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Plutocrats by George Ireland John Murray Pounds 30 .Pounds 27 (0870 165 0870) When the eldest child of the head of the Rothschild family married another Rothschild at her father's enormous mansion in West London in 1857, the guests included a past and a future Prime Minister ( Russell and Disraeli) and more aristocrats than you could shake a stick at. The happy couple honeymooned at Mentmore Towers, the huge country house built by the bride's uncle who was also the groom's first cousin.
And there we have it all. The dizzying wealth, the ostentatious display, the illustrious connections and the habit of marrying within the family.See the full content of this document
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Hidden Passion of the World's Richest Family
The rise of the Rothschilds is an astonishing story. Nathan Rothschild, a German-speaking Jew in his early 20s, arrived in England in about 1800 as a merchant of modest means. By ...
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