[1] She was the daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadijé Toptani, and was one the six sisters of King Zog I of Albania.
She married Cena Bey Kryeziu, who was killed after a conflict with her brother in 1927.
When her brother became monarch in 1928, she and her siblings were granted the status of Prince and Princess Zogu.
However, 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, and while Nafije did not appear in public, she did follow the policy of her brother and discarded her veil that year.
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.