Geraldine of Albania (born Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony; 6 August 1915 – 22 October 2002) was Queen of the Albanians from her marriage to King Zog I on 27 April 1938 until King Zog was deposed on 7 April of the following year.

However, after her father Gyula died in 1924, her American-born mother Gladys took Geraldine and her two siblings to live in Southern France.

After her husband died in Paris in 1961, Geraldine took the title Queen Mother and asserted the rights of her son Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, to rule.

When the Countess married a French officer, her Hungarian in-laws insisted that the children be returned to Hungary for their schooling.

On 27 April 1938, in Tirana, Albania, Geraldine married the King in a ceremony witnessed by Galeazzo Ciano, envoy and son-in-law of Il Duce and Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini.

Geraldine wore a new diamond tiara, specially commissioned from Austrian jewellers, featuring the motifs of the white rose for the bride, and the heraldic goat for the groom.

Zog's rule was cut short by the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939, and the family fled the country into exile.

From April 1939, Geraldine and Zog fled Albania via Greece and Turkey and settled in France, and then in England.

They lived in the Ritz Hotel, London, at Ascot and, for most of the war, at Parmoor House, Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England.

[3][5] She was buried by the Central House of the Army with full honors, including a funeral oration at St Paul's Cathedral, on 26 October 2002, and interred in the Sharra cemetery, Albania, in the "VIP plot".