Princess Theodora Alexeevna Romanov 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.
Background
She was born as a Dorrit Reentlow 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.
Education
Princess Dorrit attended private schools in Denmark and Switzerland, where she learned Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Career
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.
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. At one of the receptions in 1991, Dorrit met with Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov.
lieutenant 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 & Association». Titles and styles Her Highness Princess Theodora Alexeevna of Russia However this title, and even his right to the surname Romanov are disputed by some. National orders and medals Dynastic orders.
Membership
In this role, Princess Dorrit was able to increased the members of society, as well as efforts to promoted the Portuguese language and culture. North.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.