Overview
Princess Theodora zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Theodora-Louise Victoria Juliana Yvonne; born 29 December 1986) is a German aristocrat and international relations professional. After completing a degree in international relations from the University of St Andrews in 2011, she worked in Jordan for a green energy firm owned by her father, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand zu Sayn Wittgenstein-Berleburg. In 2014, Wittgenstein was arrested in Scotland and charged with breaching of the peace aggravated by religious prejudice, two counts of physical assault, and an offense under the 2012 Police and Fire Reform Act after she took off her clothes, made racist, homophobic, and anti-Muslim remarks, and physically assaulted two security personnel during an Oktoberfest party. She was fined £1,000 by Dundee Sheriff Court. In 2020, her family used the European Union's Right to be forgotten law to have Google remove 197 links from their search enginge in Germany that led to articles about her arrest.
Early life and family
Wittgenstein was born on 29 January 1986 in Marburg and is a member of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, an old German noble family. She is the daughter of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Countess Yvonne Wachtmeister af Johannishus, a member of the Swedish nobility. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Princess Friederike Juliane of Salm-Horstmar. She is a great-granddaughter of Richard, 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Princess Madeleine of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg. Wittgenstein is the younger sister of the journalist and writer Princess Anna of Bavaria, Prince Carl Albrecht zu Wittgenstein, and of the actor Prince August zu Wittgenstein.
Education and career
Wittgenstein was educated at boarding schools in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. She attended the University of St Andrews, where she earned a degree in international relations in 2011. She lived in Jordan while working for her father's green energy firm.
Personal life
On 21 July 2018, she married Count Miklós "Nikolaus" Bálint Béla Bethelen de Bethlen in a ceremony in Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia. She and her husband live on a property at Schloss Berleburg, her childhood home.
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