Current pretender to the abolished thrones of Yugoslavia and Serbia,
and the only child of King Peter II of Yugoslavia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. On 4 March 2007, Alexander
announced plans to move his father's remains to Belgrade. Peter is the
only foreign monarch to be buried in the US.
The British Government temporarily ceded sovereignty over the suite of
Claridge's Hotel in London where Aleksandar was born to Yugoslavia so
that he would be born on Yugoslav territory; law dictated that an heir
could not assume the throne unless he was born on Yugoslav soil.
After the revolution that ousted former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, the Serbian government allowed the royal family to return and live in the palace.
He was once in line to the British throne, albeit low on the list. He forfeited that birthright upon his first marriage, to a Roman Catholic.
He was born while his parents were in exile in London during WWII. Prime minister Winston Churchill declared room 212 at Claridge's hotel to be Yugoslav territory so that Alexander could eventually become the official heir to the throne.