1990s Interview with the Duke of Westminster
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Colour interview footage with sound from the 1990s featuring the Duke of Westminster discussing the numerous activities and obligations of his position as Patron to the many charities he works with including the Royal National Institute of Blind people (R.N.I.B.). - Zábava
He was actually a really lovely man
He was a Good Man
He seems to have been unusually diligent in community/ public service and charity
Decent chap - may he rest in peace.
He also served for decades in the Territorials
Duke seemed to be very sensible and eloquent 😮😢 i want see his other interviews
He wasnt. He was thick as a brick.
@@admiralbenbow5083Really 😂😂 someone's jealous
He was an upper class toff.
@@Tezzmeuster Of what? A man with one O`level ?
@@admiralbenbow5083 All that 'philanthropy'... total scammers.
I met him in 2008/2009 @ 11 Downing Street when Alistair Darling was the chancellor a few of us were invited to No. 11 and he was mingling with us after the ceremony. A very short man - very polite and friendly, though and was very interested in what I was saying; so I didn't really get to ask much of him. I didn't realise who he was until we finished chatting someone told me he was the wealthiest landowner in London; or something along those lines. Turns out he had a lot of the secret MOD communication cables and exchanges running under the basements of some of his properties that's how trusted he was. I think his son took over his portfolio, now.
One of the curious elements of being born into incredible wealth is that it either makes you or utterly breaks you. I’ve known people from both sides of that equation- a friend whose father left him over £300 million and it turned him into a paranoid, selfish, self-obsessed prat. I barely speak to him any more- a guy who watched a good fiend of ours almost driven to suicide by a divorce settlement yet didn’t lift a finger to help him. The other person is a chap I’ve known since I was a student, his father was an earl and one of the wealthiest landowners in Britain. He’s a gentleman to the core. He’s given away tens of millions of pounds over the past twenty years and always with the caveat that he never be named with the donations. He’s a devout Christian and feels the money is a colossal burden. I think money is very much like alcohol- it accentuates whatever you already are; if you have no moral core then it’ll be bloody obvious when you suddenly have two or three hundred million in the bank.
fantastic man. He came to my school to give D of E awards and he said he wanted to meet all the girls and talk to them . He was interested in their work. No fuss just a genuine fellow who we all loved .He will be sorely missed
He was a great man, very humble and approachable
I bet he did... any of them ever go missing?
@@helenwalker2986 What a weird and unpleasant comment.
@@suea7387 Id rather be wierd and unpleasant than someone who blindly gives respect to an elite child trafficking cartel.. cheers... it used to be a mark of morality... now its 'weird and unplesant'... so sorry to be an unrelenting irritant to you... I am the SALT... as the bible instructs... You are the sugar... ; )
Down to earth, very admirable, money is a blessing but you don't have to be boorish if you have lots of it
What a great man. This man was so authentic.
Heavy smoking had the last word and Gerald Grosvenor died of lung cancer :( . Interesting man who, with his wife, refused to send his children to boarding school where he suffered hell.
Why was he bullid at school, I was,.and.still. am, n.am ,59, hmm,
This guy’s wealth stretches back through the generations to the 1000’s. (ie: 1021 years ago 😵💫)
He speaks so clearly that the English subtitles, usually surreal, corresponds to what he is actually saying.
+Beirut27 All the better to order hookers down dodgy Transatlantic telephone lines :)
If he did which his lawyers denied, threatening to sue because on the alleged night he was somewhere else.
When do obsecenely rich married guys caught with their pants down not send lawyers to deny everything and threaten everyone?
But when witnesses will swear that they were with them with their pants on, at the time of their alleged use of a prostitute, people who still accuse them can and will be sued for defamation. Just saying...
+Beirut27 I wonder whose hourly rate was higher, the prostitutes, the lawyers or the "witnesses"...
Great man, he will be missed.
Did ya no him, like a what,, he seens rate enoufe, don he, bless him,
The new young Duke is very handsome as well!
I love his eyebrows 😍 It gave him a lot of personality to his face.
I suppose messing about with one's eyebrows is unmanly, although shaving one's chin every day is fine. Sadly for me I've never been able to grow bushy eyebrows, but am OK in the beard department.
I shared a flat with 2 nieces of his. Same eyebrows.
*There's Nothing Beyond the wit of Man😊
A great humble man and very approachable
May you please REST IN PEACE = requiscant inipace Le Duc De Westminster - your enormous hard work has sown the seeds into tomorrow and beyonds
Very clear speaker
As a member of the Wrexham tropical fish society I’m outraged!
I like the ducal coronet atop the ducal throne. This man has no time for fools, seemed like a very serious person. His smiles transformed to serious expression instantly, he was not amused by the dumb blonde interviewer - the same trick the BBC tried on Trump. He was there just for the business of publicising the fund-raising task for RNIB, a laudable thing. Certainly had the gift of the gab.
Good dude,,with great kids
A very interesting interview. I was, however, amazed to hear him say "pacifically" three times when clearly the relevant word was "specifically". Its most surprising to hear this kind of mistake from one who is so well educated and speaks so fluently and eloquently.
Nobodys any bodie, realy, im alow life,.ahh, studie, psalm, 39,'psalm' 90, ,quiet interestin, its money, that causes class, war,,.well ye, teck all lollie from queen, she,d.be.like.me a lowlife,, ahhh, dya like that one,
He wasnt well educated. He had one O level.
