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Connor if a man marries a queen he doesn't automatically become a king because of British royal tradition whereby a man marrying into the royal family does not assume the male version of the title held by his wife.
Queen Elizabeth is a good example...Prince Phil, not king by marrying Liz.
The same is not true in reverse, however...King Charles married Camilla and she is now Queen.
@@AutoAlligator The late Queen Elizabeth wanted Camilla to be Queen-Consort, but after mum kicked the bucket Charlie made her queen. It doesn't really matter. The Queen Mother was known as and addressed as Queen Elizabeth when she was married to George VI, but she didn't have a number because she herself was not the monarch. Thus, for the modern yeoman, farm hand or humble peasant across the Kings lands, we now have a Queen that resembles something that should be running at the 4.35 at Ascot.
@@stewartmackay Camilla's title of Queen is correct. Queen Consort is her position, her title is Queen.
@@christineharding4190 Yes, thats right.
@@stewartmackay What an unpleasant comment. I wanted to press the 'dislike' button for the first time, but decided not to sink to your level. I just hope you are a vision of beauty yourself, and that it exceeds your charm.
You know you're getting old when RUclipsrs don't know who Richard Burton or Elizabeth Taylor are.
I almost spat out my Waldorf salad in surprise...
Hi Connor, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the only man ever, to have crossed both polar ice caps and climbed Mount Everest. travelled the length of the White Nile by hovercraft. At the age of 59 he completed the Land-Rover 7x7x7 challenge, running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents. In 1967 he was kicked out of the SAS after being caught in the act of blowing up a dam 20th Century Fox had built for the original Dr Dolittle film. You may have heard of his more famous cousins, actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
This is my favourite castle to visit. Seeing Anne Boelyn’s actual prayer book that she carried to her execution blew my mind when I saw it for the first time aged 12
Sir Rannulph Fiennes is a very famous British explorer.
According to the Guinness Book Of Records Ranulph Fiennes is the world's greatest living explorer ...... he's now 80 years old
Ranulph Fiennes has crossed both polar ice caps, explored glaciers in Norway, went on the Transglobe Expedition to become the one of the first people ever to complete the Northwest Passage in an open boat (a Boston Whaler).
He lost almost all his fingers to frostbite on one hand when trying to walk across the North Pole with nothing but two sleds filled with supplies. After he got home, a surgeon said amputation had to wait in order for healthy tissue to grow back as much as possible. He eventually got so sick and tired of the pain from the frostbite that he cut off his own fingers with an electric saw.
His cousin is Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies.
You should look up Sir Ranulph Fiennes. His life has been incredible- he was in the SAS, has insane endurance records (7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents just months after a heart bypass is just one of them), he climbed Everest aged 65, he is considered the world's greatest living explorer by Guinness, and he cut his own fingertips off with a jigsaw in his shed after getting frostbite. Apparently there is a documentary.
Next time you come over you must visit "ye olde trip to jerusalem" 1189 AD . Pub in Nottingham built into the side of the castle. Its where the knights met up before heading off to the Holy Land on crusade 🏴🏴🏴
Astor is indeed Astor hotel. I used to live within walking distance and regularly went the pub King Henry VIII. Fun fact the pub was owned at one time by an associate of the Krays.
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes (/ˈrænʌlf ˈfaɪnz/) and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.
Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years, including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and South Pole by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. In May 2009, at the age of 65, he reached the summit of Mount Everest.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, he was the world's greatest living explorer. Fiennes has written numerous books about his army service and his expeditions as well as books on explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. He's also Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) cousin........oh yes, he also cut his fingers off with a Jigsaw after Dr's refused to amputate them after they were frostbitten.
Spiral staircases 😂 it's the funniest thing ever when you get angry with your vocabulary 😂
Elizabeth Taylor was an English born actress who began acting as a girl i.n movies like National Velvet. She was stunningly beautiful with violet eyes. As she grew older, she fought to maintain her beauty but was eventually confined to a wheelchair and declined to make public appearances. Because she understood about being a child performer, she discovered a warm friendship with Michael Jackson. She died in 2011 at age 79. Michael died in 2009 at 50.
As a Brit having seen many castles, last one being Doune Castle. I can't say I've ever heard of this one! Looks like our small island is still large and mysterious enough!
Ranulph Fiennes is described by the Guiness book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer', and you've never heard of him !!! To be fair he is British and not American.
