The Windsor Castle: 40 Sovereigns, 25 Ghosts and 1 Big Fire

Подписаться 1,1 млн

Просмотров 120 тыс.

50% 1

Play Conflict of Nations for FREE on PC or Mobile: 💥 con.onelink.me/kZW6/Geographi...
Receive an Amazing New Player Pack, only available for the next 30 days! Thanks to Conflict of Nations for sponsoring this video!
→ Subscribe for new videos two times per week.
/ @geographicstravel
Love content? Check out Simon's other RU-vid Channels:
Biographics: / @biographics
MegaProjects: / @megaprojects9649
SideProjects: / @sideprojects
Casual Criminalist: / @thecasualcriminalist
Today I Found Out: / todayifoundout
TopTenz: / toptenznet
Highlight History: / @highlighthistory
XPLRD: / @xplrd
Business Blaze: / @brainblaze6526
This video is #sponsored by Conflict of Nations.
Source/Further reading:
History of Windsor Castle:
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch...
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch...
www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-cast...
www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-castle
www.rct.uk/sites/default/file...
Order of the Garter:
www.stgeorges-windsor.org/abo...
The Castle during WWII:
www.rct.uk/resources/activity...
www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-t...
www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
www.vanityfair.com/style/2020...
www.mentalfloss.com/article/5...
www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/...
25 Ghosts:
royalcentral.co.uk/uk/royal-g...
www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/conten...
thecrownchronicles.co.uk/roya...
great-castles.com/windsorghos...
The Household Guards:
www.householddivision.org.uk/...
The Great Fire:
www.thehistorypress.co.uk/art...
thecrownchronicles.co.uk/hist...
royalcentral.co.uk/features/t...
www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-cast...

Опубликовано:

30 июн 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 228

@geographicstravel 2 года назад

Receive an Amazing New Player Pack, only available for the next 30 days! Play Conflict of Nations for FREE on PC or Mobile 💥 con.onelink.me/kZW6/GeographicsDecember

@JonathanExley 2 года назад

Might as well be advertising Raid: Shadow Legends.

@WickedChild97 2 года назад

Every time Simon does a mobile game sponsorship, it almost seems like a targeted “fuck you” to raid shadow legends and I love that.

@AJJx1307 2 года назад

My dad was a firefighter on the night of the Windsor Castle fire. They all received a medal and a personal thank you letter from Prince Charles.

@justaman9564 2 года назад

Cool. Proud moment for your father I’m sure. Did the women firefighters get a special invite of Prince Andrew too, only the cadets I mean? 😂🤣😅😅

@AJJx1307 2 года назад

@@justaman9564 🤣🤣 just the boy scouts 😂

@southwestsaxon 2 года назад

Well done your dad got a medal from a white supremacist imperialist family...

@AJJx1307 2 года назад

@@southwestsaxon didn’t say I support them… i can’t stand them. I just simply said a fact.

@stantheman9072 2 года назад

@@AJJx1307 and you’re a coward

@andrewharper4296 2 года назад

It’s maybe worth mentioning that although the fire was a great tragedy, when the restoration started they discovered many things that they didn’t know was there. Hidden rooms, old decoration, etc. they even went the route of redoing most of the castle rooms in their original form, they all look spectacular now. So a disaster for sure but the castle looks better than ever now.

@ignitionfrn2223 2 года назад

2:05 - Chapter 1 - Knights of the round building 6:05 - Chapter 2 - Mein lieblings schloss 9:40 - Chapter 3 - Eye popping apparitions 11:50 - Chapter 4 - The curious case of the regiments' buttons 15:05 - Chapter 5 - Burning down the house

@tacklecentralfishing1051 2 года назад

👍👊

@alizo3 2 года назад

Thanks alot

@DFSJR1203 2 года назад

I was 33 at the time of the fire, so I guess I remember that big fire. It was a shame that something like that happened to such a historic castle I am from the USA and it hurt me deeply to see that castle burning.

