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'{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2012}} {{eastern name order|Apponyi Géraldine}} {{Infobox royalty |consort=yes <gallery> File:http://www.albanianroyalcourt.al/pages/Images/Resized/wx4mlzjjr08ekoy97pzr_580_795_S_70.jpg.|Queen Geraldine </gallery> | name =Géraldine | full name =[[Countess]] Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagyappony | title =[[List of Albanian consorts|Queen consort of the Albanians]] | image = | caption = | reign =27 April 1938 – 7 April 1939 | spouse =[[Zog of Albania|King Zog I]] | issue =[[Leka, Crown Prince of Albania]] | royal house = | father =[[Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi]] | mother =[[Gladys Virginia Stewart]] | birth_date ={{Birth date|1915|8|6|df=y}} | birth_place ={{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}} [[Budapest]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | death_date ={{death date and age|df=y|2002|10|22|1915|08|06}} | death_place ={{flagicon|Albania}} [[Tirana]], [[Albania]] | place of burial = Cemetery of Sharra, [[Albania]] }} '''Queen Géraldine''' <ref>[http://www.albanianroyalcourt.al/pages/queenGeraldine]</ref> or '''Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagyappony''' (August 6, 1915 – October 22, 2002) was the [[Queen Consort]] of King [[Zog I of Albania|Zog I]], of the [[Zogu]] dynasty of [[Albania]]. From the time of her marriage she was known as '''Queen Geraldine of the Albanians''' ({{lang-sq|Geraldina Zog, Mbretëreshë e Shqiptarëvet}}).<ref>[http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Albania/zogu2.htm Royal Ark]</ref>{{Dead link|date=July 2010}} ==Early life== Geraldine was born in [[Budapest]], [[Austria-Hungary]], a daughter of Count [[Gyula Apponyi de Nagyappony]] (1873–1924). Her mother was Gladys Virginia Stewart (1891–1947), an [[United States|American]], daughter of [[millionaire]] John Henry Stewart from [[Virginia]], a [[diplomat]] who served as American [[Consul]] in [[Antwerp, Belgium]], and his wife Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding. Through her mother, Geraldine was distantly related to [[Richard Nixon]] and poet [[Robert Frost]], with common ancestors in the beginning of the 17th century. When Geraldine was three, the Empire of [[Austria-Hungary]] collapsed, and the Apponyi family went to live in Switzerland. In 1921 they returned to the [[Kingdom of Hungary (Regency)|Kingdom of Hungary]] which was stable under [[Regent]] [[Miklós Horthy]]. However, when Geraldine's father died in 1924, her mother and their three children (Geraldine, now nine, Virginia, and Gyula) went to live in the resort of [[Menton]] in the south of [[French Third Republic|France]]. When the Countess married a French officer, her Hungarian in-laws insisted that the children be returned to Hungary for their schooling. The girls were sent to the Sacred Heart boarding school in [[Pressbaum]], near [[Vienna]]. Her family's fortune spent, Geraldine earned a living as a shorthand typist. She also worked in the gift shop of the Budapest National Museum, where her uncle was the director. ==Royal life== Geraldine was introduced to King [[Zog of Albania|Zog I]] in December 1937, after his sister had approached Geraldine on behalf of the monarch. The King had seen the young Hungarian woman's photograph. She went to Albania and within days the couple were engaged to be married. Known as the "White Rose of Hungary", Geraldine was raised to royal status as Princess Geraldine of Albania prior to her wedding. On 27 April 1938, in [[Tirana]], [[Albania]], Geraldine married the King in a ceremony witnessed by [[Galeazzo Ciano]], envoy and son-in-law of [[Il Duce]] and [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|Prime Minister of Italy]], [[Benito Mussolini]]. She was [[Roman Catholic]] and King Zog was [[Muslim]]. They drove to their honeymoon in an open-top scarlet [[Mercedes-Benz]] 540K, a present from [[Adolf Hitler]]. The couple had one son, H.R.H. The Crown Prince [[Leka, Crown Prince of Albania|Leka Zogu]] (1939–2011). Zog's rule was cut short by the [[Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)|Italian]] [[invasion of Albania]] in April 1939, and the family fled the country into exile. From April 1939, Geraldine and Zog lived fled Albania via [[Greece]] and [[Turkey]], and settled in France, and then in the [[United Kingdom]]. They lived in the [[Ritz Hotel]], [[London]], at Ascot and, for most of the war, at Parmoor House, [[Frieth]], [[Buckinghamshire]]. In 1946 they went to [[Egypt]], and then in 1952 to [[France]]. King Zog I died in [[Hauts-de-Seine]], France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile. Following this, the Royal Family moved to [[Spain]], [[Rhodesia]] and then [[South Africa]]. ==Later life== After her husband's death, Geraldine preferred to be known as the Queen Mother of Albania.<ref>[http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol11num3/vol11num3.pdf law.nyu.edu]</ref> In June 2002, Geraldine returned from South Africa to live in Albania, after the law was changed to allow her to do so. She continued to assert that her son Leka was the legitimate King of the Albanians. Queen Geraldine died five months later at the age of 87 in a military hospital in Tirana. After being admitted for treatment for [[lung disease]], she suffered at least three [[myocardial infarction|heart attacks]], the last of which was fatal, on 22 October 2002.