Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Lady de Silva (born 28 November 1959) is an English businessperson specialising in etiquette and decorum courses. She is a member of the extended former Yugoslavian royal family.
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Early life
Katarina was born at King’s College Hospital in London to Princess Margarita of Baden and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. Her father's dynasty having been deposed and banished from Yugoslavia after World War II, she grew up in exile, largely in England. She has one brother, Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia, and two half-brothers, Prince George and Prince Michael. She is a first cousin of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia. Her grandmother, Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden, was the sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, late husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Katharina is the senior female-line descendant of Queen Victoria, through the Queen's second daughter Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, who was the grandmother of Princess Katharina's great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.