I know whenever I hear Dr. Grande say, “This would be like...”, that I am going to have laugh out loud moment! Thank you- those moments are the best especially as he envelops them with both tact and sincerity.
If you were her generation I think you might have a somewhat different opinion. Also, it was « reported » that everyone had an affair with David Niven- even David Niven. That’s one of his oldest jokes. It was a hilarious time to watch the Tabloids. Not gruesome as it is now. This gen wants the nittiest of the grittiest and give it out.
An uncle of mine was once part of a Royal Airforce crew that flew Princess Margaret across the Atlantic. According to him, she drank and swore non-stop during the flight, and was generally unbearable. Her portrayal in "The Crown" was mild in comparison to his account of her behavior.
From what I've seen so far in "The Crown", there's a lot of whitewashing of various member of the British royal family. Helena Bonham Carter is one of my favourite actresses and I think she's extremely talented. However, her portrayal of Princess Margaret is very restrained compared to the information I've read to date about her from her tendency to get truly quite drunk and to behave rather obnoxiously. Your uncle's experience of her sounds far more accurate than what we see in 'The Crown' . It makes one wonder exactly who is perhaps worried about offending the royals and has direct involvement with the script and the actual series because almost every character is portrayed in a sympathetic manner and there's a lot that's been deliberately left out or minimised.
@@Adara007 Not really relevant that's why, I guess they didn't want it to seem as though they were trying to create controversy for the heck of it. HBC's portrayal told us more than enough.
The director has admitted himself that the entire show was a love letter to Queen Elizabeth, so it’s not exactly a surprise or secret that they’re portrayed better lol. It was never intended as an expose.
I love that u went off on a tangent of sorts about the operation of the water controls. That's the Dr Grande we know and the reason why these vids are so good 🙃
I hate when he does that, it feels like he's just playing to the crowd and it's not very witty. The more you guys say you like it, the more he does it. It makes it seem more like a routine than a legitimate analysis :/
In Lady Glenconner's autobiography, she details what happens as she was there. Basically, they don't know but feel she may have had one of her mini-strokes while washing her hair and that there was an issue with the temperature control of the hot water - but overall she refused to have proper care and only after the intervention of her sister was she moved to return to the UK.
I I read that the boiler was set to boiling. She was infamously rude to her staff. I believe she had dementia from her multiple strokes. Margaret is the perfect example of "spare the rod,spoil the child", as well as the adult they become.
I think Queen Elizabeth had been tolerant and understanding toward Margaret. The Queen has extended that tolerance and maturity toward some of her children's and grandchildren's independent ways.
I guess because I am an anglophile I see Margaret differently. Put yourself in her shoes. I think that her addictions & bad behavior all stemmed from depression, frustration, insecurity and a certain uselessness. Especially when HRH Chas was born. My personal opinion is that the Windsors are so emotionally dead that Margaret became their first casualty before Diana.
With the greatest of respect, you have no idea what you're talking about & looks like you have a rose tinted version of England that you have prob never visited irl
That woman knew how to party! I love Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal as a contender for the throne in The Crown collection. The realization of the royal relatives who lived in a nursing home and were thought to be dead really blew things up.
The UK royal family seems to have had a lot of problems with alcohol, even allowing for the fact that alcohol abuse and alcoholism used to be much more acceptable than they are now. Margaret's mother, the Duchess of York, Queen Consort, and Queen Mother, was a notorious drinker, as was her uncle Edward VIII. I think her genetic predisposition to addictions (to alcohol, tobacco, prescription medications, and sex) caused a lot of her problems.
Quite interesting to learn about Princess Margaret. I followed her younger years, lost romance and her not finding a true calling. I find quite tragic that she couldn’t find a path for herself. Thank you Dr. Grande!
I did have a bath/shower with no hot water, only boiling water. The thermostat (immersion heater) was 'dead' so the heater would keep warming the water even after it's reached a temperature of 100 degrees. My british letting agents couldn't understand whta the problem was...
When I was like 3 me, my mom, and my grandma got a hotel room that had a hot tub with jets. My grandma turned the jets on before the tub was filled, and I just happened to be in its trajectory. It gave me a black eye
"She was like, 'hot cold, ok ok I got it, whatever'". Dr G really does make me laugh out loud. And I never feel like his dry humor is out of place, cruel or not proper, he just inserts it there in his always serious tone and topics. I appreciate it very much.
Thank you Dr. Grande, this woman had such heartache in her life. She would have been happy with Captain Townsend. And future heartaches with the Windsors would have been avoided, perhaps. A complex personality.
I disagree she would not have been happy with him. She could have married him but she didn't really want to. There were negotiations going on. She like the wildlife. I think she was bored with him (which is understandable she young and he was older with kids) Also I wonder about Peter Townsend. He end up marrying a woman younger than Margaret. She was like 20 years old and I don't know what is he like 40
I lived next door to Viscount Linley, her son, who used to send his footman over to complain about the noise we were making. My violin don't play that tune, when it comes to sympathy for the royals.
Thank you for the interesting analysis on Princess Margaret. I have watched all four seasons of The Crown, and on two occasions in the series Margaret in middle age asked for more responsibilities in the royal system, to be given more duties and was turned down, I realize that The Crown is a dramatization of actual events and not a documentary, but maybe she turned to alcohol and addictions because she was bored and had nothing to look forward to. Her children were probably off at boarding school. she was in a troubled marriage and there was just empty days ahead.
Brilliant, ....thank you. I have always been fascinated with Princess Margaret, "the rude highness" and contrary Princess. I was also fascinated with her relationship with HRH Princess Diana, another misunderstood woman, who both seemed to have more in common with each other than either would have ever wanted to admit. She was born into the Wrong family an at the Wrong time, but makes an incredible study in so many ways. I would have loved to meet her, or go to one of her insanely hedonistic parties, not that a mere peasant would have been invited. Crazy, wonderful lady.
Great vid. I remember a journalist's account of her visiting an event The locals had prepared a dish of chicken supreme. Margaret was reported to have said 'This looks like sick'. However, another side of her emerges from accounts of her: nothwithstanding the partying lifestyle and haughty demeanor, she was said to be a deeply religious person. She seemed quite sad in the end, almost reclusive.
