Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Ben’s mother, is said to be devastated about his marital breakdown and spent last week looking after her grandchildren.
Meanwhile, Kate’s family are reported to be ‘worried sick’ about her new relationship. ‘Her mother and all her family are very concerned that Kate is going off the rails,’ says a friend.
‘Kate and Alice are talking but most of the family are not on speaking terms with her at the moment. The whole situation is very sad.
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Ben and Kate have a wonderful family, a lovely house and everything they could have wanted. The problem is, Kate is hanging out with Jay all the time and she has become a different person. There have been some very explosive rows.
‘She’s out nearly every night until the early hours and has become obsessed with this rapper.
‘Her explanation to her husband has always been that it’s work and that’s why she and this guy have been spending so much time together.’
The source added that Ben had been worried about Electronica since January, but Kate assured him the relationship was a working one and nothing more.
‘They had a trial separation earlier this year. They both went off and did their own things. I think Ben saw a couple of girls, but there was nothing serious. Kate convinced Ben to give it another go, which he did.
‘He was furious when he found out that Kate had been cheating on him with Electronica. He is totally heartbroken.’
The marriage took a knock two years ago when Kate became close to a friend of Ben’s, but the couple agreed to try to make things work.
Last summer they were reported to have suffered another rocky patch over Kate’s busy work schedule. Mr Goldsmith put the family home on the market in April.
The couple claimed they needed to downsize, but the truth was that the problems in their relationship were becoming more evident.
Now the couple will have to thrash out a complicated and legally fraught divorce settlement. Zac’s divorce to Sheherazade is still not settled because of the financial structure of the Goldsmith dynasty.
Sir Jimmy left his family a £1.2 billion fortune, but much of the capital is tied up in trusts run by trust managers. The brothers’ fortunes, and that of their sister Jemima, is mostly from inheritance income, not capital.
Meanwhile Kate, who went to Bryanstone School in Dorset, is determined to continue working with Electronica and her record label and management company.
Ben and Kate started dating in 2000 when they were regulars in the social pages of Tatler magazine, where Ben was frequently voted most eligible bachelor – topping even Prince William at the time.
In 2003 the couple celebrated their engagement at Annabel’s in Mayfair, the club named after Ben’s mother, and were married that September. Ben was 23 and Kate 21.
They followed a family tradition of marrying young. Ben’s father eloped with his first wife, Bolivian tin heiress Isabel Patino, when he was 21, and Ben’s older sister Jemima surprised society when she married Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan at the same age.
Kate’s father was 25 when he married her mother, heiress Anita Guinness, who was 23.
The Rothschild and Goldsmith families, blood relations who can trace their heritage to the Jewish ghettos of 18th Century Frankfurt, are powerful and influential in the worlds of finance and politics.
Sir Jimmy amassed his £1.2 billion fortune through pharmaceutical and banking interests.
Through his marriage to Lady Annabel, a close friend of the Prince of Wales, he was also a high-profile society figure.
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