 Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, who came from a prominent British political family, was a merchant banker and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s.Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist who is of Spanish and Jewish background, and whose own parents were diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón from Spain and painter Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer.Bonham Carter's paternal grandmother was politician and feminist Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the first half of the First World War.