@twinkerdoodle 2 года назад

10:01 We all waited for Simon to say it, and he didn't disappoint with his haughty derision 🤣😂

@amb163 2 года назад

Seeing Windsor burn was heartbreaking -- I remember watching it as a 13 year old -- because of the history and art and architecture. I'm glad so much was saved and reconstructed, especially since I got to visit it myself in 2007. They did a fantastic job!

@southwestsaxon 2 года назад

Heartbreaking because the racist royals weren't inside at the time.

@patsanderson8317 2 года назад

Yes the builders did

@Replicaate 2 года назад

I never noticed the guards' buttons before - I dont spend too much time staring at uniforms but I can say I learned something about them today!

@Archangelm127 2 года назад

Every single element of a military uniform (formal ones especially) is there for a specific reason. Fascinating stuff if you choose to go down the rabbit hole.

@archstanton6102 2 года назад

Also different coloured plumes on their Bearskin hats.

@Hollows1997 2 года назад

@@archstanton6102 other than the Scots Guards who do not wear one.

@Hollows1997 2 года назад

You can also notice from the collar of their tunic, each regiment has its own symbol sewn onto each: Grenadier Guards - a grenade with flames coming out Coldstream Guards - a star containing the cross of St George Scots Guards - a thistle Irish Guards - a cloverleaf Welsh Guards - a leek

@archstanton6102 2 года назад

@@Hollows1997 I forgot the collar marks. Good point.

@FreeFallingAir 2 года назад

Masterful strategic move... dying. Pretty final too one might say! My praise just goes out to the talking Beard and I suppose the bald lanky guy carrying it around. Who is that btw? For a great video as always. Always worth the time to learn something new🧐

@thejudgmentalcat 2 года назад

"The talking beard" 🤣🤣

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

@@thejudgmentalcat I've not started watching yet & that had me 🤣 Merry Christmas, mates 🎄⛄

@FreeFallingAir 2 года назад

@@Julia-uh4li to you as well!

@danielkarmy4893 2 года назад

@@FreeFallingAir By all accounts John was pretty useless and unbearably selfish to go with it...one of those 'I want to be seen as a leader but can't actually do any leading and really just want to swan around feeling important' types. At least in signing Magna Carta he did one good thing before he went, even if he was strong-armed into it!

@FreeFallingAir 2 года назад

@@danielkarmy4893 True, but as my first name is John...I must refute your claims sir, Good day

@kiltymacbagpipe 2 года назад

I stayed in Windsor castle for about a week. Long story, but I can say they are very serious about keeping fire doors shut.

@bobschenkel7921 2 года назад

Had the opportunity as a young boy back in 1967 to visit England, and my grandmother and I took the tour of Windsor Castle one day. To my delight, hey I was nine, during the tour one of the guards was making faces at his commander, when the commander turned his back.. There was a large crowd and everyone was laughing and pointing. Not sure if it was "planned" or not, but it sure did break up the tour for a few minutes.

@jeffreycater5447 2 года назад

Damn good thing there wasn’t cellphones or he could have faced disciplinary actions. you know people would have put it on social media in a second.I know it’s happened to a few before.

@badbiker666 2 года назад

Great video, Simon and Crew!!! I have to say one of your best ever!

@Iamtheliquor 2 года назад

I like to think that Simon has got a small sparrow or a robin nesting in his mighty beard🤘

@Mr.Fabulous-1990 2 года назад

Finally!! Been waiting for this video since you did one on Buckingham Palace!

@jacquelinerdaley9837 Год назад

Compact & interesting information thank you.

@spankflaps1365 2 года назад

One thing I never understand about medieval people is they could build such glorious beautiful buildings 700-900 years ago, but their drawings, paintings and artwork from that era all look sh!t. St. George’s Chapel is like England’s valley of the Kings, with most of the monarchy buried in there from the last 600 years. It’s a pretty scary feeling walking over Henry VIII’s tomb stone, which is slap bang in the middle of the nave (between the choir stalls).

