Baroness Ruzsika (Rózsika) Edle Rothschild

In 1907 Charles Rothschild married Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein (1870 – 30 June 1940), a descendent of an old Austrian-Jewish family that was ennobled long before the Rothschilds. She was born in 1870 at Nagyvarad, Hungary (now the Romanian city of Oradea), the daughter of a retired army officer, Baron Alfred Edler von Wertheimstein. Alfred's sister Charlotte was married to Moritz von Königswarter.
Rózsika was one of seven children. She was a very beautiful woman with dark brown eyes. Each eye had a purple ring to it, and they could flicker strangely. She was also a voracious reader. Every day she would read a Hungarian newspaper, a German newspaper, an English newspaper, and quite often a French one, too. She read all the political articles in these papers. Rózsika had even been a champion lawn tennis player in Hungary.
After their marriage on 6 February 1907, they lived at Tring and in London. Charles, who worked in the family’s banking business, was a dedicated naturalist in his spare time: the young couple had met on a butterfly-collecting trip in the Carpathian Mountains. In the evening, the Rothschilds might go together to a concert or a dinner party, but Charles really preferred to sort out his butterflies. Charles's suicide in 1923 when he was 46 years old was a severe shock to his wife and four children. Rózsika von Wertheimstein died on 30 June 1940.

Rozsika Edle von Wertheimstein, English-language Wikipedia (old article, currently redirects to Charles Rotschild#Marriage)

See also:

• Rózsika Rothschild, German-language Wikipedia

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Other links:

• The Peerage
• 1911 census, with her Austrian lady's maid Otilie Kratochvil
• Find A Grave
• Announcement of funeral service, Jewish Telegraphic Service
• Geneanet
• Hungarian article, translation: Google or Microsoft
• Wertheimer family database
• Wertheimer family tree