Bagrationi Ketevan

Ketevan Bagrationi (b. July 20, 1954, Talence, France) is a descendant of the Bagrationi–Mukhranbatoni branch.

In 1977, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bordeaux, where she majored in Slavic and English languages. In 1975–1976, she had internships at universities of Tbilisi and Moscow. In 1978, she married an Italian aristocrat, Raimondo Orsini d'Aragona, and moved to Rome. She has 4 children.

In order to help Georgia, she founded the society of Italians and Georgians — “Shield of St. George”, in Rome in 1991. She has overseen many humanitarian projects for Georgia. She became the first Honorary Citizen of Georgia in 1996 and was granted the dual citizenship by Georgia in 2004. She was the Ambassador of Georgia to the Holy See from 2005 to 2014 and again from 2019 to 2023.

Ketevan Bagrationi has been decorated with several awards by the Georgian government and Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church as well as with the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX by the Holy See (2007) and the Order of Albert the Bear by the House of Anhalt (2009).

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