Janet Mercedes Bryce (born 29 September 1937), daughter of Major Francis (Frank) Bryce and Gladys Jean Mosley (whose paternal aunt, Mary Mercedes Bryce, married Colonel Joseph Harold John Phillips, the grandparents of Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn and Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster) on 17 November 1960 at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Frognal, London.
I worked for a short period for Gerald Grosvenor and found him a very kind and caring person to all his staff. He was a little shy and very humble. He did so much for his charities and had lots of meetings with donations and help. Mrs Handy used to make him a flask of tea for when he drove himself from The London office to his Chester Home. He was fined for speeding on a couple of occasions, poor man. Everyone loved him. He was such a great man. 😭 May he R.I.P. 🙏❤️
Years ago I was a member of the Young Conservatives and the Duke came to one of our meetings in a room above a pub in Teddington, Middlesex. He was charming and self effacing, not at all haughty as one might expect from a fabulously wealthy Duke. I was sorry to learn of his death.
I worked for a surveyor who worked for The Grosvenor Estate and met him several times in the 80's, he was always charming, polite and very sweet. Lovely, lovely man.
The Duke of Westminster opened our family home in Cheshire as an Abbeyfield Home. We felt greatly honoured. Later I spent a little time in a flat off Oxford St., London, the whole building of dozens of flats was owned by him and their rents were refreshingly low. They were well-maintained. All spoke well of him.
I suspect Earl Spencer's book disclosed what ALL these young aristocratic boys endured when sent away to one of those horrible private schools to be bullied, beaten and molested. And their parents - at least the fathers - bloody well knew what hell they were sending their sons into. Their silence and complicity means it only got worse over the years. All the wealth and comfort in the world can not fix what was broken in their children during those years of torment: the depression, over-sexualization, shame, and sense of guilt and inadequacy for not being able to put those demons to bed. Clearly, Gerald remembered: "I feel an enormous responsibility. In my career, it's been the most difficult thing in the world to send young men and women off into the unknown...especially when I know what they were going to."
@leas7830 I can . It was bad enough everywhere. Too many schools in both public & independent sectors were harsh enough . One wonders what the local authorities , charities & parents thought they were funding .
@@robertbarrett2494 I can't understand parents, no way. They had all the resources to protect their offspring and connections to have the best lawyers. But no. They willingly send their children to be molested 🤢😖😤 Money or not, children are vulnerable and should be protected like the most expensive treasures.
English Public Boarding Schools of the late Dukes era have a lot to answer for…..many men were deeply affected by the experience…..i found after visiting my husband old school why my own husband is the way he is, although a successful academic the personal impact the school had on his emotional characteristics.
Yes, same here, explained a lot about my ex husband, terrible places of cruelty and abuse by students and staff. Wealth and privilege and are not always protection.
It seems he learned how to make his children's lives happier and safer. Hugh seems like a charming young man and hope he continues to have a happier life than his poor Father x
I disagree - it very much depends on the child. I always wanted to go away to school (which shocked and appalled my mother) but was not allowed to. I think it would have been marvellous to be away from suffocating parental care.
Well, it would free you up to do more social engagements. It’s awfully wearing trying to fit it all in if there’s a needy child in the way. Bridge anyone?
@@patb.j.3358How could anyone not be permanently affected by being severed from the warmth of family and home in Ireland at the tender age of seven, then thrust into the heartless machine that is called the elite public school system whose ethos is designed to transform children into coldhearted arrogant human robots that are bred to regard the mass of humanity as disposable inferior objects, the core ot the so-called Establishment that infest the top echelons of UK Government which is why the UK political system is rotten to its very core. And also there is the possibility of abuse of a child in such a setting which was so prevalent in these environments which train these children to stay quiet, to keep the ‘stiff upper lip’, to suffer silently which causes irreparable harm throughout the entire life of such people, into adulthood.
I like the narrator's voice it sounds so historical I actually thought it was old footage BBC reporters used to report that way in my childhood in the 70s we'd all crowd around the radio in Kenya 🇰🇪 I miss those good old days Congratulations Duke of Westminster
@@jenniferdunn3560 I think the voice-over is most definitely AI generated, which I thoroughly dislike and I would normally not watch but this is such an interesting story.
