Fizz and Sparkle: The Effervescent Life of Deborah, The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

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  • @floraflorabunda2216
    @floraflorabunda2216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I live 5 miles from chatsworth and often visit debos and Andrews resting places in the Edensor churchyard. Lovely lady.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    “Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams...........

  • @carolking6355
    @carolking6355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    What an extraordinary person. Surely one of the most beautiful woman in the world. How lucky were the people who knew you. I feel life is so sad. One minute I too was young and enjoying life. Now I am old, my husband died 9 months ago after 58 years together. I am unable to walk but am blessed to live in the country. It must be wonderful to come from a large family. I watched a video on utube about how the Duchess started decorating an old vicarage and started a new garden in her 80s. She was very special. ❤️

  • @steveriggan8944
    @steveriggan8944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was pleased to find out that the woman interviewing the Duchess is Charlotte Marten Mosley who is the wife of the Duchess’ nephew Alexander Mosley. His mother was Diana Mitford, the Duchess’ sister. Charlotte edited the Mitford sisters’ letters that she is referencing at times.

  • @joeybelltko
    @joeybelltko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This women is my great aunt. I currently live in nyc. I was left a great inheritance from her. Considering I met the women no more the 10 times my whole life.

  • @thaisekine
    @thaisekine 12 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    This interview is a gem. The last living Mitford sister. Such a graceful lady.

  • @marycahill546
    @marycahill546 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Charming. Tales of a lost era.

  • @markwardel6751
    @markwardel6751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    fabulous....The Duchess is so droll and amusing....not many people like this left now.R.I.P.

    • @KDL861
      @KDL861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mark Wardel I love how much she is so endeared to her father and sister, Jessica. And I loved her description of her mum being so fresh in her food choices. It seems her sister Nancy was horrid to her. Reminds me of how I and my brother treated our baby sister. I regret that.

    • @Pete-z6e
      @Pete-z6e 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KDL861 ,don’t feel that way, it’s character building evidently!

  • @LaDivinaLover
    @LaDivinaLover 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Absolutely, fantastic, and interesting woman Debo! I did get to me the Dowager Duchess at Chatsworth about 10 years ago. I was 15 and she was such a wonderful conversationalist. We talked about the grounds of Chatsworth, about the artworks, and about her enormous Devonshire tiara. All in all about an hour was spent just talking. She was so obliging and was very quick to put me at ease. I liked her very much.

    • @GavinsMarineMom
      @GavinsMarineMom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What a precious, treasured memory that must be for you!

    • @KDL861
      @KDL861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      LaDivinaLover Must’ve been exhilarating and fabulous!

  • @barbarastepien-foad4519
    @barbarastepien-foad4519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Chatsworth was wonderful the first time I visited ten years ago ...and justly so last Christmas all decorated up for the season. A wonderful place to visit wit so many beautiful artefacts.

  • @madeleine8977
    @madeleine8977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    She was witty, intelligent and understated. She was elegant and self-deprecating. I wanted to know her.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I did, slightly. You are absolutely correct in your assessment. A lady of decided views, with no patience for the extremes of political correctness that get bandied about. Always direct and scrupulously honest. I believe that the world is a poorer place since her death.

    • @madeleinedeburgh7016
      @madeleinedeburgh7016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She is England, she is elegance, she is what I adore about England ...witty and unassuming very English

  • @annamaedevlin1713
    @annamaedevlin1713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We can NEVER get enough of history!

  • @bryantppierce
    @bryantppierce 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    So happy to brag that I knew her.

    • @sandibenedum4413
      @sandibenedum4413 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bryantppierce I am staggeringly jealous!!!

  • @pygiana16
    @pygiana16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Her hearing at 90 is much better than mine at 64. She picked up the questions from the audience which I couldn’t hear at all.

  • @middaysun3553
    @middaysun3553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I had great fun thanks to this lovely lovely woman

  • @lindamiller2648
    @lindamiller2648 10 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    All day I've been reading DDD's memoir "Wait for Me". The chapters on World War 2 brought me several times to tears. It isn't just the sorrow of those days, the loss of so very many loved ones, but also her unpretentious, beautiful, evocative style which barely veils the personal tragedies she endured. Interesting that the Duke warned in the 1980's of the danger of the rise of militant Islamism.

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      She aided Hitler and is a traitor to Britain.

    • @heartpursuer
      @heartpursuer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The brutal Islamic invasion of Europe which triggered the Crusades certainly set the tone, and their violent expansionist ideology remains, although largely ignored by their enablers in the media.

  • @frannieo1707
    @frannieo1707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is wonderful. Debo has a beautiful voice and is such a gracious lady. The Mitfords are such a fascinating family.

