The Secrets Of Spencer House | A Stately Home In Central London 

that must have been awesome.....lucky you!!

Fantastic, I didn't know she was in the trade. Inspiration woman.

@@meme4one your reply makes no sense

I remember the publicity surrounding Diana’s visit. Must have been odd to think it was once her family home, on the other hand she lived in a palace herself!

Princess Dianna and her brother of corse. Was distance cousin of P rince William.. Duchess.Kate.is as well I wonder.if the late Princess Dianna's brother lives at Spencer House.,? Is he then .the Earl? I am from the U.S. and there are certain areas of the lives of the royals that we are not familiar. This is certainly quite a magnificent estate. Mixed with mythic thought. But makes it more interesting. Just so gorgeous. Thank you.

Just as well.

@ed murks ya mum

Dudley house

​@@annonymously331 The Dudleys are extinct thanks to the Earl of Leicester

@@ghsense2626 it's kinda funny how you said it. 😂

Agreed!

It’s barely noticeable in person.

Agree, with every outdoor shot my eye was drawn to that ill fitting block next to such a stately design, the architects responsible could've been more sympathetic.

Modernist architecture is a cancer to the city tasteless and vile! I suspect in 30 years we’ll view it the same as we now view the concrete council flats of the 60s

It's definitely incongruous.

I'm sure you can't.

Plus-- Althorpe in Northamptonshire... Been to both .... this was the Spencer City Home. Been to both .... Stunning

Lots of dust

Too many Americans DO NOT appreciate heritage. They prefer to destroy our past. To believe in your foundation, one must be informed, with a sense of class. Our country has become enthralled with vulgarity, & foul language. The European influences gone.

i wouldn't brag

She's absolutely engaging. Great video.

I agree!

Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.

Agreed...add humour as well. She got be with the downstairs tunnel that led to the garden...whistling going with the wheel barrow...lol

…what he said.

I don't understand the presenter's attitude. If everything the aristocrats said, did, and thought was stupid and ridiculous then why are we touring this house and why is it the subject of this TV program? A more respectful treatment is needed. Whoever wrote this is conflicted to the point of absurdity.

@@fareshajjar1208She tries to be playful. One of the reasons to build the house, was to play. The political satire statue and the ballroom illustrate these things.

@@dragonmartijn She's not playful in the least. She is afraid of being seen as elitist and so she actually becomes a low rent snob. "This whole thing is stupid and excessive, but it's here so lets look at it." Would have been enjoyable tour with a decent presenter.

@@fareshajjar1208 Probably you are right. English isn’t my mother tongue, probably it is yours, that way you are able to hear things better in context.

Not in the least.

My understanding is that if you are not royal you are a commoner. She obviously has aristocratic background

SPENCERS are more british royal dna than the german windsors

In English law a commoner is anyone without a Royal title or a peerage. Although Diana was the daughter of an earl and held the courtesy title of Lady she was legally a commoner

If you are not born Royal then you are a commoner, Diana was a commoner, so was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

I did a tour of Spencer House on a holiday to the UK in 2018. Well worth it. I also managed to do a tour of Althorp a week or so later. Also well worth a visit.

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Royal family has nothing to do with it. Its a Spencer family house.

@@rogerfielding1117 I know?

It’s the other way round, Spencer family can be traced back to Tudors, whilst ‘Windsors’, formerly Battenbergs have to look to Europe to trace their ancestry.

@@jeanmyers1787 Oh fie, fie, George 1 was direct cousin of Queen Anne who died childless, they shared Stuart lineage from Mary Queen of Scots, cousin of Elizabeth 1 (Tudor) and thru her with Welsh Princes going back to Owen Glendwyr to 12 Century when the Spencers were a sheep farming family

Later : I see why. The place was "restored" by Lord Rothschild. He has the taste, and the money. The Spencers ? Not so much.

oh my darling i totally thought the same

And goodness knows how many people can peer down into the Spencer House garden completely robbing the privacy it was meant to create.

Same as I.

Most of the aristocratic houses were demolished after the First World War. No one really lived - or even wanted to live - like that any longer. They had been built in residential areas in a different age and the sales value of the land was too tempting while the costs of retaining the country stately home too overwhelming.

I agree. Everton new looks prefabricated. No workmanship at all.

The original house on that site, dating from around 1690, was destroyed during the blitz and was replaced in 1959 by this block of flats, designed by Denys Lasdun and Partners.

@@sirshendu2e01 oh I see. Thank you for clearing that up for me!

26 St James's Place (the modern block of flats) is itself, apparently, now Grade II* listed.

Or bulldozed 😂

Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.

commoner word has shifted. back then if you aren't of royal blood you are a commoner, this is usually comment upon if they married a monarch, they would say he married a commoner

By law she was

@@pedanticradiator1491isn’t she an aristocrat since her father was an Earl?

@Amal M not in law. In law only people who hold Royal titles or peerages are actually aristocrats. Her title of "Lady" was by courtesy

​@@AmeliaEarharrtan aristocrat is less than a Royal

Much of it was. And copies were patterned after what was removed for the restoration. My old pile was constructed in the 1800's and there is a very good reason it has stood up to be in near perfect condition and never messed with. Trim was nailed in place with 4 inch long, heavy duty nails. And lots of them!!! While not impossible to take the trim off for some work, it was so slow, so expensive to do this work, and it caused damage to the plaster walls and ceilings that I came up with other methods of doing the work. I am not Lord Rothschild: I haven't billions to indulge my whims. But in some initial attempts to do the work proper, some things ended up getting damaged. So it was a conundrum as to how to do things properly and then finding tradesmen who could then do what they said they could do! NOT EASY! THE neighbor across the street had a new capital installed on top of a pillar near his front door that had eroded from rain water. He found someone who showed up one day and recarved the new block of limestone with a dentist's high speed drill. Is that going too far? Is that possible for everyone? And how do you find workers like that and who are available to work anytime soon? I found an Irish plasterer to do the major ceilings on the 1st floor. Until------ he told me he had a 3 year, or more wait----- IF he didn't retire before then! But his work was top notch! I ended up having the room ceilings replastered over canvas. There were limits as to time, money and how far I wanted to take things. I only wanted things to how it was, not to make it more grand! Except for the ceiling plaster ornamentation. What was originally put in was a bit skimpy and I wanted a slightly more lux look, but not go way over board with it. At any rate, once you remove things, once you deconstruct a house it doesn't always go back together so seamlessly! It can be a real can of worms once you start.

Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.

Mine too....look up Pit Lane.....

The Spencers were glorified sheep farmers. "Glorified" by female members of the family being Royal Mistresses of Charles II and giving birth to his bastards. Diana was descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham. Queen Camilla shares this same lineage, for those who love to put Diana on a pedestal, while looking down their noses at Queen Camilla.

Victorian Gothic.

I assume you mean the nice end and not the squalor of the east end slums

It seems that this west side must have been hard hit; the house in which the Queen was born was also leveled during the war.

Sure, your mothers second cousins friend was the sister of their postman, wasnt she?

Money talks

The Spencers rent it out to the Rothschilds

She wouldn't be able to afford it's upkeep

Anyone that knows anything about the Spencer’s know that they were anything but “poor”. What a common thing to say.

Lady Diana Spencer was 10x more aristocratic, more blue blooded, than all of those inept Germans playing the rotating roles of king and queen! It was Charles who married up, not Lady Diana---- just to be crystal clear! And it is the youngest son who inherited nothing of her polish and pizzazz, most likely due to 900 years of inbreeding: it weakens the DNA, eventually! Look who he married and has been paying for it ever since!

Explain then why the press showed her as a humble pre-school teacher and why she wasn't ready for the pressures of the job. There is a missing piece for us non royal followeres

@@tomrichter244 Diana was seen as very shy and very kind. So 'Shy Di' became her nickname! And she worked as a nanny for a London family, hardly a job for someone wanting to be center stage, or who was already hard boiled! But being the shy daughter of an aristocrat is hardly comparable to knowing all about the juggernaut that is the royal family. So there is nothing missing. She was a sheltered 19 year old when she married and became a very, very hounded but sophisticated woman a few years later!

Didn't want any of the challenges that went with the job? You mean an adulterous husband who didn't know what being in love is?

Perhaps she meant TMI? Meaning Too Much Information.

The "working class" would benefit far more if currently people with wealth and power had the ambition and confidence to build such monuments. Did you not hear that a lot of the restoration has taken place recently? Hundreds of hours of skilled craftsmanship, likely paying good wages have been lavished on this house. Imagine if that was replicated more throughout society than people buying cheap, disposable tat from China? Of course it's unfair that some people have so much. But what's the alternative? I live in the countryside and am surrounded by large, wealthy estates. They employ people, more to the point they employ people in a myriad of different professions, from gardening to estate management to stoneworking to art restoration to decorating ect. So tear it all down, build a council estate and a factory and remove all the variety of work that people enjoy, remove all the skills, remove all the crafts remove all the choices? After all, who's going to need anything that costs a fuck ton of money to produce. And what happens to the people, all the people, when we run out of history to exploit in the future? What are we building now?

@@excession3076 you miss my original point, the Spencer family started out as sheep farmers so to from sheep farmer to nobility has to be because of someone’s hard work, and that usually, during that time period, meant the working class, who were either payed very little or for a roof over their heads and a meagre diet, a bit like working zero hours contracts today for companies that rake in millions of pounds profit every year, corporations that pay a living wage are still few and far between, I am not suggesting that we adopt a communist style way of running things, just close the gap between those that reap the highest rewards and those that make it possible for them to reap the rewards. Please don’t preach to me about the countryside, I was brought up in the countryside and my parents and grandparents, at various times, were employed by the local landowners and nobility, so far from wanting it ripped down for a council estate to be built you have me all wrong, the more our traditional ways are kept alive the better, the country has already lost enough countryside and traditional methods of living, but, they, along with the whole United Kingdom deserve a living wage, or is that to much to ask????, have you actually noticed that the cost of living is going through the roof? have you heard about any major pay rises that come anywhere near meeting the cost of surviving let alone living? have you seen the huge profits that companies are making and the grotesque amounts that the fat cats are being rewarded with because of their productivity bonuses? and who earned them those bonuses?. Sorry, you just don’t see the issues that started centuries ago and those same issues are as relevant today as they were back then. As for public funding, that should be targeted at those in need, not those who want Henley Regatta or the Royal Opera House to be funded so the hoy-poloy can strut their stuff, no it needs to go towards the THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST.

In this particular case, a member of the very wealthy, billionaire, centuries old banking family, the Rothschild has a 99 years lease (with option for 24 more) on the Spencer House. The Rothschilds paid for the renovations which, fixtures by law, cannot be removed when the property is returned to the Spencer family after lease termination. A much improved property will be returned. I do not believe any public funds is involved here. I am glad this house is saved and is used for important and elegant affairs. I am far from rich and would certainly RSVP " Yes" to an invitation here!

@@allandavis8201 thanks. You put it in a more educational way. Don't forget that these families have the power ways and means to make up laws to protect themselves and there estates while keeping the masses subdued.

​@allandavis8201TThe Spencers were glorified sheep farmers. "Glorified" by female members of the family being Royal Mistresses of Charles II and giving birth to his bastards. Diana was descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham. Queen Camilla shares this same lineage, for those who love to put Diana on a pedestal, while looking down their noses at Queen Camilla.