King Milan of Serbia and his spouse Nathalie Keshko

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After the death of Prince Michail his cousin Milan(portrait above) came to the throne!He ruled as a Prince of Serbia from 1868-1882 and as the first King of Serbia under name King Milan I from 1882-1889!He was also forced to exile and to abdicate in favour of his only son Crown Prince Alexander!He in 1851 and died in Vienna in 1901 living a fullfilled life in exile!

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King Milan was married to a Russia Nathalie Keshko,who was a daughter of a Russian boyar Peter Keshko who owned a great land in Bessarabia and was very,very rich(Keshko family claimed they descended from Byzantine Comnenos dynasty) and Princess Pulcheria Sturdza who was from a ruling family of Moldavia!Although a love match at first site,Nathalie an Milan never a happy marriage!In the meantime they quareled so much that she had to be go out from Serbia for a while(always wanted to come back with happened during the reign of her son,but for a short time)!She settled in Biaritz in France!She had a great villa there(called ''Sashino''9witch is a casino today)!She became a Catholic,traveled through France and died during the Second World War in 1941 in Paris allmost forgotten!

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In these posts I will try to show the life of sad,unhappy and fogotten Queen Nathalie of Serbia though pictures!

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Nathalie as a little girl in Russia where she was raised!

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Nathalie as a Princess who married her second cousin Prince Milan(later King) of Serbia!

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Nathalie as a Queen who was for the first time exiled by her husband!Next time she was exiled from the country by her beloved son who married her lady in waiting!This photo was taken in Biaritz where she already converted to Catholicism!

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Here we see Nathalie as a sad and forgotten figure in Paris who lived in the monastery!She presented and was known there as Countess of Rudnik,but the only time she really presented herself as a Queen was when a horseman was kicking his horse!She couldn't stand it and came to him and as a Queen ordered him to stop!Of course,he didn't have to stop because she has been a forgotten ex-Queen of a far away country,but in the end he did!She spent her time giving candies to the children in the parks of Paris...It was reported that she died in 1935,but she died alone in Paris during World War II,without anyone left as a sad,unhappy and forgotten Queen!Ones she died in 1941 there were again several articles in the newspapers about the death of ''the sadest Queen of Europe''...

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KING MILAN

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From Nathalie de Serbie - La Reine errante by Alexandre de la Cerda :


Queen Natalia