It's so amazing to find who my family is & to be able to find more on CZcams
Non il duca, ma l uomo che c'è dietro è davvero intelligente e molto affascinamte 🎼🌈🎼
A lovely interview . Saw him several time in his Range Rover GG1 .
Shame his son can't use it! HG1 is boring, no reference to racehorse ownership.
I've just found out. May he rest in peace.
A forty-year-old GCG was steaming hot
He financed the entire new Liverpool city centre. Wealthy but generous
I think that was a business venture, not a donation.
Interesting and intuitive man. An attractive but unusual face. Sleepy beautiful eyes. The Duke was an unassuming and shy person so it took effort for him to assume the Duke of Westminster's many duties and obligations. Appreciate his aristocracy articulation. One of the few UK accents easily understood. Unfortunately in this interview, the Duke was more intelligent than the interviewer. Difficult sparing with her PC carping and redundant questions. The interviewer even insinuated it was presumptuous of the Duke to use private charities to usurp the prerogative rights "responsibility" of centralized government to control and allocate the people's money.
Most people are more intelligent than interviewers
BBC don't understand the concept of "charity", for them it's an obscenity as big government should be responsible for everything, not our fellow citizens giving of their own free-will.
in his later interviews he sounds consdierably less posh
She sounds like Joanna Lumley and he sounds like David Niven.
I never noticed that until you said it.
Hugh Grosvenor should accept interviews
Terribly sad that he died early..he sounds wonderful and inconceivable why his death could not have been evaded..
I would have loved to have waxed and trimmed his eyebrows
Caterpillars for sure
No, he doesn’t have a vane microbe in his body. Such a naturally attractive man
@@bg588 Come on, that floppy hair took some doing in front of a mirror, must have been something holding it up from a spray can. But nothing wrong with a modicum of vanity.
Smart, eloquent, articulate, aristocrat (23/7/23 1:40am)
Is this Mr. Grosvenor? His son just got married, 34 yrs after this interview? Hope his son sounds so bright and eloquent.
Taking the time period into consideration, I can't help but think he's being guarded.
Iam not a native English speaker may i ask u about his account... what kind of British accent its .... so lovely and appealing to ears❤😊
It’s called “Received Pronunciation” also called “RP”. It’s the same accent that was used on all BBC News channels until about twenty years ago. It’s still very common among the British upper-class and in British academia.
How very eloquent he was for a man with only one O level
2 O levels english and history
The interviewer sounds like Selena Scott...
What's got more hair? The eyebrows or the combover?
he was unhappy at the end
At this time he was going at it hard
Selina Scott was considered to be an above average interviewer in her day. This is the second I’ve seen and heard, and both are quite dreadful. When she co chaired the newly televised Mann Booker prize she admitted to not reading any of the short list and then asked the judges table “ so, who do you think will win”. 45 minutes before the reveal. So to ask a patron in the first few seconds “will you be making up the short fall if you don’t make the full £10.000000
Donald trump had a bit of a spat with her
'Makes me proud to be British!'
The topic is incredibly tedious, boring, outdated, and of no interest to me. However, it was a great pleasure to listen to him
We are lucky to be fully sighted, reading these comments. If you have the misfortune to go blind one day, you will be grateful, and it won't seem so boring.
For me too it was pleasure to discover this man 😊
真有钱啊…
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Who is the interviewer?
Selena Scott(?)
Yes that's what I thought. Selena Scott.
job-shy
Superior eyebrows
I don’t understand why the British love wealthy ppl so much. So downtown abbey like
He wasn’t loved for his money; he was loved because he used his life to support dozens of charities for over fifty years. He had the option to do absolutely nothing and yet he used his life AND money to promote and support work for the blind, and a dozen other causes. He was a kind, hardworking, decent guy. Are you?
Like all his kind the real charity is themselves , although its well documented he's donated £1000 to hookers to help keep them gainfully employed...
well said.
Well documented yes but based on very flimsy 'evidence. Some of those girls were paid by the News of The World to tell them what they 'wanted to hear'. Or should I say, they were paid to say things that fitted with the NOTW's narrative.
Ha ha ha , ‘visually handicapped’,!!!!🥴Does he realise what he said.
What's wrong with 'handicapped'? these words come and go as fashions. Used to be "disabled", then "disadvantaged", replaced by "impaired", that will go out of fashion too, as a new euphemism is discovered to continue the pretence that blindness doesn't exist. All these words were coined with the very best of intentions, to help blind people. They were never ever derogatory terms that later generations suppose.
Jesus Christ is coming to judge you
Monobrow I'm guessing werewolve. C'mon the royals are vampires theres a connection somewhere.
He was not royal.
So all the people who have a monobrow are werewolves? Lol no, it's just a gene that causes that and many people have them.
Not with his short life, surely
Rude and simpleton comments to be sure... 🙄
Not a bad interview, although as a visually impaired person I find his use of the term 'handicapped' to be nothing short of disgusting
Different times.
+Jack Black (Jackblack1313) please watch your language
+Jack Black (Jackblack1313) please stop using that derogatory term!
yes back in the 1990s it was different times. the late duke was a kind generous man who never blew his own horn I will never forget when he took on Margaret Thatcher on the poll tax, May his son do as good a job, I can see why the Grovenors are a private family this man and the Percys are too. The yellow press needs to mind their own business.
People don’t say handicapped anymore ? Lol what do they say