Agree, with every outdoor shot my eye was drawn to that ill fitting block next to such a stately design, the architects responsible could've been more sympathetic.
Modernist architecture is a cancer to the city tasteless and vile! I suspect in 30 years we’ll view it the same as we now view the concrete council flats of the 60s
I spent a happy few months working in this house back in the late '80's as an apprentice electrician. It had a full electrical/mechanical refit and there's a lot more that hasn't been shown. Diana, Princess of Wales visited as the project neared completion.
I remember the publicity surrounding Diana’s visit. Must have been odd to think it was once her family home, on the other hand she lived in a palace herself!
Princess Dianna and her brother of corse. Was distance cousin of P rince William.. Duchess.Kate.is as well I wonder.if the late Princess Dianna's brother lives at Spencer House.,? Is he then .the Earl? I am from the U.S. and there are certain areas of the lives of the royals that we are not familiar. This is certainly quite a magnificent estate. Mixed with mythic thought. But makes it more interesting. Just so gorgeous. Thank you.
Too many Americans DO NOT appreciate heritage. They prefer to destroy our past. To believe in your foundation, one must be informed, with a sense of class. Our country has become enthralled with vulgarity, & foul language. The European influences gone.
Alice, after watching several of your delightful videos I am compelled to comment in thanks for your young, fresh, amusing and very informative approach to architectural tours that, as we know, can be dry and boring. You are a welcome breath of fresh air! Many thanks and please do continue to make many more.
What is brilliant is that the expertise exists to undertake such a restoration - something that shouldn’t be taken for granted, because some of these skills are so so so complex and in low demand in the modern era. The documentary on the restoration of Windsor Chapel (on RUclips) actually films some of the techniques craftsmen have preserved.
I don't understand the presenter's attitude. If everything the aristocrats said, did, and thought was stupid and ridiculous then why are we touring this house and why is it the subject of this TV program? A more respectful treatment is needed. Whoever wrote this is conflicted to the point of absurdity.
@@fareshajjar1208She tries to be playful. One of the reasons to build the house, was to play. The political satire statue and the ballroom illustrate these things.
@@dragonmartijn She's not playful in the least. She is afraid of being seen as elitist and so she actually becomes a low rent snob. "This whole thing is stupid and excessive, but it's here so lets look at it." Would have been enjoyable tour with a decent presenter.
@@fareshajjar1208 Probably you are right. English isn’t my mother tongue, probably it is yours, that way you are able to hear things better in context.
Let me first say the hostess of the show did a magnificent job. Very well informed and up-to-date information. The home itself is beautiful the architecture the paintings the statues very beautiful thank you for sharing this home with us. From your friend and fan in America.
Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
I did a tour of Spencer House on a holiday to the UK in 2018. Well worth it. I also managed to do a tour of Althorp a week or so later. Also well worth a visit.
Thank you so much! When I tried to tour the home in April 2022, I was met at the door by a friendly, departing artisan workman informing me the basement was being restored and so the house would be closed for some time. 😥😥😥
In English law a commoner is anyone without a Royal title or a peerage. Although Diana was the daughter of an earl and held the courtesy title of Lady she was legally a commoner
Hidden Gem in London for sure. Had the chance to Visit 2014 from Canada. Exquisite place, feels more Grand then Althorpe which we also were fortunate enough to visit same trip. Great Vlog here!
A great narrative and an amazing view of this house. It is exquisitely beautiful, a true pleasure to see the restoration of its majestic grandeur. Thank you!
It’s the other way round, Spencer family can be traced back to Tudors, whilst ‘Windsors’, formerly Battenbergs have to look to Europe to trace their ancestry.
@@jeanmyers1787 Oh fie, fie, George 1 was direct cousin of Queen Anne who died childless, they shared Stuart lineage from Mary Queen of Scots, cousin of Elizabeth 1 (Tudor) and thru her with Welsh Princes going back to Owen Glendwyr to 12 Century when the Spencers were a sheep farming family
Beautiful that its preserved and saved. Absolute shame that the devonshire house was torn down. I can only imagine all the wonderful parties Georgiana threw during her time in london. Now why they would allow that ugly building next door is beyond me. To me it devalues the historical context by trapping such a wonderful artifact in an ugly modern box. For the record i am antimodern architecture i think its ugly and has no imagination.
