Royal Special: The Queen Mother Interview on 90th Birthday (1990)
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2023
- In August 1990, ITN's Alastair Burnet interviewed Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother to celebrate her 90th birthday. Walking around the garden of the Royal Lodge, the Queen Mother - known affectionately to the public as the Queen Mum - discussed the history of the garden and, in doing so, reflected on the decades of her extraordinary life spent at the Royal Lodge. While reminiscing, the Queen Mother recalled taming the gardens of the Royal Lodge with her husband, King George VI, using the garden to grow food during wartime, and how her great-grandchildren Prince William and Prince Harry enjoyed playing on its lawn. On their tour of the gardens, the Queen Mother and Alastair Burnet were joined by Martin Charteris (Lord Charteris), former Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II and a close friend of the Queen Mother.
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She was born a Victorian and lived to see the new Elizabethan age. The span of her life was remarkable, as was her legacy of hard work, duty, and curiosity in the world around her, which endeared her so much to so many.
Hard work? She was a nasty little snaggle toothed Nazi troll who never did a days work in her life. Where do you royal rimmers get these ideas from? I know, the constant deluge of fawning press which we all drown in.
Well said
@@bernardfitzsimons6942and getting into millions in debt.
@@bernardfitzsimons6942 Oh yes, the Queen Mum was an expert booze-shifter - Princess Margaret got it from her. No idea where Margo got her love of men from though...
This is her public image. She's supposed to have said once; "I'm not as nice as people think I am."
90 years old, and still wearing heels and truly the best hats.
She used til 101
I’ve never ever see any footage of her not in high-heels. Even during ww2, probably the only person that managed to go through the war in high heels.
I don’t think she knows how to wear other type of shoes tbh…
@@manuelarita6801 : I watched her 100th birthday celebration on here somewhere. It was very moving.
@@roisindubh02 Me too. She was lovely and deserved the all pageantry and homage for nearly 80 years of public service in peace and in war.
She came down those steps entering rose garden without looking down nor hesitating, or so it appeared...amazing 😊
It is remarkable to think the Queen Mother was born in 1900. She lived through World War 1 and was a Queen during World War two. She lived to remember the sinking of the Titanic. She lived to see man land on the moon, to the invention of the mobile phone. It is hard to imagine the collection of many memories she must have had. I would have loved to sit down with her and listen to all the remarkable things that she would have witnessed during her long life.
and it's all in a video game made by aliens.
@@loonycushion we are consciousness imprisoned in a 4D Matrix preventing us from ascending to higher dimensional plains because of karmic reincarnation.
I couldn''t agree more with you !
Yep, Adrenechrome
Adrenorchrome works wonders but they all kick it eventuality
She’s like a more warmer version of the Queen!
Because she was never a real queen, she was a queen consort.
I’ve heard the Queen Mother called many things; warm has never been one of them.
@@mykoniichistorychannel people have said she was warm and fun loving.
Walking in heels on potentially uneven ground at that great age.
What a woman!
I high heels !
She’s 90…look how fast she’s walking OMG!! So sprightly!!
She was only one of two royal centenarians but when she saw her younger daughter die she immediately lost any iota of will to live.
So delighted to see again how our beloved Queen Mother was at 90. We miss you Madam. 🙏❤
* Ma'am
@@franmellor9843 Ma'am was for Queen Elizabeth II
We do indeed.
@@langeblanc494 but everyone called her Ma’am in her presence.
@@greengardengreen6666 in her presence yes.. and since I am not in her presence Madam is and will be.
I’d forgotten how much our late Queen Elizabeth II sounded exactly like her Mum. Thank you for posting this gem.
Always thought as much
So true
8:41 ... :D
because she was brought up properly
Yes! The Queen and Charles shared her whimsical way
She was always smiling ❤Rest in peace🖤💐
Queen Elizabeth got the smile from her mother 🥰
wouldn't we all be smiling if we had managed to live a life of luxury at the expense of the British taxpayer. Here you have the grifter in chief...
