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...mark the second anniversary of his birth, which occurred three days before Mussolini drove his parents, Albania's Zog and Geraldine, into exile, Crown Prince Skander, a curly-headed refugee who has visited as many capitals as an Axis foreign minister, climbed on a chair at London's Dorchester House, sat for his picture (see cut) like a good fellow...
Whatever the cause, His Majesty changed his course and decided to take an even more roundabout way. Accompanied by Queen Geraldine, his three-month-old son Skander, four of his sisters and a suite of 20, Zog first went to Bucharest, Rumania's capital. The temporary crisis over Danzig caused him to stay there three days, but when things died down he proceeded on to Warsaw. From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route...
...special train from Greece, King Zog, Queen Geraldine, Prince Skander, the King's sisters, and a suite of 110 fellow Albanian refugees arrived in Istanbul, the Queen looking quite recovered (see cut) from her hair-raising flight from the Italian invader. The King piled his family into a hotel and settled down with permission to stay in Turkey as long as he keeps his hands out of political mischief...
...Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...