  • @jearnott
    @jearnott 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That wonderful Mitford drawl - how we’ll miss it!

  • @joanwalters4741
    @joanwalters4741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    So very Brilliant. A Star was lost, but you captured it for us❤️. Thank You.

  • @LouisCapet1969
    @LouisCapet1969 8 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    The Duchess appears at about the 6 minute mark, for those who might want to spare themselves the introductory chatter

  • @theblytonian3906
    @theblytonian3906 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Wonderful. Thank you for uploading. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” - L.P. Hartley One only wishes it possible to return to that 'country'.

    • @ata5855
      @ata5855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Blytonian You don’t miss it until it’s gone.

  • @tommyhall5010
    @tommyhall5010 9 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    An extraordinary woman, I visited Chatsworth for the first time a few weeks ago, her presence permeated the place although I had never, until later, researched it, the Mitfords were an example of the gradual change that occurred in the political thinking of the newer, more enlightened, less shielded, members of the aristocracy, Fascists, Communists, Capitalists, what fun evening meals must have been.

    • @jccurran9327
      @jccurran9327 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tommy Hall - I read the biography of the family (maybe 3 books in total). Their stories were fascinating. However, they did go through bad times too. It was not the best of times. Although good reading, I would not have traded places.
      I really ẹnoyed this interview. Thanks much for the upload. 🐱🐕🐇

  • @elizabethblackwell6242
    @elizabethblackwell6242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you so much for this wonderful interview, The Frick. Wonderful to hear.

  • @pagana.okiech2457
    @pagana.okiech2457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great interview

  • @shafur3
    @shafur3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A wonderful, beautiful woman . Thank you for sharing.

  • @garthhunt5684
    @garthhunt5684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a pleasure to listen to this grand lady!

  • @tootsla1252
    @tootsla1252 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    How I would have loved to be her friend! RIP Debo. What a gem. So glad I got to visit Chatsworth House last year. Extraordinary!
    Update 2019: I just have to watch this now and then. Laughed until tears rolled again at the "Hubbling Bubbling Gland!"

  • @victoriamclachlan4596
    @victoriamclachlan4596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A wonderful interview, and very worthwhile listening to for anyone who is a fan of the Mitford family, the books that some of them wrote, and the history of that period in general.

  • @marysmyth8288
    @marysmyth8288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I had read all the books on The Mitford Sisters , so fascinating .

  • @janetcoombes8483
    @janetcoombes8483 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Did you know that Debo was a huge Elvis fan and had his music played at her funeral.

    • @michaelmontagu3979
      @michaelmontagu3979 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She had an Elvis telephone in her sitting room and loved visiting Gracelands. She also enjoyed going to an Elvis tribute show.

  • @hhwe9785
    @hhwe9785 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    She was a real Lady! RIP!
    Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". The Dictionnaire de l’Académie française defines it thus: ⁕Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly. ⁕ One must act in a fashion that conforms to one's position, and with the reputation that one has earned. The Oxford English Dictionary says that the term "suggests noble ancestry constrains to honorable behavior; privilege entails to responsibility." Being a noble meant that one had responsibilities to lead, manage and so on. One was not to simply spend one's time in idle pursuits.

  • @jeffallcock4561
    @jeffallcock4561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    'Counting My Chickens' is a delightful read. Also, don't miss her letters to and from Patrick Leigh Fermor, 'In Tearing Haste'. I think she may have been one of the best writers among the Mitford sisters.

    • @michaelmontagu3979
      @michaelmontagu3979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree. What is interesting is that she rarely read a book, despite writing such good ones. One of her friends was Evelyn Waugh. He sent her a copy of his book about John Knox. The Duchess read the inscription, To darling Debo. You won't find a word in here to offend your Protestant sympathy. She read no further. A friend picked up the book, flicked through it, and found totally blank pages.

  • @NormanLowell
    @NormanLowell 13 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Simply wonderful.

  • @catsinhouse
    @catsinhouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "In Tearing Haste" is a wonderful book. Paddy and Debo had a marvelous correspondence lasting decades that is such a delight to read. Highly recommend this book and any of The Duchess's memoirs.

  • @philsooty5421
    @philsooty5421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I met her on a School trip many years ago and found her to be very down to earth but her husband the Duke was a bit stuffy, i belive she was the driving force behind 'Chatsworth' being more accessible

  • @DEB705500
    @DEB705500 12 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    So enjoyable!

  • @ullahvidtfeldt9526
    @ullahvidtfeldt9526 12 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    What a wonderful interview - I love it.

  • @tnakai1971jp
    @tnakai1971jp 12 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I do hppe that these distinguished families will prosper and prosper financially to defend and protect all the wonderful legacies.

    • @busterbiloxi3833
      @busterbiloxi3833 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you crazy? These families are looters and parasites.

