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Queen Mother left £7M in debt, revealing a blend of royal extravagance and hidden financial woes within Britain's monarchy.
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Here is a brief account for those wondering where the monarchy gets their money and how it is spent. In a nutshell, the taxpayers of the United Kingdom pay £1.29 each to keep the royal family and all that goes with it. A summary of the key financial figures from the 2022-2023 Royal Accounts:
1. Total Sovereign Grant: £86.3 million, divided into £51.8 million for core funding and an additional £34.5 million for Buckingham Palace maintenance.
2. Monarchy's Official Net Expenditure: £107.5 million, an increase of 5% or £5.1 million from the previous year.
3. Queen’s Funeral Cost: £1.6 million, funded by the Sovereign Grant.
4. Platinum Jubilee Expenditure: £700,000, including £300,000 allocated in 2022-2023.
5. Staffing: 517 full-time equivalent positions funded, an increase from 491, with a total wage bill of £27.1 million.
6. Housekeeping and Hospitality Expenses: £2.4 million, a rise from £1.3 million.
7. Official Royal Travel: £3.9 million, a decrease of about 13% from £4.5 million.
8. Helicopter Travel: £1.02 million for 179 journeys by the royal family.
9. Charter Flights to Rwanda: £186,571 for the King and Queen’s travel to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
10. Charter Flights to Germany: £146,219 for the King and Queen’s state visit in March 2023.
11. Domestic Charter Flight: £25,687 for the King's travel from Aberdeen to Northolt in October 2022.
12. Sovereign Grant Cost per UK Resident: £1.29 overall, and 77p for the core grant excluding Buckingham Palace renovations.
Very good breakdown. The Sovereign Grant of course comes from the revenue of the Crown Estate which goes, in its entirety, to the Treasury.
For those who say that a Republic is cheaper than a monarchy, the office of the French president costs €115 million whilst the office of the American president costs $750 million, with just air travel costing in excess of $100 million. All of which comes from general taxation.
We UK citizens have no idea what is spent on this family.
That's a lot of typing! You must feel as passionately as I do. Thank you from Glasgow. Kx
@@normanchristie4524 It's easy to find it if you want to.
@@normanchristie4524 Yes we do. It is published every year.
She did not care at all. She was spoiled as a child and lifted her life, thinking she was better than everyone else.
When you are dealing with people who have never had to work for what they have. It’s no wonder they have no concept of money. That also adds to the snobbery of those who live so lavishly . Why should I worry about them if it encroaches on what my position affords me?
Learned helplessness. They all suffer from it. Only someone like Harry who left the Royal machine is somewhat confronted with the problems it causes when one must shift for themselves a bit in the real world (not that he is completely out there on his own with his millions and privilege but still). Everyone scoffed at his seeming inability to cope with tasks and situations the average person considers normal. But when you grow up in a system where you are essentially taught from birth to be dependent on others, your every need is catered to and your every movement is directed by a staff, it’s understandable how these people get to be entitled and never learn a lot of basic survival skills.
For someone who didn't want to be Queen, when she agreed to marry, well she sure took ADVANTAGE of all that the Windsors had to offer.
She did want to be Queen, and schemed with a churchman, and a group of people to destroy their reputation. She “protested” that she and her husband just wanted a quiet life. She also ensured that David was not given a secondary position to help represent the RF.
She always wanted to be Queen and chased Edward VIII relentlessly. That’s why she turned down George VI twice. She wasn’t looking for love; a crown was her goal.
@@sophiachavez3377 - but she was furious with Edward for stepping down because she didn’t want to be Queen
She would have been more furious if Edward VIII stayed on the throne with Wallis as his Queen. @@DMCM84
It reminds me of someone who recently decided not to join the Royal Family, but wanted all the trappings and money they could obtain.
I don’t understand how she died with £4-7 Million debt, yet at the same time left £19million to her great grandchildren ?
I don’t remember hearing about a Clarence House Garage Sale of all her private artworks and jewelry ?
Good point Johnny!
Excellent accountants
She gave it away long before she died to avoid inheritance taxes.
😅😅😂😅
she dodged taxes, saving that 4 the kiddies, but still spent on self like a drunken sailor.....
She lived outside reality from the moment she was born. Never having a worry about who picked up the tab.
And she damn sure didn’t care.
Extreem illuions of superiority ..and the crowd cheers them on such arogance
Yup, like moneys not real to people like that
Yes that's the life of royalty. Sorry.
@@niiwin5959 Is it any wonder they are so arrogant, when people are cheering them.
My father had a contract with her. Whenever she went to the Royal Lodge (most weekends), he was obliged to go ahead of her and check that the traffic barrier was in working order, so it didn't risk detaining her. It used to delight him that she was paying him mileage to come and see his grandchildren.
Thank you for sharing this. What’s a traffic barrier?
It's the arm that falls down across the road to stop the traffic. Keeping out all but authorised vehicles.@@soulpowerful
She was a spoiled "B"!
@@soulpowerful It's a physical barrier across the road, an electric powered arm to control vehicle access.
What was his name?,then I can do my research!!!!!!
A great reputation and an admitted snob and bigot. She was right when she said "underneath it all, I'm not as nice as you think I am"
her face says it all
@@gipsi2001 doesn't it ?
