Background
He was born in Prangins, Switzerland, where the Austrian Imperial family were staying after they had been sent into exile.
He was born in Prangins, Switzerland, where the Austrian Imperial family were staying after they had been sent into exile.
He was named after Count Rudolph IV of Habsburg. After the war he travelled to the United States, Canada and the Belgian Congo. Rudolf worked as a Wall Street junior executive and a bank director
Archduke Rudolf was married by Archbishop Fulton Sheen to Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov the daughter of Sergei Aleksandrovich Besobrasov and Countess Elizabeta Cheremeteva, on 22 June 1953 at Tuxedo Park, New New York