Eileen Johnston was born on 3 September 1922 as the daughter of George Johnston and his wife, Alice Percival in Chester, England. Not much is known about her youth. On 6 November 1943, she first married André de Coppet, a director of the Continental Bank and Trust Company of New York. Her new husband had [read more]
Susan Cullen-Ward was born on 28 January 1941 in Sydney as the daughter of Alan Robert Cullen-Ward and his wife, Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior. Susan grew up on the New South Wales sheep station that her father owned and attended the Technical College in Sydney. In 1965, she married Richard William, but they were divorced without having had [read more]
Queen Geraldine of Albania is a moving example of how circumstances, history and people can draw the fate of a beautiful girl dragging her along life’s twists and turns and giving her a single chance to cope with whatever it is thrown on her path. Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony was born the daughter of [read more]
Today, 8 October 2016, Prince Leka of Albania (or King Leka II of Albania as he is known by royalists) will marry his longtime fiancee Elia Zaharia. This is only the second-ever royal wedding in Albania, the first being the wedding of his grandfather King Zog I and Countess Géraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony. Countess Géraldine was [read more]
6 August 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Geraldine of Albania. She was born in Budapest (Austria-Hungary) in 1915. She was the daughter of Gladys Virginia Steuart and Hungarian Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy Appony. After fleeing from Austria-Hungary as the empire collapsed the family lived in Switzerland. When her father died [read more]
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