That’s funny. It is what my ex boss, who had the persona of a mild, low key and intelligent man, said to me one day, “I’m not very nice”. I thought then, what a strange thing to admit to.
@@nextwave1314 I was taught growing up, 90 percent of people will tell you exactly who and what they are if you "shut up and listen" . Then you'll know what you're dealing with. I'll be darned if they weren't right ! They did ! Your boss told you and many more people as well, if you were "listening".
An absolute dragon!
The Queen Mother's spending was notorious. She never accepted that she wasn't queen anymore and couldn't live quite the same way she had. It was a huge worry to the Queen Elizabeth.
The late Queen allowed her mother to spend what she wanted, to try to make up for the early death of King George VI. Her late Majesty always knew that she would sort out her mother's finances.
QEII couldn’t or wouldn’t control her egomaniac mother, who invented the title “Queen mother” to let her daughter & everyone else know she would not be bossed around. QEII did nothing about it.
Compare that to Q Victoria who, aged 18 or 19, kicked her controlling mother either out of the palace or to the other side of the palace to get her out of the way and show her who was in charge.
Q Mother was responsible for bringing the disturbed Diana Spencer into the family, spreading mental illness into their genes. A stupid decision that is starting to destroy the monarchy as we can see today.
@brianschmidt9919 Small point. The Crown Estate is £5 billion in assets, but it's not the personal property of the Sovereign. The private estate is worth less than that of people like Richard Branson and other self made millionaires. It's still a lot but certainly nowhere near the top of the Sunday Times Rich List.
The QM ran what was essentially an Edwardian royal and imperial court, same as all European monarchies (the others were all massacred in revolution.)
Money was not (for her) an issue. But the Windsors are no different from other zillionaire families around the world.
Love her❤🤣
Didn’t she liked General Pinochet of Chile? Anyway, she was charming I think. RIP 🪦
i will never understand how the British media talk and talk about those from working class estates claiming benefits yet they do not say a word about aristocrats and royals inheriting fancy estates and millions of pounds for doing nothing
You clearly have no concept how the finances of the Monarchy works
@@ludovica8221
I think he does know how it all works and that is why he made a cryptic comment.
They do everything to keep their estates and funds together. Hard work!
i'm not just talking about the monarchy though, i am talking about the aristocratic class in General@@ludovica8221
The media are up their "you know whats"!
Thanks!
WOW thank you again for all your support it's truly appreciated ❤️
To think that not a single one of them will ever take a dime with them. We all go out exactly the same way.
Yup, we're all born naked, and many of us die in a hospital gown.
No...but they leave their vast fortunes to their kids thus the problem continues even after the old money folks die.
The more a person learns about the Queen Mother the less you find to like or admire! In fact, she was a horrendous person--very vengeful, very uncompromising, very little if any consideration for anyone but herself, very entitled, very much only concerned with her own pleasures, very determined to ruin her daughters’s lives in every manner possible if they dared go against her wishes-- not someone to admire by any means, IMO
She was rather. The story of how she pursued her husband’s older brother is nothing short of embarrassing
The more I learn about Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon the more I like Wallis Simpson.
@@karenklehm1036 Your comment made me laugh out loud.
@@happyascheese Thank you.
The Queen Mother was a narcissist who put on a sugary display for the public, and schemed to force the King to abdicate. She treated her daughter Margaret terribly, as Margaret had lesser status to Elizabeth. When Elizabeth became Queen, her mother fought hard to stay at Buckingham Palace. She didn’t want to give up her top position. She despised Phillip, because she couldn’t control him. She was a nasty piece of work.
She is recorded as saying she's not as nice as everyone thinks she is.
Totally ignoring her 2 institutionalised cousins with learning difficulties their whole lives kinda proves it to me.
The institutionalised sisters, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, were the Queen Mother's nieces, not her cousins. They were the daughters of her older brother.
Yeah, I heard that she wasn't a very nice person at all!
She rather erks me. Queen by marriage, then just "the mother of the Queen". A false sense of entitlement. Hard working English people supporting her squandering habits. Shameful!
The cousins had more than learning difficulties plus it was a very different era then when children b with problems were put away.
Please stop judging history on today’s standards. It’s not fair, who knows how we will be judged by future generations about things we are totally unaware of today 👍
i will never understand how working class britons who struggled to put food on the table were ok with paying for the luxury lifestyle of a snob like this
During the blitz, she visited bombed out areas of the East End of London, and the "working class britons (sic)" adored her for it. After Buckingham Palace was bombed, she said that she was glad because it meant she could look the East End in the face. Nobody saw her as a snob. She became the grandmother of the nation.
@@neilmcbeath954 it was a strategic move on her part to be able to associate with deprived areas of bombed out London and the many who lost lives, loved ones, their homes and possessions. A well calculated emotional move which at the time worked beautifully in her favour…history now tells a different story….even at the time there were those who saw it for what it was.
@@vanessabrooks8656 What a very warped mind you must have. The king and queen were not interested in making "strategic moves". They stepped up to the plate at a time that the United kingdom needed leadership from its monarchs, and they did so magnificently. Indeed, their example was such that even Adolf Hitler paid the queen a rather back-handed compliment, describing her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe". I would love to know why you make the dumbass assertion that "history now tells a different story". , and who, exactly, "were those who saw it for what it was". Can you name ONE?
