I believe , if you want to rule over a foreign land as long as you want, you must really help those local people, even better than their own governments, not only give them 3% freedom or benefit, but 60%, then , everybody will love to follow and listen to you, and there will be no end or any rebelling. :) If we treat people bad or too mean, things will never working too long. This is my guess and beliefs. :)
HM Queen Mary was as regal as a woman could be. She was a great patriot and served King and Country to the best of her ability. She was noted for her kindness and shy sense of humor - which is largely unknown because people thought so regal and queenly a woman would not have such a sense of fun. Well done, Queen Mary, well and nobly done.
There are many myths about the royal family past and present ,one of the most enduring is their nationality they are not german the present queens mother was adirect descendant of macbeth and george the 6th a descendant of mary queen of scots.George the first was descended from mary also as was prince albert.Queen mary was very much a product of her time and her behaviour was not at all unusual it is always wrong to import the values of the present onto the past.
Fantastic video. I didn't even know there WAS footage from the Dehli Durbar, let alone hope to be lucky enough to see it. Queen Mary is one of my favorite royals, and this is a great tribute to her.
nice video....kudos!!! on the other hand, i thought when elizabeth II crowned queen there were 3 living queens: queen elizabeth II, queen elizabeth the queen mum & queen mary. the video says at the end that queen mary died 10 weeks b4 the coronation of QE2
@skippallan A coronation of a King or Queen occurs after beginning of their reign and not simultaneously with it. Although Queen Elizabeth 2 became Queen upon her father's death in February 1952, her coronation was not until June 1953. King Edward VIII the Duke of Windsor never had a coronation since he abdicated before it was supposed to be held. But a monarch is definitely King or Queen even if there is no coronation.
@ApocalypsePlough Yes they do look a lot alike. Mary used to say that she looked a lot like her great-grandmother Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.
i think it was really tragic the way they acted about the abdication. they were so cold. but i like her style. it is also interesting how they were really marrying their own family members. all i can say is wow.
the saxe coburg gotha, the german mafia finally take over england, and bleed their stupid loyal subjects dry stiil doing in 2011 with sponging kate and william, yuk!
@whatsgoingonthen I am not going to argue with you about what you are saying except for one thing --- Prince William's ancestry is far more English than German. Actually, there is about as much Danish ancestry in the current royal family since Queen Alexandra and Prince Philip both claiming strong Danish ancestry. What you are saying was very correct in 1917 when the House of Windsor was created though-- as Queen Mary and King George V did have German roots. But not now.
@eddihaskell ok i agree, to a certain extent...but they would never have changed their name..if it wasnt for kaiser wilhelm the 2nd instigating ww1 george the 5th was ashamed of his cousin..and changed the family name to windsor....on hearing this kaiser wilhelm,laughed, and said.......i think i will go and see shakespeares...merry wives of saxe coburg gotha
@whatsgoingonthen Also, George Orwell called King George V alien and uninspiring then. He said "I might be uninspiring, but I will be damned if I am alien". Good come back!
@eddihaskell in george the 5ths defence, he ..favoured ramsay macdonald..and gave labour their first real foothold....though i doubt he could have suppressed...the magnitude of the masses.for much longer....and he helped placate the general strike....but that act of......compassion..or calculation in tough times..doesnt change my point of view with regards to royalty..as a whole
@whatsgoingonthen Like many Americans I am fascinated by the Royal Family, and see a great role for them as the figurehead leaders of the empire. However, I would support a revolution in the United States if our head of state were born and not elected (actually we had one). In addition -- after living in the UK for over 10 years, I find British class system, based on something you inherit and not on accomplishments, something that i would not want to live with. So I see your point.
@eddihaskell im surprised just how much the americans are fascinated by the royal family..after all george the 3rd did his utmost to suppress the american people..and even after defeat at york town and saratoga..which eventually lead to independence..the british continued to harass the usa in the war of 1812..in conjunction with the american fascination..you still have the good sense to maintain a royal free country..which in the eyes of the outside world...bodes well for justice and freedom
The Windsors have a lot of german blood. They descend from a german dinasty, Hannover, whose name was changed during IWW for political reasons. George I and George II couldn´t speak English. George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV and queen Victoria married german princesses/princes. Queen Alexandra, though born princess of Denmark, had a lot of german ancestors, as so had queen Mary. Germany could provide enough quantity of protestant brides and grooms for british royals.
George V was in love with his first cousin princess Mary of Edimburgh. Her parents were Alfred, duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg, queen Victoria´s second son, and grand duchess Maria of Russia. Edward VII and the duke approved of the match, but both mothers, queen Alexandra and duchess Maria were against it. Alexandra was fully anti-german and didn´t want a german bride for her son (although Mary was born and raised in England) and the duchess was resentful with her husband´s family.
Since Queen Mary was not a Queen in her own right, but a wife of a King, she is called Queen Consort. It is the term for a Queen who is Queen because she is married to a King.
@audgeyp she was called a consort because like....all royals she consorted with anybody for gain..they should have been called courtesans, a more appropriate name.. a bunch of sponging poncing freeloading inbred hillbillies
@RichardElden You are right. I was thinking that the Delhi Durbar of 1911 was the only one that actually had the King or Queen in attendance. The others just had the Viceroy
In the "Lost Prince", and also to some extent in "The King's Speech" just come out, Queen Mary is portrayed as slightly crazy, or extreemly repressed, which is a complete falsification of her stoic nature. I am sure that the present Queen was much influenced by her, as a girl, to put duty to the nation above everything.
@racingrubberbiker I just saw the Queen's Speech -- The great actress Claire Bloom portrayed Queen Mary. I think she looked too old for the part. Queen Mary was 67 at the time of the abdication crisis, but always looked younger than her years. Claire Bloom is 81 now, and just did not seem right for the part.
Queen Mary extremely repressed? She was extremely reserved, and did not believe in showing her emotions to anyone. I actually admire this in her, her ability to control herself.
@matarikistar Since Ediward VII did not have hemophilia, he did not pass it on to any of his descendants.
Virctoria's hemophilia was passed on to one son (Leopold) who died from it, and two daughters (Beatrice, who passed it on to Eugenie ( Ina) who became Queen of Spain, two of whose children died from it, and Alice, the - Great - Grandmother of Prince Philip. who passed it on to her daughter Czarina Alexandra of Russia -- and famously, her son the Tsarevich Alexi.
@eddihaskell. Matarikistar is wrong, Haemophilia can only be passed by females, so Edward Vii could not pass it on even if he had it. Queen Alexandra was considered to have "good" blood at the time, due to coming from the "healthy" family of Denmark.
