Despite his career in the navy and his outdoor life, George VI was never robust. A stammering neurotic, he drank too much and smoked 60/day and in the last photos of him in February 1952 when he was 56y old, he looked haggard and 15y older. The four adult sons of George V were all in their different ways complete messes. Aristocratic upbringing always was, and to an extent still is, brutal
@@splinterbyrd Poor all of them. It's a far reach to assume they would've lived long b/c first they'd had to have a loving father who didn't call them "stammering fools" and predicting that would "ruin themselves within a year" of being king. George V manhandled them, so they were all nutty--Bertie stammered and chain-smoked, David smoked a lot too, stuttered a little, had tics, was manorexic and, you know the rest. George was a drug addict and bisexual. But if they had and didn't smoke, I think Bertie would've lived to 70s--maybe early 80--Edward ironically lived the longest despite dying of lung cancer from smoking at 77. Their sister had a heart attack at 65 and George died in a crash. I don't think George VI would've lived to be 96, like QE2. Probably 80 at best.
The best anecdote in this video was a brief conversation held by the king with a victim of the blitz, when he told him their home had been bombed as well. He replied, "Oh really? which one?".
@@ashmarie1881 Yeah, I edited it to be more accurately attributed towards the king of twats after his fair correction. Regardless of that however, they all were and still are massively entitled turds who deserve nothing but contempt! 😺
At the time of her funeral people were interviewed ordinary people in Windsor,everyone spoke highly of her some old ladies used have tea with her I found her s very nice interesting person
buenavistadream ............ In those days people who'd social-climbed-their--way-into-the-Royal-Family didn't want to be reminded of where they'd come from but at least she was honest by saying..... ." I'm not as nice as people think I am!".... .hmmmmmm just like someone we all know now?
Just goes to show that putting people on pedestals just because they're famous, celebrities, royal or wealthy is a ridiculous gullible thing to do. In the end, they're no better than ordinary people.
Ordinary people get put on pedestals too. You are an idiot if you think otherwise. People follow other people. That is how society works. That is literally the only way a society can work.
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 Of course, 'normal people' can be put on pedestals too, I agree 100% but, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. I also think that the notion that it's the only way that society can work isn't entirely accurate. And just as a side note; I would never feel the need to call another commenter an idiot. But hey, you do you.
Diana’s Grandmother disliked her and she was the Queen Mother’s close friend, and remember Diana’s mother was called the bolter, and brought shame on her family… crazy by the standards of today. When you say smart are you talking about her clothing, as she wasn’t very bright
She did her best, based on her upbringing. Have you noticed how it was always the ladies who were denigrated in the gossip rags, whether they were elegant or dowdy, political or aloof, visible or reclusive.
@@lizroberts1569 Oh, she was intelligent ! She was quite able to carve her nitch and lead a remarkable life I'm spite of how I'll treated she was by them ! Would you say you were intelligent enough to do what she did ?! I don't think so. You are not even canny because your comment says that much about you !
@@gilgameshofuruk4060 Dont assume its an hour full of great things... sometime it’ll be your ruin, and you’ll be grateful it felled you in your older years instead of in your youth.
For a woman who purported to hate Edward VIII for forcing the throne upon her husband (George VI), she sure seemed exceptionally happy with the trappings of being "queen", in addition to being the power behind the throne not only of her husband's reign ask king, but her daughter's (Elizabeth II) reign as queen.
no she wasn't when Elizabeth became Queen and she wasn't with George she helped him in public he did not cope with all the stress and she blamed Edward for that
I think her unbending persona created a lot of heartache. Highly critical. Stuck in old fashion way no longer relevant to their time. She never adapted. “When people shows you who the are, believe them the first time”. Maya Angelou. She was not nice. She says it herself.
"When you look at photographs of her as a young girl, I mean, she looks absolutely ravishing". I'm not sure you should be using that word to describe a young girl...
I saw a pic of her in her 20s and she looks very pretty, I don't think he knew the documentary would show a picture of her as a literal child, they kinda did him dirty 💀💀
I don't think he meant as a child, but as a young girl of around 20. The person doing the editing is the weirdo for picking that particular photo of her as a child.
She was not a "Lady". She was the child of an unmarried stable hand and was allowed to play with the young son of the count ! She was from really low background - it does not go any lower !
