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Yugoslav princess may run for presidency

BELGRADE, Serbia, May 13 (UPI) -- Yugoslav Princess Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic will likely run for the presidency in June's elections, Serbia's Politika newspaper reported Thursday.

Immensely popular in Serbia, Princess Karadjordjevic is well known for her work with Serbian refugees from the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The mother of American actress Catherine Oxenberg, she was once engaged to British actor Richard Burton.

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If Princess Karadjordjevic does run in the June 13 elections, she will face tough competition from the candidate of the hard line nationalists Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic.

Born in 1936, Princess Karadjordjevic fled Yugoslavia with her family ahead of the Nazi invasion in World War II and was forbidden to return by the post-war communist government.

After the fall of President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, she was given her citizenship back by the new, reformist government.

In Bulgaria, former King Simeon Saxe Coburg II became prime minister in 2001.

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