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Who the gives a dam about Dukes? You are all foreigners anyway. The only royals worth anything in Britain are the Earls, but thanks to Jimmy Seville your secrets out and the pitchforks and torches are on their way.

Free Energy Education International The five titles of the peerage, in descending order of precedence, or rank, are: duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron. The highest rank of the peerage, duke, is the most exclusive.

Was I the only one watching this thinking "This would be a perfect Christopher Guest movie?" 😂 Those robes though LMFAO

@@freeenergyeducationinterna1086 Many people do, they are a legacy of culture and good manners.

east47 lll.

Just hate furniture on the slant.

K C I didn’t get why would anybody want to cut the paintings out of their frames?

Gerardo Salas It case of Fire 🔥 I guess the weight & size of the frames permitted them from being taken down & thrown out of windows.

@@samanthab1923 Its kind of like saving the memories/images of past generations so they dont get forgotten, since the portrait would be the only "photograph" of them at the time. Frames are easily rebought with all the cash lol

She was a looker in her day.

Yes. I can't decide if this lack of excitement over the queen's coronation is the most American thing ever - or the most British thing ever.

I think the most striking thing about that is that the Queen's Coronation wasn't even the highlight of her day!

Mother was roasting an Ox "for Woodstock". That's the village. So there was a village celebration and the Duke and Duchess were expected to provide the venue and the Ox. This is a feudal idea called "Noblesse oblige". The great family was responsible to their villagers. In return, the villages would have fought for the Duke.

ALL Ladies should be present at the carving of the meat. You know the queen was all that family talked about for s year

no idea my Grandma Anna looked like The Duke himself my Grandma was born on 6 . JuLy year 19 1O

@@justinmiller129 u have lots of free time

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is the house been sold?

My family's homes are now museums in N.Y. forget the community name but one of our homes is the Elms one of the most beautiful and famous.

Always? Well, not my grandma, that's for sure^^"

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This may be why, although the title goes to a foreign cousin, the ladies are running the estate :-)

Lies again? Best Dad Spank Bang

Jacob Lehy - It was! What movie was that? I forgot and that part was so funny. Wasn't that the family's middle name?

He used to be an officer in the South African Defence Force. The Murrays are well known in South Africa, and well regarded.

E Johnson King Ralph.

@@ejohnson3131 There's an old Afrikaans movie which, strangely enough, has a similar storyline. The movie is called "Lord Oom Piet". "Oom" being an Afrikaans title comparable so something between sir and uncle. The movie is about an Afrikaans farmer (Boer) who is tracked down as being the heir to a Lordship in England (in a similarly convoluted manner to this case). The problem is (in the movie), the "Oom" hates the English with a typical Afrikaner passion (Many Afrikaners resented, and some still do, the English after the two Sout-African (Boer) wars. So this Oom tries to avoid becoming the lord, and the only way he can do it is by exploiting an old Royal decree given to one of his forefathers that said that if he were to lose another jousting tournament he would have to forfeit the title. The movie then continues about how he has to enlist the help of his bitter political rival, an English nobleman also living near the same town, to host a jousting tournament so that he can lose it and be freed of the lordship. It's a really funny movie, but if I remember correctly it's mostly in Afrikaans. www.imdb.com/title/tt0367985/fullcredits af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_oom_Piet

It shows how ludicrous the whole thing is.

British people don't 'manage to make it' posh,it seems posh to you most likely because people speak casually wherever you are from.

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@@eleanorweaverley1105 we've really assigned them this posh label because they shoved it down our face as former colonies that that is who they are and we ate that shit up while simultaneously believing we were not as classy

@@melonie_peppers Your ridiculous assumptions are the problem,anynone can be classy,don't spread hate when you don't have the slightest insight on what happens inside

@@eleanorweaverley1105 @@eleanorweaverley1105 it's not assumption. Erasing culture and assuming barbaric behavior was an essential part of the colonial project. How else would I be speaking English rn if they hadn't forced it down my throat and to my ancestors for the past 400 years. How else did they manage for so long to convince Africans their hair was unseemly. You think those black women in the 20 with permed hair did that because they wanted to or there was a larger influence at hand? I advise you to do your research on the colonial project in Africa all the way from Age of Exploration. That is what I mean when I say they managed to convince everyone else they not classy. What hate did i spread? You mean the truth?

