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ANNOUNCEMENT - Guests of Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine: The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will come to the Royal Palace

Belgrade, 15 March 2016 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine will host at the Royal Palace their relatives, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall, tomorrow, Wednesday, March 16, at 5:00 pm! HRH Prince Peter and Mrs Alison Andrews will also be present.

Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine have been invited to the State Dinner Wednesday 16 March in honour of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall. The dinner will take place at 20:00 at Dom Garde.

Their Royal Highnesses were invited to the reception Thursday 17 March at the Parliament given by the Speaker of the House Mrs Maja Gojkovic and the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, but regret they cannot attend since they will be flying that night to Cape Town South Africa. They will be guests of former President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa for his 80th birthday Friday 18 March. They were guests ten years ago for the President’s 70th birthday party when Nelson Mandela was present.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (the mother of the Prince of Wales) is the godmother of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander, together with her father, the British King George VI. The godfather at the baptism of the Crown Prince’s father, His Majesty King Peter II, was the British King George V and the King’s Envoy to the baptism in Belgrade was the future British King George VI (the father of Queen Elizabeth and the grandfather of the Prince of Wales). Crown Prince Alexander’s grandmother, Her Majesty Queen Maria was the great-granddaughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and the Prince Charles were also classmates. They attended school together in Scotland.

The Royal Family Karadjordjevic has multiple family ties with the British Royal House. These family ties are on the side of the Windsors, the family of Queen Elizabeth II and on the side of her husband, Prince Philip. The kinship between the Serbian and the British Royal Family began with the marriage of King Alexander I and Romanian Princess Maria after the First World War. The future Queen Maria was the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Crown Prince Alexander is also related to the Queen’s husband, Prince Philip, through his mother, Queen Alexandra, who was the daughter of the Greek King Alexander, the uncle of Prince Philip.