Dorrit Reventlow
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Born | Dorrit Reventlow April 22, 1942 Recife, Brazil |
Spouse | Dom Telmo de Braganza |
Issue | Dona Maria de Braganza Pederson |
House | Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (by marriage)[citation needed] |
Father | Eric Reventlow |
Mother | Nina Bent Rasmussen |
Religion | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Princess Dorrit Romanov (née Reventlow; born 22 April 1942) is a Danish translator, benefactor, philanthropist, social activist, and the widow of Prince Dimitri Romanov, who had claims to the headship of the Imperial House of Russia.
Biography[]
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She was born Dorrit Reventlow on 22 April 1942 in the city of Recife, Brazil, in the family of Eric Reventlow (1903–1944) and his wife Nina Bent Rasmussen (1912–1996). Dorrit is the second child in the family, her brother George was born in 1941 and lived only eight years and died in 1949 in Denmark. Anne Sophie Reventlow was queen consort of Frederick IV of Denmark.
Dorrit's father died when she was only two years and in 1946 the family returned to Denmark. She attended private schools in Denmark and Switzerland, where she learned Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish. In 1976 she opened her own translation company in Lisbon. After the death of her first husband in 1985 she returned to Denmark, where she worked as a representative of a Portuguese tourism company, also serving as the chair of a Danish-Brazilian society. In this role, Princess Dorrit succeeded in expanding the society's membership, while promoting Portuguese language and culture.
Since 1993, she has headed her own translation firm - «Translator Dorrit Romanoff & Assoc». In her free time she actively helped her husband in his humanitarian and charitable work in Russia.
Marriages and children[]
In 1961, she married Dom Telmo Coelho de Braganza (1925–1985), and had issue.
At a reception in 1991, Dorrit met Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov. In 1993 they were married in Kostroma, which became the first visit of some Romanov spouses to Russia. Prior to her 1993 wedding, Dorrit joined the Russian Orthodox Church under the name Theodora Alexeevna.
Honours[]
Portugal : Grand Officer of the Order of Merit[1]
Brazil : Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross[1]
Dynastic orders[]
Montenegro : Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I[1]
Ancestry[]
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Æresmedlem – H.H. Prinsesse Dorrit Romanoff | Dansk-Brasiliansk Selskab". dk-br.dk. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
External links[]
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Grand Officers of the Order of Merit (Portugal)
- House of Romanov in exile
- Reventlow
- Russian princesses by marriage