His nephews are actors
Sir Ranulph
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronet OBE
You've never heard of him! Stone the crows, the man's a legend!
Read up on his drive from Berlin.
Read his book that was banned by the UK government, "The Feather Men"!
The Man walked to the antartic, he lost his big toe in the bath, he cut off his own fingers!
BBC filmed a 3 part mini series here a couple of years ago, all about the Boleyns called "The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family". No chance of putting it on here though sadly
Hi Connor, there's never usually any need to clean up after a horse, as their dung is prized by many as a natural garden fertiliser. Just leave it where it is and be assured, it'll be gone by nightfall! Where it existed in large amounts, there were even commercial contracts for its' removal, such as that held by the North British Railway which, back in the 1840s, had a "dung lye" in the corner of a field at Longniddry near Edinburgh - which was topped up regularly by trainloads of the stuff from Leith and Edinburgh, where the contract allowed them to collect that of the Police horses off the streets! Just how they managed to differentiate Police horse dung from any other type of horse the history books don't tell (I assume they just shovelled all of it up); but what is told is how it was distributed to more distant farms at various points along the branch line to the town of Haddington - by mixed trains, that also conveyed passenger coaches...!!! 😂🤣🤣😂
My mother was a wonderful gardener: not the kind who potters round dead-heading roses; but the kind to hack into dry clay with a mattock. Every place we moved into would appear in magazines after she'd done.
But of course dry soil & clay needed lots of nourishment so she always drove around with a box and spade in the boot...and every time she saw what she called "a dollop" she'd pull up and shovel it off the road and into her box.
The humiliation the first couple of times a mate from school happened to be in the car was overwhelming!! I can remember literally squirming as I explained. But as I got older she & I would crack jokes & laugh during the process.
It got to the point where kids would ask "Can we go looking for manure.?"!😂😂It became one of the 'treats' of staying at my place!🐄🐴
Being 'In Service' was a good position. Only very respectable people would be employed. Servants were hired by the Head of the Household Servants - usually the Butler. Male servants, like Footmen - were trained by the Butler and female servants by the Housekeeper. Agencies in cities and towns specialised in interviewing and vetting domestic staff, including Governesses and Companions. These last two positions were uncomfortable ones I think as they were considered above the normal servant, but below the family. They were not asked to eat with the other servants and rarely, if ever, asked to dine with the family. So they ate alone in their rooms. A very lonely life I think - even if they, themselves, had once been from an Aristocratic or Gentry family fallen on hard times. On the Country Estates though, local people would be hired from the local village or town, often following a family tradition of Service to the local Lord. BTW you can spend time there - it's open to the Public. I've been there myself. Several times. 🙂
When I lived in Spain an old guy often used to come to our bar on his horse, get pretty wasted and then let the horse take him home
Hi Jibby.
Yes you can visit Hever and spend all day there.
At lunch time (or whenever you want a break) there's an ancient village olde worlde pub just next door in the village.
With regard to the timber framed building addition, I suspect it was remodelled by the American proprietor.
Ancient t/f buildings nearly always have their timbers warped by the 21st century.
Good examples are (Google) Little Moreton Hall, and the entire town of Lavenham in Suffolk.
This is one of the most local castles to me. Been there on a few school trips as a kid, great Drawbridge !
Actually Henry VIII was quite particular about legal process. People had rights and the King couldn't just have people killed. His reason for wanting rid of Anne was he no longer wanted to be married to a woman who after all the trouble he took to marry her, didn't give him a son. Now it's pretty clear that neither she, nor her brother were guilty, but they did have a fair trial to prove that they were.
The late Queen Mother choose to wear white when making her first official visit to France as her mother had passed, thus breaking with tradition. Also as the Queen Mother was Scottish as was Queen of Scots, Mary, perhaps the origin of wearing mourning white comes from Scotland. Queen Victoria outlived her husband Albert and chose to wear black long after the mourning period had ended.
Crenellations are the battlements.
The Hever Castle pub just outside the grounds was owned at onetime by an uncle of my brother inlaw. He was a bit of a gangster and was even shot whilst behind the bar, but survived. The lake outside the pub was dredged when they were looking for the gold stolen in the 26million pound Brinks Mat robbery. He was eventually gaoled (jailed) for drugs offences and was eventually taken out by a hitman once he was out of gaol. This is the fate of a lot of those that were implicated/involved in the Brinks Mat robbery.
