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Wow, those 400 yr old cedars @ 48:59 transplanted all the way from Spain to UK, and still alive after 4 centuries, beautiful! Can you imagine the quality of the wood? The reddish hue, fragrant aroma, natural rot resistance(especially on an old growth tree like itself, and it's high strength for a softwood. These are the trees the kings and emperors of old would pay a very high price for to build their ships out of, and other things as well, such as beautiful furniture(carved by highly skilled woodworkers). But with its inherent rot resistance and overall exterior durability, it was used on boats as one of the primary species of wood that went into their best ships. It is a different species/family than the "cedars" here in North America which are actually in the cypress family and although very nice wood, on average, not quite as good as the 'true cedars' of Lebanon like these you see here in this video. I'm amazed they've survived in such a different, colder climate than Spain. Sorry for long post, but as an ex-carpenter and now hobbyist woodworker + gardener/horticulturalist, I can't help but appreciate what beautiful trees these are. Everyone should plant at least one tree in their life. And make it something unique to your area; researching it first to see if it will thrive in your region, before planting it in a viable location. It could become your own personal legacy, be it 50 years or centuries later.
Agree. Your passion for fine wood comes through as a true carpenter who appreciates it. I also agree that everyone should plant & initially nurture a fine tree. As govts seem intent on increasing energy costs in the name of the environment, it is my opinion that reforesting the world where forests once stood & living amongst the trees would put so much more oxygen into the atmosphere & filter various pollutants that humanity would reap the benefits. I don’t want to get political but must point out that govts seem to ignore simple partial solutions like planting trees in favor of regulation invites lobbying or outright corruption. Your comment was excellent. It’s like we’re living in a world that doesn’t appreciate nice things. When the cathedral at Notre Dame burned all I could picture was how tight the wood grain must’ve been from those old growth forests. Good luck here in 2024. From where I’m standing it looks like Rome is burning.
Protestant, Catholic; talk about much ado about nothing. Religion is the greatest evil ever brought to Mankind. A great documentary! Thanks for making it!!
Been fascinated with English history since being sat down as a kid and told of my grandmother’s last name and it’s history. (Lancaster) Will probably never be able to afford the trip across the pond, but live vicariously via TH-cam!
Dont go out to dinner for one year, and you will have more than enough to fly over, and have a decent place to stay while youre there. Definitely try to go. Its every bit as cool as you think it is.....You may not remember the dinners you had when you when you go out, but you will definitely remember that trip for the rest of your life. I really hope you can go some day.
I'm descended from Edward the IV through his daughter, Cecily of York, Elizabeth of Yorks sister. Through that ancestry, you can trace your ancestry back to the royal families of Europe, Hapsburgs and Holy Roman Emperor, through Jacketta of Luxembourg to the rulers of Crete and Jerusalem. Through Castile and Seville, back to Muhammad (and so back through the bible) In America, the Tuttle family has many members of note a recent book written about them. 1 in 20 Yale students, 100 years ago, was descended from that couple who left England in the 1600's. 23,000 people descend from that one couple! It's great to hear about other relatives!
Check out Joolz guides. He does excellent walking tours around London and hundreds of videos here on TH-cam. As for everyone who thinks they are descended from royalty you should double check your research. Its kind of like people who claim to have native american DNA. They always claim to be descended from a great chief or indian “princess” lol never from the guy who cleaned the toilet or fed the dogs or just some random person lol. Not saying it can’t happen but it just seems like everyone thinks they descend from one of the Henry’s most if not all of that bloodline died out centuries ago and if they were illegitimate there’s no record of them. The church kept all the records and they wouldn’t record bastards.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 We know how to do ancestry research with records. Once you hit a gateway ancestor you don't need to do anything further so you don't have to find the actual records yourself going back past that point if the gateway ancestor is verified.
While James II may have been last Stuart Monarch, he may not be the last, as Princess Diana is descended from the Stuart's, and her and King Charles III's children thus will reunite the Stuart lineage.
This was such an incredible series! I loved how deeply it delved into the lives of the Stuarts and the turbulent times they lived in. The storytelling was captivating, and the historical reenactments really brought it all to life. Highly recommend!
A wonderful documentary on the Stuarts. I love history especially English Royal history. I hope they do documentaries on other Royal houses like Hanover, York, Plantagenet, Lancaster, Norman.
This channel is totally brilliant! I as a lifelong student of history absolutely love all the primary sources used in these productions. They really humanize the people they study. I do wish they would make films on the ranters and diggers of the 1640s. With literature this whole era is endlessly interesting. I recommend the UK historian Christopher Hill and his classic work The World turned Upside Down. And his book The Century of Revolution. It is the history of the common people I love most about England. Also read the Historical Notices of N. Wilson of London they give a great picture of the life of a avid reader of a common man who was curious about the debates of the time as well.
The majority of these documentaries come from either the BBC, Channel 4 and I think maybe some from Channel 5 in the UK. It’s nice to have them all in one place together though.
What always stood for me regarding Charles I was his reclessness and stubbornness. He wasn't a bad person, even people like Cromwell didn't regard him as inherently bad person (good Christian but misguided) but he clung to oldfashioned ideals of chivalry and kingship in the era when both was strongly challenged. Some of it was doubtlessly product of his French wife and court but in many cases, he was very heavy-handed and ardent about things going his way. He challenged (by intention or not) very roots of English monarchy and he, as king John before, paid for it. Was it a triumph of English democracy or just coup d'état of sidelined Parliament? I've read both perspectives but I think it was very much the first one. And leniency of Parliament towards Chales I very much shows they weren't interested in overthrowing him until he incited civil war for the third time. And even after that, Cromwell and radicals were minority in their intention of executing Charles.
A ‘triumph’ of English democracy? No, I think not. What it DID do for democracy, is put the people off from it for hundreds of years, even into the current day. If it was a ‘triumph’ at all, it was very fleeting. It was hardly a democracy either, taking on the trappings of a dictatorship often.
The Cavaliers were Wrong but Wromantic. The Roundheads were Right but Repulsive. The Cavaliers wore short pointed beards, long, flowing curls, large, flat, flowing hats and gay (no homo) attire. The Roundheads were clean-shaven, wore tall conical hats, white collars and sombre garments. Under these circumstances a Civil War was inevitable.
Yes, under the ancient customs and Usages of Britain going back to Brutus of Troy, everyone was sovereign and kings were basically elected to be first among equals. It was everyone's duty to ensure that the king was true to his oath to rule in accordance with the laws and customs, like the barons did at Runnymede in 1215. Kings did not rule by Divine Right. That's where the Stuarts went wrong.
I'm so pleased to see this channel, and others like it, producing such quality content! Of these Stuart kings, it seems that James I and Charles II truly appreciated that they lived in an age where compromise served kings better than heavy-handedness. They ruled over a more literate, more sophisticated and self-confident nation than their Tudor predecessors. James II and Charles I lacked the ability to compromise and adapt, and they paid the price for it.