Most of the aristocratic houses were demolished after the First World War. No one really lived - or even wanted to live - like that any longer. They had been built in residential areas in a different age and the sales value of the land was too tempting while the costs of retaining the country stately home too overwhelming.
The original house on that site, dating from around 1690, was destroyed during the blitz and was replaced in 1959 by this block of flats, designed by Denys Lasdun and Partners.
I just LOVE the Hercules sculpture of Pitt, North and Fox!! Wish I could get a replica of it! Just watched a rerun of "Prince Regent" in which all these rogues figured prominently.
Wow! Love this. Wish it was a full tour of the house, is there a full video of the house? The painting the Spencer women, Georgina and her mother are those original to the house and did any of the items removed daring WWII, brought back or are they still at Althorp?
Beautiful house and gardens. However I think the modern building next door needs to be disguised somehow, as it detracts greatly from the Spencer mansion.
One of the misconceptions about Diana Spencer is that she was some poor innocent who had no concept of what life with the futures king of England would be like and yet this was her city house. Come on, she was part of the VERY elite of English society and she knew what was up. She wanted the advanta but never the challenges that went with the job!
Lady Diana Spencer was 10x more aristocratic, more blue blooded, than all of those inept Germans playing the rotating roles of king and queen! It was Charles who married up, not Lady Diana---- just to be crystal clear! And it is the youngest son who inherited nothing of her polish and pizzazz, most likely due to 900 years of inbreeding: it weakens the DNA, eventually! Look who he married and has been paying for it ever since!
Explain then why the press showed her as a humble pre-school teacher and why she wasn't ready for the pressures of the job. There is a missing piece for us non royal followeres
@@tomrichter244 Diana was seen as very shy and very kind. So 'Shy Di' became her nickname! And she worked as a nanny for a London family, hardly a job for someone wanting to be center stage, or who was already hard boiled! But being the shy daughter of an aristocrat is hardly comparable to knowing all about the juggernaut that is the royal family. So there is nothing missing. She was a sheltered 19 year old when she married and became a very, very hounded but sophisticated woman a few years later!
Much of it was. And copies were patterned after what was removed for the restoration. My old pile was constructed in the 1800's and there is a very good reason it has stood up to be in near perfect condition and never messed with. Trim was nailed in place with 4 inch long, heavy duty nails. And lots of them!!! While not impossible to take the trim off for some work, it was so slow, so expensive to do this work, and it caused damage to the plaster walls and ceilings that I came up with other methods of doing the work. I am not Lord Rothschild: I haven't billions to indulge my whims. But in some initial attempts to do the work proper, some things ended up getting damaged. So it was a conundrum as to how to do things properly and then finding tradesmen who could then do what they said they could do! NOT EASY! THE neighbor across the street had a new capital installed on top of a pillar near his front door that had eroded from rain water. He found someone who showed up one day and recarved the new block of limestone with a dentist's high speed drill. Is that going too far? Is that possible for everyone? And how do you find workers like that and who are available to work anytime soon? I found an Irish plasterer to do the major ceilings on the 1st floor. Until------ he told me he had a 3 year, or more wait----- IF he didn't retire before then! But his work was top notch! I ended up having the room ceilings replastered over canvas. There were limits as to time, money and how far I wanted to take things. I only wanted things to how it was, not to make it more grand! Except for the ceiling plaster ornamentation. What was originally put in was a bit skimpy and I wanted a slightly more lux look, but not go way over board with it. At any rate, once you remove things, once you deconstruct a house it doesn't always go back together so seamlessly! It can be a real can of worms once you start.
commoner word has shifted. back then if you aren't of royal blood you are a commoner, this is usually comment upon if they married a monarch, they would say he married a commoner
The Spencers were glorified sheep farmers. "Glorified" by female members of the family being Royal Mistresses of Charles II and giving birth to his bastards. Diana was descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham. Queen Camilla shares this same lineage, for those who love to put Diana on a pedestal, while looking down their noses at Queen Camilla.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Jacob Rothschild for saving the house. What a loss it would have been if it had ended up demolished and replaced by a monstrosity like Bridgewater House.
