The Flamboyant Victorian Aristocrat Who Bankrupted His Family | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2022
- Lovingly characterized as "the most notorious aristocratic homosexual at this period", Lord Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, nicknamed "Toppy", was a British aristocrat. He was notable during his short life for squandering his inheritance on a lavish social life and accumulating massive debts. We venture inside his elegant mansion on the banks of the Menai Strait. His home, Plas Newydd has been home to the Marquesses of Anglesey since Waterloo and boasts a history packed with action and adventure.
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"Not the marrying type" is the most family friendly way I have ever heard someone refer to somebody's sexuality!
I adore that phrase.
It is quite interesting, I feel like staring at your naked wife with jewels might have been more about an ascetic to him than anything but it is interesting that after they were divorced for not "consummating the marriage" that she was still close to him even traveling around together. Makes you think they might have had a very close relationship despite it not being a romantic one per say.
My favorite, also from Britain in the 1930s, was to say “he’s musical.” So one would say, “Oh, you know him. He’s too musical to marry!”
You could say he was the "Elton John" of his day as described by one major newspaper, in that, he was very into lavish living - buying jewels from Cartier, throwing extravagant plays & parties for his friends. His family at the time was NOT too thrilled with his lavish spending ways. They were embarrassed and thought he was squandering the family fortune. He had no heirs, so his title went to another family member from the same branch.
Of course the other branch wasn't too happy about seeing their future wealth disappear but why should he have cared?
@@steffino2 It was irresponsible. The "big house" or manor was responsible for the entire local economy; people depended on the lord's family/estate for work. Furthermore, it was understood by society at the time that a head of a family was responsible for the welfare of many less well off relations. Without social safety nets, family ties were the most important thing to keeping families from descending into poverty.
Also, the landed elite were expected to maintain and pass on their fortunes, not squander it. They didn't do anything to earn their wealth, so to waste it so frivolously is evidence for a lack of morals.
RuPaul wannabe
@@magical11 see, THIS is my only real bone to pick with Mr. Padgett. He sounds like a person who THOUGHT he was helping with the Gaiety Theatre - culturing and entertaining people & children, all at his own expense -but he sounds like he was like a child in some ways. Nothing about his upbringing, of course. Yes, everything you said is right. People talk about how people then were too "afraid of condemnation" but THIS is the other side of the coin. Maybe he did prefer men, what of it. But pissing off relations who may one day be the only thing standing between you and poverty is another. People today sometimes don't understand. Tuberculosis indeed.
There needs to be a movie or show inspired by this man's story, it would be so fun to see his fashion recreated.
I really believe it was his obsession with his personal theater company that bankrupt him. Every costume used real furs, silks, satins, and gems. The entire cast would wear new costumes for every single performance. I really think the no expense spared on his plays and recitals was what did him in. Costumes are always one of the biggest expenses of any production. This would have been a daily recurring expense.
Wardrobe are very expensive in any time of history
"He doesn't seem the marrying type." OMG, I love the British way of saying things! They can say a whole book with just a few very well chosen words.
I would bet he was the first person in history to have a pair of pants that said juicy on the back
Victorian person: "Lord Paget seems a bit...flamboyant."
He’s “creative” lol
A bit of an ass.
@@tula1433 yes yes. Bohemian, what.
@@tula1433 LOL this remind me of that Italian-guy-explaining-to-mom-that-brother-is-gay from Family Guy
@@carbine090909 yes yes. Quite.
They will admit a woman "had relationships with other women," but do everything possible to avoid confirming the same for the obviously gay men they feature.
do we have documentation of his relations with a man
@lilbeaniebabie2611 I'd suggest you think about that same question for any historical figure you believe to be heterosexual (even though many lgbt people married the opposite sex for social pressures etc...think of Oscar Wilde super gay, but historians could say he was married to a woman, so he must have been "straight/bi") most LGBT figures in history didn't leave some public announcement of their sexual relations. We often find more evidence in surviving written correspondence done by private at the time. Like Lincoln's expressions of affection/love for Joshua Speed and suggestions that they both were marrying women for societal pressures
28:45 I think this is actually my favourite moment in the doc. Seeing the host genuinely caught off guard by an art piece from their childhood is incredible
Woah he looks like frank zappa
Plus he was anticorprate.
I think the lead singer of Queen, Freddy Mercury, was a reincarnations of Victorian Aristocrat's extreme. The photos prove it.
I think you are right
I had the same thought!
He was indian Persian. Please don't whitewash Freddy 😂
@@Memi-cp4yc jesus christ you people are insane.
@@Memi-cp4yc 🙄Neither race, ethnicity, sex nor sexual-preference factor into reincarnation.
The costume with the winged helmet looks like something from the late 60s or early 70s. The 5th Marquis of Anglesey was sort of ahead of his time.
He really was. I wonder how involved he was in the design of the costumes!
"What is the significance of his role?". "Incredible important". Well, that was quite informative😄
About 1:52, is a portrait that looks like Freddy Mercury in his most outrageous outfit.
The kingdom by the sea. Yes it is a beautiful painting indeed.
