Marianne Elisabeth Lloyd-Dolbey (* 18 October 1919, Drešinja Vas, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, † 10 October 1994, Celje, Slovenia) was personal secretary to Sultan of Brunei Omar Ali Saifuddien III. Marianne was born in 1919 as Marjana Elizabeta Kopše, to father Franc and mother Marjana (born Vrabič) in Drešinja Vas, Kingdom of Yugoslavia,as the first born in a family of eleven children.Her birth house still stands at the old main road between Drešinja Vas and Levec.After finishing primary school in Petrovče she enrolled at the Celje First Grammar School where she obtained her secondary school certificate in 1938.In the spring and summer of 1939 she was learning Italian in Rome, Italy, and English in the spring of 1941 in Dresden, Germany.During World War II she worked as a translator at the Ger