Dorrit Reventlow

Dorrit Romanov
Dorrit Romanov
Born	Dorrit Reventlow; 22 April 1942 (age 82); Recife, Brazil
Spouse	Dom Telmo José Coelho de Braganza (m. 1961; died 1985); Dimitri Romanov, Prince of Russia; (m. 1993; died 2016)
Issue	Dona Maria de Braganza Pederson
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (by marriage); Reventlow (by birth)
Father	Eric Reventlow
Mother	Nina Bent Rasmussen
Religion	Eastern Orthodox Church

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

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.

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, 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 (26 August 1992)^[1]
Brazil : Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross (5 September 2007)^[1]

Dynastic orders

Montenegro : Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I (4 June 2005)^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Dorrit Reventlow

8. Helanius Conrad Reventlow

4. Peter Christian Reventlow

9. Ane Marie Rasmussen

2. Erik Reventlow

10. Albert Hansen Boye Kromann

5. Irma Kromann

11. Sophie Elisabeth Juliane Plum

Dorrit Reventlow

12. Hans Peder Rasmussen

6. Christian Oskar Rasmussen

3. Nina Bente Rasmussen

14. Johannes Martens

7. Dagmar Ingrid Martens

15. Mathilde Martens

References

^ ^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.

Titles in pretence
Dorrit Reventlow House of Romanov Born: 22 April 1942
Preceded by Countess Sveva della Gherardesca	— TITULAR — The Wife of the Head of the Romanov dynasty 15 September 2014 – 31 December 2016 Reason for succession failure: Empire abolished in 1917	Succeeded by Inez Storer

External links

Romanov Family Association
Biography on the Danish-Brazilian society
Translator Dorrit Romanoff & Assoc Archived 2016-01-09 at the Wayback Machine

[bio-1] "Æresmedlem – H.H. Prinsesse Dorrit Romanoff | Dansk-Brasiliansk Selskab". dk-br.dk. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.

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v t e Princesses of Russia
1st generation	Maria Kirillovna Kira Kirillovna Tatiana Konstantinovna Vera Konstantinovna Marina Petrovna Nadejda Petrovna Nina Georgievna Xenia Georgievna Irina Alexandrovna
2nd generation	Ekaterina Ioannovna Xenia Andreevna* Olga Andreevna*
*right to title disputed