Peter II of Yugoslavia
Last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945 (1923-1970)
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A boy-king at eleven after his father's assassination, then overthrown by coup and counter-invasion before he could grow into the crown — Peter II spent more of his reign in London exile than in Yugoslavia, and died in America decades before his bones came home.
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Peter Karađorđević became King of Yugoslavia in October 1934 when his father, Alexander I, was assassinated in Marseille; he was eleven, so his cousin Prince Paul ruled as regent. In late March 1941, after Paul signed Yugoslavia into the Tripartite Pact, a pro-British coup deposed the regent and declared Peter of age. Ten days later, Axis forces invaded and overran the country, forcing the teenage king and his government into exile. Peter set up a government-in-exile in London in June 1941, married Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark in March 1944, and had a son, Alexander, a year later.…
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