The late Duke was kind and well liked and respected. There is a Ten year gap between the present Duke ( who inherited the title at just 24 ) and his youngest elder sister ( whose married to the BBC History programme maker Dan Snow) because his wife had Breast Cancer and the worry and fear for her brought on his nervous breakdown . There is just about 15/27 months between Hugh and his youngest sister. The family ,mother ,three sisters and Hugh all work in the charities they set up and finance for the Homeless, Veterans, Drink and Drug rehabilitation, ex prisoners, and others. The family are still well liked by their tenants and estate workers, and the people of Chester. Hugh has know his wife since they met at school when they were 12. They parted for a while over their university years but then got back together, to both families delight.
I think I recall him reflecting how the country life ( in Eire/ N.Ireland?) gave him great joy and comfort. Anecdotally there’s never a bad words said about him around Chester.
I had a long conversation with the Duke in the early 1990s. He was a wonderful character, happy to joke about himself, extraordinarily generous and down to earth.
I met this guy a couple of times. He was a nice chap. One time we were stuck in a traffic jam on the A6 and he was stuck in the jam on the opposite direction. Saw me light a Cig in my car and bummed one from me out the window of his range Rover
Gerald Grosvenor dated Lady Sarah Spencer, eldest sister of Diana, who was dealing with an ED at the time. After they broke up, Lady Sarah dated Charles, then Prince of Wales. These aristocratic families are all more than a little enmeshed.
Natalia is not just descended from European nobility, but from the Romanovs of Russia, and the royal families of Sweden, Prussia, Luxembourg, Baden and Wurtemburg.
Natalia is the great great great great granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia through the morganic marriage of his grandson Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich to Countess Sophie Merenberg. I think I have the number of greats right! 😮 Natalia does have an interesting family lineage.
l have a feeling that Gerald Grosener would have happily given away some of his vast fortune in exchange for lasting happiness during his lifetime and freedom from anxiety and depression. Having lasting peace of mind is, in my opinion, more important than having a vast fortune.
Gerald was supposed to be a really nice bloke very kind to military charities and a heart attack and flown to the NHS Royal Preston Hospital where he sadly passed #gonewaytosoon
Your 100% wrong the Duke was never a professional solider he was a part time soilder in the TA most TA officers have other jobs just like the Duke Most TA officers never go to staff collage and i dont think the Duke did staff collage he gained higher command because of who he was not his ability to be a great leader on the battlefield If my memorie serves me right he failed the entrence exam to be a regular professional office he like the rest of TA officers only went to sandhurst for two weeks unlike regular officers who go there for 44 weeks a huge difference QOY is full of officers from the upper class and the duke used his class to become a Lt Col in the QOY I take nothing away from his efforts I met the man more then once very nice guy he was too but your so wrong about his army part time life
"Distinctions on his own merit" in the Army? Get real. He failed the Regular Commissions Board and joined the TA as a trooper / private in the Queen's Own Yeomanry. They put him up for a commission and he did two weeks (TWO WEEKS) at Sandhurst. He never passed any staff exams and never did any staff training, which are a standard minimum requirement for command for anyone else, but he was promoted to the absurd heights of Major General solely because of his money and title - nothing else.
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Can you please do one on Charles Feeney and Robert Warren Miller, who started Duty Free Shoppers. Miller's daughters married nobility / royalty. Feeney gave away all of his billions.
I once did a job on a tenant farm at abbystead in early 80s and the two brothers spoke very highly of their landlord. They said at least once a year he would pop round and ask them if everything was OK and would do his upmost to help.they always kept a bottle for such occasions. I expected the opposite of what I heard and felt.they had a strong affection for the duke. I never met him but always put people straight when ever I heard people calling him for being rich without knowing him.i was a little saddened when I heard he had died poor fellow.
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Seems his early life in Ireland was harmonious versus then as a child trust into England's private schools educational system caused a schizophrenic mark that effected his life and lifestyle caued his early demise.