I am so glad the Rothschild’s got the house, they have the resources to do it right. Beautiful house. I am related the the Spencer’s from this time, but somehow we wound up in Texas. That modern building is horrible, couldn’t they have tried to make it esthetically fit in?
16:59 “This involved replicating the original furniture and fittings which had been moved to Althorp during the war.” Wasn’t the point of moving those to Althorp safekeeping so they could be moved back after the war? Why were they replicated?
@@peterfordyce7003 The only thing that occurs to me is that the items moved to Althorp _were_ moved back after the war as planned and these were replicated in other parts of the house where the furniture or furnishings had been damaged or destroyed. But the writing is very unclear.
@@sunshine2528 So the “Althorp items”-or at least some of them-having been saved during the war, might have been sold off to museums and later replicated? That’s as good a theory as any.
@@jeff__w Not everyone has prospered through the years. I remember reading that the Spensers were hard up. They kept the country home but it’s expensive to run those big estates.
Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
I can't believe that I've walked past that building hundreds of times and not realised it was called Spencer House. Am I correct in saying it's next door to the home of William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, first passenger to be killed as a result of falling under a railway locomotive?
Last part of my research spencer house is historic setting of eight rooms used as offices that provides unique setting where events and weddings can be held . Some of spencer family members is unknown kitty father of princess Diana . Diana family moved out of park house in 1975 in 1983 queen gave house to charity so they could open. Center provided respite care for people with disabilities. Spencer houses located In Northampton shire England about 13000 acres civil parish grated listed stately home its burial place parish church st Mary virgin church great Brighton including village of north creake Norfolk. No one lived at spencer house Charles brother of Diana ninth earl of spencer lived these day last family members residence in stately London home moved out in 1926 thank you for giving chance to read learn new information explore places unknown to us improve our English language as well we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students I wish for your channel more success and progress stay safe blessed good luck to you your family friends.
I read once that sometime in history the Churchills had no male heir. They drew from the female line and became the Spencer-Churchill like in Prime Minister Sir Winston Spencer- Churchill. One little girl in the wedding party of Diana Spencer and Prince Charles was a Churchill.
A disgrace that the planners allowed that hideous building next-door. I'm not anti-modern architecture, but there are places that it does not belong.
Agreed!
It’s barely noticeable in person.
Agree, with every outdoor shot my eye was drawn to that ill fitting block next to such a stately design, the architects responsible could've been more sympathetic.
Modernist architecture is a cancer to the city tasteless and vile! I suspect in 30 years we’ll view it the same as we now view the concrete council flats of the 60s
It's definitely incongruous.
I spent a happy few months working in this house back in the late '80's as an apprentice electrician. It had a full electrical/mechanical refit and there's a lot more that hasn't been shown. Diana, Princess of Wales visited as the project neared completion.
that must have been awesome.....lucky you!!
Fantastic, I didn't know she was in the trade. Inspiration woman.
@@meme4one your reply makes no sense
I remember the publicity surrounding Diana’s visit. Must have been odd to think it was once her family home, on the other hand she lived in a palace herself!
Princess Dianna and her brother of corse. Was distance cousin of P rince William.. Duchess.Kate.is as well I wonder.if the late Princess Dianna's brother lives at Spencer House.,? Is he then .the Earl? I am from the U.S. and there are certain areas of the lives of the royals that we are not familiar. This is certainly quite a magnificent estate. Mixed with mythic thought. But makes it more interesting. Just so gorgeous. Thank you.
Spencer House is the only London aristocratic townhouse still owned by the original family. All the others have been sold and / or demolished.
Just as well.
@ed murks ya mum
Dudley house
@@annonymously331 The Dudleys are extinct thanks to the Earl of Leicester
@@ghsense2626 it's kinda funny how you said it. 😂
I can't imagine as an American, having a home like this. All the lovely treasures at every corner passed down through the centuries. Stunning!
I'm sure you can't.
Plus-- Althorpe in Northamptonshire... Been to both .... this was the Spencer City Home. Been to both .... Stunning
Lots of dust
Too many Americans DO NOT appreciate heritage. They prefer to destroy our past.
To believe in your foundation, one must be informed, with a sense of class.
Our country has become enthralled with vulgarity, & foul language.
