James Rothschild

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person James Amschel Victor Rothschild (born 14 May 1985) is a British financier and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and the Guinness family. In 2015, he married Nicky Hilton, an American socialite, fashion designer, and model.

Early life

James Amschel Victor Rothschild was born in Westminster, London, England, on 14 May 1985,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as the youngest child and only son to Amschel Mayor James Rothschild,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a British businessman who was a birth member of the Rothschild banking family of England,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and his wife, Anita Patience (née Guinness), a British socialite who is a birth member of the Guinness family.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has two sisters, Kate Emma Rothschild, a music promoter,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Alice Miranda Rothschild Goldsmith, a company director.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rothschild was eleven years old when his father died by suicide at the Hôtel Le Bristol Paris.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When he was seventeen, his mother married James Adair Wigan, a bloodstock agent, who is now his stepfather.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Rothschild began his career as an investment banking professional at N M Rothschild & Sons Limited.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has previously served as an Analyst at JNR UK Ltd. He served as an Analyst at Hargreave Hale Limited from 2005 to 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rothschild has served as a Partner and Vice President at Monument Capital Group Holdings LLC since 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was a co-founder of West Arrow, an investment and advisory firm. He also serves as a Partner at Lepe Partners LLP.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rothschild is the CEO and Founder of JR Capital Ltd.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is a founder and managing partner of Tru Arrow Partners, a global growth technology firm built around family capital.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Rothschild began dating Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Hilton, an American socialite, fashion designer and model who is a birth member of the Hilton family,—the younger daughter of Richard Hilton and Kathy Hilton<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>—in 2011, having met at Petra Ecclestone and James Stunt's wedding in Italy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 12 August 2014, he became engaged to Hilton.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The couple were married in the Orangery at Kensington Palace in London on 10 July 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His sister-in law is the American media personality Paris Hilton.

Rothschild and Hilton have three children together, two girls and a boy;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Lily-Grace Victoria Rothschild (born 8 July 2016).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Theodora Marilyn Rothschild (born 20 December 2017),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Rothschild put his farm in Rushbrooke, West Suffolk on the market for £24M in May 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Family

Rothschild's paternal<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> grandparents were Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, a British businessman and politician,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and his second wife, Teresa Rothschild, Baroness Rothschild (née Mayor), a British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His maternal grandparents were James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness, a British investment banker, and his wife, Pauline Vivien (née Mander), a British housewife.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Rothschild's sisters both married into the Goldsmith family. They married brothers; sons of the French-British 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 married the English financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> they have three children together and divorced in April 2013, after less than ten years of marriage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In March 2013, his younger sister married the British politician and journalist Zac Goldsmith;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> they have three children together and announced their separation in March 2023, after ten years of marriage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>