Prince Arsen Karađorđević of Yugoslavia

Who was Prince Arsen Karađorđević of Yugoslavia?

Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia was a Prince of the House of Karađorđević and ancestor of the current junior branch of the Yugoslav Royal Family. He served as an officer in the Russian Army.

He was born in Temesvár a year after his father Prince Alexander Karađorđević had been deposed from the Serbian throne. His mother was Persida Nenadović. Among Prince Arsen's siblings was Peter I of Serbia.

Prince Arsen was married in Saint Petersburg on 1 May 1892 to Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato, daughter of Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato and his second wife Princess Elena Petrovna Trubetskaya. Their son was Prince Paul of Yugoslavia who was Regent of Yugoslavia from 9 October 1934 to 27 March 1941. The couple later divorced in 1896 and Aurora Pavlovna Demidova remarried to Conte Palatin Nicola Giovanni Maria di Noghera in Genoa on 4 November 1897 with whom she had a daughter, Helena Aurora di Noghera. Aurora Pavlovna Demidova di San Donato died in Turin on 28 of June 1904.

Prince Arsen died in Paris on October 19, 1938.