Director Shareholding

RIT Capital Partners PLC
26 May 2004


Lord Rothschild, a director of RIT Capital Partners plc ('RITCP'), has
today advised the Company of the following event affecting his interests in the
Company's ordinary shares:

35,000 ordinary shares (0.02% of issued) held in Lord Rothschild's pension fund
have been transferred to a family settlement in which he has no personal
interest, either as beneficiary or trustee.

Following the above, Lord Rothschild's interests in the ordinary shares of RITCP
comprise the following:

20,104,681 shares (12.82% of issued) held beneficially.

6,708,324 shares (4.28% of issued) held non-beneficially.




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