Tragically, in the 1950's over a hundred ancient ancestral seats were destroyed because their owners could neither afford their upkeep or the 89 per cent taxes that they had to pay. Fortunately, the remaining great houses were opened up to the public for a fee on certain days and that is how they survived. Some were converted into posh hotels, and others rented to film and documentary makers like Brideshead Revisited and Downton Abbey. These ancient great houses are not only England's heritage, they are the world's heritage. They are mankind's heritage. Thank you for uploading this!
I love their humility and his appreciation and almost wonder at things he lives with every day. That's rather special. And the butler seems a lovely man.
Hi Sue, I believe this is due to the US audience (not completely sure) as a previous UK series The Edwardian Country House was renamed Manor House for the US market. The term manor houses appears to be used interchangeably with stately homes.
I am so very happy that the society for the care and up keep of these great mannors and grounds are taken care of. I have had the pleasure of touring a few in England and here in Europe. It is a dream like walk through history itself. Wonderful and I thought that the servants were of a higher consideration than other trades, so not true and a harsh life to be sure.
Yes the aristocracy and landed gentry exploited and kept down the masses for over a thousand years. Their mansions were built on land taken from the people and constructed by labour on pitiful wages. The staff were indentured servants and often treated like furniture. I don't see these places as something to have national pride in, I see them as an awful reminder of how the lower classes were treated.
These manors were major employers in the building and maintaining of them for many years. People forget most of these were built before during the industrial age. Without them a lot of people would not have had jobs.
Like the point, but I highly disagree on this regard: "We Brits have nothing to be proud..." Perhaps if we focus on the good things we have. I am danish/swedish, but my great-grandmother was english and very proud of her heritage that she passed it on to us. Being british/english is more than just the manor houses :D
Thanks so much for uploading this. I missed most of the program on tv and it would not play on my iphone so I was thrilled to find it on youtube. I enjoyed it.
I simply adore British manor houses! This noble sense of continuity they have. You can find restoration, georgian, regency, victorian and edwardian pieces blend all together in a most aristocratic result... Private architecture and genteel interior decoration at its best! We support National Trust!!!
They are the nation’s cultural heritage. The arts inside should be seen by everyone. The families that collected them hold them and maintain these houses are in stewardship for the nation.
Lord Palmer's TH-cam interviews have been purged. I would like to see them upload. He told the story of how when he got hired in the family business he thought he was going to have a good position and someone threw a bucket at him and a razor blade and told him to go scrape off the gum off the women's lavatory floor.
Because it was, and is a privilege. The domestic staff back in the day tried very hard to get such positions because they paid well, and had better conditions than working in rougher employment. Ignore the envious monkeys.
Britain, and this particular class, were the first in the world to abolish slavery, and they fought a war to stop it. Before you post such idiotic inanities, check your history.
How very sad, how tragic, that the 1st consequences of industialization - which increased productivity, so in theory should have increased wealth for everyone, even if not equally - were simply to drive the two extremes further apart. That is the very essence of waste: starvation in the face of plenty. Surely there must have been some sense in which the individuals at the top felt compelled - not acting by choice - to keep being more extravagant. Can they all be sociopaths?? I feel so naive.
Look at the billionaires nowadays. They could solve world hunger together and still be very wealthy but they simply….don’t. Instead they build phallic rockets in a “mine’s better than yours” competition.
Few of us are given the gift of accurate appraisal. As an American I favor the BBC's view on USA's politics and history. Perhaps a foreign cousin might offer a perspective we can not see from our own vantage point?
There is something I want to ask; I don't know how many English people would be watching this American PBS version of this video, but: do people think that WWI somehow functioned as (took the place of) revolution as a way of ending the extreme differences between the aristocracy & the laboring people in England? And do you think it just happened to be timely; that there would have been some other kind of revoultion if the war hadn't intervened? Or am I getting into the area of conspiracy theory?
Yeah, that was one advantage. You didn't have to spend much money on yourself (if at all) so almost all the cash you made could be saved or sent to your family. Many domestic workers were young people who did send all their money back to their family. In the Edwardian period, however, many domestic servants did start to leave for better jobs and those that stayed did start to demand better pay and working conditions.
I read a memoir : "The Road to Nab's End"- a description of life at the bottom- his grandmother starved to death. His bright sister couldn't make use of a scholarship because- no shoes. American version: vast wealth of places like parts of California and Manhattan, Nantucket, etc. 32 million for a penthouse apartment in NYC. And one in four American children are on food stamps (EBT card). Middle class jobs are evaporating. The real unemployment rate is much higher. So... when does WW3 start?
The super wealthy and the politicians who support them keep the middle and lower classes in control by distracting them with issues that divide them and which make them hate / distrust each other -- such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religious intolerance, misogyny, etc.
Reality: these are those who practiced colonization, but notice their priorities: curtains cost $1,000,000.00 (one MILLION DOLLARS); and the HUMANS that serve in their homes earn $50.00 per YEAR!!! Absolutely horrific!!!
