The Infamous Countess Of Castiglione 

I think so yes

maybe back then...

No.

Well, I’d like to know what films you chose to “illustrate” this video.

Yes she was

I don't blame her one bit.

Perhaps witholding pain relief during childbirth might stop these unmarried women who breed like rabbits and then buy their lettuce with taxpayers' money.

Disco fanny.

​@@nigelsmith2457 Snail brain

Forceps are regularly used to help women birth their child. It wasn't the forceps but the doctor using them obviously fucked up.

True, the scandal would have been her silhouette. It's a clever trick, every male eye would have been on her. 😄

Amazing how beauty standards change. She was not beautiful at all by today's standards.

Right you are.

@@ariadneschild8460 Well - every _hetero_ male eye, anyway! 😉

@@dollcefina gay men would have looked too just bc the silhouette was unusual imo.

He's on the Meidas Touch Network here on youtube, I think he does one MTN podcast per week. His name is Francis Maxwell, from Scotland now living in the US. He's narrated a few of these factinate videos :)

And nevermind the higher up Male adults who Sent her ,as a Teen, into such notoriety by and to Very Adult males. What other choices did she have??!! She was born, raised, and trained for nothing else.

​@@samanthaspringman5527 She Was No Victim! She Literally Ran Over Her Husband. Spare Me The PATHETIC Excuse For Her Behavior.

@@rebeccalee1065Are you always so angry about people who have been dead over a century? What a ridiculous over reaction.

@@samanthaspringman5527The woman is ALWAYS the victim in people like yours eyes. Grow up.

@@rebeccalee1065 Literally? 🤔 She didn't *murder* him. You meant 'figuratively', surely? Also, don't forget that she was only 17, when her parents *forced* her to marry a much older man she wasn't even interested in or attracted to. Don't hate the player, hate the game! But I do feel that her narcissistic, femme-hating behaviour was pretty awful.

I always wondered why she said that when there was Twiggy.

Suzy Parker was the first super model.

The first super ego was more like it!

I like your comment…. Of course there was no one in the prior history of the world that had an ego or thought they were the most attractive person ever 🤣@@g.ecoleman5910

@@Sunweaver593 Actually it was her sister Dorian...

What also set her a part was that she was married.

She’s a true artist.

Which is why syfilis laid waste to so much of the nobility.

And.....married.

She did not have syphilis. Did you even watch the video?

Schizo eye look

Slightly wall eyed...

The tell tale sign of a easy root.

To be fair that's kind of an effect of how photography was at the time. Photos required quite a long exposure and it's really hard to maintain any kind of particularly lively expression while being utterly still for twenty or thirty seconds. That's why most people in old photos aren't smiling, a neutral expression can be maintained without twitching or moving much easier than a smile.

You missed the part where people said after a few minutes of her company they found her boring. Perhaps as a narcissist she might have talked only about herself. And these were men who said this as apparently, also in the video, she never bothered to talk to other women.

She had was surrounded by rumours and intrigue and no doubt made sure that "mystique" made it's rounds to have men clamour around her. Once in her presence, then the actual boredom of talking to her became apparent. History tells, as mentioned in the video, that her father ignored her and even today we see this same attention seeking behaviour in women whose fathers ignored them.

she was and she passed it down to, my mother is a narcissist just like her. and i got her eyes and look a lot like her. i have a photo of her and her other kids

@@OSR-go5cg Sorry but to whom were you referring to who passed it down?

Also no mention of other Kids ! Are you or how are you a related she didn’t have brothers or sister poss only cousins !

You have no idea who either of them are inside! You've been given the most basic sketch of their personalities, which we don't even know is accurate. People are so quick to judge.

True. We just get that down turned mouth which is not appealing. A horizontal or upturned mouth would be more pleasing.

@@changeintheair9648 you have to use facial muscles to upturn your mouth so that presents more likelihood for moving.

Cameras were very slow so you had to freeze your eye movement & no blinking! No sneezing, yawning or sighing. You could fart if you could keep perfectly still & not jerk.

Many had bad teeth. 🤓

@@solaura6218 😜 too funny!

Wow! Thank you so much for your support 🥹

Did you watch the whole video? She may have achieved what the guy who pimped her out wanted her to, but it didn't work out so well for her in the end. No one is born to a life like hers - or they shouldn't be, anyways.