That's why I added the 'lol' after my comment about sarkiness! I haven't studied much about this particular royal,only having seen Steven Polliokoff's adaptation of the story of Prince John.I don't think she's any more aloof than today's royals.Even now they're not overly demonstrative,but then I guess it's just part of their 'make-up'.And,let's face it,epilepsy wasn't as well known back then,so she probably was somewhat 'scared' of him and his seizures,tragic though that is.
Yup,sure is,lol! Or are you being sarcy,lol?! I suppose folk'll say,"Oh,that's just how things were done back then". I tend to think she didn't have to do that,just seemed a tad severe.Ah,well,maybe it's just me,lol.
@popazz1 I am not being sarcastic. I have studied many biographies of Queen Mary. She was, certainly by today's standards, aloof and distant from her children's problems. But what she did to Prince John, by banishing him from the rest of the family due to his seizures which are frightening to observe, was chilling.. Almost like a mother cat rejecting an imperfect kitten. My guess is that she was extremely threatened by him, and felt that he needed to be isolated to protect her family.
@eddihaskell If you have studied so many biographies of the late great Queen Mary then you should know she did not banish him at all. Read her diary entries....
Hmmm,so we're gonna skim over the fact she secluded her own son,Prince John,at Sandringham simply because of his epilepsy,huh?! Yup,really nice mother she was!
Also remember that her husband King George V was euthanized so he would die in time to avoid having the evening tabloids announce it. This was confirmed lately.
However, Queen Mary simply could have over-medicated herself and died from that.
I guess official mourning was 60 days, and if she died after April 5 but before the coronation it would have had to be postponed.
@thepaintedbottle It is a rumor of course. If Queen Mary did not die (she was ill) when she did, the coronation would have to be put off if she died closer to it -- due to official mourning. So rumor has it that she chose to be euthanized. I tend not to believe it.
whenever in doubt about a course of action, I always refer back to this great Queen and ask myself "what would she do?" She never put a wrong foot forward; she put her duty to her obligations before personal considerations. I think she's been unfairly judged as cold because of the lack in modern understanding of what was required of someone like Victoria Mary back in the late 19th/early 20th century.
Excellent collection of images and film clips... I especially liked the one of her in the carriage with the big smile; I don't think I'd ever seen a picture of her smiling. And the short snippet of her voice as she launched the ship. You could clearly see that she was very much a doting grandmother and great-grandmother in later life.
@zumtrotz11 the intro is God Save the Queen of course. The music is from Elgar's Coronation Ode. The first part, True Queen of British Hearts was written for Queen Mary's own coronation in 1911. The Final Part is Land of Hope and Glory, the final stanza, sung at the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1901 for the first time. It is today played at the Proms and at events like graduations.
I don't know, it looks like Queen "Mum" (Elizabeth, Bertie's wife) wasn't too happy to have her mother in law at the coronation. I don't remember reading that in any of the books, though. I think Mary was the most elegant and Alexandra was the sweetest.
@karenofbethany it was a break from protocol for the Queen Mary to be at her son's coronation, but you have to remember what just went down in that family. Queen Mary had to show support for Bertie stepping into David's role.
@kendahke I believe it was Stanley Baldwin and others in the government who suggested that Queen Mary attend the coronation of her son. Queen Mary was seen by many as the matriarch of the Royal Family, and even of the nation itself. There were still those who felt that Edward VIII should have been allowed to stay as King and marry Mrs. Simpson; Queen Mary's attendance not only demonstrated her own approval of events, but assured the nation that she would continue to have influence.
Really well done! Destiny is so strange. If she had married Prince Albert Victor Elizabeth II would not have been born. The Queen loved Queen Mary so very much.
@leather064 There was only one Delhi Durbar. King Geroge V and Queen Mary attended it. They were thinking of holding one for King George VI, but WW2 got in the way - and Indian Independence was on the agenda after it.
Your familiarity with the subject is reflected in your judicious choice of imagery, editing and information. The combination of still and motion picture is spectacular ( especially the sumptuous footage of the Delhi Durbar ( combined divinely with Elgar...)
This video is a treasure to me by any estimation, but it is the first time in my life I have ever heard a recording of Queen Mary's voice. This makes it a treasure indeed.
thankyou very much for uploading this, i think it's wonderful that anybody can sit on the internet and watch the kind of clips that are in this video and at anytime you want.
@kanga888Thank you so much for uploading. Saw 'The King's Speech' and was thirsty for more information/clarification when I came home. Some footage is very familiar to me - as a small child (b 1944) the 'Royal Family' (was there any other) was often in press and on newsreels at Saturday picture matinees children attended (when we got coins from parents). Also received 'Annuals' from Father Christmas on the Royals. Great memories! Again, thanks for the effort in producing these images.
@matarikistar Actually, Prince Michael of Kent looks very much like the late Czar. He is related to him on both sides. His father of course, The Duke of Kent was King George V's son, and King George V (Queen Mary's husband) was the Czar's first cousin through Queen Alexandra.
Not only that, Prince Michael of Kent's mother, Princess Marina of Greece's mother and father were both the Czar's first cousin being descended from Czar Alexander 2.
I have an amusing story to tell. I am American. On a tour of Buckingham palace, the guide stopped before the famous picture of George III surrounded by all his children. She pointed out the Duke of Kent, his son and Victoria's father, as the ancestor of the current
Queen.
I raise my hand. I then point out that the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Mary's grandfather, is also in the picture and there are actually 2 ancestors of Her Majesty!
Queen Mary was very statuesque and incredibly regal. I am afraid that The Queen is no where near her in that regard. Elizabeth II's 3 row strand of pears doesn't hold a candle to Mary's diamond chokers from bodice to chin. She really had the royal touch!
Yes nobody could carry off the enormous amount of jewellery like Queen Mary. But I think you are being a little unfair to the present Queen who has neither Queen Marys height or the advantage (?) of being brought up in constricted to a wasp waist by whalebone corsets, Queen Mary herself admired the young Elizabeths stature saying it was reminiscent of the dignity and poise of Queen Victoria.
Yes and what is more striking is that if you look at paintings of George the 3rds consort Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz the resemblance to both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth is staggering. Princess Anne also has inherited noticeable features from her Mecklenburg ancestry
@pipeup1 Indeed. The first time I truly noticed this was the 1999 marriage of the Earl of Wessex in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. I think the lavender aigrettes perched atop her now white coiffeur on that occasion made me gaze in wonder....... Queen Mary would concur with the words of her King and Husband, " I hope nothing comes between Bertie, Lillibet and the Throne............"
