COUNT STANISŁAW Czaykowski was the antithesis of a celebrity: he showed up, he drove. He didn’t care if people knew how much money he had and his wife always accompanied him at races. His family, a branch of a noble clan, had emigrated to the Netherlands from Poland in the 19th Century when the Polish state was partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austro-Hungary and those who could escape the persecution started new lives elsewhere.
Stanisław was born in The Hague in 1899 and, growing up, had absolutely no intention of relying on