I agree. But if we are being honest these channels don't "produce" any content. They just air other people's work on their channel. Even this one was done by the BBC. I agree it's good to have it available to us viewers, but they are not "creating great content" by any means
A great documentary! I love history and I'm always watching historical documentaries. I have never learned so much about the Stuarts!! Very thorough and entertaining! I think it's very likely that King James' child was snuck in 🙃 (just a wild maybe guess, I haven't heard of him cheating so that would make sense) ... My grandmother was really big into researching our family ancestry... just before she died, she, my mom, my aunts, and my family submitted our DNA for a genealogy test. When it came back one of our biggest surprises was that it said that we were "illegitimate" descendants of King James II... basically, we have his DNA in our bloodline DNA, but it couldn't determine the maternal side. This is the first documentary that I have seen that actually highlighted some of his good traits, every other one that I have seen makes him out to be an inbred monster. I'm so glad to hear that he wasn't completely horrible!
Growing up, I always loved the unpopular monarchs , so James II was near the top of the list. I don’t think he was trying to impose Catholicism (he knew that was impossible) but to give rights to his fellow Catholics. But doing this completely alienated his Anglican supporters who held power I am to this day fascinated by the Jacobite movement
You are most accurate. An outsider looking in, here's a copy of my comment: (A bit direct, but it is History and Research based, History is one of my degrees, Sociology and Journalism the other 2.) Copy: Catholicism is so often the scapegoat, the excuse, to distract from what the true threats were, *"greed"* and that of the Money Exchangers, the Elites, the Egos. There are few Histories that demonstrate Ego and Greed like that if Britain. The quiet rule of the current Elizabeth, her father, and even grandfather have caused the reality to fade. Fearing their elimination as the other Royals of Europe faced, they found that a step back and the customary News Media gossip focus keeps their business behind the veil as the Public feeds on the Gossip. The facts are found when One follows *"the Money Trails".* ...and focus on the *"Banker"* Beth Tennessee, USA
😀people live to hear these secrets I read in the books of English history! Read and get educated about these monarchs and their private sexual fantasies as they could afford this slime of so called animal fun and pleasure seekers!
I’m particularly fascinated by this series because the ancestor whose name last I carry fled England in 1631 due to persecution of the Catholics in England. I wouldn’t exist without the religious turmoil of England.
Mine fled Ireland with the Jacobites and sojourned in France for about a century, until the Reign of Terror when royalists became a target. Ironically, they switched over to Anglicanism after the Oxford Movement introduced Anglo-Catholicism to the established church.
Various Aunts and my sister forced me to take DNA tests. My extended family arrived in Jamestown and Plymouth in 1620, we were not on the Mayflower, but we married their daughters :) Most moved to Boston area 1660's but that is a different story.. My ancestors were Minutemen at Lexington and Concorde, and Bunker Hill outside of Boston,
@@themaskedman221 Our genealogy tells us how events in history shaped the lives we lead. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be interesting to know how your family was affected by historical events, but I guess not everyone is a history buff. 🤷🏻♀️ Don’t know why they’re wasting time posting to my comment. Everyone has a hobby? I like sewing, reading and historical documentaries. They like being pointless in TH-cam comments. To each their own, I guess.
"The Glorious Revolution" moniker is a wonderful example of historical spin. The Stadtholder of the Netherlands invades England with an armada more than twice that of the Spanish in 1588, takes the English throne, installs his court in London, and reorganizes the British state along bourgeois Dutch lines, but all credit goes to British parliamentarians who, with his approval, enact a new Constitution. Amusing.
It was glorious for Dutch bankers! They consolidated their power over the credit-bought king by founding the big London banks (which are still there today) immediately after the most glorious revolution that their huge loans could buy.
@@rodneysandson Yes, and about a century after her victory over the Spanish, England capitulated to the extremely well-financed, bank-sponsored, heavily-indebted fleet and army of William of Orange. The Bank of England was founded (with Dutch banker money) a couple of years later.
It's another day in English historiography. But while we're on it, let's also remember that before the Dutch it was the Italians who bankrolled English kings and established their mercantile networks and credit markets. It's called "Lombard" Street for a reason.
From the perspective of the outside looking in, I find Charles Spencer to be a true Countryman in his respect for the History of his family and country, for his birth to responsibilities of his land and home, for his clarity of who his Sister was and her expectations of her responsibilities to her Children, her Role, and her personal needs and desires as a woman. Charles Spencer reflects a Mature Mind, Higher Mind, balanced in his person and his Title, Ethical and with Integrity he has secured his home, property, the History, and the People that have their lineage attached to the Spencers, whether through kinship of bblood, or years of servitude. His personal Harmony stands as an example to others and will for future times. I've developed a great respect for this man and through him we have a potential vision of what Diana's character could have easily continued to mature to have been. Truly a tragic loss to her children, family, country, and countless worldwide. I've little doubt her energy shines bright upon her brother. Harmony and Peace literally begin within.
You don't know what you are talking about. This man is a gross cheater and abuser, married to his third wife at the moment and with no contact with his own children. He denied Diana's request to live at Althorp, but has been basically using her corpse and memory as a tourist attraction to mantain his fortune for the past two decades. At the time of her death, he probably knew his sister as well as their childhood nanny. He is the one who introduced Martin Bashir to her, leading to that pos feeding disgusting lies to Diana, a woman who famously suffered from multiple mental health issues, this connection also resulting into that disaster of an interview and heavily contributing to her death (because of Bashir's lies, Diana refused her royal security after divorce). And don't even mention any responsability of his towards Diana's sons. He did nothing for William and Harry. They were raised by their father and paternal grandparents, not Charles Spencer. However, both of them are close to their mother's sisters and their families, but never to this cheap man. There's nothing to admire about the Spencers' characters either. His parents and grandparents, particularly his father, were also extremely shitty people. There's no harmony in that family. Actually, their fuck-ups resulted in the mess that was Diana. Because she wasn't the saint that the media and people who weren't even born during her lifetime made her into. She was mentally and physically abusive to Charles; she fired multiple staff members without reason; she used her barely-teen son as a personal therapist (which is abuse too, poor William); she was the first to cheat (so much that idiots still question Harry's paternity and even Harry himself wondered when he was young), having affairs with multiple men who were either married or in relationships and harassed one of the wives until the police got involved; she pushed her stepmother down the stairs and as soon as her father died, she put her clothes in trash bags and threw them out of the house etc.
My mother was English and her last name was Banbury. I'm quite sure that I am not descended from any royalty, no money, no estates, no nothing. More likely I am descended from horse thieves deeply mired in severe poverty and far worse. I have always, always wished to visit England, Ireland and Scotland to meet at least some of my relatives, but now I am old and it is too late, not to mention that at the most, my income for all of my adult life has been about $12,000.00 a YEAR. So all of you, be grateful for what you do have.