I had a friend who LOVED horses. She worked one summer mucking out barns. Horses became much less important to her. Have you smelled a dirty barn? I can still smell our horses.
Yes, it seems that she was a good ruler for the country but not that good as mother. With her always stating to her kids that she will never love anyone as much as she did her husband. I must say, she sounds like a bad mother. And also allegations that her children were mistreated by nannies tells you that she didnt want or couldnt see that.
I disagree that the manor house was in its heyday 100 years ago, because technology was having its impact. But it certainly still existed in all it's glory.
The great Edwardian meritocrats -- images of General Kitchener, HH Asquith's family etc -- keep being shown as 'the aristocracy.' As an American I must ask: Does the BBC research department (if there is one) not know better?
It's like a real life Downton Abbey - they even have the American lady of the house! I have to say, now that these people are the curious minorities, I find it all quite fascinating to watch. I doubt I'd have thought that way had I been around in Edwardian times, though. Us lower orders have come a very long way in the past 100 years, thank the lord!
ecureuil85 She's already had her lunch served to her, wrapped in a road map - back to Texas. They're divorced since this feature was filmed. 'Tis sad, no ?
+ecureuil85 FFS. ".....a real life Downton Abbey" ???? Are you a blithering idiot? Downton Abbey was based on this crap. Not the other way around. "Us lower orders have come a very long way in the past 100 years...." "lower orders?" You may see yourself as belonging to the "lower orders" Bought into the illusion have you?
I just made some (naive) comments to this video, then read your comment. I think people tolerate an incredible amount of inequality before they develop the desperation to revolt, because if it comes, there will be terrible loss of life - people sense this even if they don't know it. I suspect they have to feel their chance of dying if they revolt is drawing closer to their chance of dying if they don't. Do you do think WWI took the place of revolution? Deliberately, by the aristocracy? WWII?
I enjoyed this documentary but found it rather confusing as the narrator talked about US dollars yet it’s about the British aristocracy who use pounds sterling… The cost of things should have been related in British pounds not the American currency
The House of Lords should have been abolished, it isn't something that's just for show. The British nobility and royalty still control a lot of the land in Britain and dominate certain sectors. Did you know that the Queen of England has a virtual monopoly on mineral rights for radioactive materials? No one person should have that much influence.
Totally agree with im in line to several titles like a duck and a Earl but they don't pay anything I heard I will just have a huge house that will be empty
I am an uneducated Japanese of humble means and I am not qualified to make comments on matters of state, certainly not those of another country, but I feel that Britain should preserve her heritage, including the House of Lords. I think reforms with good sense of balance is called for. Outright abolitions of institutions are unlikely to serve the best interest of Britain. "Britain for the British" is of course important but "Britain in the modern world" deserves higher consideration.
They were the ones who were the real aristocracy ! You'd be surprised , but in some households the butler was the one who ruled ! After all he was really the only one who knew where everything was , who everyone was , what job everyone had , how much everyone was paid , how much the cook was stealing and selling out the back door , what footman was nipping at the old vintages in the wine seller and was about to get the sack , and basicly knew more about the lord and ladies children than they did themselves . so you see , the butler and the housekeeper were actually the lord and lady of the manor , and the ones with the titles just lived there . after all when the titled ones died , and their children inherited the butler will still be there running the place like nothing had ever changed . unless of course the eldest son lost it gambling .
I'm fascinated by the artistic beauty of the interiors and the exquisite taste of all the many British manor houses, not the pretentious, idolatrous aristocracy title thing--which is all due to somebody being rewarded land for fighting in a war,ultimately. Britain has a scourge of class arrogance and rabid foaming at the mouth class warfare, envy based leftism that is truly horrifying, which you don't see in Canada, Australia or the U.S. I like how soft spoken, gracious and polite the civilized folk of Britain are. Reminds me of traditional Southerners or old Mid Westerners in the U.S.. British and other Europeans have a respect for tradition and timeless beauty that Americans, Canadians and Australians simply don't have anymore, which can be brought back. The latter are into the sterile lines of "modern" architecture and "modern" decor, which is soulless and vapid. That is why in England they are trying to bring back beautiful architecture.
