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Yugoslav king buried in Libertyville returned to Serbia

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Patriarch Irinej performs the liturgy during a solemn ceremony after the remains of Yugoslavia's last king — Peter II Karadjordjevic were flown back to Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, from Libertyville.

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The remains of Yugoslavia's last king — Peter II Karadjordjevic, who died in the U.S. in 1970 and was buried in Libertyille — were flown back to Serbia in a solemn ceremony on Tuesday, despite protests by some Serb royalists in America. The former king fled the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia at the start of World War II and never returned because Communists took over at the end of the war. He died in exile at the age of 47 in 1970 and became the only European monarch laid to rest on U.S. soil.

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