*That is literally **_THREE PACKS_** per day!! When she "cut back", she "cut back" to 1.5 packs per day! I smoke, and im over here feelin too indulgent if I smoke more than just 1/2 a pack per day.*
@@Griselda_Puppy I dare not tell you how much I spend a week on ciggies. Thing is, they're making them so much smaller (much less content) than years' ago - I would say 3 replaces the old 1.
I lived in a Carib island for a while, my father is from there. The islands are almost all made of volcanic rock. This means no burying the pipes for water or sewage, or not deep anyway, like you can in actual soil. So, poorer households there (and middle class, everyone at least no loaded, at least the "southern" islands) have only cold water. If you take a shower at 6 in the morning, water is cold, take one 14:00, boiling hot water, pipes boiling in the hot sun, in the evening, comfy, warmish. If you get both hot and cold, and you take it after a particular hot day, both the cold and hot are wam and hot, so either get a boiler that is temp controlled (rich enough for that one) or a standard waterheater eithout boiler (heating warm water to steam). So there is that.
*"There's no scientific nor logical reason to believe that royals are special. (...just because of who their parents are...)"* *Dr Grande, may I say that that statement is **_VERY_** well said, and **_VERY_** true!!! Thank you!*
Who thinks Royals are special? That's a myth. They're just royal, there's never been a time they were seen as special and the days of them being revered are long gone.
I often think had Margaret been permitted to marry him n the first place her life would have been a bit different because to him she was unique and special.
I had a long day of marking essays. Finally going to bed and guess what? Dr Grande has posted a new video! Thank you! Really needed to hear your voice and input. Greetings from Glasgow. 😊
If Canada ever becomes a republic Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew will have to take a lot of the blame. The Queen is a hard working woman. By the way the Scottish built Canada.
Interesting treatment. The first half I found myself getting annoyed because Princess Margaret was a complex person and I felt she was getting a superficial, even glib treatment. Could have done without the snarky discussion of the tub water. But then I think you really rose to the occasion in terms of dealing with the essentially no-win situation she was in. A lot of good insight there. Anyone interested in Princess Margaret would enjoy the references to her in Lady Anne Glenconner's autobiography. She was a childhood friend of Elizabeth and Margaret and later in life was Margaret's Lady in Waiting for 30 years, ending only with PM's death. She does not dispute the myriad stories of Margaret's self-indulgence and extreme disagreeableness, but shows a different side of her that is not generally known.
I agree about Princess Margaret’s boredom problem; I’ve often thought it was a pity that she was so uneducated because she was obviously intelligent. Incredibly from our modern perspective, both girls weren’t educated because their mother believed that women didn’t need it - just being good wives and mothers was the main thing. Her sister Elizabeth, being the elder and due to inherit the throne, underwent a pretty long period of coaching on the British Constitution, history, and political system taught by the Master of Eton College. Fortunately Elizabeth was intellectually suited to her role and was a voracious reader. (I must admit that I deeply admired, even loved Queen Elizabeth and managed to view her in person through the years. She really turned out to be a woman of stature!)
“Appeared to be highly intelligent, although she had a poor education...” It boggles my mind that she and Eizabeth had minimal education. I had always assumed royalty had the best of everything but I guess the sisters were the wrong gender. 😒 Excellent, interesting analysis! 💖💗💖💗💖
@@coweatsman interesting! 👍🏼 And if The Netflix series The Crown is even a little bit accurate, Elizabeth realized she wanted more education to perform her job and sought out tutors and also continually educates herself.
You are right that they had a particularly bad education because they were girls.But royal boys didn't get much of an education either. They were going to be rich and successful whether they worked hard academically or not. Education was not a priority, not since Queen Victoria's husband, Albert tried to force feed his sons information, and they reacted against it. Marianne
Maybe you could make a video about suffering...evil. How to cope with the cruelty in this world . I have seen things I can’t understand and it makes my heart hurt so much.
In order for Margaret to be allowed to marry Peter after she turned 25, she was required to renounce her claim to the throne for herself and her descendants. As I recall there would be major economic effects as well - she would basically need to be supported financially by Peter, who certainly wasn't in a highly paid job. So it doesn't surprise me at all that she gave him up, the price of marriage was just too high.
I read that she wasn't a particularly nice person. She looked down her nose at everyone and when invited to dinner, she would eat beforehand and deliberately stop eating shortly after the meal started. Etiquette dictates that when a member of the royal family stopped eating, putting down their knife and fork everyone else had to do the same. Nasty piece of work.
I'm in obsessed with princess Margaret and especially the actress that played her in the crown. I never even knew she existed... I've done so much research now... wowzers what a life!
Presumably Margaret would've been pretty ostracised by her family for the marriage though. They were still essentially asking her to choose between family and Townsend and asking anyone to give up their family is rough.
@@AJAXKID123 and? Do you realize that status accorded to British royals in the 1950's as they dispensed with the Empire? They were the superstars of that time, despite the fact that the light of their stars were waning. Judging the past by today is not always helpful.
Fascinating analysis of the psychological danger inherent in royalty. I'm going to do some reading on the royal families of Europe with this in mind. Thanks very much!
I think she needed to focus more on caring for others. Lots of folks cared about her, she had more love in her life than I ever will, but she needed a cause larger than herself to focus on.
@@kathleenreardon8943 if i was her i think I'd feel like shit to know everyone is around me just because I'm a princess. It's like if I won the lotto, I would never know who my true friends are. It would be extremely isolating
@@evacope1718 I agree. What I'm saying is that her family clearly loved her. She was very much loved by her parents and her children and her sister the Queen. That's more love than many us will ever receive. And I think more than enough for her. Her coping mechanisms were selfish and very harmful to herself and anyone who cared about her.
I enjoy your thoughtful videos Dr. Grande. Your combination of "audio biographer " and psycological analysis is unique, educational, and entertaining! Thankyou🎄🎁👍
I love Dr. Grande's wide variety of personal "guests" on his videos. The boiling bath water incident has always amazed me. I could understand if she was a child
I'm actually flabbergasted - as to why a bathtub can even produce boiling water. We have safety measures that ensure water can never reach a temperate too hot for a human to tolerate in a sink or bathtub. Boiling water should not be in the house plubming, period! Did she not care about safety codes - or was she a victim of extremely-shoddy home construction?
