 So I've been asked to introduce Jacob, and I'll keep it relatively swift. I won't go through all the accolades or we'll be here for quite a long time. Aside from being my uncle, Jacob is president of Yad Hanadi, our Israel-focused foundation, currently building a national library designed by Herzog and Amuron. He's chairman of the Rothschild Foundation in Europe, focused on Jewish causes in Europe. And he's chairman of the Rothschild Foundation, which through the Rothschild Collection supports Watson. And under his leadership, it's become one of the most visited properties in the UK, with about 450,000 annual visitors. It's breathtaking. And I will leave it to him to give more details on how dazzling the collections have become. Jacob. I think I'm not sure I need that. Well, first of all, thank you for coming. Very much. A lot of old and friendly faces. Down with friendly faces. And thanks, James, and thanks, German. That was very nice of you. Well, I'm going to talk a little bit about Watson. It's just over an hour from London on the way to Oxford. And it was created in 60 hours by Baron Ferdinand. And there are no less than six family of stately homes. They bought land, all in that area of my family, in the Vale of Elspeth. And it was said that a Rothschild would stand on the roof of any one of them and wave to the others. They were closely knit. The Ferdinand, though, was more than simply bricks and mortar. He really built it because his wife tragically died in childbirth. She was called Evelina, an English Rothschild. And it became Ferdinand's consolation. And he spent the rest of his life on much of his considerable fortune amassing his rather extraordinary collection and creating a kind of mad, Ferdinand castle, a grand, passionational chateau which incorporates the features of the chateau et al. So it's a very odd thing to find in the English Rothschild. It's got, I think it's fair to say, extensive and I think it naturally maintained gardens. You've got a working aviary and an ornamental dairy. And it's filled with collections of fine and decorative arts. I was asked by Jacob Fish how many there were, and I asked. And they said 27,000, which I can't really believe. A lot of that must be coins, I think. Anyhow, they're all set off by architectural salvage, stuff that came from France, which was made in the 18th century and which he then bought up from France as Heisman was really remodeling Paris. As an old song, and you might like the story, Watson was extremely influential, particularly in the United States. And you may well know, not dissimilar to a divorce, at Biltmore. The project began by George Washington Vanderbilt in 1888 and which Henry James described as a thing of, when he described Watson as a thing, well, as a thing of a high Rothschild manner. This was Vanderbilt's house, but it was sized to contain two or three metaphors on Watson, which was quite an exaggeration. I'm not sure that it's much bigger. The story goes that Vanderbilt visited Watson with his architecture, St. Maurice Hunt, who went on and on about the finer points of French Renaissance architecture. And after a bit, Vanderbilt got impatient and said, I haven't said, just make the place ten meters longer than Watson. And the grandeur of Watson, I mean, Ferdinand had, it was his only interest to build this great new house after his wife died. It was a very far cry from the Judengas, the Frankfurt Ghetto, where the five sons of my uncle Rothschild, the father of the dynasty, were born and brought up. And you can see there the Frankfurt Ghetto and the house, which they lived in. And it was one of the most disagreeable of all the ghettos in Europe. And the Rothschild family lived in this house in that narrow, sunless street, which few Christians ever even visited. The gates of the ghetto were opened some 200 years ago now. And one son stayed behind in Frankfurt. The four others were encouraged by their father to extend their rapidly growing business into the major capitals of the day. So they went to Vienna, London, Naples and Paris. And all five brothers, it's not an extraordinary story, became hugely successful and wealthy. And I commissioned a painting or a bike to see by an artist called Jean-Marc Binklow, which is not a family tree, but an architectural tree, which says just how affluent the family had become by the second half of the 19th century. There were 42 ambitious houses built. And the bottom, you can see the house, the ghetto, right at the very, very bottom there. So those sumptuous creations were spread throughout Europe. And the wonder of Wadsden is that despite two world wars, the most terrible genocide in the history of the world, the Depression of the 1930s, inheritance tax and personal tax rates after the war of 80%, but somehow the collection of gardens and indeed the estates of hell have survived in their entirety. And I think it's fair to say they're going from strength to strength today. Most of those 42 were fallen by the wayside. And it's a strange story why it's the same chat. I mean, for 100 years, there were no children and their grandchildren were men. For all four owners were childless. Furthermore, the systematic and frequent intermarriages resulted in works of art arriving through inheritance rather than departing. And Baron James, who was head of the Paris branch and the youngest of the five sons of our actual Rothschild, gave an astonishing and uninhibited description of the 19th century Rothschild policy of keeping it in the family. I'll quote you from what you wrote and make a smile. In our family, we've always tried to keep love in the family. In this sense, it was more or less understood since childhood that children would never think of marrying outside the family so that our fortune would never leave it. You couldn't write that today. And now the change from being a private house to a public institution, the mixed marriage between the National Trust and my family, I think it's fair to say has been a successful and happy one. And I believe unique in its kind. And last year we had 450,000 visitors. Our foundation provides the financial support and lends a pretty large number of works of art to the property. And then we started building new buildings and we've got two contemporary buildings on the estate. One is Windmill