James Rothschild

James Amschel Victor Rothschild was born in Westminster, London, England, on 14 May 1985,^[2][3][4] as the youngest child and only son to Amschel Mayor James Rothschild,^[5][6] a British businessman who was a member of the Rothschild banking family of England,^[7] and his wife, Anita Patience (née Guinness), a British socialite who is a member of the "banking line" of the Guinness family, founders of Guinness Mahon in 1836, which descends from Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), the brother of Arthur Guinness.^[8] Rothschild's paternal grandparents were Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, a British businessman and politician, and his second wife, Teresa Rothschild, Baroness Rothschild (née Mayor), a British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate. His maternal grandparents were James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness, a British investment banker, and his wife, Pauline Vivien (née Mander), a British housewife. He has two sisters, Kate Emma Rothschild, a music promoter,^[9] and Alice Miranda Rothschild Goldsmith, a company director.^[10][11] Rothschild's sisters both married into the Goldsmith family. They married brothers; sons of the French-British billionaire financier and politician Sir James Goldsmith and his third wife, Lady Annabel Goldsmith (née Vane-Tempest-Stewart), an English socialite. In September 2003, his elder sister, Kate, married the English financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith;^[12] they have three children together and divorced in April 2013, after less than ten years of marriage.^[13][14] In March 2013, his younger sister, Alice, married the British politician and journalist Zac Goldsmith;^[15] they have three children together and announced their separation in March 2023, after ten years of marriage. His paternal aunt and uncle were Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild and Emma Rothschild. His maternal aunts and uncle are the artist and writer Hugo Guinness; socialite Sabrina Guinness; and philanthropist Julia Samuel, a godmother to Prince George of Wales. He is a half first cousin of Hannah Rothschild, and Nathaniel Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild. His godfather is William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill.

Rothschild was eleven years old when his father died by suicide at the Hôtel Le Bristol Paris.^[16] When he was seventeen, his mother married James Adair Wigan, a bloodstock agent, who is now his stepfather.^[17]