@@tld7195 Another one who opens his gob with NO knowledge of the reality! Like every other Royal family in Europe, her family (the King, this amazing woman who was Queen Consort, and daughters Elizabeth and Margaret) were pleaded with by the Government to leave the country for safety reasons during WW2 - but they refused to leave the people to struggle alone! By the time of this interview she was just the mother of Queen Elizabeth and wasn't being paid anything by the State! People of her generation make you look like a sniveling idiot.
@@jillosler9353 all PR… The palace is great at spinning the reality. This family are no longer relevant and should politely step down. The monarchy holds Britain back. Can’t move forward until this class riddled elite are released back into the wild and left to fend for themselves!
@@missrose5261 shes nothing like her mother
It was great how she and her daughter (the queen) still had their faculties until an advanced age.
A privileged life and we’d all live as long, horrible mare.
@@Mancunianblue absolute nonsense, it's genetics and physiology that predict longevity not money
Lot of inbreed genetics, so can’t be sure how well that contributes.
They had lots to engage with. One loses one’s faculties when they are no longer used. Retire, sit and watch TV, and you’ll lose your faculties.
@@christinewesson2046 ..I agree.
I loved the Queen mother she was one of the few who genuinely cared for our soldiers and was genuine in her feelings on Remembrance Day May she RIP
Her brother was killed in action Fergus
Bei Queen Mam hört man den Stolz über das schöne Anwesen heraus und sie ist dankbar und voller Respekt für das Fleckerl Erde. Sie war mit 90 noch top fit🥰
I've not seen many interviews with her at all, this is a treat.
The corgis barging in shouting the odds lol
look on youtube, "the Royal champion the Queen mother is great
@@sandyfretwell9125 but many say she wasn't a good person, i can't argue because I never met her
@@levent.a.7280 did they give any reasons?
@@nriab23 it's well documented on RUclips, she was a nasty rude person
@@levent.a.7280you can’t argue but you can leave nasty spiteful rude comments. Shame on you
just charming, and so rare to see an interview with the Queen Mum, who shared a birth date with my own grandmother
The Queen mother was an absolutely enchanting human being. So special. ❤
7:57 The luckiest man! What an honour to be gifted a rose by the late great The Queen Mother!
That was a move only charmer's would do!! That girl was full of charm!!!
You would never guess she was 90 years old based off her movement and speech in this. The Crown really failed to capture her in the series.
The Crown was beautifully produced rubbish
@@michaelmontagu3979. Well said.
The Queen Mother was such a sweetheart. One of my all-time favorite royals.
She walks amazingly well for a 90 year old
All that home grown organic veg during the war
A great generation of people. She was so lovely . Sadly missed R.I.P Queen Mother xoxo
What a spry lady the Queen Mother was. Just so lovely.
Aww rest in peace to both the queens ❤
For 90 years she talk and walk real strong!!!!
I can say I had the very real privilege of not only being alive during her later years but also recall watching this as a child with my gran and grandpa whom where both avid gardeners, they loved the Queen mother as they where from her generation and also the old King whom my Grandfather often told stories of when i was growing up. She has a kindness to her , a bright twinkle in her smile that would bring happy thoughts even on your darkest of days. The whole country lost something much more than a person when she died. We lost a brightness in the dark, in terms of the struggles that where going on in her later years but not least she was a beacon during the war years as well, much like her late husband. Hopefully if there is an afterlife they are looking down on our nation with still some pride despite the awful things that have happened since her passing at least now she and the King are reunited with our late Queen Elizabeth
Aww, I just loved the Queen Mum. She always seemed so friendly and happy. Dearly missed, even now. 😢🇬🇧🧡💚
Very very much so.
22 years already..
She was always so decorative, the most colorfull flower inside the park...
Until we saw her teeth.
@@Robin838 LOL too funny
Born at the end of the 19th century and died at the start of the 21st century. She lived every second of the 20th century. Her life spanned three centuries and two millennia. Incredible. Smart woman, guided her husband during terrible times.
The Queen Mother had a joie de vivre that I believe was key to her longevity. She lived through some serious illness including bowel cancer and recovered. To make it to 101 is no minor feat.
