I am forever grateful to Julie for opening this traditionally quite closed world to people all over the world. Her videos are so warm and natural, while being beautifully pulled together and always engaging. Thank you, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke!
I found it so touching how the Earl considered Small, the butler, his special friend. His continued interjection of Small in conversation to stress how the butler cared for them brought a tear to this American's eye. ❤😊
It’s a shame the public don’t know more about you. A lovely American woman who loves her husband and his heritage and wants her own children to grow up recognising their traditions as so important. Wonderful 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
All you have to do is to tune in to any news programs showing the Royal family and she is there hyping her QWeen Meghan Markle. Saying how mis understood she is, how wonderful she is.. blah blah blah.. that's all you really need to know about her.
The way Julie coaxes people out of their shells is wonderful to watch. She has a beautiful vibrant energy that even the most stuck up aristocrats cannot ignore. Her warmth and vivaciousness is infectious! I also love the way she gets involved in small projects - gets her hands dirty and has a giggle whilst she's at it. When I first discovered this series I wondered why an American was presenting British homes, castles, manor houses. It didn't sit right with me until I realized just how much she's enveloped herself in the history of these homes and the life and heritage she's embraced as a Viscountess. She's just lovely!
I love how kind, humble and respectful you are of your father in law and his sister. You value them and respect their presence and voice. It was lovely to watch. I love history documentaries and castles, I wish like you that this lovely house had stayed in the family.
I found it extremely moving to watch Dear John & Kate reminiscing about their childhoods, Johns fondness for his Butler George Small, his Family, the familiar paths & the flying Scotsman, the hiding places. Lovely, Thankyou
I am so glad I found this channel. It is awesome to learn about manors and castles of England. Viscountess Hinchingbrooke is a lovely and brilliant presenter.
This is one of the best ever. John and Kate were wonderful and the joy they exhibited showing us the house and bringing their memories to life was priceless. Thank you so much.
I have seen many of your TH-cam videos and enjoy your warmth and excitement as you share your life and local history with us. But to see your emotions come out and the deep love of your family really struck me. What a blessing you are to everyone around you. Thank you for sharing your family history and love of the old manor homes of England with the rest of us. And thank you for being such a great representative of the U.S. .
Thank you Julie, John and Kate for sharing your family history with us. Such an extraordinary journey. Julie, you are such a gift and wonderful historian❤️🙏
I think this is my third time d enjoying this video. Julie , your reaction to Kate describing how John would direct her when to put her finger resulting in a shock was priceless. ! This was wonderful to hear their memories...measles room, collecting money from tourists, the flower room etc. Well done
I think what you have done and felt , was awesome. You have me in tears as well. I certainly understand that walls are imprinted with the past. Thank you for doing this. Thank you
I concur with you that Ladies of London was a good show an Julie was the BEST cast member. Yet these shows on historical homes has been a God sent. I’ve spent 3 weekends watching someone with so much energy and a gigantic personality!! I adore these video. Thank you
I sat down and only planned to watch 5-10 minutes, and I ended up watching the entire program. Julie you’re such an intelligent and outgoing woman and an amazing breath of fresh air to watch. Do you have any plans to do more programs/shows about your family?
Great episode. The wringer washer is the American equivalent to the mangle in your laundry room discussion. My grandma would use the wringer washer, then the regular washer, dryer and hung out on the clothesline outside. The bedsheets were absolutely amazing after her tedious laundry process!
What a beautiful school, it must cost a fortune to attend. I've watched this program befor on one of the Viscountess' own channels. Her in-laws delight while they visit the home of their early childhood memories is contagious! Edit; Oh my. I just watched to the end (again), and I understood it was said that it's a State funded school, without tuition fees paid by the student's families. How wonderful for everyone, not the least of them being the Hinchingbrooke property itself. What a great way to preserve that amazingly important history for the future!
It was a state school and you paid nothing to attend. The house was restricted to the Sixth Form years 12 and 13 only. I went to the school and the Sixth From both for free. No fees. As I was in the catchment area. The dance room was where we sat to take exams in the 2000s. It's still a free state school today.
Simply heartbreaking!! It breaks my heart the loss of these beautiful old Country Houses! I hate the horrible inheritance taxes the citizens have to pay! If they weren’t so high, many of these houses could have been saved! I hate when people lose a family home!! Just hate it! What a lovely Daughter-In-Law they have! Smart, intelligent, motivated, and the mother of four beautiful grandchildren! Lucky people ❤ Hinchingbrook is HUGE!!! WOW, I’D HATE TO HEAT IT!! 😱😱😱😱🎊
Are you referring to the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Doesn't History tell us that England was still having to pay for the costs of WWI and WWII ? Also having to rebuild much of England since the bombing from the Nazi's ?
Julie, your love and pride for your family and your family’s history is wonderful. Your family is very lucky to have you. While it is sad that the family seat is no longer in the family, I think that Mapperton makes a far more beautiful, family home. You’re extremely blessed to have such a wonderful family and place to put down your American roots.
