Geraldine of Albania
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Geraldine | |
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Queen consort of the Albanians | |
Tenure | 27 April 1938 – 7 April 1939 |
Born | Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony 6 August 1915 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 22 October 2002 Tirana, Republic of Albania | (aged 87)
Burial | 26 October 2002 |
Spouse |
Zog I of Albania (m. 1938; died 1961) |
Catholic | |
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Geraldine (born Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony; 6 August 1915 – 22 October 2002) was
Geraldine was born in
The Italian invasion of Albania cut short Zog's reign. During World War II, Zog and Geraldine lived first in France and later in England. Later on, they would live in France again and in Egypt. After her husband died in Paris in 1961, Geraldine took the title Queen Mother and asserted the rights of her son Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, to rule. She and Leka fled successively to Spain, Rhodesia, and South Africa. Geraldine was allowed to return to Albania in 2002, and she died that year aged 87.
Early life
Geraldine was born in
When Geraldine was three, the Empire of
Royal life
Geraldine was introduced in December 1937 to
On 27 April 1938, in
The couple had one son, Crown Prince
Zog's rule was cut short by the
Later life
After her husband's death, Geraldine preferred to be known as the "Queen Mother of Albania".
Queen Geraldine of the Albanians died five months later at the age of 87 in a military hospital in Tirana. After being admitted for treatment for
On 5 April 2004 her grandson,
Honours
- Order of Fidelity (26 April 1938).[citation needed]
- Mother Teresa Medal [posthumous] (5 April 2004).[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780752470870. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ISBN 9782714452481. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Queen Mother of Albania" (PDF). law.nyu.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ BBC News Online – Former Albanian queen dies
- ^ "Albanian Royal Family - Royal Residences". www.albanianroyalcourt.al.
Further reading
- Dedet, Joséphine "Géraldine, reine des Albanais". Paris: Belfond, 2016, published at the occasion of Prince Leka's wedding in Tirana, on 8 October 2016 (Leka being Geraldine's grandson); former editions: Criterion, 1997 ISBN 978-2-7144-5090-6. Biography enriched by the Queen's testimony, by her personal archives and by a huge correspondence with the author, who has benefited of many unpublished sources.
- Dedet, Joséphine, Géraldine, Egy Magyar No Albania Tronjan, Budapest : Europa, 2015, ISBN 978-963-405-202-9, reprinted in 2016 and December 2017, best-seller in Hungary, translation of Géraldine, reine des Albanais".
- Pearson, O. S. Albania and King Zog, I.B. Tauris. 2005 (ISBN 1-84511-013-7).
- Tomes, Jason King Zog, Self-Made Monarch of Albania, Stroud: Sutton, 2003 ISBN 0-7509-3077-2
- Rees, Neil. A Royal Exile: King Zog & Queen Geraldine of Albania including their wartime exile in the Thames Valley and Chilterns, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9550883-1-5
- The Economist, 7 November 2002 – Queen Geraldine of Albania.
- The Independent, 24 October 2004, Obituary. [failed verification]
- Patrice Najbor, Histoire de l'Albanie et de sa maison royale (5 volumes), JePublie, Paris, 2008, (ISBN 978-2-9532382-0-4).
- Patrice Najbor, La dynastie des Zogu, Textes & Prétextes, Paris, 2002
- Robyns, Gwen. Geraldine of the Albanians. The Authorised Biography, Muller, Blond & White (1987)