HRH was a selfless, complicated, loyal, interesting, remarkably down-to-earth woman. She willingly married a profoundly limited man thanks to her patriotism and loyalty to the crown and learned to love him. She did the best she could, given the limitations upon her, rearing her children, and set a standard for future family members that the current generation might do well to emulate. James Pope-Hennessey's biography is an excellent account of a life well spent.
She was also expert at garnering fabulous jewels and antiques for the royal collection free of charge. In this regard she was more a pirate than a Queen.
A great aunt of mine knew one of the Queen's butlers. He has served the royal family since entering service. When he retired Queen Mary presented him with a parting gift for a lifetime of devotion and service--it was a cane! Queen Mary was a generous soul to boot. :-)
What a great presentation. I have long felt that Queen Mary deserves far greater recognition than she has received to date for her devotion to Britain.
Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory is from Coronation Ode Opus 44. There are many wonderful parts to this. The first part I am playing is "True Queen of British Homes and Hearts'' written for Queen Mary, the last part of course Land of Hope and Glory. This version is by the Scottish National Orchestra, and also has the moving "spirit of England" on the same disk.
the royal family always seems to have a bug up there ass. that whole holyer then thou attitude has done nothing but weeken there empire and placed the out of touch with there people. iam so happy that iam an amereican and our founding fathers saw this 233 years ago. good clip E H
Actually, the royal family and the crown has HELPED the modern rendition of the "empire" in the form of the commonwealth of which The Queen is head. The Crown serves to unite people around the world who love what it represents as a key symbol of Britain. The Queen is warmly received whenever she visits Commonwealth member states- I venture to say that the UK is far stronger with a monarchy then it would be with a republican form of government.
Do you think that is what Charles will be called if he becomes king? Charles the 1 had his head chopped off, and Charles the II was not exactly well liked. However, given the longevity of the Queen Mother, you are going to have to wait quite a few years for this to happen.
Well let's pray she lives a long life. At least 15 more years. But a coronation would be nice to see if they don't change the basic formula to make it all-inclusive.
Now that I think about it, the "George VII" title would have to be because he doesn't want to be crowned as Charles, after all it seems strange that he would have such fond memories of a grandfather who died when he was three.
i think he should just abdicate upon acesion and give it straight to William who is at the ripe age and experienced enough after all his life is controversial and nobody wants to see him as king and camila as consort of anything even if she only wishes to become Princess consort not queen may the queen live untill prince william becomes King!!!
Charles should abdicate now so that William has time to tour the Commonwealth, make himself know, build up public affection for him, get married, have a few kids. If Charles and Camilla succeed, I think Canada and Australia will break with the Crown. I doubt that the Commonwealth will accept him as its head. He doesn't possess the prestige and affection needed to succeed to his mother's positions. William could, but he needs to get started now.For the good of his family, Charles must step aside.
From what I read, Camilla wants to stay at home more with her grandchildren and not devote the rest of her life to constantly try to improve her image so she can be Queen one day. From observing Camilla, I think this very well could be true.
Also, Charles (and I believe this) has indicated he wishes to be able to express his opinions more openly on controversial matters when he is King. This cannot be greeted since it will run counter to his required neutrality.
This was worth the watch but it suffers from poor sound and visual effect, possibly because it has had great viewing numbers...Very well done and thoughtful choice of music to accompany it. Thank you Mr. Haskell
That is Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Number 1, as it was originally written for the coronation of Edward 7. Land of Hope and Glory. It has been played at graduations and other ceremonies since. It just sounds more royal with a full chorus and orchestra!
I have read just about everything there is about Queen Mary and I can tell you all that rarely has there been a more amazing lady. Her hard work during WWI and WWII is astounding. Queen Mary was indeed every inch a queen in the finest sense. God bless her memory and may every British subject never forget her or if they don't know anything about her they should.
Lets see. She buried three sons, one of whom was a severe epileptic, watched another abdicate the highest position in the land to a woman twice married, and watched literally thousands of young men she had met die in the two world wars. She never had a day of privacy in her life. And she did an enormous amount of service to her peoples. She was loved when she died, only to be equaled by our own Queen Mother who died in 2002. Do you think you might be being just a bit a harsh?
She and George Vth werea rather odd couple , he haad some Parrots that were allowed to fly about all over Buck House and they would shit on the dining table, he would move the cruets about to cover the crap up.
Look at it this way. In her opinion, she was returning to the royal state "collection" artifacts that were part of the national collection to begin with. The many mistresses of the royal princes for hundreds of years were handed these precious artifacts as gifts. And many royal sets were missing pieces. The people she was visiting were not poor. She merely "suggested" that nice pieces were too wonderful for her to part with, and then sent her driver around to collect them like it or not.
Many years ago Queen Mary used to visit an antique shop in Cambridge, my friend , an aspiring news photographer was waiting out side hoping to geta picturewhen she came out and jabbed him with her umbrella and said" stand up on your own 2 feet young man, dont lean on my car"
Well i can see it saying that, can't you? I just read this in a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt that when she visited Queen Mary at her niece's estate, Badmitton, during WW2 that she kept Eleanor standing for 15 minutes before she asked if she wanted to set- Eleanor was somewhat put off I actually have a picture in the video of the two of them together unveiling the statue to FDR in the late 1940's in Grovesnor Square in this video.
Thanks Eddi for your beautiful video. Good job. I think that Queen Mary was always admired and respected but never loved. She was a very cold person. I've never saw a picture of her funeral, except that you give us here. The pic is very small and I can't see if her crown is placed above her coffin. Do you have other pics of that funeral? Thanks a lot and best regards from Chile.
i found that video on the Pathe company web site. They are available for free downloads. I did fudge the sound track, the audio is from the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.
Queen Mary does not seem to have had a crown made for her for George V's coronation or his appearance at the Durbar. Strange, because George VI's concort, Queen Elizabeth, did have a crown.
Not also that at the end of his life, George V and Queen Mary are clearly promoting their second son and his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as their preferred offspring. The Prince of Wales seems absent. They clearly understood that he was a walking disaster waiting to unfold.
Queen Mary had a way of spinning her arm in the air like windmill that was supposed to be a wave. She also never smiled in public, because she thought it was unroyal. She was a real character--and the greatest collector of jewelry that family ever had. A memorable Queen! May she rest in peace! :-)
It is clear that Edward VIII has strong nazi sympathies. If he were King, there is a good chance that he may have influenced Lord Halifax to agree to become Prime Minister from The House of Lords over Churchill. If this were the case, Britain well may have taken Hitler's generous terms for the end of hostilities Needless to say, Mrs. Simpson did the world a favor by getting rid of this pathetic character.
