We were invited to sleep at King Charles' Romanian vacation house!
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- It's still hard to believe that we stayed at King Charles' holiday home in Transylvania, Romania.
We slept next to his room! We understand why King Charles fell in love with Romania...
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00:00 - Touring King Charles Guesthouse (he comes here often)
6:28 - Let the adventure begin (horse and cart)
18:26 - How was our experience? (shoutout to Gheorghe)
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King Charles is related to Vlad Tepes aka Count Dracula 🧛
also Romania had a British Queen, Queen Marie of Romania aka Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh
British Princess she was one of the niece of Queen Victoria
Horseback riding is actually practiced all over Romania , not just a Hungarian sport, for example in Letea Forest (Danube Delta) you can still find wild free horses. In Ploiesti (not far from Bucharest) there is a hippodrome, where they organize horse races. As for what King Charles likes, there are some details online - he was trying all the local produces including fruits, cheese , jam (of course palinca and tuica are produced locally, too 😆) etc. I remember a documentary and they said he took jars of local jam to Buckingham Palace and it was their favorite. He was really encouraging all the local small businesses and preservation of the area. That's why he let people rent his house when he's not there.
Oh I didn’t realize this. One of the people there said that during Communist times, horseback riding was outlawed in Romania, and so a lot of Romanians since then have lost the passion for it. Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting 👍👍
@@JetLagWarriors Sort of, the Hippodrom was not active for a long time, but there were some horse riding places , and we had champions in this field (Cristian Topescu was the most beloved one). But yeah, it was not a popular sport, only a few were passionate and had the means to do it. Still is not one of the most popular (compared with football, tennis or swimming etc. - where we have international champions) but it is re-developing more and more. And it is quite an expensive sport, to be fair. But you could see everywhere horses and carriages in the country . Although, right after the WWII the communists did confiscated the horses in some areas (for food! after war there was food shortage) - 40 years later my grandad was still crying with big tears every time he talked about his two beloved horses he lost back then. P.S. There are actually several Horse Breeds originated in Romania, but I don't think I am able to translate them all: Romanian Trotter (trapas Romanesc), Lipiţan, Romanian Sporthorse, Huțul (or Carpathian Pony), Bucovina Horse ..
@@JetLagWarriors Viscri is one of the oldest Saxon(Germanic people)village in Romania , they have nothing to do with Hungarians .
No, only Hungarians ride horses lol 😝
@@mariuspopescu284 Yes, you are right, he was the first, but I was talking about the communist era.
The way you present our country is so beautiful, thank you, we love you guys!!! ♥️ You are amazing ambassadors for our country! Small advice, always let a tip to the old people that take you to visit bcs life is very difficult for them, I am always doing that and I know they appreciate it allot.
They did present it better than us do it so far.
@@daffyduck1283 do you have a link to your vlogs abt Romania?
This place has nothing to With Romanian culture the old máj cant speak romanian
@@makkfitty1627 Oh yeah here is "that one guy". That place it is situated in Romania territory either you like it or not and that old máj did speak Romanian you just did not paid attention, in his ID card it is written also a nationality, I guess you know already, no? Just because around that zone it has a lot of history with ups and downs do not make it specific out of this world or part of another place and that exactly makes it part of the Romanian culture. We are in 2022, everyone moved on including life, do the same.
@@daffyduck1283 by the way rumania is a multy ethnic country one should not give all the credit to rumanians only
Guys. You don't even know how happy I am, a few days ago I was surfing TH-cam and I found you by chance, but I think you were sent by God. You are absolutely fantastic. Steve, Ivana, you are a wonderful couple. Since I have you discovered I simply devour your videos, your videos are as delicious as Romanian food, keep it up and keep walking :)
Tell me about it, I follow them since their previous trip to Romania. At this point I am practically a stalker
Thank you❤
@@JetLagWarriors if you come to Bucharest again go to piata Obor and eat the best mici in Romania! btw..thank you for beeing such a good ambsador for Romania!
Best "mici" u can eat can be find on the Black Hill at Dedulesti. Very busy area though.
@@raresp7218 acum cativa ani asa era dar ,din pacate, au stricat reteta..parerea mea!
Regarding King Charles’ Romanian roots. To be fair all European Royal families are related one way or another. Queen Elisabeth (King Charles) was cousin with the late Romanian King Mihai. But … he is also direct descendent of Vlad Tepes, so he might be more Romanian than King Mihai, since Mihai is descendent of Hohenzollern royal family (not Romanian), and Vlad Tepes was as Romanian as it can be. Only a DNA test will tell you if the new King of Brits is a vampire or not 😂
Actually King Mihai was related to Prince Consort Philip (cousins) not the Queen. Also they were very good friends since childhood, born in the same year.
