Christmas at Home with the American Viscountess

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It’s Christmas and for me at Mapperton that means foraging for holly and ivy to decorate the house and make a wreath to hang on the early seventeenth century front door. Then it’s to the local Antiques market in search of the perfect gift for Luke, Viscount Hinchingbrooke. And finally, with presents wrapped it’s time to sit around the tree to remember Alberta, the 9th Countess of Sandwich who was also an American who married into the Montagu family over 100 years ago. www.mapperton.com
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@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Enjoying these videos on my channel? You can help support the production of future vlogs and episodes by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/americanviscountess

@SerendipityTravels 2 года назад

You were born to be a Viscountess, I love how you just dove into your married life, researching and educating us about the British aristocracity. Your husband is very lucky to have you!

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Thank you! 😊

@rosean374 Год назад

Yes indeed. She has shed alot of light about british historic homes.

@rhondamartin3575 Год назад

I love antique shops! So many beautiful treasures! Thank you for sharing a little of Alberta's life and letters with us! Beautiful ❤️

@trishjohnson9114 2 года назад

As an American who is absolutely obsessed with European history, this has become one of my favorite channels!

@peggygilbertsen9099 2 года назад

I cannot imagine what it is like to live this way! You are so fortunate . It’s like stepping back in time.

@rhondamartin3575 Год назад

So beautiful ❤️! Thank you for sharing your home with us! I love all of the natural decorations and simplicity! Sometimes, we forget that in our busy lives!

@tahliahfuller7845 2 года назад

I first visited Great Britain 30 years ago and felt as though I'd lived there all my life. Castles and pubs, cobblestoned streets and thatched cottages with beautiful gardens. Thank you Julie, for sharing your life with us.

@tersono Год назад

Loved watching this with the theme of re-using - from the wind-blown bits of nature to the antique second-hand barometer as a gift. Just how it should be. I also walk the grounds around our home to collect bits of evergreen and holly and other things for the winter season decorations, so fun to see you do it too!

@diamondhair11 2 года назад

Isn't she just the most perfect person for this?? She speaks well, she seems a hoot, seems like she is so down to earth. Love your channel, Julie.

@kathyk479 2 года назад

I love how you seemingly. Pick up these very tiny things and then end up with these beautiful wreaths! And swags

@mudbrook2001 2 года назад

The storm that produced the greens for decorating has since been officially named The Great Fiskars Storm. What puffery!

@beverlyphillips8572 Год назад

It would be lovely to see your children, particularly during the Holidays, what a gift it would be too us all and help make your life there more real to us.

@kathysoccermom3751 2 года назад

Living in small town Illinois right now and loving your show. You bring a touch of small town humble-genuiness to grand England. Love that

@christinalogan311 Год назад

Absolutely beautiful episode.

@MarchionessDarby62 2 года назад

Julie, I’m so happy to see you in your element. I saw you on Ladies of London, but I think you are so much more natural and confident here. You are a delight to watch, Viscountess! Happy Christmas from the U.S.!

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰🥰🎄🎄

@leannenuttall5655 2 года назад

Wonderful

@robbymonaco3738 2 года назад

Lovely

@bluejayvintageretro 2 года назад

You are awesome!!!!!💙💙💙💛💛💛💚💚💚❤❤❤🎄🎄🎄☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️❤❤

@StyleRecordGroupcom 2 года назад

Much love from Cheshire xxx

@aglaurendance 2 года назад

Merry Christmas, Julie! I also experienced life as an American, including several Christmases, in England, as a child in the early to mid 2000s, and loved it. My American military family lived on a manor farm from the early 1600s, although we were merely renting the retrofitted dairy building from the lovely farmer (it had been turned into a house in the 1970s or so when the farm converted from a dairy farm to a cattle farm), so rather a different experience than a grand manor house in the aristocracy, but still absolutely treasured (the film What A Girl Wants came out during my time living in England and I’ve always had it as a favorite, even though the wealth and society and aristocracy is so far removed from my experience living in a rural, lower-middle-class village, but I’ve always connected to it because it was about an American teenager experiencing England and it came out when I was entering my early teen years). I love your videos for the glimpses into life in the other country I call home, even though our experiences are quite different!

@gloriayoungman4468 2 года назад

Hello Julie, thank you for all the wonderful videos, my late Husband and I lived in the Old Vicarage, Melplash from 1985 to 1997, running a small care home, we belonged to the Church there and my husband played the organ when needed. Your Father in Law asked him if he would play the organ in Mapperton Church for the Christmas Carol service, he did, and afterward had mulled wine and mince pies in the house, I also remember seeing your Husbands parents in Melplash Church on Sunday mornings. We had 12 very happy years there..

