Dorrit Reventlow

Princess Theodora Alexeevna Romanov
Princess of Russia
Born (1942-04-22)April 22, 1942
Recife, Brazil
Spouse Don Telmo de Braganza
Dimitri Romanov, Prince of Russia
(m. 1993)
Issue Donna Maria de Braganza Pederson
House Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (by marriage)
Father Count Eric Revetlow
Mother Nina Bent Rasmussen
Religion Eastern Orthodox Church

Princess Theodora Alexeevna Romanov (née Dorrit Revetlow; 22 April 1942, Recife, Brazil) is a Danish translator, benefactor, philanthropist, social activist, and the wife of Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov, who has claims to the headship of the Imperial House of Russia.

Biography

Russian Imperial Family

HH The Prince
HH The Princess


HH The Dowager Princess

  • HSH Princess Natalia
  • HSH Princess Elizabeth
  • HSH Princess Tatiana

HIH The Grand Duchess

She was born as Dorrit Reventlow on 22 April 1942 in the city of Recife, Brazil, in the family of Count Eric Revetlow (1903–1944) and his wife Nina Bent Rasmussen (1912–1996). Dorrit is the second child in the family, her brother George was born in 1941 and lived only eight years and died in 1949 in Denmark. Princess Dorrit belongs to an ancient Danish family Counts Reventlow. This family played a prominent role at the royal court, especially during the Great Reforms 1784–1800. One of the Danish Queen from Oldenburg dynasty belonged to the Reventlow family.

Dorrit's father died when she was only two years and in 1946 the family returned to Denmark. Princess Dorrit attended private schools in Denmark and Switzerland, where she learned Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish. In 1961, after the first marriage, she moved to Portugal, where for fifteen years she worked as a meeting and banquet manager and the director of the five star hotel. In 1976 in Lisbon she opened his own company for the translate. After the death of the first husbend in 1985, she returned to Denmark, where she worked as a representative of the Portuguese company on tourism, and she was also the chairman of the Danish-Brazilian society. In this role, Princess Dorrit was able to increase the members of society, as well as efforts to promoted the Portuguese language and culture.

At one of the receptions in 1991, Dorrit met with Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov. In 1993 they were married in Kostroma. It was the first visit of the spouses of the Romanovs in Russia. Since 1993, she has headed his own firm for translate - «Translator Dorrit Romanoff & Assoc». In her free time she actively helps to her husband in his humanitarian and charitable work in Russia.

Marriages and children

In 1961, she married Don Telmo José Coelho de Braganza (1925–1985). From this marriage she has only daughter:

On 28 July 1993 in Kostroma, she married to Prince Dimitri Romanovich, becoming a member of the House of Romanov. Before the wedding Princess Dorrit took Orthodoxy Faith under the name Theodora Alexeevna.

Title, styles, and honours

Titles and styles

N.B. Since the Russian revolution members of the Imperial family have tended to drop the territorial designation “of Russia” and use the princely title with the surname Romanov while keeping the appropriate style.[1] However this title, and even his right to the surname Romanov are disputed by some.[2]

National orders and medals

Dynastic orders

References

  1. Almanach de Gotha (186th ed.). 2003. p. 314. ISBN 0-9532142-4-9.
  2. "Dynastic Succession". imperialhouse.ru. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 "Æresmedlem – H.H. Prinsesse Dorrit Romanoff | Dansk-Brasiliansk Selskab". dk-br.dk. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
Dorrit Reventlow
Born: 22 April 1942
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
Countess Sveva della Gherardesca
 TITULAR 
The Wife of the Head of the Romanov dynasty
Reason for succession failure:
Empire abolished in 1917
Incumbent

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