She was not pretty. Maybe her clorhes were pretty.

And yet, who cares, really? Why is the way women look of such perpetual interest to us?

@@kumaranvij what are you, 12?

@@user-tx7wu3rn4v l honestly don’t believe you can tell from a photograph what people look like. Because of modern technology many people look stunning in a photograph but not so good in real life. Back in those days they didn’t have the flicks and tricks that made people look fabulous in photos. Many people who were beautiful in real life just didn’t photograph as well as they looked.

@@kumaranvij well it was relevant in this particular case because her beauty was used for political reasons and because she would not have left behind a series of historically interesting photos if she had not been a renowned beauty but generally speaking you are right. Women should not of interest just for their looks but beauty is like wealth and intelligence, it can help sometimes. Her looks made this lady who she was but it didn’t do her any good later on

Nothing about her expression's is scary back then aristocrats did not smile in photo's. Although she was definitely a bit narssistic.

I think she looks tired and angry in all her photos as well. She must have looked prettier when she smiled.

More like a solid 3-4 in my book.

​@@peterkoller3761Nobody cares about your book.

@@sunnie734fact

It's not like she had a choice. She was born into nobility-raised and trained to it. Married to it as a Teen. Then sent on a mission for it Still as a Teen.

She Definitely Would've Used Filters How Poorly She Aged.

She is literrally the first model and possible a pioner of poses😂😂😂

​@@rebeccalee1065Would you have the same opinion if she had been a male?

​@@jessicagudino8461She managed to leave a photographic legacy.

Facts❤

By the 1860's, exposures were much shorter than the Daguerreotype Age.

I was wondering why then never smiled.

@@cybervigilante They didn't smile because it wasn't a thing in the 1800s.

Plasticized, actually.

All the actresses all look the same today. Too much surgery, botox, fillers, etc. They look freaky, not lovely.

Let’s not forget that ‘decent’ or ‘proper’ ladies of the time did not wear make up, that was mostly reserved for prostitutes. The countess would have looked very different had she had access to the props that we enjoy today.

@@annemurphy9339 yes, and I doubt seriously "homogenized"; just viewed a horse show in Peru and all th ewomen with the Columbian BUTT Lift. the you have BLACK get jiggy with it bodies, then you have.......

VANITY At Its Worst!

Being ‘ knocked up’ means being pregnant’ double meaning if you really want someone to wake you up by knocking on your door!

I had forgotten it meant that. I remember when I was young, many moons ago, older people saying 'knock me up in the morning'. Thanks for the reminder 😊

@@susancalne7774 'Knocked up' only means pregnant in America. In Anglo-English it means to wake someone up in the morning.

Knocked up in UK, was the term having someone paid to tap at your bedroom window, with a long stick with a knob on the end. (Usually bedroom windows were above the public rooms floor). So they would wake you, to be ready for work or appointments. So you would pay to be knocked up. This was in the days when there were few clocks on public buildings, only the wealthy had watches, no radio, of course. So people earned a living walking the streets knocking at windows at required times. There were also families that earned a living, having bought a watch, setting it every morning to the correct time, and you would pay them to tell you the time, when you saw them in the street..

@@georgielancaster1356 That may have been the case in some areas. However, given that the houses were also owned by the mill and pit owners where the residents worked, it was the owners who paid for the knocker-upper.

Yes, it's great to hear a human voice, with human cadence and phrasing, rather than those bloody AI-generated narrations.

If they had money and status

😂 You have a way with words!

By today’s standards, all fake and vulgar , I’d say she was a raving beauty.

😂 I just spat out my coffee

@@Nellis202 yall just say any old thing ..wasn't she considered vulgar at her time? She was literally an old timey kim kardashian thottie.I said what I said, there were many Victorian beauties, she wasn't one of them🤷‍♀️

If you had been whored out by everyone who was supposed to love and protect you from the time you were a child, you'd be a little cold hearted too.

Meanwhile Napoleon

Yes

Only the nephew of the main one. Seemingly a decent ruler by all contemporary accounts.

People always appear rather stoic in the old visual media. The pose had to be held for an extended amount of time, maintaining a neutral facial expression was much easier.

Careful dear you're sounding awfully narcissistic much like the Countess...