What you are doing now Julie will be forever important in the continuation of Mapperton so that history will not repeat itself ! It will become sustainable and God willing continue to tell its story for centuries to come . This episode made me immeasurably sad . I am so grateful for the spectacular photos of the Once Upon A Time home of your dear Father in Law . As it sits now it is just a very very large house … but the photos tell a story of happy times and precious memories! Bless you Julie on this impotent journey to keep history alive and well !! Love from 🇨🇦 Canada!
I helped my grandmother with laundry when I was a child. We had a wash board and a barrel for cleaning the clothes and the hand cranked double roller was called the wringer, which squeezed out the water and then hung out to dry on the clothesline. Had several hours before the clothes had to be ironed and my grandmother taught me how to cook and bake. Loved my grandmother very, very much.
Julie is so vibrant, and sharing the family history and be able to walk through and learn about that time period, absolutely brilliant! Also a public school, wow what a fantastic business decision. I can imagine what it must mean to the students, beautiful grounds, and serene environment for learning. LOVED the library and the stained glass windows where the church was located. She is so passionate, you can tell that she loves what she does, and being in the family must give her emotional sensations, like walking through a time tunnel. Julie, you done good girl, as we Americans would say, a long way from Chicago! Thank you! ❤💚🖤💛.
100% without any doubt or drawback, Julie's videos are my favorite documentaries on ANYTHING to do with Great Britain and it's nobility and their castles/homes. The way she is so natural and caring about everything and her vulnerability is just great story telling. Open, honest and very informative as well. This is my third video of her's and I will be watching all of them. Please, please, keep making these videos.
I am so glad to have found you. Your "American" excitement and joy over the history of, not just the Montagues, but all of Britain's Aristocratic families and manors is wonderful to watch. Much love from Indiana.
Julie, I sense you may somehow workout declaring Hitchinbrooke back as your family home. Your commitment to your family history is very admirable. I love your passion and ability to share it with us! Thank you!
So wonderful that you had a chance to experience this. As someone who grew up in their ancestral home, I know this feeling even if our home is less grand. My dad tells me the stories of him and his 13 siblings playing in the same woods and barns that I played in.
I adored watching this video, could not take my eyes off it. I cryed tears with you when you spoke about your family and the feelings of love and family bond you hold. God bless you x
What a sad shame your family does not have the family portraits! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 So incredibly touching!! I can just imagine what this meant to you to walk with them through their memories ❤
She also has another channel with her husband, and I believe I saw in one of those videos that most of the family portraits were kept, except for duplicate paintings of ancestors
❤️❤️.👍 I’m from AMERICA and of course you know we don’t have anything imo in America to equal the magnificent stately homes and interesting history you have provided Julie for everyone to enjoy. I watch and share your enthusiasm. I have followed you your videos from the beginning and you have come a long way with your journey throughout Britain. I wish the best for you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Such a beautiful video. I love them all, but this one has a special resonance. I'm halfway through it and I felt compelled to suggest something to you. Please build a strong family connection with the school. Make presentations at school events. Encourage any students studying history to work with your family on oral history projects. Build that beautiful bond.
Julie you are a very welcome addition to this family! Preserving and documenting the history, taking the time to share even the most minuscule memories of John & Kate’s past, speaking with Tom and his wealth of knowledge 🤗 Well done !
So sad. I am so glad you appreciate how lucky you are to have such a place. I am American. This many years of history is but a dream for us. We are an infant Republic.
That was FANTASTIC! Love the tour with Julie's father in law and his sister! Their memories are what makes history come to life. The end where they were on the roof to see the Elizabeth the first coat of arms was really awe inspiring.
My maternal side also descend from the house of Montagu. Seeing the stained glass window in the library was an absolute joy to behold! Thank you ☺️ It’s a shame it isn’t in the family anymore…Maybe one day it can be, and then brought back to it’s former glory 💙💛
What lovely memories of your family and its history at Hinchingbrook! Thank you for sharing the experiences of your Aunt Kate and Father-in-law growing up there I will be leaving MY family home of 51 years upon the death of my 99 year old Mother. I know the history of my family is not as long as yours nor as illustrious but the thought of going has me gutted. I think of what Mr. Forster said of the home for the family, I’ll remember that always.
Julie, this was such a beautiful, lovely, informative and heartwarming presentation of Hinchingbrooke. Watching how you engaged with John and his sister literally brought tears to my eyes. Your love and passion for your family history and other historic manors in the Uk Is extremely admirable. Its wonderful to see someone take so much interest and keep it "alive ".
Oh, I can remember mum having a mangle - it was over this double concrete trough. Hard work. And a beautiful big copper. It was my job to light the copper and I vividly remember the smell of singed eyebrows and eyelashes. Oh, they smelled. And I had to still go to school to be made fun of. Then mum got this washing machine ( made by Pope!) and it had a - much smaller - mangle attached to it. You could swing it over the machine or over the trough. Then you’d put the bigger things ( sheets etc) into the ‘blue’ which was in the rinsing water. It was a Great Leap Forward. I remember that so clearly. Thanks for that memory 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
yes, we had the same thing out here in Australia in the 1950s when I was born just after the war finished. Our first electric washing machine was a single tub by hoover & so my mother still used the double concrete tubs & the hand wringer for many years until we finally bought a twin tub. Eventually we wore a hole in the bottom of the concrete tub & so it was finally discarded by my brother who moved in to live in the 1980s.
fabulous video and a look into the history. What is striking are the shared memories with your family and so many others....from sliding on trays, washing clothes with the wringer washing machine, to carving memories into the fireplace! It is heartbreaking to loose the home. My parents own home was torn down, I had to sell mine. Life moves forward, changes....It really is very striking how the British can look to the past through such great houses. Thank you so much Julie for sharing your family's history.