Think of the castle like a huge hotel full of staff to do every little thing for the family living there. If a servant was needed, one would be found from staff members, families of staff, people known to the person in charge of the staff. The family wouldn't concern themselves with such things. I can't imagine they ever needed a servant for a job. Usually there were more servants than were required.
Since the 1100s building a castle has needed difficult-to-get royal permission. Crenellations are battlements, and you need a "licence to crenellate".
Strictly 1271 was still in the reign of Henry III. His son Edward I didn't succeed till the following year.
Other commenters have told you about Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the explorer, surname pronounced "fines". That family, more correctly surnamed Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, still own - since 1377 - the very beautiful Broughton Castle near Banbury in Oxfordshire. The head of the family is Lord Saye and Sele (pronounced "seeli").
You may well know two cousins, Ralph Fiennes, and Joseph Fiennes, who are famous actors. Others may be more accurate about their famous roles; I think one of them did "Shakespeare in Love". Did the other do Voldemort in Harry Potter?
Dear McJibbin, please try to find a video on BERKELEY Castle, Gloucestershire, just down the road from me, it has a fantastic history, including the grisly death of a king, and is used in hundreds of period films and tv shows. There is also a film on youtube of a ghostly rider on horseback, accidentally filmed by a drone!
OMG visited here recently. Such a nice place and one can stay here at a price. Gorgeous
You can stay in one of the many outbuildings on site now lovely venues to stay in
Its open to the public Mc so fill your boots !
OK, who had 1:36 in the grass sweepstakes?
You should see Warwick castle. Its amazing. I got a really good video up on it, plus a lesson on its famous occupants. Probably one of the biggest and fanciest in a beautiful surrounding
"Secrets Of Great British Castles - Series 1 Episode 3 - Warwick Castle - 2015 HD"
I went there last year ( not far from where I live) really lovely day out
Connor, have you ever seen embroidery panels? The image is printed or hand drawn on the backing fabric, then one or more people begin placing the stitches with needle and thread. These days, you can buy small ones for children to practice their skills and they get progressively bigger , depending on where you want to hang it.
“Elizabeth Taylor that name sounds familiar” lol she was only one of the worlds most famous actresses.
Queen Victoria popularized wearing black in mourning, after her husband died she wore black for the rest of her life.
The houses you’re calling half timber houses, are actually called Tudor homes, and yes, the timbers were hand cut so they had natural imperfections, but they have stood for a very long time. They’re also rather easy to maintain, easier than the huge stone blocks.
I was 12 last time I went to Hever. It’s an amazing place
The servants often were the children of the servants already there. Think of it you were fed, paid and got accommodation
The poop is good for the roses lol
You can actually stay there and have your breakfast in the grand hall. My favourite castle ❤
It’s a fabulous place to stay
Your little face lights up when you look at historical buildings and nice grass lol.
Funny you should say that you feel that room made you feel like you were in the Titanic - William Waldorf Astor’s cousin was the richest man to die on the titanic , sad but true
Servants probably came from nearby villages
King Henry VIII was originally a Catholic. He wanted to divorce his first wife but the Church would not allow it, so he decided to change the rules and made up his own, separated himself from the Catholic Church and named his new church the Church of England. He made himself the Head of the church and his descendants would become heirs to that role, thus ensuring it remained forever in the hands of Royalty.
King Henry VIII,
To six wives was wedded.
One died, one survived,
Two divorced and two beheaded
Another popular mnemonic device is:
Divorced, beheaded, died;
Divorced, beheaded, survived
This is respectively:
Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr.
They didnt drink water because it was contaminated. They drank ale, mead or wine...
If I was the groundsman I would be shouting at her to get of the grass
The castle is owned by the Guthrie family of Scarborough North Yorkshire
Cardiff Castle , have a look at that .
Servants applied for the different positions.
This is my neck of the woods been a few times 😊.
Fun fact..one side of my family is related to the Crofts of Crofts Castle. If I ever go to UK, I will drop in for a cuppa. 😅
Servants were generally young people sent away by their parents to earn money and skills, and girls saved the money for their dowry.
