Subsequently, together with her sisters, the Princess went to live in France, although she never stopped worrying and committing herself (even if at a distance, being in exile) for her native land, Albania.

[2] She was the daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadije Toptani, and was one the six sisters of King Zog I of Albania.

When the king banned the hijab in 1937, he made sure his sisters appeared in public without veils and dressed in Western fashion as role models for other women.

Prior to the royal wedding of the king in 1938, the three youngest princesses made a trip to the US, where they were given much attention.

She left Albania with the rest of the royal family in 1939 upon the outbreak of World War II, and followed the former monarch in exile to Great Britain in 1940.