Why are you picking on Americans? In this whole country there are about 20 houses comparable to "The English Manor House" (or whatever type of house you want to call a huge lavish English country house situated on the owner's vast land holdings), and these are not tied to land but usually to beachfront large lots for seasonal recreation in a Rhode Island, Long Island, and. Few other paces like Asheville NC which the Vanderbilts DID tie to vast acreages of mountain forests. The others were the non profit vacation homes of the Gilded Age robber barons or "captains of industry" (most were a mix who were huge philanthropists as well as hugely wealthy short lived dynasties)such as the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Frisks, Goulds, Astors, and a few others. They were not members of the House of Lords (there isn't one), they didn't hold titles (there aren't any), they were simply obscenely rich and became so through legal and illegal ways. The illegal ways, or most of them, were put a stop to by President Theodore Roosevelt who had grown up on the same posh Manhattan block as the family friends he was at the time of his presidency "bringing to heel" to make opportunities fair and equal for any investor/inventor.the simple act is that in the UK or the US, people are fascinated by the opulence of these beautiful homes, and like to go visit them. In the US, only 2 of these are privately owned, Donald Trump's Mar a Lago which survives as a private club, and some Vanderbilt cousin who kept Biltmore in North Carolina and some of its acreage by opening it to the public. The rest are run by foundations, not a National Trust, but the means of saving the homes is neither here nor there:Tourists like pay to to go see them because they're gorgeous and it's nice to imagine what it would be like to be richer than Fort Knox. People of great wealth are building homes just as expensive today minus the servants' quarters. I have absolutely no problem with how many and what size homes are built by Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates or Richard Branson. It's fine with me if your knickers are in a twist that ever an Althorp or a Blenheim was built. Good God, the Americans didn't do it. The UK was still putting up with rolling blackouts while the US was sending someone to the moon.
Today there is something grisly about the Edwardian era. Being English I find it grotesque and embarrassing. The show of wealth and the total disregard of human beings I find distasteful. My late husband a GP felt the whole lot of these building should be pulled down and I agree with him. This series shows why. We Brits have nothing to be proud of and it still continues today. Our Royal Family is of this mould and until recently paid not one penny in tax. Just take,and a wave of the hand.
I’m glad this sort of inequality has (mostly) gone and the aristocracy is dying but why tear down the beautiful buildings built by some of the greatest architects of their age? Let’s keep the building and the art as state owned enterprises/hotels for the general public or something
Lord Palmer :Always putting a price on everything is such a demonstration of vulgarity. But then again he did hook up with a Texan.Those drapes? The family got ripped off.
So how did these aristocrats view themselves as the human equivalent of the thoroughbred horse with all the inbreeding they did? I mean they have to have known, from so many years of breeding animals, that inbreeding is bad. Yet they did it to themselves; why didn't they know that was bad too and that reproducing with non-aristocrats would keep the line healthy and strong?
Kyle Blank okay here it is the reason for the interbreeding of Royal blood lines is to secure your position and title and to unsightly family’s and treaties amongst country’s and the family’s thought it would be a good match And not only that there are succession laws that only males could rule and gain property so if your uncle had no mail line only daughters then you married your cousin to keep the lands in the family that’s why it was done and the marriages were arranged Hell my grandpapa and grandmama met the day of there wedding and they were 2nd cousins ounce removed And there old European old money from Russia
Many of the children born to aristos, particularly the younger ones, were not theirs biologically (affairs were rampant due to arranged marriages) or most of these inbreds would have gone the way of the Hapsburgs.
Japan is now a better place because we learnt from others. We were given a bitter lesson - don't try to take territories just because the British and the French were doing the same from long ago. Japan still has problems, but on the whole, it is a nice place. Britain is a wonderful place, I just feel that a few things are about to crumble into pieces. The House of Lords has been in effect a powerless upper house for many years. I think T B tried to make his mark on something rather useless.
The narrator talks about the aristocrats ignoring the situation of the poor. I wonder how many people of wealth did acts of kindness and philanthropy without drawing attention to themselves, obeying the Biblical admonition of not letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing, remembering what is in the Gospel about how if one draws attention to one's good deeds then the earthly reward is all one gets, none in Heaven. Yes extravagance and inequity but surely good things were done too.
I agree, Mike: this is not serious, scholarly viewing. I believe it's over-simplified, over-dramatic and biased against the aristocracy. The system had its flaws, all right, and the aristocrats weren't/aren't perfect but the way classes are portrayed here makes me think "propaganda".
Is that valuation of US$20 million for the rebuild of Manderston correct if so it is a steal. A Gulfstream G550 cost more. A boat for 20 mil will hardly stir any waves in Monaco. The decorator has taste looks better than some New York pent houses that cost loads more.
Well, we all feel like that at times. We recently had a politician of high profile trying to justify wartime prostitutions "supposedly" arranged by Japanese government or the Imperial Japanese Army. I shall refrain from making comments on that matter as I am no expert. You should not feel ashamed of being Americans. We all love you for all the good things you have done on Japan. Every country has its forte and weakness. Our own emotions on national pride swings all the time.
This production is so biased towards the left wing it distorts the actual truth. For example,the servants wages were low BUT what the film fails to mention was free housing, free uniform, free food and in some cases free medical care. Most employers were kind and considerate towards their staff despite the long hours. As for the notion of the staff not being seen or heard, that may seem degrading by today's way of thinking but was the norm at the time and therefore the staff would not have expected anything different. Being in domestic service was a huge factor in the overall national employment before the First World War.
