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  Print Article: 'White rose' blossomed in exile
As Countess Geraldine Apponyi, before her marriage to the 42-year-old bachelor king in 1938, she was one of Europe's great aristocratic beauties, sometimes referred to as "the white rose of Hungary".
Geraldine Apponyi was born in Budapest, a daughter of the Hungarian nobleman Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony and his wife Gladys, daughter of John H. Stewart, the American consul at Antwerp.
Geraldine's parents had met in Paris in 1912, at a dinner party at the Austro-Hungarian embassy, and were married in 1914.
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 Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi
Her father was Julius (or Gyula) Count Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (or: Nagyappony; (August 15, 1873 Nagyappony, now Slovakia — May 27, 1924 Budapest), and her mother was Gladys Virginia Steuart (July 18, 1891 — November 19, 1947), an American, a daughter of a millionnaire from an old family of Virginia, a relative to Richard Nixon.
Geraldine's father’s father Ludwig (or Lajos) Apponyi (May 2, 1849 Baden bei Wien — December 11, 1909 Budapest) was a high official in the Habsburgs’ court.
Geraldine's parents met in Paris in 1912 at a dinner in Austria-Hungary’s embassy, and they married in 1914.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Countess Geraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (6 August 1915—22 October 2002) was the Queen consort of King Zog I, of the Zogu dynasty of Albania.
Geraldine was born in Budapest, Hungary, a daughter of Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi (1873—1924).
Geraldine was introduced to King Zog I in December 1937, after his sister had approached Geraldine on behalf of the monarch.
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 Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi at AllExperts
Countess Geraldine Margit Virginia Olga Maria Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi (6 August 1915 - 22 October 2002), known as Queen Geraldine, was the Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania.
Geraldine's paternal grandfather, Ludwig (or Lajos) Apponyi (born on May 2, 1849 in Baden bei Wien – died on December 11, 1909 in Budapest, Hungary), was a high official in the Habsburg court.
Geraldine's parents met in Paris, France in 1912 at a dinner in the Austro-Hungarian embassy, and they married in 1914.
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 Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi - Definition, explanation
Countess Geraldine Margit Virginia Olga Maria Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi (6 August 1915 - 22 October 2002) was briefly Queen Geraldina of the Albanians.
Geraldine's paternal grandfather, Ludwig (or Lajos) Apponyi (May 2, 1849 Baden bei Wien –; December 11, 1909 Budapest), was a high official in the Habsburg court.
Geraldine's mother’s father John Henry Steuart (1831–1892) was a diplomat who served as American Consul to Antwerp.
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 Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagyho-Apponyi
Countess Geraldine Margit Virginie Olga Mariová Apponyi de Nagyho-Appony (6 srpna 1915 - 22 října 2002) byl krátce Královna Geraldina Albánců.
Geraldine byla jediná evropská královská hodnost americké krve.
Otec Geraldiny je otec Ludwig (nebo Lajos) Apponyi (2.
wikipedia.infostar.cz /c/co/countess_geraldine_apponyi_de_nagy_apponyi.html   (414 words)

  
 Queen Geraldine of Albania -- Rest in Peace
Geraldine of Albania, who as the wife of King Zog was for one year her adopted country's first and only queen and the only member of European royalty with American blood, died on Tuesday in Tirana, Albania's capital.
Geraldine Apponyi was born a countess in Budapest on Aug. 6, 1915.
Geraldine remained a Catholic and was wed in a civil ceremony on April 27, 1938.
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Geraldine Apponyi de Nagi-Appony, a Hungarian countess, mulled over such matters when she received a visit in 1937 from a sister of King Zog.
Geraldine was earning a living as a shorthand-typist, a skill her practical-minded mother had insisted she acquire.
Geraldine was tempted by an offer from Hollywood to make a film of her romance, but Zog assured her that, before they left Albania, he had deposited enough money in overseas accounts to provide for the family's life in exile.