@@XXI_Rapax He was, BUT you are wrong, he was cousin with BOTH of them , Queen Elisabeth AND Prince Philip (yeap, these Royal families, as I said, all relatives between them). Mihai was the grand-grandson of Queen Victoria, both from mother and father side (!). I know he was cousin with Prince Philip too, I just don't know the lineage, though. And King Charles is related to Vlad Tepes also through his mother, Queen Elisabeth, whose great-great grandmother was born in Transylvania. A lot of marriages between cousins in European Royal families 🤭
It is true, Romanian Princess Margaret is related to the King, both via Queen Victoria and the Late Queen, but also via Prince Phillip. Yet, these family ties didn't bring King Charles any inheritance in Romania. Apparently he fell in love with the country and decided to buy some typical Romanian houses in order to preserve them and not only...
Too bad there is no Romanian dna nor ethnicity but just nationality, depending on the region you’ll get quite different results.
Hungarian countess Rhedey Claudia was a grandmother of Queen Teck Mary . So Charles has a hungarian (I mean Erdély) and romanian roots too.
I love watching the videos from Romania !! It reminds me from when I was little and visiting grandparents. I cannot wait to go next year and visit !
Bro, you are the only TH-camr who gets me excited for a video. You kind inspire me.
Oh my God! I love this video. But yes,you can build a fire and cook meat on a stick. You really can! Which is why Romania is so incredible! All the things,from building a fire to cooking actual food like my grandparents and parents did,is still done there. And yes there are out houses,and pasta from scratch. It was a nostalgia trip for me in 1997,just 10 years after the revolution,and I love that they still know how to do everything! We call it camping,they call it everyday life,because why not! Just beautiful!
Wonderful to see, love for my King alonside love for you two passed over.
Good watch, regards from Western Scotland.
Spectacular!! 10 stars from beginning to end. Keep safe, healthy and happy.
Steve, let me tell you....I think you have the Romanian joyfull spirit, you are clever, fast thinking and enjoying tasty food and drink....😁
Imagine the King could be a Subscriber of yours. 🤫 Beautiful house, specially the outdoors.
What that old man done, just show you guys how we romanians can survive in any situation. I always say i come from the place we're we fix it ,we don't replace it! Take care guys i hope you have a great trip in my country. ❤
You were curious how important a Count is. Well, in medieval times, you had these ranks (amongst others): Baron -owns a town and the hamlets around it, sometimes a forest or lake as well, Count - owns several towns and all the land around them (basically a county), including a castle that served as a seat of power, Duke -owns a whole region. And finally King/Queen, who literally own everything. And when I say own, it's quite literal -in Medieval times, the nobility owned the land and "leased" it to everyone living there, in exchange for taxes, levies and more.
This hierarchy was extremely strict, and every social class only dealt with the one below or above it. The King could never interact with a Count, that was the Duke's domain. Of course, the King could replace a Duke if he really wished, but he could not touch the Counts, as they automatically fell under the new Duke. And so forth -Dukes could replace Counts at will, but couldn't do anything about Barons, etc. And considering they were all related, they rarely got replaced and demoted and the title passed down the family. You're not about to fire your brother from his cozy job, are you now?
The Clergy had a similar structure - monstery-> church ->bishopric ->god. Except in England, where Anglicans answered to the King instead of God.
Steve, his majesty is also your King now. 😅
the King gets my respect feel sorry he being unfair blamed misunderstood all his life, guys it crazy how did you get access to his private home thanks for the video 🤙🏼
When the queen's whole vigil/funeral pageantry was broadcasted on tv and pretty much all over the internet, I stumbled over a piece of info about the now King Charles III, and that is that he actually owns several properties in Romania, one in Viscri close to Brasov, ( where, to my understanding he was last seen in March of this year) another somewhere in Covasna county, and another in Maramures, I think... so because of his ancestry that ties him to Vlad Tepes, he's become quite the ambassador for Romania, so he bought and restored some old rustic houses ( 100+ years old) and uses them either for vacationing or as Air BNBs... that part I know because there have been other tourists ( British) who visited the country last year, I think... and they were very well received at one of the properties of then Prince Charles. Also, not to troll you or mock you guys, but that's actually the proper way to make a barbecue.. sure, it helps if you have a metal disk or a grill, but most of that... it just works. When I was little, we took the whole gang from a round the block and went into the mountains, played around and then made all kinds of foods on a fire just like that. We baked potatoes, grilled meat, toasted bread and smeared it with garlic and lard... man, I'm drooling just thinking about it. Bottom line, we went to the woods, made fire, didn't set the forest or ourselves on fire, played as noisily as we wanted, made lunch and ate it, didn't get bit by snakes or eaten by wolves or bears, didn't leave trash behind... and we were all ages 8-15 with no adult supervision needed. How many kids do you know who did/do that?
