QUEEN MARY KNEW WHAT SHE LIKED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone and welcome back to Queen Elizabeth a Day in her Life. Today we are going to take a look at Queen Mary and how determined she was to build her collections. Sometimes by embarrassing ways.
I did a short of Queen Mary and that got me to expand on it with this video.
If you would like to see the short Here is the link
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I think Queen Mary was directly responsible for the success of HLMTQ. She had a great reverence for the crown and she instilled that in the young Princess Elizabeth. She grew up somewhat poor and I would imagine that caused her to have a need to obtain jewels and material things bc as a young girl they lived barely on the fringes of the RF. But Queen Victoria saw her potential and hand picked her to be the next Queen after Alexandra. Her taste in jewelry was exquisite and the ROyal ladies Should be grateful that she collected such Beautiful pieces of jewelry.
Firstly, and I hope you don't mind, but I would like to pick you up on a small point in your commentary as regards Mrs Greville. She did not acquire her wealth by marrying well, although she did marry well. It was acquired by being the only daughter (Illegitimate) of William McEwan a very wealthy Scottish Brewing Magnate.
May I also commend to everyone two books by James Pope-Hennesy about Queen Mary's life. The first is his authorised biography of Her Majesty. The second is an ancillary book concerning all his interviews and investigations leading up to his final production of the Biography. That book is entitled 'The Quest for Queen Mary' It is highly entertaining.
Queen Mary was a very intelligent woman who to a certain extent was held back by her husband His Majesty King George. An amusing
incident, in the King's Biography, was when they were visiting The National Gallery and the King came upon some 'modern' art. The Queen was at the other end of the gallery and he shouted, 'If you want a laugh, May, come and have a look at this.'
Queen Mary, next to the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, was the greatest Queen Consort of Modern Times.
Queen Mary was human and proved time and time again. Photographs of here can can appear rigidlyly stiff and upright….as if she is wearing a back brace that’s connected to her neck and hidden by those wide bejeweled necklaces. Might this be the reason for her awkward stance……like a Nun in full Habit?
When She made those visits, they new what to hide away. This in itself is movie material. At the time She was doing this, the War had ended and many Aristocratic Families were tearing down or selling off their townhouses and Country Seats. Huge collections were being sold to raise monies for debts. We know this because of Lord Joseph Duveen. We can see where much of it landed…In the USA. To the Stotesbury’s at their palace of Whitemarsh Hall outside of Philadelphia, to the Huntington’s at their Museum in Pasadena California (The Huntington Museum), and even moldings and over-mantles were salvaged and repurposed for their adornment in new houses.
So Queen Mary perhaps knew a thing or two behind the scenes. She didn’t want what might be really valuable to become sent off to the States and lose a National Treasure. I too would do the same thing in Her position.