@Archangelm127 2 года назад

Medieval artwork is more a matter of style than capability IINM, but you should check with someone who actually knows art history specifically. :)

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

@@Archangelm127 Indeed, things like perspective were well known. It was the style of the time.

@ClovisRamsay 2 года назад

Portraits were not even considered a thing that one could or should do until the 12th century, Richard II being the first monarch to commission a self portrait that hangs in Westminster Abby today. During the dark ages, art was used to depict bible stories, pigments were only available to monastery's, nobles, and royalty. Vanity was taboo and something that royalty and nobles only did as a way to show status using colors to denote hierarchy. So unless you were a monk spending years creating illuminated manuscripts and tinted glass, a noble with time to develop their painter skills outside of battling and birthing and belching from disease, then art in England just wasn't a thing of importance until Richard II.

@cleverusername9369 2 года назад

I feel like art just developed more slowly than architecture, which makes sense in that architecture and construction would've been something widespread, ongoing constantly, and would be highly paid for. Painting would be a relatively young form of art compared to sculpture or architecture

@ms.donaldson2533 2 года назад

Ever looked up the word "Indulgence".... sins against the world's people don't matter when donations eliminate the punishment and funds built castles at one time, churches and then hospitals. Nothing like being able to control the World!

@tsulkaluadventures2460 2 года назад

Anyone think they keep putting ghosts in Simons scripts to bug him?

@ABrit-bt6ce 2 года назад

It's behind you :)

@WaddedBliss 2 года назад

I live 2 miles from Windsor Castle. I've visited it once. I'm 56. It's always been a tourist attraction rather than an actual thing to me.

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

Same for me, living near various tourist attractions both in the UK then Australia, where I might have visited once but the rest of the time they are just sort of there, part of the background. Maybe we should explore our local areas more?

@WPUpioneer 9 месяцев назад

Also good way to tell the regiments apart is to look at the plumage on the side of the bearskin. Grenadiers have white, coldstream red, scots have none, Irish have blue and Welsh have white and brown

@johndunlop3883 2 года назад

Really interesting video. Perhaps you could do additional videos on the house guards. I found that very interesting and would like to learn more about their traditions and history

@kermitthorson9719 2 года назад

that fire looks more like prince andrew needing a way to get priceless artwork out of the castle so he could sell a few to pay off jefrey

@thisisscorpio6024 2 года назад

Very thorough work.

@stacyk123 3 месяца назад

11:30 We Americans have a VERY similar ghost story at the White House. Apparently, former First Lady Dolly Madison is very protective of the rose garden. Had some gardeners removing the roses once and were run off by Dolly chewing them out.

@jordanvali 2 года назад

Finally, happy holidays everyone

@grandthanatos 2 года назад

I did enjoy this video, Simon! Thanks for asking.

@leviervin197 2 года назад

Is anyone surprised it took this long for a video on Windsor? Either way great video I've seen every single video he's ever posted up until now so I'm always ready for new ones! Thank you for the countless hours of entertainment Simon!!!

@yogibear5995 2 года назад

Do you have any time for sleep the man churns out a mighty volume of content, I raise my hat to you sir🕵‍♂️

@leviervin197 2 года назад

@@yogibear5995 yes sir I sure do. I listen to it all day, my average for RU-vid this week is 112 hours. Every channel he's got I've seen most videos multiple times. By far my favorite RU-vidr. He's funny, interesting and it always keeps me interested! I recommend him to anyone who wants to learn anything really.

@kreiner1 2 года назад

Back at the end, I have been rewatching all these, there still great 👍 👌 🙂 ☺ 😊 😄

@Skorpychan Год назад

I remember seeing it on TV, and also going to Buckingham Palace once it was opened up. My mother also had me and my sister design a layout for the refurbishment, as a way of keeping us occupied on a rainy day. She then sent it off to the Queen as a suggestion, and apparently the two look a lot alike. I don't remember doing it; it was a LONG time and many whacks to the head since.

@AnimalLover-is2fc 2 года назад

The Princesses were hard workers compared to other royalty.

