Dorrit Reventlow

Princess Theodora Alexeevna Romanov
Princess of Russia
Born	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

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:

• Donna Maria Sybil India de Braganza (born 1966), who married in 1998 to Peter Engaarda Pedersen (born 1965), and the couple have two children:
  • Sebastian Lucas Pederson (born 2001)
  • Anastasia Zoe Sofia Pederson (born 2005)

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

• Her Highness Princess Theodora Alexeevna of Russia

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

•  Portugal : Grand Officer of the Order of Merit^[3]
•  Brazil : Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross^[3]

Dynastic orders

•  Montenegro : Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I^[3]

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. "Æresmedlem – H.H. Prinsesse Dorrit Romanoff | Dansk-Brasiliansk Selskab". dk-br.dk. Retrieved 29 August 2015.

External links

• Romanov Family Association
• Biography on the Danish-Brazilian society
• Translator Dorrit Romanoff & Assoc