[3] Darinka Marović was born on 6 February 1937 in Herceg Novi, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Her father was an officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army, but died during the World War II, so Darinka and her brother were raised by their mother.
[6] Darinka Marović finished elementary school and gymnasium in Kotor.
[9] During the 1990s, Matić Marović was member of the then-ruling Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), led by Slobodan Milošević.
In the 1990 Serbian general election, she was a candidate for the member of the National Assembly in the Savski Venac constituency, but lost to Slobodan Vučković of the Democratic Party.