Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark

Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (; born 9 June 1983), also known under her stage name Theodora Greece, is a British-Greek actress and member of the Greek and Danish royal families. She is the fourth child and younger daughter of deposed King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. Theodora made her television debut in 2011 as Alison Montgomery in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She has also acted in films, including minor roles in the 2009 romantic comedy The Lightkeepers and in the 2015 war-drama Little Boy.

Biography Early life

Theodora was born on 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 his wife, Anne-Marie of Denmark.

On 20 October 1983, she was christened in a Greek Orthodox ceremony at the Saint Sophia Cathedral, London.

Education Theodora attended Woldingham School, an all-girls boarding school 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 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. The wedding was due to take place in Spetses in May 2020, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The wedding was postponed a second time, in 2023, following the death of her father.

On 28 September 2024, Theodora married Kumar in a Greek Orthodox ceremony officiated by Metropolitan Dorotheos II of Syros at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. Two of her brothers, Crown Prince Pavlos and Prince Philippos, and her nephew Prince Achileas-Andreas, served as groomsmen. The veil and tiara have been worn by all of Queen Ingrid of Denmark's female descendants. The family was deprived of citizenship in 1994 when the former King Constantine refused to acquire a surname, as required by law for all Greek citizens.

Filmography

Ancestry Her paternal grandparents were King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. 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 (George's great-grandson) inherited the throne of Greece in 1964. Her parents, King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, were third cousins and of the Danish Royal Family. Through her father, she is also a second cousin, once removed of King William III.