How the Queen Mother Partied Her Way to Debt 🥂 Private Lives of the Monarchs | Smithsonian Channel
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2017
- In total, the Queen Mother was a widow for 50 years of her life. During that time, she became known for two things: extravagance and an unpaid tab that ran into the millions.
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I can hardly think of something worse than my mother phoning me at 9 every morning to tell me how to do my job.
your the queen of united kingdom and all of her dominions and you still get boss around by your mom.
So in other words, the Queen Mother treated her daughter Queen Elizabeth II as a human ATM machine!
Good one! And the money in the 'ATM' came from the 'subjects' throwing all their £ at the royals feet.
Queen Elizabeth II was the perfect heir because she was raised technically by her grandmother and not her mother
yes and now its our turn
the royal family has its own private funds...
Yeah, from all the real estate they own half of England!
I found it terribly amusing, that in later years, the Queen Mother was reputed as having said: "We`re all mad you know. It`s the inbreeding".🤣 Personally, I think it`s the funniest thing I`ve ever read regarding a royal.
There all a bunch of dossers
Correction: Obviously... that should have read "Gin & Dubonnet"
She brought new blood into the family. The Bowes-Lyons were aristocrats but not close to royal. It also reconnected the Royal Family to Scotland. The same goes for Princess Mary's marriage. The Lascelles were an old wealthy English family. After WWI there was still a lot of anti German sentiment. Changing the name to Windsor was a solid first step but not nearly enough. The Duke of Gloucester's marriage was also very popular. His wife Alice is the longest lived royal. She beat The Queen Mother by over a year.
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It’s quite extraordinary that a champagne and gin alcoholic lived to be 101 years old
@Kandy Kandy Many people with actual, real jobs are able to work whilst being functioning alcoholics and drug abusers. That's a fact, so calm down and take your caps lock off you nutter.
@Kandy Kandy Walking around, and waving at crowds is hardly a pressing job, is it. She probably drank the champagne to cope with the tediousness of it.
Some drug users can live to an old age too so I really don’t see what your point is? I work in a very working class supermarket and we are always stopping druggies running out with stock to sell on to get their fix. Some of them are in their late 60s.
@@manmaje3596 My point is quite simple. Most people don't expect alcoholics to live so long. If that's too complex for you, then sorry, move on.
She passed her immortality to the new Queen
It also answers a lot of questions about Prince Charles's behaviour, since he was in her 'care' whenever his mother the Queen was away on other duties.
Many reports have said she felt her reign was too short, and resented having to "downgrade" to Clarence House. Going from the most important woman in the monarchy and any room, to second-best with nothing important to do during the day, must've been a hard pill to swallow.
''Queen'' mother was a daughter of a French cook! Her origin is very bad!
Oh. Boo Hoo. It’s obscene the way they indulge themselves when many of their own people live in poverty or live from paycheck to paycheck. It’s disgusting. When are the people going to wake up. Just think all the money they waste on luxurious items and outlandish consumption of very expensive fancy food and drink. Some of what they spend and waste could feed an army.
Such self importance and self regard.
Evidently to get her out of Windsor Castle, Prince Philip had the heating turned off. She was gone within a few days!
Disko H she was the Queen Mother. She couldn't move abroad. Can u imagine how cold it must have been living in a stone castle in winter without heat. Canny Philip knew what he was doing. Top bloke!
lol
Can you blame him? What incoming son-in-law wants to live with his mother-in-law? She was no longer the Queen, so she needed to get the fuck out.
Maurice Rivers I feel like their family is so disfuncional, the mothers in debt, the empire died, slowly but surely times have changed, prince Philip probably cheated a lot ( who wouldn’t fuck a prince ? ) Elizabeth stayed quiet, her sons dumb as hell, they were all almost killed at least twice and didn’t even care, and it’s just awful now the 00s and 10s are now, just spoiled little shits ( me ) who have inherited the earth
Tynka Bell: I loved your comment, and your account name is adorable. Cheers.
