[1] She was the daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadijé Toptani, and was one of the six sisters of King Zog I of Albania.
From that year onward, the king regularly arranged formal royal balls, and had his four younger sisters appear in public on official royal representational assignments: Princess Senije was assigned tasks within health care, Ruhije Zogu education, Myzejen Zogu culture, and Maxhide Zogu attended to tasks within sports.
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 USA, 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.