Personal Life
Guy de Rothschild has married twice:
- In 1937, he married a distant cousin, Baroness Alix Hermine Jeanette Schey de Koromla (1911–1982). Alix was the former wife of Kurt Krahmer and the younger daughter of Baron Philip Schey von Koromla, the first Jew in Hungary to be made an Austrian noble. They had one child, David René de Rothschild. Rothschild also raised his wife's daughters from her prior marriage to Krahmer, Lili and Bettina. They divorced in 1956.
- In 1957, He married Baroness Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927–1996). Marie-Hélène's first marriage to Count François de Nicolay had been dissolved in 1956. Like his first wife, she was a distant cousin, though in this case, a Roman Catholic. They had one child, Baron Édouard de Rothschild.
After his second marriage, Guy de Rothschild renovated the Château de Ferrières, using it to put on lavish balls in the early 1970s, before donating it to the University of Paris in 1975. The same year, he bought the Hôtel Lambert on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, the top floors of which became his Paris residence.
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