He was very proud of being a ulsterman.his mother resided at Ely and is buried in simple style.i know as my dad Sister and grandmother buried close by.she was like a local woman wore headscarf just like the queen e11.she once shouted out hello to my mother in the town.last time I saw in person was at open day at Sandhurst.
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The Hotel was the site of their former London home. Even they got walloped with the bills for ww1 and 2.. Why they put it all in trusts which was a smart move. Could have saved many stately homes.
I wish Princess Diana had married somebody like this gentleman. He would have loved her so much and would have made he r so happy. Unlike the one she married.
The burden of extreme wealth usually breaks a person with any degree of self doubt. Such a pity given that he was at heart a decent man. My heart goes out to him and his family.
An organist family member who worked at Chester Cathedral looked just like him (and also took the choir to sing at Christmas as Eaton Hall (which by the way is not a great looking house despite the improvements and was built in 1960 - the previous one looked nicer) and was sometimes confused for him at the Cathedral which was quite funny. The new Duke has had some very unfair criticism - he did not choose his life and he is married and has always done his duty. I wish him well.
I would like to see the documentary about the life of Karl XVI after high school and before he changed his name to become the king in 1973. Very brave and unusual personality among them all.
Oh come on - "this succession coupled with the emotional toll of bullying impacted his academic focus". Seriously? He was at Harrow just before I was there and he left with no 'A' levels and two 'O's, in Maths and English. He was notorious for being as thick as two very short planks. ... and what "Irish accent"? He went to Sunningdale when he was seven and had lost any trace of an Irish accent by the time he went to Harrow.
You could make ten documentaries a day about people with depression that don’t have the means, financial or social, to acquire the appropriate care. But that wouldn’t be interesting because they live on a council estate without the undeserved, inherited and eye-watering wealth that poor little rich boys have.
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That’s what I think all of us look for…purpose…and what he wanted so much…proof that he was more than just a placeholder in some title…that HE Gerald mattered…not the 6th Duke…but the individual Gerald meant something…I can’t imagine how hard it must be feeling that everything you do and have accomplished is attributed to someone or something else…oh he did all that because he already had the money or the title or whatever…he’d never be able to accomplish anything on his own…that’s gotta be a really dark place to be in…essentially you’re worthless…quick road to depression…I am ozymandias, king of kings…. : - /
Being a public figure is not an easy task. If you are deprived of your privacy, with the mob and media with paparazzis chasing you, this may be a nightmare. Especially for someone sensitive and feeling a lot. It seems that this gentleman led a decent life, doing a lot of good deeds.
His whole life was marred by the deep hatred of the Irish that existed in those years. Can you imagine that? Incessant bullying for his accent when he could have bought and sold his tormentors?
The press should chill, it is certainly wrong to cheat on your partner but a lot of people do that and that is not in the news. That should remain between partners, and should not be public domain
I can't find any pictures online of the 1960s version of Eaton Hall, which looked hideous as I recall. The reskin is an improvement but still off-putting.
neither he or his son project a manly affect. sonny still looks like a teenager at an age where it is not appealing. It is not clear he was particularly unhappy except for having his private life exposed. I fail to see why it is the business of the public that he used a discreet escort service in NYC. Is one to assume he is alone in such pursuits in his social circle. he is not the headmaster of some girl's school and did not stand accused of involvement with underaged boys or girls. By this standard one would have to conclude a majority of the men in aristocrat circles would be complicit If he had a break from the pressures of his obligations that is also something in a decent society it would not be reported upon. Who could handle such scrutiny ? this is all about satisfying the prurient interests of the degenerate pubic.
@@clairetomkyns175 well i think claire if no one had reported or posted such a video there would have been no "scandal" do u really image he is the only extremely wealthy man who haggles over prices ? May i suggest warren buffett. I fail to see why that is a "scandal" either it is mildly embarrassing or should be I think it is funny and it serves him right to be exposed as a cheapskate.
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Lord Frederick Windsor, please
Katherine Duchess of Kent
Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Natalia Phillips Grosvenor and her father's family.
Janet Mercedes Bryce (born 29 September 1937), daughter of Major Francis (Frank) Bryce and Gladys Jean Mosley (whose paternal aunt, Mary Mercedes Bryce, married Colonel Joseph Harold John Phillips, the grandparents of Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn and Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster) on 17 November 1960 at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Frognal, London.