I'm a descendant of a king of Sweden, 4 or 5 French Kings and even more English. Wales and Holy Roman Emperors also. They're great grand parents, not even cousins or uncles. I haven't paid rent in 4 months. Doesn't matter anymore. We all end up where we're meant to be. Last names are Drake, Batten, Colby, Lear, Grenville, Chambers, Chamberlain, Chalmers. Sometimes we get the short straw. Would you TRULY want to live like a royal, though? Seems stifling.
People like you deserve to be royalty more than any REAL royals, pretenders, or usurpers. All hail Heather Queen of England, Scotland, and Wales. Her Majesty gives the Island of Ireland Soverienty unto itself. All hail!
My ancestor left chasing a man lol. King Charles great granddaughter. The great granddaughter of Moll his mistress was my 9th great grandmother Jane Radclyffe
This was an awesome documentary on the British Monarchs! I came thinking I would hear more about The King James Bible and stuff pertaining to that but I got so much more, especially being a history buff that wasn’t too keen on this part in history class but this has me on the edge of my seat,😂😂
I will never understand how Elizabeth wasn't forced to marry and have an heir. How do you let someone from another country just come in and rule?? It's insanity
You kids are AWESOME! This American cousin has family who immigrants here from Aberdeen and regard Oxford as my school of dreams. Thanks for this! I’m going to subscribe
Yes, but the difference here is that Mary was also the first regnant queen. They were taking a chance with her, didn't know how she'd work out. James, being a man, was in this instance a known quantity. Aristocratic misogyny, you might call it.
@@Bigsioux1 Nobody comes from one person. Every human being on Earth has royal blood for the simple fact that the nobility ate better and let other people do the dying for them. This is just primitive "Look at me. I'm special." behavior. To me, it raises an obvious question: If your ancestors were so great, why are you so lame? The greatest humans in history came from nothing.
@@AFatalPapercut See, I'm not telling you to stop trying to inject stories about what your great, great, great grandpappy did into every other conversation. I'm just telling you that most people don't care and that a lot of people think it that makes you look pretentious and lame. Your opinion is not going to change that simple truth.
I Love how you put this all together. Thank you so very much I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me. I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
I recently discovered, after deep diving into my family heritage, that King James I of the Stuarts is my 13xgreat grandfather. 13 greats in front of grandfather, but directly related on my mother's side. My great-grandfather's last name was Stuart. Crazy, right? I honestly don't know that much about him, as in the past I have only really been interested in the Tudor reign of England. It's fascinating to learn so much about him.
I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me. I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
I thank him for authorizing the King James Bible before he died despite the times he was up against. The Most High was with him to know we would need it today how they changed the scriptures and removed scriptures from the bible. He did not write it, he authorized the first English Bible translated from the Greek and Hebriac. 🙏🏽
The more I learn about him, the person, the more I have my doubts about his character. He hunted "witches" and was possibly bisexual, which a lot of Christians have no idea about. They may do well to take a deeper look into this man that authorized the KJV. If more knew he was bisexual, they may not like him, or that he killed so very many and was not a nice man.
anyone here heard of a Captain Thomas Pittman, who, along with his two brothers, backed the king and fled to America when the crown was defeated? conflicting stories of his birthplace: Gloucestershire or Monmouthshire
Love how Mr Gould explains brush strokes ( 53:26 ) as I recall visiting NY art museums. 1976-1977. Catholic school art teacher was a stoner. How disappointing, as I look back on it , however I'll always appreciate that field trip. Sidenote: this art teacher had a Tammy faye baker makeup thing going on.
At 36:37. Well, Sir Richard was clearly prejudiced against Spain. Charles, Prince of Wales, had a totally different opinion of what he saw in Spain, especially in the palaces of Madrid. Charles came back to relatively backwards England with a huge, connoisseur appreciation for fine art. It was in Madrid that Charles (and I presume not Sir Richard) was introduced to the Hapsburg art collection, the biggest in Europe at the time. That's where Charles saw Titian, Tintoretto, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Veronese and Rubens for the first time. It was due to this Spanish adventure that Charles, when he became king, started to import to England all this marvelous art, along with great continental artists like Rubens and Van Dyck, who set up shop at the English court. Banqueting House, in Whitehall, has the largest Rubens ceiling painting in Europe. It was built in preparation for the Spanish Infanta's arrival that never happened. Whitehall Palace (no longer around since it burned down in the late 1600s) was built by Charles in imitation of the Royal Alcazar in Madrid (that's where all the Hapsburg art was collected). It's not an exaggeration to state that Charles' Spanish adventure was the beginning of the Baroque period in England.
I forget the historian's name who is presenting but she needs to show Suzannah Lipscomb how it's done. This woman and Joanna Fletcher (my *absolute favourite* historian and BBC Presenter) really bring a lot of passion to the subjects they present. I feel immersed in the history. BBC in my opinion can't be beat when one wants to know the historical facts of the monarchy from the beginning to now without it being dry and boring.
Thank God for the world's Cinncinatus' and Washington's. Else there would never have been any Great Republics. Ambition...the curse of stable government but necessary for any successful one.
The female narrator is clearly passionate about her work as a historian. The narration is a bit overly dramatic in style, though. But I do love her voice!
As somebody who has no skin in the game, i find catholic societies to be way more likable than protestant ones. Protestants have always seemed so dreary to me compared to catholics
I know what you mean. Take away the Pope, all the gold and the fancy stained glass, toss out all the rituals, and you end up with a mob of people who can be the scariest MF's in the world. (I was Raised Protestant but am now an atheist.)
My favorites among the children of Charles II: 1Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke of Saint Albins 2 James Scott 1st Duke of Monmouth 3 Anne Lennard Countess of Sussex 4 Charles Lennox 1st Duke of Richmond
These should be called the wars of who's imaginary friend is stronger. Killing each other for religion has been a blight on humanity for like ever. I science do you ?
Considering Royals precedent of the “Divine Right of Kings”, & the number of “Civil Wars”, you have no “Bragging Rights”. Murder seems to have infected the Genetic Code of England! Waiting in the Wings in present day UK is a Socialist. Something to think about.
@@karifredrikson8492 wow. I am proud of my heritage, I can’t change who some of them are like sadly and frustrating as it is like my family being in the American south during slavery. I don’t like being associated with them but they aren’t me. I’m proud to be Scottish/English and Irish that’s what I meant by my comment.
William of Orange certainly had the pedigree. What British documentaries constantly leave out is how William himself was the son of Mary Stuart, Charles II and James II's sister. Yes, he married his cousin, also called Mary. And while James never wanted to give his daughter to this 'defender of the Protestant faith', Charles insisted. Because Charles was clever enough to realise that his Catholic brother would be his heir and that he would be unpopular. Charles had been a young man when his father was executed, so he knew exactly where this kind of stubborn absolutism would lead, but he knew that the promise of Protestant Mary and an equally Protestant William as heirs after James (who was also getting on in years) would placate Parliament and the populace. So that's why Charles agreed with his nephew William marrying James' heir. William as the Stuart heir was something that was a public promise for YEARS before James managed to muck things up in his typical James fashion. And then documentaries like these will skip all over that and present the Glorious Revolution as if it arrived out of the blue!