^ I dont understand why people take sedatives (benzos or barbiturates) while drinking. Theres no point in getting intoxicated in a way that you dont even remember later, and even if you did the alcohol overpowers the feeling you get from those sedatives. I have no problem with doing drugs in general, but its just a waste of everything to mix and match like there was no tomorrow. 🤔
@@myratraney If thats true, then i suggest three daily doses of heroin taken intravenously, you wouldnt feel even if your clothes catched fire from something. 🤔 Its obviously a fire hazard to set yourself on fire, but for each their own i guess. 😳✌️
Great analysis as always. She appeared to be an interesting individual; sad, spoilt, grandiose, intelligent, beautiful. A complex character. Could you please do King Henry VIII? He was dangerous, deeply paranoid, grandiose. He started off a kind king it is said, and progressed to tyranny. How much did the head injury he suffered jousting when his horse crushed him ( he was “without speech for 2 hours”) have to do with this? He killed 2 of his wives and almost killed the last one, Katherine Parr and many people were killed on his orders. I find him a deeply disturbing man. Also, King Richard III. Did he kill the Princes in the Tower? He is a very polarising character. So many interesting historical figures.... Cheers Dr G, and have a great Christmas, and a safe New Year.
I agree about Henry VIII! Did he have a traumatic brain injury and if so did it affect some of the big historic events such as the deaths of Ann Boleyn and Cromwell?
I have always found King Henry interesting, too. Check out Dr. David Starkey, he's a Historian with an encyclopedic knowledge of King Henry. He has a lot of videos on youtube.
@@Jesterjones9073 He's my favorite British historian, 100% trustworthy. Love his Elizabeth 1 series, too, (which I'm sure you've seen). I often play one of his videos to help me fall asleep as I find his voice so comforting. 😊Cheers!
Dr. Grande, this was an excellent analysis!! Royalty is a fascinating subject and concept, and you made some very profound statements about it at the end! Your snarkiness seems to be another way of your calling someone an a$$h*1e without actually using the word "a$$h*1e", and it is laugh-out-loud HILARIOUS!!!
Old British homes generally have separate taps for hot and cold water, so that could explain how one could easily be burned, especially if not paying attention. This is rare in the US, where we generally have mixed taps for our faucets.
@@petelaycock2842 Wow, I didn't realize homes that recent would also have separate taps. Thanks for the info! Here in the states, I've only seen this once, in my grandma's old house, which was built by my great grandparents who were from Lithuania. My uncle updated it to a single mixer tap around 1990, but I remember it being a challenge to safely wash my hands in the bathroom sink.
@@jnmsks6052 Separate taps are normal in the UK. 🇬🇧. You are supposed to put the plug in the sink/basin/bath, and mix the hot water and cold water streams together, to get warm water. Then you wash yourself in the warm water. You are not supposed to stick your hand (or leg) directly under the hot tap unless you want to end up in hospital. The reason the water is so hot is to save water. The hotter it is, the less (volume) of it you need to use to make warm water. The reason you need to save hot water, is because (unless you live alone) there will be a queue of other people in the house who also want hot water, so you yourself must use as little as possible. Therefore the water is very hot so you don’t need much of it to create warm water in the basin. I am in the UK. 🇬🇧
I found a video of yours while searching for videos on narcissism. For the last week, when I get the chance, I’ve been binge watching your videos. Your content is very interesting and i am enjoying it!
The boiling hot water is not too far from the reality in the UK. Mixer taps are not standard the way they are in the US, so often when washing your hands you have to switch between the burning hot tap and the cold tap.
“There’s a reason status should be earned and not given. People don’t really appreciate what they have when it is handed to them. When people earn their status, they’re cautious and prudent, in their decisions. They understand the value of what they have. When power and status are given to somebody, specially in a situation where they can’t lose it as long as they follow some basic rules, it becomes a recepie for a life of excess.” Dr. Grande 🤯🤯🤯🤯 I need to remember this not only for the brilliance in which it was told, but because it’s so true, specially when raising our children.
She came here in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 1977 to open a new wing of a medical center or hospital and she acted terribly and arrogantly. Hubert Humphrey, past vice president, was alive at that time and he and several others acted as aides to make her feel more comfortable. She did not visit any patients or talk with staff other than the lead doctor and she did not want to touch anything. They had a grand lunch for her and she would not talk to anyone. She put her hands over her plate and cup, staff was instructed not to talk to her and many did not know what that meant. Finally, someone told the head waiter that that meant she did not want that course. It was a PR disaster for her. If she thought she were too good to come here then she should not have come.
Going from 60 to 30 cigarettes a day (3 packs to a pack and a half) is one heck of a good start. It's unfortunate that she didn't receive the support needed to keep going down a healthier path.
People who have a death wish are hard to deal with. Big smokers like that are so dependent and so in their world that it really is up to them to make the change. She was very isolated and other than perhaps her children who was going to have an intervention with her?
Excellence in fairness, thank you. As for earning our people and wealth in this life, spot on, as it seems this is how we have handicapped family legacies; with a system of inheritance, where whomever inherits rarely knows to work their given talents
I was nearly scalded when I moved into a new house I was renting. The previous tenants had turned the temperature on the water heater way up above the normal setting and when you turned on the hot water at the sink it came out dangerously hot. Makes me wonder if some maintenance person had screwed something up at Princess Margaret's vacation house.
How did this woman live so long? Just imagine had she taken care of herself how long her life could've been, she obviously had strong genes. Thank you Dr. Grande for this. When I first saw this was about a Royal I immediately thought, 'ugh , why would I want to hear about her', or any Royal for that matter. But this was very interesting.
Just look at the medical history. While she lived long considering her unhealthy lifestyle, she had health problems, terrible quality of life in her final years.
@@golden-63 Her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1966 and breast cancer in 1984. She wouldn't lived that long without wealth. Prince Philip was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008 and had heart problems in his 90s. He wouldn't lived that long without wealth and modern medicine.
No one knows what precisely happened in the bath - but it seems that the controls were quite complicated and she only wanted to wash her hair - she was standing in the bath, turned on the water and very hot water came out - some feel due to the shock and suffering from circulatory problems she was unaware of what was happening. (for example UK sink taps often times have a separate spigot for hot and cold and thus it can be easy to burn oneself). She did not get proper treatment, waited to return to the UK and did not get the grafts nor follow doctor's instructions.