You can see that King George V and Queen Mary did everything they could to promote Albert (George VI), his wife Elizabeth and their daughters as their heirs over and above David (Edward VIII). Being pros they knew in their bones that Edward was totally unsuited for the job and as George V said, would "ruin himself in 6 months".
Actually her royal status was in dispute. Her father, the Duke of Teck was the product of a morganatic marriage, which meant him himself was not royal. However, her mother, was a grandaughter of George III and a first cousin of Queen Victoria, herself in line for the throne. Queen Victoria accepted Queen Mary's royal status. However, the Archbishop of Canterbury did not, and at her coronation used the term "royal rank which you now attain", and not, "which you were born".
Germany as a country did not exist when her parents were born. However, here is the "nationality" of her parents,
Paternal Grandfather: Duke Alexander of Württemberg (German)
Paternal Grandmother: Klaudia Rhédey (Hungarian)
Maternal Grandfather: Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (British, a son of King George III). George III, although born in London, had Hannoverian ancestry, and married a German, Queen Charlotte.
Maternal Grandmother: Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (German)
What a Queen! Excuse me, "Queen - Empress". She was the most regal person imaginable. My grandmother had a photograph on the wall behind her bed. With diamond mounting from her bodice to her chin and a diamond tiara on top of that, she was every inch a Queen.
She was also a character: a lady to laid claim to what she liked and expected to be offered it as a gift. Half the jewels in the present Queen's collection were accumulated by her. She also sewed beautifully. A bit ditsy and warm-hearted.
I love the way she reportedly added to the royal collection. If she saw a piece of furniture or a knick-knack that she believed belonged at the palace, she would comment on how lovely it was repeatedly, and send her driver to retrieve it afterwards.
One story has it that one of Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Beatrice, who had the social status to take Queen Mary on, said to the Queen after a clock on her mantle was noted at a dinner party "There the clock IS! And there it will STAY!
Thank you very much for doing this. She is by far my favorite Royal. She used to wear so much jewelry (perfectly, I might add) that the more proletariat types used to call her bosom "Cartier's Counter." ;o)
For her coronation, the "people of South Africa" game her a gift of over 80 emeralds which she set and wore all at once in various settings. The nickname that the members of the Royal Family had for this was "granny's chips".
One of her godsons was dressed up like her when visiting her sons at Buckingham Palace. She stumbled across them and conversed with them as if she did not notice anything. I am sure the joke was on them.
That was great! Never saw George V pick up Pss Elizabeth on the balcony at the Silver Jubilee. Never saw moving pics of the Royal Family posing for pics in 1937. Thx!!!!
That was lovely. Thanks. What a beautiful figure she had. I understand she was originally engaged to her husbands older brother but he died suddenly and it was customary for a brother next in line to ask her hand in marriage. That event would have endeared her to the king and Queen.
Her engagement to Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), was arranged by Queen Victoria. Queen Mary was the daughter of her first cousin, Princess Mary Cambridge. When Prince Albert Victor died (under somewhat controversial circumstances as he may have been caught in a gay brothel, the Cleveland Street Scandal), Queen Victoria after a one year waiting period approved her engagement to his brother, the future King George V.
I did hear that Prince Albert had a dubious character - like his Father - but how wonderful the second born King his brother made!! Funny how the next King was a second born also. HIS brother also failed morally and miserably and wasn't fit o be King. What is it about second borns??
Thank you so much! I can't redo the typo easily- but Wikipedia says this about her being the Queen Mother. "She was now officially Queen Mother (see English Queen Mothers), though she did not use that title and was instead known as Her Majesty Queen Mary".
At 4:46 there is a misspelling. It is "emperor" not "emporor." Also, upon the death of George VI in 1936, she specifically rejected the title, "Queen Mother," and wished to be known as "Queen Mary." Upon the death of George VI, she was known as "the Dowager Queen Mary."
She was a character, Queen-Empress Mary, but the most regal lady ever to fulfil that role. I remember a photography of her that was next to my grandmother's bed. With diamonds mounting from her bodice to the top of her neck, who could doubt she was a cut above the rest of humanity?
During the first world war, one of the princesses complained about having to visit the sick and wounded yet again Queen Mary called her in and said "You are a member of the British Royal Family. You are never tired and we all love hospitals! That I think verifies your point.
Yes, in her own unique way she was a wonderful Queen!
I heard this story from a Great Aunt. An acquaintance of hers had been a butler for King George and Queen Mary for many decades. When he retired, she summoned him for a private audience. He, thinking she was going to give him some of those diamonds she wore in such abundance, went with great anticipation. Instead, she gave him a cane and thanked him very much indeed.
She also finagled half the gems Elizabeth II wears so magnificently! :-)
I don't think any human is "a cut above" the rest. Some people are just born under different circumstances. That doesn't make them any better or "above" anyone else, in my opinion.
In terms of duty to country, she was unmatched. During the general strike of 1926, King George V was urgently called back to London to deal with high matters of state. One of the high members of the household notified Queen Mary that the King asked her to wait at Balmoral I believe) until his return. Her famous answer was "Have the bags packed immediately. I will not be left sitting on some mountain".
I believe , if you want to rule over a foreign land as long as you want, you must really help those local people, even better than their own governments, not only give them 3% freedom or benefit, but 60%, then , everybody will love to follow and listen to you, and there will be no end or any rebelling. :) If we treat people bad or too mean, things will never working too long. This is my guess and beliefs. :)
Funtolearn2011 2 weeks ago
HM Queen Mary was as regal as a woman could be. She was a great patriot and served King and Country to the best of her ability. She was noted for her kindness and shy sense of humor - which is largely unknown because people thought so regal and queenly a woman would not have such a sense of fun. Well done, Queen Mary, well and nobly done.
BurmaBoxer 1 month ago
There are many myths about the royal family past and present ,one of the most enduring is their nationality they are not german the present queens mother was adirect descendant of macbeth and george the 6th a descendant of mary queen of scots.George the first was descended from mary also as was prince albert.Queen mary was very much a product of her time and her behaviour was not at all unusual it is always wrong to import the values of the present onto the past.
forsythbill1 3 months ago
this was a very nice video. I like seeing archival films and photos of the royal family. Thanks very much!!
marym499 5 months ago
very interesting document. Thanks for the sharing!
sebastiancrew 5 months ago
Fantastic video. I didn't even know there WAS footage from the Dehli Durbar, let alone hope to be lucky enough to see it. Queen Mary is one of my favorite royals, and this is a great tribute to her.