@@neilmcbeath954I thought that she was told off and told to dress more modestly.
@@chrisgeenadriver1631 You have been misinformed.
She wasn't in debt , she left a large will in a trust managed by princess Anne.
The "debt" is for tax purposes, if a person is in debt ( puts their money in a trust and let her expenses accumulate ) then that person doesn't have to pay any TAXES . And her children can clear that debt.
So in short she went into debt to not pay inheritance tax while her accumulated assets sit in a trust .
Fyi earlier royals didn't need to pay taxes but in the 90s the royals "voluntarily " announced they would be paying taxes after a public backlash.
So this technical "debt" is to protect the will from taxation.
A nasty person very spoiled and selfish
Wow and I thought it was bad in the US
Even her butler said she lived a life of extravagance and excess. The queen indulged her mother when she should have pulled the reins.
Easier said than done especially when it's your mother.😊
@@karensnowden962 the queen mother was the last great Edwardian lady. She only knew a life of a house full of servants.
Rubbish
She was not born royal…. But a commoner,..9th of 10 siblings…
A known dubonnet and gin imbiber… shopaholic….and awful woman
Another fantastic video! Definitely didn't know about the queen mother's excessive extravagant spending, though it does make sense that her mind set was due to her beginnings
She left her grandsons a huge amount of money, while the Queen was left to pay her debts.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks
@@susanallen5751 royal or not, always those types in every family. Makes me more grateful I was born a peasant who could never spend like that lol
She was a steely sly old fox was the Queen mum!....😂🇦🇺
The newspapers used to send her up as being a drunk and a gambler in the 80s. A lot of her debt was from gambling.
In the video is portraited as she were tall and slim. In fact the QM was petite and dumpy.
Hence the nickname cookie
@@wendymiller3364……yes, she was, but that’s not the origin of her nickname ‘Cookie’ by David & Wallis. It had to do with her ‘gestation’, & her ‘biological mother’…………
Read book ‘The Queen Mother’ by Lady Colin Campbell, to learn about that scenario. She was a thoroughly nasty narcissist, who was exceptionally jealous of her two daughters’, amongst other horribleness by her………
do you mean "portrayed"?
Yes, my english ist not perfect. Greetings from 'Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany.
My father's generation called her 'the bowlegged queen'.
The Queen Mother was a widow at 51, and yet, she never remarried and lived for another 50 years. By remarrying she would have put her yearly allowance from the Queen in jeopardy - along with her other state funded entitlements. She knew how to play the game.
So many canny widows do the same. If they are left with plenty. If not the marry to upgrade their lifestyle which keeping a tight hand on their own purse strings.
Lady cameron did the same to keep her title after a fairly brief marriage.
So did Princess Margaret she learnt it from her mother and Charles learnt some bad things from Queen mother! She covered for him and made a monster!
Some don’t remarry for peace sake! Enjoying their own company!
Wise decision. I never realised how plain her looks were. She improved with age!
She was addicted to horse racing, usually betting on horses from her own stable, which were not very good. She didn’t lose a few £, but losing £100,000 on a single race.Yet she paid her staff poverty level wages.
That’s how people in her realm behave. They spend a million dollars on something that they can’t afford, yet pay the people who work for them poverty wages. I never did like Elizabeth while she was alive, Now that she’s dead and certain facts have come to light: I have even less. Respect for her.
Hokie smokes, some of those hats she wore were outlandish! I cant even imagine spending or having that much money! Thanks Jon, great video! 😊
She used public taxpayers' money and abused her rights. Over half a million a year, unbelievable. Thanks Theresa 😊
outlandish also is the use of AI-illustrations in this video
Many of the absurd hats here are pure cartoon history, like the slim waistlines and long slim necks - not to mention the improved faces attributed to the QM. She would have loved to look like her "version" on display in this video.
Glad people are being told the truth about the so called royal family.
There is so much more hidden,especially their satanic rituals and tunnel tortures! Charles portrait said it all!
We knew the Queen mother was in debt, HM Queen often bailed her out! I thought this was common knowledge.
King Charles also bailed her out when he was Prince of Wales .She was remarkably out of touch with the ordinary person in the street and their daily struggles.
Her attitude would have dovetailed perfectly with the last of the French Royals who were guillotined during the revolution !
Grotesque disregard for the cost of her luxurious lifestyle, public dying of starvation right outside her golden Palace gates 🤮
@@johnnyhock Do, PLEASE, find me ONE instance of someone who died outside the gates of Clarence House.
It’s very true that the Queen Elizabeth was very much the opposite so it must of been a worry, even though Queen Elizabeth was very very very rich indeed & could sort her mother’s debts!
Well I thought it was pretty obvious she was a spender. Didn't she get told off during some of her visits in WW2 for wearing very extravagant outfits whilst everyone else was looking rough.
The Queen Mother’s life was one of extravagance without accountability or restraint.
Princess Margarete was no better.People of Egland must demand accountability of their money/
It's good work if you can get it.
Why have a go at the Queen Mother after all this time?
