Improbability of Love (Rothschild) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—May 22, 1962
• Where—England, UK
• Education—B.A., Oxford University
• Currently—lives in England


Hannah Mary Rothschild is a British writer, philanthropist and documentary filmmaker. She is the eldest child of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and his wife Serena Dunn Rothschild. Through her father, she is a member of the Rothschild banking family.

She serves on the boards of various philanthropic trusts and museums. In 2015, she became chair of the London National Gallery's Board of Trustees—the first woman to hold the position. That same year, 2015, she published her first novel, The Improbability of Love, a satire set in the London art world.

Career
A documentary filmmaker, Rothschild's films include profiles of Frank Auerbach, Walter Sickert, R. B. Kitaj, as well as the BBC series Relative Values and The Great Picture Chase. She produced the fly-on-the-wall documentary, Mandelson: The Real PM? (2010), which concerns the UK's former Business Secretary Peter Mandelson in the run up to the 2010 general election.

Great Aunt
In 2008 Rothschild produced "The Jazz Baroness," a documentary for BBC's Storyville series and for HBO. The film is the story of her great-aunt Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, who rebelled against her family, becoming a jazz afficionado and patron, as well as a devoted follower of Thelonius Monk. The same year, Rothschild also produced a radio profile of her aunt "Nica" for BBC 4 Radio. In 2012, she published her aunt's biography—The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild.

Philanthropy
Rothschild was appointed a trustee of the National Gallery in London in 2009 and later became the Gallery's liaison-trustee to the Tate Gallery in 2013. Six years later, in 2015, she become the first woman to chair the National Gallery's board when Mark Getty stepped down.

She is also a trustee of The Rothschild Foundation, a registered charity, whose activities include preserving Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire on behalf of its owner, the National Trust.

Rothschild was formerly a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA. She was the co-founder of the charity Artists on Film.

Personal life
In 1994, she married William Lord Brookfield. The couple had three children but have since divorced. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 2/21/1016.)