WOW! This is, without a doubt, THE best historical property tour I've ever seen! The tour of the property through children's eyes, via Julie's father-in-law and Kate's stories, is a wonderful approach to the telling of this story. Julie's tears afterwards brought a tear to my own eye. It's wonderful how personally invested she is in her husband's family's stories. I also loved the various places where they've framed out medieval bits of the structure in the school, as well as learning more of how to read the coats of arms as family history. I wonder...would they take a 66 yr old American for next term? (Maybe not, because I would probably spend most of the time staring at my surroundings and flunk my lessons!) Bravo, Julie, and crew! Well done!
So nice to see this part of history of your family and your passion. It would be nice to hear about your family history as well may be one time. How rhis came to be the story of where you are today.
She has a channel where she talks about those very things. Her channel is called American Viscountess and the family also runs the channel Mapperton Live.
Fabulous! The past of this magnificent home truly came to life with the charming recollections of a brother and sister. Beautifully shot and edited too! A legacy piece for the ages. Thank you!
This precious place revisited, & the losses the family have had to suffer! Julie you've done a lovely thing to bring the family back to reminisce & share with us. Thank you, & thanks to the Earl & Katy for sharing with such open hearts
Thoroughly enjoyed your showing us this magnificent building as a HOME to your father-in-law and your great aunt, which makes it so much more special and interesting. Thank you so very much for sharing xx I’ve subscribed to your channel because you’re so wonderful as is your family !
I'm just thinking of you dear Julie and your dear husband that sometimes we need to let go of some things for our own good and our family's good because only God knows what it was in is the best for us.sometimes He closes doors and also opens new doors.❤ Love your videos!!!❤
Thank you very much, a very fascinating documentary opus has been released. I watched your film in the bomb shelter with great admiration. This is an outstanding documentary. I watched the film on TH-cam since the alarm was announced in Kyiv. And we have been bombed in Ukraine for the second year now. During the entire period of the war, I also had thoughts of rethinking drawing a certain line between creation, architectural destruction, and decadence. I am a representative of the Kyiv dynasty which has lived in Kyiv since the 9th century. And unfortunately, over the course of 500 years, they lost everything they built and created. One of our ancestors was killed by the Mongols in the 13th century, around 1240, and during his burial, a stone with his last name carved on it was placed on his chest. This stone was from the ruins of his house, demolished by the Mongols. Later, the remains of our ancestors were found in 1840 during the reconstruction of the city by order of Emperor Alexander 1 and the demolition of the Kyiv necropolis. Since 1727, our family built a lot in Kyiv. But unfortunately, over 296 years, endless wars have destroyed everything. And there is only the Story of those people from whose grains of sand the earth that is under our feet was created. Thank you very much!
No offence but its the Earl of Sandwich and his subsidiary title is Viscount Hinchingbrooke is used as courtesy title by his eldest living son who is his heir
WOW….,.,,, What a film…..Thankyou so much❤I love history so much and to see something that was shown in almost real time was amazing and unbelievable……The memories……..❤😮😊. Thank you so much. i too would have cried….. Xxxx
Fascinating! As a fellow American, I cried when you cried Julie! At 38:00 in the video, the Earl mentioned his grandmother's room with hidden areas. I wanted to see that so bad! 😅
It’s so sad to see such a beautiful castle turned into a school. The old pictures shown were absolutely gorgeous and hearing of the rooms before the school took over.
This is so bittersweet for me. I love that the building is again being loved, as it should be. But it makes me somber that the family lost such prescious, tangible family history. I really hope your children will be back in Hitchingbrook raising and teaching their own children about centuries of family history.
It is great to hear your father-in-law and aunt share their memories. Ten years ago I bought the home my parents built in 1957. It's amazing how many memories there are in your childhood home. 🙂🇨🇦
History isn't just what is found in books. History is all the knowledge and memories and documents and records and evidence of the people who lived in the past and up to the present. Your family isn't just the people you met. Your family are the people who came before you, who donated a part of themselves a long time ago so you can exist. You didn't simply come from your parents and grandparents. The live on through you and any descendants you have.
I've watched this video twice and 9h my gosh the emotions are so raw for me and I can't imagine the emotions that you and your in laws felt going through the house. I loved the history, the films and the tour of the home. It is heartbreaking that they had to move. I loved mapperton but my goodness the life they had at Hichingbrook. I'm so glad you take so much interest in their history, not only for your family but for all of us to learn and enjoy. It's a lifestyle us Americans don't really understand but we can still enjoy. We called the wrangle a wringer that would squeeze all the water out of the clothes after they were washed and they dry faster.