I worked for a short period for Gerald Grosvenor and found him a very kind and caring person to all his staff. He was a little shy and very humble. He did so much for his charities and had lots of meetings with donations and help. Mrs Handy used to make him a flask of tea for when he drove himself from The London office to his Chester Home. He was fined for speeding on a couple of occasions, poor man. Everyone loved him. He was such a great man. 😭 May he R.I.P. 🙏❤️
He seems to have been a unique and likeable man. Handsome officer and a true gentleman.
Hahaha so a true gentleman cheats on his wife with prozzies?!
Years ago I was a member of the Young Conservatives and the Duke came to one of our meetings in a room above a pub in Teddington, Middlesex. He was charming and self effacing, not at all haughty as one might expect from a fabulously wealthy Duke. I was sorry to learn of his death.
Another Gentleman who doesn’t pay enough TAX !
Beautiful man yes I remember the Jaguar XJS
I worked for a surveyor who worked for The Grosvenor Estate and met him several times in the 80's, he was always charming, polite and very sweet. Lovely, lovely man.
The Duke of Westminster opened our family home in Cheshire as an Abbeyfield Home. We felt greatly honoured. Later I spent a little time in a flat off Oxford St., London, the whole building of dozens of flats was owned by him and their rents were refreshingly low. They were well-maintained. All spoke well of him.
His son is expanding their social housing and helping disadvantaged tenants.
I suspect Earl Spencer's book disclosed what ALL these young aristocratic boys endured when sent away to one of those horrible private schools to be bullied, beaten and molested. And their parents - at least the fathers - bloody well knew what hell they were sending their sons into. Their silence and complicity means it only got worse over the years. All the wealth and comfort in the world can not fix what was broken in their children during those years of torment: the depression, over-sexualization, shame, and sense of guilt and inadequacy for not being able to put those demons to bed. Clearly, Gerald remembered: "I feel an enormous responsibility. In my career, it's been the most difficult thing in the world to send young men and women off into the unknown...especially when I know what they were going to."
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Sometimes those places were particularly the devil one knew rather than another devil one did not know .
Well said. I can't even comprehend what these boys went through. 😢
@leas7830
I can . It was bad enough everywhere. Too many schools in both public & independent sectors were harsh enough .
One wonders what the local authorities , charities & parents thought they were funding .
@@robertbarrett2494 I can't understand parents, no way. They had all the resources to protect their offspring and connections to have the best lawyers. But no. They willingly send their children to be molested 🤢😖😤 Money or not, children are vulnerable and should be protected like the most expensive treasures.
English Public Boarding Schools of the late Dukes era have a lot to answer for…..many men were deeply affected by the experience…..i found after visiting my husband old school why my own husband is the way he is, although a successful academic the personal impact the school had on his emotional characteristics.
Yes, same here, explained a lot about my ex husband, terrible places of cruelty and abuse by students and staff. Wealth and privilege and are not always protection.
The parents were responsible!?
@@Edward2457 why for sending them……partly but the school system of that time was culpable for the abuse in their schools…..boarding schools
It seems he learned how to make his children's lives happier and safer. Hugh seems like a charming young man and hope he continues to have a happier life than his poor Father x
How could a parent send their kid away at age 7????? That‘s so cruel …. 😢
I disagree - it very much depends on the child. I always wanted to go away to school (which shocked and appalled my mother) but was not allowed to. I think it would have been marvellous to be away from suffocating parental care.
Tradition. It was expected. Times have changed.
I also really tried to go away and was kept from it. I think it very much depends on the child.
Well, it would free you up to do more social engagements.
It’s awfully wearing trying to fit it all in if there’s a needy child in the way.
Bridge anyone?
Not necessarily
I always thought the old duke was a very handsome man , he had a kindness about him .
Is it only me that see such sadness in his eyes on all his pictures?
No, I saw the sadness and pure pain in his beautiful blue eyes. It is as if he had the entire world burdens on his shoulders. To die so young. 😢
I also see it, profoundly sad!
