who was in the pay of the Russian Empire, as well as the leader of the Black Hand secret society which would assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Several politicians were also members of the conspiracy and allegedly included former Prime Minister Nikola Pašić. The royal couple's palace was invaded and they hid in a wardrobe in the queen's bedroom. (There is another possibility, used in a Serbian TV history series The End of the Obrenović Dynasty in which the royal couple was in a secret safe room hidden behind the mirror in a common bedroom. The room contained an entrance to a secret passage leading out of the palace, but the entrance was inaccessible due to the placement of the queen's wardrobe over it after the wedding.) The conspirators searched the palace and eventually discovered the royal couple and murdered them in the early morning of June 11, 1903. They were shot and their bodies mutilated and disembowelled, after which, according to eyewitness accounts, they were thrown from a second-floor window of the palace onto piles of garden manure. The king was only 26 years old. King Alexander and Queen Draga were buried in the crypt of St. Mark's Church, Belgrade. Honours : Founder of the Order of St. Prince Lazar, 28 June 1889 Founder of the Order of Miloš the Great, 1898 : Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, 1891 : Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1894 Knight of the Order of Berthold the First, 1894 : Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 25 November 1896 : Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 5 August 1893 : Knight of the Order of St. Andrew : Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, with Collar, 24 September 1897 Notes References 1876 births 1903 deaths Kings of Serbia People from Belgrade 19th-century Serbian monarchs 20th-century Serbian monarchs Obrenović dynasty Murdered Serbian monarchs Assassinated Serbian people Assassinated heads of state Executed Serbian people Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia Eastern Orthodox monarchs Male murder victims Modern child monarchs Recipients of the Order of St. Sava Grand Crosses of the Order of St. Sava Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary 3 3 3 People murdered in Serbia Burials at St. Mark's Church, Belgrade 20th-century murdered monarchs 1903 murders in Europe