This is only my opinion. I'm not forcing it on anybody, but I think he could have found something, anything, to focus his life on. He could've done charity work, or become the patron of a sports club, or a college, or a school, or a religious institution. He could've become an athlete, join the military, start a men's club, help the poor in the British colonies, maybe start a school for them. I mean, the world was his oyster, especially since money wasn't an issue. If Helen Keller had found a purpose, then it's not impossible for him. Of course, I don't know all the details of his life, so I'm not trying to judge him, but this makes me sad and angry at the same time. Seriously? You couldn't find anything you could focus your life on?

@@krdiaz8026 I totally agree with you. There are SO MANY things to focus on. Just visit a poor country and you will be so thankful for your blessings. If you don’t have any mental health issues then you will probably be very happy to just be alive with all the privileges their lives had. But, I guess some people just focus on their negatives.

Sometimes the self-awareness that people need to create meaning in life is created under stressful conditions, and perhaps the right conditions for growth were not present in his life

Sometimes you’ve got to hit rock bottom so you have something to stand on

@@krdiaz8026 i believe he could even focus on something less obvious/noble, he could just have a hobby, he could collect stamps for what's worth it, it would have been a purpose

A regular Cinderella story

Her story was so sad, yet she seems upbeat and delightful.

Well I assume she is not malicious she has a totally tone deaf entitlement. Maybe it is just because I am American but hearing rich people complain and suffer is tedious

Shit happens , all the time . There are many children being abandoned today all over the world. I can not feel sorry for someone who has never made a handle in his entire life.

@@lila2986 How many girls do you think grew up without a father, in Indonesia 1946 - 1954, Korea 1950-1953, coup in Iran 1953 .Laos 1953-1975, Guatemala 1954, Lebanon blue bat 1958, invasion of pigs bay 1961, Vietnam 1964-1975, Dominican Republic 1965-1966, South African border war 1965- 1989. Nanchahuazu 1966-1967, Cambodia 1970-1975, Angola 1975-2002, Hmong conflict Laos 1975-2007, Cambodia 1977-1991, Lebanon 1982-1984. Greneda 1983. Libya1987 - 1988 .Panama 1989 - 1990, Gulf Wars 1990 -1991. operation gothic snake 1993. Bosnia 1994-1995 Iraq dessert for 1998, Kosovo 1998-1999. 2001- 2021 Afghanistan, Iraq 2003-2011. Lisbon 2011. and how is your compassion for those girls. there are millions of those who have lost their father, because they have been killed by American soldiers?

We can justifiably demand it, though. Privileges and property inheritance can be abolished. It would be the moral thing to do.

i was no U.S.A. ciTizen never

@@Qrtuop Lol "Moral". Parents have the right to give their wealth to their Children. You Commies are so Delusional.

Cringe

@@Qrtuop Really? My husband and I have earned a good living and have saved a nice inheritance for our children. It’s our gift to them and you don’t get to just come and take it because you don’t have the same. We worked hard, and my parents worked hard and you have zero right to it on the grounds you have decided it’s a “moral right”.

Funny and intelligent!

South Africans are pretty nice people all in all.

Jeff Morse Absolutely! And smart, too! They tend to have a laid back, unique view of the world that is quite charming and refreshing. ✌️

He knows he's just a figurehead. Someone else runs the place. His role is ceremonial.

@@jeffmorse645 thank you. Yes we are a happy bunch and we play amazing rugby. My adult sons who have gone to live in their patriarchal England were so conflicted which side to support in the 2019 world cup final 😂🇿🇦

@theagenttomato The proper spelling is "allowed".

@@linda_smilesrfree2744, you are more than welcome to reprogram mobile autocorrection to differentiate English words. In fact, I insist.

I love her😍

I would like to "like" this comment but the spelling error kind of forbids me :-O

@@theagenttomato You can turn off autocorection.