The debt was a disgrace especially with her allowance. Yet she walked around all prim and proper
Her jewels, the art and other valuables were worth way more than her debt.
@@jonjonwp most of which weren’t even hers.
@@mykoniichistorychannel What's your problem? The queen paid all her debts .
Funny, the debt was publicly under reported at approx. $2M. As time goes on, and peoples' tongues loosen with age, I'm sure more interesting relevations will be made known.
Tax Payer's Money
That leftover pudding @3:01 made me sad. :(
R.I.P Pudding.
Jamzo 'Sez Looks like Eton Mess
Eton Messy
Jamzo 'Sez--Charles is equally wasteful (if not more so). He is known to waste countless soft-boiled eggs as he insists on having a fresh one for his consumption immediately upon entering his house after touring his gardens or whatever he does with his sorry self in the mornings). His chef cooks up one soft-boiled egg after another until his royal haughtiness deigns to show up for brekkie and then he eats the most current offering. The rest are tossed in the trash.
Holy crap, that is REALLY wasteful- and thoughtless!
what a stupid rumor. the chef would be informed when Charles is entering the house and then have time to cook the 3 minute egg. anyone who believes the chef is cooking soft boiled eggs all day for no reason and when the prince isn't even on premises needs their head examined.
Unbelievable! Her public image was so different from her private one
Don´t forget: The is the public person and the private person!
Watch Backstairs Billy. It’s on RUclips.
''Queen'' mother was a daughter of a French cook! Her origin is very bad!
@@bajdok I believe you've mixed up your stories. The Queen Mother's nemesis Wallis Simpson's nickname for her was 'Cookie', as she mocked her plump figure and said she resembled a humble cook.
Plump she may have been, but she had more style and charisma in her little finger than the ghastly, flat chested, sour-faced, snake-hipped Duchess of Windsor!
Eight million bar tab? What an absolute legend.
8 millions is really a drop in the bucket from someone as highly important and conected as her we may look at it as cripling debt but to her family its kind of like a slightly overprice bar tab.
😂
Disgusting abuse of position
I just love how the documentaries hail her has a great beauty and a charmer. The perfect wife and queen. Unofficially the reports are that she was bossy, drank a lot, wasted all kinds of money on food and clothes, and just expected her daughter to pick up the tab. There are other claims as well, but they are not nice.
She seemed mean and snobbish.
@@TheCandiceWang She was, especially for someone who married into the family. Margaret inherited that snobbishness, as well.
What other claims??
@@mariahvilla2354 Racism.
@@MauriceRivers415She married into the Royal Family yes, but you have to remember she was of the Bowes-Lyon family, who were Scottish aristocracy, whos lineage goes back as far as Scottish royalty. So you can kind of see where the snobbery came from.
She wouldn't leave Buckingham Palace not Windsor castle
But Philip is also an ass, who had a "crazy'' mother that was more sane than he is.
Diane Ackroyd I have to take notes for future visits fron relatives whom like dead fish stinks after a Few days.
Americans always get British history wrong
She already had her own house at Windsor and only stayed on at Buckingham Palace until Clarence House was redecorated. I really don't know how people can make these stories up when they have absolutely no personal knowledge.
The media in the UK have traditionally been on friendly, cooperative terms with the British royalty and have turned a blind eye, made excuses, silenced or been reigned in by threats of legal action, so that they would not report unflattering, image busting stories of the royal family. Not so with the overseas, foreign press and investigative writers. The legal jurisdiction and gag orders do not extend, nor are legally recognized beyond the UK borders. Much to their dismay!
Lady Diana hated this lady with a Passion
I love the queen mother and Diana. Don’t know why they could not both get along
As long as the Common Wealth wants a Royal Family, indulgence is to be expected. Nothing surprising about this.
I think we’ve uncovered the unfortunate reason why some of Queen Elizabeth’s children turned out as they did. While she was away, queen mother would have had to take care of the royal children, yikes…
I feel so much better about my character now knowing the queen mother has made the same bad decisions 😂
"Would one of you queens get this old queen a cocktail?!" Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother.