🤣😄 I love you, doctor. Your droll way of describing the absurdity of a dysfunctional family while still explaining their role in the world and how it played out...perfect! I read about the Windsors at one time and remember thinking: they're just people. Why are they referred to as "blue bloods"? Why are people gaga over them? They come into the world like we do, and will certainly die - just like everyone else. This old bird was the perfect example of that. She was just a person...messed up and confused just like most of us. I have always grappled with the notion of them being special, so this was particularly interesting to me. Thank you Dr Grande! 👍🌹 💯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Dr. Grande´s video are the first thing I do watch in the morning while sipping my tea. He just makes my day. I wonder if he has any "special topics" ready for Christmas, like: "The Grinch, mental health and personality analysis" , "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - was he a victim of bullying?" or "Relationship between Santa Claus and the elves - case study" :)
Hello, great video! I love videos about royals. Would you consider making a video about Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden? She had an ED when she was young but now she is healthy and very beloved by the swedens. I think a video about her might be interesting😊
DR Grande, would you consider profiling the personality and mental health of the Russian mystic, the infamous Rasputin? Perhaps one of the most enigmatic man in the 20th century. Your content have been eye opening for me, thanks for the great effort.
Could you do a video about Peter Madsen who killed a journalist, Kim Wall, inside his self-made and crowdfunded submarine? He was in the news again recently when he attempted to escape from prison.
Dr. Grande, how do you explain the current Queen Elizabeth? She is the most powerful Royal in the world, and all her power was simply given to her when her father died, she did nothing to earn it, and there's little she can do to lose it - she will be Queen until her death, no matter whether she rules well or poorly. And yet she is the epitomy of a cautious and prudent ruler, and both famous and infamous for avoiding any type of waste or excess. Thoughts?
What can Dr. Grande say, really? You are right and I guess unless they change to rules, things will continue this way. They are born into it. Thankfully, Queen Elizabeth was an extraordinary woman who did an amazing job. Let's see how King Charles does. Then there will be Prince William after!
I know whenever I hear Dr. Grande say, “This would be like...”, that I am going to have laugh out loud moment! Thank you- those moments are the best especially as he envelops them with both tact and sincerity.
So true! LOL! 😂
If you were her generation I think you might have a somewhat different opinion. Also, it was « reported » that everyone had an affair with David Niven- even David Niven. That’s one of his oldest jokes. It was a hilarious time to watch the Tabloids. Not gruesome as it is now. This gen wants the nittiest of the grittiest and give it out.
Yes - it's like a warning siren. To put down food, and suspend drink. Very thoughtful; so we don't have to fear a laughing/choking hazard.
Dr. Grande always gets that wry smile that he tries to suppress when he's about to make a joke.
An uncle of mine was once part of a Royal Airforce crew that flew Princess Margaret across the Atlantic. According to him, she drank and swore non-stop during the flight, and was generally unbearable. Her portrayal in "The Crown" was mild in comparison to his account of her behavior.
From what I've seen so far in "The Crown", there's a lot of whitewashing of various member of the British royal family. Helena Bonham Carter is one of my favourite actresses and I think she's extremely talented. However, her portrayal of Princess Margaret is very restrained compared to the information I've read to date about her from her tendency to get truly quite drunk and to behave rather obnoxiously. Your uncle's experience of her sounds far more accurate than what we see in 'The Crown' . It makes one wonder exactly who is perhaps worried about offending the royals and has direct involvement with the script and the actual series because almost every character is portrayed in a sympathetic manner and there's a lot that's been deliberately left out or minimised.
@@Adara007 Not really relevant that's why, I guess they didn't want it to seem as though they were trying to create controversy for the heck of it. HBC's portrayal told us more than enough.
Helena Bonham Carter knew her. She talked about her a lot in an interview. I think Margaret had a thing with Helena's uncles.
The director has admitted himself that the entire show was a love letter to Queen Elizabeth, so it’s not exactly a surprise or secret that they’re portrayed better lol. It was never intended as an expose.
I’m reading - Ninety Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. I’m half way through it. It paints her in a similar light.
I love that u went off on a tangent of sorts about the operation of the water controls. That's the Dr Grande we know and the reason why these vids are so good 🙃
I hate when he does that, it feels like he's just playing to the crowd and it's not very witty. The more you guys say you like it, the more he does it. It makes it seem more like a routine than a legitimate analysis :/
In Lady Glenconner's autobiography, she details what happens as she was there. Basically, they don't know but feel she may have had one of her mini-strokes while washing her hair and that there was an issue with the temperature control of the hot water - but overall she refused to have proper care and only after the intervention of her sister was she moved to return to the UK.
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I read that the boiler was set to boiling. She was infamously rude to her staff. I believe she had dementia from her multiple strokes. Margaret is the perfect example of "spare the rod,spoil the child", as well as the adult they become.
Thank you, Dr Grande. Status should be earned, not given. Entitled people are destructive, especially toward others.
I think Queen Elizabeth had been tolerant and understanding toward Margaret. The Queen has extended that tolerance and maturity toward some of her children's and grandchildren's independent ways.
Thank you for this analyzes, I believe Princess Margaret didn't know what she wanted or who she was. This was very interesting!
I guess because I am an anglophile I see Margaret differently. Put yourself in her shoes. I think that her addictions & bad behavior all stemmed from depression, frustration, insecurity and a certain uselessness. Especially when HRH Chas was born. My personal opinion is that the Windsors are so emotionally dead that Margaret became their first casualty before Diana.
With the greatest of respect, you have no idea what you're talking about & looks like you have a rose tinted version of England that you have prob never visited irl
That woman knew how to party! I love Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal as a contender for the throne in The Crown collection. The realization of the royal relatives who lived in a nursing home and were thought to be dead really blew things up.
The UK royal family seems to have had a lot of problems with alcohol, even allowing for the fact that alcohol abuse and alcoholism used to be much more acceptable than they are now. Margaret's mother, the Duchess of York, Queen Consort, and Queen Mother, was a notorious drinker, as was her uncle Edward VIII. I think her genetic predisposition to addictions (to alcohol, tobacco, prescription medications, and sex) caused a lot of her problems.
Would love to hear your take on the Romanovs while you're at it :D
And Rasputin.
Yeah, Rasputin would be very interesting. 🤔 I have never seen him as that "mad monk" image he had, more like a conman with an awful taste in fashion.
