Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia


Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Lady de Silva is a member of the House of Karađorđević, the former ruling family of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She manages her own businesses and undertakes various commercial work internationally.

Family

Katarina was born in London to Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, second son of Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia, and his first wife, Princess Margarita of Baden, the only daughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden. Her father's dynasty having been deposed and banished from Yugoslavia after World War II, she grew up in exile, largely in England. She has one brother, Prince Nicholas of Yugoslavia, and two half-brothers, Prince George and Prince Michael. She is a first cousin of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.
In 1978, Princess Katarina was presented as a debutante to high society at the prestigious International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
She married Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva on 5 December 1987. They divorced on 6 May 2010. They had one daughter, Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita de Silva.
Katarina is distantly in the line of succession to the British throne as a descendant of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom. Following the death of her mother in 2013 she became the senior female descendant of Queen Victoria, from whom she descends paternally through Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and maternally through Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine. As the granddaughter of Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, she is a grand-niece of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

Career

Katarina works with the Prince of Wales's former butler, Grant Harrold, developing etiquette classes in the United Kingdom and the European continent.
Katarina served as the president of the Guild of Travel and Tourism in the United Kingdom. She and Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff are the official royal patrons of the Queen Charlotte's Ball.

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