Not only sadness, but beauty and gentility.
I see sadness, thoughtfulness and introspection in his eyes.
@@patb.j.3358How could anyone not be permanently affected by being severed from the warmth of family and home in Ireland at the tender age of seven, then thrust into the heartless machine that is called the elite public school system whose ethos is designed to transform children into coldhearted arrogant human robots that are bred to regard the mass of humanity as disposable inferior objects, the core ot the so-called Establishment that infest the top echelons of UK Government which is why the UK political system is rotten to its very core. And also there is the possibility of abuse of a child in such a setting which was so prevalent in these environments which train these children to stay quiet, to keep the ‘stiff upper lip’, to suffer silently which causes irreparable harm throughout the entire life of such people, into adulthood.
It doesn't matter what he didn't achieve,The Duke was a very charitable man.
I like the narrator's voice it sounds so historical
I actually thought it was old footage
BBC reporters used to report that way in my childhood in the 70s we'd all crowd around the radio in Kenya 🇰🇪
I miss those good old days
Congratulations Duke of Westminster
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s done by AI, all sorts of names mispronounced.
@@jenniferdunn3560I thought the same. Always a giveaway.
I soooooo agree!!!!
@@jenniferdunn3560 I think the voice-over is most definitely AI generated, which I thoroughly dislike and I would normally not watch but this is such an interesting story.
Sounds like ai to me
The late Duke was kind and well liked and respected. There is a Ten year gap between the present Duke ( who inherited the title at just 24 ) and his youngest elder sister ( whose married to the BBC History programme maker Dan Snow) because his wife had Breast Cancer and the worry and fear for her brought on his nervous breakdown . There is just about 15/27 months between Hugh and his youngest sister. The family ,mother ,three sisters and Hugh all work in the charities they set up and finance for the Homeless, Veterans, Drink and Drug rehabilitation, ex prisoners, and others. The family are still well liked by their tenants and estate workers, and the people of Chester. Hugh has know his wife since they met at school when they were 12. They parted for a while over their university years but then got back together, to both families delight.
How lovely 💙I think I remember a programme mentioning years ago how the present Duke went to ca normal infant/primary school
That was a different girlfriend that he had known from school.
Britain needs to become a Republic to progress beyond this century. Feudalism has no place in a progressive UK.
I used to travel to work with someone who worked for the late Duke and he said he was a very nice man.
So Gerald abused women by using pros ? Scumbag ! Dirty grub ! His poor wife and family .
I think I recall him reflecting how the country life ( in Eire/ N.Ireland?) gave him great joy and comfort. Anecdotally there’s never a bad words said about him around Chester.
I had a long conversation with the Duke in the early 1990s. He was a wonderful character, happy to joke about himself, extraordinarily generous and down to earth.
I met this guy a couple of times. He was a nice chap. One time we were stuck in a traffic jam on the A6 and he was stuck in the jam on the opposite direction. Saw me light a Cig in my car and bummed one from me out the window of his range Rover
Depression and mental health issues aren’t scandalous-they happen to many people, rich or poor. Please join us, in the 21st century.
Gerald Grosvenor dated Lady Sarah Spencer, eldest sister of Diana, who was dealing with an ED at the time. After they broke up, Lady Sarah dated Charles, then Prince of Wales. These aristocratic families are all more than a little enmeshed.
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Did he really ? Of course aristocracy & gentry are often inter-related .
What’s an ED?
When you say ED, do you mean an eating disorder or erectile disfunction?
@@lis819 Eating disorder. She had bulimia like Diana. Diana's brother married an anorexic the first time. All damaged by their parents' bad marriage.
Natalia is not just descended from European nobility, but from the Romanovs of Russia, and the royal families of Sweden, Prussia, Luxembourg, Baden and Wurtemburg.
Natalia is the great great great great granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia through the morganic marriage of his grandson Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich to Countess Sophie Merenberg. I think I have the number of greats right! 😮 Natalia does have an interesting family lineage.
If Hugh is descended from Afro-Russian Gannibal, will he qualify to join BLM?🫥
She shares an ancestor with Boris Johnson: Paul of Wurtemburg, who was himself a great great grandson of George II of Great Britain.
