His father was a partner with the shipping brokerage firm Simpson, Spence & Young, and best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married the former Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. Solomons was born and baptised as Ernest Henry Child Simpson at Guard"s Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England. His mother died in 1941, and his father died in 1958, the same year Ernest hockey club Simpson changed his name to Aharon Solomons.
Solomons spent the early years of his childhood in the United Kingdom, India and with friends of his father in Pennsylvania, United States. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1946 and attended Westbourne House School in Sussex, England, then Harrow School, and finally Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. In 1957, he was inducted into his father"s regiment, the Coldstream Guards, and was commissioned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps and served in the Middle East. In 1962, Solomons moved to Israel and joined the Israeli Defense Forces, where he saw action in 1967-1968 and on the Golan Heights in 1973.
The Solomons lived for ten years on communal agricultural settlements and then in Rosh Pinna.
From 1975 he traveled in the Sinai, Greece, Micronesia and Mexico, where he settled for a time. He taught scuba for many years in Eilat.
In 1992 he met Francisco Ferreras "Pipin", and trained with him in Cuba in the "no limits" and "constant weight" disciplines of freediving. Solomons married Maria-Teresa "Montana" Solomons in 1997 and had another son, Ze"ev, in 1998.
The Solomons are currently separated but work and train together in the Freedivers association.
Both are A.I.D.A Instructor Trainers and teach in Israel, The Turks and Caicos, Greece, and Mexico.