That’s one way of saying alcoholic
Perhaps…but she was actually unwell. It doesn’t take much to take one out at such an advanced age. She had a respiratory illness and had suffered multiple falls before she passed. Was unlikely that she would have survived the year even without Margaret dying.
@@theshape7214that made me laugh!!
She also had breast cancer and both hips replaced. 😮.
@@linniem5982 I read this too, not revealed till after her death
The Queen Mother was always gracious, elegant and smiley .... She was one remarkable woman.May God bless her soul ....
❤😊
She was completely charming. A ray of sunshine.
This was delightful, I loved that she took her handbag with her for a walk through her own garden so proper and self sufficient. And the ushering of the party back to the child’s play house through her beautiful garden. She worked so hard when she had her home destroyed through the war and through the destruction she created this timeless emersion with her stamp on it. Thank God here we have something to honour and remember her. ❤
We'll never forget her, l assure you.
Wow , imagine taking your own handbag with you for a walk round the garden. How ever did she manage without a grovelling servant carrying it for her.
@@benmacdui9328 Apparently she wasn't about that, but who knows, I didn't know her, and neither did you, so to make that assumption is wrong.
@@benmacdui9328 Tut, tut! She was steely. Whiff of envy emanates from your remark.
@@benmacdui9328 I was wondering the same! While during WWII she and the king ate like they always had. She went to visit
bombed areas fingering her pearls, while the Duchess of Windsor was in the Bahamas washing, feeding and weighing native babies in one of the many clinics she help to establish! Even bought the nurse a car with her personal money, yet one never hears a word about that!!!! Patricia Gambino Harrington
My heart was warmed just watching that! Thank you so much for uploading this. What a remarkable lady! A grand lady the likes of which you simply don't get anymore.
The moment at 8:29 is cute. She’s a queen but still holds the flowers for the man to smell. very cute and polite.
So she is Human after all?
Absolutely charming. God bless the Queen Mother forever.
What a wonderful Queen 👑
I will sat down and listen to all her great stories of her life without blink she was precious 👑 a Royal Treasure ❤🥰🇬🇧
A classic of all classics!! Such a wonder gracious lady The Queen Mother was.
💜Rest in Peace Queen Mum💜
This is wonderful to see🥰
Always love to hear her speak, and the dignified way she walked. I hope if I'm blessed to see her age it is with good health.
She had the best doctors and medicine available. It helps a lot...
Hypocrite, condemned wallis Simpson but condoned her grandson to the same disgrace 🤣 what a farce
@@enlilw-l2 So did her husband, the late King George V. He died at the age of 56. I'm confident he had the best doctors and medicine as well.
@@ninakramer276 King George V was a heavy smoker, that's different. As well as Princess Margaret and her abuse of alcohol. Medicine cannot solve everything even the best available.
@@enlilw-l2 I could be wrong but I’ve learned that the Queen Mum was a heavy smoker at one point and she certainly like to drink…a lot. This being said, I think when one’s time is up, that’s it. No matter what interventions. But then again, what do I know.
What a lovely interview! So sensitive to the Queen Mother! What a woman!
And she lived on for another 11 years. She walked and talked like she was 50, 40, or even 30. She's really missed, for sure.
Indeed.
30?
@@chrisw9643 Yeah. I'm basically saying she did everything at age 90 as if she was a lot younger. She really was very active all throughout her life.
She was lovely and unique. We'll never forget her.
Old school !
Tough as nails !
90 years old, walking on grass with heels on, no problem, wow!!
Her majesty...reminds me of my late grandmother...miss both 🥺
She reminds me of my godmother from Scotland.
What a great snap shot into the life of this extraordinary woman. She is so elegantly delightful and what a genuine infectious giggle she has .Thank You for sharing I am simply an adoring royal historicist with Scottish and British heritage on my fathers side and Im half way round the world from the U.K in the Arizona Sonoran Desert.
This is an incredible video. The Queen Mother is one of those historical figures who you always see in pictures but almost never hear their voice - until now...
❤❤❤..love her and miss her..
Me too.
Martn Charteris was one of The Queen's best private secretary's, who always told her what she should know rather than what he thought she would want to hear. And a very talented sculptor.
She was full of grace and beauty, a very genteel lady. Love seeing her corgis with her. What beautiful memories.
