chairman of the Prince Dimitri Romanov Charity Fund, which he founded in 2006. Romanov Family Association Dimitri was a member of the Romanov Family Association since 1979, the year of its creation, and served as a committee member. In July 1998, he joined other members of the Imperial family in St. Petersburg to attend the funeral of the last Russian emperor to reign, Nicholas II, and his family. In March 2003 the then Bulgarian Prime Minister, and former Tsar, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha invited Dimitri to attend events celebrating the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. In September 2006 after a successful lobbying campaign of the Danish royal family and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, he arranged for the remains of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna to be moved from Denmark, where she died in exile, to Russia so she could be buried alongside her husband Emperor Alexander III. After attending the divine service for Maria Feodorovna at the Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark, Prince Dimitri accompanied her remains on the Danish naval ship that transferred them to Russia. After their arrival, Prince Dimitri with other descendants of the Imperial family attended the reburial service in Russia. As a descendant of the Electress Sophia of Hanover he was also eligible to succeed to the British throne. Honours : Order of the Dannebrog : Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg" Order of Friendship (20 June 2011) Order of Alexander Nevsky (6 October 2016) Dynastic orders Montenegrin Royal Family : Knight of the Order of Saint Peter of Cetinje Knight of the Order of Petrovic Njegos Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I (4 June 2005) Bibliography Ancestry References External links Romanov Fund for Russia Romanov Family Association The Prince Dimitri Romanov Charity Fund 1926 births 2016 deaths Dimitri Dimitri Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog Dimitri