| Prince Andrew | |
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| Prince of Yugoslavia | |
| Spouse | Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (m. 1956 - div. 1962) Princess Kira of Leiningen (m. 1963 - div. 1972) Eva Maria Andjelkovich (m. 1974 - his death) |
| Issue | |
| Princess Maria Tatiana Prince Christopher Princess Lavinia Maria Prince Karl Vladimir Prince Dimitri |
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| Father | Alexander I of Yugoslavia |
| Mother | Maria of Romania |
| Born | 28 June 1929 |
| Died | 7 May 1990 (aged 60) |
Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Карађорђевић) (Bled, Slovenia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 June 1929 – 7 May 1990) was the third son of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888–1934) and Maria of Romania (1900–1961), the second daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania (1865–1927) and Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938).
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After the fall of monarchy in Yugoslavia he went to exile in London, where after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.
He was married on 1 August 1956, in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany, to Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (10 January 1933-21 November 2011), daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and wife Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, out of which marriage were born Princess Maria Tatiana (born 18 July 1957) and Prince Christopher (4 February 1960 – 14 May 1994), who died in a bicycle accident. The couple divorced in London in 1962 due to the adultery of his wife with Robert Floris van Eyck, a London poet, artist and art restorer, who later became her second husband.[1][2]
On 18 September 1963 he married Her Serene Highness Princess Kira of Leiningen (18 July 1930 – 24 September 2005), daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. The couple had a daughter, Lavina Maria, who was born 18 October 1961 while her father was still married to Christina of Hesse (thus making it necessary for him to adopt her legally on 15 February 1965 after marrying her mother)[3] and two sons, Prince Karl Vladimir (born 11 March 1964) and Prince Dimitri Mihailo (born 21 April 1965). Kira and Andrej divorced on 10 July 1972.
Andrej married thirdly Eva Maria Andjelkovich (born 26 August 1926 in Serbia) on 30 March 1974 in Palm Springs, California. The couple had no issue.
He was found dead in his car in Irvine, California on 7 May 1990. The death was determined to be suicide by carbon monoxide.[4]
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