Crown Prince at the Commemorative ceremony on 80th
Anniversary of assasination of HM King Alexander I in Marseille
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Marseille, 9 October 2014 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown
Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine, together with Mr Dragomir
Acovic, Chairman of the Crown Council, attended today in Marseille a
Commemorative ceremony on 80th Anniversary of tragic assasination of HM King
Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Mr Louis Barthou. Crown
Prince Alexander II was a guest of the French Government, and his host was HE
Mr Harlem Désir, Secretary of State for European Affairs. Commemoration was attended
by Serbian official delegation, led by Mr Radoslav Pavlovic, councilor tp the
President of Serbia.
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Crown Prince addressed his hosts and great number of
citizens in fluent French saying:“Political history of Serbia, and then
Yugoslavia of the first half of 20th century was marked by an efforts of then
regent and after a King Alexander Karadjordjevic. He took responsibility for
the destiny of Serbia in the eve of the Great War, and ran the state with
wisdom during four years of fighting, suffering and exile, and gave huge
contribution to the fact that a new state has been founded above all on
tradition of Serbian democracy and political tradition. Efforts of King
Alexander I the Unifier, as his contemporary have called him, to build a common
state of South Slavic people on Serbian tradition of Parliamentary democracy of
French type, were the root cause of his tragic death. By bravely fighting all
attempts to undermine the state foundations on national or ideological basis,
the King became a symbol of the state. All enemies of Yugoslavia, in Zagreb,
Moscow or Rome, saw him as a major obstacle for destruction or division of the
state. King Alexander tried that Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians first,
and then Yugoslavia, keep alliances made during the war, with France above all.
The death of King Alexander and Louis Barthou marked without any doubt of
policy based on experience from the Great War. Policy of backing down to
totalitarian regimes in the heart of Europe and in the East led to a new war, whose
first victim was the King and Unifier of Yugoslavia, Alexander Karadjordjevic.”
Crown Prince Alexander II, Minister Désir and Mr Pavlovic
laid wreaths on the monument to King Alexander and Louis Barthou and that put
flowers on the plaques at very place of assassination and toured a Museum where
burial mask of HM King Alexander I, grandfather of HRH Crown Prince Alexander
II, has been kept.
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Crown Prince Alexander II was welcomed by great number of
Serbs who live in France, together with many French citizens who still cherish
friendship between our two countries and keep memories of late King Alexander
I.
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II will lay a
wreath at the tomb of his grandfather, King Alexander I at the Royal Mausoleum
of St. George Church in Oplenac this evening on 6 pm, and after that on 7 pm he
will officially open an exhibition at the Royal Palace in Belgrade, on the 80th
Anniversary of assassination of HM King Alexander I the Unifier.
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