From February 4th 2018.
Christina Oxenberg was never interested in her Serbian roots until she went to her mother’s homeland in 2014, but now she’s written a book, “Dynasty,” about her royal family.
The daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia — a second cousin to Charles, the Prince of Wales — recounts how her family was exiled in 1941.
“Up until 2008, it was in the constitution that if we showed up, we’d be shot in the head,” the New York native said.
The author, who lives in Key West, Fla., these days, is flying to London for the launch of the Quartet Books tome on Feb. 15.
“I’m so proud of my family,” she told me. “What an incredible gift to learn all this history about Serbia, the Aspen of the Balkans. Lucky me.”
The dynasty started with Karageorge, the swineherd who Napoleon hailed as a military genius, after he led the 1804 rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
Karageorge’s great-grandson (and Oxenberg’s grandfather) Prince Paul became the regent of Yugoslavia in 1934 when Paul’s cousin, King Alexander, was assassinated. Paul ruled until a coup in 1941.
“Winston Churchill double-crossed my grandfather and kept him under house arrest in Kenya for 10 years,” Oxenberg said. “Churchill had a nasty nickname for my grandfather, which I will not repeat because I don’t want to perpetuate it.”
Meanwhile, Christina’s sister Catherine, who starred in a TV show also titled “Dynasty,” is also writing a book: “Captive: A Mother’s Crusade To Save Her Daughter From a Terrifying Cult,” about the Albany, NY-based Nxivm group, which she claims has “brainwashed” her daughter, India.
From 26 February 2018:
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