Iris Goldsmith: teenage heir to two major British dynasties dies in quad bike accident

The 15-year-old was reportedly crushed after vehicle overturned at family’s farm in Somerset

Iris Goldsmith
Iris Goldsmith was the first-born child of Ben Goldsmith and his ex-wife Kate Rothschild 

Tributes are being paid to the teenage daughter of financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith following her death in a quad bike accident.

Iris Annabel Goldsmith “is understood to have become trapped when her vehicle, described as a cross between a quad bike and a Jeep, overturned on private land on the family’s farm”, says The Times.

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