It's not a tittle, it's more sort as a rank. As a legitimazed daughter of a British peer (the earl of Strathmore), she recieved or styled the rank of "lady" by birth. The same way we can see with princess Diana; as she was born as "Lady Diana Frances Spencer" daughter of the earl of Spencer. And later when she married prince Charles she was styled as; "her royal highness Diana the princess of Wales."
I wish that everyone who does not agree with something write it off as propaganda without proof. It is very popular these days to say it is propaganda, fake news or alternative facts just because you don’t agree . Probably without even knowing why you don’t agree or based on the wrong information.
There was one or two pretty photos of her as a little girl. But that’s all. She was more than average as a young woman and rapidly transformed into a middle-aged matron. The fact that she, as a very old lady, felt jealous of charismatic Young and beautiful Diana speaks volumes about her. Hitler and Diana agreed on one thing about the “sweet” old lady: she is the most dangerous woman they’ had ever seen.
She was the reason why David and Wallis were never allowed to return to Britain for fear they would outshine her shy and reserved husband. Edward missed Fort Belvedere forever but she stood between his return. He never expected this level of rejection. We can see this in the treatment of Prince Harry.
Diana was never beautiful. I preferred the Queen more. She was beautiful because her face showed her strength of the character and unlike Diana, the queen didnt to be filmed all the time and give interviews 24/7 to be as charismatic as she was
@@nekotuan7 The comment I replied to was about the queen mother, not Queen Elizabeth. I made it about queen Elizabeth because I prefer a strong beautiful woman like her above a weak needy cIingey woman like Diana. Elizabeth was better looking and I dont care what you think
@@GodisMyNo1 princess Diana,being a commoner, outshined all the royals alone with ease 🤩 it put these average looking royals in insecurity ( watch the clips about Margaret). You talking about who? That queen mother with below average looks? Bruhj Princess Diana would always look superior standing beside her
I worked with civil servants who maintained the royal residences. It was known as the Ministry of Works. One used to write the building standards for the whole of the UK. He said he went to Clarence House to assess building works to be completed there. He said his encounter with the Queen Mother was described as ‘a woman who smiled but held a steely eye stare that was quite frightening’. I fully appreciated how Diana must have felt.
@@aprilevangelineeriksson9174 Diana would have known ALL about "Not being human," when it came to her mad behavior behind the camera lenses, and her simpering victim playing--until she and Dodi Al-Fayed became actual victims of their own bad decisions!
Diana entered that marriage as a virginal naive sacrificial lamb for homosexual Charles. She eventually flourished. Meanwhile, ACTRESS and twice divorced Meghan Markle crumbled in less than 1 year. Because being a princess is sooooo "hard". Bawahahahaha
I don't remember him but watched footage and read a lot about him. He does seem to have been a genuinely nice caring man. There was something very likeable about him. I think he suffered by being king. But I truly believe SHE was a simple power/gold digger.
@@josephwinder6878 She turned down his first two proposals because she didn't want to be in the public eye. And at that point, she had no idea that he would one day be king.
I met her at Westminster Abbey as an 18 year old member of the Royal Air Force. She was opening the Chapel of the Royal Air Force within it. I was bursting with excitement inside at meeting our Nation's Gradmother. However she looked at me with such an evil withering glare which I had never encountered before or since. I literally crumpled inside. Absolutely vile woman in my humble opinion.
@@real-eyes-realise-real-lie8888take it, it didn't smile at you then? Think yourself lucky on that one. 😅😅. Heard it was a vile old bag, no time for royalty, and defo no time or respect for that monster.
Can one imagine what it was like to have had to live in the same house as ones mother in law, with her mother , it must have been bloody awful for Diana ! .
the Queen Mother didn't live in with her in laws, she and Bertie lived at 145 Piccadilly and Diana didn't live the Queen she and Charles had an apartment in Kensington Palace which she carried on living in after the divorce
I've met 2 separate people who worked for the Royals in the mid 80's and 90's and both maintained that the Queen Mother had total disdain for most people of all stripes. She apparently was despicable to the staff and quite scathing of the Commoners - complained about their cheap flower bouquets and gifts. They said that she just put on a great act for the world's press.. When l was in Europe l also met people who crewed yachts etc - Princess Margaret was of grim character too, - airs of overt superiority except when she got drunk....and was just an overt out right rude lush.
Yes, good thing they were Royals so they could all find each other ‘drop dead gorgeous’ and ‘absolutely ravishing’ because it’s darn sure nobody else would.