Aye, indeed. Anything produced by British media,especially the BBC will have a class warfare loving, socialist, envy based perspective that will demonize anybody who is successful or hard working.
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People knew and understood their places and duties, at that Time Period. And today’s sick society, sodomites and SJW’s demanding to be as royalty ! When in fact, these are the lowest of ignorant trash.
It's easier to drive a coach and horses thru your Bible quotes than it is a camel thru your misuse of the word 'then'. BTW the Hebrew for camel is the same as or related to Gimel, the name of the letter G in the Hebrew alphabet and "eye of a needle" is one of the meanings of Qoph, the name of the letter representing a K sound (transcribed as a Q). Both have meanings in Jewish mysticism (such as Qabalah) so when Jesus said this (or the words were put in his possibly fictional mouth) he may have had a mystical meaning "You cannot achieve a 'gimel' state thru 'qoph' type activities".
I am Portuguese, French Ancient Egyptian, Scottish, and other ancient Royalty but all people see in me is a black person, my family made paper money I am from the Smiley family of Scotland.
Two sharks meet in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. "How are you?" asks one shark. "Not too good. I ate an American a week ago and my guts are still glued together with chewing gum. And you?". "It's even worse. I ate a Russian general a week ago and I am still shitting medals". Replace the second shark with a British prince, wearing more medals than an average serviceman may earn in three lifetimes of military service.
One and a half million servants who could have been educated, could have done something better with their lives than cleaning chamber pots. Millions of wasted human lives. Pitiful.
The entire Ego Minded Social Pecking Order is just really out dated, if they enjoy it so be it, but it just is tiresome. Quirky - habits. King Edward is the only of the Royal line that "feels realistic", Then Diana later offered a most warm and empathetic grace . It is quite a hollow structure. We choose our place through our thoughts, if you desire it then you should have it, but it comes through Thought rather than physical efforting. The lady from Texas is lovely.
Tragically, in the 1950's over a hundred ancient ancestral seats were destroyed because their owners could neither afford their upkeep or the 89 per cent taxes that they had to pay. Fortunately, the remaining great houses were opened up to the public for a fee on certain days and that is how they survived. Some were converted into posh hotels, and others rented to film and documentary makers like Brideshead Revisited and Downton Abbey.
These ancient great houses are not only England's heritage, they are the world's heritage. They are mankind's heritage.
Thank you for uploading this!
I missed these programmes on TV, and I look forward to watching them here on UTube. Thank you for posting these for others to share. Diana.
I love their humility and his appreciation and almost wonder at things he lives with every day. That's rather special. And the butler seems a lovely man.
Magnificent architecture. We will never again see such quality of craftsmanship.
We will once we get rid of human rights and punish those who don't do a good job by flogging them.
@@strictlyyoutube6881 Let me guess. You live in a tiny house made of recycled pallets.
@@nikkil764 Was your great great grandfather a chimney sweep?
Hi Sue, I believe this is due to the US audience (not completely sure) as a previous UK series The Edwardian Country House was renamed Manor House for the US market. The term manor houses appears to be used interchangeably with stately homes.
This really is quite a realistic view into the lives of aristocratic family's in Britain so thank you for the upload
No it really isn't. I counted 17 errors and I'm only 12 minutes in. It must have been made by Americans.
I am so very happy that the society for the care and up keep of these great mannors and grounds are taken care of. I have had the pleasure of touring a few in England and here in Europe. It is a dream like walk through history itself. Wonderful and I thought that the servants were of a higher consideration than other trades, so not true and a harsh life to be sure.
Yes the aristocracy and landed gentry exploited and kept down the masses for over a thousand years. Their mansions were built on land taken from the people and constructed by labour on pitiful wages. The staff were indentured servants and often treated like furniture. I don't see these places as something to have national pride in, I see them as an awful reminder of how the lower classes were treated.
This is marvelous. Thank you so much for uploading this.
These manors were major employers in the building and maintaining of them for many years. People forget most of these were built before during the industrial age. Without them a lot of people would not have had jobs.
Like the point, but I highly disagree on this regard: "We Brits have nothing to be proud..." Perhaps if we focus on the good things we have. I am danish/swedish, but my great-grandmother was english and very proud of her heritage that she passed it on to us. Being british/english is more than just the manor houses :D
I find this show fascinating, thanks for posting!
Thanks so much for uploading this. I missed most of the program on tv and it would not play on my iphone so I was thrilled to find it on youtube. I enjoyed it.
Samuel west, your voice is the best!
Wow, that chandelier is mesmerising me. Appreciate the upload.
Coming from the states where monarchy never existed i find it fascinating that there are real live Kings Queens etc exist. Love it
I simply adore British manor houses! This noble sense of continuity they have. You can find restoration, georgian, regency, victorian and edwardian pieces blend all together in a most aristocratic result... Private architecture and genteel interior decoration at its best! We support National Trust!!!
