Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (b. 1958)

Prince Michael
Prince Michael of Yugoslavia
Born (1958-06-18) 18 June 1958
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Full name
Michael Nicolas Paul George Maria
House Karađorđević
Father Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
Mother Princess Maria Pia of Savoy
Yugoslav Royal Family

HRH The Crown Prince
HRH The Crown Princess

Extended royal family

Prince Michael of Yugoslavia,[1] also known as Michel de Yougoslavie,[2][3] (Michael Nicolas Paul George Maria; born 18 June 1958 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France[1]) is an investment executive,[4][5][6][7][8] socialite and philanthropist.[3] He was formerly a real estate broker.[2][3] Prince Michael is a member of the House of Karađorđević and a Prince of Yugoslavia as a patrilineal descendant of Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia.[1]

Family

Prince Michael, along with his twin brother, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, were born on 18 June 1958 and are the eldest sons of Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his wife, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy.[1] Alexander and Maria Pia had a second set of twins, Prince Sergius and Princess Helene of Yugoslavia, in 1963.[1] Prince Michael has a younger half-brother, Prince Dushan of Yugoslavia, from his father's second marriage to Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein.[1]

Education

Prince Michael graduated from European Business School Paris.[3]

Career

Prince Michael relocated to Palm Beach, Florida, where he was a real estate broker selling condominiums for Sotheby's International Realty for 15 years.[2][3] In 1994, he was reportedly going into the vitamin business.[2]

Prince Michael joined Access International Advisors (AIA Group) investment fund, run by René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet. He was a active investment solicitor for people in Europe to invest in one of Bernard Madoff's feeder fund. These investors lost millions of dollars.

Prince Michael currently works for Diligence , a global business intelligence company, as a Senior Advisor to the Geneva office of the firm. [9]

Philanthropy and charity work

As of 2010, Prince Michael serves on the board of directors of Visionary Alternatives, Inc., a charity that discovers and funds aggressive alternative medical therapies for critically ill patients.[3] He has organized in Montecarlo (June 19th, 2015) a very important Charity-dinner to support the "Make a WISH" project of the serbian Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta (www.orderofmalta.org.rs)/>

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Styles of
Prince Michael of Yugoslavia
Reference style His Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Sir

Titles and styles

Ancestry

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paul Theroff. "YUGOSLAVIA". Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Plunket, Robert (13 November 1994), "Palm Bech On Wry", The New York Times, retrieved 2010-08-04
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Visionary Alternatives, Inc. "BOARD OF DIRECTORS & ADVISORS". Visionary Alternatives, Inc. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  4. ↑ Pierce, Andrew (6 February 2009), "Prince Charles targeted by Madoff fund", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 2010-08-04
  5. ↑ Sandler, Linda (6 February 2009), "U.K.’s Prince Charles Targeted by Madoff Marketer, Witness Says", Bloomberg L.P., retrieved 2010-08-04
  6. ↑ Palmer, Richard (7 February 2009), "Charles on Madoff scam list", Daily Express, retrieved 2010-08-04
  7. ↑ Prynn, Jonathan (24 December 2008), "'Ashamed' broker who lost aristocracy £1bn in Madoff fraud dies after slashing wrists in New York office", Daily Mail, retrieved 2010-08-04
  8. ↑ Gendar, Alison; Feiden, Douglas (24 December 2008), "Hedge fund founder Thierry de la Villehuchet kills self after losing $1B in Madoff scandal", Daily News, retrieved 2010-08-04
  9. ↑ "Prince Michael de Yougoslavie's Linkedin". Retrieved 2013-03-21.

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Prince Michael of Yugoslavia (b. 1958)
Born: 18 June 1958
British royalty
Preceded by
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia		 Line of succession to the British throne Succeeded by
Prince Sergius of Yugoslavia
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