A Coast To Coast special. This continuous version is made from a two part edition that transmitted the day she came down to Dover in 1982. Reporter Linda Berry. Editor Sue Massey. Dubbing Mixer Dave Humphries.
What I admire about anyone is how they persevere Yes the royal family have tremendous help but they still have to show up whether they want to or not Imagine being helicoptered to Bradford on a cold rainy morning to open a renal unit when you're not feeling well Yet decade after decade day in day out they were there looking amazing and smiling and being interested Not as easy as it looks 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I watched this a long time ago. What a lovely person she was in every way. I don’t think watching The Crown did her justice but who could. She was a special ‘one off’ ❤
She was a dutiful Queen Consort, but the truth is she was a relict of her time. She was cold and very racist. Her racism was pretty well documented. Not surprised by it. She was born in 1900. Of course Charles loved his grandmother dearly. She was more of a mother to him than his own mother. He looked up to his grandmother.
Charming vintage documentary, on our lovely and much-missed Queen Mum. She had the most glorious final act to her long life, busier and more popular than ever as the dowager Queen. What a treat to see the late and also lamented Danny La Rue! I fear humanity has regressed since 1982, in many fundamental ways. Even the innocence of the children we see here is hard to find today. Thank you for sharing!
I think the Queen Mum was a good woman, wonderful mom and wife. She was set in her ways and spoiled. growing up in a different Era she could be close minded.❤
Yep- to £640.000 a year off the civil list (taxpayers) £19m left to grandchildren an estate worth £90m, plus more that her daughter liz tried to keep secret, yes a duty of dedication to greed and ripping off Britain, parasite 🦠
She,like Elizabeth and and Charles hide their heads in the sand when family decisions have/ had to be made. She was also a vengeful woman. But she was good for the king. Like most Windsor men he wanted a bossy, mother figure.
41 years ago when this was filmed I was 4yrs old. Little did I know that I would see her on the balcony with her two daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret on D Day 13 years later in 1995. I'm an 80s child and we were proud as can be to be British back then 🇬🇧 Now? I'm am just embarrassed at the shambles we are in, in 2023. Rule Britannia? What a joke
Imagine what the Queen Mother would say if she saw London full of foreigners and the British people only 30% of the London population I reckon she'd be very angry
She said it herself, "I am not as nice as people think I am." When one realizes that Prince Philip's mother was hiding Jews from their Nazi persecutors placing her own life in peril, while the Queen Mother was living in resentment, one does get something of the contrast between how these two women dealt with pain and adversity. Princess Alice transformed herself into an angel of mercy, while the Queen Mother remained trapped in deep bitterness at what life had dealt her. The Queen Mother never could get over the fact that she was thrust into her role because of her undutiful brother-in-law and his disreputable American wife. She was stuck in her resentment. And there she remained. She traded on her sweet smile. But it was fake and she was largely a phoney. "I am not as nice as people think I am." Her image was fabricated by the media and royal syncophants.
I have read that Elizabeth Bowes Lyon had set her cap for David, Prince of Wales. Bertie proposed twice and kept getting turned down, because Elizabeth thought she could snag David. Finally Queen Mary herself paid a visit and advised the young lady that Duchess of York was the best she could hope for and she would do well to accept Bertie the next time. She did. She blamed the stress of the monarchy for killing her husband prematurely, but it’s my impression that she very much relished being the Queen consort for 17 years, and if she was bitter, it was over having to relinquish the throne in favor of her 25-year-old daughter.
@@CanadianMonarchist Which part? That Elizabeth didn’t actually hope David would ask her instead? David was categorically not interested. Or that she turned Bertie down twice before finally accepting him the third time? Or that QM intervened on her second son’s behalf? That last part does seem a bit fantastical, as it does not seem like something QM would have condescended to do. The youngest daughter of a Scottish lord who was rumored to not be his legitimate child wasn’t deemed high station enough to be a bride for the Prince of Wales, not that he found her at all appealing, but his brother was besotted with her, and being rebuffed twice had made Bertie very depressed. He was shy and diffident, not glamorous like David, but Elizabeth was finally persuaded somehow that she could not expect a better offer of marriage than the second in line to the throne. Perhaps she came to this conclusion without any outside influence. I’ve read a number of biographies of Queen Mum and I couldn’t say which of these contain this anecdote, but Is expect friends of hers to deny it, as it does not depict her in the most favorable light. Romance is not the primary reason the nobility get married, but if she didn’t love her husband as much as he loved her in the beginning, she became the wife, and the Queen, that he needed. Losing him and the power and deference that went with being Queen while she was still a relatively young woman must have been hard, but I think she enjoyed the rest of her very long life. Bertie wrote to his speech coach Lionel Logue from his honeymoon, and confided, “I was very good.” Elizabeth had the gift for giving her shy husband confidence, so in that respect, she was the right partner for him.
She was a strong power behind the throne in a time when we really needed it. It’s possible for someone to be a kind charismatic person whilst also being confident and strong in their convictions.
@言行一致 True, must of been hard for her still struggling to fight and live on when her health was already deteriorating, when Margaret past it was the last straw for her.
Ich weiß nicht was ich von der Queen Mum halten soll. Für mich wollte sie zu sehr im Mittelpunkt stehen obwohl sie nach dem Tod ihres Mannes keine Queen mehr war....mag sein dass sie eine liebevolle Groß u Urgroßmutter war und eine große Stütze für ihren Mann aber 🤷♀️
@@sapphire7424 I will admit that was a crummy thing for her to do. She loved Charles very much, and I’m sure she saw Diana as a bad wife. Still, adultery is adultery.
It's ridiculous that she is perceived as a nice person. She genuinely wasn't. she was a crashing snob. I'm a royaiist and I think William and Catherine will do a fantastic job. But, I don't think the fallacy of her should be made truth because it's actually not true.I'll stop now.
The people loved her, she raised charles and anne when elizabeth and philip lived in Malta for no reason, Charles cherished her for loving him when his parents couldnt show theirs in public, she stopped Philip from sending Charles away to boarding school took of him herself all of the testimony about Queen mother being a loving person and caring people still like "sHe WaS a biTch" she wasn't get over it 😂
@@jeanbeget £643,000 a year from the civil list £19m put into trusts for grandchildren and an estimated estate of £70m, no inheritance tax on death! Tells me this mare was just another parasite.
@@CanadianMonarchist I disagree. I went to London and saw photos of her in her horse drawn carriage on her day of the wedding. She really was not a pretty woman to be honest
@@gmar7836 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I suppose because I think the Queen Mother was a wonderful human being I’m inclined to think of her as beautiful.
