Read here the tale of the Rothschild patriarchal dynasty <rothschild.html> and the story of its collaboration with the House of Rockefeller <rockroth.html>.
``Rothschild'' means Red Shield. Mayer Amschel Bauer, the patriarch, invented and assumed the name.
The Players
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - pictured above (Chairman, Rothschild Continuation Holdings and N M Rothschild & Sons - nmrothschild.co.uk, chairman of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers (PRTC - a medical charity))
Sir Jacob de Rothschild - "current head of the British arm of the Rothschild dynasty." Founded the J Rothschild Group
Benjamin de Rothschild (Président, Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild <http://www.fo-rothschild.fr>)
Edmond de Rothschild - pictured above (recently deceased; Banque Privée SA Lugano - b-de-rothschild.lu (Luxembourg domain), Rothschild Bank AG Zurich, Switzerland)
Nicholas de Rothschild, son of Edmund
Anthony de Rothschild, "Britain's most eligible bachelor": record producer, father is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild
Baron Elie de Rothschild and Eric de Rothschild (Vins Châteu Lafite <http://www.lafite.com>)
Baron Phillipe de Rothschild (Château Mouton Rothschild) - pictured above
Lionel de Rothschild (son of recently deceased Edmund de Rothschild)
Lionel de Rothschild - pictured above; (major figure 3 generations earlier, ancestor of Edmund and present Lionel)
The Banks
<http://www.e-de-rothschild.lu>
"The fastest growing third-party custodians are Chase Manhattan - now the largest US bank in Luxembourg - and Banque de Gestion Edmond de Rothschild." (April 18 1997)
<http://www.e-de-rothschild.lu/rothschild/en/press/pooling.htm>
"With over 200 funds under administration we specialize in intra-fund pooling Co-management, Multi-manager, Mirror and Feeder Funds."
Belgian Rothschild: Drexel - Burnham Lambert ("Banque Lambert") - Michael Milken
German Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (Amschel Bauer), the patriarch, is from Germany
The House of Rothschild has banks in France, England, and Switzerland, as evidenced above. It also has banks in Italy (Rothschild Italia S.p.A. of Milan), Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Belgium - original five are Vienna, Paris, Naples, Frankfurt, and London
www.trufax.org./chrono/cri.html "General Chronology of Events" Leading Edge Research Group
1976 US House Banking and Currency Commitee Report, May 1976, entitled "International Banking", identifies the Rothschild Five Arrows Group and its five branches: N.M.Rothschild & Sons, Ltd in London, Banque Rothschild in France, Banque Lambert in Belgium, New Court Securities in New York, and Pierson, Holdring & Company in Amsterdam, all of which were combined into Rothschild Intercontinental Bank, Ltd, who in turn has three American subsidiaries: National City Bank of Cleveland, First City National Bank (First City Bancorp) in Houston, and First National Bank in Seattle. First City Bancorp in Houston would co-chair the Reagan Bush campaign of 1980. The House Report also noted "the Rothschild banks are affiliated with Manufacturers Hanover of London and Manufacturers Hanover in New York, which buys CIT Financial Corporation in 1983 for $1.6 billion.
The preeminent Rothschild bank has a web site at <http://www.nmrothschild.com/>.
See this article that guestimates The present-day fortune of the House of Rothschild <rothschild2.html>, and this scrap book of articles and observations regarding the LBMA <lbma.html>.
The Stories
from <http://www.squall.co.uk/thom2.html> (includes substantial asides):
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The comedy gods' smiles grew wider when the crew attempted to gain access to some of the 18,000 works of art on the Conditionally Exempt Works of Art List. This list, open to people who inherit works of art, means no inheritance tax has to be paid on the specific items on the list providing members of the public can view them. Seeing as half a billion to a billion pounds of tax has not been paid on artworks on the register Mark and his team set out to discover just how easy it is for ordinary people to gain access to the items and their owners. Their biggest coup involved a large number of people turning up at Rothschild's Bank dressed as all sorts of strange fluffy things asking to see a Gainsborough painting Sir Evelyn de Rothschild had registered on the list. They were refused entry and all wrote letters on the spot requesting to see the painting. After two months they had not heard from Sir Evelyn so they contacted the Inland Revenue. They were informed that Sir Evelyn had removed a number of his works of art from the register. Mark estimates that as a result he had to pay somewhere between £400,000 and £1m in tax: "Basically we were just obstinate letter writers and yet we've made the 43rd richest man in Britain cough up this amount of money. If we can do that just through a bunch of letters then the possibilities before us are completely endless." Such antics within the jealously protective worlds of big business, politics, and the stinking rich are not without their risks. During the making of the exempt works of art stunt Mark received a phonecall to his home from MP and then Armed Forces Minister, Nicholas Soames, and Channel 4 was threatened with a a government D Notice gagging order forbidding broadcasters and journalists from mentioning a specific piece of information (in this case the Soames' home address). Though the notice was not actually served, Channel 4's lawyers advised the programme not to encourage viewers to contact Soames to request access to works he had on the list. As such it was, says Mark, "a direct act of censorship initiated by the state".
from <http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/cewa.html>:
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild paid up to £1m in tax rather than let us see his artworks. All he would have had to do would have been to open his house for us out of season, but after transporting his Gainsborough painting all the way to London rather than let us in, he took all his items off the Register (and therefore must have paid the tax).
Another interesting owner is Baron Jacob de Rothschild. He has been the head of the Heritage Lottery Fund since it was formed. He is also the head of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. He is a man who clearly has the nation's heritage close to his heart. Incidentally, he also owns 758 items of conditionally exempt art, most of which are held at Waddeston Manor, his stately home in Buckinghamshire. You can see Sir Jacob's artworks, as well as works owned by Kit Martin's landlord (remember Stoneleigh Abbey?) or administered by the Duke of Somerset's solicitor (remember 'Dispatches'?).
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