Anne McElvoy Where are the women? From the Rothschilds to the Roys, dynasties have a patriarchal bias
almost 4 years in Standard
I’ve had a dynastic week — from the foundations of the Rothschild banking clan, to the next generation of the Blairs and sofa time with the addictive TV drama Succession. Last night, the historian Natalie Livingstone launched her book on the forgotten women of a great banking family’s history. She invented the Cliveden Literary Festival and is the wife of one of Britain’s most successful self-made kerchionaires, the property magnate and hotel owner Ian Livingstone. He now owns and runs Cliveden House as a hotel, with guests lured to the setting of the Sixties Profumo scandal.
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