Serbian monarch Paul Karađorđević, known as Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, was BOTD in 1893. The uncle of King Peter I of Serbia, he was educated in Geneva and Belgrade. In 1910, he moved to England to attend Oxford University, breaking with his family tradition of studying in Paris or St Petersburg. His studies were interrupted by military service in World War One, allowing him to extend his time in England. Intelligent, urbane and a devoted Anglophile, he developed an upper-crust circle of homosexual friends, including Prince George, Duke of Kent and Henry “Chips” Channon, who called Paul “the person I have loved most”. In the early 1920s, Paul and Channon lived together in a house in London, later joined by Channon’s other lover Henry, Viscount Gage. An avid art collector, he donated many works by European Old Masters to the Serbian Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1923, Paul returned to Serbia, marrying Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, with whom he had three children. When Yugoslavia’s king Alexander I was assassinated in 1934, Paul was appointed regent for his 11-year-old nephew Peter II. A political moderate, he encouraged granting Croatia partial autonomy, earning the enmity of Serbian nationalists. As war engulfed Europe, Paul’s sympathies lay with the British and Allied forces, but he was eventually forced to align with Hitler and the Axis powers. In 1941, two days after signing a treaty with Germany, Paul was deposed by a military coup. He fled to Greece, where he was captured by British forces, who viewed him as a war criminal for his support of Germany. He and his family spent the remainder of the war interred in Kenya and South Africa. After the war, he was declared an enemy of the state by Yugoslavia’s new Communist government, and required to forfeit his property and assets. He and his family settled in Paris, remaining there until his death in 1976, aged 83. In 2011, Paul’s conviction as a state enemy was overturned by the Serbian courts. The following year, the bodies of Paul, Olga and their son Nicholas were disinterred from a cemetery in Switzerland and reburied with state honours in the Karadjordjević family mausoleum in Serbia.