As Grace Kelly proved, normally it’s actresses who become princesses, not the other way round. But that hasn’t stopped a niece of Queen Margrethe II from reversing the trend by landing a part in the US soap opera ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’.

Viewers will know her as Theodora Greece, but her official title is Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark and she is the fourth child of the queenÂ’s youngest sister, Anne-Marie, and King Constantine II, the exiled former monarch of Greece.

Dressed completely in pink, she made her debut in CBS’s long-running soap, which is set in the LA fashion world, on December 5. Her character’s name is Alison Montgomery, she’s a secretary, and her first lines were the immortal words: “Mr Spencer, I wanted to drop this off to you. It’s the latest press kit for Forrester’s Intimate campaign. I know of your interest in the subject matter.”

The appearance, according to IMDB, is one of seven acting parts Theodora, 28, has already chalked up, which includes a role in the western ‘The Big Valley’, which stars Jessica Lange, Richard Dreyfuss and Aidan Quinn and is due to be released next year.

Educated in England, Theodora attended the Ivy League school Brown University, where she studied theatre arts for four years and won the ‘Fine Arts Award for Acting’. She then continued with graduate studies at London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

TheodoraÂ’s father stopped being king of Greece in 1973, ten years before she was born. Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is one of her godparents.