Background
He was the son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi.
He was the son of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi.
During the Hetmanate he studied at the First Gymnasium in Kiev in 1918. He lived and studied first in Switzerland and then in Germany.
In 1919 Skoropadskyi (with the whole House of Skoropadskyi) had to flee from Ukraine. In 1939 Danylo resettled to England. From 1932 he assisted his father Pavlo Skoropadskyi in leading the Ukrainian monarchist movement.
In 1948 after the death of Hetman Pavlo, Danylo Skoropadskyi became the leader of Ukrainian monarchists.
Danylo Skoropadskyi became engaged on 13 February 1957 to Halyna Melnyk-Kaluzhynska, however, in a week and a half he died on 23 February 1957 in London after being poisoned probably by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agents. Halyna Kaluzhynska was born in Volhynia near Trostyanka in March 1914.
After World World War II, Kaluzhynska relocated to the United Kingdom. Eventually through a mutual friend she met Danylo Skoropadsky.
At 81 (in 1995) Halyna returned to Ukraine bringing back Skoropadsky"s family relics.