Slightly odd story here about Nathan Rothschild:
Legend has it that Nathan was with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo
when Napoleon was defeated and raced back to London to buy British
government stock before news of victory spread.
Wikipedia says that it was his private intelligence network: the story I’ve always heard is that they had a well developed carrier pigeon network. Absolutely the very first time I’ve heard of his actually being over the Channel at this point.
I would also be absolutely astonished to be told that that was in fact a picture of Nathan Rothschild. A military uniform? With what (to a very untrained eye, I agree) looks like the insignia of at least one order of knighthood?
This looks more like it:
Even by the slightly dodgy standards of portrait painting, I don’t think those are the same people, do you? Current members of the family look much more like the second picture: so I wonder who the Telegraph has actually used in that first one? Wellington maybe? The caption doesn’t make it clear (NM financed Wellington’s campaign) but the picture name is Rothschild. Hmm, perhaps just a mild boo boo there.
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