Élisabeth de Rothschild

They had a son, Edouard Jacques Marie Augustin (1924-1984),[1] and a daughter, Philippine Mathilde Camille (1933-2014), though the latter's biological father was French baron Philippe de Rothschild.

Philippe's memoirs (Milady Vine, written in collaboration with British director Joan Littlewood) describe his marriage to Élisabeth as one of great passion but also enormous tempestuousness and despair.

They were then released, whereupon Philippe left France, moving to England, to join the Free French Forces and support General Charles de Gaulle.

In 1941, the Gestapo arrested Élisabeth on charges of attempting to cross the line of demarcation with a forged permit and sent her to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, located about 50 miles north of Berlin, where she died.

[5] On his return to France following the Allies' liberation, Philippe de Rothschild learned that the Gestapo had, on charges of attempting to cross a line of demarcation with a forged permit, deported his estranged wife in 1941 to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she died – the cause of her death remains unresolved – on 23 March 1945.