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2352963.stm ''BBC News Online'' – Former Albanian queen dies]</ref> She was buried by the [[Central House of the Army]] with full honors, including a funeral oration at the cathedral of Shen Pjetri, on 26 October 2002, and interred in the public cemetery of [[Sharra]], Albania, in the "VIP plot". Her grandson, [[Prince Leka of Albania]], accepted a medal awarded to her posthumously by the Albanian government in recognition of her charitable efforts for the people of Albania. ==Titles== {{Empty section|date=February 2013}} ==Titles, styles, honours and arms== {{Infobox hrhstyles |royal name = Queen Geraldine of the Albanians |image = [[File:Coat of arms of the Albanian Kingdom (1928–1939).svg|80px]] |dipstyle = [[Majesty|Her Majesty]] |offstyle = Your Majesty |altstyle = }} * nagyapponyi Apponyi Géraldine grófnő (countess, 1915–1938) * ''Her Royal Highness'' Princess Geraldine of Albania (''Geraldina, Princësh i Shqiptarë'') (10 January–27 April 1938)<ref>[http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Albania/zogu2.htm Dreamwater Free Web Space]</ref> * ''Her Majesty'' Queen Geraldine of the Albanians (''Geraldina Zog, Mbretëreshë i Shqiptarëvet'') (actual title, 1938–2002) * ''Her Majesty'' the Queen Mother of the Albanians (''Nëna Mbretëreshë i Shqiptarëvet'') (courtesy title, 1961–2002) ==Ancestors== {{ahnentafel top|width=100%}} <center>{{ahnentafel-compact5 |style=font-size: 90%; line-height: 110%; |border=1 |boxstyle=padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Géraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony''' |2= 2. Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony |3= 3. Gladys Virginia Stewart |4= 4. Count Lajos Apponyi de Nagy-Appony |5= 5. Countess Marguerite of Scherr-Thoß |6= 6. John Henry Stewart |7= 7. Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding |8= 8. Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony |9= 9. Countess Zsófia Sztáray de Nagy-Mihály et Sztára |10= 10. Count Hermann of Scherr-Thoß |11= 11. Countess Olga Strachwitz of Gross-Zauche-Camminetz |12= 12. David Stewart, Jr. |13= 13. Margaret Heighe |14= 14. Edward Learned Harding |15= 15. Lucy Booker Ramsay |16= 16. Count Antál [[Apponyi|Apponyi de Nagy-Appony]] |17= 17. Countess Therese Nogarola |18= 18. Count Albert Sztáray de Sztára et Nagy-Mihály |19= 19. Countess Franciska Károlyi de Nagy-Károly |20= 20. Count Ernst von Seherr-Thoß |21= 21. Baroness Agnes von Loën |22= 22. Count Ernst Karl Strachwitz of Gross-Zauche and Camminetz |23= 23. Baroness Mathilde von Erstenberg zum Freyenthurm |24= 24. David Stewart |25= 25. Mary Hall |26= 26. James Mackall Heighe |27= 27. Jane Turner |28= 28. Seth Harding |29= 29. Mary Learned |30= 30. Theodore Nixon Ramsay |31= 31. Virginia Elizabeth Deal }}</center> {{ahnentafel bottom}} ==References== <references/> ===Further reading=== *[http://www.ibtauris.com/ibtauris/display.asp?K=510000000646194&cid=ibtauris&sf_01=CAUTHOR&st_02=king+zog&sf_02=CTITLE&sf_03=KEYWORD&m=1&dc=1 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 *[http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1429252 ''The Economist''], 7 November 2002 – Queen Geraldine of Albania. *[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20021024/ai_n12658594 ''The Independent''], 24 October 2004, Obituary. *Dedet, Joséphine ''Géraldine, reine des Albanais''. Paris: Criterion, 1997 ISBN 2-7413-0148-4 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2352963.stm BBC news report of her death] * [http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1429252 The Economist – obituary] * [http://www.muzeum.sk/defaulte.php?obj=muzeum&ix=amoe muzem.sk] {{S-start}} {{s-hou|House of Nagyappony|6 August|1915|22 October|2002}} |- {{s-roy|al}} |- {{s-vac|last=[[Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg]]|as=Princess of Albania}} {{s-ttl|title=[[List of Albanian consorts|Queen consort of the Albanians]]|years=27 April 1938 – 7 April 1939}} {{s-aft|after=[[Elena of Montenegro]]|as=Queen of Italy}} {{end}} {{Authority control|VIAF=29376187}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Apponyi, Geraldine, Countess De Nagyappony | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Albanian royal consort | DATE OF BIRTH = 6 August 1915 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Budapest]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | DATE OF DEATH = 22 October 2002 | PLACE OF DEATH = [[Tirana]], [[Albania]] }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Apponyi, Geraldine, Countess De Nagyappony}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2002 deaths]] [[Category:People from Budapest]] [[Category:Albanian royal consorts]] [[Category:History of Albania]] [[Category:Apponyi family]] [[Category:Hungarian nobility]] [[Category:Albanian nobility]] [[Category:Albanian people of Hungarian descent]] [[Category:Albanian people of American descent]] [[Category:Hungarian people of American descent]] [[de:Geraldine Apponyi]] [[et:Geraldine Apponyi]] [[fr:Géraldine d’Albanie]] [[it:Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony]] [[hu:Géraldine albán királyné]] [[nl:Geraldine Apponyi]] [[ja:アポニー・ゲーラルディネ]] [[pl:Geraldine Apponyi]] [[ru:Аппоньи, Геральдине]] [[sq:Mbretëresha Geraldinë]] [[fi:Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi]] [[sv:Geraldine Apponyi]]'