@@ilkkarautio2449 And pretty rank personal hygiene.
Yes please would love the Romanovs
Quite interesting to learn about Princess Margaret. I followed her younger years, lost romance and her not finding a true calling. I find quite tragic that she couldn’t find a path for herself. Thank you Dr. Grande!
i find princess margaret so fascinating.
"here's the hot tab, the cold tab, and the scalding boiling tab" lol
I did have a bath/shower with no hot water, only boiling water. The thermostat (immersion heater) was 'dead' so the heater would keep warming the water even after it's reached a temperature of 100 degrees. My british letting agents couldn't understand whta the problem was...
When I was like 3 me, my mom, and my grandma got a hotel room that had a hot tub with jets. My grandma turned the jets on before the tub was filled, and I just happened to be in its trajectory. It gave me a black eye
flip those "b"'s upside down my friend
"She was like, 'hot cold, ok ok I got it, whatever'". Dr G really does make me laugh out loud. And I never feel like his dry humor is out of place, cruel or not proper, he just inserts it there in his always serious tone and topics. I appreciate it very much.
@@josoffat7649 are you trying to say that it's "tap" and not "tab"? ok, well whatever lol
Laughed really hard at “hot/cold, yeah, I got it.” Hahahah haha 😆
Hey Dr. Grande, I think it would be really interesting if you covered Brian Wilson and his time with Dr. Eugene Landy.
Yes, its analysis time well spent vs. Analysis of dead people and characters from tv or movies.
Brian Wilson definitely! Would love to hear an analysis on that dude....
Thank you Dr. Grande, this woman had such heartache in her life. She would have been happy with Captain Townsend. And future heartaches with the Windsors would have been avoided, perhaps. A complex personality.
I disagree she would not have been happy with him. She could have married him but she didn't really want to. There were negotiations going on. She like the wildlife. I think she was bored with him (which is understandable she young and he was older with kids) Also I wonder about Peter Townsend. He end up marrying a woman younger than Margaret. She was like 20 years old and I don't know what is he like 40
I lived next door to Viscount Linley, her son, who used to send his footman over to complain about the noise we were making. My violin don't play that tune, when it comes to sympathy for the royals.
How naive can one get?
An obnoxious personality, more like.
Ironic that the Church wouldn’t allow a marriage but looked the other way at her alcoholism and promiscuity.
Thank you for the interesting analysis on Princess Margaret. I have watched all four seasons of The Crown, and on two occasions in the series Margaret in middle age asked for more responsibilities in the royal system, to be given more duties and was turned down, I realize that The Crown is a dramatization of actual events and not a documentary, but maybe she turned to alcohol and addictions because she was bored and had nothing to look forward to. Her children were probably off at boarding school. she was in a troubled marriage and there was just empty days ahead.
Margaret was an unpleasant drunk, she was racist and a snob, you think the Queen wants someone like that representing her and the Crown?
Wasted potential.
That’s a fascinating point - how does one compete in a world where nothing is earned!
Brilliant, ....thank you. I have always been fascinated with Princess Margaret, "the rude highness" and contrary Princess. I was also fascinated with her relationship with HRH Princess Diana, another misunderstood woman, who both seemed to have more in common with each other than either would have ever wanted to admit. She was born into the Wrong family an at the Wrong time, but makes an incredible study in so many ways. I would have loved to meet her, or go to one of her insanely hedonistic parties, not that a mere peasant would have been invited. Crazy, wonderful lady.
Great vid. I remember a journalist's account of her visiting an event
The locals had prepared a dish of chicken supreme. Margaret was reported to have said 'This looks like sick'. However, another side of her emerges from accounts of her: nothwithstanding the partying lifestyle and haughty demeanor, she was said to be a deeply religious person. She seemed quite sad in the end, almost reclusive.
60 cigarettes a day??? Holy smokes...
Go big or go home!
*That is literally **_THREE PACKS_** per day!! When she "cut back", she "cut back" to 1.5 packs per day! I smoke, and im over here feelin too indulgent if I smoke more than just 1/2 a pack per day.*
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@@Griselda_Puppy I dare not tell you how much I spend a week on ciggies. Thing is, they're making them so much smaller (much less content) than years' ago - I would say 3 replaces the old 1.
I lived in a Carib island for a while, my father is from there. The islands are almost all made of volcanic rock. This means no burying the pipes for water or sewage, or not deep anyway, like you can in actual soil. So, poorer households there (and middle class, everyone at least no loaded, at least the "southern" islands) have only cold water. If you take a shower at 6 in the morning, water is cold, take one 14:00, boiling hot water, pipes boiling in the hot sun, in the evening, comfy, warmish. If you get both hot and cold, and you take it after a particular hot day, both the cold and hot are wam and hot, so either get a boiler that is temp controlled (rich enough for that one) or a standard waterheater eithout boiler (heating warm water to steam).
So there is that.
*"There's no scientific nor logical reason to believe that royals are special. (...just because of who their parents are...)"*
*Dr Grande, may I say that that statement is **_VERY_** well said, and **_VERY_** true!!! Thank you!*
Who thinks Royals are special? That's a myth. They're just royal, there's never been a time they were seen as special and the days of them being revered are long gone.
The Chrysler PT Cruiser has a self-respect button on the shifter. It activates a huge spring under the seat that ejects you out the sun roof.
Princess Margaret was so beautiful when she was young.
I often think had Margaret been permitted to marry him n the first place her life would have been a bit different because to him she was unique and special.
Agreed. Actually I think the same about Charles and Camilla. Poor Diana would have been spared the pain of a loveless marriage.
I read recently, that on Margaret's letters during that time, that in the end she decided on her own not to marry him.
@@karagibson7534 Yes. Her letters letters at the time have now become "declassified". Just realised how old your comment is....sorry!
I had a long day of marking essays. Finally going to bed and guess what? Dr Grande has posted a new video! Thank you! Really needed to hear your voice and input. Greetings from Glasgow. 😊
If Canada ever becomes a republic Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew will have to take a lot of the blame. The Queen is a hard working woman. By the way the Scottish built Canada.