No offence but the great houses are not manor houses they are stately homes or mansions these programs would get there facts right
They are the nation’s cultural heritage. The arts inside should be seen by everyone. The families that collected them hold them and maintain these houses are in stewardship for the nation.
Thank you so much for this show...really enjoyed it!
Superb! An absolute "Must see" !
I like the Manor House and the Secrets and I hope for new episodes.
Lord Palmer's TH-cam interviews have been purged. I would like to see them upload. He told the story of how when he got hired in the family business he thought he was going to have a good position and someone threw a bucket at him and a razor blade and told him to go scrape off the gum off the women's lavatory floor.
Wouldve loved to see how they built these back then.
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Brilliant program...
A lot of books ive read made me think that the commoners found it a privilege to work in the castles.
They do now don't they. We know who wrote them why.
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You're correct. PR -
Because it was, and is a privilege. The domestic staff back in the day tried very hard to get such positions because they paid well, and had better conditions than working in rougher employment. Ignore the envious monkeys.
Despite their links to the "SLAVE TRADE" It is still nice to know that many of these beautiful houses have been preserved!
Britain, and this particular class, were the first in the world to abolish slavery, and they fought a war to stop it. Before you post such idiotic inanities, check your history.
How very sad, how tragic, that the 1st consequences of industialization - which increased productivity, so in theory should have increased wealth for everyone, even if not equally - were simply to drive the two extremes further apart. That is the very essence of waste: starvation in the face of plenty.
Surely there must have been some sense in which the individuals at the top felt compelled - not acting by choice - to keep being more extravagant. Can they all be sociopaths?? I feel so naive.
Look at the billionaires nowadays. They could solve world hunger together and still be very wealthy but they simply….don’t. Instead they build phallic rockets in a “mine’s better than yours” competition.
Has anyone seen the you tube videos, by the titles "EMPIRES OF DIRT?" They are very interesting in deed!
This documentary may have British actors, and a narrator with an English accent, but this is a US documentary, written and produced by PBS,.
Few of us are given the gift of accurate appraisal. As an American I favor the BBC's view on USA's politics and history. Perhaps a foreign cousin might offer a perspective we can not see from our own vantage point?
So many errors I couldn't keep watching it.
So what? It’s a good production and the home owners made money.
What is so sad is this is exactly where America is heading at breakneck speed and most Americans can not (or refuse to) see it.
There is something I want to ask; I don't know how many English people would be watching this American PBS version of this video, but: do people think that WWI somehow functioned as (took the place of) revolution as a way of ending the extreme differences between the aristocracy & the laboring people in England? And do you think it just happened to be timely; that there would have been some other kind of revoultion if the war hadn't intervened? Or am I getting into the area of conspiracy theory?
What about the Viscount’s & Baronets?
Yeah, that was one advantage. You didn't have to spend much money on yourself (if at all) so almost all the cash you made could be saved or sent to your family. Many domestic workers were young people who did send all their money back to their family. In the Edwardian period, however, many domestic servants did start to leave for better jobs and those that stayed did start to demand better pay and working conditions.
wow such beautiful homes.
I read a memoir : "The Road to Nab's End"- a description of life at the bottom- his grandmother starved to death. His bright sister couldn't make use of a scholarship because- no shoes.
American version: vast wealth of places like parts of California and Manhattan, Nantucket, etc. 32 million for a penthouse apartment in NYC. And one in four American children are on food stamps (EBT card).
Middle class jobs are evaporating. The real unemployment rate is much higher.
So... when does WW3 start?
The super wealthy and the politicians who support them keep the middle and lower classes in control by distracting them with issues that divide them and which make them hate / distrust each other -- such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religious intolerance, misogyny, etc.
Downton Abbey sent me here.
Reality: these are those who practiced colonization, but notice their priorities: curtains cost $1,000,000.00 (one MILLION DOLLARS); and the HUMANS that serve in their homes earn $50.00 per YEAR!!! Absolutely horrific!!!
The best job, IMO, would have been taking care of the horses...mucking out a barn being preferable to emptying chamber pots.
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I'd probably like the horses better anyway. . . .
Me too. Also I'd take the dogs for loooonnnggg walks
gmaureen / Very Romantic of you.
I had a friend who LOVED horses. She worked one summer mucking out barns. Horses became much less important to her. Have you smelled a dirty barn? I can still smell our horses.
Edward was the playboy King as his mother Queen Victoria had ruled for so long and she wouldn't give him anything to do.
Yes, it seems that she was a good ruler for the country but not that good as mother. With her always stating to her kids that she will never love anyone as much as she did her husband. I must say, she sounds like a bad mother. And also allegations that her children were mistreated by nannies tells you that she didnt want or couldnt see that.
I disagree that the manor house was in its heyday 100 years ago, because technology was having its impact. But it certainly still existed in all it's glory.
When he said to imagine the sound of music being played in the great hall I imagined Christopher Plummer singing Edelweiss. Sorry..lol
More like Mozart, Vivaldi, in person.
