Robot sex dolls? What will Nat’s wife say about that!
DESPITE being a scion of one of Britain’s richest banking dynasties, Lord Rothschild’s only son and heir, Nathaniel, has never shied away from controversy.
Now it appears he has outdone himself by making a very revealing contribution to the debate about sex dolls.
The 47-year-old financier shared a link to an article on Twitter yesterday about the increasing popularity of lifelike robotic sex dolls — also known as ‘love droids’ — in Japan, which claims their surging use is threatening the country’s inhabitants with extinction.
Wading in on the discussion, which has attracted research by academics in Britain and the U.S., Old Etonian Nat wrote: ‘When you make love to your wife there can be some problems, with a doll none of that matters.’
It’s unlikely the remark will be wellreceived by his second wife, former Page 3 model Loretta Basey, 27, to whom he refers in his online profile with the bio: ‘Happily married to Loretta with five spoilt dogs.’
THE comment will also do little to help heal a longrunning family feud, which emerged when Nat (who now lives in Switzerland) married Loretta in 2016. Neither his 82-year-old philanthropist father nor his mother Serena attended the ceremony at the Swiss ski resort Klosters or the wedding party at Stowell Park, Wiltshire.
One person who did attend the nuptials was Labour peer Peter Mandelson, with whom Nat shares an intimate history.
In 2005, the pair went on what Nat described as a ‘delightful’ trip to a Siberian sauna, where they were beaten with birch twigs by a 25-year old male banya-keeper.
Nat’s candid opinions on sex dolls do, however, give a glimpse into his otherwise closely guarded personal life.
When he divorced the late socialite Annabelle Neilson, who died earlier this month, it was understood that to secure a financial settlement she was required to revert to her maiden name and sign a confidentiality agreement, promising to never discuss their three-year marriage.
The party-loving couple had met in their late teens on a beach in India and dated for six years before eloping to Las Vegas in 1995, much to the surprise of their parents.