Queen Draga

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Draga Mašin (nee Lunjevica) (September 23, 1861 in Gornji Milanovac – June 11, 1903 in Belgrade), also known as Queen Draga, was a former lady-in-waiting to Natalija Obrenović, the Queen of Serbia and the mother of Alexander Obrenovic, future King of Serbia. Draga Mašin was a widow of Svetozar Mašin, a civil engineer.

Draga married King Alexander in 1901. When King Alexander announced he was to wed her, public opinion turned against him. His mother, Natalija Obrenovic, bitterly opposed the marriage, and was exiled by her son, in part because of it. In 1903, a group of army officers, led by the brother of her former husband, invaded the royal palace and on finding the King and Queen hiding in a cupboard, savagely murdered them, throwing their mutilated bodies from a palace window.