Jolly well, off you go :)

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"Mum is roasted" .... That is not jolly at all,it is horrendous. What on earth Kimberly? I am quite sure we English do not roast our mothers.

Well, he was merely stating the truth! Hardly reason to venerate the bloke.

Dennis Lewis you could venerate him for keeping together the community, despite you know having no stake in the place.

@@alexandrepasteur7636 I agree. He and his family seem to have their heads in the right place. He was justly proud and happy that the ductal property was taken care of so that he wouldn't have to administer it.

Respect? #RoyalParasite He starts off lying when he says (whimpers): you can't abdicate from being a Duke, as you obviously CAN voluntarily resign your privilege, he's clearly pandering, whining and moaning

Let's be clear here. None of them have done anything to deserve any of this.

The lady of the yellow castle😂

It's always funny to watch those genealogy shows when someone is descended from someone related to royals. Once that connection is made they can trace them back hundreds of years because the connections are so well-recorded.

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Thanks to colonization/money and power.

@@toomessy cry more

its so bourgeois...to place things on the slant...oh dear...i feel faint! :)

@@renfordmalcolm Being bourgeois is, technically, the opposite of being high born ;)

@@johnubal2825 hmmm... but of course...

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Me too! I didn't know I had SO much in common with aristocratic ladies, lol!😉

and the interviwer did it...

merry hunt perhaps you’ll become a new mystery writer ?

Perfect😂. Why don’t you write one?😉

Did you ever watch the movie “GOSFORD PARK”?

@@mangot589 y

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I nearly died when I saw that! Couldn't believe it! I wish they'd lend them out or donate them to a museum so they can be restored and properly cared for. Pieces of history left to rot in the attic with no temp control? Omg.....

Does London have no fur storage services?

@@dinglebarry528 what the heck is a fur storage service?

@@catepilarr - A facility that stores furs.

@@r.mcbride2837 IKR? Maybe they can ask the Queen. Or donate them to the conservatory that takes care of historical clothing😩. I almost cried when she said “I hope the moths haven’t gotten to them”.

Happens in the U.S.A. with our private ‘militias’. They are actually legal, private standing armies as allowed by our constitution ( that may change, however ).

@@highwatercircutrider All 50 states actually prohibit paramilitary activity.

You know, I think they could make a tourist attraction out of that...scottish private army marching on the heart of england!

@@larrym2434 Private militias have been formed by individuals in America since the colonial period. ... Approximately half the states maintain laws regulating private militias. Generally, these laws prohibit the parading and exercising of armed private militias in public, but do not forbid the formation of private militias.

Lady Violet Manners what a smoke show! No wonder she is the thumbnail.

time stamp?

@@mazzeyy Rosie didn't actually say that :P But the part where she talks about the ox is 7:35

I just read that with a British accent! 😅

Spit spot indeed! 🍷

@@extendedlimits thank you

Nice, treating people like race horses. Typical aristocracy...

@smadge100 whole generations but if you were born the normal height you had no value in their eyes

better a Midget than an Atholl

thorry, it thounded funny

and damn right too....very top shelf dahling....!

Yes and we are merely aliens Lol

👉🏾

Lol fuck the british monarch

Ayrond A - no thanks. Princess Stephanie, maybe.

@@shichilaofawell, spoken like a true treacherous traitor and enemy of UK and the commonwealth realms.

RYAN HUNT RAJPUT how do i dislike this a million times

😂

😂😂😂 ...same thought! Probably that's why he was asked the question about the portrait with the falcon, ...to have the poor man finally answering to something! 😂 Perhaps she took the control of the interview because she knew he's barely understandable. I'm not English mother tongue, and I had to listen to him again and again to catch a word he said 🙄

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I wonder if she married and had a son, wouldn't he become the Duke?

Thomas B - No, not especially.

Thomas B - No, not especially.

@Thomas B: Yes, she does seem like a nice, down-to-earth lady.

Imagine you were born and raised in a grand castle like this - and decades later you enter it again, as a visitor among visitors. Your family home has turned into a museum... my heart would bleed, so many memories and so much change in one lifetime...

Who wouldn't lol

She should be grateful that she still has a head attached to her body.