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 H M Queen Geraldine of the Albanians | Obituaries | News | Telegraph
Her Majesty Queen Geraldine of the Albanians, who died on Tuesday aged 87, was the wife of King Zog, the ruler of Albania for the two decades preceding the Second World War.
Geraldine Apponyi was born in Budapest on August 6 1915, a daughter of the Hungarian nobleman Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony and his wife Gladys, daughter of John H Stewart, the American consul at Antwerp.
Her guardian, Count Charles Apponyi, gave his consent to the match, and Geraldine was given the rank of Princess of Albania.
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 Guardian | Queen Geraldine of Albania
Queen Geraldine of the Albanians, who has died aged 87, was the first woman in her adopted country to hold the royal title.
Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony was born the daughter of an impoverished Hungarian count and an American heiress in Budapest, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Geraldine, and her three-day-old son Leka, were packed off in a caravan of cars across the mountains to Greece.
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 Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Her father was Julius (or Gyula) Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (or: Nagyappony; (August 15 1873 Nagyappony now Slovakia — May 27 1924 Budapest) and her mother was Gladys Steuart (July 18 1891 — November 19 1947) an American a daughter of a millionnaire from old family of Virginia a relative to Richard Nixon.
Geraldine's father’s father Ludwig (or Apponyi (May 2 1849 Baden bei Wien — December 11 1909 Budapest) was a high official in Habsburgs’ court.
Geraldine's parents met in Paris in 1912 at a dinner in Austria-Hungary ’s embassy and they married in 1914.
www.freeglossary.com /Countess_Geraldine_Apponyi_de_Nagy-Apponyi   (738 words)

  
 Obituary: Queen Geraldine of the Albanians Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
She was born Geraldine Apponyi in Buda, and is customarily referred to as a Hungarian countess, but, although her father was an impoverished Hungarian count, her mother was Gladys Virginia Stewart, an American heiress.
Geraldine was born the following year, and enjoyed an idyllic childhood divided mostly between Vienna, where she received a Catholic education, and the vast rambling Apponyi family castle at Nagy Apponyi in Hungary.
Geraldine was invited to visit Tirana on the strength of this image, and went in December 1934, chaperoned by a family friend, Baroness Ruling.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20021024/ai_n12658594   (829 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] Geraldine Apponyi, former queen of Albania, 87
Pacific Fairy tale soured for Queen Geraldine By Douglas Martin Geraldine of Albania, who as the wife of King Zog was for one year her adopted country's first and only queen and the only member of European royalty with U.S. blood, died on Tuesday in Tirana, Albania's capital.
The Apponyi family insisted Geraldine and her two sisters be educated in Hungary.
The New York Herald Tribune observed that Geraldine, 22, "seems to be marrying the Rome-Berlin axis as well as her king." In addition to the Mercedes from Hitler, gifts included copper vases from Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and a rare cabinet from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
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 Search Results for "Geraldine"
In addition, she was an outstanding interpreter of lieder and a great teacher, Geraldine Farrar being among her pupils.
In 1964, Geraldine Mock was the first woman to successfully complete Earhart's round-the-world...
Zog, who had married the Hungarian-American countess Geraldine Apponyi in 1938, fled with his queen and two-day-old son.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Geraldine
Ferraro, Geraldine Anne The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
A Democrat from Queens, she served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979-85).
The opera star Geraldine Farrar was born in Melrose.
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 Zog of Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In April 1938, Zog married Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, a Roman Catholic who was half Hungarian and half American.
His widow, former Queen Geraldine, died of natural causes in 2002 at the age of 87 in a hospital in Tirana, Albania.
During World War II, royalist resistance in northern Albania was largely ineffective, later merging with communist insurgents (partisans) made up of former serfs from the south, who were led by Yugoslavian militants.