*Kingship, in its origination of Royals, Royal Bloodlines,* including and before the Pharoh's, *"began with the claim of Divine Rulership".* Stuart's or the Family of Henry VIII, You tell me who you find the more appealing, based on their Behaviors (and I'm not speaking to the 20th Century of those whom had to adapt due to Fears of being usurped like the rest of their cousins in Europe.)
That call hate and jealous sometimes they recognize that they kill someone they're going to get the benefits of it all they've on mind waste your life for something they can't afford that was sad for human thinking 💔
@@setaccuser308 People's Profile does one of them. History Calling does one. I'm not sure who does the others. Like I said, search on TH-cam and you'll get an entire list. 🙂
It might have provided useful context to mention that the Wynn family were/are heirs to the mediaeval Welsh kings and Princes of Wales (Cunedda, Owain Gwynedd, Llywelyn The Great, etc), are are still regarded by many as the Welsh royal family today.
I have been very interested in James II since learning of his 1687 Declaration of Liberty of Conscience (also known as the Declaration of Indulgence), which - as I have just learned from this video - had something of a precursor in his elder brother’s 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence. Speaking as someone who grew up with the impression that my own country (the U.S.) invented the ideas of freedom of religion and conscience, learning of King James’ Declaration absolutely blew my mind. Why had we never even heard of it over here? And while I know that the prevailing British view is that James was not sincere and aimed to pack Parliament with Catholics, his good friend, the Quaker William Penn, obviously did not take that view. What is indisputable is that the Anglican establishment was not going to tolerate official religious toleration. If it can be said that James was “pig-headedly Catholic”, it is equally true that he lost his throne because the Establishment was “pig-headedly” Anglican.
Christine - The Egalitarian Ideas of Britain's Age of Enlightenment , John Locke and the 1689 English Bill of Rights marks the beginning of the rise in human and democratic rights . This was then exported all over the world - the US Constitution , NZ , Australia , Canada . When the US changed Japan's Constitution in 1947 , it was based on Britain's Westminster System . - Rights of the individual - No taxation without representation - Separation of Church and State Here is John Locke th-cam.com/video/bZiWZJgJT7I/w-d-xo.html .
James's father Darley was murdered. I wonder what the circumstances were and what is known about that. That is a rather brief mention. I was skeptical about the documentary referring to the King being pigheadedly Catholic, but the reference "real royalty" seems to neutralize that. We're in America and we're still Catholic. Thank you.
If he was, can you blame him? A staunchly Catholic Mom, with ministers in his Regency filling his every waking moment with Presbyterian prattle before he reached his majority? A little quiet rebellion against what's expected of you can go a long way.
I live in the USA. Found out one of my ancestors was Elizabeth Stuart born in Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland in 1726. She came to America and married a man from Ireland.
I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me. I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
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Thank you for your kind words on the original music of The Stuarts. It was an honour for me to compose music for this project🙏🏻🎵
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Great work on Arka Sokaklar as well
great job i didnt know it was original
Wow you're incredibly talented
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I wish they would do series like this with all the royal lines. Love the mix of documentary and the historical theatricals...
The rest of them aren't that entertaining
At first I thought that I wasn't going to like this style but it really grew on me. The scenes with the actors were great.
@@SpywareEverywhere fun
Funny thing is that they are all related! lol
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Wow, those 400 yr old cedars @ 48:59 transplanted all the way from Spain to UK, and still alive after 4 centuries, beautiful! Can you imagine the quality of the wood? The reddish hue, fragrant aroma, natural rot resistance(especially on an old growth tree like itself, and it's high strength for a softwood. These are the trees the kings and emperors of old would pay a very high price for to build their ships out of, and other things as well, such as beautiful furniture(carved by highly skilled woodworkers). But with its inherent rot resistance and overall exterior durability, it was used on boats as one of the primary species of wood that went into their best ships. It is a different species/family than the "cedars" here in North America which are actually in the cypress family and although very nice wood, on average, not quite as good as the 'true cedars' of Lebanon like these you see here in this video. I'm amazed they've survived in such a different, colder climate than Spain. Sorry for long post, but as an ex-carpenter and now hobbyist woodworker + gardener/horticulturalist, I can't help but appreciate what beautiful trees these are. Everyone should plant at least one tree in their life. And make it something unique to your area; researching it first to see if it will thrive in your region, before planting it in a viable location. It could become your own personal legacy, be it 50 years or centuries later.
Agree. Your passion for fine wood comes through as a true carpenter who appreciates it. I also agree that everyone should plant & initially nurture a fine tree. As govts seem intent on increasing energy costs in the name of the environment, it is my opinion that reforesting the world where forests once stood & living amongst the trees would put so much more oxygen into the atmosphere & filter various pollutants that humanity would reap the benefits. I don’t want to get political but must point out that govts seem to ignore simple partial solutions like planting trees in favor of regulation invites lobbying or outright corruption.
Your comment was excellent. It’s like we’re living in a world that doesn’t appreciate nice things. When the cathedral at Notre Dame burned all I could picture was how tight the wood grain must’ve been from those old growth forests. Good luck here in 2024. From where I’m standing it looks like Rome is burning.
It's amazing to think that thousands of years we haven't figured out how to just get along with each other thank God it's not as bad as it used to be
Protestant, Catholic; talk about much ado about nothing. Religion is the greatest evil ever brought to Mankind.
A great documentary! Thanks for making it!!
Indeed. It’s supposed to be a source of good and has done good but it has also done great evil.
Been fascinated with English history since being sat down as a kid and told of my grandmother’s last name and it’s history. (Lancaster) Will probably never be able to afford the trip across the pond, but live vicariously via TH-cam!
Dont go out to dinner for one year, and you will have more than enough to fly over, and have a decent place to stay while youre there. Definitely try to go. Its every bit as cool as you think it is.....You may not remember the dinners you had when you when you go out, but you will definitely remember that trip for the rest of your life. I really hope you can go some day.
I found out I am descended from Henry VII & Elizabeth of York... AFTER I went to England. 😂
I'm descended from Edward the IV through his daughter, Cecily of York, Elizabeth of Yorks sister. Through that ancestry, you can trace your ancestry back to the royal families of Europe, Hapsburgs and Holy Roman Emperor, through Jacketta of Luxembourg to the rulers of Crete and Jerusalem. Through Castile and Seville, back to Muhammad (and so back through the bible) In America, the Tuttle family has many members of note a recent book written about them. 1 in 20 Yale students, 100 years ago, was descended from that couple who left England in the 1600's. 23,000 people descend from that one couple! It's great to hear about other relatives!
Check out Joolz guides. He does excellent walking tours around London and hundreds of videos here on TH-cam.