    • @brigittethurston6468
      @brigittethurston6468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope we all survive... ❤️❤️❤️😘

  • @KDL861
    @KDL861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Fascinating. I love her. Thanks so much for the upload! I learned so much. And her writing style is magnificent.

  • @melissaalexander176
    @melissaalexander176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Her timing is marvellous.

  • @822003
    @822003 10 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Happy belated 94th birthday Debo!!!

  • @SuperDuchess2009
    @SuperDuchess2009 12 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Beautiful

  • @elisecooper1942
    @elisecooper1942 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I truly enjoyed this. thank you

  • @susandrucker5755
    @susandrucker5755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fabulous Lady!!!!

  • @fossehigh
    @fossehigh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Regardless of Politics. How many people of the 20th Century can profess to have had tea with amongst others Winston Churchill, Jack and Bobby Kennedy. The Queen. George Vl, Queen Mother, Earl Mountbatten, Charles De Gaulle and ... Adolf Hitler However, not necessarily at the same time!

  • @xyzllii
    @xyzllii 8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    She was a bit of giggle unlike many on this planet.

  • @modfus
    @modfus 10 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Very charming lady ....and a very interesting life. Sad to hear she died yesterday

  • @henrygrove100
    @henrygrove100 13 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Simply wonderful, ausgezeichnet!

  • @jeffallcock4561
    @jeffallcock4561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love how she says, "Oh Jack"

  • @eggsandwine
    @eggsandwine 13 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Patrick Leigh Fermor RIP.
    Thank you from Greece.

  • @eshaibraheem4218
    @eshaibraheem4218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many thanks for this.

  • @bunny_smith
    @bunny_smith 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Another camera angle would have been nice. Would have been nice to have seen her face.

  • @jamesaria9050
    @jamesaria9050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    WHAT A VOICE THIS DUCHESS HAS.

  • @deborahannelindley7117
    @deborahannelindley7117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    just lovely

  • @silvergalaxie
    @silvergalaxie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    cannot believe no one made a series, along the production of The Crown style, about this entire family. starting w/ period piece & their strange ,various politics & social lives. while marching thru the 20th century. Here's "2010", Her father was born in 1878(!). g5, 25 Oct2022

  • @julieblackstock8650
    @julieblackstock8650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    so glad I found this! Paddy in the bath with his black socks on did make me laugh

  • @louise-yo7kz
    @louise-yo7kz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    She's so humourous

  • @loisstenner123
    @loisstenner123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I never laugh at comedy or comedians , I am a bit weird, but this had me giggling.

  • @littlebroSW1
    @littlebroSW1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jolly marvellous

  • @CheshireCatOnAcid
    @CheshireCatOnAcid 11 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A sparkling Grande Dame indeed. Never met her, but I once got lost in her yew maze at Chatsworth when I was a nipper, I still have this mild dislike of overly trimmed shrubberies. Didn't know she corresponded with Paddy Fermor for such a long time... my copy of 'In Tearing Haste' arrived today.

  • @yordankandzharov1126
    @yordankandzharov1126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bygone era. Class.

  • @julieb7785
    @julieb7785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Her nature is revealed when she makes eye contact and thanks the anonymous assistant.

  • @davidkennerly
    @davidkennerly 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is this the sister who was neither a communist nor a nazi? How refreshing! Sometimes, though not often, there's something to be said for staid, conventional and unimaginative.

  • @822003
    @822003 10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    RIP Debo

  • @orion8835
    @orion8835 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Poor Debo. Such a mad, mad family. Her poor brother Tom gone as a very young man… her sister/ brother in law early deaths…Her dull marriage was full of drama sudden changes. Later later her husband a drinker who never got over his sudden succession ranting and barking the rest of his life. A very strange existence. The anecdotes are of course humorous yet the change of the political winds must had been so draining for her. Especially as she watched everyone die before her one by one by one from her palace window…

  • @SelinA3080
    @SelinA3080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A wonderful interview! I noticed however that whenever the location of Chatsworth was mentioned (Derbyshire), the subtitles showed it as Devonshire...

  • @mp-lz4he
    @mp-lz4he 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I want the book !

  • @sallydarley9812
    @sallydarley9812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We use a missal and mine was £58 and I think I left in on a chapel pew on Sunday and I ask Our Blessed Mother to show me where I left it.

  • @andrewc.2952
    @andrewc.2952 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So, why did that woman literally toss that blanket onto the Duchess' lap? How completely rude.

  • @nohaylamujer
    @nohaylamujer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Jessica's nickname is not "Decker" but "Decca". Could you correct that in the captions? (15:13 and on)

  • @marko6698
    @marko6698 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Correction: you got LISMORE and County WATERFORD wrong on the sub.

