The remains of Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, a Greek princess who died 20 years ago, will be exhumed and sent to Serbia so she can be reburied next to her husband. She married Yugoslavia’s exiled King Peter II in London in 1944 during WWII.
Yugoslavia’s post-war Communist regime barred them from returning there, and they lived in exile. He died in the U.S. in 1970 and was buried there. She died in London in 1993 and was buried outside Athens. The former king’s remains are being returned to Serbia for reburial there on May 26.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry said that Alexandra’s remains are being exhumed at the request of Serbia’s government and being removed from her homeland. She will be buried with her husband at a family mausoleum near Belgrade.
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