ROYALLY SO VERY UNWELCOME ..WHY? #royals #nostalgia #history

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[00:00:05]When we think about the royals chums, we often think that, oh, it must to be great if you're invited to a party or a suare or something like that. And it is.

[00:00:14]When I see those videos of people meeting his majesty the king or Katherine, the prince and princess of Wales, and you think, oh, it must be really exciting, you know, because it's a once in a-lifetime moment. It's a very special moment. You're never going to forget it in your life. But of course when you look back in history, royal visits and royal meetings were totally different and they were not always exactly what you think. You see, we don't have that photographic evidence particular on certain older things that went on. But if you were an aristocrat, for instance, and this really applied a lot to Queen Mary, you know, you have to remember in the olden days of where you say olden days, but you know, the 19th century, the 18th century, Great Britain was littered and Scotland and Wales was littered with all of these wonderful stately homes. Many in now are active museums or working houses as they call them. But the aristocrats lived there and they had it was like real life down to Nabi and everybody in that area knew that that was the person that was the cheese you know I remember growing up excuse me in my area of Yorkshire and when you went around all the mills you know it had the names of like Wilson Jay Wilson and Sun because the bottom line was the sun was going to be taking over that business it didn't matter what you did or how hard you worked you were never going to be the A aristocrats and royals were no different. But what was interesting was certain people didn't always want the royals to come knocking. As ever, let me explain. Hi Tom, it's nice to see you.

[00:01:46]Thank you so much for your time and welcome one and all. I know a lot of people describe these particular segments as our history lesson. It's very nice. Maybe I should be dressing like a Will Hey with a motorboard thing on.

[00:02:00]I love the way that you say these things. It's so sweet, honestly. But I just think I find these things out and I want to share them with you. I think oh that's an interesting story. I didn't know that. You know and as I say when you look have we had a wave when you look at um history it's fascinating because I remember years ago going I think it was oh there was a place near Granthm in Lincolnshire I can't remember Burley House I think it was called.

[00:02:22]Wonderful place you know and you look around and think well you know one family lived in here with all of their servants. And that's the thing they did and and you know it was great wasn't it for them not necessarily for you. Now what was interesting is if the royals came to stay the royals really you couldn't refuse if you were an aristocrat you know because it was deemed as a sort of almost um a massive Instagram thing for today really you know they you were an influencer you'd got the queen to stay or you'd got you know one of the princesses of Queen Victoria. Now, one of the most infamous sort of um house guests was one of my favorite royals as many of you know, Edward IIIth, Prince Bertie as he was known, simply because Bertie liked a good time, right? I mean, the thing is when he turned up at your place and remember they could be stopping off many many ways along the ways, say going to Balmoral, uh even to Windsor, things took a lot longer in horse and carriage, remember? So they might have a night somewhere else and just maybe two nights or something to break it. Now you had to think about this provide everything.

[00:03:29]There was no money given. So if you needed extra staff to you know footmen and bedding and fires fires lit and special food and everything like that obviously this wouldn't be a major problem for big aristocrats. But of course it was still an added sort of you know extra. What was interesting with Bertie though is he was totally different. you know, he needed to be entertained. So, you would have to put on games rooms. Uh you might need to bring in a small four, five, six, seven piece band if he fancied dancing.

[00:03:58]Obviously, the obligatory ladies to entertain him. You know what I'm saying?

[00:04:03]And so, there was a lot of things going.

[00:04:05]Many people desperately tried to get out of it because he was very, very costladenheavy, including this Gunton Hall in Norolk. Well, that was the home of the fifth Lord Suffield. He was a close friend of Bertie and of course he was the future king so there was a problem. However, he decided that every now and again particularly when Sandringham was being rebuilt that well you know he'd stay there on the way there and they were getting a bit fed up of it to be honest because it caused a huge amount of dis you know disarray I suppose you might call it. Now, in Christmas 1882, he decided that, you know, he'd had enough. He didn't need all the commotion. And basically, they decided to try and get out of it. This is so funny when you think on December the 18th, a fire officially broke out.

[00:04:53]Apparently, started by a faulty chimney fume, right? However, really, the story was this. It was a lovely, lovely, stately home still remains, of course.

[00:05:04]But what was interesting about it was they thought they'd just get a bit of a fire going in the grate in one of the rooms and it would look like, you know, it wasn't safe and they didn't know how safe the chimney was going to be and all that, but actually it took hold and became quite a bit of a major fire. So while they got rid of King Bertie or Bertie the Prince of Wales just because they said, "Well, we can't, you know, we don't want to. It's a bit worrying.

[00:05:26]We're not sure how safe the chimney is, etc." Because of course, even then, security and safety were paramount.

[00:05:33]Interestingly though, it sort of backfired because actually the house had to be then sealed off while they rebuilt parts of it. And I suppose the sort of the background to this story is, you see, if you tell a lie even about royals or indeed about people that are coming to stay, you never know which way it's going to go, do you? And we've all done it, haven't we? You know, I'm not going to be in. And then you've had to hide with the lights off because you think, no, you turn up every week drinking my tea dry. No. But of course in this particular instance what started out as a good idea to put on the visiting Bertie well and truly backfired. New Shan Kensington London.