Subject: Yugoslav exclave in London<br/>
Date: Feb 27, 2002 @ 10:27<br/>
Author: anton_zeilinger (&quot;anton_zeilinger&quot; &lt;anton_zeilinger@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-205292934">Hi,<br/>
<br/>
I don&#39;t know if this has been discussed before: Being interested in <br/>
the various royal families of Europe I found the homepage of the <br/>
Serbian royal family (www.royalfamily.org) where I stumbled upon an <br/>
interesting passage:<br/>
<br/>
&quot;In 1944 in London King Petar (Peter) II married Princess Aleksandra <br/>
(Alexandra) of Greece the daughter of HM King Alexander of the <br/>
Hellenes. On 17 July 1945 while living in Claridge&#39;s Hotel Queen <br/>
Aleksandra (Alexandra) gave birth to a son - HRH Crown Prince <br/>
Aleksandar (Alexander) II of Yugoslavia.  <br/>
<br/>
As the heir to the throne at that time had to be born on Yugoslav <br/>
soil the British Government under the orders of the Prime Minister <br/>
Sir Winston Churchill declared suite 212 in Claridge&#39;s hotel Yugoslav <br/>
territory. His Holiness Patriarch Gavrilo of Serbia baptized the <br/>
newborn Crown Prince in Westminster Abbey. His godparents were King <br/>
George VI and the then HRH Princess Elizabeth now HM The Queen <br/>
Elizabeth II.&quot; (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.royalfamily.org/family/hrhcpa_bio.htm)">http://www.royalfamily.org/family/hrhcpa_bio.htm)</a><br/>
<br/>
So a simple flight of rooms was made an enclave! The rooms above and <br/>
belove this suite probably remained British territory?<br/>
<br/>
But of course, the question remains whether a state can &quot;declare&quot; a <br/>
part of its territory as belonging to another one? Could the U.S., <br/>
for instance say: &quot;Hey, Point Roberts is too much of a fuss for us, <br/>
from now on it&#39;s Canadian territory!&quot; Even if all residents of PR <br/>
agreed it probably would not automatically be Canadian, without their <br/>
government agreeing to it.<br/>
<br/>
Does anyone have an insight into this?<br/>
<br/>
Greetings,<br/>
Anton Z</div>