CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER II AND CROWN PRINCESS KATHERINE IN AUSTRALIA

Melbourne, November 8, 2005 - Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine will be visiting Australia from November 9 - 14, 2005 upon invitation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and His Grace Milutin, Bishop of Australia and New Zeeland.

On their first official trip to Australia, Their Royal Highnesses will visit the Serbian Orthodox Church and community in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Of particular significance is their personal endorsement and support of the establishment in Sydney of St. Sava College, the first Serbian Orthodox School to be founded in Australia. The school will be located in the south-west of Sydney where many thousand Serbian refugees from the former Yugoslavia have begun new lives.

Crown Prince Alexander II will meet with various representatives of government to warmly thank Australia for its exemplary acceptance of refugees from the former Yugoslavia. He will also encourage Australian Serbs to love and respect their new homeland, whilst maintaining strong links with the country of their origin for the benefit of both Australia and Serbia.

Their Royal Highnesses will also have an opportunity to inform the Serbian community about the four-year-long successful humanitarian work of the Foundation of Her Royal Highness Princess Katherine.