Baroness Philippine Mathilde Camille de Rothschild was the owner of the French winery Château Mouton Rothschild.
Background
She was the only daughter of the vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Rothschild was born in Paris, France. At the time of her birth, her mother, Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, a French Catholic aristocrat, was not married to her father Philippe de Rothschild, but instead married to Jonkheer Marc de Becker-Rémy, a Belgian nobleman.
Career
She acted under the stage name Philippine Pascale. By 1939, Philippe de Rothschild separated from Elisabeth, who reverted to using her maiden name. Rothschild had one brother, Charles Henri de Rothschild, who was born in 1938 and died that same year.
In 1958, she graduated from the Paris Conservatoire National d"Art Dramatique and acted in Louisiana Comédie Française with Catherine Deneuve.
She played one of the leading roles in Harold and Maude with Madeleine Renaud between 1973 and 1980. Rothschild entered her father"s wine business in the late 1970s.
When Philippe died in 1988, Philippine inherited three estates in Bordeaux: Château Mouton Rothschild (bought by her great-great grandfather Nathaniel de Rothschild in 1853), Château d"Armailhac, and Château Clerc Milon. She also became chairwoman and majority owner of Baron Philippe de Rothschild South America At the time of her father"s death, the company sold 1.3 million cases of wine a year.
By 2000, sales had almost doubled to 2.1 million cases.
In 1999, sales amounted to around $155 million (approximately $220 million in 2015 dollars). Her wine holdings included Château Mouton Rothschild, Château d"Armailhac, Château Clerc Milon, Domaine de Lambert, Baron Arques, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Mouton Cadet, Opus One and Viña Almaviva. Rothschild was married to:.
Membership
When Philippine de Rothschild was ten years old, she witnessed the Gestapo arrest her mother, who later died at Ravensbrück concentration camp, the only known member of the Rothschild family to die during World World War World War II