Who owns the Rothschild mansion?

Opened to the public in 1959, Waddesdon Manor is managed by the Rothschild Foundation, a family charitable trust, on behalf of the National Trust, who took over ownership in 1957. It's home to the Rothschild Collections of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.



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These days, David Mayer de Rothschild, Evelyn's son, spends much of his time in Santa Monica. Evelyn and his third wife Lynn Forester, have homes in Manhattan and Martha's Vineyard.

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In fact, between 1824 and 1877, of 36 male Rothschild descendants, 30 married their cousins, with first preferences going to those whose fathers were partners in different branches of the bank, giving a whole new dimension to the term 'family business'.

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At the height of their fortune, the family owned seven vast estates clustered around the Vale of Aylesbury, each adorned with a grand house and ostentatious gardens enveloped by rolling parkland. It's a sign of the times that only one house remains in family ownership, Eythrope, home of the present Lord Rothschild.

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Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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The gates of Ramat Hanadiv first opened in the spring of 1954, on the day that Baron Edmond de Rothschild and his wife Adelaide were laid to eternal rest in the crypt at the heart of the gardens.

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In 1957, James de Rothschild bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust, opening the house and gardens for the benefit of the general public. Unusually for a National Trust property, the family of James Rothschild, the donor, manage the house.

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The Rothschilds are a pan-European Jewish family, who take their name from the house of their 16th century ancestors, 'zum roten Schild' (at the sign of the red shield), in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto.

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