Luc Aux whatd they do to you

@@ryans5073 perhaps detached their head from their body?

I thought she was wonderful, she was witty, cool lady.

I wonder if they were undiagnosed diabetics.

maybe bc of depression?

pants, i am sure

😂

Yeah. That was quite eye opening!

John Doe bare bottom 😂

😆

It is well known, why should she repeat the known?

@@ajantsmith6139 to boast with her farmous relatives. There are lots and lots of ppl out there who'd take every opportunity to do so to make themselves more interesting than they (maybe) are and I hate those. She didn't, bcs (I think) she knew that a reference to her far more famous cousin wouldn't add anything of substance to the current conversation, which makes her way more likeable. It makes her stand out as her own person and not just a relative of someone more famous.

She's already a duchess, no need to flex

I didn't know that. Maybe it's common knowledge with Brits but I think this topic interests a lot of non-Brits too and there are probably others watching this

Momera it is certainly an interesting connection, but considering that the British nobility are responsible for a good chunk of the historical events of the last 300 years or so, and that they’re all at least somewhat related to each other, it becomes exhausting to list the hundreds of historically-relevant people they’re related to.

I could write a million words on this documentary

That's bling and pompous phrasing. And taxes.

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It's pretty cool to know she can manage the castle well too

@@bishplz1234 She literally seems to be on top of it.

Belvoir Castle

Larry Reinert Sorry. I couldn’t properly make out the name of the castle thorough the accent

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@John R I agree. :-)

Crazy thing is it's not the people that deteriorate the Duke dom it's the government chipping away at it and crazy inheritance taxes

Agreed. I feel the same way.

The beautiful castles need to be restored and opened up to the public. The titles and air of self-importance and superiority should go. It's time. We are in the 21st century!

@wings of a butterfly the only real reason a ruling class has stayed in power is their control over the means of production and/or the military strength required to suppress everyone else. Nothing to do with being more able to lead.

The reporter seems to be Earl Spencer ,Diana's brother

@@eleonora78 Really?

Felt really bad for father too, who kept getting dumped by those cold-hearted gold diggers

Fascinating and kind of sad, to me. Being a lover of history, I adore all these sorts of things and hate to see it all pass away, much of it left to just deteriorate quietly.

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It makes sense, the interviewer is an Earl and Princess Diana's brother, the Spencers come from a long line of nobility so I could see him being a bit of a snob

@@TIFFANYDlAS i didnt realize Diana's brother was the interviewer

was looking for this comment,lovely family too.

The Duke ain't bad either!

Nice pic of this great mother kkkk

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"And this picture here is a depiction of my ancestor's execution" is another one lol

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@@Wolf6119 yes exactly 😆... Forget watching a documentary about someone going through something horrible for perspective- listening to how out of touch these people are makes me even MORE grateful for ANYTHING difficult that's kept me grounded (and not on a roof)

If Belvoir Castle is the location used to film The Crown, I find it hilarious that the Duchess, who would be invited? To any future royal coronation, rented out the actual lands to a show to parody the royal family to pay the bills.

She really seemed to have taken extremely well to the responsiblities it entails. Straightforward and no bs.

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And marrying the wrong one the key to losing them.

@@jimsy5530 Ah, yes... The wrong woman has been the undoing of many a man, young and old, noble or not... 😏😉

Almost like that's the viewpoint they wanted for the doc...

BigMamaDave - Agree! Dukes or not, High or low - a good wife / daughter makes a big difference.

Fascinating and kind of sad, to me. Being a lover of history, I adore all these sorts of things and hate to see it all pass away, much of it left to just deteriorate quietly.

The host is Charles Spencer, he’s as aristocratic as they are.

Imagine explaining it to your wife😁

I suppose that summarizes the conceit rather succinctly. Some version of that is surely what gets them to sleep at night. It's still a bs excuse for a political process.

This is the sort of strange, convoluted rationale that people will create to justify their privileged position, I suppose.

