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Geraldina went to Albania and within a few days the couple got engaged. The 22-year-old countess, daughter of the late Count Gyula Apponyi, a former Hungarian officer, and Virginia Stewart, the daughter of an American diplomat, was Catholic and worked at the National Museum in Budapest for a small fee. <i>(In the photo: The Royal Couple)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text: <\/strong>National History Museum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 National History Museum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanian Royal Court officially announced the engagement of King Zog to the Hungarian Countess Geraldine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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