The European influences gone.
i wouldn't brag
Here's something refreshing.. Princess Diana and her family story in the history of the world 🌎
I've often wondered what this gaffe looked like inside.. I had no idea that some of the restoration work was so recent. Nice one Alice! 👍
Alice, after watching several of your delightful videos I am compelled to comment in thanks for your young, fresh, amusing and very informative approach to architectural tours that, as we know, can be dry and boring. You are a welcome breath of fresh air! Many thanks and please do continue to make many more.
…what he said.
What is brilliant is that the expertise exists to undertake such a restoration - something that shouldn’t be taken for granted, because some of these skills are so so so complex and in low demand in the modern era. The documentary on the restoration of Windsor Chapel (on RUclips) actually films some of the techniques craftsmen have preserved.
I don't understand the presenter's attitude. If everything the aristocrats said, did, and thought was stupid and ridiculous then why are we touring this house and why is it the subject of this TV program? A more respectful treatment is needed. Whoever wrote this is conflicted to the point of absurdity.
@@fareshajjar1208She tries to be playful. One of the reasons to build the house, was to play. The political satire statue and the ballroom illustrate these things.
@@dragonmartijn She's not playful in the least. She is afraid of being seen as elitist and so she actually becomes a low rent snob. "This whole thing is stupid and excessive, but it's here so lets look at it." Would have been enjoyable tour with a decent presenter.
@@fareshajjar1208 Probably you are right. English isn’t my mother tongue, probably it is yours, that way you are able to hear things better in context.
Absolutely breathtaking! A true masterpiece of architecture! Absolutely magnificent views! Also fabulous video! Congratulations in every possible way!
My first time to see a video about Spencer's, their house and talk about history of family.
The house (origin or restored) is magnificent.
What a beautiful townhouse, so glad it was saved!
Let me first say the hostess of the show did a magnificent job. Very well informed and up-to-date information. The home itself is beautiful the architecture the paintings the statues very beautiful thank you for sharing this home with us. From your friend and fan in America.
She's absolutely engaging.
Great video.
I agree!
Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
Agreed...add humour as well. She got be with the downstairs tunnel that led to the garden...whistling going with the wheel barrow...lol
Wonderful that the familty still look after it for generations to come. Beautiful place thnx for the video well executed.
What a lovely home. The restoration work is incredible!
What a wonderful visit to this magnificent house. Thank you so much for the tour.
A wonderful and entertaining tour of a classic building, thank you.
From its façade and its interior as well as their antique furnitures, and the arts are absolutely exquisite.
Her name is Lady Diana Spencer and it will be forever more.🤗 Rest in peace Lady Diana forever more.🌷🌹
thank you for the grand tour of this area keep videos like this going I enjoy history I'm gonna save to watch repeatedly anytime .
High level craftwork to the ceiling. Jewel box rooms.
As a member of The Georgian Group, I really should join a tour of this fantastic house!
I did a tour of Spencer House on a holiday to the UK in 2018. Well worth it. I also managed to do a tour of Althorp a week or so later. Also well worth a visit.
Thank you so much! When I tried to tour the home in April 2022, I was met at the door by a friendly, departing artisan workman informing me the basement was being restored and so the house would be closed for some time. 😥😥😥
Lovely house. How did they get planning permission for that eyesore next door?
Alice Loxton is delightful to watch in history hit tv docs! ♥️
I'm glad you covered this...I had the intimate pleasure of restoring both facades over 2 phases. Beautiful building inside and out.
Thanks so much. Really enjoyed this!
Why commentators always called Princess Diana a commoner always fascinated me.. she was not ever a commoner
Not in the least.
My understanding is that if you are not royal you are a commoner. She obviously has aristocratic background
SPENCERS are more british royal dna than the german windsors
In English law a commoner is anyone without a Royal title or a peerage. Although Diana was the daughter of an earl and held the courtesy title of Lady she was legally a commoner
If you are not born Royal then you are a commoner, Diana was a commoner, so was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Interesting walk-through of a rather unique part of history
Hidden Gem in London for sure. Had the chance to Visit 2014 from Canada. Exquisite place, feels more Grand then Althorpe which we also were fortunate enough to visit same trip. Great Vlog here!
