Zog I of Albania in exile, the royal family insisted that Leka Zogu was Albania's legitimate ruler until his death on 30 November 2011. During World War II, three resistance groups were operating in Albania: the nationalists, the royalists and the communists. Some of the Albanian establishment opted for collaboration. The communist partisans refused to co-operate with the other resistance groups and took control of the country. They were able to defeat the Nazi remnants and take over the country in November 1944. Zog attempted to reclaim his throne after the war, but the new Communist-dominated government barred Zog from returning soon after it
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,