Dua Lipa receives Albanian citizenship
03 December 2022 |
11:29 am
Lipa was born in London, but her roots go back to Kosovo, where her parents come from. Her family fled to London in the early 90s when the small Balkan province was struggling with communist Yugoslavia and later Serbia for greater rights and independence for the province.
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