Royal Family of Serbia

The Karadordevic is a Serbian dynastic family, founded by Karadorde Petrovic, the Veliki Vožd ("Grand Leader") of Serbia in the early 1800s during the First Serbian Uprising. The relatively short-lived dynasty had an ongoing blood feud with the Obrenovic dynasty after Karadorde's assassination in 1817, which was authorized by Miloš Obrenovic. The two houses subsequently traded the throne for several generations. In 1903, the Serbian Parliament chose Karadorde's grandson, Peter Karadordevic, then living in exile, for the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia. He was duly crowned as King Peter I, and shortly before the end of World War I, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Peter I as sovereign. In 1929, the Kingdom was renamed Yugoslavia, under Alexander I, the son of Peter I. In November 1945, the throne was lost when the League of Communists of Yugoslavia seized power, during the reign of Peter II.