Yes, he will have to pay reparations to himself.
One of Hugh's names is Gannibal ....
I met Lord Westminster - Gerald Grosvenor along with Prince Andrew on Hamilton Island, in Australia . They were both good company.
Excellent summary of one of my family tree. A true gentleman and a man of the people
The old duke Gerald was throughly decent man who treated people in the manner he wish to be treated.
Thats how i found him.
The new one isnt the same
That’s a shame 😢
l have a feeling that Gerald Grosener would have happily given away some of his vast fortune in exchange for lasting happiness during his lifetime and freedom from anxiety and depression. Having lasting peace of mind is, in my opinion, more important than having a vast fortune.
Gerald was supposed to be a really nice bloke very kind to military charities and a heart attack and flown to the NHS Royal Preston Hospital where he sadly passed #gonewaytosoon
The smoking didn't help along with the stress.
Your 100% wrong the Duke was never a professional solider he was a part time soilder in the TA most TA officers have other jobs just like the Duke Most TA officers never go to staff collage and i dont think the Duke did staff collage he gained higher command because of who he was not his ability to be a great leader on the battlefield If my memorie serves me right he failed the entrence exam to be a regular professional office he like the rest of TA officers only went to sandhurst for two weeks unlike regular officers who go there for 44 weeks a huge difference QOY is full of officers from the upper class and the duke used his class to become a Lt Col in the QOY I take nothing away from his efforts I met the man more then once very nice guy he was too but your so wrong about his army part time life
"Distinctions on his own merit" in the Army? Get real. He failed the Regular Commissions Board and joined the TA as a trooper / private in the Queen's Own Yeomanry. They put him up for a commission and he did two weeks (TWO WEEKS) at Sandhurst.
He never passed any staff exams and never did any staff training, which are a standard minimum requirement for command for anyone else, but he was promoted to the absurd heights of Major General solely because of his money and title - nothing else.
In the tradition of Georgian England.
Lions led by Donkeys comes to mind.
@@jeanwood6392 He didn't do much leading of lions, at least not in the Army, thank God.
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AI.
They actually have a trust so the Duke of the day can not piss all the money away/make bad mistakes.
Good . Otherwise , wasting it would be sad . Would HM Treasuty gain ?
Good . Others, it would be wasted . Charitable causes would not benefit . From which outcome would HM Trreasury gain more ?
@@robertbarrett2494They get inheritance tax every 10 years plus annual income tax. They've built this up for a thousand years.
This was great. Very informative. Could we see something about Henry George Alan Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland?
I kind of liked the guy. 🇬🇧
The traumas of his life became etched on the Duke's face, and no doubt contributed to his untimely death.
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Gerald was born in rural Northern Ireland. He was teased in English public schools for his Ulster accent.
What he’s gone thru highs and lows gave him the experience of being a human
This was wonderful.
Can you please do one on Charles Feeney and Robert Warren Miller, who started Duty Free Shoppers. Miller's daughters married nobility / royalty. Feeney gave away all of his billions.
This is a GREAT choice for a video :) very much in line with our channel. Thanks Warlock! We’ll work on it
@@oldmoneyluxury “A Tale of Two Billionaires”
Thyssens did likewise .
I once did a job on a tenant farm at abbystead in early 80s and the two brothers spoke very highly of their landlord. They said at least once a year he would pop round and ask them if everything was OK and would do his upmost to help.they always kept a bottle for such occasions. I expected the opposite of what I heard and felt.they had a strong affection for the duke.
I never met him but always put people straight when ever I heard people calling him for being rich without knowing him.i was a little saddened when I heard he had died poor fellow.
I worked in Browns of Chester . He’d often pop in. He was always chatty and polite. A very, nice man .
“I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. It simply stole the land and property off the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles and have been wielding power ever since.”
― Tony Benn
Tony Benn was a raging communist!
Yes very apt coming from a Viscount...
Yes indeed, Viscount Stansgate.
@@Challenger2A7 Erm he gave the title up but his lick spittle son took over the title. Do keep up
And? Fortune favours the bold...
