Prime Minister Edi Rama has remembered Thursday the 18th anniversary of Queen Geraldine of Albania’s passing. Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony was the Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania and the mother of Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania.

Picture of Queen Geraldine of Albania

Geraldine of Albania was not just a king’s wife, but the graceful representative of the image of an unknown Albania in the eyes of the world, added the Head of Government

“Geraldine of Albanians was not only the wife of a king. She was ‘Geraldina Regina’, the graceful representative in the eyes of the world of the image of an unknown Albania, be it at the beginning, when the world saw us as a dusty corner of a sunseted empire, be it later, when for the world, Albania was the bunker of a Stalinists madmen’s sect two steps away from the West.

Geraldine was the ‘Regina’, she did not reign Albania but left her heart, mind and all her life to be reigned by Albania, and for this, she deserves to be remembered today, on the anniversary of her separation from the not at all fairytale life, and forever like those fairy tales of our childhood with kings and princesses, where the princess is always the most attractive part of the narrative”, noted PM Rama among others.