DefinitelyNotDan What are you talking about? You’re really attacking this guy for being entitled and doing nothing to deserve the benefits from past figures when you are literally describing the existence of the modern aristocracy to a T. None of these people have done anything on their own to deserve the massive privilege they receive other than happen to be the progeny of someone who did something worthwhile 300 years ago. Feudalism is beyond obsolete in 2020.

@DefinitelyNotDan "What you are missing is that the hereditary peerage and titles ensure the creation of success and successful things and systems, and then ensuring or allowing the perpetuation of that success." This explains why almost all such systems detonated during the 19th- and 20th-century, with the only remnants of them being sad, ceremonial vestiges and horrible, despotic regimes that pale in comparison to the liberal democracies of the developed world in every single way.

@DefinitelyNotDan ok boomer

Those people have titles but aren't conservators. They are just laymen who have old stuff & keep it in the attic. They don't have a mansion or the money to pay professionals to preserve antiquities, any more.

@@robinlillian9471 that's true but even my commoner American self knows you have furs professionally packed up and don't just placed in a dry cleaner bag

@@laddibugg Her husband is an accountant, not, Bill Gates :)

Does her husband speak. She sure takes over

@@robinlillian9471 they live in a very very expensive townhouse in central London in one of the best areas plus they have a maid so don’t seem to be out of finances to properly conserve these antique robes

Stop the nonsense, the number of titles don't make a person higher ranked ( or to go 1st ) a reigning queen is superior to a non reigning duchess . Even if these dukes were palatine ( ruled over a area , self governing) a monarch is still superior to a duke of a duchy . So the grand duke of Luxembourg is still lower ranked than the queen .

*in effect *active 😂

Paul Harvey Thank, you Paul Harvey, my great Grandmother was Amanda Salome Harvey born 1880 in Chester County, PA.

Melissa, yes cause he was raised in South Africa lol

Yeah, he's South African. 😆 We're a down to earth kind of people.

But he is a peasant oppressor!

That would be "Atholl." And guess how you pronounce it.

@@itsmyparty4637, daar sê jy dit nou!

she also has Asian maid/ slave. Plus her poor husband can barely get a word in edgewise. He was born into it, yet she knows it all ;-)

PoonDestruction I worked at a store in Florida. There was a woman who shopped there and she made certain you knew she was titled. There was also a lovely lady who worked there with me that was British. She scoffed at the thought of calling her “Lady” anything. She would sometimes call and say, “this is Lady Caroline so and so.” and I would answer “Who?” It annoyed the hell out of her. But, there was a lovely German lady who was actually a duchess and very polite, friendly and sweet. Her credit card actually said “Duchess so and so”

That was my first thought too 😂 she definitely asked...and I would bet more than once

🤣🤣🤣💯

South West and Delta asked for my titles. It has many options, including RN. Which is my Title.

They are probably gay. They can’t marry another man and they have luxury not to live a miserable life

@@gerromecampbell4087 indeed!

@@gerromecampbell4087 To father a son should have been not an impossible task. Not even necessary to be married for this. As long as the Duke recognises the boy as his offspring.

@@gerromecampbell4087 my thoughts exactly. Many pretty women would have been all over these dukes for marriage and a privileged life

@@NickVenture1 Illegitimate sons cannot inherit a title.

It would be easy because everything has its own designated place.

Ravangers The British aristocracy are not exactly well-known for being overly warm and sentimental toward their children.

😂😂😂 Jesus , it must be terrible being referred to as the “spare” 😂😂😂

@@henrylivingstone2971 Well ask how Prince Harry feels about that

Sophie Asha Nah he’s not even a royal anymore, he’s a two bit git, too stupid too know how good he had it. At least when he was a spare everyone liked him now everyone hates him and so does his brother, his father , and his grandmother.

Henry Livingstone Who the fck is everyone? No one with a life or a reason to live gives a damn enough to hate him.

Hopefully they've moved it by now...LOL!!!!

She does look like her. Thought so too. However I don't understand what she says at 5:08 when she explains why they had to be 6 foot tall. English not my first language.

I wasn't the only one lol.

@@speziello at 5:08, she explains, "Well, in a house like this, you didn't want a [lot of] midget walking about, you know." english is my first language. thank me later.

Yes she does!