Normal dilatation of triangular matrices

LetR be a (real or complex) triangular matrix of ordern, say, an upper triangular matrix. Is it true that there exists a normaln×n matrixA whose upper triangle coincides with the upper triangle ofR? The answer to this question is “yes” and is obvious in the following cases: (1)R is real; (2)R is a complex matrix with a real or a pure imaginary main diagonal, and moreover, all the diagonal entries ofR belong to a straight line. The answer is also in the affirmative (although it is not so obvious) for any matrixR of order 2. However, even forn=3 this problem remains unsolved. In this paper it is shown that the answer is in the affirmative also for 3×3 matrices.