Heaton-Armstrong was an adventurer who in 1914, "on the look out for a more stable career", applied for the post of Private Secretary to the newly appointed King of Albania -the German Prince William of Wied. Gervase Belfield was born in 1953, and educated at Ampleforth and Southampton University. He qualified as a barrister, but for the past 25 he has worked as a genealogist with Debrett Ancestry Research Ltd. Bejtullah Destani is a British-Alabanian scholar and the author of Albania & Kosovo, Political and Ethnic Boundaries, 1867-1946: Documents and Maps and thesix-volume Ethnic Minorities in the Balkan States, 1860-1971. In 1997, Bejtullah Destani founded the Centre for Albanian Studies in London.
'A lively and personal insight into Weid's brief appointment as "King of Albania" in 1914...The book is exceptionally readable...Personal accounts such as this give human face to history' Balkan Academic News Book Review
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