STATEMENT FROM THE OFFICE OF
H.R.H. CROWN PRINCE
ALEKSANDAR II
 
With regard to some
uncertainties and different interpretations brought out in public related to the
property status of Kraljevski Dvor (Royal Palace) and Beli Dvor (White Palace)
in Belgrade, the Crown Council requested the Chancellery of His Royal Highness
Crown Prince Aleksandar II to present the following facts to the public:
At the time when His
Majesty King Petar II was still a minor, and during the Regency administration
of H.R.H. Prince Pavle, Dr. Radenko Stanković and Dr. Ivo Perović, the
City of Belgrade District Court, competent for the inheritance of the deceased
King Aleksandar I Karađorđević the Unifier, issued on the 27th October 1938
Decree No. O.428/34, determining the entire real estate and movable property of
King Aleksandar I the Unifier, specified in more detail in the above mentioned
Decree of the District Court for the City of Belgrade. The Decree lists in
points 1 to 7 all the real estate at Dedinje stating the parcel numbers  from
the Real Estate Register, including the Palace (Old Palace) with surrounding
terrain, yard and forest, as well as the building «Beli Dvor» with the
appertaining houses.

The aforementioned Decree of the City of
Belgrade District Court pronounced as the heirs of the entire private real
estate and movable property of the deceased King Aleksandar I the Unifier, his
underage sons: His Majesty King Petar II, His Royal Highness Prince Tomislav
and His Royal Highness Prince Andrija, in equal parts. This Decree became
official on the 4th of March 1939. All this property, as well as all the other
property of the Karađorđević’s family was confiscated on the basis of the Edict of
the Presidency Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the FPRY Pov.No.1433 of the
2nd of August 1947
 which, in point 6, under paragraph a., states that the “Palaces Dedinje and
Beli Dvor” – “ are registered in Real Estate Municipality Belgrade 7 in the
names of Petar, Tomislav and Andrej
Karađorđević,
real estate excerpt 82, 86 and 89 on 9 parcels“.
The aforementioned Decree was abolished by the Law on the
Abolishment of the Edict of Confiscation of Citizenship and Property from the
Karađorđević’s Family, of 2001. This law determined that the conditions for the
return of the confiscated property will be regulated by a special law.
The above status remains unchanged up to the present.

 

CROWN COUNCIL

The Crown Council is composed of:  Ivan Antić,
member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU); Matija Bećković, member of
the SANU; Živojin Bumbaširević, member of the SANU; Svetlana Velmar-Janković,
Prof. Slobodan Vitanović, PhD; Dragomir Vitorović, member of the SANU; Aleks
Dragnić, member of the SANU; Miroslav Gašić, member of the  SANU; Prof.
Dragoljub Kavran, PhD, Dušan Kovačević, member of the SANU;  Prof. Nikola
Moravčević, PhD; Prof. Pavle Nikolić, Ph.D; Milorad Pavić, member of the SANU;
Predrag Palavestra, member of the SANU; Slobodan Perović, member of the SAZU and
CANU; Prof. Eng. Branko Pešić, Branko Popović, member of the SANU; Mladen
Srbinović, member of the SANU and MANU; Prof. Đorđe Vid Tomašević, PhD;  

 

 

Belgrade, December 27, 2001.

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