Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark


Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, also known under her stage name Theodora Greece, is a British actress and member of the Greek royal family and the Danish royal family. She is currently ninth in the line of succession to the defunct Greek throne.

Biography

Theodora was born in 9 June 1983 at St Mary's Hospital, London. She is the younger daughter and fourth of the five children of the deposed Greek king Constantine II and princess Anne-Marie of Denmark. She was born fourteen years after the birth of her immediate elder sibling, and eighteen years after the birth of her eldest sibling. She has one brother who is three years younger than her.
On 16 November 2018 it was announced that Princess Theodora is engaged to Los Angeles-based attorney, Matthew Kumar. He is the son of Sam and Lonnie Kumar. The wedding was due to take place in Spetses in May 2020, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Education

Theodora attended the all-girls boarding institution, Woldingham School, situated in Surrey, England, between 1994 and 2001. After a gap year spent at St Philip's College in Alice Springs, Australia, Theodora attended Brown University under the name Theodora Greece, where she received her Bachelor of Arts on 28 May 2006 in Theatre Arts, having also attended Northeastern University in Boston. Subsequently, she undertook graduate studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Career

In April 2010, Theodora moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, appearing in supporting roles under the name Theodora Greece. She made her television debut as secretary Alison Montgomery in the long-running soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, on 5 December 2011.

Filmography

Her paternal grandparents were King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. Her maternal grandparents are Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden. As an agnatic descendant of Christian IX of Denmark Theodora is a Danish princess, and because King Christian's second son, Prince William of Denmark, was elected "George I, King of the Hellenes" in 1863, her father inherited the throne of Greece in 1964.
As a great-great-granddaughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Princess Theodora is also in the line of succession to the British throne pursuant to the Act of Settlement 1701.