A Coast To Coast special. This continuous version is made from a two part edition that transmitted the day she came down to Dover in 1982. Reporter Linda Berry. Editor Sue Massey. Dubbing Mixer Dave Humphries.
She was a dutiful Queen Consort, but the truth is she was a relict of her time. She was cold and very racist. Her racism was pretty well documented. Not surprised by it. She was born in 1900. Of course Charles loved his grandmother dearly. She was more of a mother to him than his own mother. He looked up to his grandmother.
Did she what! She had many qualities that made her an excellent member of the royal family, but her light work schedule and excess spending would not be overlooked now like they were in her day.
What I admire about anyone is how they persevere Yes the royal family have tremendous help but they still have to show up whether they want to or not Imagine being helicoptered to Bradford on a cold rainy morning to open a renal unit when you're not feeling well Yet decade after decade day in day out they were there looking amazing and smiling and being interested Not as easy as it looks 🇬🇧🇬🇧
She said it herself, "I am not as nice as people think I am." When one realizes that Prince Philip's mother was hiding Jews from their Nazi persecutors placing her own life in peril, while the Queen Mother was living in resentment, one does get something of the contrast between how these two women dealt with pain and adversity. Princess Alice transformed herself into an angel of mercy, while the Queen Mother remained trapped in deep bitterness at what life had dealt her. The Queen Mother never could get over the fact that she was thrust into her role because of her undutiful brother-in-law and his disreputable American wife. She was stuck in her resentment. And there she remained. She traded on her sweet smile. But it was fake and she was largely a phoney. "I am not as nice as people think I am." Her image was fabricated by the media and royal syncophants.
I have read that Elizabeth Bowes Lyon had set her cap for David, Prince of Wales. Bertie proposed twice and kept getting turned down, because Elizabeth thought she could snag David. Finally Queen Mary herself paid a visit and advised the young lady that Duchess of York was the best she could hope for and she would do well to accept Bertie the next time. She did. She blamed the stress of the monarchy for killing her husband prematurely, but it’s my impression that she very much relished being the Queen consort for 17 years, and if she was bitter, it was over having to relinquish the throne in favor of her 25-year-old daughter.
@@CanadianMonarchist Which part? That Elizabeth didn’t actually hope David would ask her instead? David was categorically not interested. Or that she turned Bertie down twice before finally accepting him the third time? Or that QM intervened on her second son’s behalf? That last part does seem a bit fantastical, as it does not seem like something QM would have condescended to do. The youngest daughter of a Scottish lord who was rumored to not be his legitimate child wasn’t deemed high station enough to be a bride for the Prince of Wales, not that he found her at all appealing, but his brother was besotted with her, and being rebuffed twice had made Bertie very depressed. He was shy and diffident, not glamorous like David, but Elizabeth was finally persuaded somehow that she could not expect a better offer of marriage than the second in line to the throne. Perhaps she came to this conclusion without any outside influence. I’ve read a number of biographies of Queen Mum and I couldn’t say which of these contain this anecdote, but Is expect friends of hers to deny it, as it does not depict her in the most favorable light. Romance is not the primary reason the nobility get married, but if she didn’t love her husband as much as he loved her in the beginning, she became the wife, and the Queen, that he needed. Losing him and the power and deference that went with being Queen while she was still a relatively young woman must have been hard, but I think she enjoyed the rest of her very long life. Bertie wrote to his speech coach Lionel Logue from his honeymoon, and confided, “I was very good.” Elizabeth had the gift for giving her shy husband confidence, so in that respect, she was the right partner for him.
If you can't say anything nice I'd say don't say anything but I've always liked her think about the era she was brought up in she couldn't be any different
It's ridiculous that she is perceived as a nice person. She genuinely wasn't. she was a crashing snob. I'm a royaiist and I think William and Catherine will do a fantastic job. But, I don't think the fallacy of her should be made truth because it's actually not true.I'll stop now.
