Aelia Pulcheria was born AD 398ish to Theodosius. The younger Theodosius was born later - and then their father died. In AD 414 Pulcheria assumed a regent's role.
Of note is that the shah Yazdegird I had sent tutors west for the younger Theodosius - and likely for his teenaged sister as well. That tutor, arriving after AD 410, will have been a Nicene; but perhaps not a Nicene au courant.
Pulcheria renounced men and proclaimed reverence for the Virgin Mary. She was a Miaphysite. There's talk she was a rival for her brother's affections against his wife Eudoxia.
During Chalcedon, I think, Pulcheria's affinity to her fellow virgin Mary ensured that Council could never rehabilitate Nestorius himself. Her advanced age, I also think, kept her from preventing the Council from being what it was, which was a Nestorian rehabilitation.
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