Aline Caroline de Rothschild

{{Short description|French socialite}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}

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| name = Aline Caroline de Rothschild

| image = John Singer Sargent - Portrait of Lady Sassoon.jpg

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| caption = Lady Sassoon, 1907

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|10|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1909|7|28|1867|10|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

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| spouse = {{Marriage|Edward Albert Sassoon|1887}}

| children = Philip Albert Gustave David ({{abbr|b.|born}} 1888)
Sybil Rachel Bettie Cécile, Marchioness of Cholmondeley ({{abbr|b.|born}} 1894)

| parents = Gustave de Rothschild
Cécile Anspach

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Aline Caroline de Rothschild, Lady Sassoon (21 October 1867 – 28 July 1909)Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3416 was a French socialite and daughter of Cécile Anspach and Baron Gustave de Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

She was born in Paris, where her parents had a house on Avenue Marigny.{{cite web|url=https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/87-aline-caroline-de-rothschild-1867-1909|title=Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1867-1909)|website=The Rothschild Archive|access-date=28 March 2018}} In 1887, aged 19, she married Edward Sassoon (later Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Bt.).[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=269&letter=S Sir Edward Sassoon in the Jewish Encyclopedia] They had two children:

• Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt. (1888–1939)
• Sybil Rachel Bettie Cécile, Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1894–1989)

The family settled in London at 25, Kensington Gore, where de Rothschild, a talented artist, set up her own studio. She was part of a group of 'personages distinguished for their breeding, beauty, delicacy and discrimination of mind' called 'The Souls'.{{cite web |title=Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1867-1909) |url=https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/87-aline-caroline-de-rothschild-1867-1909 |website=The Rothschild Archive |access-date=30 March 2023}}

De Rothschild died in Paris on 28 July 1909.{{cite web |title=Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1867-1909) |url=https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/87-aline-caroline-de-rothschild-1867-1909 |website=The Rothschild Archive |access-date=30 March 2023}} Her great-great-grandson is actor Jack Huston.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/jack-huston-on-remaking-ben-hur-it-was-so-surprising-no-one-died-x0jc26z3f|title=Jack Huston: 'Chariot racing? There's no way in hell I'm going to do that'|newspaper=The Times|date=3 September 2016|first=Ben|last=Hoyle|access-date=8 July 2018}}