Talk:Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (b. 1982)

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I am somewhat baffled by the fact that Crown Prince Alexander is not in line to the British throne because of his Catholicism. He, as a Serb, cannot be Catholic, only Orthodox, especially since he is the rightful heir to the Serbian monarchy.Why is he thought of as Catholic?

No one alleges him catholic. But his first wife was and is. British succession is strictly limited by an ordinance "do not marry a catholic or you lose, whatever are your own beliefs". At the moment he was wed with a then catholic, he lost it (big loss, being somewhere in the range of a hundred - not even the massacre in King Ralph destroyed so many fromthe line). Not even his divorce can change that fact. Actually, thinking about how non-notable any high-numbered place in British succession is, it possibly is a bigger publicity splash to lose it than to keep it - at least, by legally losing it, magazines would possibly mention it (at least if properly guided to advertise the event), whereby a reading public gets apprised that he held it... :)) Maed 09:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander, Prince of Yugoslavia

Isn't this sort of title usually reserved for the pretenders (ie Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia)? I know there's already another Prince Alexander, but maybe that one could be moved to Prince Alexandar of Yugoslavia since I think that's the Yugoslavian version of the name, just so that people don't think this Alexander has the same sort of claim to a throne like Georg Friedrich does, when this prince is 3rd in the line of inheritance. Morhange 19:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

They recycle all the time the same names, and Alexander is very favored, therefore I decided this guy, to disambiguate him finally, gets "the youngest". Of course, if a younger one gets baptized with same name, reconsider. Hope it will not happen soon, or that they start giving at least two first names. We cannot give ordinals, therefore this would possibly be then "the next-youngest" :)) Maed 09:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)