His father is Jerzy Hardie-Douglas, a politician who was a member of the Sejm of Poland from 2019 to 2023, and the mayor of Szczecinek from 2006 to 2018, and again since 2024.
[3][4] He graduated from the Faculty of the Geographical and Geological Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and later lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
After moving back to Poland, he began working in a Poznań-based advertising agency and, later, in a German consulting firm.
[7] In 2019, he was sued for defamation by Jacek Pawłowicz and was ordered to pay him 10,000 Polish złoties in damages, and donate as much to a hospice in Szczecinek.
He also claimed that him recently becoming a deputy director of a spa company in Połczyn-Zdrój was due to his party membership, and accused him of lacking sufficient qualifications.