King of Albania formally retained until he abdicated as Albanian monarch in 1943. Zog I was then reinstated as King (though he never returned to Albania), serving until the socialist People's Republic of Albania was established in 1946. During and after World War II, some Albanians worked for the return of King Zog; however, they were not successful. Neither Zog nor Vittorio Emanuele III had their Albanian royal titles widely acknowledged by the international community. The constitution of the Albanian Kingdom specified that, were the king to flee during war, he would abdicate any claims to the throne, including those of his descendants.
The Episode of the Exiled Monarch The Episode of the Exiled Monarch "The Episode of the Exiled Monarch", a.k.a. "The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch", is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the August 1914 issue of the "Strand", and in the United States in the September 1916 "Pictorial Review". It was published in book form in the collection "A Man of Means" in 1991. It is the fifth of six stories to feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. A new dance craze,