Interesting treatment. The first half I found myself getting annoyed because Princess Margaret was a complex person and I felt she was getting a superficial, even glib treatment. Could have done without the snarky discussion of the tub water. But then I think you really rose to the occasion in terms of dealing with the essentially no-win situation she was in. A lot of good insight there. Anyone interested in Princess Margaret would enjoy the references to her in Lady Anne Glenconner's autobiography. She was a childhood friend of Elizabeth and Margaret and later in life was Margaret's Lady in Waiting for 30 years, ending only with PM's death. She does not dispute the myriad stories of Margaret's self-indulgence and extreme disagreeableness, but shows a different side of her that is not generally known.
I love all the insightful life lessons you add at the end. They're my favorite parts. Thank you 😊 💓
Thanks Dr Grande, would love more videos about the Royal Family!
they are indeed a case study in psychiatric disorders
I agree about Princess Margaret’s boredom problem; I’ve often thought it was a pity that she was so uneducated because she was obviously intelligent. Incredibly from our modern perspective, both girls weren’t educated because their mother believed that women didn’t need it - just being good wives and mothers was the main thing.
Her sister Elizabeth, being the elder and due to inherit the throne, underwent a pretty long period of coaching on the British Constitution, history, and political system taught by the Master of Eton College. Fortunately Elizabeth was intellectually suited to her role and was a voracious reader. (I must admit that I deeply admired, even loved Queen Elizabeth and managed to view her in person through the years. She really turned out to be a woman of stature!)
“Appeared to be highly intelligent, although she had a poor education...”
It boggles my mind that she and Eizabeth had minimal education. I had always assumed royalty had the best of everything but I guess the sisters were the wrong gender. 😒
Excellent, interesting analysis! 💖💗💖💗💖
The queen did at least learn how to fix cars during WWII as her contribution to the war effort.
@@coweatsman interesting! 👍🏼
And if The Netflix series The Crown is even a little bit accurate, Elizabeth realized she wanted more education to perform her job and sought out tutors and also continually educates herself.
@@mcd5478 I loved that part of the show. I would hope it is true.
You are right that they had a particularly bad education because they were girls.But royal boys didn't get much of an education either. They were going to be rich and successful whether they worked hard academically or not. Education was not a priority, not since Queen Victoria's husband, Albert tried to force feed his sons information, and they reacted against it.
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Royal men of her generation had no formal education, either. Edward who abdicated was by all reports unbearably vapid in conversation.
I just can’t see Mick singing “Jumpin Jack Flash” to Margaret...😁
he was just clout chasin in the 70s
I'm not listening to this one..but just wanted to say that your channel is the one I pull up every day !
Love the Princess. I can’t believe I missed this upload !!!!
Can you analyze Alfred Hitchcock?
Since we are at it, pls cover Imelda Marcos. We already know she’s a narcissistic corrupt but your confirmation matters. 😊
I think her name is spelled Imelda :)
Lol
Yes - that sweet confirmation. Dr. Grande's shows are like pressing bubble-wrap!
Yes please
LOL.
Sensitive and careful analysis.
Maybe you could make a video about suffering...evil. How to cope with the cruelty in this world . I have seen things I can’t understand and it makes my heart hurt so much.
Read up a little on theodicy.
Watch "Time Bandits" and listen carefully.
Study the work of Alvin Plantinga.
I agree. All the cruelty and anger is beginning to get to me. It just hurts to see.
@@melissa9375 It's the same for me. I don't understand why many people are so sick.
My dad was also a Air Force royal crew and he said that Princess Margaret Cursed a LOT And she’s a drink nonstop.
Is that she was also unbearable to Fly with But she could be fun A little
I love your content. Wishing you even more success with this channel in 2021 ☺️
In order for Margaret to be allowed to marry Peter after she turned 25, she was required to renounce her claim to the throne for herself and her descendants. As I recall there would be major economic effects as well - she would basically need to be supported financially by Peter, who certainly wasn't in a highly paid job. So it doesn't surprise me at all that she gave him up, the price of marriage was just too high.
Not a big deal but British actor David Niven’s last name should be pronounced like “given” 😀✌️
I read that she wasn't a particularly nice person. She looked down her nose at everyone and when invited to dinner, she would eat beforehand and deliberately stop eating shortly after the meal started. Etiquette dictates that when a member of the royal family stopped eating, putting down their knife and fork everyone else had to do the same. Nasty piece of work.
Your 'final thoughts' made the whole thing worthwhile 👍
I'm in obsessed with princess Margaret and especially the actress that played her in the crown. I never even knew she existed... I've done so much research now... wowzers what a life!
Presumably Margaret would've been pretty ostracised by her family for the marriage though. They were still essentially asking her to choose between family and Townsend and asking anyone to give up their family is rough.
It was giving up the trappings of royalty she didn't want to give up an all that came with it.
@@AJAXKID123 and? Do you realize that status accorded to British royals in the 1950's as they dispensed with the Empire? They were the superstars of that time, despite the fact that the light of their stars were waning. Judging the past by today is not always helpful.
Fascinating analysis of the psychological danger inherent in royalty. I'm going to do some reading on the royal families of Europe with this in mind. Thanks very much!
"Hot, cold, yeah, yeah - I got it!" I'm ashamed to say that made me lol
Shame - Yeah. There must be something wrong with us! Dr. Grande - can you shed a little light on our complex?
@@ginashemeth7708 ... 💯😅😅😅
Even though she had a more than a charmed life, I have to feel sorry for her. She really needed someone to care for her.
I think she needed to focus more on caring for others. Lots of folks cared about her, she had more love in her life than I ever will, but she needed a cause larger than herself to focus on.
@@kathleenreardon8943 if i was her i think I'd feel like shit to know everyone is around me just because I'm a princess. It's like if I won the lotto, I would never know who my true friends are. It would be extremely isolating
@@evacope1718 I agree. What I'm saying is that her family clearly loved her. She was very much loved by her parents and her children and her sister the Queen. That's more love than many us will ever receive. And I think more than enough for her. Her coping mechanisms were selfish and very harmful to herself and anyone who cared about her.
She needed to be content with her lot
Had PLENTY OF FOLKS CARING FOR HER
I enjoy your thoughtful videos Dr. Grande.
Your combination of "audio biographer " and psycological analysis is unique, educational, and entertaining!
Thankyou🎄🎁👍
Dr. G. is all things that are good.