What a wonderful video with your family.. so beautifully and naturally told..it’s so humbling and gratifying.. I love my family and history..I have been so enthralled and amazed by our British history I cannot get enough.. please if u any more i could watch..I would love to keep Learning ❤❤❤
Hello Again Julie, I say of all the videos I find this one on Hinchingbrooke the most touching of all on several levels. First, bringing your father in law and his sister back to their roots is very healing because they are once again touching their ancestral heritage in person. I realize this is large castle, however there is an invisible thread or connection that is brought back while there because their minds and hearts are making that connection to their ancestral home and heritage, plus while talking over of what happened with their selling this castle heals the situation even more because it is addressing the root cause. The more you talk about it, the more you lessen the wounds both financial and emotional and very likely physical as well.
Thank you all this story was so brilliantly told and filmed. What a beautiful wonderful family. Thank you for sharing and what great joy this family have given to the pupils who go to school in this beautiful house. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌟🌟🌟💕💕💕🌈🌈🌈🌈🌲🌲🌲
How lovely and emotional! My folks certainly didn’t grow up in a grand castle but I would have loved to have taken them back to their growing up home before they passed and experience their thoughts and memories. What a wonderful opportunity and experience to have had with your in-laws! I enjoyed this production immensely.
As a child you can detach if you move but you never forget. We moved a few times across countries. Each move was an adventure. One day i would love to see our old homes again
Thank you for what you do , Julie. You are a very sincere person and you are making the world better. A glimpse of beauty and good old values…not all is lost in this crazy world!)))
I loved seeing your emotional attachment to family history. There nothing than beats family stories told in the actual landscape. Well done on an excellent and heartfelt production.
I absolutely love the old videos ❤. They were beautiful and so sweet to watch. Thankful to your family for letting us in on their story. I can understand your emotions at the end, this wasn't even my family and I felt emotional watching it. Something so wonderful about hearing about the past, these stories, theirs joys and their struggles. That these people will never be forgotten, they are a part of history. You can see how much tradition, family, and duty meant to them. There was something super emotional and touching when they were in rooms so heavily frequented by their parents and they could remember things they were doing in those rooms in addition to see their parents in the videos, I have one parent gone and who has a lot of health issues.....in the end, the memories are all we have. You can tell despite their age; they miss their parents. Thank you for this, Julie. Truly the best and most touching video you have done.
Julie, you made me cry at the end of the family tour! I wish I was that close to my siblings, and I miss them terribly! I long to see my brother and sister again, even though our memories are not grand like your family. What an amazing family home that is/was!! Incredible.
Do you have a "work vacation" for people who want to know what it's like to work "under stairs"? I love to clean and would love to work there for a couple of weeks for free to see what kind of experience that would be like.
Julie has a channel, "American Viscountess", and the family also have a channel, "Mapperton Live". The house and gardens are open to the public, so you might want to check that out.
I did not realize that the great homes and castkes of E gland were built, rebuilt and reimagined over the centuries until I started watching this series. Wonderful on soooo many levels.❤
Thank you for making this video. I have watched a few in the series so far, but this one makes my heart happy.. Providing a brother and sister a means by which they can spend time together with happy memories of their lives is something special.I am sure all the former Earls are looking down smiling on your efforts.
I love seeing Julie's videos in the longer version. But please adjust the audio volume. As the viewer has to crank the volume way up and when the adverts come on, they blow you out of the room!
I am forever grateful to Julie for opening this traditionally quite closed world to people all over the world. Her videos are so warm and natural, while being beautifully pulled together and always engaging. Thank you, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke!
Thank you so much! ❤
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I found it so touching how the Earl considered Small, the butler, his special friend. His continued interjection of Small in conversation to stress how the butler cared for them brought a tear to this American's eye. ❤😊
It’s a shame the public don’t know more about you. A lovely American woman who loves her husband and his heritage and wants her own children to grow up recognising their traditions as so important. Wonderful 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Thank you so much!!!
All you have to do is to tune in to any news programs showing the Royal family and she is there hyping her QWeen Meghan Markle. Saying how mis understood she is, how wonderful she is.. blah blah blah.. that's all you really need to know about her.
@AmericanViscountess have you ever done your own family research?
We Know them enough to know they are RICH SCROUNGERS….
@Mes287🤡🤡🤡
I went to school at hinchingbrooke It’s a beautiful building. We all learnt about the history of hinchingbrooke.& the family & visitors.
The way Julie coaxes people out of their shells is wonderful to watch. She has a beautiful vibrant energy that even the most stuck up aristocrats cannot ignore. Her warmth and vivaciousness is infectious! I also love the way she gets involved in small projects - gets her hands dirty and has a giggle whilst she's at it. When I first discovered this series I wondered why an American was presenting British homes, castles, manor houses. It didn't sit right with me until I realized just how much she's enveloped herself in the history of these homes and the life and heritage she's embraced as a Viscountess. She's just lovely!
Thank you so much! ❤
I love how kind, humble and respectful you are of your father in law and his sister. You value them and respect their presence and voice.
It was lovely to watch. I love history documentaries and castles, I wish like you that this lovely house had stayed in the family.
Thank you so much!!!
The family opened the home to the public and charged admission to try to keep it! Not a very polite comment....
