The Intimate Secrets Inside The Home Of Winston Churchill | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2022
- Alan Titchmarsh and the team go behind the scenes at Sir Winston Churchill's former country house, Chartwell, in the Weald of Kent.
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You said he was one of the most important British people of the 20th century, I would disagree. Sir Winston Churchill was the most single important person in the world in the 20th century. No one man besides him could have done what he did. Our president Roosevelt was a political animal who, though a former naval officer, went the way the political winds took him but Churchill was able, through their shared naval history and friendship, to convince him that the US must step into the fight. Churchill knew when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor he was safe because he knew he could convince Roosevelt of the need of helping Europe, and most importantly, Britain before committing full resources to the war in the Pacific. Without this steadfast knowledge and conviction of the overall picture, the world would be a far different and darker place. Winston Churchill was one of the finest minds regardless of what century and I believe he will be looked upon in the future as one of the great leaders of mankind.
Amen
Churchill was one of the greatest leaders, soeakers and writers in the history of mankind.
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Well said. I agree Winston Churchill saved the World with his sheer determination.
By my standard mr. Churchill was the greatest statesman of all times.
British documentary narrators always seem so enthusiastic.
The greatest man of the 20th century, possibly one of the top ten of all time. Without him Germany would have ruled the World. 🌍🌎🗺️
The greatest leader in the 20th century. I visited his grave in 2006 and felt a strength as though he was present. I lay flowers at his grave four times each year, January 24th, the date he left us; May 8th VE Day in Europe, November 8th, Remembrance Day and November 30th his birthday. May he always be remembered as the man who saved democracy and freedom to the world.
He was a dear friend of General Eisenhower. Churchill got him into painting as a way to relax. Ike painted all the way up to his heart failure.
Booktip: 2020 hardcover " Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera " (208 pages - Unicorn Publishing)
Churchill use to go to Madeira Island, Portugal to paint. Câmara de Lobos has a resturant where he often went.
Awesome.
Thank you for the documentary relating to Winston Churchill. I now see another on the screen, spoken by Alan Titchmarsh, a firm favourite ❤️.
Tears come easily when Winston Churchill is mentioned..
"His purpose, his destiny, gave him the courage" Love that!
The most iconic British Statesman of the twentieth century.
Correction: he was and still is the greatest british statesman of all times.
Chartwell is a delightful place to visit, you could imagine it was such a wonderful place in which to live and work.
My parents survived the London Blitz. Their stories are still in my memory. Much loss and sadness.
This documentary has left out the enormous quantities of champagne & brandy that Churchill consumed every day. He had a remarkable capacity for work and drink.
Asarn a a child of the '60s, my parents taught me about Churchill. He intriguesnme. So courageous. So determined. He speaks to my Canadian Irish stubburniss. JUST DO IT!! I want to learn more about him!
Right man at the right time.
My mum was in the WRAF and she had three other friends that stayed together! They all worked in a department, called SIRO'S it Stood for Special Intelligence Reporting Office! They had to report on at first, the V1's and then the V2's thy used to use a special hotline that went to His office but it was mostly Duncan Sands that answered the phone but mum told me there were times that she knew the phone had been picked up but no one responded and I know my mum wonders who she had reported to? My mum died in 2019 aged 95! To say he was a great leader is a kind of understatement frankly! Great Britain thankfully had the right man at the tight time!
Amazing, thank you, you should be so proud of your mother. 😊😊😊❤️❤️😊
@@albertcross4275 Sorry I did not reply sooner! Thank you kindly for that comment! My mum also used to do plating and used to hear all the pilots talking too! My mum did tell me the following re the V1's I do not know how this was don ok! they used to somehow get info back to the enemy that they had fallen much further south I it would make them send them further North but the Nazis sound realised that!!
Just magnificent. Thank you...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THANK YOU! An Honest & Rare History Documentary about one of the most Fascinating Figures in all of Human History, Sir Winston Churchill - which didn't try to Character Assassinate him from the very beginning, in fact not at all, and is true to who he really was! Delightful to watch, so again; -Thank you, Absolute History! After having studied Winston my entire adult life, Chartwell is at the very top of my Bucket List of places to visit in the UK! And this episode just wet the whistle even more! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇳🇴👍
Churchill definitely seems like a better artist than Hitler
What I see missing from his study is his famous stand-up desk/podium. In his autobiography he describes his speech-writing as pacing up and down the room as said above but also stopping here and there at his standing desk-he never sat down.
Thank you for this priceless, incomparable documentary. Absolutely brilliant!
he was one of the remarkable leaders that shaped the UK.
