Maria Barroso

Maria de Jesus Simões Barroso Soares, GCL (born Olhão, Fuseta, 2 May 1925) is a Portuguese actress, daughter of Alfredo José Barroso (b. Portimão, Alvor) and wife Maria da Encarnação Simões.É prima do pai do Dr. Rogério Barroso (não é da família do Durão Barroso de Bruxelas), senhor António Barroso. She is the wife of former President Mário Soares, whom she married on 22 February 1949 at the 3rd Conservatory of the Civil Register of Lisbon, while he was in the Aljube prison, with whom she has one son, politician João Soares, born on 29 August 1949, and one daughter, Isabel Barroso Soares, born on 9 January 1951, unmarried and without issue, who manages Colégio Moderno; although not as politically involved as her husband, she was a...