@@foxieroxieok I concur!🧔
I love Dr. Grande's wide variety of personal "guests" on his videos. The boiling bath water incident has always amazed me. I could understand if she was a child
Understandably she was intoxicated probably both sedatives & alcohol
I'm actually flabbergasted - as to why a bathtub can even produce boiling water. We have safety measures that ensure water can never reach a temperate too hot for a human to tolerate in a sink or bathtub. Boiling water should not be in the house plubming, period! Did she not care about safety codes - or was she a victim of extremely-shoddy home construction?
^ I dont understand why people take sedatives (benzos or barbiturates) while drinking. Theres no point in getting intoxicated in a way that you dont even remember later, and even if you did the alcohol overpowers the feeling you get from those sedatives. I have no problem with doing drugs in general, but its just a waste of everything to mix and match like there was no tomorrow. 🤔
@@ilkkarautio2449 in my humble opinion...they dont wanna feel / remember anything ...comatose to be exact ....
@@myratraney If thats true, then i suggest three daily doses of heroin taken intravenously, you wouldnt feel even if your clothes catched fire from something. 🤔 Its obviously a fire hazard to set yourself on fire, but for each their own i guess. 😳✌️
At this rate, why not look at Wallis Simpson, Edward Vlll, Henry Vlll, Queen Anne, Prince Phillip.
@fwgre9654 Great idea.
This entire channel is as binge-inducing as french fries!!! Watching is how I plan to ring in the new year...lol
Great analysis as always. She appeared to be an interesting individual; sad, spoilt, grandiose, intelligent, beautiful. A complex character.
Could you please do King Henry VIII? He was dangerous, deeply paranoid, grandiose. He started off a kind king it is said, and progressed to tyranny. How much did the head injury he suffered jousting when his horse crushed him ( he was “without speech for 2 hours”) have to do with this? He killed 2 of his wives and almost killed the last one, Katherine Parr and many people were killed on his orders. I find him a deeply disturbing man.
Also, King Richard III. Did he kill the Princes in the Tower? He is a very polarising character. So many interesting historical figures....
Cheers Dr G, and have a great Christmas, and a safe New Year.
I agree about Henry VIII! Did he have a traumatic brain injury and if so did it affect some of the big historic events such as the deaths of Ann Boleyn and Cromwell?
I have always found King Henry interesting, too. Check out Dr. David Starkey, he's a Historian with an encyclopedic knowledge of King Henry. He has a lot of videos on youtube.
@@ejammy1906 I love David Starkey! Have watched many of his documentaries and follow his TH-cam channel. 😀
@@Jesterjones9073 He's my favorite British historian, 100% trustworthy. Love his Elizabeth 1 series, too, (which I'm sure you've seen). I often play one of his videos to help me fall asleep as I find his voice so comforting. 😊Cheers!
David NIV-en. Just like the word “given.” Academy Award winner - very fine actor. 👍🏼
Dr. Grande, this was an excellent analysis!! Royalty is a fascinating subject and concept, and you made some very profound statements about it at the end! Your snarkiness seems to be another way of your calling someone an a$$h*1e without actually using the word "a$$h*1e", and it is laugh-out-loud HILARIOUS!!!
She couldn’t have been more different to her sister the Queen in every aspect!
"The controls for the water were apparently complex"😂 love you Dr.G
Complex like a flight deck of a jumbo jet. Even more so when under the influence of whatever.
I enjoy your commentary with dry monotone. Thanks for the laughs.
Omg, I started following you because of statistics, but now you've expanded, I love it
Old British homes generally have separate taps for hot and cold water, so that could explain how one could easily be burned, especially if not paying attention. This is rare in the US, where we generally have mixed taps for our faucets.
And new(ish) houses. My 2003 build has hot and cold taps. If you don't regulate them you get very hot water.
@@petelaycock2842 Wow, I didn't realize homes that recent would also have separate taps. Thanks for the info!
Here in the states, I've only seen this once, in my grandma's old house, which was built by my great grandparents who were from Lithuania. My uncle updated it to a single mixer tap around 1990, but I remember it being a challenge to safely wash my hands in the bathroom sink.
@@jnmsks6052 Separate taps are normal in the UK. 🇬🇧. You are supposed to put the plug in the sink/basin/bath, and mix the hot water and cold water streams together, to get warm water. Then you wash yourself in the warm water. You are not supposed to stick your hand (or leg) directly under the hot tap unless you want to end up in hospital. The reason the water is so hot is to save water. The hotter it is, the less (volume) of it you need to use to make warm water. The reason you need to save hot water, is because (unless you live alone) there will be a queue of other people in the house who also want hot water, so you yourself must use as little as possible. Therefore the water is very hot so you don’t need much of it to create warm water in the basin. I am in the UK. 🇬🇧
@@jnmsks6052 no problem. Most new builds have single mix taps now. We're always behind you guys in the USA!
When I was an au pair in England in 1982 I found separate taps for hot and cold water confusing. It seemed illogical and not very practical. 🙄😳
Dr. Grande, can you please do a video on Lisa Nowak and the astronaut diaper love triangle?
Wow I completely forgot about that story that would be a good one
He already did!
Love Dr. Todd. I've learned so much about mental health. Thank you.😍😍😍😁
I found a video of yours while searching for videos on narcissism. For the last week, when I get the chance, I’ve been binge watching your videos. Your content is very interesting and i am enjoying it!
The boiling hot water is not too far from the reality in the UK. Mixer taps are not standard the way they are in the US, so often when washing your hands you have to switch between the burning hot tap and the cold tap.
“There’s a reason status should be earned and not given. People don’t really appreciate what they have when it is handed to them. When people earn their status, they’re cautious and prudent, in their decisions. They understand the value of what they have. When power and status are given to somebody, specially in a situation where they can’t lose it as long as they follow some basic rules, it becomes a recepie for a life of excess.” Dr. Grande
🤯🤯🤯🤯 I need to remember this not only for the brilliance in which it was told, but because it’s so true, specially when raising our children.
She came here in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 1977 to open a new wing of a medical center or hospital and she acted terribly and arrogantly. Hubert Humphrey, past vice president, was alive at that time and he and several others acted as aides to make her feel more comfortable. She did not visit any patients or talk with staff other than the lead doctor and she did not want to touch anything. They had a grand lunch for her and she would not talk to anyone. She put her hands over her plate and cup, staff was instructed not to talk to her and many did not know what that meant. Finally, someone told the head waiter that that meant she did not want that course. It was a PR disaster for her. If she thought she were too good to come here then she should not have come.
