Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł (22 January 1911 – 19 November 1976) was a Polish

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and officer of the

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. His father, Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł, was deported to a

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during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945. His mother was Archduchess Renata of Austria (1888-1937).

Marriage and issue

He married Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, on 30 May 1938 in

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, from whom he was divorced in 1946, and had two children: * ''Tatiana'' Maria Renata Eugenia Elisabeth Margarete Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud on 24 March 1966.Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), ''The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia'', Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166. Tatiana was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of the future King

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and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark and at the 1964 wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and

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. * Jerzy (''George'') Andrzej Dominik Hieronim Piotr Leon Radziwiłł (4 November 1942 – 27 August 2001). His second wife was Lida Lacey Bloodgood (b. 1 February 1923,

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, - d. 31 July 2008, Rome, Italy), daughter of John Van Schaick Bloodgood and Lida Fleitmann Bloodgood), married on 8 January 1947 in Rome. They had three daughters: * Lida Maria ''Renata'' Radziwiłł (11 July 1954,

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– 5 May 2014); married Swiss banker André Wagnière, on 30 October 1976 (divorced). * Maria Ludwika (''Louise'') Jadwiga Radziwiłł (b. 23 January 1956); married Sicilian aristocrat ''Don'' Antonio Moncada, ''Nobile dei Principi'' of

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, on 4 October 1987. * Lida (''Lyda'') Dominika Radziwiłł (b. 29 August 1959); married Roman aristocrat Prince Innocenzo

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in 1991.

References

1911 births 1976 deaths Dominik Rainer Polish Army officers {{Poland-noble-stub