As for everyone who thinks they are descended from royalty you should double check your research. Its kind of like people who claim to have native american DNA. They always claim to be descended from a great chief or indian “princess” lol never from the guy who cleaned the toilet or fed the dogs or just some random person lol. Not saying it can’t happen but it just seems like everyone thinks they descend from one of the Henry’s most if not all of that bloodline died out centuries ago and if they were illegitimate there’s no record of them. The church kept all the records and they wouldn’t record bastards.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 We know how to do ancestry research with records. Once you hit a gateway ancestor you don't need to do anything further so you don't have to find the actual records yourself going back past that point if the gateway ancestor is verified.
While James II may have been last Stuart Monarch, he may not be the last, as Princess Diana is descended from the Stuart's, and her and King Charles III's children thus will reunite the Stuart lineage.
His daughter Anne I was actually the last Stuart monarch
Can't get this channel via the telly but fortunately I can receive via TH-cam on my smart telly...very interesting
This was such an incredible series! I loved how deeply it delved into the lives of the Stuarts and the turbulent times they lived in. The storytelling was captivating, and the historical reenactments really brought it all to life. Highly recommend!
Lovely to see Professor Kate Williams presenting a documentary, especially about such an exhilarating topic, love it!!!!
It's a woman's story Miss Maria, yawn.
She's annoying.
She’s awesome, first saw her in the Hidden Killers series. She’s so charming!
@@deutschesmaedchen I first saw her on hidden killers too, it’s one of my favorite series! And yes she is, I love how enthusiastic she is! ☺️
She's so animated and her eyes are full of life and drama (good, artistic drama). She's an excellent storyteller!
I just love this channel. It truly is the Netflix for historical documentaries
No! HISTORY HIT IS LIKE NETFLIX BUT FOR HISTORY! I've been having that douche Dan Snow shoving that line down my throat for quite awhile
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Does not make sense.
@@nikkojovic9571 ...you got nothing, huh?,...it might be better not to advertise your shortcomings JJ.
@@mjonhouston im sorry i was a sleep when this shit happend
Impressed with Charles Spencer as a commentator.
Given his sister's history and connection to the current British royal family, yes.
Princess Diana's brother
A wonderful documentary on the Stuarts. I love history especially English Royal history. I hope they do documentaries on other Royal houses like Hanover, York, Plantagenet, Lancaster, Norman.
This channel is totally brilliant! I as a lifelong student of history absolutely love all the primary sources used in these productions. They really humanize the people they study. I do wish they would make films on the ranters and diggers of the 1640s.
With literature this whole era is endlessly interesting. I recommend the UK historian Christopher Hill and his classic work The World turned Upside Down. And his book The Century of Revolution. It is the history of the common people I love most about England. Also read the Historical Notices of N. Wilson of London they give a great picture of the life of a avid reader of a common man who was curious about the debates of the time as well.
The majority of these documentaries come from either the BBC, Channel 4 and I think maybe some from Channel 5 in the UK. It’s nice to have them all in one place together though.
What always stood for me regarding Charles I was his reclessness and stubbornness. He wasn't a bad person, even people like Cromwell didn't regard him as inherently bad person (good Christian but misguided) but he clung to oldfashioned ideals of chivalry and kingship in the era when both was strongly challenged. Some of it was doubtlessly product of his French wife and court but in many cases, he was very heavy-handed and ardent about things going his way. He challenged (by intention or not) very roots of English monarchy and he, as king John before, paid for it. Was it a triumph of English democracy or just coup d'état of sidelined Parliament? I've read both perspectives but I think it was very much the first one. And leniency of Parliament towards Chales I very much shows they weren't interested in overthrowing him until he incited civil war for the third time. And even after that, Cromwell and radicals were minority in their intention of executing Charles.
A ‘triumph’ of English democracy? No, I think not. What it DID do for democracy, is put the people off from it for hundreds of years, even into the current day. If it was a ‘triumph’ at all, it was very fleeting.
It was hardly a democracy either, taking on the trappings of a dictatorship often.
The Cavaliers were Wrong but Wromantic. The Roundheads were Right but Repulsive. The Cavaliers wore short pointed beards, long, flowing curls, large, flat, flowing hats and gay (no homo) attire. The Roundheads were clean-shaven, wore tall conical hats, white collars and sombre garments. Under these circumstances a Civil War was inevitable.
Yes, under the ancient customs and Usages of Britain going back to Brutus of Troy, everyone was sovereign and kings were basically elected to be first among equals. It was everyone's duty to ensure that the king was true to his oath to rule in accordance with the laws and customs, like the barons did at Runnymede in 1215. Kings did not rule by Divine Right. That's where the Stuarts went wrong.
This documentary is much better than I expected. Bravo well done.
I'm so pleased to see this channel, and others like it, producing such quality content! Of these Stuart kings, it seems that James I and Charles II truly appreciated that they lived in an age where compromise served kings better than heavy-handedness. They ruled over a more literate, more sophisticated and self-confident nation than their Tudor predecessors. James II and Charles I lacked the ability to compromise and adapt, and they paid the price for it.
Yes especially Charles
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@@kathydominick1582 No doubt about it!
I agree. But if we are being honest these channels don't "produce" any content. They just air other people's work on their channel. Even this one was done by the BBC. I agree it's good to have it available to us viewers, but they are not "creating great content" by any means
@@brianclingenpeel5123 Still, I'm very pleased that it is available.
@@channellegendarium7677 you and me both.
A great documentary! I love history and I'm always watching historical documentaries. I have never learned so much about the Stuarts!! Very thorough and entertaining! I think it's very likely that King James' child was snuck in 🙃 (just a wild maybe guess, I haven't heard of him cheating so that would make sense) ... My grandmother was really big into researching our family ancestry... just before she died, she, my mom, my aunts, and my family submitted our DNA for a genealogy test. When it came back one of our biggest surprises was that it said that we were "illegitimate" descendants of King James II... basically, we have his DNA in our bloodline DNA, but it couldn't determine the maternal side. This is the first documentary that I have seen that actually highlighted some of his good traits, every other one that I have seen makes him out to be an inbred monster. I'm so glad to hear that he wasn't completely horrible!
and I did subscribe and hit the notification bell!! 🔔
Nonetheless STILL AN INBRED MONSTER! Gotta love family trees.....
Growing up, I always loved the unpopular monarchs , so James II was near the top of the list. I don’t think he was trying to impose Catholicism (he knew that was impossible) but to give rights to his fellow Catholics. But doing this completely alienated his Anglican supporters who held power I am to this day fascinated by the Jacobite movement
You are most accurate.
An outsider looking in, here's a copy of my comment:
(A bit direct, but it is History and Research based, History is one of my degrees, Sociology and Journalism the other 2.)
Copy: Catholicism is so often the scapegoat, the excuse, to distract from what the true threats were, *"greed"* and that of the Money Exchangers, the Elites, the Egos.
There are few Histories that demonstrate Ego and Greed like that if Britain.
The quiet rule of the current Elizabeth, her father, and even grandfather have caused the reality to fade. Fearing their elimination as the other Royals of Europe faced, they found that a step back and the customary News Media gossip focus keeps their business behind the veil as the Public feeds on the Gossip.