Bravo to a warm and informative documentary.
Splendid mansion on earth...JBu in heaven Winston Churchill 🙏✨
Wonderful.
Could you please research a bit on Malakand campaign, Churchill was part of it.
Ramsay Clarke was commanding officer.
Lateron he was General Ramsay Clarke, a blue blooded British.
I absolutely love this video. Learning this I did not know. Thank you so much.
Excellent documentary.
Lol, even Churchill did clip-on ties!
Very knowledgeable, thank you
I think it's even more fascinating that the cartoonist Ralph Barton's signature was just under Charlie Chaplin's in that registry book. He was a very famous cartoonist until he committed suicide before his 40th birthday. He knew everyone who was anyone in the 1920s. Unfortunately he's become a forgotten person in history. His signature is rare indeed.
Hey! I really appreciate your message and introducing us (me) to Ralph’s work. Thank you
Brilliant! And very enjoyable to watch. A truly great man 😊
He was the greatest leader of the twentieth century
I love these videos! An absolute treat -- thank you!
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.
I toured a US working LST ship. It was spotlessly clean. You could eat off the floors we walked on. However, to the only lady who was not used to a military ship, as clean as it was, it smelled like the high school boys locker rooms.
Those tunnels must have been the same way. I’m sure like anything, nose blindness occurs.
The men I was touring the ship with never mentioned it. I certainly never said a thing, as I was so grateful to just see it.
Thank you, I enjoyed that very much. Bravo!
He never went to University yet he won a Nobel prize in Literature.
I tried to read his books. Couldn't make it through them.
@@madtabby66 ,develop an attention span!😇
What's with the ads every 5 minutes? It's a good show but there are way too many commercials.
I truly enjoyed this.
Currently working my way through "Franklin and Winston" By Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Grover Gardner. Really, really good.
This explains so much
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Hey neighbor greetings from Connecticut. Yeah I absolutely love British TV shows. So well done & fun to watch. I hope you've seen all the period farm shows , staring Ruth Goodman those are wonderful.
I love this series . Thank you.
Yes he was a legend in his own mind.
And is Still a legend to many today.... and to my mind, deservedly so.
Thank you.
10:07 for the painting part
As your Yankee cousin, I smile at 38:36... "point three eight, Smith & Wesson". You are welcome. 😎
One wonders whether the idea of guerilla tactics for the secret army came from the efficient use thereof by the Boers during the South African War - Winston Churchill was captured in this way.
Great video! I wonder why they wouldn't keep the cigars in a humidor. Seems like they qould be much better preserved.
What is the name of the host of this episode??
He was a great man afrr all. He was half American. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧
it was a shack compared to Blenheim palace
Wait. WSC didn’t actually tie his own bow tie
At 6:40, because the country was bloody well broke mate!!! Couldn't afford a Webley!
What did they do with so many rooms they could not use?
Amazing history❤
Show what he did behind closed doors! Politics in war times is a dirty bloody business to run! It was not easy at all!
this had skipped the whole "financial plight" aspect that had forced the Churchills to relinquish ownership of the place. The new property owner had agreed to allow the Churchills to stay on the premises his entire living years.
Aristocrats tend to be bad at budgeting 😂
@@samwaters1556 plus, just because one is a genius in dealing with war-time economy , doesn't mean one is equally adroit in dealing with peace-time economy.....
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His grand daughter has my maiden last name! Not so normal a name either.
Why did he handle clothes and tie without white gloves?
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Winston Churchill is
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WSS wa lwss was a champion for freedom
DECLARED war on us the finns of SUOMI. And did it on our Independence Day, the 6th of dec 41. And did it 4 NO GOOD reason. Mannerheim had just obstructed our offensive, pressured by the State Dept, against the Murmansk-Leningrad railline. But Winnie-the-Pooh, the most noble war-panda of the era, wanted to make some serious amends on that. Concurrently, he decided what he decided, AND did his deed towards the nation he had mere 2 yrs prior declared to be "the Light of Hope & the Volition of Unvarnished Patriotic Beauty of not just the harsh north but that of the whole humankind" ...(etc.)
Cordially suggest we, the living ones, (not the dead ones ...) consequently & finally, grant this profound friend of ours the lofty monument-title of The Hypocrite Of The Century. Ahh, no way, can t be done...that belongs to Mr.Obama ....the man of the surgical surge...but oh, ... rereverse : It CAN be awarded - that heel ruled during a different century ...
And (PS.) HMS VICTORIOUS even bombed the northernmost harboUr of Finland in july - sept 41, and did it twice !!! w civilians killed AND, I STRESS, WITHOUT A DECLARATION OF WAR, so a war-crime. And nearly a taboo subject matter incident in Albion STILL.
