Maria of Yugoslavia

Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (1922 - 1934)

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Lived 1900–1961, aged 61Germany

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1900–1961
Aged 61

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Updated 2026-06-09

Queen during Yugoslavia's first decade as a unified state, then stripped of citizenship and property by the communists who replaced the monarchy she'd fled.

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Born a Romanian princess on 6 January 1900, Maria married into the Serbian royal house and became Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1922. When the kingdom was renamed Yugoslavia in 1929, she remained queen until her husband King Alexander I's reign ended in 1934. She was the mother of King Peter II. After the communist takeover, the new Yugoslav regime revoked her citizenship and seized her property in 1947. She died on 22 June 1961, and was posthumously rehabilitated in 2014.

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