I think the Queen Mum was a good woman, wonderful mom and wife. She was set in her ways and spoiled. growing up in a different Era she could be close minded.❤
She,like Elizabeth and and Charles hide their heads in the sand when family decisions have/ had to be made. She was also a vengeful woman. But she was good for the king. Like most Windsor men he wanted a bossy, mother figure.
She was a strong power behind the throne in a time when we really needed it. It’s possible for someone to be a kind charismatic person whilst also being confident and strong in their convictions.
I watched this a long time ago. What a lovely person she was in every way. I don’t think watching The Crown did her justice but who could. She was a special ‘one off’ ❤
Yep- to £640.000 a year off the civil list (taxpayers) £19m left to grandchildren an estate worth £90m, plus more that her daughter liz tried to keep secret, yes a duty of dedication to greed and ripping off Britain, parasite 🦠
Charming vintage documentary, on our lovely and much-missed Queen Mum. She had the most glorious final act to her long life, busier and more popular than ever as the dowager Queen. What a treat to see the late and also lamented Danny La Rue! I fear humanity has regressed since 1982, in many fundamental ways. Even the innocence of the children we see here is hard to find today. Thank you for sharing!
41 years ago when this was filmed I was 4yrs old. Little did I know that I would see her on the balcony with her two daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret on D Day 13 years later in 1995. I'm an 80s child and we were proud as can be to be British back then 🇬🇧 Now? I'm am just embarrassed at the shambles we are in, in 2023. Rule Britannia? What a joke
Imagine what the Queen Mother would say if she saw London full of foreigners and the British people only 30% of the London population I reckon she'd be very angry
@@jeanbeget £643,000 a year from the civil list £19m put into trusts for grandchildren and an estimated estate of £70m, no inheritance tax on death! Tells me this mare was just another parasite.
Ich weiß nicht was ich von der Queen Mum halten soll. Für mich wollte sie zu sehr im Mittelpunkt stehen obwohl sie nach dem Tod ihres Mannes keine Queen mehr war....mag sein dass sie eine liebevolle Groß u Urgroßmutter war und eine große Stütze für ihren Mann aber 🤷♀️
@@sapphire7424 I will admit that was a crummy thing for her to do. She loved Charles very much, and I’m sure she saw Diana as a bad wife. Still, adultery is adultery.
@言行一致 True, must of been hard for her still struggling to fight and live on when her health was already deteriorating, when Margaret past it was the last straw for her.
@@CanadianMonarchist I disagree. I went to London and saw photos of her in her horse drawn carriage on her day of the wedding. She really was not a pretty woman to be honest
@@gmar7836 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I suppose because I think the Queen Mother was a wonderful human being I’m inclined to think of her as beautiful.
The people loved her, she raised charles and anne when elizabeth and philip lived in Malta for no reason, Charles cherished her for loving him when his parents couldnt show theirs in public, she stopped Philip from sending Charles away to boarding school took of him herself all of the testimony about Queen mother being a loving person and caring people still like "sHe WaS a biTch" she wasn't get over it 😂
she was an excellent grandmother to her grandchildren
so you where there were you?
Awe those 2 lil boys at 8:03 are just to cute just trying to remember everything lol
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I think it’s a shame the series The Crown , made her look most unpleasant. This documentary shows why our current King loved her so much.
But she was not exactly perfect. I read recently that she was overly critical and racist and had a nasty side to her personality.
@@gmar7836 Apparently she didn’t like Germans, but I’ve never heard she disliked any other ethnic group.
the crown not tell truth, they make thing up
She was a dutiful Queen Consort, but the truth is she was a relict of her time. She was cold and very racist. Her racism was pretty well documented. Not surprised by it. She was born in 1900. Of course Charles loved his grandmother dearly. She was more of a mother to him than his own mother. He looked up to his grandmother.
Prince Phillip had a hard time living around her....Lord have mercy too much blindness on that people🙄
I really enjoyed this documentary! The two little boys talk with better diction and more common sense than grown adults nowadays😂
The King's English is being replaced by woke gibberish.
