In a few hours, Princess Teodora and her fiancé, American lawyer Matthew Kumar, will receive their friends at a pre-wedding dinner to take place at the Byzantine Museum and Christian of Athens. It will be the prelude to the religious ceremony that will take place this Saturday afternoon in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the capital. The Hellenic Royal House has given the latest details of the ‘I do’, the first that the Hellenic Royal Family will experience without King Constantine, brother of Queen Sofia, who died on January 10, 2023.
One of the bride’s Spanish nieces will have a prominent role. Arrietta Morales, 22 years old, eldest daughter of Princess Alexia and the Canarian architect Carlos Morales, she will be one of her aunt’s bridesmaids. Princess Teodora is, along with Infanta Cristina and Manuel Cabrera (a friend of her father), Arrieta’s baptismal godmother. In her mission to ensure that the bride is perfect throughout the ceremony, which will be carried out according to the orthodox rite, Arrieta will not be alone but will have the help of one of her cousins, Princess Olympia, eldest daughter of the princes Pablo. and Marie-Chantal, current heads of the Greek Royal House.
It is not the first wedding in which Arrietta and Olympia participate in a bridal party. In 2010, when they were just girls, were present at the wedding of his uncle, Prince Nicholas and Tatiana Blatnik, a marriage that They broke up last April after fourteen years of union.
lThe bride will go to the altar on the arm of her older brother, Prince Pauland his male brothers will also have a prominent role. Princes Nicolas and Phillippos will serve as godfathers, as well as Prince Achileas, their nephew and godson, third son of the Hellenic crown princes.
The Greek Royal House has reported that the couple wanted to celebrate their wedding in Athens “as a reflection of their love for Greece, the strong ties they maintain with the country and their desire to share Greek culture, Greek hospitality and identity with their guests.” ”.
© GETTY IMAGESIn addition to the entire Greek Royal Family, Queen Sofia, with her two daughters, the Infantas Elena and Cristina, and some grandchildren, including Irene Urdangarin, are expected to travel to Athens. There will also be representatives of the Danish Royal House. Theodora of Greece is the niece, in addition to Doña Sofia, of Queen Margaret of Denmark. However, the former monarch surely He will not attend this wedding because he is recovering from a recent fall. that has it with the agenda suspended.
The bride and groom have been in Athens for a few days. On Wednesday they were seen, accompanied by Queen Anne Mary, going to the office of the Orthodox archbishop, where they appeared most smiling and happy. Saturday’s wedding will be the perfect ending to their love story that they made official in July 2016. They met in Los Angeles, where they both live. Months later, in February 2017, they attended together the wedding of the heirs of two great fortunes: Filipos Lemos and Mariana Goulandrís in London.