ImperialAtlantis 6 months ago
i luv da part were princess elizabeth copies queen marys movement
bobo4890 6 months ago
I liked this video very much. Curious who the man with Hitler moustache is that King George is speaking to at 00:25 - 00:28.
jayocallaghan 8 months ago
Well done, Eddi.
3Angela 8 months ago
very cool thank you for posting
honeybee7700 8 months ago
What a woman!! The very embodiment of Royal Dignity!! My back straightens every time I see her!! :p
Bravo! Thank for uploading the vid; it was a pleasure to watch! :)
Blueeyedboy87 8 months ago
she had the most commanding of the royal waves:-D
jojobug45 8 months ago
well said...thank you.
skippallan 8 months ago
nice video....kudos!!! on the other hand, i thought when elizabeth II crowned queen there were 3 living queens: queen elizabeth II, queen elizabeth the queen mum & queen mary. the video says at the end that queen mary died 10 weeks b4 the coronation of QE2
skippallan 9 months ago
@skippallan A coronation of a King or Queen occurs after beginning of their reign and not simultaneously with it. Although Queen Elizabeth 2 became Queen upon her father's death in February 1952, her coronation was not until June 1953. King Edward VIII the Duke of Windsor never had a coronation since he abdicated before it was supposed to be held. But a monarch is definitely King or Queen even if there is no coronation.
eddihaskell 9 months ago
Queen Elizabeth II looks exactly like Queen Mary, her grandmother, I think.
Sometimes looks skip a generation. I look exactly like my grandmother, but not much like my mother.
ApocalypsePlough 9 months ago 4
@ApocalypsePlough I agree with you. It is remarkable how much they look alike, especially now that Her Majesty wears here hair in tight silver curls.
eddihaskell 9 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough I thought in some pics of Queen Mary I could see Prince Harry; almost like spitting images.
skuuper 8 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough Yes they do look a lot alike. Mary used to say that she looked a lot like her great-grandmother Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.
Popperite 8 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough........ON S,EN FOUT COMPLETEMENT........WHO IN THE WORLD CARES IF YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR GRANDMOTHER
rjmbruno1 8 months ago
@ApocalypsePlough I'd say that Queen Elizabeth II is in fact the female spitting image of her father.
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i think it was really tragic the way they acted about the abdication. they were so cold. but i like her style. it is also interesting how they were really marrying their own family members. all i can say is wow.
saintben2008 9 months ago
瑪莉皇后.
wilson4870 9 months ago
the saxe coburg gotha, the german mafia finally take over england, and bleed their stupid loyal subjects dry stiil doing in 2011 with sponging kate and william, yuk!
whatsgoingonthen 9 months ago
@whatsgoingonthen I am not going to argue with you about what you are saying except for one thing --- Prince William's ancestry is far more English than German. Actually, there is about as much Danish ancestry in the current royal family since Queen Alexandra and Prince Philip both claiming strong Danish ancestry. What you are saying was very correct in 1917 when the House of Windsor was created though-- as Queen Mary and King George V did have German roots. But not now.
eddihaskell 9 months ago
@eddihaskell ok i agree, to a certain extent...but they would never have changed their name..if it wasnt for kaiser wilhelm the 2nd instigating ww1 george the 5th was ashamed of his cousin..and changed the family name to windsor....on hearing this kaiser wilhelm,laughed, and said.......i think i will go and see shakespeares...merry wives of saxe coburg gotha
whatsgoingonthen 9 months ago
@whatsgoingonthen Also, George Orwell called King George V alien and uninspiring then. He said "I might be uninspiring, but I will be damned if I am alien". Good come back!
eddihaskell 9 months ago
@eddihaskell in george the 5ths defence, he ..favoured ramsay macdonald..and gave labour their first real foothold....though i doubt he could have suppressed...the magnitude of the masses.for much longer....and he helped placate the general strike....but that act of......compassion..or calculation in tough times..doesnt change my point of view with regards to royalty..as a whole
whatsgoingonthen 8 months ago
@whatsgoingonthen Like many Americans I am fascinated by the Royal Family, and see a great role for them as the figurehead leaders of the empire. However, I would support a revolution in the United States if our head of state were born and not elected (actually we had one). In addition -- after living in the UK for over 10 years, I find British class system, based on something you inherit and not on accomplishments, something that i would not want to live with. So I see your point.
eddihaskell 8 months ago
@eddihaskell im surprised just how much the americans are fascinated by the royal family..after all george the 3rd did his utmost to suppress the american people..and even after defeat at york town and saratoga..which eventually lead to independence..the british continued to harass the usa in the war of 1812..in conjunction with the american fascination..you still have the good sense to maintain a royal free country..which in the eyes of the outside world...bodes well for justice and freedom
whatsgoingonthen 8 months ago
Bello recuerdos de una epoca que se fue -
rayito2005 10 months ago
The Windsors have a lot of german blood. They descend from a german dinasty, Hannover, whose name was changed during IWW for political reasons. George I and George II couldn´t speak English. George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV and queen Victoria married german princesses/princes. Queen Alexandra, though born princess of Denmark, had a lot of german ancestors, as so had queen Mary. Germany could provide enough quantity of protestant brides and grooms for british royals.
MrAntinoo 10 months ago
George V was in love with his first cousin princess Mary of Edimburgh. Her parents were Alfred, duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg, queen Victoria´s second son, and grand duchess Maria of Russia. Edward VII and the duke approved of the match, but both mothers, queen Alexandra and duchess Maria were against it. Alexandra was fully anti-german and didn´t want a german bride for her son (although Mary was born and raised in England) and the duchess was resentful with her husband´s family.
MrAntinoo 10 months ago
Amazing Tribute!! I really like it.
connylovesships1404 10 months ago
Splendid,music superb!
vboolka1084 11 months ago
Very very great lady and Queen.
robert3302 11 months ago
Why was she called "consort".?
audgeyp 11 months ago
@audgeyp
Since Queen Mary was not a Queen in her own right, but a wife of a King, she is called Queen Consort. It is the term for a Queen who is Queen because she is married to a King.
eddihaskell 11 months ago
@audgeyp she was called a consort because like....all royals she consorted with anybody for gain..they should have been called courtesans, a more appropriate name.. a bunch of sponging poncing freeloading inbred hillbillies
whatsgoingonthen 9 months ago
The Queen Empress Mary. She said that when she died they would find India engraved on her heart.
mc0558 1 year ago
Excellent video.
