This weekend, Royal Guests and Relatives will gather in Athens to celebrate the Wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark and Matthew Kumar at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, six years after the announcement of their engagement in 2018.
On the eve of the Wedding, Princess Theodora and Matthew Kumar will host a Dinner at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens
On the eve of the wedding, the couple will host a welcome dinner with live music in honour of the 250 special guests at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens, one of the most beautiful museums in the world, with its magnificent gardens, an oasis in the heart of the city.
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark will marry Matthew Kumar in an Orthodox Ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, where her parents, King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, got married 60 years ago.
The Wedding Reception and the Farewell Brunch will be held at the ‘One & Only Aesthesis’ Hotel on the beach of Glyfada in Athens.
Princess Theodora will likely wear the heirloom Khedive of Egypt Tiara. The Tiara was a Gift to Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden, which was inherited by her only daughter, Queen Ingrid of Denmark, and has been worn as a Bridal Tiara by all her female descendants. Princess Theodora will also likely wear Crown Princess Margareta’s Irish lace veil.
Princess Theodora’s godparents included her aunt Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, aunt Queen Sofia of Spain, the late Queen Elizabeth II, the late King Michael of Romania, and Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, and her attendencee at European Royal Events over the past few years means that we can expect Royal Guests and Relatives from around Europe at the Wedding.
In 2003, Princess Theodora joined King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie on their first visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens since December 1967, when the King said:
“and maybe of she (Princess Theodora) finds a nice husband we can have the wedding here”.
The Wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece and Matthew Kumar has been rescheduled twice, after the first date in May 2020 was cancelled due to the pandemic and the second time due to the death of King Constantine II in 2023.
The Wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark was celebrated with two weeks of Ceremonies and Banquets in Copenhagen and Athens on this day in 1964, 60 years ago.
Ahead of the Wedding, celebrations began with a Gala Performance for King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie (wearing the Antique Corsage Tiara) at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen, followed by a Banquet at Christiansborg Palace, with the Danish Royal Family led by King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid (in the Danish Emerald Parure), with Crown Princess Margrethe (wearing the Alexandrine Drop Tiara) and Princess Benedikte (in the Diamond Floral Tiara).
There was also a Farewell Banquet hosted by King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark (in the Pearl Poiré Tiara and the Crown Diamond Parure) for King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie (wearing the Antique Corsage Tiara) at Fredensborg Palace.
The Greek Royal Family received King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid, Crown Princess Margrethe, Princess Benedikte, and Princess Anne Marie as they alighted from the Royal Yacht Dannebrog.
King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie (wearing the Greek Emerald Parure) posed for their First Official Portraits at the Royal Palace of Athens.
King Constantine II and the Greek Royal Family also greeted Royal Guests and Relatives at the Airport as they arrived in Athens.
That evening, a Dinner and Reception offered by the Greek Government and Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou in honour of King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie (wearing the Greek Ruby Parure for the first time) at the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens. King Frederik IX, Queen Ingrid (in the Pearl Poiré Tiara), Queen Frederica (wearing Queen Sophie’s Diamond Tiara), and Princess Irene (in Queen Sophie’s Diamond Circle Tiara) were also in attendance.
Royal Guests and Relatives from around the world attended the Wedding Ball of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne Marie of Denmark (wearing the Greek Emerald Parure) at the Royal Palace of Athens, with the Guests processing down the iconic stairs of the Royal Palace of Athens.
Eight Kings and Eleven Queens led the Royal Guests and Relatives from around the world at the Wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens.
The historic Greek Emerald Parure and Greek Ruby Parure were among the Wedding Gifts received by King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark which went on display at the Tatoi Palace outside Athens.
Antique Corsage Tiara
Diamond Tiara
Turquoise Daisy Bandeau
Crown Princess Margareta’s Amethyst Brooch
Queen Ingrid’s Seed Pearl Brooch