I met the old “Giddy Biddy” once when she came out to lunch with a couple of her girlfriends at a restaurant I happen to be in. She seemed to be in good spirits, but she insisted that one of her girlfriends pick up the bill! I couldn’t believe it!🙀
Why not she was obviously an appalling person.
I love hearing stories like this
The Queen Mother was supposed to maintain the historic castles, but she spent all the money on herself. Not cool.
She sure didn’t spend any money on trips to the dentist!
Not as much as you've spent on peroxide.
@@stringer-ik1pc good come back.
The RF have been and are consistently problematic.
@@debidehm9129those teeth were rotten and grey from smoke and alcohol. Royalty so meant to be something you can look up to. But what were we looking up to? Moral ineptitude, decadence, slotfulness, lasciviousness, sexual transgression.
16:47 "The secret to contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have." You have 35 million dollars and a Monet for goodness sake!! Ya, I'd be pretty "content" with that, too! That seems a pretty flippant and easy thing for a Royal and someone spending millions of dollars a year of taxpayer's money to say!!
Couldn't agree more! Thanks Abby 😊
She was steeped in entitlement!
@@HistoryRoadshow Wonderful video!!!
The only way the Royal family are thrifty is on their wages to staff.
Ive heard that!
@@chrissheppard5068 to be fair it's better than it used to be. (Like 100yrs ago)
And they are more willing to give recommendations from the crown, to boast their next salary.
It can't be all that bad if people stay for decades. And extremely loyal
After the death of her husband I guess she didn’t have much to do except throw parties and spend money. I had no idea. Another great video, Jon!
Thanks as always Trish 😊
And drink lots of gin...
@@edeledeledel5490 I think it was champagne. She called it her “little treat”.
Eegh! One Cornetto! Ta pleb.
@@trishphillips-johnson2500disgusting habits. Reeking of gin and cigarette smoke and probably drenched awash with old bag floral perfume to cover up her sins. Such decadence and moral decline. We need to get rid of this trash. They’re all so corrupt and decadent it’s sickening while the people face cost of living crises.
She once stated”I’m not as nice as people seem to think I am”! Says it all………
Well, she got that one right!
@@nancystevens7447 she was not a nice person at all. She had far to much to say and expected to be obeyed.
I always joked that the reason why QM lived so long was because she was living better down here than she would in heaven.
It isn't a joke!
lol, it's true for all of them.
She was a nasty person very spoiled and selfish she still thought she was the queen and could stand that her daughter was out of respect or fear of her mother the queen never stamped her foot and put her in her place which really needed to be done
And how would you know?
How about some punctuation - so that your comment makes sense??
How about when you try and make somebody look stupid, you don't also make yourself look stupid in the process. Anybody who understands English can read that without punctuation. Since you want to split hairs on a TH-cam comment section you should know that only one question mark will suffice.
The little people of the UK simply do not matter. At all. Rishi just sent more billions to the lost war in the Ukraine, Charles lives like Louis XV, whilst people shiver through winter and millions rely on food banks, and we have no opposition party to all the madness.
In your statement you mean Louis XIV not XIV i guess. But all Louis where the same anyway... by the end Monarchy says it all... But Britain without Monarchy means no income by tourists etc.
King Charles did already cut down a lot. I for myself never liked the Queen Mother but thats my private thougt.
We cant change the wheel but we can make us happy every day if we dont worry for things we cant change...
Homeless people live on the streets or get accommodation in hovels. Priority is given to the unwelcome who get billions spent on them, not the taxpayers it was meant for. Charles and his family spend like there is no tomorrow. Rishi and the government misspend public money, left right and centre.
The Ukraine was where elites kept their labs and conjure up evil things to do! Great Britiain is not so great and the politicians helped ruin that country!
Slumlord Prince William knows all about that,unkempt rentals to the poor,while advocating he cares about the poor!
Nothing so lacking in class as these people who indulge themselves off the labour of working people. The Queen Mother was a particularly egregious example of someone so accustomed to privilege they lose sight of who is paying the bill for their gratuitously greedy and worthless lives. Very tacky.
I think that is still true...
Absolutely!
They didn't lose sight of that. They never had it. They don't care.
Monarchy is the biggest symbol of inequality that still exists on Earth.
Exactly right
I can think of worse like Russian presidents big business owners unelected civil servants etc - although the queen mother was the obscene side of entitlement they do attract revenue and I’d rather have a president like Boris, Blair or some lettuce.
Yep. And people LOVE it and protect it. Like dogs that bite at the rolled-up newspaper when they're being hit instead of the person hitting them with it. Sad.
I would argue that Nobel Prizes and Olympic medals are the biggest examples of inequality.
Hitler was quoted saying the then Queen Elizabeth (queen mother) was the most dangerous woman in Europe. Hitler knew her determination against the Nazis would defeat him. She deserved the deepest respect from the British people
The absolute excess in the lives of these people is disgusting. If it's your own earned money fine, do what you will, but to spend the taxpayers money so frivolously is just terrible.
Royalty is nothing new- get over it!
Nothing new but soon to be gone! They are evil greedy selfish perverted criminals! The Truth will slip out in dribs and drabs but many are in denial and worship these idols without a thought of what they are really like!
History will change the Truth into an orgastrated littany of lies,to make royals appear noble!