Yes, When the Queen Mum was a waiting her tipple. She had a great sense of humour with her staff, and they adored her for it.
this seems to be her most famous quote lol
No a tipple is a persons favourite drink, hers was Dubonnet with gin I believe.
I hope this is me when I am old. I will tell the staff at Shady Pines this during cocktail hour
Just another example of why she was adored. I still remember seeing her and she was wonderful!
And they wonder where Margaret got it from
She lived so long as she was ‘pickled’!
It must be nice being royal- you don't really need to work, you enjoy yourself your entire life, make debts that someone else will have to settle for you, and to cup it all everyone is supposed to bow to you Viva La Vida...
I believe that she loved a drink and was close to being an alcoholic.
She should have switched to a cheaper brand of gin.
Edward Norton Very true!
Her daughter Margaret was .....
Linda Watkin who'd blame the poor thing... that's a very boring life.?
Not close, she was an alcoholic!
I don't understand why "The Crown" didn't get the actress from this to play the Queen Mother instead of Victoria Hamilton, cause she actually resembles her real life counterpart.
Love the close up and added sound effects of pavlova to as clearly infer excess and wastefulness as is humanly possible, I love you America 💙
These Royals lied about Public duty. They were more concerned about grifting off the state. Who dies in £8m in debt? It’s shocking
I find it so strange that she died leaving such a debt but none of that money was spent on her teeth. I’m not being mean, just stating a fact. Why was something so obvious and so awful looking acceptable or ignored by the dowager Queen who appeared to be very keen on her appearance and liked to show others her luxuries? This is beyond odd to me.
I was looking for this comment! Why is that family with millions and millions spending money on everything BUT NOT their Teeth ?!! Yellow gray teeth wearing diamonds and living in Castles... how odd!
Maybe Mum feared dentists.
I'm glad that family-values pertained and that she was looked-after.
I can't wait for this to be portrayed in the Netflix series The Crown lol
It does beg the question, what were the royal book keepers doing all this time?
Fun fact, the Queen Mother's treasurer had a complete mental breakdown.
A lot of us here In Britain called her Yoda....especially towards the end when she started using that stick.
What a legend for drinking cheers 🥂 Queen 👑 Mother living it up til the fullest oh dear me...your a legend
Windsor Castle is not the Queen's official residence, that is Buckingham Palace and the Queen Mother's main residence was Clarence House in London.
She gambled on the horses too!
It proves a few drinks a day keeps the doctor away
Near the end of this video it mentions that the Queen Mother's daughter paid off her debts. That means that the average hardworking English citizens had to pay off the debt!
in 2000 the queen mother owed the royal bank of scotland 10 million pounds sterling, approximately 25 million $cad. no one wanted to offend the dear lady by requesting a payment. lol
It wouldn't be hard to collect it from that luxury-living, image-is- everything bunch of pompous fools. All you have to do is give them the choice of clearing the debt or it gets somehow leaked to the tabloids. She wasn't the only one in that crew who couldn't afford the lifestyle either. Remember Fergie?? Luckily her friend Jeffery Epstein came to her rescue and bailed her out.
Booze and dinner parties on tax-payers money is the best booze and dinner;)
1:30 That's the soundtrack from the game "The Movies" !!! Haha
It did not hurt HM to assist in paying off her mother debt. IT was good P.R. LOL
BestWatchCo. I do so so agree with you! Long Live The Queen!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure the Queen Mother was one to be reckon with all during her life.Just saying!
Gee, a thoughtless, self-centered Queen-mother? Who woulda thunk it?
woulda thunk of that nasty old drunk
we should all get an allowance of 1 mil a year
Pity she didn't spend some of that vast sum on much needed dental work. The soft Scottish water, which produces such world-renowned whisky, also plays havoc with teeth. Of course, eating sugary cards adds to the problem! I believe the Queen Mum liked her desserts almost as much as her alcohol!