Printul Charles, a cumparat si restaurat foarte multe case in Transilvania ,ca sa le salveze de la demolare sau vanzare la un pret modic, dar nu cu banii domniei sale ,ci ,cu ajutorul unei doamne (nu-mi amintesc numele dar poate fi gasit pe TH-cam),au infiintat o asociatie de salvare a caselor ,si banii au venit de prin toata lumea ,avand in vedere notorietatea printului .El a fost atras de acest loc ,atunci cand a citit cartea unui istoric e
nglez ,despre inrudirea casei regale britanice cu Vlad Tepes ,iar printul a fost impresionat de peisajul superb al Transilvaniei ,de generozitatea localnicilor ,de linistea si gastronomia inca nealterata a Romaniei ,si nu in ultimul rand de Vlad Tepes ,ancestorul sau
Seara buna .
Romanian monks are excepțional cooks. You have to try monastery food
On the hill, when George went to the back of the cart he strenghten the wheals break, so that the back wheals do not spin on the hill. When they arived at the sheeps, they released the breaks. With alll the grass and wet ground, that horse was great. So...did you guys found out what happens when the horse lifts it's tail =]]?
LOL Yes we found out about when the horse lifts it’s tail and even accidentally filmed it… but decided not to include it in the video LOL. Anyway thanks for the info on the brakes on the back wheel. Very interesting 👍👍
Transilvania is in Romania.
They may feel like the Hungarians over the local natives eventually. You know the modern invasive nations taking advantage of indigenous and native people, less developed technologically and technically, having other cultural values and weaknesses? Bad luck, here was the opposite. Perhaps a guilty consciousness and subconsciousness?
A nice place to wind down.. whether you're a prince or just a commonfolk. Beautiful property
Watching your Romanian trips every year. Keep it up!
I like you are going deeper and deeper in the country side,and enjoying the hospitality of rural people.
King Charles wanted to keep the natural and traditional way of this place. It doesn’t exist more and more places like this would disappear. Thanks for doin such beautiful vlogs. You are amazing guys!
I like how easily you guys are integrating in a new culture
welcome into the wild wild Romania!😁 it was so funny Steve driving the vagon , and those dogs ...omg I see you are having fun😉
You are very happy guys!!
Do you realize guy's...you are Romanians 🤗❤
Yes this is obviously not an ad for emigration to Canada
The perfect desk to read "The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings" :D
King Charles bought 3-4 original authentic properties in Romania and this must be one of them. He also started a foundation in Viscri/Transylvania for the old arts and crafts in order to preserve his and other ones as close to the the original as possible :)
I know for sure he has a property near Campulung moldovenesc in Vama
God Save the King ! Untamed and beautiful my Romania ! Thank you guys !
at the seventeenth minute - "frâna" means the brake, you need to apply the brake manually from behind the cart, but it is a strong brake,
also the driver's name was 'Gyuri' - a Hungarian name (not Yuri), meaning George in English (and in Romanian as well)
Also have a look at 7:28 :)))
That is so interesting... you could even sit on his throne....
It is about preserving architecture...
I am so glad you're in our country and enjoying it to the fullest, stay safe out there, you are a wonderful couple.
Prince Charles actually was gifted 1 house there,but after he seen how beautiful is there and find out many houses and properties are actually empty and for sale he bought more then a dozen in there.
Romania is beautiful land of heaven
Very beautiful video! I think you been a little bit scared when the dogs jumped! 🤭Thank you for showing so many beautiful things about our country!
So just in case you guys remained curious about your trip with the horse carriage. The were adjusting the break system for going down the slope and the carriage to not force too much the horse. Love your videos from Romania. I am a romanian far from Romania unfortunately atm and this videos cool off a bit my missing of our amazing country. Glad you guys get to see a lot of the real romanian spirit. God bless!
Thank you for this amazing video!!!
You guys are incredible , your enthusiasm and happiness is contagious .I am watching this weeks before going back home in Romania and it makes me miss my country even more and want to experience what you guys are feeling to the full.
You guys are amazing! Will u check out a tennis match at the Transylvania Open in Cluj next week?
When King Charles came to Romania, he said he was coming home. In his residence in the UK, I assume he has a chef with many Michelin stars, but here he eats with his neighbors the food prepared by them and says it is the tastiest in the world.
