/ je ga je navelo na „osećanje nesigurnostiurođenoj sobi, podrođenimkrovom“. Suočenspritiscima,Đorđe je27. marta 1909. godine abdiciraoukorist mlađeg brata Aleksandra. SKLONJEN U BOLNICU IzbijanjeBalkanskograta1912. iPrvog svetskog rata 1914. pokazali su još jednucrtukraljevićaĐorđa – a to je luda hrabrost, koju je teško opisati drugačije osim kao „za strah nije znao“. Posle Prvog svetskog rata i smrti kralja Petra 1921. Đorđe je stvarao političku tenziju zahtevajući danjegova apanažai statusnadvorubuduregulisani. Aleksandar ga je ignorisao, a obostrana netrpeljivost bila je gotovo opipljiva.Đorđeještampaopolitičkubrošuru s nizominformacija koje subacale nepovoljnosvetlonadinastiju, atajpotez odredio je narednih 16 godina njegovog života. Konačna odluka bila je da usledduševnograstrojstvaprincbude poslat udvorac Belje, da bi kasnije bio prebačenupsihijatrijskubolnicuuGornjoj Toponici kodNiša. Danas je očito da su tadašnji lekarski izveštaji o njegovoj neuračunljivosti bili montirani. NakonDrugogsvetskogrataĐorđejebiojediniKarađorđevićuBeogradu, a nova vlastmu je dodelila i penziju. Beograđani ga pamte kao snažnu, markantnupojavu i često suga sretali napijaci, utramvajuilidokseautomobilom vozio sa suprugom Radmilom Radonjić, kojom se oženio u poznim godinama. Preminuo je 1972. godine i sahranjen je uCrkvi SvetogĐorđa na Oplencu kod Topole. printed a political brochure with a series of points of information that cast an unfavourable light on the dynasty, and it was thismove that determined his fate for the next 16 years of his life. The nal decision was that, due to his mental disposition, the prince shouldbe con ned to the Belje castle, only later tobe transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Gornja Toponica near Niš. It is obvious from today’s perspective that medical reports about his mental incompetencewere contrived to show that Georgewas su ering fromschizophrenia. Following the end of World War II, George was the only member of the Karađorđević family left in Belgrade, and the new government even granted hima pension. Belgraders remember himfor his powerful, striking appearance, and they encountered him often on the market, in the trams, or while he was driving in his carwithhiswife, Radmila. Lifealsobrought George consolation in a mature love and marriage with a woman two decades his junior, Radmila Radonjić, whom he married in his later years. Prince George Karađorđević passed away in 1972 and is buried at the Church of St. George in Oplenac near Topola. O prvom sinu kralja Petra javnost ponovo bruji zahvaljujući serijama Kralj Petar Prvi i Senke nad Balkanom Talk of the firstborn son of King Peter has been revived among the public thanks to the TV serials “King Peter I” and “Shadow over the Balkans”
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