Suzanne Liselotte Marguerite Rohrbach was born in Queens, New York, on January 8, 1931, the daughter of a Swiss diplomat, and grew up in Philadelphia.

[5] Journey followed her husband's 1967 book, Nicholas and Alexandra, a biography of the last Emperor and Empress of Russia, whose son Alexei also was born with haemophilia.

They met sixteen times[4] and her importance in contributing to Reagan's understanding of the Russian people, assisting in reaching a peaceful end to the Cold War.

In 1991, she was appointed the only lay member of the Permanent Episcopal-Orthodox Coordinating Committee, which has conducted bi-annual discussions in Russia and the United States with hierarchs of the church, including Patriarch Aleksy II.

[12] She was a longtime resident of Blue Hill, Maine, but moved to a retirement home in Kentucky at the end of her life to be closer to family.