Summary
Jelisaveta Karađorđević: Far away
In the exclusive confession of Princess Jelisaveta Karađorđević, we learn for the first time from the pen of a member of the royal family what has been happening in their lives since 1945, when Prince Pavle was accused of war crimes in Yugoslavia. Jelisaveta was only ten years old when she was labeled an enemy of the state. In March 1947, Tito's government passed a law that stripped them of their citizenship, passports and property, and expressly forbade them from returning to the country. This book is compiled from Elizabeth's diaries and notes taken over many decades, never with the idea that an autobiography would be born from it. Nevertheless, she decided to dig into the past and what happened to her family and write this romanticized autobiography. She believed that in this way, in order to win her great battle and the battle of her father and Karađorđević, she would free herself from the terrible labels of traitors to her own people. It is important to speak the truth, defend it and fight for it. This is one of the motives that led Jelisaveta to write an autobiography in which the public will learn a lot about the prince's grief for the country, his death, difficult life and frequent family moves, the princess's loves, her marriages, children, celebrities she socialized with and the fate of the "wanderer and adventurer", as she sometimes calls herself.
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