I'm shocked and a bit annoyed I work so hard and can't afford to heat my home in winter nor do I have hot water it's really hard in the winter months
We are all in the same boat. I live in Canada and despite having a college education and work experience, I couldn't find a job after covid and I had to give up my apartment. I know live in a hotel (paid by the tax payers because the govt doesn't generate $$$). I am back in school at the age of 55.I am still too young to collect pension and the cost of rent has sky rocketed in the last five years. Slavery didn't end, we are in modern slavery. Lose your job and most people are one step away from being homeless. Yet, the Queen Mother never worked a day in her life and lived the life of Riley.
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@@P55999 it is not very constructive to blame Queen Mother for your poverty. You voted in a total incompetent prime minister. Now you have to face consequencies. Royal family is national treasure bringing in bilions in revenue. So their luxury is well deserved.
I don’t begrudge staff in service, they work hard and earn their pay.
you could have at least used actual photos of the Queen Mother lol
It's a mix of actual photos, paintings and AI images that help to tell the story. Thanks for watching.
@@HistoryRoadshow I apologize, I was harsh, because the research is truly perfect. There was nothing I could find incorrect in the content of your video, and I have been studying the monarchy for 30 years. Thank you for telling this story in an accurate way! I just find AI images slighting unnerving and suspect.
Agree also, love the recreation of some of her party scenes because I imagine there’s few photos from those scenes. And I also find AI strange - though they made her more model like than she is it seems
I guess budgeting wasn't in The Queen Mother's vocab. She could rival various historical Royal Mistresses in terms of spending, Great video Jon and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Einez, thanks as always 😊
I can think of markle spending.
@@florinelenaradamileathe difference is Markle is not being paid by taxpayers via the civil list anymore so she can spend how she likes. But QM was being paid by taxpayers so had no right to overspend and leave debts. It’s scandalous and atrocious behaviour. Completely morally unethical and corrupt. The Queen should’ve reigned her in, long before it became the problem it did. QM also should’ve had all those residences reduced to 1 residence only! Why 5 palaces? For what? An old bag widow living on her own???? She was an ex-Queen and had no right to all those palaces for herself. What decadence and what nonsense. The English and all the commonwealth are quite stupid people.
@@florinelenaradamilea Meghan doesn't have deep pockets and she asks for freebies.
@@florinelenaradamilea
You do know that Charles told Harry there was no money for Meghan. She paid her own expenses. She didn't receive an allowance from Charles.
Why do the public PUT up with such nonsense. Ordinary people working and scraping to make ends meet, then HOMELESS. RIDICULOUS, do away with Monarch.
Not a single homeless person would benefit from removing the Monarch.
It would cost Billions of Pounds to buy their rights, entitlements and landholdings. Plus they are owed allegiance by the military, the police and Courts and the Monarch still holds various political powers.
It would take decades to unravel even if the people wanted to get rid of the Monarch.
65% of British people still favour a Monarchy so this is extremely unlikely.
Great answer Rosemary!
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 Rosemary, have to start somewhere and little by little it can be dismantled. Try getting the privledged royals to get a real job. France did it and other countries, so no excuses.
Only jealous conservatives say such silly things@@Jenifer_G
How come she allegedly left money to Charles e.t.c. also she had a huge bill for champagne through partying. The company knew the Queen would settle. What arrogance.
It's mostly in assets like art and jewelry. She also had properties she owned which Charles inherited like Birkhall. Don't think the hats are included.
The Queen Mother was not the sweet little old lady people thought. It irked her that she had to give up the title of Queen, hence Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was a title created for her. Nor did she want to give up Buckingham Palace and literally had to be forced to move into Clarence House. The QM continued to live life as if she was still Queen. Prince Phillip was always firm with her but I think the Queen indulged her and probably made to feel guilty for 'pushing her Mother out', I believe our late Queen was more like her Father.
ALL of them a waste of tax-payer's money - self-obsessed and greedy.
She didn't want to be known by the official "Queen Dowager" moniker!
If you were King or Queen you would feel the same way I bet
For a woman that never wanted to be Queen,she got over that quickly. QM, blamed her brother in law - Edward for abdicating saying it was the reason her husband died so young. QM was in denial, her husband died from lung cancer.
I believe the late Queen and King Charles both bailed her out. She had no idea what real life was like.
Thank you for this amazing video on the Queen Mother. I wasn't aware of her exaggerated lavish spending on her extravagant and luxurious lifestyle. It seems she only knew how to spend dedicating her whole life to live at the fullest regardless. Your videos are always delightful while learning history. Happy New Year, Mr Marshall ❤🎉
Hey Marie, hope you're feeling better, thank you as always. Happy New Year 😊
@@HistoryRoadshow much better now, thanks for concerning. Always looking forward to your wonderful content. Cheers 🌞
I’m more concerned by the feckless debt of 2.5 TRILLION debt run up by this generation’s politicians for our children and grandchildren to repay. It takes 34000 years to count to 1 trillion
Also the cost of housing, because politicians permit banks to PRINT the money they lay out on mortgage. Without this, the average house would cost £75,000 rather than £300,000
absolutely right!
In 1994 the Queen Mother placed two-thirds of her money fortune - an estimated £19m - into a trust fund for her great grandchildren, a gamble, at the age of 94, that she would live for another seven years and so avoid paying 40% tax. That hurdle was cleared in 2001 - less than a year before she died.