King Charles is interested in preserving the place. Everything was done with local workmen, local materials and so on.
We enjoys Transilvania.
I suggest you another place to visit in Romania, the Danube Delta!
Good video!!!
I think that in that room, Charles would read a translation of a history of Romanian traditional architecture. BTW, Viscri has some nice cross-country mountain bike riding. Some of it is brutally steep, but the dappled sunshine along the single track is glorious. You can also get some of the local rip-off Coca Cola in the nearby villages, which I think is a lot tastier than the real thing. The modern economy has sadly screwed many of those towns, so any money that tourists can spend there, especially buying local cheeses, honeys, jams, etc helps.
I wonder why don't they follow the good example of the King and don't try to sell abroad their products instead of staying closed there.
20:35 You're killing me dude, I'm laughing so hard!!!!!!!!! Everywhere you go: "Ohhh look I found some palinca" Its like you're in a constant search for palinca 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I cant stop laughing 😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing this amazing King Charles Guesthouse 😍
Happy you’re not going to get the employees into trouble and not push further. 👏🏼👍🏼 Certainly not like the others 😉 I know. Love you guys for that! 🤗
Really nice property.
Steve, the British monarch has ties to pretty much the rest of the European monarch. They used to marry into each other’s Houses. 😁 So, yeah… Not surprised at all.
Amazing video!
Nice 👌 keep it up!
Wow...how did this adventure come to be? Was very interesting .
The carriage driver (George) and that lady were just putting on additional brakes on the carriage wheel to ease up the horse's job going downhill. And that lady took the brake off when you got there. Frana = brake
Man thank you the way you show our country is so nice, thank you alot !
Super 💯👏👍
Great video 🐉
So funny! Welcome to the countryside!🤣🤣🤣
As usual, very beautiful video. It is the first time I get to look inside one of the Romanian's King Charles properties.
I am sorry the weather hindered you. For me, this is the perfect weather, a few clouds to mask the Sun, a few drops of rain and all green and invigorated by the water.
I loved this video 😍
I have stayed there at the Hussars Quarters this year as well. Wow guys
We're forgetting that Steve's King Charles III is related to King Michael of Romania through Charles' father also, not just through Charles' mum.
King Michael's mother, Queen Helen of Romania, was the aunt of Philip Duke of Edinburgh (Charles III's father). Philip and King Michael were 1st cousins and, in fact, born in the same year, 1921.
Long live King Charles III!
Super nice!
best book to read in that room would be one of those rare, 100 years old romanian folk tales collection. I'm not talking about stories you can find in anything published today. They're absolutely amazing. They have lots of devils in them, balauri (similar to dragon), zmei. You never destroy a devil, in these tales, you always just drive it away, because they're seen as a normal part of the balance of life. The main character usually defeats them by being clever, cunning, so by outwitting them. The protagonists are supposed to be the ideal romanian, so a normal person, but of strong character, so very hard working, modest and honest, resilient, but cunning (that's cause the "fights" are normally just battles of wits, since they're facing way stronger opponents, normally fantastic creatures). A funny character you can read about even in books you can find today, is Pacala (the trickster). He's supposed to be the embodiment of the romanian spirit of resilience when faced with oppression. Pacala stories are little comedic tales
LIKE!!!
16:05 "frână" means brake, Georgi was strenghtening the wheel brakes for the downhill ride then at the sheepfold the lady released the brakes. Love your content and the way you explore and present the beautiful parts of our country. I myself, a Romanian, rediscover and realize through your videos how sensational are the Romanian country side and environment. Keep it up!
Edit: i find the grim rainy weather rather perfect for this presentation of the land of a British Royalty.
Brake not break
@@Kapanol97 thanks, wasn't exactly sure anymore
God bless yous and safe travels
Hmm, Steve, who made that little dent in the Fiat? :))
Joking ^^ thanks again for presenting our humble country in such a nice way, you guys deserve to be called brother and sister, we salute you. Noroc!
LOL! Can confirm that the Fiat is now returned, with 0 extra payments required as all the dents were already there :).
After our huge boost in members though, we've decided to go on more adventures in Romania, rather than head to a new country. SO, more Romania content to come :D
@@JetLagWarriors so glad! I was there, live, when the sighisoara livestream member revolution happened. So glad we can see more of you in Romania. Big up!
That is like a comedy movie 👍😁
my best bro steve looks handsome & my sis ivana thank you for your huge respect against cpec friendship countries lot of love from your cousin viki 💙
Fixing the wheel was actually putting on the break
You speak so funny Romanian 😅I think you can really learn!
@whats up, warriors???visit the mud volcanos..is a place to remember..also visit siriu lake and do soe trekkingjn the mountains of buzau...
