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Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł

Prince Stanisław Albrecht "Stash" Radziwiłł (21 July 1914 – 27 July 1976) was a Polish prince, later a British citizen, as well as a socialite and a businessman. He served as director of Olympic Airways.

Career

Radziwiłł was an aristocrat and diplomat who served as chargé d'affaires of the Polish government in exile at the League of Nations, delegate of the Polish Red Cross, real estate dealer, and director of Olympic Airways.

Parents

His parents were Janusz Franciszek, Prince Radziwiłł (1880–1967) and his wife, Princess Anna Lubomirska (1882–1947). Stanisław had two elder brothers, Prince Edmund Radziwiłł (1906–1971) and Prince Ludwik Radziwiłł (1911–1928).

Marriages

Radziwiłł married Rose de Mauléon (1913–1996), on 10 April 1940, former niece-in-law of Irina Ovtchinnikova, wife of Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. They had no children and their marriage was annulled in 1945. She later married Baron de Chollet, a Swiss banker.

Radziwill married Grace Maria Kolin on 2 May 1946. They were divorced in 1958. The marriage produced one son:

  • John Stanisław Radziwill (8 August 1947), who married Eugenia Carras, daughter of the Greek shipowner Yiannis Carras, on 14 September 1978. They have two sons and four grandchildren:
  • John Michael Radziwill (29 August 1979)
  • Philip Radziwill (4 February 1981), who married Devon Schuster on 16 January 2010. They have four children:
  • Eugenie Elizabeth Radziwill (24 October 2012)
  • Isabella Sophia Radziwill (17 July 2014)
  • Arietta Grace Radziwill (17 July 2014)
  • Stanisław Radziwill (2018)

Grace Maria Kolin later married William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894–1969) as his third wife, and from 1975, she lived with Robert B. Silvers.

On 19 March 1959, Radziwiłł married Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield the younger sister of future First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of future President John F. Kennedy. They had two children:

  • Anthony Radziwiłł (4 August 1959 – 10 August 1999), who married Carole Ann DiFalco on 27 August 1994.
  • Anna Christina "Tina" Radziwill (18 August 1960), who married Octavio Arancio in September 1999; they were divorced in 2005.

Later life

Radziwiłł was one of the organisers of the Sikorski Historical Institute in London and founder of St. Anne's Church at Fawley Court, the site of Divine Mercy College, a school for boys of Polish origin, set up by the Marian Fathers in 1953 near Henley-on-Thames, England.

He died on 27 July 1976, in London, six days after his 62nd birthday. His body was interred in the crypt of St Anne's Church at Fawley Court.

Title

According to Debrett's, although known as Prince Radziwiłł in Britain, on becoming a British subject and in keeping with standard practice, Radziwiłł strictly needed permission from Queen Elizabeth II to use his princely title. The Radziwiłł family held the title Prince of the Holy Roman Empire since the early 16th century. However, noble titles were abolished in Poland and Austria.

Ancestry

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