My mother was born 1926 like Elizabeth, she couldn't stand her, Queen Mary but she did say the following..."Elizabeth took after her dad, Margaret took after the mother, George was a nice man, what he ever seen in her I'll never know kid,.." my mother wasn't even a royalist but she always acknowledged Elizabeth "the minute she had that lump of metal put on her head she felt the weight of history on her shoulders kid, she did her best bless her" I'll go with what my mum said on this, 🙄
My great grandmother, who was the same age as the Queen Mother, could stand her. She always said she was really hated by much of the public in those days - she used to call her "that old tart". She was apparently a notorious gold digger.
AGREE WITH YOU FOR THE MOST PART. JUST REMEMBER THOUGH, YOU SAID THIS WORLD. CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ONE, ETERNAL LIFE WITH JESUS CHRIST, IF WE ACCEPT AND LIVE FOR HIM IN THIS LIFE.
Melissa Reiman she sounded like your typical Victorian lady with this “her name shall not be heard” attitude. I’m not surprised since she was born in 1900 during that era.
Diana was really someone who didn't know what she was getting into; I suppose I have some sympathy for her for that but essentially a trivial neurotic young woman, which will make me vr unpopular with Elton John but who cares.
The Queen Mother was the one who started the Media & Press fascination with Royals. She invited them to make a film of their home life with the princesses. As a result Princess Margaret then became the It girl of her day. Before that, the Royals got at most a paragraph in the papers & no media coverage. She was £5million in debt to Coutts bank when she died due to a heavy horseracing betting habit & her regular, lavish Edwardian style 8 course dinner parties. And when her husband died she annoyed the Queen by insisting on still retaining a huge staff & living beyond her means.
Aristocratic commoners are families who were made peers of the Crown because of some great deed performed for the Monarch. These aristocrats, like the Spencers and the Washingtons, were wealthy but not of royal blood. You could be landed gentry and yet be cash-poor.
... if you've ever watched The Crown- she's not portrayed in a "good light" nor was she "well received".... but dame- she executed her job perfectly in front of the public!
Elizabeth was queen when so many young people were sent to Australia, supposedly for safety during WW2. They were abused in every way. After the war, many of them didn't get to go home, back to England. Probably bc they would have told their poor parents how they were abused. Elizabeth was responsible for that. EVIL B****!
I believe that. She treated Prince Philip like crap because she considered him to be minor royalty, not good enough to marry into her family. After her husband died, she refused to leave Buckingham Palace so that her daughter and the Prince could start their lives as the next generation. She was jealous of her daughter coming into her own and sought to diminish her stature because she just did not want to give up the limelight and power that should have been her daughter’s. She meddled in the couple’s affairs in such a way as to put great pressure on her daughter and drive a wedge between them.
Prince Phillip came from a family of kiddie diddlers. Look up Uncle Dickie. If my girl had married into a family like that you better belief I'd stick around too.
She and I share a common ancestor. I never was fond of her. I do believe she was an alcoholic who hid it well. She blamed Walls for her husband’s death when it was his unhealthy habits that brought about his demise. Diana was not perfect, neither was she the problem, it was royal duty. Anne is my favorite royal.
It's worth noting that the Duke & Dutchess of Windsors relationship although thought of as a love story was actually an abusive relationship, archives & the Dukes own words refer to that fact. Very sad.
True, but dismissing Diana from any blame in her marriage is ignorant. She was a great actress and natural manipulator in her relationships, which isn't a secret.
The Queen mother was a snob who looked down on commoners, and I agree, she was rather nasty. Her daughter QE2 is tough herself but actually has a heart for the people.
Plz give examples of her "heart for the people" Do you mean when the coal landslide killed an entire schoolhouse of children by burying them alive and the Queen was asked to go, but refused until made to for appearances? Or the time she denied her sister to marry a divorced man and sent her sister on a life if turmoil? Maybe you mean when the Queen had to be forced to make a public appearance concerning Dianas death?