Absolutely love the way he admired the mural painting! 🥰
Well, at least we will know he will probably be played by Adam Driver in a movie
😂
I’m here for it
Eight horses shot from underneath him--no wonder the horse in the first painting looked furious.
"The sword could be sharper" 🤣
Thank you for the wonderful stories and all the lovely paintings we where able to see here.
Evidently this Victorian aristocrat didn't believe and practice this old saying in English, "Don't go broke by pretending to be rich."
I am charmed. Thank you for creating and sharing.
"I can show you the other end, where the food came out.". "Down into the bowels."
😂😂😂😂😂
I would have loved to have known this guy he just sounds like such a interesting person and you will not be bored that is for sure - hope you watched this Manuel I know you would like it
Some things never change.
Love this channel!!
Thank you for this lovely video.
The blues and greens in The Kingdom by the Sea are AMAZING!
Fascinating thank you.
Fantastic documentaire 👌
Isn’t it weird how we celebrate warriors throughout history? Every slain soldier was brought into this world through the blood, sweat and tears and sometimes life of a woman. Only to be snuffed out in a brief instant in battle. Leaving behind bereft families. Most wars are arrogant, wasteful and waged purely for monetary gain. I’m absolutely convinced if women were in charge there would be no wars. There is NO way we would send our sons and daughters to be killed in battle. There must be a better way forward….
Thank you for a peek into the past, these interesting people and their lives. Absolutely loved this! ❤ Merry Xmas everyone and all the best in the coming year! ❄️☃️🎄🥳
Craciun fericit din Romania
Thank you for using peek/ peak correctly!🧐
@@missg.5940 I actually did pause when I typed it 😉 glad I got it right
If you, in your reading of history, have read about the gothic South you are familiar with families intertwined in other families still living in “the glory days”, women so beautiful that every man desired her and every woman hated her, men who loved their horses more than his wife, parties where drinks, music, and charm mixed together to make a deadly cocktail, and good sense was in short supply, most of the time. If you have read the stories, you know what most of my life was like. Think of a carnival and you are almost there. By the time I was 14 it was too crazy for me so I ran away to the horse show.
To you and yours as well
This guy unfortunately was born too early for instagram, he might have found a way to make money
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing
Thank God for human vanity! (Or don't, depending on your belief system.) Either way, we are truly lucky today that the flamboyant marquis had so many glamorous photos taken of him back then, and that they have not been lost. The costumes and characters he adopted are incredible!
all looks appropriated from other cultures..same as nowadays. Why do you feel lucky? How often do you look at these pics...instagram is riddled with these whyte rich appropriators. Stop being generic (yet ironically thinking you're edgy).
@@Stoney-Jacksman You have no idea how I think; it wouldn't occur to me to try to be "edgy," so I'm not sure how you got that from anything I wrote. As for feeling lucky, I tend to feel that way when fragile, old objects have been preserved.
And of course styles will be adopted, appropriated: he's wearing costumes! These seemed to me to incorporate different styles, with some genuine creativity as well.
People are who we are; it's okay to like different things or to have a different take on the same thing- like a photograph or a costume- without having to fight about it.
Thank you.
I would have thought the home would have been auctioned off to to pay debtors too 🤷♀️
Wafted perfume from the exhaust pipes!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍"was it sustainable? " "of course not" 💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞
I would love to Visit Great Britain. Especially Wales such history and its ability to retain its on identity and rich culture.
The beautiful painting reminds me of Lovecraft's ports of the Dream quest cycle. The absolute dreamlike quality, the colors, the ancient and mystical buildings and the endless mystic seas of fear and wonder..this is the Port of Celephais we're only dreamers go. This was being painted as HPL wrote..and Cthulhu dreamed his thoughts into the minds of artists...
Great video.
Poor war horses😢
The most wonderful thing about this video is the Rex Whistler's painting.....
Amazing
Guy looks like a flashy version of a rockstar dressed in glam
Please could you find the palace where the Addington family lived one time
See “Portrait of a Marriage” for a great retelling of the story of Vita and Harold’s marriage.
Those paintings are full of love but maybe more obsession
I would love to take in the Whistler mural in person.
He really does resemble Freddie Mercury.
28:35 - wow, tht thing is so cliche and kitschy, I almost thought it was done by Thomas Kinkade...
So very interesting to find out about some of the aristocrats of Britain. In the Wilds of Wales, there lived people who were wild at heart. The great wealth is astounding. Millions and millions of pounds. Once the actor Marquiss inherited, he was let loose with all of it. He didn't gamble it away fortunately and was able to sell the personal and real property to pay his debts. A good father and mother teach their children the value of money and the responsibility they will have to take care of their tenants and those who work for them as well as provide for future generations. You can have a true passion without bankrupting your family. The actor probably did not have the aptitude for all that boring stuff. But he died in a very luxurious place. The excesses and lifestyle killed him.
Tunnels for food delivery? How about smugglers, I rather think.
No doubt it could have been used for multiple ways - including smuggling people and lovers in and out. But it was mainly for the food and goods to be easily brought up to the house from the river, look at how the water levels can differ - look at the stones of the docks at the river. While also keeping the landscape the way they wanted it. Wales didn't have alcohol ban's, smuggle what?
