An exhibition showing the Serbian Royal orders that were owned and worn by the members of the Royal family Karadjordjevic was officially opened tonight at the White palace in Belgrade. The authors of the exhibition are Mr. Dragomir Acovic, Chairman of the Privy Council, and Professor Ljubodrag Grujic, the herald of the Royal house.
The exhibition was officially opened by Crown Prince Alexander, and opening ceremony was attended by Crown Princess Katherine, Their Royal Highnesses’s daughter Alison, HE Mr Ricardo Fernando Fernández, ambassador of Argentina, H.E. Mr. Hossein Molla Abdollahi, ambassador of Iran, HE Mr Kyle Scott, ambassador of the United States of America, members of the Crown Council, as well as many representatives of cultural and public life.
The visitors will be able to find out what decorations the Karadjordjevic Royal Family wore, on what occasion they were given, and why very little is known about the medals and the merits of the Karadjordjevic Royal Family members throughout history.
“During the last two centuries the Supreme Leader and his descendants went through entire falleristic history, from individuals with merits to the source and embodiment of virtues and flaws of the nation they led. The decorations that were worn by the Karadjordjevics, by right of birth and by functions, on the basis of personal virtue in war and peace, on the basis of symbolic representation of the institution that has outlived its constitutional and legal position, revealing a part of the total picture of the times in which we live and whose consequences we live today. The Karadjordjevics were men of their time in the world and men for all time in Serbia and among the Serbs”, said Mr. Dragomir Acovic, the author of the exhibition.
During the opening ceremony, in addition to the author, the audience was also addressed by Ms. Dusanka Maricic, the curator of the Military Museum.
Guests had an opportunity to enjoy products of “Bean and Leaf” Company.
Exhibition “Orders of the House of Karadjordje” will be open for visitors until 10 December, at 11:00 AM and at 2:00 PM.