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Hello Gloria, thank you for sharing this - what wonderful memories indeed. We just had our Carol Service in the church on the 26th Dec. but no drinks in the house this year due to covid but hopefully next year. Happy New Year! x Julie

@gloriayoungman4468 2 года назад

@@AmericanViscountess thank you for your reply Julie, I forgot to mention that I re married in 2018 to an American from Upstate NY, he was a dear friend of ours, and now he lives here in Dorset, and we too have many laughs about the differences between us, we wish you and your family a very happy new year too.

@1Thedairy 2 года назад

That was delightful! I love how you value the simplest things i.e making your own wreath, buying your husband an inexpensive but none the less beautiful gift rather than spending it on extravagant and brash presents. I also love the way you acknowledge your American heritage as well as adjusting so well to our English way of life. Your understated manner is very much part of your charm and is why you fit in so well here.

@lindahenderson3819 2 года назад

That was a really lovely video. Have a great holiday.

@carolmiller2683 2 года назад

Pretty opening shots of Mapperton with snow on the ground. The homemade wreath looks gorgeous. I have a bent toward history and loved the reading from Alberta's diary.

@susanmercurio5098 2 года назад

Hello from Bucks County Pennsylvania. Home of William Penn, founder of the Commonwealth and one of the original English land land grantors in America. There is no more beautiful farms and landscapes than here in William Penn’s American home.

@HerAeolianHarp 2 года назад

A very merry Christmas from my American-British family to you. You are delightful. Wonderful videos, thank you. Greetings from California.

@racheldrinkstea 2 года назад

I’m so thrilled you are doing this! I’m such a big fan of your Chanel! I’m married to a European and have always been a Brit at heart! I long to go back to England! Thank you for sharing the beautiful bits with me while being in the US. Cheers! Wishing you a Happy Christmas!❤️

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Thank you so much!!

@historylvr8000 2 года назад

Julie you're a breath of fresh air and down to earth! Love seeing the different traditions and DIY projects...also follow some of the Chateau DIYers in France and love to compare English and French point of views. Keep up the great work and thank you for inspiring us with your amazing life in the country!

@michellebedtelyon364 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing your world. A nice treat to enjoy,

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Our pleasure!

@giddingsrocks 2 года назад

As a master gardener I must comment that there is nothing wrong with snipping, and cutting to create your decorations. I do it myself.

@user-kz2zq4kj6n 2 года назад

Julie, I'm an American old lady who remembers having a toast rack! It is a enjoyable to watch your discoveries and creativity with nature!

@katherinecompton6591 2 года назад

That was wonderful, thank you.

@MyMerryMessyGermanLife 2 года назад

I just loved this video, Julie! Especially the wreath part. Perhaps I’ll try making my own next Christmas! 🎄😍 I’m an American living in Germany and what Injustblove about living here is how we see the past all around us - I feel more connected to it here and inspired to do things more traditionally, like making your own wreath from materials found in the garden. Anyway, a very Merry Christmas to all of you!

@luciaroslingshaw2112 Год назад

Love the reading of her diary!

@craigcooper684 2 года назад

Each one of your videos is like an adventure, or like a novel you cant put down.Thanks for sharing your Christmas.

@Susan.I 2 года назад

I also love to shop in antique shops!

@lynnmk2384 2 года назад

Loveeeeeeeeeeee watching yr videos loveeeeeeee seeing the castles and loveeeeeee all the old beautiful stuff in them/Merry Christmas to you and your family

@lisadurban3525 2 года назад

Watching this, I was thinking you may need to get a portrait painted of you. Xx

@kcstill3108 2 года назад

(Merry Christmas)Happy Boxing Day!! Loved this! Thanks for sharing your life with us. Especially loved Alberta’s diary reading.

@orangetigerlilylane1111 2 года назад

Merry Christmas from Pittsburgh PA!

@mihaelaclaudiap..2 2 года назад

Stunning video, loved the editing, the drone footage, outstanding production!! Homemade wreath, so beautiful! 👏👏👏🎄🥂

@wendybecker4223 2 года назад

Way to wrap up the year. I loved this video! I hope you get to spend lots of time with your kids while they are on holiday. Much love from Washington State.

