The late King Constantine's daughter has spent four years deciding on her perfect bridal outfit, and settled on a very sentimental accessory – her lace veil. Theodora looked radiant as she was pictured arriving at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens alongside her brother Prince Pavlos for her ceremony with her American lawyer fiancé in a Celia Kritharioti wedding dress.
Made of Carrickmacross lace, the veil is embroidered with lilies, meadowsweet, and shamrocks.
Princess Margaret of Connaught originally wore the lace veil on her wedding day with Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden in 1905. After she died in 1920 aged 38, it was given to her only daughter Ingrid, and it has since become a tradition among her descendants to sport the same bridal accessory.
Queen Anne-Marie wore her grandmother's veil in 1964
Thirty years after her mother's wedding, Queen Ingrid rocked the veil alongside her long-sleeve, draped wedding dress and a myrtle wedding crown.
The heirloom was passed down to her three children, starting with Queen Anne-Marie . She got married in a belted Jorgen Bender bridal gown and her grandmother's veil in 1964, followed by Queen Margrethe who teamed it with a wedding dress from the same Danish designer with a matching lace panel on the front of the gown in 1967.
Margrethe loaned the veil to her daughter-in-law Queen Mary of Denmark (nee Mary Donaldson) when she married King Frederik in 2004. Mary teamed it with a wedding dress by Danish designer Uffe Frank and a diamond tiara from her parents-in-law.
Matthew and Theodora had been dating for two years when he proposed in November 2018. Princess Theodora shared her news on Instagram with a picture of the pair posing against the backdrop of Tower Bridge in London, writing: "Words can't express our happiness and excitement. I can't wait to marry this wonderful man. I love you, Matt."
The pair had planned to get married in May 2020 , two months after the COVID-19 outbreak. They postponed the wedding and announced the new date would be in spring 2023, but their plans were scuppered after Theodora's father King Constantine died in January 2023.
The Bold and the Beautiful actress finally walked down the aisle at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens at 5:30 pm, before hosting a wedding dinner at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.
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