@claytonberg721 2 года назад

elizabeth's contributions to the war were no joke. she was/is a mechanic and an excellent driver. I have no doubt she knows here way around an engine better than I do. I don't have a ton of respect for philip but I will say his service to his country during WWII was also legit. He was an effective commander who took actions that saved lives. Unlike lord mountbatten who was directly responsible for the sinking of two british destroyers, then because he was a royal was given the title of 'commander of combined operations' where he was the mastermind of the dieppe raid, which resulted in the death or capture of what... some 6000 men. William is a legit helo pilot who has flown SAR missions, Harry fought in afghanistan and was an Apache co-pilot and gunner also in afghanistan. As a canadian I used to have no time for the royal family but have since soften on that position.

@rossday9333 2 года назад

An American tourist in Windsor was once overheard saying "it sure is a mighty fine castle but why did they build it so far from the train station?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Skorpychan Год назад

They tried to build the train station closer, but couldn't. There's a Jago Hazzard video on it.

@rogerpenske2411 2 года назад

I did not know about the various regiment among the guard. English history is fascinating, thank you

@Rfcfan1996 2 года назад

My Grandfather served in the Blues and Royals. Seen action in Northern Ireland. Was also stationed in Cyprus.

@gmar7836 11 месяцев назад

I was at the castle a couple of months ago. Miss it and England already

@J.A.Smith2397 2 года назад

About time

@TheEvilCommenter 2 года назад

Good video 👍

@jinx1120 2 года назад

Can we get Biographics about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine?

@louise-yo7kz 2 года назад

Especially Eleanor

@PanDownTiltLeft 2 года назад

Very nice. You should do a video on Queen Mary’s doll house

@Ericlee-ne7du 2 года назад

Charles 1 is totally rocking the Blackadder look.

@Cyberlucy Год назад

Just as an FYI your caption on Prince Philip is wrong. He wasn't Philip of Mountbatten. Before he accepted the stipulations of dropping his role titles to marry Elizabeth he was his Royal Highness Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. He took Mountbatten as a last name when he shed his foreign titles in tribute to his uncle and his mother's family who pretty much raised him. So when he married her he was actually Lt. Philip Mountbatten. He was given the style of his Royal Highness again and a royal Dukedom when he got married.

@jonnnyren6245 2 года назад

I mean in a spralling and grand castle that's nearly a thousand years old and you're like what the only one or a handful of people there, I'm betting that spectacles of spectres spectating around are definitely there, as Simon would put it nicely.

@majansen666 2 года назад

I mean they can sent the Dutch paintings to the Netherlands... We will keep that safe 😉

@cybertenchi82 2 года назад

My brother was there as part of the blues and royals, he was part of the effort to save the artwork.

@scythebergon418 2 года назад

I was only a few months old during the fire aprently do I dont remember it. Also love the guard note true heros

@beagleissleeping5359 2 года назад

Maybe issue squirt bottles to the castle guards. Use them how you discipline a naughty cat or dog: spray the offender while yelling, "Bad tourist!"

@erinjackson6243 2 года назад

Always interesting to hear the name of a distant ancestor on RU-vid lol. Simon DeMontfort was NOT a nice guy, but he did become "king" of England for a year, and called the first (or one of the first) parliament into session.

@keith_5584 2 года назад

2:50 The lion heart is giving you those eyes…

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

Herne the Hunter haunts the grounds but few have seen him with a giant owl perched on his left arm.

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

I thought that was "Harold the Horny Hunter"...oops, sorry, Blackadder reference.

@robdon3472 2 года назад

Starved of biographics

@ryanh4775 Год назад

I don't know if this is the right channel to do this on but you should do a video on the holiday known as festivis on Seinfeld. My dad actually celebrated it to an extent with the feats of strength and all.

@christopherjohnrudma 2 года назад

Please do one on 'the city of london'

@Pilchowski01 2 года назад

I lived within a mile of the castle basically all my life, and my father was an NCO in the Blues and Royals. I've been all around it, even areas most tourists can't go, but it never all that special. It always feels weird to see people marvel at what is just another part of the town to me, no different that any building on Peascod Street or LEGOLAND a few miles down the road.

