Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is a libel of the coarsest type. The King was once engaged to the lady in question, but the engagement was ended by mutual consent. She after wards married Djemil Bey Dino, the present Envoy of Albania to Bulgaria, and is happily living with her husband at the Albanian Legation in Sofia. For those people who are willing to learn something, and the breed is not yet quite extinct, I will add that bigamy is in Albanian law a felony punishable by penal servitude...
Minister of Albania Albanian Legation...
...TIME I read your account of Achmet Zogu's efforts to marry into European nobility, and thought that perhaps you would be interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs. I lived in Albania-in Tirana from 1926 to 1928-and Achmet's difficulties with Shefqut Bey Elbassani were common knowledge at that time. The Countess will not marry Achmet because he is already married. This is no 'deterrent to another marriage- from...
...from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked cigarets, plus the ever-present danger of a royal Albanian assassination, have made it almost impossible to find a suitable Queen. Last week, however, a Portuguese marriage broker was in Tirana all ready to turn the trick...
...Budapest knew last week, the young Countess had proved satisfactory. Then suddenly she returned by air and Albanian Court officials announced that no marriage will happen. "I cannot yet speak," said Countess Johanna von Mikes, "but, officially, nothing has happened." The family of the Countess face-savingly announced that she could not marry King Zog because, as a good Catholic, she could not possibly join His Majesty in the Mohammedan faith...