I'm confused. Most of these houses aren't manor houses
It reminds me of downton abbey house and lifestyle
The great Edwardian meritocrats -- images of General Kitchener, HH Asquith's family etc -- keep being shown as 'the aristocracy.' As an American I must ask: Does the BBC research department (if there is one) not know better?
I think that despite the hard work of the servants, working in a House was steady employment and you usually had your own room and board.
Irrepressible forces? Try family feud that cost lives. Two kings, cousins, grandchildren of Queen Victoria couldn’t get along.
It's like a real life Downton Abbey - they even have the American lady of the house! I have to say, now that these people are the curious minorities, I find it all quite fascinating to watch. I doubt I'd have thought that way had I been around in Edwardian times, though. Us lower orders have come a very long way in the past 100 years, thank the lord!
ecureuil85 She's already had her lunch served to her, wrapped in a road map - back to Texas. They're divorced since this feature was filmed. 'Tis sad, no ?
James Claude How come they divorced?
Kyle Blank Private reply sent.
James Claude Thanks, but how do I access the private reply on here?
+ecureuil85 FFS. ".....a real life Downton Abbey" ???? Are you a blithering idiot? Downton Abbey was based on this crap. Not the other way around. "Us lower orders have come a very long way in the past 100 years...." "lower orders?" You may see yourself as belonging to the "lower orders" Bought into the illusion have you?
The Aristocracy, Torries, were not about to give up their wealth and status, once both world wars were immanent.
I just made some (naive) comments to this video, then read your comment.
I think people tolerate an incredible amount of inequality before they develop the desperation to revolt, because if it comes, there will be terrible loss of life - people sense this even if they don't know it. I suspect they have to feel their chance of dying if they revolt is drawing closer to their chance of dying if they don't.
Do you do think WWI took the place of revolution? Deliberately, by the aristocracy? WWII?
I enjoyed this documentary but found it rather confusing as the narrator talked about US dollars yet it’s about the British aristocracy who use pounds sterling… The cost of things should have been related in British pounds not the American currency
The House of Lords should have been abolished, it isn't something that's just for show. The British nobility and royalty still control a lot of the land in Britain and dominate certain sectors. Did you know that the Queen of England has a virtual monopoly on mineral rights for radioactive materials? No one person should have that much influence.
My father is a viscount and we're completely broke; a title doesn't pay the bills.
Totally agree with im in line to several titles like a duck and a Earl but they don't pay anything I heard I will just have a huge house that will be empty
@@robertvangilder9108 right, sure? A bit of a fantasist, aren't we?
Vauxhall used to make Viscounts but they all rusted away😬
Inheritance tax has finished you off?
@@robertvangilder9108 You're going to be a Duck?
I am an uneducated Japanese of humble means and I am not qualified to make comments on matters of state, certainly not those of another country, but I feel that Britain should preserve her heritage, including the House of Lords.
I think reforms with good sense of balance is called for. Outright abolitions of institutions are unlikely to serve the best interest of Britain.
"Britain for the British" is of course important but "Britain in the modern world" deserves higher consideration.
Like you said you should mind your own business
Imagine working as a butler for 25 years in the same house; OMG, what an indefatigable!
They were the ones who were the real aristocracy ! You'd be surprised , but in some households the butler was the one who ruled ! After all he was really the only one who knew where everything was , who everyone was , what job everyone had , how much everyone was paid , how much the cook was stealing and selling out the back door , what footman was nipping at the old vintages in the wine seller and was about to get the sack , and basicly knew more about the lord and ladies children than they did themselves . so you see , the butler and the housekeeper were actually the lord and lady of the manor , and the ones with the titles just lived there . after all when the titled ones died , and their children inherited the butler will still be there running the place like nothing had ever changed . unless of course the eldest son lost it gambling .
The first shots are not of manor houses but stately homes, a great difference................
I'm fascinated by the artistic beauty of the interiors and the exquisite taste of all the many British manor houses, not the pretentious, idolatrous aristocracy title thing--which is all due to somebody being rewarded land for fighting in a war,ultimately. Britain has a scourge of class arrogance and rabid foaming at the mouth class warfare, envy based leftism that is truly horrifying, which you don't see in Canada, Australia or the U.S. I like how soft spoken, gracious and polite the civilized folk of Britain are. Reminds me of traditional Southerners or old Mid Westerners in the U.S.. British and other Europeans have a respect for tradition and timeless beauty that Americans, Canadians and Australians simply don't have anymore, which can be brought back. The latter are into the sterile lines of "modern" architecture and "modern" decor, which is soulless and vapid. That is why in England they are trying to bring back beautiful architecture.
Does anybody know if the music throughout the show is part of a movie score? It sounds very familiar.