Not been to Hever for a few years - the last time it was visited was when hubster’s USA aunt, uncle and cousin rellies came over for a visit - I don’t think Auntie Relly liked the maze at all! 😂😂 thought she would be spending the night in there because she couldn’t find her way out! 🤷😂
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The English medieval period (The Middle Ages) started 476 AD (in year of the lord) and ended in 1485; the late medieval period started in 1300 and ended in 1500. Which gave way to the beginning of the Renaissance period. The name medieval comes from medi-, meaning "middle", and ev-, meaning "age", medieval literally means "of the Middle Ages." Though the Dark Ages is used interchangeably with these two, it is the start of the Middle Ages and the fall of the western roman empire.
1066 CE is regarded as the beginning of the English Middle ages and this is because of The Battle of Fulford 20/09/1066 then it was the battle of Stamford Bridge 25/09/66 and then the Infamous Battle of Hastings 14/10/66
536 AD, the worst year in human history. The year that the Sun disappeared (1.5 years) and the beginning of the bubonic plague. Another eruption triggered in 540 exacerbated the cooling effect, making a mini medieval ice age lasting 25 years, causing widespread death across Europe Scandinavia, the Middle East and Aisa.
Europes & the Middle East population dropped by an estimated 1/3-1/2 Scandinavia dropped by 75-90%
Ballista: During the Middle Ages, it was one of the original weapons that had success against fortified castle walls throughout Europe. The most famous appearance of the ballista in the Middle Ages was the Siege of Dover in 1216, when the French were able to get through Dover Castle's walls. Although it was the ancient Greeks that invented it.
Trebuchet: This war machine was invented during the late Middle Ages by the Chinese (around 1400 AD) in order to destroy the great walls of the enemy palaces
Keep / Dungeon / Don jon (old French for Keep)
Crenellation, Merlon, Machicolation & Embrasure
We're visiting this place in about 6 weeks time.
A tapestry is woven-but not tufted like a carpet.
Connor I laughed out loud when you said you wondered if you could be charged with being drunk in charge of a horse 🙂
Ranolph Finnes is the UKs best knowen advenchera. Finnes is a very well knowen name, bear Gryles and Ralph Finnes are both Finnes and very famous one a adventura and the other a Actor, Voldemor.
Well worth a visit, just up the road from me.
Slightly curious as to how Astor would have entertained QEII when he died in 1919.
As far as I know it is still illegal to be drunk whilst at the same time being in charge of animal chattel - both in the UK and the US.
But I have a question myself : If Henry VIII gave Anne Bolyn a clock hours before the wedding I wonder what he might have been giving her hours after the wedding ! ( ? ).
Hi Connor, whilst you might not have heard of the British legend Ranulph Fiennes...... l'm sure you know his cousin Lord Voldemort. Ralph Fiennes.
The only crime Anne Boleyn committed was to not give Henry a son.
You can be charged for being drunk and in charge of a horse
You need to visit Edinburgh lots of history
Thats a younger and slimmer Alice ❤
I have been here a few times... one of my favourite castles ... found out my ancestor married Mary Boleyn 😊
yes lol riding a horse while drunk is still a criminal offence, as you are in control of the horse still, or meant to be.
😅That mask to shut women up from gobbing off, looked more like an Ann summers device😂
Connor, watch the movie, The Man in the Iron Mask.
The castle itself didn’t impress me that much. To use a line from Dom Deluise, nice, nice, Not Thrilling but nice😊. What blew me away at Hever were the gardens.
Dont be silly - she is telling us facts
Yeah, but at the end of the day it's mainly just a replica (Renovated via an obscenely rich American)😒
For someone who has at least a sideline watching RUclips, Connor shows just epic levels of not knowing stuff.
Ignorance as a talent taken to next level.
"I've never heard of Everest," "Does the moon exist?", "Is the UK a county?", "Water never occurred to me as a thing."
I watch the channel because it covers some interesting stuff. But damn, Connor. Learn some s£#7.
Why don't you Google during the videos? What's a crenalation, who is Astor? 30 second google will educate you and us. Oh, I once dated an Astor.
Bloody Yanks, come over here improving our castles.....
You can’t live in these places most of them are memorials
I love learning this stuff but was totally distracted by her heavy breath before every sentence....excruciating for me 😟
Has the narrator got really bad asthma her breath control is horrendous.
I have had the pleasure of of staying there as a birthday treat it was wonderful
Lots of the servants lived locally particularly the lower servant doing the menial jobs
Henry got rid of Anne because she didn’t give him a son