It is nice to see Prince Fillip showing an active interest in Serbia and introducing his son to the culture of his country. I wonder if he is more likely to succeed his father as the face of the family than his older brother?
Well, it depends on many things...
First, of all sons, Filip is the only one married to a Serbian, came back to live permanently in Serbia(last month) and in a way is connected to Belgrade/Serbia...
Second, it also depends on a relationship between him and his father and stepmother. Privately, relationship has been tensed because of his stepmother who basically controls everything and his sons didn't want to live around, so they went to live abroad.
We could see this tension regarding giving back priceless artworks which belong to the National museum and are displayed in the Palace...His stepmother and her daughter refused to give them back, while Filip and his wife publicly supported the Museum claims, instead of his father's and his stepmother's claims.
Thirdly, when decided to come back to Belgrade Filip asked his (father)stepmother to let him and his wife live in a house at the Compound near the Palaces, but got the answer:"Who are you to ask for such a thing?" The house is now used by Allison Andrews, daughter of Crown Princess Katherine, who now lives there instead of any Karadjordjevic family member. When Princess Elizabeth asked to use just one room there as an office few years back, she was also denied.
Here are few articles in Serbian only. One must use google translate to be able to understand.
https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/n...-katarine-karadordevic-prisvojila-pet/19gqjex
https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/a...-dok-ministar-odugovlaci-sa-vracanjem/p15nl3s
https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/s...vrati-vredne-slike-srpskim-muzejima-a/9lqqhp8
https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/s...ju-princ-filip-poslao-jasnu-poruku-ne/19yl9qc
Regarding this situation Prince Filip gave the statement to the newspapers :
"Paintings you wrote about are in possession of the Republic of Serbia. Things are clear as a day: something which belongs to the dynasty should serve people, and when these paintings are concerned, they belong to the state and it's completely normal and natural for them to be displayed where the state of Serbia determines."
Apart from all this, Crown Princess wanted her children from her previous marriage, David and Allison Andrews to be adopted and become members of the Royal family with the qualification of Royal Highness.
Again, try to read using google translate:
https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/drustvo/...a-decu-iz-prvog-braka-trazi-princevske-titule
One could foresee this based on their website:
https://royalfamily.org/christmas-eve-at-the-royal-palace-3/
If you read carefully the first bolded sentence, you could see that Alison Andrews is described as
"their daughter Alison", not "her daughter Alison" in the official royal website, which indicates what they are aiming for. It would be like calling Camilla's daughter Laura Lopes daughter of Prince Charles by the official royal website. And this would not happen.
Things now get a little bit more complicated as this request was denied by the Royal Council and the tensions between the sons of Crown Prince and the family of Crown Princess don't help Serbian Royal Family cause in any way.
So, while she is around nobody of the sons will officially be designated as the next Heir as this would mean that he would be put in the spotlight. Also, the one destined to be next Heir is trained to slowly gain control and automatically decides almost everything in the family and in that situation, she is slowly getting out of the spotlight and would step by step began losing control. This won't happen while she is around and while she still controls everything.