@@reneesantiago6496 let me guess. THE CROWN on the anti-monarchy NETFLIX channel??? I don't agree with all the Queen's decisions, but she is 95 years old and came from an era where constitutional rules and protocol were HANDED DOWN TO HER by the men in grey suits. I can give many examples of great deeds and approx 3 incidents where she made poor decisions - actually make that 4 if I include Meghan Markle. We all know the French and Spanish hate our monarchy, but the problem is that hatred and judgemental attitudes is the root of all evil on our planet. Have a great day or life, and "God bless our very gracious Queen Elizabeth" 🥰💜🇬🇧 Edit: in case you don't know, The Crown on Netflix is FICTIONAL 🙈
@@reneesantiago6496 The queen has been given a pass for some reason. She has appeared to be a cold, unfeeling woman who had nothing to do w her first two children. She left them both for others to care for…when she took her tours AND when she & Phillip were living a “normal” life of a naval officer in Malta. Charles & Anne we’re not with them during their parent’s years on the Mediterranean. There they lived their “normal” life in a luxurious palace w Lord Mountbatten. The Queen Mother was born of a French cook in her dad’s employment at their English home. Her younger brother had the same mother. Queen Mother lied about her place of birth on many occasions. There’s a plaque in London stating her birth, although she had said she had been born in St Paul. She had little to be snobby about, but she was extremely racist & a huge hypocrite, looking down her nose at those who weren’t royal. She wore the pants in her marriage & her daughters didn’t fall far from the tree.
@@lisagreenhalgh7031 You must read Lady Colin Campbell’s autobiography on the Queen Mother! Quite an eye opener…and Campbell hasn’t been sued for all she has revealed.
I sometimes think the kindest thing one could do for the British royal family is to end the monarchy. They have enough private wealth that they're not going to starve if they're taken off the public teat, and the younger members would be far happier if they could live and love without being forced into a narrow-minded stultifying role. It'll be interesting to see how long "the Firm" survives Queen Elizabeth II's death.
Umm so theyre gonna enjoy the riches without carrying out obligations and public duty???Umm pretty sure thats what all the young royals want. And the British public are NOT gonna allow that because they know that the royals live on taxpayers’ mercy and because their own ancestors’ lands were brutally seized centuries before But if the monarchy is to be abolished and they want to be private citizens, but all the assets and lands confiscated, then maybe its possible. Aint gonna happen tho. The monarchy is English people’s identity as much as freedom of speech is for Americans
@@malopephasha5341How will Britain became like the US? The royal family don’t have much influence on daily life at all and without the British royal family the UK has other cultural icons they just monopolise the media so people forget that
Not to mention Diana was an incredibly stupid women. Don’t give me she loved her children, she threw herself down the stairs when pregnant for attention.
It was interesting and very telling when the narrator said at the end, that the Royals thought (if she'd lived), she would have been a major problem for them. Convenient that she died.
@@ladyshasha4117 she admitted herself that she three herself down the stairs apparantly done it from childhood according to her sisters Dianna wanted her own way. Why should every other royal be criticised but Dianna be treated as an sng when she definitely wasnt
"She knew that Diana was going to be monsteres embarrassment" 46:47 She was not. But she was planning to uncover what kind of embarrassment the Royal family was.
not as embarrassing as having a man employed to brush your teeth or place your 50 teddy bears in the correct order & cover up s*,x scandals though???? maybe jimmy could fix it for them??
The pool of potential suitors for a young aristocratic woman, at that time, would have been restricted by her class (who were, more or less, all related in some way) or from enormous wealth. Not many of those around. So, within that pool, or stagnant pond, he was half decent.
I was gonna say there’s an air about him I kinda see it, after the two first photos… but then I saw the rest, and… well, maybe he was charming? One thing photos can’t tell you much about is a person’s personality, especially in those old timey ones.
It's the elitest poison ivy cabal costal elites or rich big lie. They are delusional and try to convince the masses into believing they are all prettier, more handsome, wiser, more intelligent, more deserving, more entitled, more confident, and more capable because of their wealth or superficial Oxford Cambridge etc educations ..They privately insecurely disdain a meritocracy and honesty and integrity and hard work and actual earned scholarship, because they count on conning the masses to ignore their pompous, evil, yes evil, sleazy ,lazy , smarmy, pretentious, often wreckless, superficial, shallow, money grubbing, power hungry , favors exchanging, cheating and selfish and self serving elitism, by underservedly and dishonestly awarding themselves positions of power, tenure, promotions, awards and money that out of their filthy corruption, they achieve by cheating those who truly merit those things . It has gotten your the point both there and especially the USA, this elitest class will do whatever it takes to win at all costs . When the rare non elitest beats out the undeserving incompetent elitest often smug but clueless ivy morons it is often despite and often in spite of the ivy propaganda machines best efforts to destroy or prevent them from receiving the crefit the elite victory deserves! In short , the elitist wins the prize thinking they hit a home run by being born on third base while the non elite rare Victor had to be exceptional in whatever field to win on merit over this American de facto poison ivy coastal elite monstrous cabal.
