Mourners will joined the former First Lady and her father at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church to pay tribute to Amalija Knavs, who died January 9 at 78.
Amalija Knavs, who has died aged 78, was a Slovenian former factory worker and mother of the former US First Lady Melania Trump; a striking beauty like her daughter, she was credited with inspiring Melania with an appreciation for fashion which would ultimately take her to the New York Fashion Week party at Manhattan’s Kit Kat Club in 1998, where she met Donald Trump.
Amalija Knavs, who has died aged 78, was a Slovenian former factory worker and mother of the former US First Lady Melania Trump; a striking beauty like her daughter, she was credited with inspiring Melania with an appreciation for fashion which would ultimately take her to the New York Fashion Week party at Manhattan’s Kit Kat Club in 1998, where she met Donald Trump.
A patternmaker from Slovenia, she and her husband became naturalized U.S. citizens with the help of their daughter and then a focal point in the debate around Donald Trump’s immigration policies.