Prince Stanisław Albrecht "Stash" Radziwiłł (21 July 1914 – 27 July 1976) was a

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prince, later a British citizen, as well as a socialite and a businessman. He served as director of the

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Career

Radziwiłł was an aristocrat, diplomat who served as

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of the

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at the

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, delegate of the

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, real estate dealer, and director of

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

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. 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

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, 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

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. Radziwiłł married Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield on 19 March 1959. 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

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and founder of St. Anne's Church at

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, the site of Divine Mercy College, a school for boys of Polish origin, set up by the Marian Fathers in 1953 near

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, England. He died on 27 July 1976, in

, six days after his 62nd birthday. His body was interred in the crypt of St Anne's Church at

Title

According to

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, although known as ''Prince Radziwiłł'' in Britain, on becoming a British subject and in keeping with standard practice, Radziwiłł strictly needed permission from

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to use his princely title. The Radziwiłł family held the title

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since the early 16th century. However, noble titles were abolished in Poland and Austria.

Ancestry

References

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