I think the queen blossomed once her mother passed, as well as her sister. I think the queen mum liked to think herself "the boss" of the firm and all had to kowtow to her wishes ..... including Margaret ... who should have "left home" when she got a divorce and not lived with her mother. Sad really the decisions we make for ourselves ... not always so clever.
U might b surprised to hear Princess Margaret asked to be cremated on her death and placed between her parents. Shows the tightness of their bond, even after death.
QE2 does look more sparkling after her mother died. Like I noticed how frumpy her Mom was and looking at photos it seemed E was going the same way but now, she looks like a cute old lady with these sparkling eyes. Her mother looked like she gave up.
The Queen Mother gave her husband a lot of support he needed it she did not think herself as the boss and of course she found it hard to leave Buckingham Palace it was the last home she had with her husband but she always knew it was her daughter who was The Monarch and didn't act like the boss, in fact she went away to scotland for several months to deal with he grief and Margaret left home when she got married and lived in what is now william's apartment and lived there till she died
I am "enjoying" the never-before-come-to-light information, if that term can be used, as I'm discovering more and more about the sheer superficiality, cunning and distasteful snobbery running through the veins of the Royals.
@@nannerlchanel5045 : Actually, I don't think I will delve deeper, I think I've had a bellyful already. Royalty is a man-made institution (nothing divine about it!) and the Royals are no better than the rest of us.
I’m sorry she lost her brothers to war it’s never right that people die this way but no way rich families like this were “touched as hard as any in the land!”
I think you need to look at the proportion of upper class men killed vs lower class men. Officers were typically upper class, and were specifically targeted by the Germans.
She was born the only girl in a family of boys and was spoiled absolutely rotten by her Parents. That is just for starters. This does not take into account the power she accrued by manipulation.
Wealth can help but is never a comfort for the loss of someone you love. So yes the loss of human life you lose is a hardship. So sad that WW1 was a war that never should be fought.
I always saw a false niceness...they all hate anyone less than them...they forget our hard earned money keeps them in a lifestyle we can only dream of....shocking really.
She was a raving social climber and very reluctantly she took Bertie... she considered him the runt of the litter after failing to get David... He made it plain he didn't want her. So overcoming her near revulsion of Bertie she relented and accepted his 20th propasal of marriage...... Only way she thought of getting into the Royal family...... She was even then thought to be a common little Scotch girl.
Standards of beauty have changed radically over the last century. Photos don't necessarily reveal attractiveness either. And excessive make-up wasn't really a thing back then. Older people like myself are often nonplussed at about what gets called beauty nowadays. When I was younger older people then had exactly the same reaction to the famed beauties of the time. I think the social perception of what is ideal personal beauty has shifted regularly and rapidly since the mid-century but there was, obviously, change before too. The media influence on our perception of beauty should not be underrated. The influence is huge.
I always thought it was sad, what the queen mum did to David and Wallis, but then what she did to Margaret and Peter Townsend was cruel. She was not happy about her son in law Philip but couldn't spoil that and then never learning, her own grand son. Charles wanted Camilla in his twenties but she had Charles sent away and turned her bitterness on Mountbatten I always thought she was a bitter wounded nasty women. Even the way she quietly bullied (nurtured ????) her own husband was not really healthy This is the first doc I've ever seen that seems to support what I have thought for years. Was it all because she didn't get the love her life.
From what is said about Mountbatten, she was probably right to dislike him pushing his way into their family, most especially a relationship with her young grandson, Charles.
@@valeriebehrendt9380 Lord Mountbatten wasn't trying to push his way in ...he was uncle to Prince Philip, who was a Prince of Greece and Denmark. George V changed the family name to Windsor from SaxeCoburgGothe as the feeling toward Germany was turning in the lead up to WW1. Queen Mary was Princess Mary of Teck....German again! and Phillip's aunt. ElizabethII and Phillip are 2nd cousins so it's not like he was one of the footmen, he was of a similar station, a Prince of 2 countries, which he was made to renounce before he could marry her.
Diana didn't spill the beans, everyone knew. The difference was that it was the 80s/90s and not the early 1900s anymore! The old ways didn't work. Diana wasn't the embarrassment to the public, the royals were.
