The Aristocracy - Born to Rule: 1875-1914 1st part 

Thanks for posting this BBC series, for a third world citizen like me living in Venezuela, to learn about the history of english aristocracy is very amazing, specially the ways the noble class learned that it was better to bend than to break...

Very sweet people. The Duke is so cute when the children are cheering.

This Duke of Devonshire is some super duke, who can live as he pleases with more freedom than the Sax-Coburg-Gotha's. I'd rather be duke than king in this case.

Great documentary. Thanks for posting this.

Couldn't understand a word that came out of the Dukes mouth.

Enjoyed this series... watch every few years

I absolutely love this!

Thank you, the idea of super rich or people whom wealth is equivalent to country wealth are exactly the same as aristocrats who were ruling european lands. Billionaires today play the same role financially while they kept their names hidden behind the scene, that always imbalance domestic economy and then lead to a great loss. Also there is no way to stop such immoral act except through internal force, and it must be very strong or external force which is worse case because the country become an easy target or pie for foreign people

The BBC,seems to have lost the BBC English,which was broadcast throughout the world via the World Service,so everyone could understand,nowadays anything seems to be accepted,often I have to switch the sound off.

Back when kids were grateful and didn’t expect iPhone 📱 14

It's as "real" as any other accent. I think the previous commenter meant that it is "prestige" English.

Some are born to rule, some are born to follow.

This is amazing why is the BBC keeping this hidden

Thank you, it is very interesting because we never dream about such luxuriance but we do have great concern about protecting our wealth from bad ideas or weird and unaccepted thoughts and practice. And we do have affected last 25 years by similar act while solving such problem won't take more than few months could be five months

Same narrator for The Planets series?

These two look like an adorable couple.

*Awakening* ... and then they gained a forced empathy for the rest of the Collective, all persons, particularly the Taxpayers, those whom are the bread and butter of the 1% and all Business and Corporate Owners. We are all human and true Class is achieved within, in applying the Higher Mind, in achieving Wisdom. Material accumulation is merely that, Lloyd of stuff, Value is actually within and shared between people. Its a far greater experience of class, wealth, of living, that is found in people experiences and relationships of every nature. You'll never miss a dollar the your heart, like you miss another Soul Incarnate, aka a Person.

nice vid... I just used it as background noise. such British, much accent. wow.

Excuse me but RP is NOT "real" english. It was born in the early days of radio and telephone as a clear and easy communications-accent. As most of the people involved in The BBC were university educated, the accent leaned in the "Oxbridge" direction.

Really funny,laughed like a drain.

where did the lords go when they explained the rankings?

Could anybody else understand the guy at 3:40? Was that English...?

There are twenty-six families who rule the world. Most you would never know their names. The rest of us work for them directly or indirectly and never know. Whether the country calls themselves capitalist, socialist or communist is irrelevant. They are still in charge and have been for a very long time.

Gone with the wind.

Hi, is there a English version of this video? I can't understand a word they are saying.

when adam dug and eve span, who was then a gentleman?

looking, looking some more, where is this great expense. paper plates. some cake and whatever. old fashion puppets. yeah, he went all out. chile...

One would like to believe we all have an equal chance at life.

bwaahaahhaha!! i read that out loud and lol'd...

Now not only most of aristocracy is a spent force, but Britain itself will soon follow.

Interesting look into another world. I can still wear my "Eat the Rich" shirt proudly and enjoy things like this and Downton Abbey, I think. People are complex.

They served the children on paper plates??

Let me check my MytrueancestryDNA data chart to see if this family is listed?

Actually the most vicious critique of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie comes from within, the rest of the population is wage-enslaved as you should know, so nobody has time to add two plus two.

lady clinton...

they should never have owned so much fuckin land in the first place

theyre speaking in Received Pronunciation (RP), the real English!

3:49 i understand absolutely nothing

We need subtitles for some of these guys...unintelligible!

Is the narrator right about the precedence? Apart from the Royal Dukes, I think the Duke of Norfolk ranks the highest. Unless he meant about the ages of then existing non-royal dukes.

The Italian Aristocracy does not have the exact rules as the English/U.K. Aristocracy, there are some differences. Yes, I do have paternal relatives in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England who are part of U.K. Aristocracy. I am from, by YDNA, the Italian Gerardi nobility family of Venice and Naples kingdoms. These DNA connections were done during the Catholic majority era.

but who said they were born to rule, most of what they have now was at some point stolen from those who farmed their plots in order to feed their families and supply their villages.

then read a dictionary and you may be able to understand

What happened to the world i should have gotten? I did nothing but should have everything ? Why do you put up with this thinking ?

Most comments here are both nasty and pitiful. Thank goodness there are still laws to keep the mob in check.

darwin + cromwell = equality

Turn on the subtitles FUNNY VERY FUNNY

Why do British aristocrats talk in a mumbling fashion?

Sauwl’s’b’rreh...

don't use that word!

A rather superficial introduction to British aristocracy, which was based on land grants from the King, which were heritable, along with the title. The initial grant was given to those who performed some meritorious service to the King, but the abilities of those who inherited the title varied considerably. The title of the video, "Born to Rule," overlooks an important correlative qualification; knowing the elder son who in time become a Lord, they were also educated to rule. Forced to wait until the preceding Lord died to become a member of the House of Lords, the aristocracy was typically late middleage or older, which made the House of Lord politically conservative and guardians of tradition in mores and law. Modern self-made billionaires are not equivalent to British aristocrats in education, a sense of duty to the country, or political orientation. Indeed, nouveau riche billionaires may be intellectually inferior to many ordinary people and more liberal. Nearly all of them owe their billions to having been in the right place at the right time with the right technical skills; they possessed of enough intelligence to use capital profitably, they are rarely learned men. For example, few modern billionaires have any real familiarity with classic literature, the history of western civilization, or the basic principles of American republican democracy -- which is why so many of them make fools of themselves in speaking of politics and social issues.

Of course the great empire-builder of the period is Cecil Rhodes, who went out to Africa and had his own country named after him, about five-times the size of Britain. That's what you want, not this bickering lot who sells weekend-tickets to tourists to pay the bills.

He talks as if he has a turd in his mouth. Time to come into the 21st century and be rid of the royal family

What is he saying? The aristocracy is a “spent force?” He repeated it twice and I still couldn’t understand the man. Too much mumbling and stuttering and hemming and hawing, plus a very garbled accent makes the duke, however charming, almost un-understandable.

As well as america and all European countries

Reminds me of hillary, m.obama, and kamala....

Aristocracy "Born to Wine"

Billionaires in america and in europe are great sign about the end of western leadership to the world economy, and it is a great chance to other nations to take the lead examples include the turkish half a mellinuem ,the arab about a mellinuem, the persian about couple of centuries. We won't destroy such farms but rather we will better evaluate england outcomes and currency

bunch of korrupt

The Duke of Devonshire needs a translator- yikes ! The aristocracy was always irrelevant !

This is disgusting! Yes, quoting the video, "it has come to the end of it's useful life." Let's end the cruelty and discrimination. Watch The Alex Jones show - especially the September 30, 2013 show. Why couldn't the duke and duchess provide for these children anonymously? Why do the children need to "hip hip horay" them. Power, Power, Power - I'm not impressed.