Peter I of Serbia

Peter was born the third son of a deposed Serbian prince and spent his early decades in exile, fighting with the French Foreign Legion in the Franco-Prussian War and joining the Herzegovina uprising against the Ottomans under the alias Peter Mrkonjić. He married Princess Zorka of Montenegro in 1883 and became head of the Karađorđević dynasty after his father's death in 1885. When King Alexander I Obrenović was murdered in the May Coup of 1903, Peter ascended to the Serbian throne and governed with a constitutional hand — his reign known for press freedom, political liberties, and what some cal…