[1] Alexander I was assassinated in 1934 in Marseille during a state visit to France, in the same year that the construction of the palace began.
[1] Prince Paul was the only member of the royal family to reside in the palace before the outbreak of the World War II and subsequent invasion of Yugoslavia.
[2] The palace was designed by architect Aleksandar Đorđević in a Neo-palladian style, inspired by 18th century English country houses such as Ditchley Park.
[3] Palace is housing notable art collection including paintings by Piero di Cosimo, Biagio d'Antonio, Nicolas Poussin (three paintings), Giovanni Cariani, Sébastien Bourdon, Albrecht Altdorfer, Titian, Rembrandt attribution, Palma Vecchio (two paintings), Carlo Caliari, Peter Paul Rubens, Carel Fabritius, Simon Vouet, two paintings by Brueghel, Antonio Canaletto, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Giuseppe Crespi, Nicolae Grigorescu, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Eugène Fromentin, Gaspard Dughet, Richard Parkes Bonington, Đura Jakšić, Ivan Meštrović, Vlaho Bukovac and others.
The green and white Sèvres porcelain service was purchased in 1932 in Paris from the Gallerie Charpentier.