ThePaulsm 1 year ago
@RichardElden You are right. I was thinking that the Delhi Durbar of 1911 was the only one that actually had the King or Queen in attendance. The others just had the Viceroy
eddihaskell 1 year ago
In the "Lost Prince", and also to some extent in "The King's Speech" just come out, Queen Mary is portrayed as slightly crazy, or extreemly repressed, which is a complete falsification of her stoic nature. I am sure that the present Queen was much influenced by her, as a girl, to put duty to the nation above everything.
racingrubberbiker 1 year ago
@racingrubberbiker I just saw the Queen's Speech -- The great actress Claire Bloom portrayed Queen Mary. I think she looked too old for the part. Queen Mary was 67 at the time of the abdication crisis, but always looked younger than her years. Claire Bloom is 81 now, and just did not seem right for the part.
Queen Mary extremely repressed? She was extremely reserved, and did not believe in showing her emotions to anyone. I actually admire this in her, her ability to control herself.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@eddihaskell I agree with you entirely
racingrubberbiker 1 year ago
Thanks for the information. I have some coins of Straits Settlement's Malaya and British Borneo with GV and GVI heads. Probably worth some value.
At least, the Windsor's line got no haemophilia case. Any latest update on that?
matarikistar 1 year ago
@matarikistar Since Ediward VII did not have hemophilia, he did not pass it on to any of his descendants.
Virctoria's hemophilia was passed on to one son (Leopold) who died from it, and two daughters (Beatrice, who passed it on to Eugenie ( Ina) who became Queen of Spain, two of whose children died from it, and Alice, the - Great - Grandmother of Prince Philip. who passed it on to her daughter Czarina Alexandra of Russia -- and famously, her son the Tsarevich Alexi.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@eddihaskell. Matarikistar is wrong, Haemophilia can only be passed by females, so Edward Vii could not pass it on even if he had it. Queen Alexandra was considered to have "good" blood at the time, due to coming from the "healthy" family of Denmark.
racingrubberbiker 1 year ago
@eddihaskell
Hi! Haemophilia is a genetic disease only transmitted by the mother'sline, not by men..
maccagenius 11 months ago
@eddihaskell
Hi! Haemophilia is a genetic disease only transmitted by the mother's line, not by men.. Men have the disease, women do not, they only transmit it
maccagenius 11 months ago
@eddihaskell,
That's why I added the 'lol' after my comment about sarkiness! I haven't studied much about this particular royal,only having seen Steven Polliokoff's adaptation of the story of Prince John.I don't think she's any more aloof than today's royals.Even now they're not overly demonstrative,but then I guess it's just part of their 'make-up'.And,let's face it,epilepsy wasn't as well known back then,so she probably was somewhat 'scared' of him and his seizures,tragic though that is.
popazz1 1 year ago
Yup,sure is,lol! Or are you being sarcy,lol?! I suppose folk'll say,"Oh,that's just how things were done back then". I tend to think she didn't have to do that,just seemed a tad severe.Ah,well,maybe it's just me,lol.
popazz1 1 year ago
@popazz1 I am not being sarcastic. I have studied many biographies of Queen Mary. She was, certainly by today's standards, aloof and distant from her children's problems. But what she did to Prince John, by banishing him from the rest of the family due to his seizures which are frightening to observe, was chilling.. Almost like a mother cat rejecting an imperfect kitten. My guess is that she was extremely threatened by him, and felt that he needed to be isolated to protect her family.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@eddihaskell If you have studied so many biographies of the late great Queen Mary then you should know she did not banish him at all. Read her diary entries....
Edmund24 9 months ago
Hmmm,so we're gonna skim over the fact she secluded her own son,Prince John,at Sandringham simply because of his epilepsy,huh?! Yup,really nice mother she was!
popazz1 1 year ago
@popazz1 Chilling isnt it.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@popazz1 Queen Mary did not have John secluded at Sandringham, that is a complete myth. Read Queen Marys diary entries to gain an accurate picture.
Edmund24 9 months ago
Also remember that her husband King George V was euthanized so he would die in time to avoid having the evening tabloids announce it. This was confirmed lately.
However, Queen Mary simply could have over-medicated herself and died from that.
I guess official mourning was 60 days, and if she died after April 5 but before the coronation it would have had to be postponed.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
I recently read that Queen Mary was euthanized , at her choice , 10 weeks before the coronation of Eii. Has anyone heard where this comes from?
thepaintedbottle 1 year ago
@thepaintedbottle It is a rumor of course. If Queen Mary did not die (she was ill) when she did, the coronation would have to be put off if she died closer to it -- due to official mourning. So rumor has it that she chose to be euthanized. I tend not to believe it.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@eddihaskell It fits with her profile, and her obsessive sense of duty.
The repercussions of her choice TO DO THIS ,would raise the bar in the family
to asense of loyalty to the throne and be one more tough nail in the side of David and Wallis.
I am actually enclined to beleive it.
thepaintedbottle 1 year ago
whenever in doubt about a course of action, I always refer back to this great Queen and ask myself "what would she do?" She never put a wrong foot forward; she put her duty to her obligations before personal considerations. I think she's been unfairly judged as cold because of the lack in modern understanding of what was required of someone like Victoria Mary back in the late 19th/early 20th century.
kendahke 1 year ago
niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
zxcvbnm0002 1 year ago
wonderfull stuff,hadnt seen a lot of the films so i really enjoyed watching
kitkat6026 1 year ago
Excellent collection of images and film clips... I especially liked the one of her in the carriage with the big smile; I don't think I'd ever seen a picture of her smiling. And the short snippet of her voice as she launched the ship. You could clearly see that she was very much a doting grandmother and great-grandmother in later life.