The facts are found when One follows *"the Money Trails".*
...and focus on the *"Banker"*
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Do you think God approved of all this. Considering the Catholic church of raping and pedophiles!
Bonnie Charles Battle of Culloden
😀people live to hear these secrets I read in the books of English history! Read and get educated about these monarchs and their private sexual fantasies as they could afford this slime of so called animal fun and pleasure seekers!
They have no real morals or scruples!
I’m particularly fascinated by this series because the ancestor whose name last I carry fled England in 1631 due to persecution of the Catholics in England. I wouldn’t exist without the religious turmoil of England.
Mine fled Ireland with the Jacobites and sojourned in France for about a century, until the Reign of Terror when royalists became a target. Ironically, they switched over to Anglicanism after the Oxford Movement introduced Anglo-Catholicism to the established church.
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus Some people like genealogy, others think it's meaningless. Can't please everyone.
Various Aunts and my sister forced me to take DNA tests. My extended family arrived in Jamestown and Plymouth in 1620, we were not on the Mayflower, but we married their daughters :) Most moved to Boston area 1660's but that is a different story.. My ancestors were Minutemen at Lexington and Concorde, and Bunker Hill outside of Boston,
@@themaskedman221 Our genealogy tells us how events in history shaped the lives we lead. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be interesting to know how your family was affected by historical events, but I guess not everyone is a history buff. 🤷🏻♀️ Don’t know why they’re wasting time posting to my comment. Everyone has a hobby? I like sewing, reading and historical documentaries. They like being pointless in TH-cam comments. To each their own, I guess.
"The Glorious Revolution" moniker is a wonderful example of historical spin. The Stadtholder of the Netherlands invades England with an armada more than twice that of the Spanish in 1588, takes the English throne, installs his court in London, and reorganizes the British state along bourgeois Dutch lines, but all credit goes to British parliamentarians who, with his approval, enact a new Constitution. Amusing.
It was glorious for Dutch bankers! They consolidated their power over the credit-bought king by founding the big London banks (which are still there today) immediately after the most glorious revolution that their huge loans could buy.
Tip: wasn't Elizabeth still reigning in 1603
@@rodneysandson Yes, and about a century after her victory over the Spanish, England capitulated to the extremely well-financed, bank-sponsored, heavily-indebted fleet and army of William of Orange. The Bank of England was founded (with Dutch banker money) a couple of years later.
It's another day in English historiography. But while we're on it, let's also remember that before the Dutch it was the Italians who bankrolled English kings and established their mercantile networks and credit markets. It's called "Lombard" Street for a reason.
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This documentary is really great & the actors are superb.
Excellent Documentary!!! Thank you!
From the perspective of the outside looking in, I find Charles Spencer to be a true Countryman in his respect for the History of his family and country, for his birth to responsibilities of his land and home, for his clarity of who his Sister was and her expectations of her responsibilities to her Children, her Role, and her personal needs and desires as a woman.
Charles Spencer reflects a Mature Mind, Higher Mind, balanced in his person and his Title, Ethical and with Integrity he has secured his home, property, the History, and the People that have their lineage attached to the Spencers, whether through kinship of bblood, or years of servitude. His personal Harmony stands as an example to others and will for future times.
I've developed a great respect for this man and through him we have a potential vision of what Diana's character could have easily continued to mature to have been.
Truly a tragic loss to her children, family, country, and countless worldwide.
I've little doubt her energy shines bright upon her brother.
Harmony and Peace literally begin within.
You don't know what you are talking about.
This man is a gross cheater and abuser, married to his third wife at the moment and with no contact with his own children.
He denied Diana's request to live at Althorp, but has been basically using her corpse and memory as a tourist attraction to mantain his fortune for the past two decades. At the time of her death, he probably knew his sister as well as their childhood nanny.
He is the one who introduced Martin Bashir to her, leading to that pos feeding disgusting lies to Diana, a woman who famously suffered from multiple mental health issues, this connection also resulting into that disaster of an interview and heavily contributing to her death (because of Bashir's lies, Diana refused her royal security after divorce).
And don't even mention any responsability of his towards Diana's sons. He did nothing for William and Harry. They were raised by their father and paternal grandparents, not Charles Spencer. However, both of them are close to their mother's sisters and their families, but never to this cheap man.
There's nothing to admire about the Spencers' characters either.
His parents and grandparents, particularly his father, were also extremely shitty people. There's no harmony in that family.
Actually, their fuck-ups resulted in the mess that was Diana. Because she wasn't the saint that the media and people who weren't even born during her lifetime made her into. She was mentally and physically abusive to Charles; she fired multiple staff members without reason; she used her barely-teen son as a personal therapist (which is abuse too, poor William); she was the first to cheat (so much that idiots still question Harry's paternity and even Harry himself wondered when he was young), having affairs with multiple men who were either married or in relationships and harassed one of the wives until the police got involved; she pushed her stepmother down the stairs and as soon as her father died, she put her clothes in trash bags and threw them out of the house etc.
Great video, thanks 😊
Well Informed here!!!
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it makes me feel i am living this history in its ability to convey what happened, is happening. The feeling has a strange imbued glory to it.
starts at 5:50 mins ; ep.2 ca. 46:00 ; ep.3 1:28:40 ; ep.4 2:13:25
My mother was English and her last name was Banbury. I'm quite sure that I am not descended from any royalty, no money, no estates, no nothing. More likely I am
descended from horse thieves deeply mired in severe poverty and far worse. I have always, always wished to visit England, Ireland and Scotland to meet at least some of my relatives, but now I am old and it is too late, not to mention that at the most, my income for all of my adult life has been about $12,000.00 a YEAR. So all of you, be grateful for what you do have.
I'm a descendant of a king of Sweden, 4 or 5 French Kings and even more English. Wales and Holy Roman Emperors also. They're great grand parents, not even cousins or uncles.
I haven't paid rent in 4 months. Doesn't matter anymore. We all end up where we're meant to be.
Last names are Drake, Batten, Colby, Lear, Grenville, Chambers, Chamberlain, Chalmers. Sometimes we get the short straw.
Would you TRULY want to live like a royal, though? Seems stifling.
You need to get a job that pays better money.
People like you deserve to be royalty more than any REAL royals, pretenders, or usurpers. All hail Heather Queen of England, Scotland, and Wales. Her Majesty gives the Island of Ireland Soverienty unto itself. All hail!
@@matheoustargaryen I don't know if you are serious or not, but I thank you so much.
@@heathermccain6521 No I'm sorry if I sounded insincere, but I was/am VERY serious.
Fantastic presentation! I have a crush on the lovely lady who is starring in this video! She does a great job in so many ways! kudos to her!
this is how history should be taught in schools,its like action movie
Agreed
I've always wondered why my ancestors left castles and land
to go to Jamestown. The taxes and the civil war must have wreaked havoc.
Read Henery Esmond by William Makepeace Thackery. It's supposed to be his father's story. It's a great book!
I don't get it either. Pretty salty about it. Lol.