This is all an act. These ppl are about power and privilege. She is all about the continuity of the Monarchy encouraging the union of her grandson to a teenager 12 years his junior to produce a heir while enabling his relationship with the married woman who is a 🐴 lover. In time that home wrecker may be Queen of UK what a tragedy from Mistress to Queen consort.
@@pdshekkle Diana was NOT a teenager but a woman of 20 Diana's family, especially her father and grandmother encouraged the marriage of Diana to a rich and powerful man.
I think that she really enjoyed being Queen. When her daughter became Queen I think she didn't want to give up the fame or the glory. I read somewhere that she didn't leave Buckingham Palace easily either. Prince Philip had to put his foot down.
@@KingJackson11355 It was never about how much space Buckingham Palace contained. I think it was because she kept interfering in things. Apparently, initially, the Queens parents weren't that keen on their daughter marrying him, or that's one story. It's difficult to really know the truth as rumours abound all the time about the RF. Anyhow, the story goes that she didn't want to give up the kudos she had as a Queen and the power she wielded in in the Palace. Prince Philip wanted to make changes in the way the Palace was run and the outmoded traditions it continued to follow but the Queen Mother wasn't too keen about these changes.. I think he realised that she had to go or he would never be the head of the household.
No, some total dumbasses thought the same way you do. You're completely ignorant, and like most ignorant people, you think you know everything about everyone, even if you've never been within a hundred miles of them.
The truth is the man she really loved didn't want to marry her, and by the time she accepted Bertie after an embarrassing number of rejections, other proposals and opportunities had dropped off. She was in danger of becoming an old maid. So at last she gave in......
@@sozbdulrhmanli3300 no she did end up becoming in love with him. At first she didn’t want to marry him and had mixed feelings. However after she married him she learned to love him and was very devastated when he passed. In the end she hated Wallis Simpson and Edward because she felt like being king killed her husband early
@@samadams2575 Not by the standards of that time. If a female hit her mid 20s without being married, she was "on the shelf". Successful debutantes at that time were married by 18 or 19 or were potentially deemed to be failures.
My great uncle was the train engineer who drove the train that took King George and Queen Elizabeth across Canada. He talked about her wonderful smile, her kindness to everyone she met, and her great love for her husband.
And He deduced all this from driving a train, was She on the footplate with Him then, seems He must have been helluva close to Her to be able to come to His conclusions.
Her...wonderful smile? You mean the crooked, almost black teeth? One of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world has literally the some of worst teeth I have ever seen. How does your dental hygiene degenerate like that when you are born into wealth and nobility?
I was never a fan of the Queen Mum. I saw a very spoiled little wealthy child. A spoiled teen, debutant. A girl with numerous potential suitors, but she was holding out for senior royalty. She was ‘thrown’ at the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, who showed little interest in her. She was NOT his type. So…….let’s see what happens with Bertie. She knew he liked her….a lot, but she played hard to get, hoping to make Edward jealous. That failed, so she wed Bertie. Her eyebrows and teeth didn’t help her looks at all. In later years she was demanding, acting like she was still Queen Consort, accrued enormous bills, didn’t know the meaning of being less extravagant. I know many Brits adored her, my family included. My grandmother idolized her. She was on the mall to see the Coronation. People in those days only knew what they were permitted to know…..what was revealed. It wasn’t until decades later, books were written giving accounts of what she was like behind palace walls. All I can say is “poor Phillip”, the man was a saint.
You dont even know what philip was like behind closed doors either. No saint would ever say they would like to come back as a deadly virus to solve overpopulation. I cant stand dumb hypocrites
The Windsor’s wearing paper crowns is “without a doubt the single most shaming moment in the history of the Royal Family in the 20th century”.... this man seriously needs to reevaluate his priorities.
@@dreiss Not sure if she took dogs as "lovers", but certainly a lot of men. Her husband, the King, was a saint that fell in his youth for that imposter. She spoiled the royal lineage with her bad blood. She was the offspring of a female stable hand with an unknown male as a father. Probably a passing-by tramp the stable-hand got involved with. Thus, the maternal grandmother of the present Queen was the most lowly of the low and this line passed into the present members of the royal family. What can you say - "Princess" Marthe of Norway has shacked up with a black "Shamam".She also is the offspring of a prince and his commoner wife. Oh well..... they all should be chased to were the pepper grows and work for their upkeep instead of sucking the taxpayers dry!