ColliCub 1 year ago
i never knew that our queen, queen elizabeth the second look so much like her grandmother. she is the spitting image or is it just me.
i am not a royalist but i do adore the royal family i know that may not make sense but our great nation would be nothing without our royal family
god save the queen
scousechick87 1 year ago
What is this for music?
zumtrotz11 1 year ago
@zumtrotz11 the intro is God Save the Queen of course. The music is from Elgar's Coronation Ode. The first part, True Queen of British Hearts was written for Queen Mary's own coronation in 1911. The Final Part is Land of Hope and Glory, the final stanza, sung at the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1901 for the first time. It is today played at the Proms and at events like graduations.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
I don't know, it looks like Queen "Mum" (Elizabeth, Bertie's wife) wasn't too happy to have her mother in law at the coronation. I don't remember reading that in any of the books, though. I think Mary was the most elegant and Alexandra was the sweetest.
karenofbethany 1 year ago
@karenofbethany it was a break from protocol for the Queen Mary to be at her son's coronation, but you have to remember what just went down in that family. Queen Mary had to show support for Bertie stepping into David's role.
kendahke 1 year ago
@kendahke I believe it was Stanley Baldwin and others in the government who suggested that Queen Mary attend the coronation of her son. Queen Mary was seen by many as the matriarch of the Royal Family, and even of the nation itself. There were still those who felt that Edward VIII should have been allowed to stay as King and marry Mrs. Simpson; Queen Mary's attendance not only demonstrated her own approval of events, but assured the nation that she would continue to have influence.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
she was very pretty(queen mary)
very wel made video
lilswtangel92 1 year ago
Really well done! Destiny is so strange. If she had married Prince Albert Victor Elizabeth II would not have been born. The Queen loved Queen Mary so very much.
Coltboy65 1 year ago
I believe the last reigning monarch of England to attend the Delhi Durbar?
leather064 1 year ago
@leather064 There was only one Delhi Durbar. King Geroge V and Queen Mary attended it. They were thinking of holding one for King George VI, but WW2 got in the way - and Indian Independence was on the agenda after it.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
Superb !
Your familiarity with the subject is reflected in your judicious choice of imagery, editing and information. The combination of still and motion picture is spectacular ( especially the sumptuous footage of the Delhi Durbar ( combined divinely with Elgar...)
This video is a treasure to me by any estimation, but it is the first time in my life I have ever heard a recording of Queen Mary's voice. This makes it a treasure indeed.
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
NuovoPiero 1 year ago
wow it was very interesting!
dvine0621 1 year ago
thankyou very much for uploading this, i think it's wonderful that anybody can sit on the internet and watch the kind of clips that are in this video and at anytime you want.
kanga888 1 year ago
@kanga888Thank you so much for uploading. Saw 'The King's Speech' and was thirsty for more information/clarification when I came home. Some footage is very familiar to me - as a small child (b 1944) the 'Royal Family' (was there any other) was often in press and on newsreels at Saturday picture matinees children attended (when we got coins from parents). Also received 'Annuals' from Father Christmas on the Royals. Great memories! Again, thanks for the effort in producing these images.
kwassagirl 1 year ago
That was a beautiful tribute... Thank you
happymax1 1 year ago
George V was my favorite Royal
CanadianMonarchist1 2 years ago
@CanadianMonarchist1 One of the Georges look similar to cousin Nicholas Romanov. Agree QEII has german blood?
matarikistar 1 year ago
@matarikistar Actually, Prince Michael of Kent looks very much like the late Czar. He is related to him on both sides. His father of course, The Duke of Kent was King George V's son, and King George V (Queen Mary's husband) was the Czar's first cousin through Queen Alexandra.
Not only that, Prince Michael of Kent's mother, Princess Marina of Greece's mother and father were both the Czar's first cousin being descended from Czar Alexander 2.
The resemblance is amazing.
eddihaskell 1 year ago
@matarikistar Germany did not exist until 1871, it was a collection of German speaking states, many of whom did not like each other, until then.
Queen Elizabeth 2 does have some German ancestry, but much less than is thought.
Maternal Grandmother -- Countess Strathmore. 100% British
Maternal Grandfather -- Earl of Strathmore -- 100% British
Paternal Grandmother (Queen Mary) - 25% British, 25% Hungarian, 50% German
Paternal Grandfather (King George V): 50% Danish, 25% German, 25% Brit
eddihaskell 1 year ago
wait a second didnt George V create and control the worlds largest empire, at its height in 1922 the brtish empire was the largest in worlds histroy?
Narrowcros 2 years ago
Dos'nt HM Queen Elizabeth 2 look very much like HM Queen Mary as HM ages??
pipeup1 2 years ago
Very very much so.
I have an amusing story to tell. I am American. On a tour of Buckingham palace, the guide stopped before the famous picture of George III surrounded by all his children. She pointed out the Duke of Kent, his son and Victoria's father, as the ancestor of the current
Queen.
I raise my hand. I then point out that the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Mary's grandfather, is also in the picture and there are actually 2 ancestors of Her Majesty!
If looks could kill!
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Thats great! Classic :-)
But it does highlight how the Royal Family are a bit too overbred!!!
pipeup1 2 years ago
Queen Mary was very statuesque and incredibly regal. I am afraid that The Queen is no where near her in that regard. Elizabeth II's 3 row strand of pears doesn't hold a candle to Mary's diamond chokers from bodice to chin. She really had the royal touch!
mc0558 2 years ago
Yes nobody could carry off the enormous amount of jewellery like Queen Mary. But I think you are being a little unfair to the present Queen who has neither Queen Marys height or the advantage (?) of being brought up in constricted to a wasp waist by whalebone corsets, Queen Mary herself admired the young Elizabeths stature saying it was reminiscent of the dignity and poise of Queen Victoria.
talmadge1926 1 year ago
Yes and what is more striking is that if you look at paintings of George the 3rds consort Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz the resemblance to both Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth is staggering. Princess Anne also has inherited noticeable features from her Mecklenburg ancestry
talmadge1926 1 year ago
@pipeup1 Indeed. The first time I truly noticed this was the 1999 marriage of the Earl of Wessex in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. I think the lavender aigrettes perched atop her now white coiffeur on that occasion made me gaze in wonder....... Queen Mary would concur with the words of her King and Husband, " I hope nothing comes between Bertie, Lillibet and the Throne............"
NuovoPiero 1 year ago
HRH was a selfless, complicated, loyal, interesting, remarkably down-to-earth woman. She willingly married a profoundly limited man thanks to her patriotism and loyalty to the crown and learned to love him. She did the best she could, given the limitations upon her, rearing her children, and set a standard for future family members that the current generation might do well to emulate. James Pope-Hennessey's biography is an excellent account of a life well spent.
hangtime9873 2 years ago
She was also expert at garnering fabulous jewels and antiques for the royal collection free of charge. In this regard she was more a pirate than a Queen.
A great aunt of mine knew one of the Queen's butlers. He has served the royal family since entering service. When he retired Queen Mary presented him with a parting gift for a lifetime of devotion and service--it was a cane! Queen Mary was a generous soul to boot. :-)
mc0558 2 years ago
What a great presentation. I have long felt that Queen Mary deserves far greater recognition than she has received to date for her devotion to Britain.