I read somewhere that during WW2 where every Brits was on ration QME still live extravagantly.
Bet Your arse She did.
She was the queen consort ? Why would not she ?
She spent as much as 17, 000 times the ration on clothes because she said people would expect her to look nice. Her accountant when she was the dowager had a complete breakdown. Despicable behaviour.
@@wickanddeVery typical of how the low-born act when social status, power and unlimited money comes their way.
Queen Liz best daughter, best grandmother. Really what a remarkable queen
A disgusting display of Royal Privilege
yes, it is. disgusting, arrièré, out of tune with any modern life. not even meritist.
Aaron W that’s just rich people in general really
all the money made from the looting during the Raj in India. this is white privilege extravaganza or you.and she lived to be 100 years old . 2 whole lives of people in india.
Lmao. What's the point of being a royal if you don't have privilege from it.
Remember that these families once ran countries. Considering how successful Britain was, they didn't do too bad a job. I think that deserves some privilege don't you? You have to remember that Britain made the world what it is today. Without it, we wouldn't have USA, we wouldn't have Australia. India, Pakistan and many over countries would have no democratic structure and would be even more backwards. A small island once controlled a third of the world, all under the reign of a king or queen. That's something to be awarded a bit of privilege for, don't you think??
On the bright side, the Brits built the railways and every building in India apart from the Rajas" palaces and temples of course.
Good for her. Have bloody fun in this life, there's not another one.
Bet the Queen Mother was thinking ... checking the bill is so bourgeois.
And here I am freakin about my 3700$ debt. 😲 😢🎻
I envy you! I have $10,000 in debt! One bank loan and two credit cards -- but spent wisely and for emergencies only. Thankfully, I'm able to make the monthly payments, so I don't really stress out. Oh, but if it were only 4k!
$8 million in debt?---GIN!
No racehorses. She had a ton of them , it was her passion . She was at the races when she was a 100.
Lol the Queen was probably like MUMMMMM.....
wow they left this detail out in the series CROWN !
Can well beleive this, she didn't want to give up her position as Queen, so grandly called herself, Queen Elizabeth, the queen mother
Yep. She took a year and a half to move out of Buckingham Palace and demanded to have precedence over her daughter (the Queen) at the King's funeral.
Apparently she called her new residence, Clarence House, "that horrid little house" because she thought it wasn't grand enough for her.
The title Queen Mother distinguishes her from past Queen Consorts.
@@watchgoose It was a self styled title there is no constitutional title the Queen Mother
British families could barley afford to heat their homes meanwhile the Queen Mother racked up a 8 million dollar debt for parties. Wow!
She knew that others had to pay the last bill!
I don't remember any news reports of families "barley" affording to heat their homes back then. Which papers reported this?
There’s a video on RUclips that said she had 70 drinks a week!! And yet she lived till 101!
She was preserved in alcohol which is why she got to be 101.
I really wanted the queen to pass her mothers age 😢
Proof that pickling works.
Not one of the Royal Family member today would have anything if it wasn't for the people. The only one who would have money would be Kate Middleton because her parents are rich. Just think what would they do if they were taken out of power. They would have to work for a living
what makes you think they still don't do this? monarchy belongs in the dark ages , not in modern times
Video should be tilted
"How the Queen mother left us in deb" it's the people paying for it. Not her or her family.
Anti-royalist lies. All the Queen's income is from her own property - the Crown Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster and other private investments. King George III made an agreement with Parliament in 1760 - all money from the Crown Estate goes to Parliament, and in exchange he gets some of that money back. This was modified in 2012 to be fixed at 15% - in effect the monarch is paying an 85% rate of tax and they don't see a penny from the taxpayer.
Beware the forked tongue of treasonous republicans!
I wonder if there would be a storyline of that in the crown
She truly had style!
A people that likes Queens must pay for them. Simples.