The Queen Mother seemed to be spendthrift on Dentists 😂
Lmao 😂
I don't think!
Now now 😂
Yep! She had Rotten Teeth which gave her an ugly smile... too cheap to fix her filthy mouth.
I’ve never understood how she could pass owing so much, yet leave so much to relatives in her Will
There’s a sense of childishness and lack of accountability surrounding her unchecked spending, enabled by Queen Elizabeth.
Agreed!
Another narcissist, taking advantage of way too empathic family members.
Queen Elizabeth could have put an end to her mothers spending by telling her mother “ NO MORE SPENDING”
If she had seven million pounds of debt, how was she able to leave money to her grandchildren? Supposedly, she left a large amount of money to Harry and William. The Queen Mother lived the "Downton Abbey" lifestyle that was typical for aristocrats during the period before WW II. After World War II, most aristocrats could not afford to live like the Queen Mother because of death duties, taxes and the declining value of rural mansions.
Forever not caring about the consequences,,, a selfish old lady
My mother would have said: "That person is definitely not a lady."
Queen Elizabeth II had so much money - paying a few million pounds for her mother was a drop in the ocean - however the Queen Mother seemed liked a nasty piece of work. She hated Wallis - think she hoped to marry David herself .... David & Wallis's marriage didn't destroy King George's health, but his smoking habit did- same as Margaret !!
Can't disagree Bev, thanks 😊
It was the strain of being King during the war that started George's health decline, and that is one of the reasons why the QM and the rest of the RF never forgave Edward and Wallis. George was never prepared nor cut out to be King, as it was always assumed the charismatic and more confident Edward would rule. When Edward took the unprecedented step of abdicating because he wanted to marry Wallis, that thrust George into the limelight, together with the heavy responsibility of wartime leadership. As things turned out, it was Britain's gain, not loss. Edward always thought Hitler would restore him to the throne (as puppet King) if Germany won the war.
@@coopdivi maybe however his habit of smoking 60 cigarettes a day obviously did not help his lungs - in those days people weren't aware of the problems smoking caused 🤔
@@bevleighlange3312 Of course, but the additional strain of Kingship during the war caused him to smoke more than he otherwise would have.
I had no idea she was in such debt. Happy New Year!
It's unbelievable that she was never kept in check! Thanks, Liam. Happy New Year 🎉
Whoa! 😳 no wonder she lived so long ….. she didn’t have a care in the world.
Loved how your visuals and music portrayed the beauty and splendour of such an iconic bygone era in this video. The Edwardian times had absolutely beautiful architecture and decor in my humble opinion, besides art and fashion wise, it's one of my favourites. You did a wonderful job 💖
Bloody parasite
Her death surprised me. I thought she was so pickled in gin, that she could go on forever.
her body never decomposed!
Ouch
Horrible woman. She never paid a single dress bill. No wonder poor old Norman Hartnell went bankrupt.
Then he ought to have said..Nope! Many addicted to the glamour and association of fame and the rich and noted. Can't pay bills with fresh air.
The Queen paid her mother's debts.
Seriously Sickening
Random party guest: "Queen Marie Antoinette spent the most in lavish parties"
Queen Mother: "Hold my champagne"
Brilliant comment!
Let all the loyal royalist pay the bill!
I think you mean "royalists."
She came to Newcastle to open the new civic centre, I was a 6 year old and our school went to city Hall to sing 4 songs which we all had to learn, along with every school in city a 2.30 in afternoon, close at 4.30! She would then go direct to the station and catch the royal train back to London! She arrived at 3.50 ,we sang 2 songs and then pissed off! She had been on the booze from 12.30 and was pissed as a rat? I was not put out the only thing I remember was sitting for so long on an uncomfortable seat, and all the kids asking "is she coming".
A nasty hypocrite. A royal that spends like that shows how little they care for the commom tax-paying British people, so many of which are homeless today! Elizabeth's biggest achievement was to never lose her temper with her mother.
Anne Boleyn died owing my family a hefty chunk of change for fabrics for her clothing.
Wow love to hear more
Anne died one of the wealthiest women in England.
Perhaps because she wasn't paying her bills?
chuckle
The fact is that there was and always will be a section of virtually every society for whom money is not an issue.
Pocket change for them. (Notably, extravagant spending didn’t extend to her teeth!)
Her mother took tetracycline for an infection when she was pregnant. The result was discoloured teeth when the baby’s milk teeth came through.
I am certain there weren’t any antibiotics at all until penicillin was released in the 1940’s.
Hahah
……garbage! Her teeth rotted from the copious amounts’ of grog she drank. Tetracycline wasn’t around in 1900.
Her ‘mother’ was NOT the person who bred, & bore her………
Read book, ‘The Queen Mother’ by Lady Colin Campbell, to learn what a thoroughly nasty narcissist she was…………
Exactly...rotten teeth lol
She was a spoiled lush… no wonder Prince Andrew is so problematic… must have inherited her attitude
They all did, the Queen included, but the media did a good job of hiding the queen's short comings, because she was the Monarchy. Otherwise truth be told she was just as self, spoilt, entitled and as much of a lush as her mother. You only have to look at how her children turned out to know the kind of person she was.
