The Soft-Power Brokers

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In 1861 Charlotte Rothschild and her son Natty (the future 1st Lord Rothschild) left their mansion in Piccadilly for a summer holiday in Grasmere. Hotels in the Lake District at that time had a cannon on the balcony to “wake the echoes” from the surrounding mountains, and tourists would go out on boats and call […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/23/the-soft-power-brokers-the-women-of-rothschild/

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