Wow. I wonder if this had any bearing on Elizabeth's penchant for frugality. Though I also do wonder if this has been blown out of context and the cause of the late queen mother's partying was for much needed diplomatic schmoozing purposes to maintain the required political relations to keep the realm stable in the greater political landscape.
One can't have several palatial mansions in several different countries, and travel with a retinue of servants, and with the utmost of privacy & luxury at ALL times, and supposedly befrugal. that's a myopic myth! Yes , she may have counted the chickens in the freezer, or whatever, because she didn't want the servants to steal anything, plus the harshness of the war is hard to shake, but NOT because she didn't want to live ,or have her meals and houses prepared, as she chose! 🙄
Oh jeez. Kind-of a "Let them eat cake" sorta deal...
I read a biography book on her and she had a many secrets and spent a lot of money on her needs
Only 8? It should have been 50 😅
Booze and gambling
That's grimy, that was very very grimy I hope to god those were the best parties ever
She was a poster child for a republic but thanks to media people never knew how horrible she was.
Bit of a drinking problem there -- it's a Scottish thing.
Bullshit the English, are just as bad with the drink problem, you stereotypical, racist!
Alcoholism is very much a Scottish, Celtic generally, Italian, and yes increasingly a British problem. It IS a Scottish thing -- that doesn't mean others are not similarly afflicted. Incidentally I am a Canadian of irish descent -- could not believe the amount of beer drinking in Ireland!
My family Surname Is *Hewison, hailing from Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland. It's a Scottish thing, although drink was notable amongst Scots, notable amongst the Clan was Reverend King Hewison; William Hewison, who was a surgeon, anatomist and physiologist, from 1739 - 1774. William Wallace, Scots should NEVER have bent the knee, We lost our HERITAGE birthright to be PROUD People's!, and our Highland Spirites pushing us to be, FREE
There wasn't any Scottish men speaking, not a one! Bunch of English, and a slimey old bitch from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (The House of Windsor). Who sold themselves to the bankers long before World War 1, They've taken out other Royal Households that were actually fair, and Just leaders for their people. Like the Romanov Family, the Rightful and Just, Tsars of a forgotten but beloved Russia. They wouldn't allow the Rothschilds any footing in Russia, not an Inch! So the filthy Rothschild 'smelling like the pitts of damnation" organized" and FUNDED "Stalin, Lenin, and Leon Trotsky* who rounded up Bolshevik russians in the U.S.A with the help of wall street and other Rothschild run European countries. The Germans before world war 1 were the same, they wouldn't allow the Rothschilds a grasp of Germany which was doing perfectly fine without them in the economy. Infact, Germany was economically doing bettter than Every-Single "Rothschild" run nation on earth, even the U.S.A
Azureecosse yes mate ,so true and I am Welsh.Charles ,prince of WALES, is a English .We don't want him .Most of European royal families are incestuous and cost their people a fortune to keep
Ha! The old girl enjoyed herself! The Queen Mother lived to be 102 years old. One of her footmen said that a group of her gay men that she had in service called someone an old queen. The Queen Mother quipped, "There's only one old Queen in this household!" It just makes her human.
A modern-day Marie Antoinette
Am I the only one that sees her face and gets bad vibes? Glad she’s long gone.
At one time, Cutty Sark held a royal warrant from The Queen Mother. My father saw that and said, "she drinks that old rot gut? No wonder she always has that tiddly look on her face."
Loool
And this is where the tax payers money is spent. While there are people living on the streets and children going without warm clothing. Ohhhhh but yes, England needs the royal family. And please don’t say, “But they are good for tourism” No matter what, people would still come on holidays. There are many, many countries that do not have kings and queens and people still go there for holidays.
Don't forget the UK pensioners who can't afford to heat their dwellings during the winter. Approximately 20,000 die every year during the heating season in the UK. The British don't seem to be bothered or ashamed of this fact. That's the generation that defended Britain, suffered deprivations and rebuilt it after the war. They do get offended when you talk about cutting the Royals off their allowances and privileges. Strange people.
