| 词条 | Geraldine of Albania |
| 释义 |
|consort = yes | name = Queen Géraldine | title = Queen consort of Albania Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony | full name = Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy Appony | image = | alt = | caption = Queen Geraldine on the day of her wedding | succession = Queen Consort of the Albanians | reign = 27 April 1938 – 7 April 1939 | coronation = | spouse = {{marriage|Zog I of Albania|27 April 1938|9 April 1961|end=died}} | issue = Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania | house = Apponyi (by birth) Zogu (by marriage) | father = Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi | mother = Gladys Virginia Steuart | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|8|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2002|10|22|1915|08|06}} | death_place = Tirana, Republic of Albania | date of burial = 26 October 2002 | place of burial = Mausoleum of the Albanian Royal Family }} Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (6 August 1915 – 22 October 2002) was the Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania and the mother of Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania. Early lifeGeraldine was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, a daughter of Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (1873–1924) of the noble Apponyi family. Her mother was Gladys Virginia Steuart (1891–1947), an American, daughter of John Henry Steuart from Virginia, a diplomat who served as American Consul in Antwerp, Belgium, and his wife Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding. 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 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 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. Geraldine's happy childhood then continued at the chateau Oponice (Hung.: Appony) in present day Slovakia, Apponyi ancestral family possessions in Slovakia; at the time, the part of Czechoslovakia (whose citizenship Geraldine gained). She lived there until 1938. 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 lifeGeraldine was introduced to King Zog I in December 1937, who had seen a photograph of her. She visited 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 Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini. She was Roman Catholic and King Zog was Muslim. Geraldine wore a new diamond tiara, specially commissioned from Austrian jewellers, featuring the motifs of the white rose for the bride, and the heraldic goat for the groom.[1] 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 Zogu (1939–2011). Zog's rule was cut short by the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939, and the family fled the country into exile. From April 1939, Geraldine and Zog fled Albania via Greece and Turkey and settled in France, and then in England. They lived in the Ritz Hotel, London, at Ascot and, for most of the war, at Parmoor House, Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England. 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 lifeAfter her husband's death, Geraldine preferred to be known as the "Queen Mother of Albania".[2] 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 Albania. 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 heart attacks, the last of which was fatal, on 22 October 2002.[3] She was buried by the Central House of the Army with full honours, including a funeral oration at St Paul's Cathedral, on 26 October 2002, and interred in the public cemetery of Sharra, Albania, in the "VIP plot". She was later reburied in the Royal Mausoleum in Tirana. On 5 April 2004 her grandson, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, accepted the Mother Teresa Medal awarded to her posthumously by the Albanian government in recognition of her charitable efforts for the people of Albania. Honours
Ancestors{{ahnentafel|collapsed=yes |align=center |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. Queen Géraldine (1915-2002) |2= 2. Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (1873-1924) |3= 3. Gladys Virginia Steuart (1891-1947) |4= 4. Count Lajos Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (1849-1909) |5= 5. Countess Marguerite von Scherr-Thoß (1848-1931) |6= 6. John Henry Steuart (1838-1891) |7= 7. Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding (1870-1950) |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 Steuart, Jr. |13= 13. Margaret Heighe |14= 14. Edward Learned Harding (1822-1895) |15= 15. Lucy Booker Ramsay (1839-1906) |16= 16. Count Antál 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 Steuart |25= 25. Mary Hall |26= 26. James Mackall Heighe |27= 27. Jane Turner |28= 28. Seth Harding |29= 29. Mary Learned |30= 30. Walter J Ramsay (1802-1856) |31= 31. Martha Ann Pulliam (1810- ) }} References1. ^{{cite web|title=Queen Geraldine's Diamond Tiara|url=http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/tiara-thursday-queen-geraldines-diamond.html|publisher=Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor blog}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol11num3/vol11num3.pdf |publisher=law.nyu.edu |accessdate=9 October 2016 |title=Queen Mother of Albania |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212003/http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol11num3/vol11num3.pdf |archivedate=5 February 2012 |df=dmy }} 3. ^BBC News Online – Former Albanian queen dies 4. ^Royal Ark 5. ^Getty Images Further reading
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