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Princess Elizabeth Of YugoslaviaHRH Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Serbian Cyrillic Њ.К.В. Кнегиња Јелисавета Карађорђевић (born on 7 April 1936) is a member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. She is the only daughter of the late Prince Paul of Yugoslavia who served as regent for his cousin King Peter II of Yugoslavia) and of the Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. Princess Elizabeth, is related to all the royal houses of Europe and is one of many descendants of Catherine the Great of Russia. Princess Jelisaveta is on 3203rd place to succeed British throne while her brother is on 92nd place. Her education started in South Africa, then in Great Britain and Switzerland, finally she studied History of fine art in Paris. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian language. Born in Belgrade, she married, on 19 January 1961, Howard Oxenberg, by whom she is mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg. They divorced in 1969, and she married, on 23 September 1969, in London, Neil Roxburgh Balfour (b. Lima 12 August 1944). They divorced, and, on 28 February 1987, in New York, she married Dr. Manuel Ulloa Elias (Lima 12 Nov 1922-Madrid 9 Aug 1992), the former Prime Minister of Peru as well the country's Minister of Economy, Finance, and Commerce. Between her marriages to Balfour and Ulloa, she was engaged to the British actor Richard Burton. She lives in Belgrade, where she has caused some friction within her family by demanding to set up residence in the White Palace, her childhood home. Her brother is Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia who married first Princess Mara Pia di Savoia (daughter of the last king Humbert II of Italy) and secondly Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein. Maternally she is a second cousin of Queen Sofa of Spain and Charles, Prince of Wales. Also, she is the great great granddaughter of Karageorge, a near-mythic hero who started the first Serbian uprising against the Turks in 1804. Yet Princess Elizabeth has been a woman without a country for much of her lifetime, for nearly fifty years had passed since she left her country as a child. She is now a U.S. citizen, and since 2001 citizen of Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia). She is mother of three children, Catherine and Christina Oxenberg (a sweater designer formerly married to Dusan Damian Elwes) and Nicholas Augustus Balfour (married to a Dutch noblewoman). Princess Elizabeth recognized early the dangerous signs that would turn the former Yugoslavia upside down in a bloodbath of historic religious and ethnic rivalries long suppressed by Communist rule. She spoke out everywhere she could, both in Europe and America, on behalf of bridging the gap between ethnic hatreds. Working tirelessly behind the scenes through United Nations programs, she also journeyed to the Vatican in 1989 to ask Monsignor Taurant, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to help improve relations between Catholic and Orthodox communities in Yugoslavia. 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. She was determined to help. Since the subsequent civil wars, her efforts have focused heavily on transporting medical supplies, food, clothing and blankets to refugee camps, in addition to finding homes for children victimized by war and placing older students in schools and colleges in America. Before civil war began in Yugoslavia, in January of 1990 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 Gorbachev. This was the second international gathering of political and religious leaders committed to world reform that included Mother Theresa, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dalai Lama, Al Gore and Carl Sagan. Since 1987, until the fall of communism in Yugoslavia, she returned some 40 times. She relearned her native Serbian language and traveled extensively throughout the country often staying months at a time. She lives in Belgrade now. She decided to run for a President of Serbia in the Serbian presidential elections, 2004, despite her cousin Alexander's objections. After the end of World War II, the ex-royal family was banished from the country, and their goods confiscated. "In case of victory," she stated, "my priority would not be to return to a monarchy, but to form a real State." She got 63,991 votes or 2.1% finishing in 6th place. She gained the support of many actors including John Travolta as well as support of her daughter Catherine Oxenberg, as well of royal families of Britain, Denmark and Belgium. Princess Jelisaveta is a businesswomen and writer, author of four storybooks for children. In 2002 Princess Elizabeth (accompanig president Vladimir Putin, The Honorable Dr. Desmond Tutu, Mr. Ted Turner and others) received the first Nuclear Disarmament Forum Award - "Demiurgus Peace International", for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in Zug, Switzeland. Quote - "I do not understand how people can feel superior to those of another faith or race. Such intolerance is deeply rooted in fear, which helps to perpetuate injustice and hatred. This deep programming prevents people from honouring and celebrating life's differences."
Yugoslavia, Princess Elizabeth of Karadjordjevic, Jelisaveta Elizabeth
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