Yes the old docs love the Queen Mum.The new docs are quite different 😂
the Queen Mother ended up loathing Diana after the Bashir interview
We all loathed Diana.
@@Patrick3183 all? Please........
@@Patrick3183
True, your Majesty.
Good Scots Lass. 🏴 whom liked a wee dram to "keep out the cold" 🥃
Born in Scotland, but French mother it seems.
@dioneegonsalves188 she was also English
Because babies can't go to the honeymoon. Two adorable little guys. And smart as a whip
Lovely cozy lady, couldn’t say it better myself. Her gentle smile was so like my mums it’s uncanny. I miss my mum.
But wasn’t she the nasty one? Wasn’t she racist?
She said once I'm not as nice as people think I am
@@splinterbyrdI like her now I know that 😂
She absolutely loved a camera on her.
Wunderbares Autentisches, und so seltenes 🎥 Material. 🙏👏 Dankeschön !
Word is that that boy is now 49 years old and still trying to remember where the Queen Mum went on her holidays 😂
Cookie had a great life.
nasty
Did she what! She had many qualities that made her an excellent member of the royal family, but her light work schedule and excess spending would not be overlooked now like they were in her day.
Her real mother was the family cook, hence the nickname “Cookie” bestowed upon her by King Edward VIII and his wife, the Duchess of Windowsill.
She and her daughters escaped dwarf status merely by an inch or two.🫢
What I admire about anyone is how they persevere
Yes the royal family have tremendous help but they still have to show up whether they want to or not
Imagine being helicoptered to Bradford on a cold rainy morning to open a renal unit when you're not feeling well
Yet decade after decade day in day out they were there looking amazing and smiling and being interested
Not as easy as it looks 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Good ol’ Cookie!! 😂😂
The 2 school lads so funny
This woman kept the royal fami,y going and was an inspiration during 2nd world war .l
She said it herself, "I am not as nice as people think I am."
When one realizes that Prince Philip's mother was hiding Jews from their Nazi persecutors placing her own life in peril, while the Queen Mother was living in resentment, one does get something of the contrast between how these two women dealt with pain and adversity.
Princess Alice transformed herself into an angel of mercy, while the Queen Mother remained trapped in deep bitterness at what life had dealt her.
The Queen Mother never could get over the fact that she was thrust into her role because of her undutiful brother-in-law and his disreputable American wife. She was stuck in her resentment. And there she remained.
She traded on her sweet smile. But it was fake and she was largely a phoney.
"I am not as nice as people think I am."
Her image was fabricated by the media and royal syncophants.
I don’t get the impression the Queen Mother was bitter and resentful. Then again, I never knew her.
I have read that Elizabeth Bowes Lyon had set her cap for David, Prince of Wales. Bertie proposed twice and kept getting turned down, because Elizabeth thought she could snag David. Finally Queen Mary herself paid a visit and advised the young lady that Duchess of York was the best she could hope for and she would do well to accept Bertie the next time. She did. She blamed the stress of the monarchy for killing her husband prematurely, but it’s my impression that she very much relished being the Queen consort for 17 years, and if she was bitter, it was over having to relinquish the throne in favor of her 25-year-old daughter.
@@marywenzel3199 People who knew the Queen Mother always said that story wasn’t true.
@@marywenzel3199 Thank you, Mary. I think you are right in this matter.
@@CanadianMonarchist Which part? That Elizabeth didn’t actually hope David would ask her instead? David was categorically not interested. Or that she turned Bertie down twice before finally accepting him the third time? Or that QM intervened on her second son’s behalf? That last part does seem a bit fantastical, as it does not seem like something QM would have condescended to do. The youngest daughter of a Scottish lord who was rumored to not be his legitimate child wasn’t deemed high station enough to be a bride for the Prince of Wales, not that he found her at all appealing, but his brother was besotted with her, and being rebuffed twice had made Bertie very depressed. He was shy and diffident, not glamorous like David, but Elizabeth was finally persuaded somehow that she could not expect a better offer of marriage than the second in line to the throne. Perhaps she came to this conclusion without any outside influence. I’ve read a number of biographies of Queen Mum and I couldn’t say which of these contain this anecdote, but Is expect friends of hers to deny it, as it does not depict her in the most favorable light. Romance is not the primary reason the nobility get married, but if she didn’t love her husband as much as he loved her in the beginning, she became the wife, and the Queen, that he needed. Losing him and the power and deference that went with being Queen while she was still a relatively young woman must have been hard, but I think she enjoyed the rest of her very long life. Bertie wrote to his speech coach Lionel Logue from his honeymoon, and confided, “I was very good.” Elizabeth had the gift for giving her shy husband confidence, so in that respect, she was the right partner for him.
