In the Parliament of Georgia, on this Sunday, December 29, 2024, Tamara Bagration-Davitashvili, born in 1971, poses smiling next to her husband about to take the oath. A rare image of the new first lady of Georgia, generally cultivating discretion. We know more about his entourage. Starting with her husband, the ultra-conservative and pro-Russian, Mikheïl Kavelashvili, elected president by indirect suffrage following the legislative elections of October, denounced as tainted by suspicion of fraud by the pro-Western opposition. Salomé Zourabichvili, the last head of state to have been elected by universal suffrage in Georgia, notably contests this election and declared to be “the only legitimate president of Georgia. » The man is also known for his career as an international footballer having taken him from the lawns of his country, where he wears the jersey 46 times, to those of Manchester City in England. After hanging up his boots in 2006, he embarked on a political career and was elected deputy of Georgia ten years later under the label of the Georgian Dream party, whose ideals gradually drifted from the center-left to the far-right , before creating his own Power to the People party, in 2022.
A star sister
Tamara Bagration-Davitashvili is also the sister of Liza Bagrationi, born in 1974, a singer who became famous in Georgia. Both bear the surname Bragation – or Bragationi –, linking them to the royal family whose current head of house is Prince Davit Bragationi-Mukhrani, born in 1976 and claimant to the throne of Georgia since 2008 upon the death of his father Giorgi – or Jorge – Bragationi-Mukhrani. The crown prince and the first lady have as common ancestors the king at the origin of the younger branch of Kakheti George VIII (1417-1476), last king of unified Georgia. The latter had a son, King Alexander 1is of Kakheti, and two grandsons, the future George II who killed his father Alexander I and Demetre, whose son David founded the Davitashvili branch from which Tamara Bagration-Davitashvili and her sister came. Last October, Prince Davit Bragationi-Mukhrani met Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy in a private ceremony in Rome. The Georgian prince had been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Orders of Saint Maurice and Lazarus, while the Duke of Savoy had received the Grand Collar of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia.
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