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you. The captions have been edited to reflect your input.

  • @lindaking9222
    @lindaking9222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A remarkable woman for sure

  • @sallydarley9812
    @sallydarley9812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Old pre 1066 family! Wow!

  • @darcyissues
    @darcyissues 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The captions are wrong: 54:31, it's Lord Mountbatten, not Lord Mount Baton.

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you for the edit. The captions have been amended to reflect your input.

  • @nohaylamujer
    @nohaylamujer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    At 24:21 caption should read "Dinky, her daughter with Esmond Romilly" not "Esmond, probably".

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you for the correction. The captions have been edited to reflect your input.

    • @ginacrea7105
      @ginacrea7105 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      EFBensonFan Please tell me are there any descendants any children you seem to know a lot about it I would be very interested thank you

  • @eduardoferreira3347
    @eduardoferreira3347 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    RIP

  • @tnakai1971jp
    @tnakai1971jp 12 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I enjoyed a very different kind of laugh which I have not had the fortune of experiencing for a long time. Those who speak against aristocracies are tasteless and thoughtless.

    • @p.g.j6323
      @p.g.j6323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well said!

  • @nohaylamujer
    @nohaylamujer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    20:08 The poem goes "The hounds and the horses..." not "the hands on the horses".

  • @rns69
    @rns69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The subtitles refer t Drew Heims. It is rather HEINZ, as in the 57 varieties. (Not sure if it should be Drue and not Drew!)

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you. The captions have been edited to reflect the correction.

    • @rns69
      @rns69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How unexpected but welcome and so civilised to be thanked!

  • @clah399
    @clah399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very different life lived than us ordinary folk.

  • @nohaylamujer
    @nohaylamujer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    16:26: The Duchess is referring to cotton wool, not a cotton ball.

  • @nohaylamujer
    @nohaylamujer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Oh dear, it's governesses not "governances" at 19:05 and Esmond Romilly at 21:18. And so on.

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you for the corrections. The captions have been edited to reflect your input.

    • @elisabethtimmons5904
      @elisabethtimmons5904 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is also Paddy, not Patty.....

    • @elisabethtimmons5904
      @elisabethtimmons5904 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      41:11 it should be Poste restante

    • @frickcollection
      @frickcollection  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for the corrections.The captions have been amended to reflect your input.

  • @publiusovidius7386
    @publiusovidius7386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She mistakenly thought that Horace was a G reek poet. Paddy carried with him the Loeb edition of Horace, a Latin poet of Augustan Rome.

  • @nancyhobson9710
    @nancyhobson9710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Chatsworth. Best of the grand houses?

  • @markhenryramsey9132
    @markhenryramsey9132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God bless the Mosley’s and Mitfords.

  • @random22026
    @random22026 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's Official: that vintage has gone FLAT.

  • @petabyt
    @petabyt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool, Frick

  • @flexinglads5439
    @flexinglads5439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why does she call Edmond (Romilly), Decca's first husband, Desmond?

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    She talks more posh than the Queen!!!!

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The German general was Kreipe.

  • @Mohamed.Fathalla6969
    @Mohamed.Fathalla6969 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    may i know he name of the anochour?

  • @robertstevenson364
    @robertstevenson364 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a ridiculously long intro, too bad

  • @remsorian3
    @remsorian3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE YOU,.

  • @soniasarkali
    @soniasarkali 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe she means "El Rocío" not "El Rochero" in Spain.

  • @alexandracuco6352
    @alexandracuco6352 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    big lady....

  • @vidaamoryrisa1493
    @vidaamoryrisa1493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The same tone of voice than her sister Diana...

  • @ambrosejoseph4843
    @ambrosejoseph4843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, that interviewer just threw that blanket at her. So rude.

  • @sara-zh1zv
    @sara-zh1zv ปีที่แล้ว

    Anna. Mitford. Hael. New York
    What. Is. Middle. Initial. Of. Husband. Tomas. Hael?? Wedding date. Of. Anna. Mitford. And. Tomas. Hael.??

  • @redwoods7370
    @redwoods7370 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She has access to some of the best cream on the planet.

    • @GavinsMarineMom
      @GavinsMarineMom 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, how I'd love to try that cream.

    • @nancyhobson9710
      @nancyhobson9710 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am Australian and was just minutes ago thinking it would be good dairy farming land there

  • @kimsherlock8969
    @kimsherlock8969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am still a servant in service to the dollar
    It was the responsibility of the other servants to inform the new maid not to do her work.
    Therefore I view this story is one created by the knowledge of the others serving.
    To see the Lord upset at the expense of a girl to amuse their own needs ....????
    Perspective from a servant in a position that is dependent on the servant hierarchy.