Katherine Karađorđević

Crown Princess Katherine is one of the two daughters of Robert Batis (1916–2011), a factory owner and director and President then Honorary President of the Fostiras Football Club,^[3] and wife Anna Dosti.^[4]

She was educated in Athens and in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied business at the University of Denver and the University of Dallas. In 2007 Crown Princess Katherine received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.^[5]

On 25 November 1962, Katherine married Jack Walter Andrews (1933–2013). They divorced in 1984.^[6]

She has two children, David and Alison.^[7] David has one son. Alison has four children: Amanda, Stephanie, Nicolas, and Michael. The family resides in the United States.

She met her second husband, Crown Prince Alexander, in Washington, DC, in 1984, and they were married in London, civilly on 20 September 1985 and religiously the next day at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Notting Hill. Their best man was Constantine II of Greece, and the witness was Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander's uncle.^[8]

On 17 July 2001, after the democratic revolution in Serbia, she and her husband took up residence in the Royal Palace in Belgrade.^[9]

Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia has been involved in charitable activities since the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.^[10] She works for humanitarian relief and is the founder and patron of various humanitarian organizations including Lifeline Humanitarian Organization. In 2001 she established The HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation in Belgrade.^[11]

In 2024, Crown Princess Katherine underwent surgery and treatment for pancreatic cancer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the United States.^[12] Serbian public broadcaster RTS reported that the operation was performed urgently and that she later continued her public and humanitarian activities following treatment.^[13]