La dinastia Goldsmith e i suoi legami con i Rotschild, gli Spencer e la casa reale di Windsor

When the Royal Wedding uniting Kate Middleton and Prince William was announced, genealogy sleuths got to work. At first, the buzz indicated that Kate’s mother, Carole Goldsmith (maiden name), had Jewish ancestry. If Carole Goldsmith were Jewish then, according to Jewish law, her daughter Kate Middleton would be considered Jewish — and could become the first Jewish Queen (Consort) of England. But alas, investigators still believing that there was a Jewish heritage in Kate’s lineage found that the last five generations of her family were married in churches. Of course, that doesn’t rule out that some may have been secret Jews, which was true for many Jews during the Inquisition. Other sources still suspect Jewish lineage for Kate. And according to an Orthodox Sephardic Rabbi in Israel, both parents of Kate’s mother were Jewish. So the question of Jew or not a Jew for Kate is still open.

But wait, the plot thickens. Could Princess Diana, William’s mother, have been Jewish? One source maintains that Princess Diana’s mother, Frances Shand Kydd, was Jewish — born Frances Ruth Burke Roche, a Rothschild.

If factual, that would be sufficient for Princess Diana to be certified Jewish, as well as her son, William, the future King of England. Another investigation of ancestry details a strong Davidic connection for Frances and her descendents

Other intriguing bits of “evidence” and speculation have been cited in the London Daily Mail, which quotes sources that claim that Diana was conceived during her mother’s affair with the Jewish banker tycoon Sir James Goldsmith (originally Goldschmidt and no apparent relationship to Carole Goldsmith). The report says that Frances was estranged from her husband, Earl Spencer (Viscount Althorp), and had an affair with Sir James Goldsmith just at the time that Diana was conceived. Strengthening the case, a report points to striking resemblances between Princess Diana and Sir James Goldsmith’s other three children, Zak, Ben and Jemima Goldsmith.

If these tidings are true then Diana would be thoroughly Jewish with a Jewish mother (Frances Ruth Burke Roche aka Rothschild) and a Jewish father (Sir James Goldsmith). In turn William, the future King of England, would have deep Jewish roots.

What a myseh (story). Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer couldn’t have told it better.
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Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt (1772–1843), banker

• Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt (1798–1873), banker, founder of B. H. Goldschmidt bank, married to Jeannette Kann (1802–1848)
  • Leopold Benedict Goldschmidt (1830–1904), banker, married to Regine Bischoffsheim (1834–1905)
  • Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838–1918), banker, married to Alice Emma Moses Merton
    • Frank Goldsmith (1878–1967), politician, married to Marcelle Mouiller
      • Edward Goldsmith (1928–2009), philosopher, environmentalist
        • Clio Goldsmith (1957–) former French actress, married to Mark Shand (1951–2014)
      • James Goldsmith (1933–1997), investor, married to María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (–1954), Ginette Lery, and Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart
        • Jemina Goldsmith (1974–), writer
        • Zac Goldsmith (1975–), politician, married to Alice Miranda Rothschild (1983–), daughter of Amschel Rothschild (1955–1996)
        • Ben Goldsmith (1980–), financier, married to Kate Emma Rothschild (1982–), daughter of Amschel Rothschild (1955–1996)
  • Maximilian Goldschmidt (1843–1940), married to Minna Karoline Freiin von Rothschild, the daughter of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901)
    • Albert Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1879–1941)
    • Rudolph Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1881–1962), married Betty Lambert (1894–1969), daughter of Léon Lambert (fr) and Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild (fr)
    • Lili Jeannette von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1883–1925), married Philipp Schey de Koromla (1881–1957)
    • Lucy Georgine Leontine von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1891–1977), married Edgar Spiegl, Edler von Thurnsee
    • Erich Max Benedikt von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894–1987)
• Amalie Goldschmidt (1804–1887), married to Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1800–1873), banker
  • See Bischoffsheim family
• Henriette Goldschmidt (1812–?), married to Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1808–1883), banker
  • See Bischoffsheim family