Seems his early life in Ireland was harmonious versus then as a child trust into England's private schools educational system caused a schizophrenic mark that effected his life and lifestyle caued his early demise.
He was very proud of being a ulsterman.his mother resided at Ely and is buried in simple style.i know as my dad
Sister and grandmother buried close by.she was like a local woman wore headscarf just like the queen e11.she once shouted out hello to my mother in the town.last time I saw in person was at open day at Sandhurst.
Duke of Norfolk
Invictus started with him
Thought it started with Prince Harry!
He always came across as a really nice man 😊
All the nasty comments about him being “thick” doesn’t seem to have done any harm to the Grosvenor Group under his leadership.
I have never read any nasty comments about this lovely family. All the best to each of them.
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You obviously have no knowledge of clinical depression. Nobody would want that by choice believe me!
The PRINCESS Royal is fantastic.
Robert Grosvenor was a neighbour of the Abercorns .
And ???
Royal education is another. Thank you for your video.
Once stayed at Grosvenor House in London. It must have been part of the estate. Beautiful place.
The Hotel was the site of their former London home. Even they got walloped with the bills for ww1 and 2.. Why they put it all in trusts which was a smart move. Could have saved many stately homes.
Very interesting, as always! One question. Why is Earl Mountbatten of Burma in the Grosvenor's group wedding photograph? Many thanks!
It also looked like one of Diana's sisters was on the far right.
Gerald & Natalia wedding
in Oct 1978 at Luton ?
Mountbatten poked his nose into everything.
@@susanyates4233 True!!😄
@@susanyates4233 And other parts, apparently.
Gerald was down to earth his mother violet very grounded.he was good to military and served in reserve.
I understand the Duke of Westminster has recently put the Irish property up for sale.
Hey everyone has a hobby. And some people have unusual taste in leisure activities. Best wishes from sunny Devon
I wish Princess Diana had married somebody like this gentleman. He would have loved her so much and would have made he r so happy. Unlike the one she married.
Still not forgiven Charles and Camilla.
The burden of extreme wealth usually breaks a person with any degree of self doubt. Such a pity given that he was at heart a decent man. My heart goes out to him and his family.
He always said he's time as a child growing up in Ireland were he's happiest.
If only Charles had the smallest amount of Gerald's integrity
An organist family member who worked at Chester Cathedral looked just like him (and also took the choir to sing at Christmas as Eaton Hall (which by the way is not a great looking house despite the improvements and was built in 1960 - the previous one looked nicer) and was sometimes confused for him at the Cathedral which was quite funny. The new Duke has had some very unfair criticism - he did not choose his life and he is married and has always done his duty. I wish him well.
Oh was part of that duty to cheat on his wife numerous times
I would like to see the documentary about the life of Karl XVI after high school and before he changed his name to become the king in 1973. Very brave and unusual personality among them all.
Oh come on - "this succession coupled with the emotional toll of bullying impacted his academic focus". Seriously?
He was at Harrow just before I was there and he left with no 'A' levels and two 'O's, in Maths and English.
He was notorious for being as thick as two very short planks.
... and what "Irish accent"? He went to Sunningdale when he was seven and had lost any trace of an Irish accent by the time he went to Harrow.
Charlotte Santa Domingo
You could make ten documentaries a day about people with depression that don’t have the means, financial or social, to acquire the appropriate care. But that wouldn’t be interesting because they live on a council estate without the undeserved, inherited and eye-watering wealth that poor little rich boys have.
Makes me sooooo sad,soooo much suffering
I met G.Grosvernor at Abbeystead many years ago on one his grouse beets we had the adjoining grouse moor a gentleman to the end
Great voice-over and thank you for an Interesting Reportage!
Glad you enjoyed it, Katharina, thanks!
@@oldmoneyluxury I hope I will discover some more... ; )
How about the Spencer family?
And so he takes a few years off to be Andrew Rigleley in Wham.
Nice to see the christening picture of Duke of Westmister
Who is more likely to get a table in a crowded restaurant - a Duke or a Beatle?