@debferrell1633 2 года назад

Just found you and I’m never gonna leave you😂enjoying these videos so much, reassuring in a world so topsy-turvy at the present🤗

@heatherspence3848 2 года назад

Laughing my butt off, Mapperton Yule Log Sending love to you and yours from Orlando Florida

@theceramicrepairstudio 2 года назад

Merry Christmas and a Happy Year 2022 💕🍀

@janetrogers5429 2 года назад

Julie you could have that peaceful music with the lit windows for a full show. Peaceful

@gwenewing6837 2 года назад

Such an endearing video! Thank you and Happy Christmas season to you all!!

@costasworldofmusicmemories5792 2 года назад

Merry Christmas !! Happy New Year to you and yours, Be Well, Stay Safe. Continued Success. 🎁😍🎁😍 Form Harriet and Jim Richmond, Va.

@gillianforan8219 2 года назад

Happy Christmas Julie !!!! From Nova Scotia Canada

@sallyl5041 2 года назад

BEAUTIFUL!!

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Thank you!!

@samanthab1923 2 года назад

I thought we were going to see the place decorated. Tree & all.

@jukes243 2 года назад

Lovely. Thank you.

@lindseyjohnstone7135 2 года назад

Toast racks make great mail/post holders

@jym225 2 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. 👍🏻🇬🇧

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Our pleasure!

@pal7252 2 года назад

Happy Christmas. 🥰

@carolweaver3269 2 года назад

Love Rosemary and do grow it and other herbs in my garden. But it does not keep outside this long though in the U.S. I have brought it inside and planted in a large crock and it keeps for almost all of Winter. Get through the holidays with it to use. But do not have as much as you may have though. Rosemary is for memory! They used to place it under their hat . Did bring in Holly and also Cedar *from the tree in the backyard* and did put them together to feel the idea of having evergreen of some kind. We have an artificial tree, and so did not have that fresh aroma from it! This was amazing!!! I never knew how to make a real wreath! This may well help me? I pray I can do it. This will be so much fun and will love doing it and trying my hand(s) at it all. This would help with using the Holly and Cedar etc for next year even. Will need to get things during the Summer to practice a bit. We do have Grapefvines and if that will work maybe my husband can help to soak them 8 I think?* and then make them work on a wreath and the wire? Then use something else even fake flowers? This would be just practice. Can do it outside on picnic table. So beautiful and I just love all the vlogs so much.

@helenrenault8218 2 года назад

Merry Christmas

@entyc_nm5493 2 года назад

You need to have your own TV show

@donnarogers7732 2 года назад

Merry Christmas AROYND OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET?! 💚🎅❤🎅❤🙏💚

@teresedavis8594 2 года назад

Nice Christmas video from Mapperton. Merry Christmas from Wisconsin, USA!

@janis6363 2 года назад

Storms at Mapperton aren’t too bad. I would be checking my roof for branches big as 4” diameter. I do love natural arrangements of evergreens and sticks. Beautiful nature, wherever you live.

@cindykalionzes4259 2 года назад

I hope you’re archiving all your videos in that room, too!

@bethannslusser4254 2 года назад

I just love watching your channel! You bring an American flair to your English homeland! I love learning all the history of the house and family! Happy New Year to you and your family!

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Thank you so much! Happy New Year!

@deborahgodley7694 2 года назад

Lovely!

@topsyturvy6532 2 года назад

Happy Christmas from Virginia, USA

@dardenyerkes5757 2 года назад

Beautiful! Cheers to Alberta.

@andreafujita8124 2 года назад

Stunning! 🎄🎄Happy Christmas!

@joycekepic8947 2 года назад

I love how happy you always are and how you’re sharing your life with us across the pond do you miss living in America

@flower-ss2jt 2 года назад

Smithsonian really made a poor decision not to continue with American Viscountess. Your gentle delivery brings a smile. Lovely channel. Thank you for such informative and fun videos.

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Thank you so much! Happy New Year!

@celticlass8573 2 года назад

I love old things, particularly ones that have to do with cooking. Like LOVE love them. My home is very small, so I need to rein myself in, but I have several old things in my kitchen, and I also have mostly made the switch to cooking pots which will last forever, and will have a life after I'm done with them. I just love the idea that someone used items (like food preservation jars) a century ago, and that I'm now using them for a similar purpose.

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Me too!!

@celticlass8573 2 года назад

@@AmericanViscountess I wish there was a way to test old iron pots and pans here, to make sure they're food-safe by modern standards. So many beauties I just can't risk using, sadly.