If you can't say anything nice I'd say don't say anything but I've always liked her think about the era she was brought up in she couldn't be any different
It's ridiculous that she is perceived as a nice person. She genuinely wasn't. she was a crashing snob.
I'm a royaiist and I think William and Catherine will do a fantastic job.
But, I don't think the fallacy of her should be made truth because it's actually not true.I'll stop now.
Didn’t she help Charles cheat on Diana?
Yes, according to the reports.
Yes, bless her !
Old documentaries rock!
She was extravagant and was very much a believer in the traditional class system. She assumed she would be waited on by a large staff
If that is to what she was accustomed you can’t really blame her for that.
A large staff that was well paid and had the prestige of working for her!
I think the Queen Mum was a good woman, wonderful mom and wife. She was set in her ways and spoiled. growing up in a different Era she could be close minded.❤
She,like Elizabeth and and Charles hide their heads in the sand when family decisions have/ had to be made. She was also a vengeful woman. But she was good for the king. Like most Windsor men he wanted a bossy, mother figure.
wow. must be nice to go somewhere and get applauded for unveiling a plaque
Made of iron. The only women Hitler was afraid of. Totally ruthless and very brave.
You really have to be joking, surely? Ruthless and brave?? For example?
she enjoyed drinkie poos
a helicopter arrives, deposits a marshmallow, then comes back to pick up the marshmallow
🫠
All those thick & common working class fans
Happiest day of my life what a load of BS. Awful royalist propaganda
Of course she was fibbing. Happier than her wedding day, her coronation, her daughters wedding day?
She was an elegant woman.
She was a very good performer!
In her own words “I am not nearly so nice as people think I am”
She was a strong power behind the throne in a time when we really needed it. It’s possible for someone to be a kind charismatic person whilst also being confident and strong in their convictions.
lies never said that.
@@jeanbeget Oh but she did my dear. You may not like it, but she certainly did.
Yup. True
@@kennethkdj she did not
I wish i could've met that he Queen Mother. I see why she and her husband were a great match.
I watched this a long time ago. What a lovely person she was in every way. I don’t think watching The Crown did her justice but who could. She was a special ‘one off’ ❤
She was a wonderful woman; Britain and the Commonwealth were blessed to have her.
Awful woman.
@@Mancunianblue rude she's beautiful what's is wrong with you
Mmmmm not sure about that. I just read some dirt about her that’s not good.
@@gmar7836 What did you read?
She was of her time but had many quality's
What a treasure! Duty and dedication.
Yep- to £640.000 a year off the civil list (taxpayers) £19m left to grandchildren an estate worth £90m, plus more that her daughter liz tried to keep secret, yes a duty of dedication to greed and ripping off Britain, parasite 🦠
We don't know when Charles died.
I bet her breath was kicking.
She was racist and classist, she referred to ordinary people, as the little people. A nasty piece of work!
She was right !
in a game of charades, she acted out the song Knees Up Mother Brown
To die 🎲 for.
Japansko djakuzi😊
Charming vintage documentary, on our lovely and much-missed Queen Mum. She had the most glorious final act to her long life, busier and more popular than ever as the dowager Queen.
What a treat to see the late and also lamented Danny La Rue! I fear humanity has regressed since 1982, in many fundamental ways. Even the innocence of the children we see here is hard to find today.
