ABSTRACT
To date little has been written in Yugoslavia about King Aleksandar Karadordevic. It is doubtful that there has been any similarly significant person so persistently ignored and wiped from historical memory. Nor has such a giant in Serb history been the subject to so unfavourable judgments without any real examination of the facts. King Aleksandar was a national king in a sense that cannot be applied to any European monarch going back centuries. He was of pure Serb blood on both sides of his family, proud of his peasant origins and in close contact with the widest spectrum of his people. If one was to choose a single word that would in most general terms describe his life that word would be ‘struggle’. The conspirators that enabled Petar to assume the Serbian throne assumed control of the army and meddled in Serbia’s political affairs, especially in foreign policy matters. The leaders of Serbia’s political parties were dissatisfied with Petar.