Lest we 4get .... ... .. .
"No living man [Churchill] bears so great a responsibility for the bloodshed of this war as this posturing lackey of Judah. At the same time, no more fitting representative could be found for the rotten old system against which Germany has been compelled to fight." - William Joyce, "Twilight Over England", 1940
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Churchill is the victim of a little village that could have military exercises
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And here we are... digging trenches and hiding in root cellars in Ukraine, just like World War 2 never ended...
This man touching everything in the museum with bare hands. Its rude
World War winner, good painter...he was Hitler wanted to be :D
To bad he looked at people like me as a lower class "not quite as good as us" was how he treated natives ect. Much the same was as are liberal governments are today
Did he? Or do we think that as we think all with money must feel?
He loved working class Britons. He loved every inch of England… What nonsense you speak. He was born to extreme privilege - in a class ridden society - but he above all other Lords bulldozed through all the barriers to let his love of the lower classes be known. His favourite coastal town was Margate! He had a cat called Margate!
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Shafique thank you 💜💕
Half BRITISH! 😆
Nothing but adulation. So boring and useless.
Let's take a moment to remember the deaths, torture and centuries of persecution and repression of all those nations Churchill and Roosevelt didn't bother to fight on for, and whom they sacrificed by throwing them to the Soviet Union in exchange for the comfortable, untroubled, free existence at the more prosperous and fortunate side of the Iron Curtain, blind and deaf to the suffering of the betrayed Eastern European nations who fought by their side.
Not to mention Churchill setting troops on his own people, the Black and Tans on the Irish, allowing Millions to die in India, Galipolli... Yet we have all this toe curling sycophancy. The way they carry on you would think he fought the war all on his Own! Makes you wonder how he fitted in all those naps, painting and baths between digging tunnels, writing speeches, bombing Germany, appearing Saviour like on clifftops....
This idea that the Brits worshipped him is a myth. The people did not 'choose him' they had no say in the matter. He was actually disliked Chamberlain had been trying to form a Coalition , but Labour said they would not work with him, but would work with another Tory. There were only 2 candidates! Churchill and Halifax. Halifax was a Lord, so felt he could not serve as PM . No one really wanted Churchill, Tories included, but he was the only one available. The Actual view of the people was he was not PM material in Peace time, but he was 'the right man for the job, at That time;' As my mother put it 'He was a good liar, and we needed a good liar' They booted him out soon enough after the war! But this is the Beeb I think, so not known for their reliability!
Churchill was the ONLY leader still arguing to fight on against Stalin, you fool! Nobody in Britain wanted to listen and he was VOTED OUT OF OFFICE!
What on Earth are you talking about?
@@matthewstokes1608 Yet you have never stopped to ask yourself Why he was voted out! Bless! And I always find it is the foolish who start throwing it around as an insult at others, because they are out of their depth.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Yes, he wanted to fight Stalin - he wanted to prevent Socialism from taking hold… Shame that the Brits were too tired of war to stop the obviously maniacal tyrant Stalin and the lying left - which would have saved millions of lives all over the world…
But, he was voted back in again though - wasn’t he?
Yet you have never stopped to ask yourself why…
Bless!
@@matthewstokes1608 I will be the first to admit that I don't know history as well as I should. But I thought Churchill was voted out of office because he wanted to do a military campaign against India and that troublesome man Ghandi whom he despised.
As an Islamophobe and Racist,
with the blood of millions on his hands -
_"one of the greatest Britons of the 20th century."_
I think your man bun is too tight.
True, and Hitler was an Islamophile. Get over it.
Im mean i don t see the problem
Cry with your woke eyes...🙄🤣🤣
@@SMichaelDeHart
Woke eyes?
So if I tell you Epstein was a pedo and a child trafficker it will be with my woke eyes as well...
An old Tory Racist. Like so many still today !!!!
He was no friend of art, he had let bombed german towns and had not felt bad about destroying so much architecture and art.
Ditto
@Johannes and everywhere else and the Nazis stole how many paintings?
It's called War...deal with it!!
art and wars are different things, it has nothing to do with any war
@@Josef_Amberger okay scooter...
He's war criminal
Lmao 🤣 🤣
@@larkinblake1327 kind of ironic, huh?
@@SMichaelDeHart still asleep for facts ....
@@larkinblake1327 hilrious how you only know the history your handlers gave you
@@josklos2798 what??!! Awaken me Einstein...
Awesome home. What a interesting man. Such cool History.
Thank you.