Great Expectations: A Rothschild-Hilton Baby Is on the Way
Those of us half-heartedly following the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills subplot about the travails of the sisters Richards and how Kyle was invited, then disinvited, then re-invited—albeit without her husband and two of her daughters—to the Kensington Palace wedding of her niece Nicky Hilton to James Rothschild, have a new piece of information to chew over: Nicky, the quieter, yet somehow crueler-seeming sister of Paris, is reportedly pregnant with the newest scion of the legendary Jewish banking dynasty.
Some months from now, the DNA of Mayer Amschel Rothschild—the Rothschild family patriarch who rose from the squalid Judengasse of 18th century Frankfurt to install each of his five sons in one of five great banking capitals of Europe, with strict exhortations never to marry outside the faith—will be mingled with that of Conrad Hilton, a confirmed anti-Semite, according the sublime memoir by his most famous ex-wife, Zsa-Zsa Gabor (of which I believe every word as gospel). Hilton’s contributions to the world include making sure you can feel like you’re in a 1950’s-era American suburb in any corner of the globe, and almost single-handedly siring the reality television revolution in the form of his myriad descendants. The merger will be truly complete.
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