QE11 joined the Women's army. Worked as a mechanic and drove trucks and ambulances during the War.
Performed her duties every day of the year with the exception of Christmas day, represented the UK and UK Govt on an international stage and attended Church every week.
She seem like a good person to me.
@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 Then you are easily pleased. By the way, she had Photographs taken of her dressed as a mechanic. Then she was put in the limo and whisked back to the castle. She was pretty nifty at a Nazi Salute too.
@@lekis5975 I use to work for the federal govt and the Queen's picture was hung across from my desk. I don't know what is about the picture but I didn't like it. Years later, I found out about the Residential School System. The World blames the Roman Catholic Church but the Monarchy are also to blame since Canada is part of the Common Wealth. In Canada, all Federal Offices and Courts have the Queen's picture. Guess that has now changed to King Charles.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 You are right. I read somewhere, she turned 18 in April 1944 however, her father didn't want her to join the military, and for months, they dragged their feet and objected to her joining. He only allowed her to join in 1945 age 19, when the war was as good as over
It was a little unnerving to see actual photos of the Queen Mum juxtaposed with a lookalike, but was nonetheless enjoyable. In my opinion, the early loss of her husband the King after only 28 years of marriage may have allowed her to spend freely on herself as the last Empress consort of India and the British Empire.
I agree. The boobs on display at the cocktail was a little over the top.
“Smithers. Do I need to worry about this overdraft thingy?”
“No Ma’am, the bank has lots of money. Gin and tonic Ma’am?”
“Thank you Smithers. Would you be lovely.”
She was sitting on a gold mine of jewels. Even her wardrobe could be sold at ridiculously prices because of who she was. All she had to do was sell a piece or two and the "debt" would disappear. Her creditors knew this. And so did she. The provenance alone on any one of her jewel pieces or dresses or hats would bring in hundreds of thousands.
The Queen Mother was not Princess Diana, no one was interested in her wardrobe. All that talk that she was much beloved was just media hoopla. They were quite embarrassed when she died and there was no national outpouring of grief.
I do like the fact that she didn't fire people, and people stayed employed by her until they were over eighty!
She always seemed to me to act and spend like “new money” rather than her daughter who seemed more like “old money.”
Thank God Elizabeth took after her father in personality.
Agree.
She was drinking plenty of alcohol and died at 101.5 year without any visible debilitating diseases. Then why doctors are telling us that alcohol is bad for health?
She was very active, loved country life and spent a lot of time Salmon fishing on her Scottish Estates.
Gin, preserved her 😀
Very informative episode. Keep them coming.
Thanks Mary Ann hope you had a happy holiday 😊
She led a privileged life and had no concept of money. I would have a hard time talking to somebody like that. In my humble opinion Queen Elizabeth was not like that, but I’m certain Charles is.
Charles created The Prince's Trust, which uninformed people think means he raises money for himself. It's to aid small businesses.
You're certain Charles is, why?
King Charles is more aware of the real world and its challenges than either the Queen or Queen Mum ever were.
@@janetpendlebury6808 = Totally agree. I see King Charles in more old worn coats, suits ect than I ever see him in suit and tie. He comes from a different generation and I think he's been lucky not to be reigning monarch for all these years . He's been happy to find his own passions, from painting to die hard food grower and becoming an environmental champion before it was cool. He stood his ground in being good steward of our food, environment and our husbandry. He gets my vote. I hope his son will follow suit.
Charles is quite thrifty. He doesn't know how to use a computer and still uses pen & paper to write letters. He's known not to have a cellphone. Allegedly when Harry called The late Queen regarding money she told him to talk to his father. Charles is said to have replied "I'm not a bank." Charles founded the Duchy Organic brand now Waitrose Duchy Organic a partnership with the Prince Trust and Waitrose so he does have the concept of money. He is worth £1.8 billion.
The castle of mey was refurbished at taxpayers expense then Charles got it with no heritance tax another rip off
From Kentucky USA...Why didn't she serve Kentucky Fried Chicken at those wing-dings? Goes down good with Bud Light.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHA...
According to a Google search it costs 24 million Australian dollars a year for their Governor General, his residence, staff, and office. According to another search the UK's monarchy costs £261.3 million per year. The Windsor (legal) grifters have done very well for themselves.😂🤣
The royal family's wealth is truly embarrassing!!!
William has inherited 1.2 billion pounds, tax free of course!
There should be the same law applying to every person in this country.
She did nothing by heart but everything out of calculation. A manipulative, rather unpleasant person I always thought. She never had me deceived. The same goes for King Charles III. Diana knew what she was talking about in these departments.
I always saw Diana as manipulative...very calculated person...
survival mode. She had to or she would have been gone long before her death. what else could she do in that den of lions?@@maryt2196
@@maryt2196 yes, I agree. Diana brought a lot of problems upon herself and was manipulative.
Well, Diana was an expert at it, so sh was a good judge. Saint Bambi Eyes who had men smuggled into Kensington Palace in the boots of cars, yet couldn´t avoid a few paparazzi.
Just sounds to me to be a classic case of an old person living her best life, by spending her children's inheritance. As The Queen paid off all the debts, but still inherited millions. 👍🤣
She inherited from her father, not her mother, her mother left debt for her to clear up.
