WEDDINGS IN ALBANIA
EXPENSES PAID BY STATE HONOUR TO KING ZOG SCENES AT ROYAL MARRIAGE United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May 9 In celebration of King Zog’s Wedding to Countess Geraldine Apponi, the expenses of 100 weddings in Albania, held on the same day, were paid at Hi-? King's request. King Zog and his bride, in signing the marriage register, dipped their pens in a silver inkstand, inscribed ’ To Ahmed Zog, President of the Albanian Republic?” It was the gift of un Italian insurance company before Zog mounted the throne. Italian aeroplanes showered leailets as the King and the Queen, still in her wedding dress, left for the honeymoon at a castle given by the people ol' Durezzo to King Zog when he was President of the R'epublic.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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129WEDDINGS IN ALBANIA Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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