Marina Doria

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Marina Doria
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Pictured in 1969 at Cape Canaveral
Born (1935-02-12) 12 February 1935 (age 89)
Geneva, Switzerland
Spouse
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(m. 1971;died 2024)​
Issue Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice
Names
Marina Ricolfi-Doria
House Savoy (by marriage)
Father René Ricolfi-Doria
MotherIris Benvenuti
Occupationwater skier
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Ricolfi Doria Coat of Arms

Marina Ricolfi-Doria (born 12 February 1935) is a Swiss former water skier. She competed three times at the Water Ski World Championships winning gold medals in 1955 and in 1957. She won the overall title in the European Water Ski Championships consecutively from 1953 to 1956 and won five Swiss national titles. She was inducted into the International Water Ski Federation Hall of Fame in 1991.

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She is the widow of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, the son of the last king and queen of Italy, Umberto II and Marie José. They have one son, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice.

Early life and ancestry

Ricolfi-Doria was born in Geneva on 12 February 1935, [1] as the only daughter of René Ricolfi-Doria, a Swiss Olympic athlete. [2]

Career

In 1955 she became a water-skiing performer at Cypress Gardens, in Florida in the United States. She competed three times in the Water Ski World Championships; in 1953, in 1955 and in 1957. In 1955 she took the Tricks gold medal, and in 1957 she took gold in both Slalom and Tricks, thus becoming the overall women's world champion. She won the overall title in the European Championships every year from 1953 to 1956, and took five or more overall Swiss national titles. [3] In 1991 Ricolfi-Doria was included in the Hall of Fame of the International Water Ski Federation, as the "finest female skier from Europe of the first decade of international competition". [3] She continued to compete until 1960. [3]

Marriage

Ricolfi-Doria met Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples in 1960 at the Société Nautique de Genève, where both were water-skiing. They were married in a Roman Catholic church in Tehran, Iran, in the autumn of 1971; their wedding had been announced during the 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire in Persepolis. [4] They have one son, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice. [5]

As the widow of the head of the House of Savoy, she is entitled to the Privilège du blanc , the ability to wear white garments when in an audience with the pope. She exercised this privilege on 18 May 2003 during a Catholic mass marking the birth anniversary of Pope John Paul II. [6]

Honour

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References

  1. ↑ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. 1: Europe & Latin America. Burke's Peerage. p. 367.
  2. ↑ Olga S. Opfell (2001). Royalty Who Wait: The 21 Heads of Formerly Regnant Houses of Europe. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN   9780786409013.
  3. 1 2 3 Marina Doria. International Water Ski Federation. Archived 13 December 2000.
  4. ↑ Guido Tonella (22 June 1972) È nato a Ginevra l’erede dei Savoia (in Italian). Il Tempo. Accessed September 2017.
  5. ↑ Enache, Nicolas. La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg. ICC, Paris, 1996. p.204
  6. ↑ "Marina in San Pietro con tailleur bianco". Corriere della Sera. 19 May 2003. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Notiziario
Marina Doria
Born: 12 February 1935
Titles in pretence
Preceded by— TITULAR —
Queen consort of Italy
18 March 1983 – 3 February 2024
Reason for succession failure:
Kingdom abolished in 1946		Succeeded by

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