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Crown Princess of Yugoslavia | |||||
Katherine at the celebrations of the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, 18 June 2010
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Born |
Athens, Greece |
13 November 1943 ||||
Spouse |
Jack W. Andrews (m. 1962; div. 1984) Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (m. 1985) |
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Issue | David Andrews Alison Andrews |
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Father | Robert Batis | ||||
Mother | Anna Dosti |
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Katherine Clairy Batis |
Katherine, Crown Princess of Yugoslavia, also named Katherine Karađorđević (Serbian: Катарина Карађорђевић; née Batis, Greek: Μπάτης; born in Athens on 13 November 1943), is the wife of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.
Katherine was educated in Athens and Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied business at the University of Denver, Colorado and the University of Dallas, Texas. She worked in business for a few years in the United States.
On 25 November 1962, Katherine married Jack W. Andrews (died in Maryland in 2013). From that marriage she has two children, David and Alison. Alison has four children: Amanda, Stephanie, Nicolas and Michael; David has a son Alexander, born 1 March 2008. Both Alison and David live in Greece. Katherine has traveled extensively and has lived in Australia, Africa and the United States. She and Jack Andrews were divorced on 7 December 1984.
She met her second husband in Washington DC in 1984, and they were married in London, civilly on 20 September 1985 and religiously the next day, on 21 September 1985 at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Notting Hill. Their best man was Constantine II of Greece, and the witness was Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander’s uncle.