Greek Royal News

[mrplowfan]

I found a good clear link to why they are not Prince/ss of Denmark. As much as I hate linking to a sugar forum, it's at TRF. This post is pretty un-sugary.

http://www.theroyalforums...mark-8863.html#post688330

[Aziza]

Thanks, Mr P, for the info    I will take my insulin before readings just as a precautionary measure. 

[Clara]

Irene at a concert in Granada(Spain) to raise funds for her charity, World in Harmony.

[editorathome]

I was wondering what Theodora was up to aside from "pursuing her acting career". I don't know about her acting skills, but she's a bit dumpy and frumpy to make a Hollywood starlet. Maybe she'd better go back to London and do Shakespeare. She'd be good as one of the daughters in King Lear.

She might be ok as Regan or Goneril, but NOT as Cordelia---that's the daughter that Lear has to carry all over the stage!  If he carries this chubby chick he'll get a major hernia  

[Clara]

Alexia's husband may be accused of planning breach in their Lanzarote house.
Article in Spanish

Google translation

[Holly Golightly]

Her name appeared in the court filings as HRH Princess Theodora because that's how her name appears on her California driver's license. When she applied for it, the California DMV would have required her to show documents such as a birth certificate and a passport to confirm her identity, and apparently these pieces of paper are consistent in giving her name as "HRH Princess Theodora". So it looks like her first name is HRH, middle is Princess (yeah, that's right!) and last is Theodora. I wonder if the lowly employees of the CA-DMV realized that "HRH" and "Princess" are actually (defunct) royal titles. Maybe not: I had a friend in 4th grade whose first name was WL. Anyway, I'll bet she acted haughty then, too. That attitude doesn't go over as well here as it probably does in the UK. She'd better take her attitude and her checkbook and go back to where the lowly masses recognize their betters.

  

Reminds me of the line from "Almost Famous" where Penny Lane tells William what her real name is:

-"What about your Mom?"
-"She always said, 'marry up. Marry someone grand'. And that's why she named me 'Lady'.''
-"She named you 'Lady'??"
-"Lady Goodman".

 

[Why]

Alexia's husband may be accused of planning breach in their Lanzarote house.
Article in Spanish

Google translation

I wonder what type of a man that Carlos is behind closed doors. 

I cannot recall where I read the following points but someone mentioned that
-The courtship between Alexia and Carlos was one of convenience
- Alexia edging into the 30s without a husband
- Handsome Carlos (a friend of the Spanish infanatas) took pity (?) and agreed to go on a date with Alexia

[Clara]

I have no idea how or why they started dating and got married but I don't see how it could be a marriage of convinience. He's not the male MC Miller, she's not the daughter of a reigning or even wealthy King, he's not a german prince who needed to marry another princess to keep the title, he was a succesful architect before marrying her, but he's not a multi-milloinaire, and neither is she. They hardly appear at social events or in the press, so he wasn't looking for that when they married.   

[fairy]

Don't know much about him, only that he certainly is dishy.
But Alexia is IMO the nicest looking, likable and pleasant of the whole bunch. Of course people often are not what they appear to be, but from looks alone she seems nice, and warm and should have no problem in finding a friend and a partner.

[Luc PS du Vin]

Yes, Alexia always looks pleasant at social occasions. She's four years older than her husband, but they had the kids fast: one, two, three, four. The only gossip I've heard about him is that he was accused of bribing officials to get building permits for some of his architectural projects.   

[Luc PS du Vin]

I was wondering what Theodora was up to aside from "pursuing her acting career". I don't know about her acting skills, but she's a bit dumpy and frumpy to make a Hollywood starlet. Maybe she'd better go back to London and do Shakespeare. She'd be good as one of the daughters in King Lear.

She might be ok as Regan or Goneril, but NOT as Cordelia---that's the daughter that Lear has to carry all over the stage!  If he carries this chubby chick he'll get a major hernia  

Good one! I can just imagine the poor actor playing Lear staggering and groaning and sweating bullets under the weight off the pudgy princess T.!

[Clara]

Why does she have a diplomatic passport?

The whole family's Greek passports were revoked by the Greek government when they (ie Tino) refused to take a last name. Denmark then gave them passports in fury (agreeing they had no last name).  Theodora, her siblings, Marie Chantal and now "Princess" Tatiana, all have this Danish Diplomatic passport (according to Trine) thanks to Aunt Daisy.

The Greek royal family claim they have no last name. Funnily, their Danish passports say their last name is "De Grecia." That would be fine with Greece but Constantine refuses to use it. His loss. It's the reason so many Greeks refer to him as "The Glucksburg," - Denmark is supposedly the House of Glucksburg according to some Greek historians. Theodora I guess agrees because she said her last name was "Theodora." Her first name "HRH" and her middle name "Princess."  

I'd always thought that when he was "forced" to take a surname he said "of Greece" and the Greek goverment refused.
I've always wondered, like Infanta M, why their surnames appeared in Spanish 
Manuel in the SRMB wrote this:

They finally got a Danish passport with the surname "de Grecia", in Spanish, since this form is accepted by another EU member and appears in the passports of Queen Sofia (and her children, as second surname) and Princess Irene.

http://members3.boardhost...navia/msg/1296493104.html

[Plum Royale]

yep, Tino hopes people won't read the details regarding the family history, there was an international Confrence in 1852 the first choice to
take the  danish throne was Duke Christian of Glucksburg but he didn't want it so it was offered to his brother in law the prince of Hesse-Cassel
he took over as King Christian IX of Denmark his second son  was  appointed  King George I of  Hellenes, so that was another surname option.
Plum

[Rearden]

In February for the memorial





via TRF

[Flor]

Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal Cheltenham Festival, Britain - 18 Mar 2011