One charming, yet truly devastatingly ruthless lady!
IKR... She didn't play, but you can't deny she was charming... Hell I thought I was charming, I don't have nothing on Queen mother 😂😂😂
She had an iron will but was charm personified. It was that mixture along with the brave qualities of her husband, His Late Majesty, that helped to see this country through the dark days of the second world war. May God keep and protect her.
When presenters were presenters. Nicely spoken and excellent grammar.
They aren't the usual presenters. The older man is Lord Charteris, who was private secretary to the late Queen. Sorry, can't remember the name of the other man. As I'm getting older my memory isn't as good as the Queen Mother.
@@michaelmontagu3979 it is Alistair Bernett. He was a marvellous journalist and news presenter for ITN for many many years.
@@colettemarchington8724 Thank you
It was lovely to see the Queen Mother in the garden of Royal Lodge , sharing her memories at 90 years of age . I really loved this . Thank you .
She’s an amazing woman who raised an amazing Queen 🥹🖤
Thank you for Queen Mum !
A very special Lady!
Thank you ITN for sharing these pearls lately
Lovely. Thank you for sharing this.
Wow what amazing energy, poise and sense of humour.
Thank you this was wonderful to watch. Gosh I miss her, she was just so lovely.
I waited as a little schoolgirl on Newport Road in Cardiff to see her drive by in the 1960's and will never forget her beautiful smile at us kids. RIP 🌹❤️💐
The evocative sound track of RVW's 'Rhosymedre' complements the visuals so beautifully. 🌸🎶
Thousand thanks for naming the music. I love it and thanks to you now l can listen it again and again.
Respect , mother of the Queen of England.
The Queen Mother was a very elegant lady.
Blessed Queen Mother. Elizabeth
The Queen Mother, beautiful, meticulous and immaculate. Never saw you in real-life yet, glad I got to know about you. Perfect rested sleep HRH😊❤🙏
HM
Fantastica
Qui, 90 anni 😮
Che personalità 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What Energy for a 90 year old!
I was honored to become friends with Lord Snowdon, and to work closely with him for many months on a very special project. In his Kensington home on Launceston Place, he had many wonderful and quite candid personal photos of The Queen Mother. I told Lord Snowdon how much she reminded me of my own grandmother, which delighted him. The Queen Mother loved "Tony" very much and they stayed close until her death.
Wasn’t Elizabeth a lovely lady. I love seeing her walking round at her age. She loved life. Winston Churchill gave her a good talking too when her husband died. She wouldn’t go out, but he told her to live again, and after that she started to enjoy herself as she should have, living over 100. beautiful age I hope I live that long we only have one life and it goes so quickly. God bless her.❤
Un bellissimo e prezioso documento
Grazie ❤
she was a lovely strong woman
Complete perfection, both Queen Mother and garden. They loved each other so clearly, one can feel..
What the Queen Mother and the garden?
I Love Elizabeth bowes Lyon the queen mother ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👑🇬🇧
For a lady who was 90 at the time, she moves surprisingly well.
She walked and spoke and looked like someone 30 years younger. Amazing woman.
I mean, it’s not like she ever worked her ass off like us commoners
@@magnusharrison2715 she did a hell of a lot more for her country in 101 years than you ever will.
@@PeterG1975 he didn't mean it in that context. Stress and overworking your body takes a toll on your physical body. It's a fact. She did a lot sure, but she wasn't laying bricks down or standing in the extreme heat or stressing over making her mortgage payment or rent. See what I mean?
@@PeterG1975 Hear hear 👏
She reminds me so much of the late Queen Elizabeth II in her 90s
Great video. The Queen Mother was a wonderful Lady.
She was always kind and gracious to everyone.
Jeff❤
Amazing! I have never watched one of the interviews with the Queen Mother. He manner and temperment remind me of King Charles III, her grandson.
Noticed she didn't let the reporter in the playhouse, graciously saying you can look from outside and that's it. The reporter was ready to walk in but queen mother didn't invite him. Lol
А как по королевскому этикету надлежит быть?