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has bequeathed her entire estate (which mainly comprises the contents of her houses) to The Queen.
In her will, she asked The Queen to make certain bequests to members of her staff, and these bequests will be subject to Inheritance Tax in the normal way.
The Queen has decided that the most important of Queen Elizabeth's pictures and works of art should be transferred to the Royal Collection.
Some of these items, including works by Monet, Nash and Carl Fabergé, @@janetpendlebury6808
The Queen Mother's estate is believed to have been worth between £50 and £70 million. @@janetpendlebury6808
She had enough millions to pay for her lifestyle, but she gave it away to her great grandchildren, mostly to William and Harry, to avoid inheritance taxes and to appear to be “generous granny.” The Queen did not try to reign her in. What’s 7 million dollars when one has a billion +?
Yes, the Queen Mother was great at spending her daughter’s inheritance. The inheritance that Queen Elizabeth inherited from her father.
How can you spend that much money?
She came from an era of being royal, that money didn't concern her. Good thing her daughter had a better understand of fiscal responsibility, and her son King Charles has an even better one. It's the changing of times so I believe the monarchy has kept up with the times.
Oh come off it! This is the most costly royal household in Europe and they have amassed £billions through successive Tory governments.
The Queen Mother didn’t have to care about any consequences. She had her family to keep secret her bad behavior.
I regarded her as a self-indulgent lush. At the expense of the working class, of course. Just another royal waste of space.
It’s always been a double edged sword being under a Royal warrant or commissioned for work by the Royal family members. They’re historically infamous for not paying their bills and obtaining so much on accounts they never paid. Even one old queen was infamous for her “ borrowing “ things she expressed a like for , such as a tea set at a work8mg class home she “ graced” with her much publicized presence at a public event . Entitled seems to sum them up very well.
@@saudade369 You're referring to Queen Mary. She was a virtual human jackdaw. Anything she saw that she coveted she would get by refusing to leave until the householder "gave" it to her.
Happy New Year to you Jon! May God bless you abundantly! I had been told by media that the Queen Mother had been found to have accumulated a debt of 4 million pounds, after her death, and that the late Queen Elizabeth had to sell some land and paintings to pay off her mother's debt, discreetly of course. Am I correct in this please? Thanks again for your wonderful work yet again. 😊
The artwork went into the royal collection as for selling land, I can't confirm or deny that. But thank you for watching, and I hope you have a happy new year too 😊
Wallis Simpson called her an avaricious fish-wife. Looks like she may have been right.
She was described in the 1950s as looking like a Cook on her day off!
She also called her a fat Scottish cook she was right about that as well
Mum didn't care about Wallis. She ignored her at parties. She went to the opposite side of the room. Wallis knew.
I believe she also called her "the cook" because she was dumpy in a Mrs Bridges sort of way.
@@philiptownsend4026 Her father had an affair with the cook, and the cook is her biological mother. That is how come Wallis referred to her as "cookie." The wife didn't want anymore children.
I have heard the Queen Mother was a terrible human, and I believe she got away w a lot thanks to the public image she had from WWII.
Yeah anyone who shuns they’re disabled nieces and leaves then to rot in an asylum and deny all knowledge of their existence is no good in my book
Apparently, one never stops learning. Very interesting.
The royals need to be made accountable for there spending, that they are not
As I understand it the Queen Mother was an integral part in the raising of King Charles. I wonder if she encouraged his often seen alternative views in his gardening and lifestyle in a ploy to annoy the Duke of Edinburgh. The Prince was often heard complaining about the lack of masculinity of Prince Charles when he was young
Philip was another one who thought he was better than everyone else. In the crown he says he gave up everything for the Queen. What a joke! He was a penniless Greek, virtually an orphan for most of his life. Had he not married the Queen, he would have entered the Greek military and remained a nobody. Marriage to the Queen gave him a family, palaces and a life full of unearned luxury and extravagance. Still, he complained.
@@sophiachavez3377 The series, “The Crown”, uses a fair bit of creative licence - not good as a source of information.
Rather lacking in fact!!!@@sophiachavez3377
The Crown was a drama not factual and I think if he did say that he probably was referring too his navy career he thought he had many years left he never expected his father in law George sìx th to die so young it must have came with great regret he also had too give up his name you could say he wanted too have his children known as Mountbatton he was over ruled they had to be Windsor
She was also the cause of Charles disastrous marriage to Diana.
If she rented a TV, you can be sure she was never chased to pay the rental charge.
Meanwhile people are starving. What a witch. She even wore witches hat with feathers in it. Everything grand but over the top. One big fluffy feathered nest.
Now i see where Haz and Megs expect everything
Weird how the UK was happy to pay so much to and for a German family through two world wars. Apparently all you need to do is change your name and there you are, all done. I am changing my name to Windsor, maybe I can get in on the racket.
Ker-ching! 🤴£££
The Queen Mor was born 125 years ago. Tongs were different then. Competing with International Monarchy & a different set of standards. We ithHitler calling her GBs most dangerous weapon, thank goodness she stood firm.
What a greedy, grasping person. She did it "because she could."
Spoken from a position of infinite charitably and austerity for the sake of the common good, I'm sure😏