Dorrit Romanov (''née'' Reventlow; born 22 April 1942) is a
Danish
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translator, benefactor, philanthropist, social activist, and the widow of
Prince Dimitri Romanov
Dimitri Romanovich Romanov (russian: Дмитрий Романович Романов; 17 May 1926 – 31 December 2016) was a descendant of Russia's former ruling dynasty, a banker, philanthropist, and author. He was also a claimant to the heads ...
, who had claims to the headship of the
Imperial House of Russia.
Biography
She was born Dorrit Reventlow on 22 April 1942 in the city of
Recife
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Brazil
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, in the family of Eric
Reventlow
Reventlow is the name of a Holstein and Mecklenburg Dano-German noble family, which belongs to the Equites Originarii Schleswig-Holstein. Alternate spellings include Revetlo, Reventlo, Reventlau, Reventlou, Reventlow, Refendtlof and Reffentloff. ...
(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.
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 called 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 José Coelho de Braganza (1925–1985), and had issue.
At a reception in 1991, Dorrit met
Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov. On July 1993 they were married in
Kostroma
Kostroma ( rus, Кострома́, p=kəstrɐˈma) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. Popul ...
, which became the first visit of some Romanov spouses to Russia. Prior to her 1993 wedding, Dorrit joined the
Russian Orthodox Church
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under the name ''Theodora Alexeevna''.
Honours
* : Grand Officer of the
Order of Merit
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(26 August 1992)
* : Commander of the
Order of the Southern Cross
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil founded the National Order of the Southern Cross ( pt, Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul) as a Brazilian order of chivalry on 1 December 1822. The order aimed to commemorate the independence of Brazil (7 September 182 ...
(5 September 2007)
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Dynastic orders
* : Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I
The Order of Prince Danilo I ( cnr, Орден Књаза Данила I, translit=Orden Knjaza Danila I) was an order of the Principality and later Kingdom, of Montenegro. It is currently a dynastic order granted by the head of the House of Pe ...
(4 June 2005)[
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Ancestry
References
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External links
Romanov Family AssociationBiography on the Danish-Brazilian societyTranslator Dorrit Romanoff & Assoc
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1942 births
Living people
Grand Officers of the Order of Merit (Portugal)
House of Romanov in exile
Dorrit Dorrit is a feminine given name. Persons bearing the name include:
* Amy Dorrit, known as "Little Dorrit", the heroine of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name (1855-7)
** As an English surname, Dorrit may be a variant of the surname Durward, ...
Russian princesses by marriage