Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and his family have been given a royal burial in a mausoleum in Serbia 60 years after they were exiled.
After being exhumed from a cemetery in Lausanne, Switzerland, the remains of Prince Paul, his wife Olga and son Nikola, were placed in a crypt of the Church of St. George at Oplenac on Saturday.
AAP reports the ceremony was broadcast on State television. President Tomislav Nikolic and other top officials attended.
Prince Paul ruled Yugoslavia as Prince Regent after the assassination of King Aleksandar I in 1934 until the collapse of the kingdom in March 1941.
Yugoslavia emerged from the war as a communist federation under the rule of Josip Broz Tito. The new communist regime banned the return of the royal family and confiscated their property.
Prince Paul was declared a criminal by decree in September 1945 and lived in exile in France, where he died in 1976 at the age of 83.
AAP reports he was rehabilitated by a Belgrade court December 2011, when the decreee was quashed.
