DELEGATION OF KING'S YOUTH VISITS OPLENAC

Belgrade, 25 May 2008 – A delegation of the King's Youth Association visited Oplenac, the historic cradle of modern Serbia and the Karadjordjevic Dynasty. The visit occurred today, on the symbolic 25th May that used to be celebrated in Tito's era as Youth Day (Tito's birthday).

Representatives of King's Youth were received by Mr. Miladin Gavrilovic, Director of the King Peter I Karadjordjevic Foundation at Oplenac. They laid a wreath on the grave of Karadjordje, Supreme Leader of the 1804 First Serbian Uprising, and the "father" of the modern Serbian state. The activists also lit candles for the four late rulers that are buried in the Oplenac mausoleum - Supreme Leader Karadjordje, Prince Alexander, King Peter I, and King Alexander I.

Today should be a new beginning. Serbia rather should look into the future, that future being the Constitutional Kingdom of Serbia.

King's Youth representatives regret that they were not able to pay their respects to the late King Peter II, who is buried in Libertyville, Chicago, but hope that they will be able to do so in the near future, when the late King is brought back to Serbia.