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 Rey Zog I- Segunda Guerra Mundial - Exordio
En abril de 1938, Zog que profesaba la religión musulmana, contrajo matrimonio con la católica Condesa Geraldine Margit Virginia Olga Maria Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, nacida en Budapest, Hungría, hija de madre estadounidense.
Geraldine se convirtió por poco tiempo en la Reina Geraldine de Albania.
Su esposa Geraldine murió en Tirana a la edad de 87 años luego de sufrir problemas pulmonares y varios ataques cardíacos.
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 Geraldine Apponyi
Der Artikel Geraldine Apponyi gehört zur Kategorie: Frau, Albaner, König, Geboren 1915, Gestorben 2002
April 1939 gebar Königin Geraldine einen Sohn; Leka I. Doch zwei Tage später war es mit dem königlichen Glück vorbei: Italienische Soldaten landeten an den albanischen Küsten und besetzten das Land.
Für Geraldine folgten weitere Jahre des Exils in Spanien und später in Südafrika bei ihrem Sohn Leka I., der dort als Geschäftsmann lebte.
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 Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
But his four sisters, each of them a division commander in the Albanian army and none of them married themselves, helped in the search, and he eventually found a penniless half-American, half-Hungarian countess, Geraldine Apponyi, who had been selling postcards in the Budapest National Museum for forty-five dollars a month.
The vandals thereupon converged on the estate in earnest, ripping it apart in search of treasure that was rumored to be buried in its grounds.
The mansion was later demolished, and Zog spent his last days in a nearly empty villa on the French Riviera, with Queen Geraldine doing the housework.
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 Zog of Albania
When depression grew bleaker, Albania had to import grain from abroad and many Albanians emigrated.
In April 1938, the Moslem Zog married a Catholic, Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, who was half Hungarian and half American.
Their only son, Leka Zogu, was born April 5, 1939.
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 [Deathwatch] Geraldine Apponyi, former queen of Albania, 87
Her grandfather had been a high official of the Hapsburg Court.
But Central European royalty had lost thrones, money and prestige after World War I. The queen's father died in 1924, and her mother remarried a French army officer.
The circumstances of the wedding hinted at the scheming politics that would abruptly end the queen's fairy tale in a year's time.
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 Pictures - Old Photos - King Zog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The bridesmaids at King Zog's wedding to Countess Geraldine Apponyi included the King's three sisters, Maxhide, Myzejen, and Ruhije.
King Zog signs his marriage papers, with his bride (and future queen) Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary beside him.
King Zog and Queen Geraldine of Albania in Sweden.
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 RoyaltyDanjel2
This diamond piece had been made for Queen Geraldine, wife of King Zog and consists of diamonds with the Skanderbeg, the national Albanian symbol.
HM Queen Geraldine of Albania, born Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony
The third tiara looks like a brooche converted into a tiara, Queen Geraldine has been seen wearing it but also her daughter in law, Queen Susan.
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 Bevis Fusha Photographer - galleries :: Death of a Queen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As wife of late King Zog, Hungarian Countess Geraldine Apponyi barely served as Queen of Albania before being forced into a life-time exile when Mussolini\'s Italy invaded the country in April 1939.
She returned only once afterwards, in June 2002, just before her death on Oct. 26 that year.Mourners waiting for the ceremony to begin.
She returned only once afterwards, in June 2002, just before her death on Oct. 26 that year.People waiting outisde the building to pay last honors to queen Geraldina.
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 Countess Geraldine Apponyi de NagyApponyi infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe
Countess Geraldine Apponyi de NagyApponyi infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe
Geraldine's paternal grandfather, Ludwig (or Lajos) Apponyi (May 2, 1849 Baden bei Wien "“ December 11, 1909 Budapest), was a high official in the Habsburg court.
Geraldine's mother"™s father John Henry Stewart (1831"“1892) was a diplomat who served as American Consul to Antwerp.
www.infoturkish.com /Turkey/Countess-Geraldine-Apponyi-de-NagyApponyi.html   (2273 words)

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