Heather McRobie

From The Blog
30 October 2013

Jovanka Broz, the former first lady of a nation state that no longer exists, died in Belgrade on 20 October, aged 88. Tito’s widow received a state funeral and was buried with full military honours. But she lived the second half of her life in isolation, and by the time she died had been all but forgotten.

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