My ancestor left chasing a man lol. King Charles great granddaughter. The great granddaughter of Moll his mistress was my 9th great grandmother Jane Radclyffe
This was an awesome documentary on the British Monarchs! I came thinking I would hear more about The King James Bible and stuff pertaining to that but I got so much more, especially being a history buff that wasn’t too keen on this part in history class but this has me on the edge of my seat,😂😂
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i love it how on his dead bed Charles II sayd about Nell Gwynn " Let not poor Nelly starve"
Thanks, very well done. Had me enthralled to the end. This filled in some blanks for a history buff.
I will never understand how Elizabeth wasn't forced to marry and have an heir. How do you let someone from another country just come in and rule?? It's insanity
I heard her say “stupid kings”. I’m like ok, don’t hold back. Then I realized she said, “Stuart kings”. 😅🤭
19:14 James had more than two children who survived infancy, what an appalling mis-statement to include in a documentary ...
I love this sort of secondary school drama club approach by the actors and the presenter. ;) The best approach, in a way. :)
You kids are AWESOME! This American cousin has family who immigrants here from Aberdeen and regard Oxford as my school of dreams. Thanks for this! I’m going to subscribe
at 2:24:00 "James becoming the first catholic monarch"...wasn't Mary I Catholic?
Yes, but the difference here is that Mary was also the first regnant queen. They were taking a chance with her, didn't know how she'd work out. James, being a man, was in this instance a known quantity.
Aristocratic misogyny, you might call it.
I like the vanity of all the people bragging about being descendants of these people in youtube comments. What an accomplishment!
People want to know where they came from. No reason to insult them.
@@Bigsioux1 Nobody comes from one person. Every human being on Earth has royal blood for the simple fact that the nobility ate better and let other people do the dying for them.
This is just primitive "Look at me. I'm special." behavior. To me, it raises an obvious question: If your ancestors were so great, why are you so lame? The greatest humans in history came from nothing.
@@similaritiesendhere Kind of like what you're doing by commenting your unsolicited opinion?
Ironic...that.
@@AFatalPapercut Aren't all comments unsolicited opinions? Lol
@@AFatalPapercut See, I'm not telling you to stop trying to inject stories about what your great, great, great grandpappy did into every other conversation.
I'm just telling you that most people don't care and that a lot of people think it that makes you look pretentious and lame. Your opinion is not going to change that simple truth.
I Love how you put this all together. Thank you so very much
I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me.
I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
I recently discovered, after deep diving into my family heritage, that King James I of the Stuarts is my 13xgreat grandfather. 13 greats in front of grandfather, but directly related on my mother's side. My great-grandfather's last name was Stuart. Crazy, right? I honestly don't know that much about him, as in the past I have only really been interested in the Tudor reign of England. It's fascinating to learn so much about him.
That is so awesome!
We might be related then!!
I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me.
I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
Who else fell asleep and TH-cam keeps trying to play this video???
Thanks for the documentary 🙏 😀 👍 🙂
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I thank him for authorizing the King James Bible before he died despite the times he was up against. The Most High was with him to know we would need it today how they changed the scriptures and removed scriptures from the bible. He did not write it, he authorized the first English Bible translated from the Greek and Hebriac. 🙏🏽
The more I learn about him, the person, the more I have my doubts about his character. He hunted "witches" and was possibly bisexual, which a lot of Christians have no idea about. They may do well to take a deeper look into this man that authorized the KJV. If more knew he was bisexual, they may not like him, or that he killed so very many and was not a nice man.
Great docu. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for this magnificent, epic of insightful history.
Excellent series!!
anyone here heard of a Captain Thomas Pittman, who, along with his two brothers, backed the king and fled to America when the crown was defeated?
conflicting stories of his birthplace: Gloucestershire or Monmouthshire
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Love how Mr Gould explains brush strokes ( 53:26 ) as I recall visiting NY art museums. 1976-1977. Catholic school art teacher was a stoner. How disappointing, as I look back on it , however I'll always appreciate that field trip. Sidenote: this art teacher had a Tammy faye baker makeup thing going on.
Are these “Winn’s” the same “Winn” that now have a casino in Las Vegas? Maybe a silly question but I haven’t really heard of another Winn. Thanks
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At 36:37. Well, Sir Richard was clearly prejudiced against Spain. Charles, Prince of Wales, had a totally different opinion of what he saw in Spain, especially in the palaces of Madrid. Charles came back to relatively backwards England with a huge, connoisseur appreciation for fine art. It was in Madrid that Charles (and I presume not Sir Richard) was introduced to the Hapsburg art collection, the biggest in Europe at the time. That's where Charles saw Titian, Tintoretto, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Veronese and Rubens for the first time. It was due to this Spanish adventure that Charles, when he became king, started to import to England all this marvelous art, along with great continental artists like Rubens and Van Dyck, who set up shop at the English court. Banqueting House, in Whitehall, has the largest Rubens ceiling painting in Europe. It was built in preparation for the Spanish Infanta's arrival that never happened. Whitehall Palace (no longer around since it burned down in the late 1600s) was built by Charles in imitation of the Royal Alcazar in Madrid (that's where all the Hapsburg art was collected). It's not an exaggeration to state that Charles' Spanish adventure was the beginning of the Baroque period in England.
She is an excellent professor
Ser Owen: It's not his prerogative I doubt brother but his wisdom my favorite lines
Great documentary.
Really interesting
I forget the historian's name who is presenting but she needs to show Suzannah Lipscomb how it's done. This woman and Joanna Fletcher (my *absolute favourite* historian and BBC Presenter) really bring a lot of passion to the subjects they present. I feel immersed in the history. BBC in my opinion can't be beat when one wants to know the historical facts of the monarchy from the beginning to now without it being dry and boring.
Thank God for the world's Cinncinatus' and Washington's. Else there would never have been any Great Republics. Ambition...the curse of stable government but necessary for any successful one.
Excellent documentary
The female narrator is clearly passionate about her work as a historian. The narration is a bit overly dramatic in style, though. But I do love her voice!
I love her voice as ell AND EVERYTHING ELES SHE IS THE TOTAL PACKAGE!
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As somebody who has no skin in the game, i find catholic societies to be way more likable than protestant ones. Protestants have always seemed so dreary to me compared to catholics
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I know what you mean.
Take away the Pope, all the gold and the fancy stained glass, toss out all the rituals, and you end up with a mob of people who can be the scariest MF's in the world.
(I was Raised Protestant but am now an atheist.)
The lies you tell will backfire
What are you yapping about
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My favorites among the children of Charles II: 1Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke of Saint Albins 2 James Scott 1st Duke of Monmouth 3 Anne Lennard Countess of Sussex 4 Charles Lennox 1st Duke of Richmond
It's not fair to call him "pigheadedly catholic ." Faith demands all in, or all out.
I thought it just required as much as the size of a mustard seed?
These should be called the wars of who's imaginary friend is stronger. Killing each other for religion has been a blight on humanity for like ever. I science do you ?
