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Only European king buried on U.S. soil goes back home

The King has left the country.

Yugoslavia's last king, Peter II Karadjordjevic, who died in the United States in 1970, was taken to Serbia Tuesday, thus removing the only European royal to be buried on American soil.

The former ruler had fled the Nazis at the start of World War II. He decided to stay in the U.S. when Communists took over Yugoslavia at the end of the war. 

He died in exile at the age of 47 and had been buried at the Serbian Orthodox Church monastery in Libertyville, Ill.