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4 unusual facts about Élisabeth de Rothschild


Élisabeth de Rothschild

Élisabeth de Rothschild (née de Chambure) (March 9, 1902 – Ravensbrück concentration camp, March 23, 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.

Philippe de Rothschild's late-in-life memoirs (Milady Vine, written in collaboration with his friend and companion, the British director Joan Littlewood) described his marriage to Lili as one of great passion but also enormous tempestuousness and despair.

Following the German occupation of France in World War II, she and her then-estranged husband were arrested by the Vichy government and the vineyard property seized.

In 1934, immediately after her divorce from her first husband, Jonkheer Marc Edouard Marie de Becker-Rémy, a Belgian aristocrat, she married her lover, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, a member of the prominent Rothschild family and the owner of one of France's most famous vineyards, Château Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac in the Médoc.



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