Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia

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Princess Katarina
Lady de Silva
Her Royal Highness Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia and Serbia.jpg
Katarina in 2014
BornKatarina Karageorgevitch
(1959-11-28) 28 November 1959 (age 64)
King's College Hospital, London, England
Spouse
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(m. 1987;div. 2010)​
Issue Victoria de Silva
House Karađorđević
Father Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
Mother Princess Margarita of Baden

Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Lady de Silva (born 28 November 1959) is an English businessperson specialising in etiquette and decorum courses. She is a member of the extended former Yugoslavian royal family.

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Early life

Katarina was born at King’s College Hospital in London [1] to Princess Margarita of Baden and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. [2] 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 Nikola of Yugoslavia, and two half-brothers, Prince George and Prince Michael. She is a first cousin of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia. [3] Her grandmother, Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden, was the sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, late husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Katharina is the senior female-line descendant of Queen Victoria, through the Queen's second daughter Princess Alice, who was the grandmother of Princess Katharina's great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 1978, Katarina was presented as a debutante to high society at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. [4] As of 2013, Katarina and former Royal butler Grant Harrold develop and sell etiquette and decorum classes. [5] [6] In 2014, she became an ambassador for the Chinese tea company Yunnan Dianhong Group. [7]

Personal life

Katarina married barrister Sir Desmond de Silva on 5 December 1987. They had one daughter, Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita, born on 6 September 1991. They divorced on 6 May 2010. [2]

Charity work

In 2009, Katarina supported the charity Project Change: Bermuda to raise funds towards building a hospital and training medical staff in Burundi. [8] Katarina served as the president of the Guild of Travel and Tourism in the United Kingdom. She was a royal patron of the Queen Charlotte's Ball. [9] In 2013, she became patron of the Society of Genealogists succeeding Prince Michael of Kent. [10] In 2015, she became a trustee of the Katie Cutler Foundation, a charity in support of mugging victim Alan Barnes. [11]

Honours

Ancestry

Katarina is a member of the House of Karađorđević. Through her father, Katarina descends from kings Nicholas I of Montenegro, Ferdinand I of Romania, and furthermore from Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, King Ferdinand II and Queen Maria II of Portugal, and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [13]

Through her mother, Katarina descends from Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, kings George V of Hanover, Christian IX of Denmark, George I and Alexander of Greece, and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. [14]

Lines of succession
Preceded by
Princess Isidora of Yugoslavia
 Line of succession to the British throne
descendant of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Queen Victoria 		Succeeded by
Victoria de Silva

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