Why are you picking on Americans? In this whole country there are about 20 houses comparable to "The English Manor House" (or whatever type of house you want to call a huge lavish English country house situated on the owner's vast land holdings), and these are not tied to land but usually to beachfront large lots for seasonal recreation in a Rhode Island, Long Island, and. Few other paces like Asheville NC which the Vanderbilts DID tie to vast acreages of mountain forests. The others were the non profit vacation homes of the Gilded Age robber barons or "captains of industry" (most were a mix who were huge philanthropists as well as hugely wealthy short lived dynasties)such as the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Frisks, Goulds, Astors, and a few others. They were not members of the House of Lords (there isn't one), they didn't hold titles (there aren't any), they were simply obscenely rich and became so through legal and illegal ways. The illegal ways, or most of them, were put a stop to by President Theodore Roosevelt who had grown up on the same posh Manhattan block as the family friends he was at the time of his presidency "bringing to heel" to make opportunities fair and equal for any investor/inventor.the simple act is that in the UK or the US, people are fascinated by the opulence of these beautiful homes, and like to go visit them. In the US, only 2 of these are privately owned, Donald Trump's Mar a Lago which survives as a private club, and some Vanderbilt cousin who kept Biltmore in North Carolina and some of its acreage by opening it to the public. The rest are run by foundations, not a National Trust, but the means of saving the homes is neither here nor there:Tourists like pay to to go see them because they're gorgeous and it's nice to imagine what it would be like to be richer than Fort Knox. People of great wealth are building homes just as expensive today minus the servants' quarters. I have absolutely no problem with how many and what size homes are built by Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates or Richard Branson. It's fine with me if your knickers are in a twist that ever an Althorp or a Blenheim was built. Good God, the Americans didn't do it. The UK was still putting up with rolling blackouts while the US was sending someone to the moon.
I can't see the enormous difference. Every stately home is first and foremost a manor house.
Thanks for that Patrick, I might have guessed it was something like this and I know I should't let it bother me but I do hate sloppy terminology.
Is this the episode "Secrets of Chatsworth"?
If you marry into this family and this house, you will find it is a Jail.
A great pity the House of Lords wasn't abolished as a consequence of these changes.
Downton Abbey vibes
You skipped Marquess
Rich Ryan and viscounts
Did she say "Texas"?
Today there is something grisly about the Edwardian era. Being English I find it grotesque and embarrassing. The show of wealth and the total disregard of human beings I find distasteful. My late husband a GP felt the whole lot of these building should be pulled down and I agree with him. This series shows why. We Brits have nothing to be proud of and it still continues today. Our Royal Family is of this mould and until recently paid not one penny in tax. Just take,and a wave of the hand.
And what should the aristocrats and wealthy people do? Just die? There will always be rich people, doesn't make you a bad person.
IloveRyanGreasley she is ignorant jealous old lady
I’m glad this sort of inequality has (mostly) gone and the aristocracy is dying but why tear down the beautiful buildings built by some of the greatest architects of their age? Let’s keep the building and the art as state owned enterprises/hotels for the general public or something
Shut the fuck up Boomer
Where did the Viscount went to? :S wasn't it above the Barons?
The order is: Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Esquire, Gentleman.
Mikey Dunphy Baronet missing in this list.
Mikey Dunphy Baronet missing in this list.
So it is; Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Baronet, Esquire, Gentlemen.
Thank you, Michael
What is the name of the house at 00:03?
Lord Palmer :Always putting a price on everything is such a demonstration of vulgarity. But then again he did hook up with a Texan.Those drapes? The family got ripped off.
So how did these aristocrats view themselves as the human equivalent of the thoroughbred horse with all the inbreeding they did? I mean they have to have known, from so many years of breeding animals, that inbreeding is bad. Yet they did it to themselves; why didn't they know that was bad too and that reproducing with non-aristocrats would keep the line healthy and strong?
Kyle Blank okay here it is the reason for the interbreeding of Royal blood lines is to secure your position and title and to unsightly family’s and treaties amongst country’s and the family’s thought it would be a good match
And not only that there are succession laws that only males could rule and gain property so if your uncle had no mail line only daughters then you married your cousin to keep the lands in the family that’s why it was done and the marriages were arranged Hell my grandpapa and grandmama met the day of there wedding and they were 2nd cousins ounce removed And there old European old money from Russia
Many of the children born to aristos, particularly the younger ones, were not theirs biologically (affairs were rampant due to arranged marriages) or most of these inbreds would have gone the way of the Hapsburgs.
Japan is now a better place because we learnt from others. We were given a bitter lesson - don't try to take territories just because the British and the French were doing the same from long ago.
Japan still has problems, but on the whole, it is a nice place.
Britain is a wonderful place, I just feel that a few things are about to crumble into pieces. The House of Lords has been in effect a powerless upper house for many years. I think T B tried to make his mark on something rather useless.