👏👏👏👏👏Very interesting, and jolly nice English without an accent !😉
When I was young I looked after my uncle's ponies at Cowdray Park Polo Club, and everybody there spoke just like you !😀
Felicitaciones y muchos saludos,
Mariano Scotti
Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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So he was the Vader of invictus?
I see sadness in his eyes.
Now the Spencer familie would be a shocker love to read that hostory.
“Old Money” To Royalty: Princess Diana & The Spencer-Churchill Family: czcams.com/video/WB2hdawcjec/video.html
God bless him.
How about a profile of Johnny Wodehouse ...Lord Kimberley?
I am not qualified to comment on the loss of status. When the rich share income,and the ability for all to rise the country will be okay
A man of substantial eyebrows
He really needed an eyebrow wax or a tweezer.
G.A.G (George) Howard could b quite interesting. Baron Howard of Henderskelfe
Perhaps Lord Lovat, Fitzroy MacLean???
Wow , his speaking is exactly the same as Charles’s at that time .
Is his relative the man who has an island in long island sound?
Pls make a video about the illitch family
He was a propper gentalman.
That’s what I think all of us look for…purpose…and what he wanted so much…proof that he was more than just a placeholder in some title…that HE Gerald mattered…not the 6th Duke…but the individual Gerald meant something…I can’t imagine how hard it must be feeling that everything you do and have accomplished is attributed to someone or something else…oh he did all that because he already had the money or the title or whatever…he’d never be able to accomplish anything on his own…that’s gotta be a really dark place to be in…essentially you’re worthless…quick road to depression…I am ozymandias, king of kings…. : - /
I think you really hit the nail on the head! Wonderful insight!
Being a public figure is not an easy task. If you are deprived of your privacy, with the mob and media with paparazzis chasing you, this may be a nightmare. Especially for someone sensitive and feeling a lot. It seems that this gentleman led a decent life, doing a lot of good deeds.
They have been shopping in the wrong stores
His whole life was marred by the deep hatred of the Irish that existed in those years. Can you imagine that? Incessant bullying for his accent when he could have bought and sold his tormentors?
The press should chill, it is certainly wrong to cheat on your partner but a lot of people do that and that is not in the news. That should remain between partners, and should not be public domain
Prayers for the Aristocracy
I can't find any pictures online of the 1960s version of Eaton Hall, which looked hideous as I recall. The reskin is an improvement but still off-putting.
Ans paid NO taxes from 9 billion....! GREED KNOWS NO BOUNDS....
They do actually. Research discretionary trusts and the 10 years inheritance tax.
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Why he reminds me of that one German dude here?
Was Vo;a Lyttelton related to Humphrey Lyttelton?
1st Duke of Buckingham, please
Alexander Pushkin was an Ethiopian.
so what, he liked a brass, whoopeee
I live 15 miles from Chester.
Bid deal !
I live 250 miles from Chester, so there.
Silly comment. @@malcolm9994
I love 130 miles from Chester.
Great Video its telling poor people they are better off staying poor lol
Lol
@@shirleymclean5895 thanks lol
No cost of living crisis here..😂
Viola LITTLETON?
neither he or his son project a manly affect. sonny still looks like a teenager at an age where it is not appealing. It is not clear he was particularly unhappy except for having his private life exposed. I fail to see why it is the business of the public that he used a discreet escort service in NYC. Is one to assume he is alone in such pursuits in his social circle. he is not the headmaster of some girl's school and did not stand accused of involvement with underaged boys or girls. By this standard one would have to conclude a majority of the men in aristocrat circles would be complicit If he had a break from the pressures of his obligations that is also something in a decent society it would not be reported upon. Who could handle such scrutiny ? this is all about satisfying the prurient interests of the degenerate pubic.
I think the scandal was that an escort recorded him trying to get a discount when he was a billionaire.
@@clairetomkyns175 well i think claire if no one had reported or posted such a video there would have been no "scandal" do u really image he is the only extremely wealthy man who haggles over prices ? May i suggest warren buffett. I fail to see why that is a "scandal" either it is mildly embarrassing or should be I think it is funny and it serves him right to be exposed as a cheapskate.
Is English your first language?
@@nicolad8822 what kind of question is this ?
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