King George the VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother valiantly led the British people with great moral courage during the Biltz. They shared in the war's dangers and deprivations never abandoning their kingdom.
She is absolutely lovely.
She lived in three centuries. Remarkable, not many people can claim that.
Just 2 , 20 and 21 centuries
@@levent.a.7280 - No, it’s three. It’s well published….it’s three. She’s was born in 1900. The year 1900 is the last year of the 19th century. The year 1901 is the first year of the 20th century. Since she died in 2002, she lived in three centuries…..19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
@@mchapman1928 no the 19 th century doesn't count, 19 century ended in 1899 , she wasn't born yet, she lived only in two centuries 20 and 21
@@levent.a.7280 - Please don’t argue. The last year of the 19th century was 1900. The first year of the 20th century was 1901. The last year of the 20th century was 2000. The first year of the 21st century was 2001.
A century is 100 years, 1 to 100.
Go do some research, you’ll learn I’m correct.
What a lovely charming lady she was. ❤
For 90 she was really walking well
I cant believe how much Queen Elizabeth looked so much like her mother and sister… You could easily confuse them for sisters
She is so charming❤
Love mother ❤️💜
What an amazing human being. God bless her ❤
The Queen Mother is one of few people who lived through the entire 20th Century, which lasted from 1 January 1901 to 31 December 2000. She is also one of few people who lived from the reign of Queen Victoria to the 21st Century.
The epitome of graciousness and class. The fact that she is 90 here merely adds a sort of exclamation point to the whole interview. My mom is 99 now but 4 months ago we finally had to put her in hospice. Even at 90 I don’t think she had the active mind of the Queen mum.
Wow
RIP to your dearest mother.
An old dragon 🐉. Vile loathsome twisted vicious vindictive savage
Hypocrite
She was so wonderful and so clever at saying the right thing and never to give offence unique charm humour and kindness no one like her now
What a gracious lady. The family stayed at Buckingham Palace all through the blitz almost losing their lives in a bombing.
I'd forgotten what a pretty woman she was. This was a real treat. Thank you for sharing it!
Seriously? Her teeth resembled a graveyard. 🤣
There's no question the Queen Mother had great charm, and style too. History paints her arch enemy Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, as the epitome of style. But in reality the dowager queen was far more stylish, in the true spirit of the word.
Style is not about being pencil thin, or wearing the latest designer clothes. Nor indeed, is it about working hard to be considered stylish. Perish the thought! Elizabeth had great style because it was entirely her own, the result of developing her own, unique image over many years and knowing who she was. Above all, her style came from true inner confidence and self-esteem.
Unlike Wallis who found herself alone, friendless and vulnerable to exploitation by her own staff after her husband's death, Elizabeth bloomed in widowhood. She was always fascinated by people, and cultivated a fascinating little black book of amusing friends who flocked to her regular lunch and dinner parties. Many glamorous and fascinating, celebrated names of the day featured, among them Cecil Beaton, Sir Noel Coward and Sir John Mills.
Like everything else she did, the Queen Mother entertained lavishly and with high style.
Quite quite right! She was unique.
Sweet, Lady.
Incredibly sweet lady! 🤴 ❤️
Woah!❤😢 miss her!
She was lovely. She walked faster than those chaps.
God save the Queen Mother What a star !
She was unique and irreplaceable. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II were so very successful in a large part because of this Queen. When this lady was born the British monarch was Queen Victoria, the American President was William McKinley and Russia was ruled by Czar Nicholas II. She lived into the 21st century.
Lovely footage - even the music is well chosen.
It reflects perfectly a life that belongs to the past or to an age that's long gone...
(I wish I knew what music it is)
Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaughn Williams is the music, according to the gentleman who wrote 2 comments away from your own comment.
@@sylviaroberts8103Thank you very much for your kind answer!
It's a beautiful piece of music by a great composer!
Greetings from Germany!
@@hadrianmonk Greetings to you too from Wales - which is also the birthplace of Ralph Vaughan Williams, as you know. I believe the music was also played at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🏴
@@sylviaroberts8103 That's very interesting to read and I can imagine that it would also fit as music for a funeral - it's very emotional and does strike something deep inside.