The narrator talks about the aristocrats ignoring the situation of the poor. I wonder how many people of wealth did acts of kindness and philanthropy without drawing attention to themselves, obeying the Biblical admonition of not letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing, remembering what is in the Gospel about how if one draws attention to one's good deeds then the earthly reward is all one gets, none in Heaven. Yes extravagance and inequity but surely good things were done too.
I'm talking about the radioactive minerals, like raw uranium and the like. Not radioactive waste which is something else.
and the fight for equality continues
Lord the British were truly a bunch of " light in feet" type. Especially Edward....I'd be embarrassed.
You forget your station sir,
Shocking ! Sad !! No words !!
I agree, Mike: this is not serious, scholarly viewing. I believe it's over-simplified, over-dramatic and biased against the aristocracy. The system had its flaws, all right, and the aristocrats weren't/aren't perfect but the way classes are portrayed here makes me think "propaganda".
14:23 The Devonshire Ball!!!
Is that valuation of US$20 million for the rebuild of Manderston correct if so it is a steal. A Gulfstream G550 cost more. A boat for 20 mil will hardly stir any waves in Monaco. The decorator has taste looks better than some New York pent houses that cost loads more.
No. To rebuild that you would probably need a minimum of 100 million dollars.
My thoughts exactly.
In the opening aerial view of the manor, there are little white dots on the lawn. We're these sheep?
2:55
Lol, that hair.
"I'm not saying the aristocrats were aliens, but..."
Well, we all feel like that at times. We recently had a politician of high profile trying to justify wartime prostitutions "supposedly" arranged by Japanese government or the Imperial Japanese Army.
I shall refrain from making comments on that matter as I am no expert.
You should not feel ashamed of being Americans. We all love you for all the good things you have done on Japan.
Every country has its forte and weakness. Our own emotions on national pride swings all the time.
This production is so biased towards the left wing it distorts the actual truth. For example,the servants wages were low BUT what the film fails to mention was free housing, free uniform, free food and in some cases free medical care. Most employers were kind and considerate towards their staff despite the long hours. As for the notion of the staff not being seen or heard, that may seem degrading by today's way of thinking but was the norm at the time and therefore the staff would not have expected anything different.
Being in domestic service was a huge factor in the overall national employment before the First World War.
Aye, indeed. Anything produced by British media,especially the BBC will have a class warfare loving, socialist, envy based perspective that will demonize anybody who is successful or hard working.
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People knew and understood their places and duties, at that Time Period. And today’s sick society, sodomites and SJW’s demanding to be as royalty ! When in fact, these are the lowest of ignorant trash.
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Why not offer staff a wage that they could afford to pay for their own housing?
Is 3:29 Mr. Bean?
its easier for a fat man to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter through the gates of heaven
i changed it lol not if he or she is very very fat
It's easier to drive a coach and horses thru your Bible quotes than it is a camel thru your misuse of the word 'then'.
BTW the Hebrew for camel is the same as or related to Gimel, the name of the letter G in the Hebrew alphabet and "eye of a needle" is one of the meanings of Qoph, the name of the letter representing a K sound (transcribed as a Q). Both have meanings in Jewish mysticism (such as Qabalah) so when Jesus said this (or the words were put in his possibly fictional mouth) he may have had a mystical meaning "You cannot achieve a 'gimel' state thru 'qoph' type activities".
were and when did i state it was a quote from thhe book of lies
you seem very judgmental
THAN is that better for you
I am Portuguese, French Ancient Egyptian, Scottish, and other ancient Royalty but all people see in me is a black person, my family made paper money I am from the Smiley family of Scotland.
Interesting....
I have, Magic Talisman from Britain.
If you are so posh - why can't you say that in proper English? ?
I wonder who Lawrence James inherited his hair from? Lol
Lord whatsisname: Gay or European?
Both.
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow...
It's too bad how many were torn down.
Two sharks meet in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. "How are you?" asks one shark. "Not too good. I ate an American a week ago and my guts are still glued together with chewing gum. And you?". "It's even worse. I ate a Russian general a week ago and I am still shitting medals". Replace the second shark with a British prince, wearing more medals than an average serviceman may earn in three lifetimes of military service.
Wow!
Lord Palmer died July 2023.
Has anyone found any aristocrats in their family tree?
Yes, why do you ask?
Yes
why would you want to keep the teeth of your horses?
One and a half million servants who could have been educated, could have done something better with their lives than cleaning chamber pots. Millions of wasted human lives. Pitiful.
Do you think the masses being subject to massive corporate entities is any better? We are all a product of our time....
Aristocracy is another word for Evil.
No it means meritocracy, real quality.
The entire Ego Minded Social Pecking Order is just really out dated, if they enjoy it so be it, but it just is tiresome.
Quirky - habits.
King Edward is the only of the Royal line that "feels realistic", Then Diana later offered a most warm and empathetic grace
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It is quite a hollow structure. We choose our place through our thoughts, if you desire it then you should have it, but it comes through Thought rather than physical efforting.
The lady from Texas is lovely.