A Duke got his head cut off and stuck on London bridge with a paper crown, as a sign of being a pretender to the crown. I cannot BELIEVE Edward did that. What an idiot.
QM's resolve to not leave London prompted my grandmother in Stoke-on-Trent to write to Winston Churchill requesting a Webley side arm "in case the blighters make it to my door I can take one or two with me." He wrote her back praising her pluck but couldn't issue a military weapon to a civilian.
@@jag5470 Although my father was born in Stoke-On-Trent, I am a Canadian and I don't know what a 'stokie' is but from what I've heard of the woman I wouldn't be on the wrong side of her for a gold clock!
Whereabouts in Stoke was she from? I’m from cheadle in staffs on the outskirts and work at the Uni on College road. I love your grandmother… There’s nothing like a feisty poterb to put things right!!👏🏽👏🏽💯💯✨💫
With her plain round homely face, she looked more like the cook to a upper middle class home. To call her “ravishing” is a great exaggeration...........
Freedom as an adult to think, act and speak as one pleases, regardless the consequences is a human right. I can see why she would hesitate to marry into a situation where she will be controlled and owned. My own workplace recently decided to give me 3 times in one month hourly lectures of how I should speak, think, and act for my own growth. The reality was they were telling me what color I could say my own skin was, rewrote my national origin to a different island, and erased my identity. That is quite some power that some feel they have a right to over another person and their body! I wish for all people to be free.
Bertie, when young, was surprisingly handsome for a blood royal. Great cheekbones, as has been observed. Many of the most attractive royals have been married-ins (Philip, Diana, Catherine), Bertie/George VI was an exception.
I've said this long ago. The Queen Mother was a very clever and even cunning woman. And she had this mean streak in her. Her objection resulted in Wallis never getting a HRH - even though she was not a threat to the Royal Family, not even in death in 1986 despite a royal burial at Frogmore. Wallis for all her faults remained true to Edward and donated her estate to the Pasteur Institute.
brianclough ...true to Edward? Complete with documented affairs? Not my idea of faithfulness. My own theory is that David used Wallis as an excuse to escape the despised role of king. I don’t believe for one minute that,with his history of womanizing, this was a great love story. He was a spoiled, self- focused playboy who had no interest in decades and decades of tedious royal duties.Wallis provided a covered escape from that sentence.
Exactly, she and Diana's relatives need to shoulder a lot of the blame for pushing for this marriage, knowing full well that neither party was suited to each other.
@@jackiehamilton2738 Princess Diana was only used to produce a heir and a spare. After she'd done her duty, they no longer needed her. Then it was time to get rid of her, just so Charles could marry his mistress. R.I.P. Diana.❤🙏🙏🙏xx
Diana was a star from the beginning. As soon as those videos of her were taken when she was dating Charles it was obvious she was very special. Her innocence and kindness shone through. The Queen Mother chose well after all.
I've never thought a person in her position had any business being a nice person. She is by definition, a figurehead of the state and must, by law be impartial. She can't be nice to any particular group without offending another. Thus she has no choice but to be perceived as a "cold fish". If she does have personal opinions we will never hear about them, and that is how it should be.
Exactly my thoughts. She was a high society "posh" woman, but she never disrespected her subjects, she taught Elizabeth her kingdom always came first, and the UK owes to her many of the personal sacrifices the royal family has done, for better or for worse
@@sallylunn8324 You cannot be always nice to everybody -- I think we both agree on that -- but thanks for pointing out her position. In a constitutional monarchy, the monarch and his/her family have representative duties, the way they treat their fellow family members, their "subjects" and talk about people and issues falls back on their country. "Queen Mum" made nasty remarks about Mohandas Gandhi (who was a POS in his own way, but that's a different story), the naked man to whom they lost "their" beautiful India. My jaw dropped when she said that, she reminded me of all those old Nazis I got to know as a child, men (and sometimes women) who were so wrapped up in nostalgia that they refused to acknowledge that the Hitler regime was evil.
@@KingJackson11355 no but it shows she cared little about her expenditure or how she would pay her bills. No she acted with total indifference and lived extremely large whilst never generating a cent. Questionable ethics.
