Her husband, known as King Leka, had been proclaimed King of the Albanians by the anti-communist Albanian government in exile in 1961, upon the death of his father King Zog. She was born in the Sydney suburb of Waverley, a daughter of Alan Robert Cullen-Ward and his wife, the former Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior.
She preferred to use the title and was sometimes referred to as, Queen Susan of the Albanians (in Albanian, Suzana Zog, Mbretëreshë e Shqiptarëve). Meanwhile, Albania itself was a communist republic. She was a great-great-granddaughter of The Honorary
Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, an Australian politician who served as Postmaster-General in the ministries of Robert Herbert, Sir Robert Mackenzie, and Arthur Hunter Palmer in Queensland.
Cullen-Ward grew up on her father"s sheep station. Susan Cullen-Ward met Crown Prince Leka, the only child of King Zog of Albania, at a dinner party in Sydney.
The couple were later married in a religious ceremony in Madrid. Australian authorities refused to recognise her as a queen but, in a compromise when Andrew Peacock was foreign minister, issued a passport in the name of "Susan Cullen Ward, known as Queen Susan".
She lived a turbulent life after marrying Leka, as they moved from one country to another, having no permanent residence or fixed point of reference.
They later settled in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). She also had a stillborn daughter while resident in Rhodesia. The Crown Princess of Albania died of lung cancer on 17 July 2004 in Tirana, Albania.
After her death, she lay in state in a chapel outside Tirana.
Mission Susan Cullen-Ward (1941–circa 1965)
Mistress Rick Williams (circa 1965–circa 1970)
Mission Susan Cullen-Ward (circa 1970–1975)
Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Albania (1975–2004)
she called herself Her Majesty Queen Susan of the Albanians.
