Bina Rothschild

Rothschild played the role of the Queen of Transylvania in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical film My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion. She was not trained as an actress, and was considered by Cecil Beaton, an artistic director for the film, to be the only non-actress suitable to play the role, stating that she had "impeccable deportment and breeding."

In 1925, she married Baron Erich Max Benedikt von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, the son of Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild and Baroness Minna Karoline von Rothschild. Her husband was a member of the Goldschmidt and Rothschild banking dynasties. She gave birth to a son, Baron Patrick Maximilien von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, in 1928.

Baroness Veronika von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, also known as Bina Rothschild and Veronika Rothschild (née Countess Katharina Eleonore Veronika Irma Luise Henckel von Donnersmarck; 8 February 1902 – 6 October 1965), was a German aristocrat and actress known for playing the Queen of Transylvania in the 1964 musical film My Fair Lady.

Rothschild was born Countess Katharina Eleonore Veronika Irma Luise Henckel von Donnersmarck on 8 February 1902 in Berlin to Count Lazarus Herbert Patrik Valentin Henckel von Donnersmarck and Countess Vera Maria Elisabeth Marequita Maximiliane Charlotte Luise von Kanitz. She was a member of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, an Austro-German noble family that originated in modern-day Slovakia. Her maternal grandfather, Count Georg von Kanitz, was a prominent statesman in the German Empire.