I found it extremely moving to watch Dear John & Kate reminiscing about their childhoods, Johns fondness for his Butler George Small, his Family, the familiar paths & the flying Scotsman, the hiding places. Lovely, Thankyou
I am so glad I found this channel. It is awesome to learn about manors and castles of England. Viscountess Hinchingbrooke is a lovely and brilliant presenter.
This is one of the best ever. John and Kate were wonderful and the joy they exhibited showing us the house and bringing their memories to life was priceless. Thank you so much.
What a charming man - a wonderful day for you all. You are so sweet x
I have seen many of your TH-cam videos and enjoy your warmth and excitement as you share your life and local history with us. But to see your emotions come out and the deep love of your family really struck me. What a blessing you are to everyone around you. Thank you for sharing your family history and love of the old manor homes of England with the rest of us. And thank you for being such a great representative of the U.S. .
Thank you Julie, John and Kate for sharing your family history with us. Such an extraordinary journey. Julie, you are such a gift and wonderful historian❤️🙏
This highlights the ingredients of the ‘special relationship’ -American enthusiasm with British sense of history.
I found myself shedding tears listening to these two wonderful people, brother and sister, reminiscing about their childhood home. Very touching 😢
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enjoying this video. Julie , your reaction to Kate describing how John would direct her when to put her finger resulting in a shock was priceless. ! This was wonderful to hear their memories...measles room, collecting money from tourists, the flower room etc. Well done
I think what you have done and felt , was awesome. You have me in tears as well. I certainly understand that walls are imprinted with the past. Thank you for doing this. Thank you
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! You were good on Ladies of London, but this takes the cake!! You have found your calling ❤🇺🇸❤️
Thank you so much!!!
I concur with you that Ladies of London was a good show an Julie was the BEST cast member. Yet these shows on historical homes has been a God sent. I’ve spent 3 weekends watching someone with so much energy and a gigantic personality!! I adore these video. Thank you
I sat down and only planned to watch 5-10 minutes, and I ended up watching the entire program. Julie you’re such an intelligent and outgoing woman and an amazing breath of fresh air to watch. Do you have any plans to do more programs/shows about your family?
❤ yes we are planning to film another episode soon ❤
Hearing their memories and seeing the pictures, is so extraordinary!! How lucky and blessed
xx Julie
Great episode. The wringer washer is the American equivalent to the mangle in your laundry room discussion. My grandma would use the wringer washer, then the regular washer, dryer and hung out on the clothesline outside. The bedsheets were absolutely amazing after her tedious laundry process!
Ohhhhh Miss Julie! This video made me weep! What tender memories these lovely people shared. Thank you so very much!
Thank you so much!!!
What a beautiful school, it must cost a fortune to attend. I've watched this program befor on one of the Viscountess' own channels. Her in-laws delight while they visit the home of their early childhood memories is contagious!
Edit; Oh my. I just watched to the end (again), and I understood it was said that it's a State funded school, without tuition fees paid by the student's families. How wonderful for everyone, not the least of them being the Hinchingbrooke property itself. What a great way to preserve that amazingly important history for the future!
It was a state school and you paid nothing to attend. The house was restricted to the Sixth Form years 12 and 13 only. I went to the school and the Sixth From both for free. No fees. As I was in the catchment area. The dance room was where we sat to take exams in the 2000s. It's still a free state school today.
@@darrens3 I hope it was as enjoyable for you as it appears to be (looking in from outside), and that your memories are very good.
Simply heartbreaking!! It breaks my heart the loss of these beautiful old Country Houses! I hate the horrible inheritance taxes the citizens have to pay! If they weren’t so high, many of these houses could have been saved! I hate when people lose a family home!!
Just hate it!
What a lovely Daughter-In-Law they have! Smart, intelligent, motivated, and the mother of four beautiful grandchildren! Lucky people ❤
Hinchingbrook is HUGE!!! WOW, I’D HATE TO HEAT IT!! 😱😱😱😱🎊
Are you referring to the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Doesn't History tell us that England was still having to pay for the costs of WWI and WWII ? Also having to rebuild much of England since the bombing from the Nazi's ?
Julie, your love and pride for your family and your family’s history is wonderful. Your family is very lucky to have you. While it is sad that the family seat is no longer in the family, I think that Mapperton makes a far more beautiful, family home. You’re extremely blessed to have such a wonderful family and place to put down your American roots.
What you are doing now Julie will be forever important in the continuation of Mapperton so that history will not repeat itself ! It will become sustainable and God willing continue to tell its story for centuries to come . This episode made me immeasurably sad . I am so grateful for the spectacular photos of the Once Upon A Time home of your dear Father in Law . As it sits now it is just a very very large house … but the photos tell a story of happy times and precious memories! Bless you Julie on this impotent journey to keep history alive and well !! Love from 🇨🇦 Canada!
❤❤❤
Thank you so much! ❤
I helped my grandmother with laundry when I was a child. We had a wash board and a barrel for cleaning the clothes and the hand cranked double roller was called the wringer, which squeezed out the water and then hung out to dry on the clothesline. Had several hours before the clothes had to be ironed and my grandmother taught me how to cook and bake. Loved my grandmother very, very much.