Richard Cromwell was derisively known as "Queen Dick." He quit the title of Lord Protector of within eight months of his investiture
I’m a direct descendant of James V king of Scotland and the Tudors. Too bad we lost our dynasties
Considering Royals precedent of the “Divine Right of Kings”, & the number of “Civil Wars”, you have no “Bragging Rights”. Murder seems to have infected the Genetic Code of England! Waiting in the Wings in present day UK is a Socialist. Something to think about.
@@karifredrikson8492 wow. I am proud of my heritage, I can’t change who some of them are like sadly and frustrating as it is like my family being in the American south during slavery. I don’t like being associated with them but they aren’t me. I’m proud to be Scottish/English and Irish that’s what I meant by my comment.
Royalty in you blood, huh? You must be very pretty.
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And I'm the king of America.
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This was very interesting!
William of Orange certainly had the pedigree. What British documentaries constantly leave out is how William himself was the son of Mary Stuart, Charles II and James II's sister. Yes, he married his cousin, also called Mary. And while James never wanted to give his daughter to this 'defender of the Protestant faith', Charles insisted. Because Charles was clever enough to realise that his Catholic brother would be his heir and that he would be unpopular. Charles had been a young man when his father was executed, so he knew exactly where this kind of stubborn absolutism would lead, but he knew that the promise of Protestant Mary and an equally Protestant William as heirs after James (who was also getting on in years) would placate Parliament and the populace. So that's why Charles agreed with his nephew William marrying James' heir. William as the Stuart heir was something that was a public promise for YEARS before James managed to muck things up in his typical James fashion. And then documentaries like these will skip all over that and present the Glorious Revolution as if it arrived out of the blue!
i wish i can tell a story like this women is doing .
How can James II be the first Catholic king when Mary Tudor was a Catholic?
She was Queen not a King
My favorite video on the channel
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*Kingship, in its origination of Royals, Royal Bloodlines,* including and before the Pharoh's, *"began with the claim of Divine Rulership".*
Stuart's or the Family of Henry VIII, You tell me who you find the more appealing, based on their Behaviors (and I'm not speaking to the 20th Century of those whom had to adapt due to Fears of being usurped like the rest of their cousins in Europe.)
That call hate and jealous sometimes they recognize that they kill someone they're going to get the benefits of it all they've on mind waste your life for something they can't afford that was sad for human thinking 💔
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Still going on with vaccinations and just as stupidly mindless and divisive.
I wish there was a Mary Tudor episode as long as this one.
If you search on TH-cam, there are at least 5 that I know of (because I watched them). There are 2 or 3 that are about 2 hours long.
@@whaleymom76 by the real royalty ?
@@setaccuser308 People's Profile does one of them. History Calling does one. I'm not sure who does the others. Like I said, search on TH-cam and you'll get an entire list. 🙂
Religiosity has been the fall of many; The Pharisee of Jerusalem come to mind
That being said. We here in America salute and celebrate your unprecedented jubilee, Your Majesty! Congratulations! Long live Queen Elizabeth!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
@@junesilvermanb2979 Miss the Queen. God save the King!
Thanky ou for this
Thomas Fairfax is the only Parliament creature I don't completely despise because he gave Charles II the horse he used to enter London
It might have provided useful context to mention that the Wynn family were/are heirs to the mediaeval Welsh kings and Princes of Wales (Cunedda, Owain Gwynedd, Llywelyn The Great, etc), are are still regarded by many as the Welsh royal family today.
I have been very interested in James II since learning of his 1687 Declaration of Liberty of Conscience (also known as the Declaration of Indulgence), which - as I have just learned from this video - had something of a precursor in his elder brother’s 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence. Speaking as someone who grew up with the impression that my own country (the U.S.) invented the ideas of freedom of religion and conscience, learning of King James’ Declaration absolutely blew my mind. Why had we never even heard of it over here? And while I know that the prevailing British view is that James was not sincere and aimed to pack Parliament with Catholics, his good friend, the Quaker William Penn, obviously did not take that view. What is indisputable is that the Anglican establishment was not going to tolerate official religious toleration. If it can be said that James was “pig-headedly Catholic”, it is equally true that he lost his throne because the Establishment was “pig-headedly” Anglican.
Christine - The Egalitarian Ideas of Britain's Age of Enlightenment , John Locke and the 1689 English Bill of Rights marks the beginning of the rise in human and democratic rights . This was then exported all over the world - the US Constitution , NZ , Australia , Canada . When the US changed Japan's Constitution in 1947 , it was based on Britain's Westminster System .
- Rights of the individual
- No taxation without representation
- Separation of Church and State
Here is John Locke
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James's father Darley was murdered. I wonder what the circumstances were and what is known about that. That is a rather brief mention. I was skeptical about the documentary referring to the King being pigheadedly Catholic, but the reference "real royalty" seems to neutralize that. We're in America and we're still Catholic. Thank you.
If he was, can you blame him? A staunchly Catholic Mom, with ministers in his Regency filling his every waking moment with Presbyterian prattle before he reached his majority? A little quiet rebellion against what's expected of you can go a long way.
I live in the USA. Found out one of my ancestors was Elizabeth Stuart born in Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland in 1726. She came to America and married a man from Ireland.
I am the 12th great grandson of (King Charles Stuart the second). His Royal Mistress & Actress (Mary “Moll” Davis) had a daughter with him (Lady Mary "Stuart" Tudor) who married (Second Earl of Derwentwater Edward Radcliffe). Lady Mary & Edward Radcliffe had a son (Charles Earl of Derwentwater Radcliffe) who married (Margaret M Snowden) and they had a daughter (Jane Radcliffe) who married (Robert Wilson Radcliffe) and they moved to America & had a son named (William Reuben Radcliffe) who married (Elizabeth Harrison). These two had a son named (John "Ratliff") as the name changed slightly due to the move to America. John Ratliff married his wife (Charlotte White) and they had a daughter named (Lydia B Ratliff) she who married Richard Ratcliff & had a son named (Abednego Ratliff) who had a daughter (Rachel Ratliff) who married (Elijah Vance) and they had a daughter (Dora Bell Vance) who married (Charles Hess) and had my second great grandfather (Elijah C Hess) who married Macie (Foster) and had a daughter my great grandmother (Lillian Mae Hess) who married my great grandfather (Algie Dee Adams) & they had my grandmother (Vicki Adams) who married my grandfather (Alvin L Johnson) & then my mother was born (Kimberly Mae Johnson). To which she met my father (Cory W Smith) and had me.
I was adopted at a very young age of 3 and given the name (Dorsey Z Littell) but originally named (Zavontez T Johnson) after my mothers maiden name for my father, never married my mother, and wasn’t there when I was born.
Ironic this comes across ones feed after watching To Kill a King.
If only my ancestors would've known then what we know now, never again will our houses be divided.
Seria bueno que tengan subtitulos en español ! Me super interesa pero la mitad de las cosas no las entiendo!
Awesome 👍