​@@ticketyboo2456That is what I was thinking.😎

@@ticketyboo2456, what’s remotely narcissistic about that statement?! They are describing how their eyes appear to change colour, according to what people have told them. They also take on a different appearance when they’re angry. How, exactly are you reading narcissism into that? Lots of people have eyes that appear to change colour - I know several - and the commentator is simply saying that

I had a friend whose eyes were grey I think. When he wore green they were green. When he wore blue they were blue. When he wore grey they were grey.

My daughters eyes are like that sometimes they look blue sometimes they look green

Im seeing more Snapchat :⁷P!

That's your total take on this story? Congrats!

I guess that's technically true... but she did direct each photo to exacting details. I find her artistic mind quite remarkable, even if it was an extension of her extreme narcissim, lol!

Like trotters😊

7:23 ... they haven't changed that much..

@@Ebbagull You are right. Beauty standards still dictated by the media and social pressure.

The noted 'hourglass figure' has always been attractive to men.

Glad you enjoyed it

Maybe if they gave her more names, she'd have been richer. Call her what by what name you want, she'd probably like to have been paid under every name possible.🙂

Like Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Simpkiller Harlotte Unchaste Honeypot Carlotta Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoini Rapallini?

😂

@@seanb.6793 you forgot her title; Drama Queen

Yeah, I was thinking - that doesn't look like a camera! Thanks for explaining what that actually was, lol.

Aw shucks! Thanks Katherine :)!

Yeah, she probably picked that up from Old Nappy. History says that, ummm, gesture started in the Napoleonic Wars. Supposedly, bowmen (archers) needed their middle finger to draw their bowstrings raut to fire an arrow, so their enemies would chop off that digit. To show their disdain to opposing forces, they showed them that their middle fingers were intact! Who'd have thought?!

Single finger is much much older than that (I had a quick Google). As in ancient. It refers to the male genitalia apparently. The 2 finger salute is slightly newer (still much older than napoleon). And it is linked potentially to the bow string thing (think about it, it 'is' more typical to use both fingers). That has also been questioned due to a Shakespeare quote that has the potential removal of fingers referring to the first 3 fingers, but I would argue that 'that’s might not be typical so it probably does come from around this period. Apparently Tho this may have been the victory sign rather than the ruder version which came into more consistent use at the start of the 1900s. When cocking a snook was more common. TLDR. It’s pretty old school (Ancient Greek/Roman) for either 'you are the male genitalia' or 'go and copulate with oneself'.

Sad thing is, I thing a lot of the exact people who should be seeing her as a warning would probably be totally misinterpreting the story.

That warning must have been spoken a billion times and almost as often ignored. 🙅‍♀ Just look at the vanity s**tshow that is the modern super rich/movie star/influencer/pop star-sphere. These people are almost all ridiculous.

How Is VANITY A Plus?

How do you know she would consider that she had been successful in her life's work? It seems to me there is so much judgmental and negative criticism of her here, she probably wouldn't like it very much at all. But then, we don't really know what she would think.

The are a pale blue. I grew up before color photos, so I know how to interpret them.

I bet you are blonde.

My eyes change like that too also according to what I’m wearing or the outdoor light. I’ve been told they also are Violet at times. And I’m a Redhead!

Same here only it is related to what I am wearing.

@@rosebudame I know what you mean. My eyes change colour often from plaid to polka dots. I tell you it is the darndest thing.

@@plicketyplunk 😂🤣😂

*La Vengeance

It’s a film of the same name la contessa de castiglioni (or thereabouts) from the 40’s

@@Lomie32Thank you for replying so quickly! With best wishes from Oxford.

It was the law. Any children born to a wife automatically belonged to her husband, whether it was his child-or not.

The husband was always the legal father.😮

Even today

Thanks so much!

Welcome aboard!

Spoiled golden child

Her actions and appearance scream Narcissistic Psychopath.

Have to agree with you. Chilling.

😂😂😂😂

I think pictures of her feet were more for shock value. They were forbidden so they were erotic.

Her feet were quite ugly and I thought mine were hideous 😅 It made me feel better about my ugly feet.

That was no Ladies foot, but a Man's foot.. Read my comment..

Still looks like a dude.

Men don’t notice feet.

I never thought of that but you're right.