@kathymcfarland5516 2 года назад

I can understand your sense of being 'underwhelmed' at your local castle. I used to cross the Golden Gate Bridge twice daily to work in San Francisco, and just could not understand why out-of-towners were so impressed with it. 'It's a BRIDGE,' I'd say. 'Yes, but it's the Golden Gate Bridge!,' they'd say back! STILL don't get it! I DID get to tour Windsor Castle back in 1990, pre-fire, and appreciate the work that went in to the restoration. If only walls could talk! Imagine the history they've seen! Mind boggles!

@Pilchowski01 2 года назад

@@kathymcfarland5516 I mean, we could always ask the ghosts, but I don't think they in all that much of a talking mood 😂

@kathymcfarland5516 2 года назад

@@Pilchowski01 Ha ha! Especially if you deny their very existence! Walls may have more info! You can sometimes see that!

@rodchallis8031 2 года назад

Do you know how to tell if your castle is haunted? It's not.

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

My castle sure is, or would be if I had one. I could get the spectral buggers to keep the place neat and tidy.

@siggy6044 2 года назад

Had a weird thought that what if these games like Conflict of Nations are just crowd sourcing the best military strategies for the next actual world war 👀

@PopeyeBjj86 2 года назад

Well it's a good job Andrew medically can't sweat 😰

@bobvacir 2 года назад

Please can you do Prague Castle (it is the biggest castle ;-)

@angelitabecerra 2 года назад

I'm old enough to have been around during the fire, but I was only 1 years old then 😅

@loke6664 2 года назад

You know, that Casual criminalist episode about the drunk guy breaking into Windsor several times doesn't really make me confident about the competence of the household guards...

@travistaylor2729 2 года назад

That was Buckingham Palace, not Windsor Castle, different places

@loke6664 2 года назад

@@travistaylor2729 Doh. But the Queens guards are from the same units so the point stands even if the details don't. I blame eggnog.

@squeezme88 2 года назад

True. But boy was that an entertaining ride

@franl155 2 года назад

The five Guards regiments not only all have different button patterns; they also all have different colour plumes worn in different places on their bearskins, apart from one which doesn't have any. I remember the fire -well, I remember hearing about it on the news. Lol there's no such thing as "government money" - only money raised from taxpayers - ie the people's money. There were a lot of complaints about how it had suddenly become "our" castle when a lot of money was needed for the rebuild.

@twocvbloke 2 года назад

I was 7 when the place burned, not that I paid attention, it was just stuff on the telly, nothing on the telly was ever real to me back then... :P

@piperjaycie 2 года назад

Government have got some cheek saying the Queen should pay for the repairs given all the stuff we have to pay for for them in expenses and salaries and all the money they waste every single year!

@stephenharrison1790 2 года назад

You didn't explain the restoration. That is important.

@samyeezy3068 2 года назад

7 mins late. Still here. Notification squadron reportin to duty

@AceUzumazi 2 года назад

I mean sure ghosts might not exist, but are you going to tell that to the Queen who may have seen a few?

@Rangifulla 2 года назад

They blame the lamp but I bet it was Andrew 420 blazin it in the chapel what started the fire.

@dougwalker4944 2 года назад

.descendant of Plantagenent...according to my late father... ...and house of Stewart, Stuart? (not sure of the spelling) .he mentioned Warwick Castle in there ....

@CamMackay96 2 года назад

Prince Andrew worked hard and smart to save a bunch of old things during the fire? Huh, I figured he preferred things younger...

@neilandrews2995 2 года назад

Windsor is southeast of Oxford so what you said is kinda weird. Cool tho keep it up.

@dudepool7530 2 года назад

I'm just here for the ghosts 💀

@cas-uu5gy 2 года назад

18:30 Am I the only one seeing the doctor helped too

@cas-uu5gy 2 года назад

16:30 sorry

@daemonartursson7159 2 года назад

Eve-sham Simon. Simon de Montfort took Mass with Henry iii the night before the battle at my home village of Kempsey.

