and sweater designer Christina Oxenberg. They divorced in 1966.
THIRTIES
1969
33 Years Old
A few years later in London on 23 September 1969, she married banker Neil Balfour (born 1944); they had one son, Nicholas Augustus Balfour. In 1978 that marriage also ended in divorce.
FIFTIES
1987
51 Years Old
On 28 February 1987 in New York City she married the former Prime Minister of Peru Manuel Ulloa Elías (1922–1992), at the time the country's Minister of Economy, Finance, and Commerce.
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1989
53 Years Old
Working behind the scenes through United Nations programs, she also journeyed to the Vatican in 1989 to ask Monsignor Tauran, then Holy See Secretary for State relations, to help improve relations between Catholic and Orthodox communities in Yugoslavia.
1990
54 Years Old
At the end of 1990, she created the Princess Elizabeth Foundation, a non-political, not-for-profit organization after foreseeing the crucial importance of a vehicle to address the tension brewing just below the surface.
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1991
55 Years Old
Before the breakup of Yugoslavia began in 1991, she invited the Orthodox Bishop Sava and the Mufti of Belgrade, along with the Yugoslav Minister for Religious Affairs to attend a conference in Moscow that was hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2002
66 Years Old
In 2002, Princess Elizabeth received the first Nuclear Disarmament Forum Award, the Demiurgus Peace International, (accompanying president Vladimir Putin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Turner and others) for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in Zug, Switzerland.
2004
68 Years Old
She decided to run for President of Serbia in the 2004 Serbian presidential election, despite her cousin Alexander's objections, stating that the Royal Family should stay out of politics.
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