Never ever thought she was nice always seemed as if she was lost and didn’t know where she was. Always had a bewildered look on her face.......strange woman
Cathryn Williams yep seems about right you do realize thatbit was the am who ordered diana princess of Wales in the paris tunnel? Diana said it herself the qm really hates me if shes in a room and i come in she walk out of it !! I seriously believe th qm had every reason to have diana killed....when princess diana surpassed the qm in popularity that basically signed her death warrent
While the public at the time knew Buck House had been bombed, it was not disclosed that the King and Queen were nearly killed. The king believed it was a deliberate attempt by a German cousin who was a pilot in the Luftwaffe. Nothing much has changed for the Royal Family since the Wars of the Roses.
They didn't leave like hundreds of brave Londoners who also stayed and after a night of being bombarded from the air they went on to doing jobs like putting out fires and digging bodies out of buildings. Those average people were truly the heros of the day.
i remember, not long after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother died, that Our beloved Queen blossomed and became the most popular monarch perhaps the world has ever seen. god rest her soul Elizabeth II!
She was not batty; she had a hearing problem but, had a kind soul and strength in character. Instead of treating her hearing problems, she was put in an asylum. Still, she kept her wits and risked her life to help save some Jews.
The trouble is their position and the responsibilities they carry. I come from a very conservative family , aristocratic background. You are raised with such discipline, it's almost insane. It's as if anything out of the line is horribly wrong.
I guess Harry has a point I never liked this ‘human’ I prefer my Siamese boy Prince Harry make your mind up to agree he’s only 1 yr old an vely vely loving 🥰
@@prudencel1652apparently George V and Mary were cold and distant, hence the attraction he and Edward had towards steely women who didn’t really share their affections.
Several times I tried to list "Rich Bitch" or "Manipulative Bitch" under her on TvTropes and someone always removes it. They also removed "Upper Class Twit", things that all describe her behavior.
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were born by Caesarean section - during that time a woman was only medically allowed to have 2 C-sections. That is why there were no further children. Her first C-section was almost certainly done because of physical problems during childbirth, and the second was done as routine after a previous C-section. Please note that there were no reliable and safe anaesthetic agents at that time, so surgery was only done if absolutely indicated.
She was a cute kid, but definitely didn’t age well. Her brown teeth are pretty disgusting...I suppose that came from a lifetime of tea drinking, or just bad hygiene.
Very pretty as a child and young woman. Went early though, didn't it. Same for Margaret, who was an absolute knockout (surprisingly for a royal 😬) whose looks stuck around a little longer.
I didn’t know her so I can make no comment but she had a beautiful smile and even as an old lady she was pretty, having said that nobody’s all bad she must of had her good points!
@@jackiehammond705 Yes, I can understand reluctance to repair teeth because of pain or the cost. But people with money can eliminate these problems, yet still insist on ignoring the issue. I've never heard an explanation for this weird attitude!
Well she certainly put a good face on for the public. But you have to think about her position. Everything has to be perfect and I think she intended it to be
aha,,perfect image, even if tht involves locking up 2 nieces in mental insitutions..... speeding up the previous queens death with drugs and getting rid of embrassasing people , like Diana ...so true ...Narcissists make sure to keep the perfect : IMAGE
A planned bombing of an empty wing, orchestrated so the royal family could “could look the east end in the eye” evoking the sentiment that the royals and the “common folk” are the same
I've read many books on "polite society" and aristocratic circles and how they look down their nose at "common" people. Being rich and titled has never guaranteed a person's moral character. A person is not very civilized or well bred if they intentionally hurt people who are not like them, yet we all know that. There are good and bad people of all genders, ages, and background.
But the whole family, all the way down to King George I were actually 100% German, so their German connections were stronger than Prince Philip's. Elizabeth, being Scottish, brought the first non-German genes to the British royal family in two centuries.
@@zanmei7261 I wasn’t assigning blame. I was merely stating facts. It is the nationals of a country who insist their ruling families have a certain amount of genes that match theirs.
Princess Margaret indeed was gorgeous. It’s interesting how elegant and conservative she always dressed, yet, she had this very sensual stare and face.
I remember my ex-boyfriend telling me that his uncle thought I was a commoner and I laughed because I never consider myself high society. However, just to point something interesting I would not "burb" in front of guests at dinner which he did. I was surprised but ignored his table manners? At least I never burb or behave improperly at a dinner with guests.
@@belleepoque2979 wrong a commoner is someone who is not an aristocrat. Also, the aristocracy think the people below them are bottom feeders. So stop defending people who think of you as a useless eater.