Julie is so vibrant, and sharing the family history and be able to walk through and learn about that time period, absolutely brilliant! Also a public school, wow what a fantastic business decision. I can imagine what it must mean to the students, beautiful grounds, and serene environment for learning. LOVED the library and the stained glass windows where the church was located. She is so passionate, you can tell that she loves what she does, and being in the family must give her emotional sensations, like walking through a time tunnel. Julie, you done good girl, as we Americans would say, a long way from Chicago! Thank you! ❤💚🖤💛.
100% without any doubt or drawback, Julie's videos are my favorite documentaries on ANYTHING to do with Great Britain and it's nobility and their castles/homes. The way she is so natural and caring about everything and her vulnerability is just great story telling. Open, honest and very informative as well. This is my third video of her's and I will be watching all of them. Please, please, keep making these videos.
Such an amazing glimpse into history. I’m forever grateful. Thank you.
xx Julie
I am so glad to have found you. Your "American" excitement and joy over the history of, not just the Montagues, but all of Britain's Aristocratic families and manors is wonderful to watch. Much love from Indiana.
Julie, I sense you may somehow workout declaring Hitchinbrooke back as your family home. Your commitment to your family history is very admirable. I love your passion and ability to share it with us! Thank you!
you never know! xx Julie
So wonderful that you had a chance to experience this. As someone who grew up in their ancestral home, I know this feeling even if our home is less grand. My dad tells me the stories of him and his 13 siblings playing in the same woods and barns that I played in.
I just love your excitement, joy, respect and love for these beautiful places and their histories
I adored watching this video, could not take my eyes off it. I cryed tears with you when you spoke about your family and the feelings of love and family bond you hold. God bless you x
What a sad shame your family does not have the family portraits! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 So incredibly touching!! I can just imagine what this meant to you to walk with them through their memories ❤
She also has another channel with her husband, and I believe I saw in one of those videos that most of the family portraits were kept, except for duplicate paintings of ancestors
❤️❤️.👍 I’m from AMERICA and of course you know we don’t have anything imo in America to equal the magnificent stately homes and interesting history you have provided Julie for everyone to enjoy. I watch and share your enthusiasm. I have followed you your videos from the beginning and you have come a long way with your journey throughout Britain. I wish the best for you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Such a beautiful video. I love them all, but this one has a special resonance. I'm halfway through it and I felt compelled to suggest something to you. Please build a strong family connection with the school. Make presentations at school events. Encourage any students studying history to work with your family on oral history projects. Build that beautiful bond.
Thank you for bringing history to life - so interesting to see how early nunneries evolved into grand houses as history evolved
For people like us, who live in little boxes, seeing these wonderful buildings never gets old.
Julie you are a very welcome addition to this family! Preserving and documenting the history, taking the time to share even the most minuscule memories of John & Kate’s past, speaking with Tom and his wealth of knowledge 🤗 Well done !
I so enjoy Julie's videos that show her appreciation for English history with a unique American perspective.
So sad. I am so glad you appreciate how lucky you are to have such a place. I am American. This many years of history is but a dream for us. We are an infant Republic.
What a precious memory and experience to share with your husband's family❤
That was FANTASTIC! Love the tour with Julie's father in law and his sister! Their memories are what makes history come to life. The end where they were on the roof to see the Elizabeth the first coat of arms was really awe inspiring.
I loved Hinchingbrook House when we visited for a function I remember admiring the Fireplace that was so large, the vicountess is brilliant.
My maternal side also descend from the house of Montagu. Seeing the stained glass window in the library was an absolute joy to behold! Thank you ☺️ It’s a shame it isn’t in the family anymore…Maybe one day it can be, and then brought back to it’s former glory 💙💛
What lovely memories of your family and its history at Hinchingbrook! Thank you for sharing the experiences of your Aunt Kate and Father-in-law growing up there I will be leaving MY family home of 51 years upon the death of my 99 year old Mother. I know the history of my family is not as long as yours nor as illustrious but the thought of going has me gutted. I think of what Mr. Forster said of the home for the family, I’ll remember that always.
Julie, this was such a beautiful, lovely, informative and heartwarming presentation of Hinchingbrooke. Watching how you engaged with John and his sister literally brought tears to my eyes. Your love and passion for your family history and other historic manors in the Uk Is extremely admirable. Its wonderful to see someone take so much interest and keep it "alive ".
Oh, I can remember mum having a mangle - it was over this double concrete trough. Hard work. And a beautiful big copper. It was my job to light the copper and I vividly remember the smell of singed eyebrows and eyelashes. Oh, they smelled. And I had to still go to school to be made fun of. Then mum got this washing machine ( made by Pope!) and it had a - much smaller - mangle attached to it. You could swing it over the machine or over the trough. Then you’d put the bigger things ( sheets etc) into the ‘blue’ which was in the rinsing water. It was a Great Leap Forward. I remember that so clearly. Thanks for that memory 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
yes, we had the same thing out here in Australia in the 1950s when I was born just after the war finished. Our first electric washing machine was a single tub by hoover & so my mother still used the double concrete tubs & the hand wringer for many years until we finally bought a twin tub. Eventually we wore a hole in the bottom of the concrete tub & so it was finally discarded by my brother who moved in to live in the 1980s.
fabulous video and a look into the history. What is striking are the shared memories with your family and so many others....from sliding on trays, washing clothes with the wringer washing machine, to carving memories into the fireplace! It is heartbreaking to loose the home. My parents own home was torn down, I had to sell mine. Life moves forward, changes....It really is very striking how the British can look to the past through such great houses. Thank you so much Julie for sharing your family's history.
