The last years of King Milan’s life were marked by several events that contributed to his end. First of all, we are talking about the Midsummer assassination in 1899, which, as an attempt to kill King Milan himself, caused a great political upheaval in Serbia. The following year, in 1900, King Alexander’s marriage to his mother’s court lady Draga Mašin, as a disastrous political and personal decision from King Milan’s point of view, contributed to ruining his health. He settled in Vienna and in January 1901 he fell seriously ill. Already on February 10th, he passed away alone and far from his family, without a final farewell to his son. He was buried in Krušedol monastery, on Austro-Hungarian land at the expense of the emperor, and King Alexander was not allowed to transfer his body to Serbia.