Guys, if you are spending more time in Romania I suggest you to visit Maramures 😉. You can find there a lot of amazing places. You can visit Cimitirul Vesel ( Mary cemetery) at Sapanata, the pein memoralial in Sighet, the horse waterfowl at Borsa, lot of wooden Churches and many more beautiful things. In Baia Mare you can discover the Tour of Stefan, an historical museum in free aer , an art museum open in a Old factory, and many more...You can go in Brebi and you can discover a new property of King Charles, 😁
Au fost anul în Maramureș,Cimitirul Vesel,au clip
You should buy a property in Romania country side and move there because i see you are enjoying this LifeStyle . Congrats for all your videous!
They didn’t fix the wheel… they apply the break on the rear axle of the dray
Amazin trip with you and Gyuri ❤
King Charles promotes the preservation of traditional architecture. As to his links with Romania, one of his great great grandmothers was a Hungarian countess from Transylvania, and she had an ancestor who was a brother of Vlad Tepes, so he thus is also related to the Wallachian ruling dinasty.
Except, there was never a Wallachian ruling dynasty. Vlad Tepes was a Wallachian warlord who's main connection to Transylvania is that he was imprisoned there.
Vlad III Drăculea (Țepes is a nickname, from țeapă=spike). Drăculea is also a nickname but then again all family names are nicknames since the birth of Rome or before. Way more importantly is that Vlad III Țepes was the first-degree cousin of Ștefan cel Mare(Stephan the Great, voivode of Moldova) and *grandson* of Mircea cel Bătrân(Mircea the Elder, voivode of Țara Românească). For a Westerner used with hundreds of kings and queens this might not mean anything but it means everything for Romanians. This is paradoxically a thing that most Romanians don't know because it is information omitted in primary school or high-school history classes or barely mentioned.
Și eu am fost cu căruța în aceleași locuri cu același domn la Micloșoara
🤣🤣 very funny
Seriously Romania make me remember of toussaint in Witcher 3 so beautiful
Had to rewatch this video because King Charles is in Romania today!
This Video is very interesting. It‘s a very old house. I am from Romania, from Sibiu/Hermannstadt, but I never have been there.
No, ciuperci... means actually ''so, mushrooms'' :)))) ( George not mad about ''ciuperci'' ) lol
I hope you visit Satu Mare and Sigetul Marmatiei and the water fouls named cascade Caiilor engles ( the horses water fouls).it is very beautiful country sati
You deserve guys to be hire by romanian government to promote Romania in the word. No joke, you deserve it.
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Yes Queen Elisabeth is cousin with our Romanian King Mihai that also died few years ago. Royal Families form different countries are somehow related thru blood anyway.
King Charles was more closely related to King Mihai through his father, Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Philip and Mihai were first cousins. Mihai's mother and Philip's father were sister and brother.
@@gerardfernon3339 for all of them ww2 was an enormous tragedy. From what I saw till now she was a great queen with a fate somewhat close to E. Roosevelt 's. A strong, determined, unfairly assuming responsibility and politically influencial woman.
King Charls is descended from Vlad the Impaler's father.
Lovely 1 horse power taxi =D
Thank you, Alin!
You can imagine that he love this land so much is relatade to it
Was'nt prince Charles house in Viscri? I stayed next door last year..
Thank you for visiting my country. Sadly our own people don’t get much to the real rural natural country side. I discovered you a few days ago vloging in Brasov. You’re doing great and I hope you’ll enjoy your stay, I’m just curious why are you keep coming there? ❤
Gosh I didn't expect this...a visit to King Charles home and a stay over. That's really something..A historic adventure. Is it part of a historical tourism promotion? Can the 'normal' public get access to His Majesty's home? Thanks in advance.
There are quite a few videos on TH-cam about it. It is all true!!!
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wow the car tag has FBI on it, I knew you were working undercover :)) get them all
Hi guys I know you love Romania
Steve, they say that an earl is the equivalent of a count in Britain and Ireland. But there are no counts at all. There are countesses, who are either the wives of earls, or female earls in their own right.
The ranking of the nobles from the top are dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons. Don't forget ya?
So your count friend is probably on the level of an earl. So not a bad effort, really.
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Just remember, with the horse and cart..."you break it, you buy it!"
Hi sheep-y, sheep-y...
Don't tell me you re wearing a Leafs tshirt? ...must be courageous to come out as a Toronto fan! poor you:))
Well apparently Count Dracula ie Vlad Dracul was from Transylvania.
Probably the cottage was gifted to King Charles but bequethed to King Charles the II and then King Charles the III...the current King.