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Hello and welcome back to the Royal Watcher podcast
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Today, Sam and I are joined again by our lovely friend, Casper, who's here to discuss the wedding of Princess Theodore of Greece and Denmark
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which has been, I think, probably one of the events of this year
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We've waited for this wedding for quite a long time now, and we're glad it's finally happened
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Yeah, the last Greek royal wedding. And it was such a thrill to watch it. Very nice
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Yes, it's been quite a thing. I think we've been looking forward to this wedding for a long time
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And if we move on to the next slide, we'll see kind of one of the reasons why this wedding was initially delayed was due to COVID
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And then King Constantine passed away last year, which prompted another delay
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And so six years after getting engaged, Princess Theodora finally married. married Matthew Kumar, and she was walked up the aisle by her elder brother
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Prince Pavlos, who's now the head of the Greek royal family, and I found the whole thing
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quite sweet. It was a beautiful wedding and it was very nice that the oldest son took his sister up to the aisle And because he the head of the family now
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Yes, definitely. And there is a bit of an age gap between the two
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So it's nice that they're all quite a close unit still. Yeah, he has adult kids and she don't have any
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So when or if she gets kids, there will be a huge
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age gap. It's like her nieces will her niece or her nephews will have
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kids at the same time as her almost. Oh yeah. No, that's what I was thinking was
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Prince Papos. It's not too far away from kind of his own children's wedding. So this is good practice for him
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Yeah. And she was a brightsmate. So it was together with one of of
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Alexei's daughters. Yes. It was beautiful. It was a very sweet gesture
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And I think we can move on to the next slide where we'll see kind of the beautiful metropolitan
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cathedrals of Athens where the two got married And I think I not sure if you seen that script from the documentary I believe it was 20 years ago in 2004 when King Constantine was back in Greece for the
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Olympics, and they were walking around and visited the cathedral for the first time
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There was this TV program, yeah. Yeah, and he declared that maybe if Theodora finds a nice boy, they'll get married there
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That seemed like a ridiculous notion at the time because of their relationship with the Greek state
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and how it had been, but it was very nice to see kind of his prophecy becoming true
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Yeah. And it's a very beautiful church. I've been in it two years ago
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And it looks so big, but it's actually not that big. Yes, that's kind of what has been surprising me
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And if we move on to the next slide, we'll kind of see the difference. If you also notice the whale that she's wearing
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Yes, which is actually, some very good time talk about it because this is one of those beautiful heirlooms of the Danish
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Royal family. Yes, and it comes from Queen Ingrid's mother, Margaret of Connock, when she got
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married to the Swedish prince and became a later crown princess But she had it and it made by Irish ladies It a very old very beautiful lace that all the descendants since the girls has been wearing
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And the Danish queen Magrata also lent it to Queen Mary when she at that time became a crown princess and was marrying into Denmark
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Which is a very sweet gesture. Indeed it was, yes. And especially, I think, the fact that this veil and also the Tierra has come back to this cathedral
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60 years to the month that her parents got married, I think must have been something that... Yeah
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I like the history of that. Oh, definitely. And it's such like a beautiful piece, and I think Theodora worked very well
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And we can kind of see a bit of a contrast to that day 60 years ago when our parents got married
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and all the royal guests, the hundreds of them who gathered, I think there was eight kings and 11 queens that were in attendance
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And a bit of a contrast to what we see we saw for this wedding this week
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Just it's kind of, did you see that thought the cathedral was so much bigger
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but like, as you say, it's actually not that big in person. It's quite a..
