On December 4 the kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, thereafter known as Yugoslavia, was proclaimed under the regency of Prince Alexander, later King Alexander I. The union of the South Slavs under Serbian leadership, for which the conspirators of Sarajevo had plotted and died, was thus achieved. Princip, Cabrinovic, and Grabez, whose age had saved them from execution at the time, had all succumbed to tuberculosis and died in prison during the war. Their bodies were brought back to Sarajevo in 1920 and buried in the local cemetery alongside the bodies of their accomplices who had paid
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