European prince reveals engagement to sweetheart 6 months after settling divorce

Congratulations remain in order for Crown Prince Leka II, who revealed his engagemnet to his sweetheart, Blerta Celibashi! Leka, who is the Crown Prince of Albania, initially went public with his relationship in September 2024. Now, a year later on, he and Blerta are formally engaged, according to a declaration launched by the Albanian Royal Court. The pleased news comes 6 months after the prince’s divorce from Crown Princess Elia was settled. Pictures shared on Princ Leka’s main Instagram page reveal the pleased couple commemorating their engagement with friends and household on Saturday, 11 October. “The Royal Court is pleased to reveal the engagement of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Leka II of the Albanians and Miss Blerta Celibashi,” the declaration under the photos checks out.

” The engagement was happily commemorated on 11 October 2025, in Ksamil, Southern Albania, in the existence of household and friends. The Royal Household shares their joy with the Albanian individuals and extends wholehearted thankfulness to all who have actually communicated their kind wants on this happy event.” In the photos published, Blerta can be seen in an elegant champagne-coloured floor-length dress, on the other hand the prince uses a clever match.

The events come simply a month after Blerta signed up with the prince for her very first authorities engagement on a check out to the Queen Géraldine Structure, a program that champs academic efforts and humanitarian work throughout Albania. Blerta looked easily clever and elegant in a white blouse and dark-wash denims for the event.

Prince Leka’s divorce

The prince’s engagement comes 6 months after his divorce from ex-wife, Crown Princess Elia was settled in April 2025. The father-of-one, who is the head of the Albanian royal household, revealed on social networks at the start of the year that the couple had actually equally chosen to end their marital relationship after 8 years of marital relationship. The prince and his spouse, Elia Zaharia, who was initially a starlet, launched a declaration revealing the news and verifying that the couple’s child, Geraldine, stayed their primary top priority.

The declaration, equated from Albanian, checked out: “Hi good friends and well-wishers. Through this post, I formally notify you that LTM Princ Leka and Elia Zaharia have actually consented to end their marital relationship. Because the marital relationship has actually lost its function, they have actually seen the method to fix it by shared authorization by beginning the essential legal treatments.”

It continued: “In spite of the rely on the organization of the household, LTM Prince Leka II thinks that the worths of shared regard and understanding will form the basis of the relationship in its connection, which will have as its intention the development and education of LSM Princess Geraldine !!!”