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@Mes287 Why are you so hateful and angry?
WOW! This is, without a doubt, THE best historical property tour I've ever seen! The tour of the property through children's eyes, via Julie's father-in-law and Kate's stories, is a wonderful approach to the telling of this story. Julie's tears afterwards brought a tear to my own eye. It's wonderful how personally invested she is in her husband's family's stories. I also loved the various places where they've framed out medieval bits of the structure in the school, as well as learning more of how to read the coats of arms as family history. I wonder...would they take a 66 yr old American for next term? (Maybe not, because I would probably spend most of the time staring at my surroundings and flunk my lessons!) Bravo, Julie, and crew! Well done!
So nice to see this part of history of your family and your passion. It would be nice to hear about your family history as well may be one time. How rhis came to be the story of where you are today.
She has a channel where she talks about those very things. Her channel is called American Viscountess and the family also runs the channel Mapperton Live.
@@leannsmarie How nice, thank you.
Thank you so much!!!
The subtitles keep changing “Tudor” to “Cheetah” which I’m enjoying immensely. “In the Cheetah period”😂
Fabulous! The past of this magnificent home truly came to life with the charming recollections of a brother and sister. Beautifully shot and edited too! A legacy piece for the ages. Thank you!
Thank you so much! xx Julie
This precious place revisited, & the losses the family have had to suffer! Julie you've done a lovely thing to bring the family back to reminisce & share with us. Thank you, & thanks to the Earl & Katy for sharing with such open hearts
Thoroughly enjoyed your showing us this magnificent building as a HOME to your father-in-law and your great aunt, which makes it so much more special and interesting. Thank you so very much for sharing xx I’ve subscribed to your channel because you’re so wonderful as is your family !
I'm just thinking of you dear Julie and your dear husband that sometimes we need to let go of some things for our own good and our family's good because only God knows what it was in is the best for us.sometimes He closes doors and also opens new doors.❤
Love your videos!!!❤
OMG! I so enjoyed this. I’m dual Canadian American citizen living in the U.S. Thank you so much!
I’m 71. My kids and their cousins all in their late 30’s are all wanting my Kate husband’s grandmother refrigerator from the 50’s. It still works❤️
This is so charming.
They all seem like a lovely family.
Thank you very much, a very fascinating documentary opus has been released. I watched your film in the bomb shelter with great admiration. This is an outstanding documentary. I watched the film on TH-cam since the alarm was announced in Kyiv. And we have been bombed in Ukraine for the second year now. During the entire period of the war, I also had thoughts of rethinking drawing a certain line between creation, architectural destruction, and decadence. I am a representative of the Kyiv dynasty which has lived in Kyiv since the 9th century. And unfortunately, over the course of 500 years, they lost everything they built and created. One of our ancestors was killed by the Mongols in the 13th century, around 1240, and during his burial, a stone with his last name carved on it was placed on his chest. This stone was from the ruins of his house, demolished by the Mongols. Later, the remains of our ancestors were found in 1840 during the reconstruction of the city by order of Emperor Alexander 1 and the demolition of the Kyiv necropolis. Since 1727, our family built a lot in Kyiv. But unfortunately, over 296 years, endless wars have destroyed everything. And there is only the Story of those people from whose grains of sand the earth that is under our feet was created. Thank you very much!
Earl Hinchenbrook didn’t seemed unfazed; he said it made him sad just hearing that letter. What a delightful gentleman.
No offence but its the Earl of Sandwich and his subsidiary title is Viscount Hinchingbrooke is used as courtesy title by his eldest living son who is his heir
WOW….,.,,, What a film…..Thankyou so much❤I love history so much and to see something that was shown in almost real time was amazing and unbelievable……The memories……..❤😮😊. Thank you so much. i too would have cried….. Xxxx
Gives new meaning to the idea of "downsizing". Heartbreaking 💔.
So much history lost.
Fascinating! As a fellow American, I cried when you cried Julie!
At 38:00 in the video, the Earl mentioned his grandmother's room with hidden areas. I wanted to see that so bad! 😅
xx Julie
It’s so sad to see such a beautiful castle turned into a school. The old pictures shown were absolutely gorgeous and hearing of the rooms before the school took over.
This is so bittersweet for me. I love that the building is again being loved, as it should be. But it makes me somber that the family lost such prescious, tangible family history. I really hope your children will be back in Hitchingbrook raising and teaching their own children about centuries of family history.
It's a state school. I don't think they're going to sell it as it's the only school in the area.
It is great to hear your father-in-law and aunt share their memories. Ten years ago I bought the home my parents built in 1957. It's amazing how many memories there are in your childhood home. 🙂🇨🇦
History isn't just what is found in books. History is all the knowledge and memories and documents and records and evidence of the people who lived in the past and up to the present. Your family isn't just the people you met. Your family are the people who came before you, who donated a part of themselves a long time ago so you can exist. You didn't simply come from your parents and grandparents. The live on through you and any descendants you have.