So this is why the British Empire ran into serious financial difficulty. 🤔
The question is not HOW - it's WHY? - she ran up all that debt because she knew damned well that the Sovereign is worth a hell of a lot more money than what is reported/known/accepted - that is all
She lived 70 years without "married life." Yes, i know he died in '52.
@Jolene I think they were referring to the time before she was married and after she was widowed
Queen mother likes to party like a rockstar. She treated Elizabeth 2 like a money tree.
good daughter quietly paying off those debts
didn't see the Queen Mother partying on the Crown... F@CK yeah!!
They always say that their Queen serves the country, the royal family serves the country. Millions and millions of dollars spend on keeping the crown. Quite expensive a servant, if you asked me.
Champagne + Gin = + 100 old (shopalcoholic, didn’t have an speculation in life, left it to the taxpayers) …
Despite spending so much, I see they still bought supermarket meringue nests.
How did I even get here?
The Beast of Glamis
There are still European monarchs that have a role to play. A place like Lichtenstein for example, has a monarch that accounts for a big chunk of the nation’s GDP, but the UK royal family is among the world’s least important, but most recognized monarchies. African tribal leaders, tax haven princes, and Arab kings all have far more power than Elizabeth II
Granny annex 🤣🤣🤣
wait where is this money coming from???
oh ...that right !!!
TAXPAYER MONEY
The taxpayers got stiffed of inheritances taxes when Charles inherited his mother's estate (royalty are exempt). They also had to pay the total cost for all the pomp and circumstance funerals and coronation. If the royals had to pay these events out of their own funds, they would be drastically scaled back. Meanwhile hunger and seniors freezing to death is not a source of consternation to these privileged people.
Before yall start judging the queen mother, i want to see some of you all live to be 101 with a drinking problem😂💀
Considering what the Queen Mum did for the country during WWII, $8 Million was a tiny price to pay.
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Jimmy Martello I remember that well. She flew a spitfire during the battle of Britain, and flew a Lancaster on the dam buster raid
@@jmcfintona999 lol
Blessed are the Boss Mares!
I'm sure she was a great laugh!
That disgusts me . She didn't even accomplish her goal of giving the king a son. This lady shows why it's time to get rid of the monarchy. Seriously they just waste tax money
Note how the Queen's personal and fashion styles changed quite dramatically following the death of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother? The latter really was a domineering, extravagant and entitled woman as this video accurately portrays. I believe Phillip was thrilled when she finally turned up her toes and it wouldn't surprise me even if her daughter Elizabeth had a sense of relief too. Until her death, the Queen Mother ruled the roost and she shouldn't have!
I wish my king would only spend like mother queen has done
So spend beyond your means, leave the bill for your daughter which in fact is funneled through the average UK citizen....nasty
She awkward racked up debts the queen always payed off her debts every few years I used to live in Windsor the queen mother used to go for walks down the mall it wasn't uncommon to see her, she always had a smile on her face always happy to talk to who ever
Marcus walker you're an idiot who can't piece together a legible sentence.
Grammar Nazi
:D
Say what?! Sober up ---
Marcus walker i doubt that with no security
The debt apparently was paid after her death from her estate.
Edward Franks the estste is owned by the crown .u paid for it
I would not be surprised. This video is anti-royal propaganda. Republicans (the ideologues, not the US political party) speak with forked tongues and encourage treason by calling for abolition of the monarchy. Even if the Queen did pay herself, that money would have come from her own investments because she does not get a penny from the taxpayer. In 1760, King George III agreed that Parliament would receive all the money from his Crown Estate, in exchange for getting some of that money back. In 2012, this was fixed at 15% - in effect, the monarch is paying an 85% income tax. Republicans twist the truth to suit their own treasonous ends.
@@sleepyhead6726 No You do, the crown estates are not the private property of the Monarch.
Probably the bill for the amount of Gordon's Gin amounted to half the bill.
Peter Lewis LOL _ very true!
That is ridiculous