Posted on 02/23/2013 5:44:16 AM PST by RummyChick
Over a lingering lunch with a friend in the City of London some years ago, Baron David de Rothschild, the French head of the global Rothschild banking dynasty, was asked if he saw his thrusting young British cousin, Nat Rothschild, as his possible successor.
The baron, a stylish figure of the old school, thought for a moment as he sipped a good vintage from the family vineyard, then replied intriguingly: Well, hes the person of this [Rothschild] generation who seems to be most comfortable in the world of high finance.
Today, for Nat Rothschild, that glittering prize of one day becoming the family patriarch has surely disappeared for ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
what?
Lord Rothschild has the Order of the Merit bestowed by the Queen. It is rare.
He got cut out of his family banking dynasty. he had hoped his son would become head and bring it all under the peerage.
The other side of the family brought down Jacob’s son who now lives in tax exile in Switzerland.
You should go to work for the Daily Mail, RC.
Your synopsis and a picture of the ex-wife were really all I needed.
lol
what on earth does “bring it all under the peerage” mean?
We have the Koch brothers here in Kansas fighting over money too. Sickening.
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