The Aristocracy - Letting in the Hoi Polloi: 1945-1970 2nd part

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  @OrganMusicYT · 3 years ago

  It's always sad that some of these houses never made it. They were, and are, monuments to the artistry and craftmanship of our ancestors, regardless of who owns them.

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  @deeppurple883 · 3 years ago

  I'm Irish and proud of our building's regardless of who owned them. Same in GB. ✌🏻☘️

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  @madeleine8977 · 8 years ago

  I seriously love this guy...he was a survivor and had a sense of humor to boot!

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  @mehandas · 13 years ago

  It&apos;s quite interesting that a large number of aristocratic families have lost their status and esteem. But then this was something that happened all the time: noble families would die out or become common and common families/ new money would become noble (This is a theme in Hardy&apos;sTess D&apos;Urberville). But I suppose what happened in recent times was the decline of a large number of prominent families all of them together, with the sudden rise of the influence of a large number of new money. <br>

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  @williamcahill2487 · 7 years ago

  I&apos;ve seen this man Sir Charles Wolseley on television before I came across this same &quot;video&quot; on YouTube. &nbsp;I admire his stoicism; his wife&apos;s, as well.

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  @cindymaceda2999 · 1 year ago

  Lord Hertford literally jumped through fiery hoops to save his home! 😂

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  @allenthrasher4883 · 1 day ago

  I used to have an old book with a bookplate with a family’s arms and the name of the estate. And no name of the individual nor even of the family, just a pasted-on tab with someone’s initials. It was as if the house was even more important and basic than the individual or even the family who owned it.

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  @citizen1163 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Sir Charles Wolseley reminds me of James Hewitt. Charles kept his sense of humour to the end despite losing everything in his attempt to build a business to maintain his 1,000yr old ancestral home.

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  @simplelifelost · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp0EYSHjTDo&amp;t=595">9:55</a> Lord Hertford bought the car instead of reducing his overdraft. I love that aristocratic sense of humour. I’m sure His Lordship was wonderful company, I would have liked to have a brandy with him.

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  @MartinaDowney-ql9rz · 5 months ago

  Desmond guinness was excellent at this type of thing a soldier🎉

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  @ThomasHarding1990 · 3 years ago

  Her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire 👑❤

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• SA

  @saskgirlly · 10 years ago

  Aristocracy call it a grant, the rest of society call it welfare, or, public assistance, lol. All kidding aside there is importance in history and the preservation of it, but what gets to be preserved and at what cost, and who pays.

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