AGED KING’S DEATH.
KING PETER OF SERBIA. By Telegraph.-'Presi Assn.—Copyright. Received August 17, 11.30 p.m. London, August 17. The death is announced of the King of Serbia. [Peter Karageorgevitch I, who succeeded Alexander I on the murder of the latter on June 11, 1903, was born in 1844, and was a grandson of George Czerny, surnamed Karageorge, or Black George, who was the first chief of the Serbian insurrection against the Turks in the beginning of the last century. King Peter married in 1883 a daughter of the Prince of Montenegro, Princess Zorka, who died in 1890. He has two sons, Prince George and Prince Alexander, G.C.8., and a daughter, Princess Helene. In 1909 Prince George voluntarily renounced his rights to the succession, and his brother, Prince Alexander, was recognised as heir to the Throne.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 5
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135AGED KING’S DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 5
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