HRH Princess Margarita of Baden Memorial Service
London, 13 January 2014 – A memorial service for HRH
Princess Margarita of Baden formerly married to HRH Prince Tomislav (brother of
HM King Peter II) took place yesterday in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint
Sava in London.
Present were Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander,
Crown Princess Katherine, Princess Katarina (daughter), Victoria de Silva
(granddaughter), Prince Ludwig (brother) and Princess Mandi (sister in law) of
Baden, His Excellency Serbian Ambassador Dr Ognjen Pribicevic and Mrs
Pribicevic.
The memorial service was officiated by the Reverend Fathers
Goran Spaic, Milun Kostic, Djordje Cekerovac and Dragan Lazic in the Serbian
Orthodox Church of Saint Sava in London.
HRH Princess Margarita of Baden’s funeral took place 24
January 2013 and was attended by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (uncle of HRH
Princess Margarita), HM Queen Anna Marie of the Hellenes, HRH Princess Sarvath
of Jordan and her two daughters, Prince Max and Princess Valerie of Baden,
Prince Ludwig and Princess Marianne ( Mandi) of Baden, Prince Bernhard of Baden and
Princess Stephanie, Prince Leopold of Baden, Prince Michael of Baden, Prince
Berthold of Baden, Princess Marie Louse of Baden, His Excellency Dr Popovic,
Ambassador of Serbia.
HRH Princess Margarita of Baden was a niece of the Duke of
Edinburgh and was married HRH Prince Tomislav. Princess Margarita was born at
Salem, Germany on July 14 1932, the eldest of three children of Prince
Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and his wife, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark,
a sister of the Duke Edinburgh. Princess Margarita’s father was head of the
grand ducal House of Baden and the son of Margrave Max of Baden, who was
imperial chancellor of Germany in 1918. It was in London that Princess
Margarita met her future husband, Prince Tomislav the second son of King
Alexander I, and Queen Maria. The Prince and Princess were married in Schloss
Salem, Germany 5 June 1957. HRH Prince Philip attended the wedding, with his
mother, Princess Alice. King Simeon of Bulgaria, the Duke of Edinburgh were
witnesses at the Serbian Orthodox service and in the presence of HM King Peter
II. The Prince and Princess lived in England and had two children, Prince
Nicolas, born in 1958, and Princess Katarina, born in 1959, who later was
married for some years to Desmond de Silva, QC, PC. Prince Tomislav and
Princess Margarita divorced in 1981. Prince Tomislav returned to Serbia in 1991
and died in 2000 in Oplenac and is buried in the crypt of St. George′s Church
the Mausoleum of the Royal Family.
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