Pity about the concrete and glass aquarium next door. Rather spoils the setting, don't you think?
Stunning and very informative!!!
Very well done . Would have liked to have seen the kitchen, and bedrooms too.
A beautiful piece of architecture . Very pleasing to the eyes.
A great narrative and an amazing view of this house. It is exquisitely beautiful, a true pleasure to see the restoration of its majestic grandeur. Thank you!
It's nice that spencer family still connected to the royal family for years from now, thanks to lady diana spencer
Royal family has nothing to do with it. Its a Spencer family house.
@@rogerfielding1117 I know?
It’s the other way round, Spencer family can be traced back to Tudors, whilst ‘Windsors’, formerly Battenbergs have to look to Europe to trace their ancestry.
@@jeanmyers1787
Oh fie, fie, George 1 was direct cousin of Queen Anne who died childless, they shared Stuart lineage from Mary Queen of Scots, cousin of Elizabeth 1 (Tudor) and thru her with Welsh Princes going back to Owen Glendwyr to 12 Century when the Spencers were a sheep farming family
Such a beautiful home xxx simply amazing xxx thank you for sharing...wonderful!!!xxx
Thank you for your help to know about Spencer House.
This truly the most beautiful home
Beautifully done!
I so loved the way the presenter described everything it kept me engaged....very informative....enjoyed it thank you
“You would think this large bookshelf was original. Actually it’s IKEA.” 😂😂😂🤪
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Was there a few years back and it was hard to believe it was used as an office bldg during the day. I went on a tour with 3 other people.
The company I am working now it’s just next to the house. I never knew the importance of this house😮 until I saw this video
Very interesting! Thank you!!
I so love all the art work. It's so beautiful ❤️
🇬🇧 I would have like to have seen the gardens during the Summer months when the flowers are in bloom.
Beautiful that its preserved and saved. Absolute shame that the devonshire house was torn down. I can only imagine all the wonderful parties Georgiana threw during her time in london. Now why they would allow that ugly building next door is beyond me. To me it devalues the historical context by trapping such a wonderful artifact in an ugly modern box. For the record i am antimodern architecture i think its ugly and has no imagination.
And goodness knows how many people can peer down into the Spencer House garden completely robbing the privacy it was meant to create.
Same as I.
Most of the aristocratic houses were demolished after the First World War. No one really lived - or even wanted to live - like that any longer. They had been built in residential areas in a different age and the sales value of the land was too tempting while the costs of retaining the country stately home too overwhelming.
I agree. Everton new looks prefabricated. No workmanship at all.
The original house on that site, dating from around 1690, was destroyed during the blitz and was replaced in 1959 by this block of flats, designed by Denys Lasdun and Partners.
Magnificent home , great tour, thank you
She is soooo fun!!!!!!! Love her energy!!
Alice Loxton presentation was fun and very informative.
Tfsharing 💜🌌💜
Really interesting, and I love the enthusiasm of the presenter
I just LOVE the Hercules sculpture of Pitt, North and Fox!! Wish I could get a replica of it! Just watched a rerun of "Prince Regent" in which all these rogues figured prominently.
Wow! Love this. Wish it was a full tour of the house, is there a full video of the house? The painting the Spencer women, Georgina and her mother are those original to the house and did any of the items removed daring WWII, brought back or are they still at Althorp?
oh my darling i totally thought the same
Thank you loved this
Fascinating. Thank u
Amazing how intricate the craftsmanship and designs were in these houses!
Beautiful house and gardens. However I think the modern building next door needs to be disguised somehow, as it detracts greatly
from the Spencer mansion.
26 St James's Place (the modern block of flats) is itself, apparently, now Grade II* listed.
Or bulldozed 😂
Love the garden…simplistic and beautiful.
I'm confused because in Spencer they said the house was boarded up? This home is a beautiful work of art, I'm happy to see it!
@@sirshendu2e01 oh I see. Thank you for clearing that up for me!
One of the misconceptions about Diana Spencer is that she was some poor innocent who had no concept of what life with the futures king of England would be like and yet this was her city house. Come on, she was part of the VERY elite of English society and she knew what was up. She wanted the advanta but never the challenges that went with the job!