Ha. Why do you think only one end is still open?? I guarantee that the other end was closed up purposely afterwards.
I really like the Reverend. He looks like such an interesting man. And oooh. I feel like that painting is haunted, for sure. Rex Whistler's mural, I mean.
I wonder what scents were those perfumes that he uses for the exhaust pipes!
When are these stories ever going to be told as "man oversees thousands of deaths of poor people and then hordes resources while other poor people starve and freeze to death?" You're giving them a pass because they had nice art and it's disgusting.
When Ghost Hunters the tv show came to England and Ireland,they investigated the Hell Fire Caves.According to their guide,they were cut under the direction of Sir Francis Dashwood,who was providing work for the locals who were going through hard times.
Your pretentious moralising is unwanted😒
What are you talking about they were fighting Napoleon.
Rockstar indeed.
i'm surprised vita's records weren't destroyed by her family after her death. i wonder how many stories of other people ended up being lost. ah well at least her adventures made it to the present 🙂
That reminds me of the Washington Monument in DC.
He liked to smoke a bit of opium. Lol
I said, uh oh, drugs! Mum wouldn't have approved. Lol
he_went_all_the_way
He seems so modern like a Seventies Glamrock Superstar.
Damn nice microphone on that boat. What model is that?
Way ahead his era!
Vita, reminds me of the actress from flea bag.
This cat looks like Dennis DeYoung circa 1978.
All of the glittering jewels on the 5th Marquis' costumes were real, because he had no idea about rhinestones.
I've made costumes encrusted in thousands of rhinestones. High-quality rhinestones can sparkle just as brightly as real jewels, at about 1% of the cost.
When was the building built? Who was the painter of that enormous military painting?
Earliest known residents were in 1470 - you clearly have access to the internet / online library. Search for Plas Newydd House, maybe you can find the answer to your second question this way.
They fancy knickers not the knickers of some mill worker..
Did the flambouyant Paget ever meet Marcel Proust?
"Roommate" or "close friend" = GAY lover
13:10 brandon buckingham in time my dudes
Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't the Reverend ask or with his own people built a say lighthouse to stop the shipwrecks, or idk pass the news that that area of the coast was kinda dangerous ?
Really? Interrupting for a plug? Cheap shot.
Oh!! Oh, dear. Vita is......Violet Keppel's Vita!! Oh, my. Wheww. This is the saddest thing.
Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey is my 17th Cousin once removed.🤴 Unfortunately, RUclips won't let me share the link of the Genealogy site where my Lineage appears that relates me to Him.😏
2:42 Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is my 14th Cousin four times removed.
OMG! Is that Alan Titchmarch?? Not sure about the spelling. I haven't seen him in many years.
You guessed it
@@cedricliggins7528 I remember watching his gardening show with Charlie so many years ago. Love that man!
"The Dancing Marquess"
I bet he was hell between the sheets!
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True, it just makes it so much more "real" and also make you realise that the people from "then" were just like us - also had their fun and dreams and problems - I always tend to think of them as these boring uptight people that never had any fun but they were not
The opening of this video, with the guy yelling from a boat, was enough to make me click on something else.
"Non-consummation" in his marriage = GAY
What is the man’s name on this episode?
The Queen consort Camilla is a grandniece of Violet Keppel.
Was Toppy a Top though?
Plas Ne wydd not " Niw"
What...
On..
Earth?!?!
that naked portrait has abnormal body proportions (like the arms are excessively long and bend strangely) so it is more likely a work from the imagination of the artist than from a posing by the woman.
By their fruits you shall know them
It's me, I am him, he is we 😄
I can't get over the way people talk about women having affairs with women. I honest to God would not have a clue what to do with a woman lol!
Thanks awfully for posting this video. It's rare to see quality gay history this entertaining. :o)
Lol, “gay history” is a rich failson destroying his families wealth.
Don't you find it interesting that this "quality gay" history though, this "quality documentary" never states that he was a homosexual,probably because like good "quality history"there is no "concrete" evidence of that being the case? He may have been a pedophile or asexual. It simply isn't known--at least not by these historians who don't want to defamed this man or slander him which would lead to a lawsuit,so why bring woke/leftist postmodern CRT so-called truths here?
I used to like it; Wilde, Houseman, etc and hearing how they secretly dealt with it but now after the left has crammed this stuff down our throats for yrs relentlessly, I hate hearing about it.
@@joejones9520 yeah me too. The gays in the West have gone nuts because they don't have real problems unlike us gays in developing countries.
I LOVE SUSANNA LIPSCOMB!
Any history you can google about To Plas Noredd doesnt tell the story you just told
Geez ..so many commercials! It's very annoying and takes away from this video. I'm out...on to another one.
Prince Andrew?
"Not the marrying type" = GAY
Brandon Buckingham time traveled and got up to sumn
I appreciate the 5th marquis more than the first guy. I prefer beauty and opulence over war any day. War is a total waste of money
Why does he have to be "flamboyant? "
Because it fits the description... ?