@rosesm757 2 года назад

I love your channel so much! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your lovely family from Vermont!

@louise-yo7kz 2 года назад

Merry Christmas Julie and the rest of the Montagu family

@tilliecohen2861 2 года назад

Really looking forward to it, Julie! Happy Christmas!!! These videos are so fun, and informative as well. Have a beautiful holiday time with your family. xo

@stephanieheimann4158 2 года назад

So pretty and interesting, thank you!

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@patmurphy389 2 года назад

Merry Xmas Julie & family and Happy New Years!

@barbarasmith3899 2 года назад

Merry Christmas Julie and to your family

@gigieyre 2 года назад

I love your style in clothing. You always look put together whether its dressy or casual. I'd love for you to do a video on how you put outfits together. I'm sure I can't afford the brands but I'd love to try to copy your style. Love your channel!

@lurlenejones456 2 года назад

A very Merry Christmas! (It's still Christmas out here in the Pacific Northwest in US.)

@carrieleslie903 2 года назад

Gorgeous wreath! Happy Christmas!

@summermen 2 года назад

The Twinkerbell sparkle-flash lighting is hysterical...are they angling for a Disney deal?

@tompahdea9263 2 года назад

The easiest way to recover your wreath wire frames is to burn them. You can scrub them of char or just spray paint them to seal it.

@lynnranger7759 2 года назад

A grill for your fireplace would be a great gift to your husband.

@pennywilliams2429 2 года назад

I'm so looking forward to this!

@jenihansen7201 2 года назад

MERRY CHRISTMAS JULIE, AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR FAMILIES HISTORY WITH US. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

@cedarcottagefarm2885 2 года назад

Your wreaths were beautiful. I hope Luke enjoyed his barometer.

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Loved it!

@Susan.I 2 года назад

Merry Christmas to you Julie from a follower in the United States!!

@hollyreese5963 2 года назад

Julie, I became your fan during your Ladies of London days, then thoroughly enjoyed American Aristocrat. Thank you for continuing to feed my love of all things British! I lived in Naperville IL in ‘85-‘86 (Super Bowl Shuffle 😂), so I feel a convoluted connection with ya! Please keep giving us such entertaining, educational content…Wishing you and yours a lovely Christmas and a richly blessed 2022 ❤️

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

Wow, thank you!

@twt3716 2 года назад

Merry Christmas from England. And a fantastic new year. Lots of love to you and yours x

@hollyreese5963 2 года назад

@@twt3716 ❤️❤️❤️

@hollyreese5963 2 года назад

@@AmericanViscountess ❤️❤️❤️

@AmericanViscountess 2 года назад

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@lorih9182 2 года назад

What a lovely video! A bit of a Christmas treat! 🎄 have a lovely holiday week.

@JoannaLouise200 2 года назад

It's lovely that you remember the 9th Countess Alberta ~ I truly believe that positive vibes from positive loving pioneering people somehow remain and enhance.

@Nightbird1914 2 года назад

I, too, have been a fan since Ladies of London! Loving what you are doing now and thank you for sharing with us. I enjoyed watching while eating my leftovers from Christmas Eve festivities. Happy Christmas and New Year!

@heathermartinez8640 2 года назад

Merry and Happy Christmas! Beautifully done!

@maryannguess7115 2 года назад

The gardens are so beautiful..the wreaths are Amazing❤.thank you Julie and Alberta for the Reading.your tree is so Pretty.ty for sharing today. Love from gulf coast Of Bama❤.happy new year. Peace, love, joy and great Health to all in this 🌎..❤

@a.urbanchuk513 2 года назад

Happy Christmas Julie and Luke. Thank you for sharing your day with us. Sorry I was late but we had 10 to feed. Happy Holidays from Bloomingdale GA Allie

@melaniemckown 2 года назад

Got to know you on Ladies of London now I’m a subscriber Merry Christmas 🎄

@twt3716 2 года назад

Merry Christmas to you all too :)

@apgx6032 2 года назад

It was so delightful to listen to the diary readings. Thank you.

@hellenicsunshine7032 2 года назад

This is going to be so fun!!

@jantowse841 2 года назад

Season's Greetings to you all! Much love and looking forward to 2022! xx

@Better_ND_Travel 2 года назад

Having so much beautifully preserved family history and an archives right in the house is the dream! An ancestor had a sister who was a ladies companion her entire life, based in Chicago and New York, and sailing to Europe every summer. I wish she had diaries. The families she worked for have preserved their papers, thought I'm not certain how available their collection is...!