Anyone that knows anything about the Spencer’s know that they were anything but “poor”. What a common thing to say.
Lady Diana Spencer was 10x more aristocratic, more blue blooded, than all of those inept Germans playing the rotating roles of king and queen!
It was Charles who married up, not Lady Diana---- just to be crystal clear! And it is the youngest son who inherited nothing of her polish and pizzazz, most likely due to 900 years of inbreeding: it weakens the DNA, eventually! Look who he married and has been paying for it ever since!
Explain then why the press showed her as a humble pre-school teacher and why she wasn't ready for the pressures of the job. There is a missing piece for us non royal followeres
@@tomrichter244 Diana was seen as very shy and very kind. So 'Shy Di' became her nickname! And she worked as a nanny for a London family, hardly a job for someone wanting to be center stage, or who was already hard boiled!
But being the shy daughter of an aristocrat is hardly comparable to knowing all about the juggernaut that is the royal family. So there is nothing missing. She was a sheltered 19 year old when she married and became a very, very hounded but sophisticated woman a few years later!
Didn't want any of the challenges that went with the job? You mean an adulterous husband who didn't know what being in love is?
I wonder why the architectural items removed during WWII to Althrop weren’t reinstated when Spencer House was restored?
Much of it was. And copies were patterned after what was removed for the restoration.
My old pile was constructed in the 1800's and there is a very good reason it has stood up to be in near perfect condition and never messed with.
Trim was nailed in place with 4 inch long, heavy duty nails. And lots of them!!! While not impossible to take the trim off for some work, it was so slow, so expensive to do this work, and it caused damage to the plaster walls and ceilings that I came up with other methods of doing the work. I am not Lord Rothschild: I haven't billions to indulge my whims. But in some initial attempts to do the work proper, some things ended up getting damaged. So it was a conundrum as to how to do things properly and then finding tradesmen who could then do what they said they could do! NOT EASY!
THE neighbor across the street had a new capital installed on top of a pillar near his front door that had eroded from rain water. He found someone who showed up one day and recarved the new block of limestone with a dentist's high speed drill. Is that going too far? Is that possible for everyone? And how do you find workers like that and who are available to work anytime soon?
I found an Irish plasterer to do the major ceilings on the 1st floor. Until------ he told me he had a 3 year, or more wait----- IF he didn't retire before then!
But his work was top notch! I ended up having the room ceilings replastered over canvas. There were limits as to time, money and how far I wanted to take things. I only wanted things to how it was, not to make it more grand! Except for the ceiling plaster ornamentation. What was originally put in was a bit skimpy and I wanted a slightly more lux look, but not go way over board with it.
At any rate, once you remove things, once you deconstruct a house it doesn't always go back together so seamlessly!
It can be a real can of worms once you start.
Always unique channel pure information
Lovely little tour. Thank you!
Miniature stately house she says. Well, I wish my house was as small as that.
Very interesting! Thanks!
That was a wonderful video
Love it when people refer to Diana as a "commoner."
commoner word has shifted. back then if you aren't of royal blood you are a commoner, this is usually comment upon if they married a monarch, they would say he married a commoner
By law she was
@@pedanticradiator1491isn’t she an aristocrat since her father was an Earl?
@Amal M not in law. In law only people who hold Royal titles or peerages are actually aristocrats. Her title of "Lady" was by courtesy
@@AmeliaEarharrtan aristocrat is less than a Royal
I would love to have seen what London looked like before the blitz.
Victorian Gothic.
I assume you mean the nice end and not the squalor of the east end slums
It seems that this west side must have been hard hit; the house in which the Queen was born was also leveled during the war.
Lovely to see what the toil of the working man was spent on... Nice it made a few people happy.
We want 1080p high-definition!
Why this family is so blessed
The Spencers were glorified sheep farmers. "Glorified" by female members of the family being Royal Mistresses of Charles II and giving birth to his bastards. Diana was descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of her great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham.
Queen Camilla shares this same lineage, for those who love to put Diana on a pedestal, while looking down their noses at Queen Camilla.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Jacob Rothschild for saving the house. What a loss it would have been if it had ended up demolished and replaced by a monstrosity like Bridgewater House.
Bridgwater house is still standing
@@adikrisb Sorry - I meant the block of flats to the north in St James's Place.