She visited Minneapolis in 1974, with her husband Lord Snowdon to the Courage Center Rehabilitation center.
What a beautiful and sensitive analysis. Thank you Dr Grande 🙏
Your videos are awesome. Can I suggest you do a video on Richard Simmons? That would be very interesting. Happy holidays!
Oh my, might she have found the "tea-faucet"?
Great video per usual, Dr. Grande! Thank you!
Yet another video that strikes a balance between sophisticated, intelligent and thought provoking and enchantingly funny😂🤣😂
Going from 60 to 30 cigarettes a day (3 packs to a pack and a half) is one heck of a good start. It's unfortunate that she didn't receive the support needed to keep going down a healthier path.
People who have a death wish are hard to deal with. Big smokers like that are so dependent and so in their world that it really is up to them to make the change. She was very isolated and other than perhaps her children who was going to have an intervention with her?
Excellence in fairness, thank you. As for earning our people and wealth in this life, spot on, as it seems this is how we have handicapped family legacies; with a system of inheritance, where whomever inherits rarely knows to work their given talents
Well Done. Thoughtful. Such a waste of a life. Understandable but unfortunate.
Thanks Dr Grande
I was nearly scalded when I moved into a new house I was renting. The previous tenants had turned the temperature on the water heater way up above the normal setting and when you turned on the hot water at the sink it came out dangerously hot. Makes me wonder if some maintenance person had screwed something up at Princess Margaret's vacation house.
She probably had diabetic neuropathy and could not feel how hot the water was.
@@heidithaw1072 DRUNK.
@@carolineobrien6301 That too I am sure
I think so too
How did this woman live so long? Just imagine had she taken care of herself how long her life could've been, she obviously had strong genes. Thank you Dr. Grande for this. When I first saw this was about a Royal I immediately thought, 'ugh , why would I want to hear about her', or any Royal for that matter. But this was very interesting.
Her mother lived to be 101 and her sister is 94 so yeah, great genes.
Just look at the medical history.
While she lived long considering her unhealthy lifestyle, she had health problems, terrible quality of life in her final years.
@@golden-63 Her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1966 and breast cancer in 1984.
She wouldn't lived that long without wealth.
Prince Philip was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008 and had heart problems in his 90s.
He wouldn't lived that long without wealth and modern medicine.
I don't think anything or anyone could have made Margaret happy.
Agreed.
Great video Dr. G.
Please do Shia Labeouf Dr. Grande! 🙏🏽
Yes yes yes!!!
hes a Gemini there! lol
@@crochunter35 I think he comes across like one but I don’t think he actually is 😅
No one knows what precisely happened in the bath - but it seems that the controls were quite complicated and she only wanted to wash her hair - she was standing in the bath, turned on the water and very hot water came out - some feel due to the shock and suffering from circulatory problems she was unaware of what was happening. (for example UK sink taps often times have a separate spigot for hot and cold and thus it can be easy to burn oneself). She did not get proper treatment, waited to return to the UK and did not get the grafts nor follow doctor's instructions.
Thank you Dr. Grande. Your analysis was so interesting ❤️❤️❤️
Dr. Todd is the GREATEST psychological mind on TH-cam... FACT!!! I salute his brilliant mind...
🤣😄 I love you, doctor. Your droll way of describing the absurdity of a dysfunctional family while still explaining their role in the world and how it played out...perfect!
I read about the Windsors at one time and remember thinking: they're just people. Why are they referred to as "blue bloods"? Why are people gaga over them? They come into the world like we do, and will certainly die - just like everyone else.
This old bird was the perfect example of that. She was just a person...messed up and confused just like most of us. I have always grappled with the notion of them being special, so this was particularly interesting to me.
Thank you Dr Grande! 👍🌹 💯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I’ve been binge watching the crown so you know I clicked this quick af!
Anyone ever think about what a Dr. Grande analysis of their own life would sound like?
Yes! Lol I do!
Yah I'm glad he doesnt have my address 😂😂
Lol, nice pause on "she was high... in openness to experience"
I would love to hear you cover more on Carl Jung--- especially Aion? The Red Book?
Absolutely impeccable analysis as always.
This video hit differently. I love it Dr Grande, thank you again❤
Dr. Grande´s video are the first thing I do watch in the morning while sipping my tea. He just makes my day. I wonder if he has any "special topics" ready for Christmas, like: "The Grinch, mental health and personality analysis" , "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - was he a victim of bullying?" or "Relationship between Santa Claus and the elves - case study" :)
Great talk Dr. Grande, really funny!
Im early yes!! 🥺 💖 hello grande, today I ordered a grande while listening to you. I hope you have a good day.
Hello, great video! I love videos about royals.
Would you consider making a video about Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden? She had an ED when she was young but now she is healthy and very beloved by the swedens.
I think a video about her might be interesting😊
DR Grande, would you consider profiling the personality and mental health of the Russian mystic, the infamous Rasputin? Perhaps one of the most enigmatic man in the 20th century. Your content have been eye opening for me, thanks for the great effort.
Could you do a video about Peter Madsen who killed a journalist, Kim Wall, inside his self-made and crowdfunded submarine? He was in the news again recently when he attempted to escape from prison.
Great idea!
Another great one doctor Grande. Keep up the good work and take care. How about Wallis Warfield Simpson.? Now that's a real story.
I like the new addition to your presentations.
love this
great job as usual dr grande
Dr. Grande, how do you explain the current Queen Elizabeth? She is the most powerful Royal in the world, and all her power was simply given to her when her father died, she did nothing to earn it, and there's little she can do to lose it - she will be Queen until her death, no matter whether she rules well or poorly. And yet she is the epitomy of a cautious and prudent ruler, and both famous and infamous for avoiding any type of waste or excess. Thoughts?
What can Dr. Grande say, really? You are right and I guess unless they change to rules, things will continue this way. They are born into it. Thankfully, Queen Elizabeth was an extraordinary woman who did an amazing job. Let's see how King Charles does. Then there will be Prince William after!
Please do John Lennon!
Imagine if he did that, how wonderful it would be!
@James Robert Clark III Well, I guess that takes care of that!