@WayToVibe 2 года назад

Turn on CC and see how badly the auto-sub reads this guy's accent. Instead of 'tomb' it says "doom" and instead of 'Bolin' it says "Burlin'. A real hoot, honestly!

@annastark3786 2 года назад

Sadly, yes I am old enough to remember.

@johnqpublic2718 2 года назад

Wait, ghosts aren’t real? Next I suppose Simon is going to tell us angels and demons aren’t real either?

@SabbatarianSundayer. 2 года назад

I have a "Ghost" story to tell.

@squeezme88 2 года назад

Blows my mind that QE2 only put up 2 mil then crowd funded the rest to pay for the restoration. Surely the monarch could afford at least 50%?

@robpatty6062 2 года назад

A brain blaze would of been quite interesting to watch on this topic.....we all know Simons opinion 😜😜😜

@mbecker163 2 года назад

@Geographics, "I find your lack of faith disturbing" 👻

@DesperateDigger666 2 года назад

If you'd value an typist who has experience of transcription, I'd happily improve the quality of the subtitles on future productions. Let's leave this particular example as is for posterity.

@Hollows1997 2 года назад

For inflation the £40,000,000 is worth £85,000,000 today.

@maartentoors 2 года назад

The queen coughed up £2 million? She's worth between £395 - 400 million.. 0_o

@justonecornetto80 2 года назад

She's worth more than 20 times that if you include her art collection and the Crown Estate. She owns 6 Rembrandts, 50 Canalettos, 600 drawings by Da Vinci and 20 by Michaelangelo. A few years, a Caravaggio was found in a storeroom at Hampton court palace that everyone had forgotten about for 400 years.

@marketazelezna1249 2 года назад

Yeah, but ownership of a Rembrandt or a castle won't buy you food nor insurence. Imagine owning so many money pits.

@justonecornetto80 2 года назад

@@marketazelezna1249 The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall include most of the best farmland in the UK plus their financial holdings include shareholdings in all of the world's top corporations. The Queen isn't going hungry or broke any time soon.

@biocybernaught3512 2 года назад

Comercial ends at 1:08

@estonian-1996 2 года назад

Tallinn old town.

@joebloggs4845 2 года назад

in a nutshell..we have a long history

@ghislainedidntkillherself 2 года назад

what is kensington palace!

@TrevorTrottier 2 года назад

When was the last time a tourist was bayonetted?

@TheMitchyb61 2 года назад

150’ long table…jeebus

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

"Jeebus"? How colonial and quaint!

@kermitthorson9719 2 года назад

@10:08 truth

@Beryllahawk 2 года назад

Ghosts may not be real, but the stories are nonetheless fascinating in their way. And who can really blame anybody for feeling like SOMETHING must be there - the weight of so much history in one place, and the great and terrible things that took place there. I'm betting the ghost stories are also a big draw from a tourism perspective, so that's also a benefit. Not real: but still awesome!

@badxxxmonkey5541 2 года назад

So the tower isn't occupied? Gtk

@joseybryant7577 2 года назад

Shane Madej has ruined the Round Heads forever.

@welshman8954 2 года назад

One more reason to be proud of being British

@DavidPerez-bm9sq 2 года назад

Fact Boi having to talk about ghosts? Lol

@ThomasDM09 2 года назад

Your pronounciation of Evesham absolutely threw me; never heard Ev-esham, always Eve-sham

@WaddedBliss 2 года назад

It's EEEEV-sham, not EVER-sham.

@garretth8224 2 года назад

They did a great job protecting royalty when they let a dude climb the fence twice and walk around the palace. He even got in the queens bedroom.

@Hollows1997 2 года назад

Both times during the night when a guard isn’t mounted (on guard)

@kathymcfarland5516 2 года назад

You'd almost think they'd use dogs who would alert a human that something wasn't right. Wonder why they don't. Dobermans and German Shepards wouldn't like the Corgis?