‘He’s handed over the whole fortune’: How a £600m feud between Evelyn de Rothschild’s children and his glamorous widow was laid bare in a funeral address by Bill Clinton

• Tensions have risen in the family over a multi-million pound inheritance
• The late Sir Evelyn de Rothschild left most of his fortune to his wife Lynn 
• A source said the move was ‘one of the biggest upheavals of this kind in history’
• Former US President Bill Clinton was invited to speak at Sir Evelyn’s funeral  

The Rothschild family motto is unambiguous: ‘Concordia, Integritas, Industria.’ Harmony comes first in the making and keeping of one of the world’s greatest fortunes.

But that ‘harmony’ was stretched to breaking point at the funeral of financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who is understood to have left control of his share of the dynasty’s millions not to his three children, but to his widow Lady de Rothschild.

Relations were said to be strained between Sir Evelyn’s third wife, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and political power player Lynn Forester, 68, and her husband’s offspring – Jessica, David and Anthony.

Her expected inheritance means a multi-million-pound wedge of Rothschild wealth is likely to pass out of the 200-year-old British branch of the family empire, which helped finance Wellington’s armies at Waterloo, the Suez Canal and the London Underground.

‘We’re talking about one of the biggest upheavals of this kind in history,’ a source close to the family told The Mail on Sunday last night.

‘We think he’s handed over the Rothschild fortune, his part of it. It’s all expected to be going to Lynn, and it’s not as if he couldn’t have been very generous to everyone.’

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