Hill, which you can see there, which is our archive. And it has a collection, a great collection of contemporary art both inside and outside. More recently, we built this house faced in thinche and apparently emerging from the depths of the earth. And we were very pleased and honored when it won the RIBA Prize to the House of the Year in 2015. But we now have a happy ending to this bit of the story. We now have a joint fellowship scheme with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles with a visiting scholar spending some months at the flint house and some months in Los Angeles. And many of you may know this in the audience but it's quite interesting that last week, our fellow, our fellow this year was a guy called Tom Campbell. Many of you in this room were there who was the director of the Metropolitan Museum and left in somewhat unhappy circumstances. He's now been appointed as the director of the San Francisco Museum. Now, I want to tell you something about the films of our family who, through Watson, have been particularly involved with Israel and the Jewish community. Jimmy Rothschild, who very inherited the property out of the blue, he'd come to the Santa Baron Edmondo Rothschild who'd established settlements in Palestine to give a new life to Prescott the Russian Jews. He, out of the blue, inherited Watson from third-name sister Alice. He'd left Paris, England, after the Dreyfus case and his wife, Dolly, helped time Weitzman in his stupendous efforts to establish the state of Israel by connecting him into the establishment of Great Britain. When she was only 19, Weitzman wrote to her 33 letters during the course of the year. He didn't know anybody. He was a fairly invublished chemist in Manchester and she had contacts and introduced him to people like Lord Crue and Lord Roseford. And I think it's fair to say that the Balfour Declaration might not have happened without her and her husband's support. Jimmy Rothschild's writing life was a passionate support of the Jewish community. And when conditions for Jews in Austria and Germany became intolerable in the 1930s, something may know this, the British government made provisions for 10,000 unaccompanied children to be given refuge, known as the Kindertransport. And Jimmy and Dolly offered to help by providing a home for 30 of those children of Wadstone. It was literally a last minute escape. Now Jimmy and Dolly were also childless and in effect those 30 children became theirs. And interestingly, almost all of them had successful careers. One, for example, was a golf professional and another looked up to the estate of a British Earl. On my side of the family, the first Lord Rothschild became the first Jewish pair in 1885 and his successor, Walter, was a deep link to the people. With a passion for connecting specimens of natural history, including ground torches, you can see him riding one of them, butterflies, beetles, birds and fleas. And if you come to the Wadstone area, you can see his collection of an extraordinary resentment Trig, which was my side of the family's property, is only about 10 miles from Wadstone. And surprisingly, very surprisingly, really, given his temperament, he was converted to Zionism by my Hungarian grandmother, Rezika, and he fell under Byteson's spell. And he was seen as the lay leader of the Jewish community and the Belfort Declaration was therefore addressed to him. Now, my late cousin left me with responsibility for Wadstone and for our foundation, Yad Hanadi, which James mentioned, which is based in Jerusalem. And today we continue our forebars work there. Since the building of the Knesset, which Jimmy Rothschild was responsible for and which was dedicated in 1966, the foundation's activities have covered a wider and wider field. For example, the building of the Supreme Court, you can see some of them there, some of the people involved there, the Open University, the Center for Educational Technology, the Israel Institute for Bond Studies, the Jerusalem Music Center and the Environmental Health Fund. Now, today we're deeply involved with the renewal of the National Library of Israel. I even had lunch today with the architects. It's going to be a wonderful building, Hatsonga Miran. And I think for the first time ready in history, and thanks to the Internet, Jewish communities throughout the world will be able to be in contact with another. So I think it's going to be a tremendous project. Now, our commitment to Jewish life has continued for eight generations. And again, James, I want to thank you, both for your support this evening and for your support at Wadstone. I have just some very good pictures. And also as a trustee of Hunter, do you have your head tonight and thank you for what you've said. My hope, of course, is that Wadstone will prosper as a place and as a center for our families' continuing efforts in the United Kingdom and Israel for generations to come. Hopefully, as some of you will come to Wadstone, its collections, its gardens, and a room we're creating which will show the families' right of the Valfor Declaration in Asifor for Israel. You'll see the models of the Supreme Court building and of the Library building, which is now under construction as you see. And the Windmill Hill building, you can see earlier documents, photographs and correspondence relating to Barad-Edmond settlements and Peacock. That was the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, which was set up to support those early settlements. Now look, inevitably, because of time, I've only given you a snapshot, perhaps snapshots long enough, of our family, the property of Wadstone, and our relationship with Israel. There's so much more to say and even more to see, so I hope you might come to Wadstone and meanwhile, thanks for coming this evening. This event, I'd like to say, couldn't have happened without the support of Jacob Fish, who has connections with us and with many of the guests here. He's a vital link between the National Library of Israel Project and Wadstone. And then, I'd like to thank Sotheby's. A hundred years ago, we used around 25% of Sotheby's. And you still can. He offered me Sotheby's. I'd like to thank Chad Smith, your chairman, Natalie Conway and Jennifer Roth for so generously hosting us and welcome this evening. Thank you very much.