I've watched this video twice and 9h my gosh the emotions are so raw for me and I can't imagine the emotions that you and your in laws felt going through the house. I loved the history, the films and the tour of the home. It is heartbreaking that they had to move. I loved mapperton but my goodness the life they had at Hichingbrook. I'm so glad you take so much interest in their history, not only for your family but for all of us to learn and enjoy. It's a lifestyle us Americans don't really understand but we can still enjoy. We called the wrangle a wringer that would squeeze all the water out of the clothes after they were washed and they dry faster.
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What a wonderful video with your family.. so beautifully and naturally told..it’s so humbling and gratifying.. I love my family and history..I have been so enthralled and amazed by our British history I cannot get enough.. please if u any more i could watch..I would love to keep
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Thank you so much!!!
Hello Again Julie, I say of all the videos I find this one on Hinchingbrooke the most touching of all on several levels. First, bringing your father in law and his sister back to their roots is very healing because they are once again touching their ancestral heritage in person. I realize this is large castle, however there is an invisible thread or connection that is brought back while there because their minds and hearts are making that connection to their ancestral home and heritage, plus while talking over of what happened with their selling this castle heals the situation even more because it is addressing the root cause. The more you talk about it, the more you lessen the wounds both financial and emotional and very likely physical as well.
Thank you all this story was so brilliantly told and filmed. What a beautiful wonderful family. Thank you for sharing and what great joy this family have given to the pupils who go to school in this beautiful house. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌟🌟🌟💕💕💕🌈🌈🌈🌈🌲🌲🌲
How lovely and emotional! My folks certainly didn’t grow up in a grand castle but I would have loved to have taken them back to their growing up home before they passed and experience their thoughts and memories. What a wonderful opportunity and experience to have had with your in-laws! I enjoyed this production immensely.
Thank you so much! ❤
As a child you can detach if you move but you never forget. We moved a few times across countries. Each move was an adventure. One day i would love to see our old homes again
I find this channel so fascinating because it's on a personal level with Julie and her family
Thank you for what you do , Julie. You are a very sincere person and you are making the world better. A glimpse of beauty and good old values…not all is lost in this crazy world!)))
I loved seeing your emotional attachment to family history. There nothing than beats family stories told in the actual landscape. Well done on an excellent and heartfelt production.
I absolutely love the old videos ❤. They were beautiful and so sweet to watch. Thankful to your family for letting us in on their story. I can understand your emotions at the end, this wasn't even my family and I felt emotional watching it. Something so wonderful about hearing about the past, these stories, theirs joys and their struggles. That these people will never be forgotten, they are a part of history. You can see how much tradition, family, and duty meant to them. There was something super emotional and touching when they were in rooms so heavily frequented by their parents and they could remember things they were doing in those rooms in addition to see their parents in the videos, I have one parent gone and who has a lot of health issues.....in the end, the memories are all we have. You can tell despite their age; they miss their parents. Thank you for this, Julie. Truly the best and most touching video you have done.
Julie, you made me cry at the end of the family tour! I wish I was that close to my siblings, and I miss them terribly! I long to see my brother and sister again, even though our memories are not grand like your family. What an amazing family home that is/was!! Incredible.
Wonderful presentation,
Spectacular tour. Thank you.
Do you have a "work vacation" for people who want to know what it's like to work "under stairs"? I love to clean and would love to work there for a couple of weeks for free to see what kind of experience that would be like.
Julie has a channel, "American Viscountess", and the family also have a channel, "Mapperton Live". The house and gardens are open to the public, so you might want to check that out.
I did not realize that the great homes and castkes of E gland were built, rebuilt and reimagined over the centuries until I started watching this series. Wonderful on soooo many levels.❤
Loved this film. I was totally Iost in it. Thank you so much for bringing it to us x
Thank you for making this video. I have watched a few in the series so far, but this one makes my heart happy.. Providing a brother and sister a means by which they can spend time together with happy memories of their lives is something special.I am sure all the former Earls are looking down smiling on your efforts.
Simply lovely and wonderfully interesting x
The old family footage is wonderful! Family films in the 1930s was rather rare because the cameras were expensive.
Thank you so much for sharing this truly moving experience.the history of this beautiful family and wonderful home is riveting
God bless you all❤️🙏❤️
I love seeing Julie's videos in the longer version. But please adjust the audio volume. As the viewer has to crank the volume way up and when the adverts come on, they blow you out of the room!
I love castles, and beautiful big houses! I also love your little blue car!
Your videos are inspiring and special, your presentation is so enthusiastic genuine and warm. I’m addicted
Thank you so much!!!xx julie
Yes I remember when I had measles all the windows of my room were covered with tissue red paper to protect my eyes from the light 😊
Oh Julie I’m crying with you.
Why because she doesn’t have an extra mansion?
I loved your in-laws.They were so kind and friendly
and had such sweet memories of their childhood home.
Love this video, so much history & sweet childhood memories.
Fantastic and equally fascinating history lesson… What a wonderful subject … The family old movies were incredible.
B R A V O …! Well done… indeed.
Thank you so much!!!
What a fabulous tour of an ancestral home and a fascinating insight into the family history.
This is a great episode!
Julie, you are a pure gem. ❤
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