Michał Radziwiłł Rudy (8 February 1870 – 6 October 1955[1][2] in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) was a nobleman and diplomat.
[2][3] He attained degrees in law and philosophy and worked as a diplomat in the embassy of the Russian Empire in Paris.
[2] In 1939, on the outbreak of World War II, he is alleged to have attempted to appease the Nazi Germany occupiers by offering Antonin to Adolf Hitler.
Michał Radziwiłł also wanted to dislocate the family catacombs in the cellars of the Antonin property, and in 1939 is alleged to have offered the castle as the gift to Hitler.
[2] After the war, he settled in his second wife's estate in Tenerife, where he lived alone in increasing poverty until his death on 6 October 1955.
[2] That marriage caused controversy because Maria, a Greek aristocrat, was Eastern Orthodox, and the couple agreed to raise their children in that faith.
He attempted to divorce Maria Henrietta in 1929, but it was never finalized due to technical difficulties; the couple, however, separated.
[2] For that reason, his third marriage in 1938 to Harriet Stewart Dawson (the wealthy widow of an Australian businessman),[8] was seen as possibly illegal, and caused him a new wave of legal problems and scandals.