Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia
Princess Jelisaveta (Elizabeth) Karadjordjevic of Serbia and Yugoslavia (born 7 April 1936) is a princess from the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty.
Born in Belgrade, she married, on 21 May 1960, Howard Oxenberg, by whom she was mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg. They divorced in 1966, and she married, on 23 September 1969, in London, Neil Balfour (b. Lima 12 August 1934). They divorced, and, on 28 February 1987, in New York, she married Manuel Ulloa y Elias (Lima 12 Nov 1922-Madrid 9 Aug 1992), the Prime Minister of Peru.
She is the daughter of the late prince Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (the last ruler of Yugoslavia of the House of Karadjordjevic as regent for his nephew King Peter II of Yugoslavia) and of the Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark.
She lives in Belgrade. Her brother is Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia and Yugoslavia who married first princess María Pia di Savoia (daughter of the last king Humbert II of Italy) and secondly Barbara of Liechtenstein. Maternally she is a second cousin of Queen Sofía of Spain and Charles, Prince of Wales. She is concerned in the problems of her country through her Princess Elizabeth Foundation in New York.
She is mother of three children, Catherine and Christina Oxenberg and Nicholas Balfour.
She decided to run for a president of Serbia in the Serbian presidential elections, 2004, despite her brother Alexander's objections. After the end of World War II, the ex-royal family was banished from the country, and their goods confiscated.
"In case of victory," she stated, "my priority would not be to return to a monarchy, but to form a real State."
She gained support of her daughter Catherine Oxenberg, many actors including John Travolta and royal families of Britain, Denmark and Belgium.
She got 63,991 votes or 2.1% finishing in 6th place.