Thank you for sharing!
I met her she passed right passed me in Berlin defence there was a few hundred
And cheese monolith?
Enjoyed, thank you
Cookie 🙂
41 years ago when this was filmed I was 4yrs old. Little did I know that I would see her on the balcony with her two daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret on D Day 13 years later in 1995. I'm an 80s child and we were proud as can be to be British back then 🇬🇧 Now? I'm am just embarrassed at the shambles we are in, in 2023. Rule Britannia? What a joke
Britain was purposely dismantled
Imagine what the Queen Mother would say if she saw London full of foreigners and the British people only 30% of the London population
I reckon she'd be very angry
She had the best hats among all of them.
I loved them too ! I always wonder which lucky person inherited them.
Queen Mum was Great lady.
She was a very ordinary individual who happened to marry into a ruling family. Nothing ' great' about that.
@@RocketRocket-ce3ke she was great lady she was in royal read your history.
@@jeanbeget I think I have more first-hand knowledge than any history book. Just for your record
She loved gay men
and so does me
les
Another reason to love her!
A gay icon.
I'm gay and couldn't stand the stuck up b....
Horrible woman
It's amazing how much Queen Elizabeth II sounded like her mother in her later years.
she was actually very cruel and evil
How so?
lies lies
She was not as wonderful as many have made out but cruel and evil might be a bit much.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Well documented, an AWFUL woman.
was great lady.
@@jeanbeget £643,000 a year from the civil list £19m put into trusts for grandchildren and an estimated estate of £70m, no inheritance tax on death! Tells me this mare was just another parasite.
Ich weiß nicht was ich von der Queen Mum halten soll. Für mich wollte sie zu sehr im Mittelpunkt stehen obwohl sie nach dem Tod ihres Mannes keine Queen mehr war....mag sein dass sie eine liebevolle Groß u Urgroßmutter war und eine große Stütze für ihren Mann aber 🤷♀️
She was a queen for life. She didn't stop being Queen when her husband died. She continued to be Queen and she continued to be called Her Majesty.
According to some reports, it was Winston Churchill who encouraged her to still play a prominent role in British life after her husband died.
Such a shame she was never held to account for what she did to Diana
Exactly
For setting her up with Charles?
@@CanadianMonarchist for aiding Charles & Camilla in their affair. A decent person would want her grandson to be honorable.
@@sapphire7424 I will admit that was a crummy thing for her to do. She loved Charles very much, and I’m sure she saw Diana as a bad wife. Still, adultery is adultery.
or her husband
She was just lovely!!!
she was booed at some bombed out places
6:41 Her great grandson Prince William was born 12 days later on the 21st of June.
How can he be, because it seems Diana & Charles had no children and that William was sired by Juan Carlos, that is what I read?
The last Victorian woman she was amazing the Queen Mother ❤
@言行一致 True, must of been hard for her still struggling to fight and live on when her health was already deteriorating, when Margaret past it was the last straw for her.
She was not a pretty bride
She was pretty, but she had a very ugly dress.
As a little girl she was aborable. Twenty onward she had a wide face and average looking with greasly teeth.
@@CanadianMonarchist I disagree. I went to London and saw photos of her in her horse drawn carriage on her day of the wedding. She really was not a pretty woman to be honest
@@gmar7836 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I suppose because I think the Queen Mother was a wonderful human being I’m inclined to think of her as beautiful.
@@CanadianMonarchist actually, I just read the other day that she was a terrible snob
The people loved her, she raised charles and anne when elizabeth and philip lived in Malta for no reason, Charles cherished her for loving him when his parents couldnt show theirs in public, she stopped Philip from sending Charles away to boarding school took of him herself all of the testimony about Queen mother being a loving person and caring people still like "sHe WaS a biTch" she wasn't get over it 😂
horrible woman
A tower of strength
watching this in 2024 (UK) 👍
She didn't do sex! Poor husband
I hears he was g.a.y.
Well, twice. Lol.
She must have had sex at least twice.
How do you know?