I am so glad the Rothschild’s got the house, they have the resources to do it right. Beautiful house. I am related the the Spencer’s from this time, but somehow we wound up in Texas. That modern building is horrible, couldn’t they have tried to make it esthetically fit in?
Sure, your mothers second cousins friend was the sister of their postman, wasnt she?
Money talks
Meanwhile my ancestors toiled underground from childhood to their 30s when they were usually worked to death by that time.
Mine too....look up Pit Lane.....
16:59 “This involved replicating the original furniture and fittings which had been moved to Althorp during the war.”
Wasn’t the point of moving those to Althorp safekeeping so they could be moved back after the war? Why were they replicated?
Yeah, I was wondering that as well. The Spencer house website doesnt seem to go into any more detail either
@@peterfordyce7003 The only thing that occurs to me is that the items moved to Althorp _were_ moved back after the war as planned and these were replicated in other parts of the house where the furniture or furnishings had been damaged or destroyed. But the writing is very unclear.
Because many of the original fixtures were said to be in museums, I surmise the Spencer family sold them.
@@sunshine2528 So the “Althorp items”-or at least some of them-having been saved during the war, might have been sold off to museums and later replicated? That’s as good a theory as any.
@@jeff__w
Not everyone has prospered through the years. I remember reading that the Spensers were hard up. They kept the country home but it’s expensive to run those big estates.
What a beautiful house. I hope that someone lives in it? It would be such a shame if it is unused.
The house is great, but Alice Loxton is my new fave, she's hilarious and lovely!
漂亮的美丽建筑！😍😍😍👍👍👍
Thanks Alice,
your presentation is very good, made it so interesting👍👍👌
Pastor please pray for the release of curses and magic. Please pray to facilitate the brain and be given intelligence. Please pray to get rid of the disease in the body. Please pray for smooth finances and be given wealth.
Hideous modern building bang next to it! Ugh!!
Demolish it! Cast it into the fire!
Yeah, that thing is fugly
Fo-Mo is an anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere. (7:44)
Perhaps she meant TMI? Meaning Too Much Information.
My favorite history hostess! ❤ Another great your full of whimsy and facts. 😊 Thank you very much!
Absolutely beautiful
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I love your videos ❤️
If you like this you'll love "Secrets of Althorp". 🙂
Muy interesante reportaje sobre la casa londinense de la familia Spencer. La restauración, perfecta.
Nice air guitar licks. 🤙🏼
Your presentation, while quite informative, is also a bit humorous and most enjoyable. I look forward to viewing more of your work!
Charming tour.
Beautiful home
More Alice!!! More Alice!!!
I can't believe that I've walked past that building hundreds of times and not realised it was called Spencer House. Am I correct in saying it's next door to the home of William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, first passenger to be killed as a result of falling under a railway locomotive?
Last part of my research spencer house is historic setting of eight rooms used as offices that provides unique setting where events and weddings can be held . Some of spencer family members is unknown kitty father of princess Diana . Diana family moved out of park house in 1975 in 1983 queen gave house to charity so they could open. Center provided respite care for people with disabilities. Spencer houses located In Northampton shire England about 13000 acres civil parish grated listed stately home its burial place parish church st Mary virgin church great Brighton including village of north creake Norfolk. No one lived at spencer house Charles brother of Diana ninth earl of spencer lived these day last family members residence in stately London home moved out in 1926 thank you for giving chance to read learn new information explore places unknown to us improve our English language as well we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students I wish for your channel more success and progress stay safe blessed good luck to you your family friends.
Gorgeous
Excellent video, great narrator !!!!!!☺🇬🇧
Incredible!
Such a beautiful home 😊
Alice you are indeed a amazing historian, I ever so much enjoyed this video thanks ever so much for doing this.
I see no reason to show that horrible monstrous building before that beautiful Spencer home .
Is there a family connection between Marlborough House and Spencer House ?
Yes. Sarah Churchill is the common thread.
I read once that sometime in history the Churchills had no male heir. They drew from the female line and became the Spencer-Churchill like in Prime Minister Sir Winston Spencer- Churchill. One little girl in the wedding party of Diana Spencer and Prince Charles was a Churchill.