Glyndwr65 2 years ago
Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory is from Coronation Ode Opus 44. There are many wonderful parts to this. The first part I am playing is "True Queen of British Homes and Hearts'' written for Queen Mary, the last part of course Land of Hope and Glory. This version is by the Scottish National Orchestra, and also has the moving "spirit of England" on the same disk.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
the royal family always seems to have a bug up there ass. that whole holyer then thou attitude has done nothing but weeken there empire and placed the out of touch with there people. iam so happy that iam an amereican and our founding fathers saw this 233 years ago. good clip E H
prowlifik 2 years ago
Actually, the royal family and the crown has HELPED the modern rendition of the "empire" in the form of the commonwealth of which The Queen is head. The Crown serves to unite people around the world who love what it represents as a key symbol of Britain. The Queen is warmly received whenever she visits Commonwealth member states- I venture to say that the UK is far stronger with a monarchy then it would be with a republican form of government.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
I can't wait for the Coronation of King George VII.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Do you think that is what Charles will be called if he becomes king? Charles the 1 had his head chopped off, and Charles the II was not exactly well liked. However, given the longevity of the Queen Mother, you are going to have to wait quite a few years for this to happen.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
I think it was supposed to be in tribute to his grandfather George VI.
Just because the Queen Mother lived to be 101 doesn't mean her daughter will. Since the Queen is 83 she could die at any time.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Well let's pray she lives a long life. At least 15 more years. But a coronation would be nice to see if they don't change the basic formula to make it all-inclusive.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Dear PeterFirthFan,
Re: your comment on the Queen's longevity: Nuts to you!
artlife1010 2 years ago
Yes I hope she does.
Now that I think about it, the "George VII" title would have to be because he doesn't want to be crowned as Charles, after all it seems strange that he would have such fond memories of a grandfather who died when he was three.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
i think he should just abdicate upon acesion and give it straight to William who is at the ripe age and experienced enough after all his life is controversial and nobody wants to see him as king and camila as consort of anything even if she only wishes to become Princess consort not queen may the queen live untill prince william becomes King!!!
KURarEp 2 years ago
Charles should abdicate now so that William has time to tour the Commonwealth, make himself know, build up public affection for him, get married, have a few kids. If Charles and Camilla succeed, I think Canada and Australia will break with the Crown. I doubt that the Commonwealth will accept him as its head. He doesn't possess the prestige and affection needed to succeed to his mother's positions. William could, but he needs to get started now.For the good of his family, Charles must step aside.
mc0558 2 years ago
He very well might do so.
From what I read, Camilla wants to stay at home more with her grandchildren and not devote the rest of her life to constantly try to improve her image so she can be Queen one day. From observing Camilla, I think this very well could be true.
Also, Charles (and I believe this) has indicated he wishes to be able to express his opinions more openly on controversial matters when he is King. This cannot be greeted since it will run counter to his required neutrality.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Don't be ridiculous! Queen Elizabeth II is going to live forever.
artlife1010 2 years ago
artlife1010
Do you think yourself will live forever?
Suwat45 2 years ago
Well said, sir. I agree.
Long Live Elizabeth II, the greatest queen in history.
artlife1010 2 years ago
Elizabeth I was better because she had real power.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
This was worth the watch but it suffers from poor sound and visual effect, possibly because it has had great viewing numbers...Very well done and thoughtful choice of music to accompany it. Thank you Mr. Haskell
mabelstephen 2 years ago
Well i just used Microsoft movie maker, stills, and recordings from elsewhere, I think its a good for a free effort though!
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Brilliant.
TheBritannicRoyalist 2 years ago
Greeting to King and Queen of Ingland
Blessing and Honour ,Love of Humanity always be with you and Family!!
Rev Javier Lipnica
Trion Life LOver
javierlipnica 2 years ago
at 3:40 is such a cool moment. how now she is the queen and hella old. in in that moment in time she was just a little girl
gqswager89 2 years ago
Great video...
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!
324wilson 2 years ago
Great Video! What is the musical piece playing at 4:30? It is a very moving music.
Fire8386 2 years ago
That is Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Number 1, as it was originally written for the coronation of Edward 7. Land of Hope and Glory. It has been played at graduations and other ceremonies since. It just sounds more royal with a full chorus and orchestra!
eddihaskell 2 years ago
I have read just about everything there is about Queen Mary and I can tell you all that rarely has there been a more amazing lady. Her hard work during WWI and WWII is astounding. Queen Mary was indeed every inch a queen in the finest sense. God bless her memory and may every British subject never forget her or if they don't know anything about her they should.
mortondavid 2 years ago
Mary queen, great Queen God saves Mary Queen. Wonderful wonderful video.
BjeanCar 2 years ago 7
Lets see. She buried three sons, one of whom was a severe epileptic, watched another abdicate the highest position in the land to a woman twice married, and watched literally thousands of young men she had met die in the two world wars. She never had a day of privacy in her life. And she did an enormous amount of service to her peoples. She was loved when she died, only to be equaled by our own Queen Mother who died in 2002. Do you think you might be being just a bit a harsh?
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Kudos for this fantastic video.
Thanks so much for posting!!!
gladys8it 2 years ago 9
She and George Vth werea rather odd couple , he haad some Parrots that were allowed to fly about all over Buck House and they would shit on the dining table, he would move the cruets about to cover the crap up.
Dhbrydon 2 years ago
Friends were very cautious about showing her thier Antiques as she would pressure them to make a gift of whatever they had to her, almost a thief.
Dhbrydon 2 years ago
Look at it this way. In her opinion, she was returning to the royal state "collection" artifacts that were part of the national collection to begin with. The many mistresses of the royal princes for hundreds of years were handed these precious artifacts as gifts. And many royal sets were missing pieces. The people she was visiting were not poor. She merely "suggested" that nice pieces were too wonderful for her to part with, and then sent her driver around to collect them like it or not.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Many years ago Queen Mary used to visit an antique shop in Cambridge, my friend , an aspiring news photographer was waiting out side hoping to geta picturewhen she came out and jabbed him with her umbrella and said" stand up on your own 2 feet young man, dont lean on my car"
Dhbrydon 2 years ago
Well i can see it saying that, can't you? I just read this in a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt that when she visited Queen Mary at her niece's estate, Badmitton, during WW2 that she kept Eleanor standing for 15 minutes before she asked if she wanted to set- Eleanor was somewhat put off I actually have a picture in the video of the two of them together unveiling the statue to FDR in the late 1940's in Grovesnor Square in this video.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Thanks Eddi for your beautiful video. Good job. I think that Queen Mary was always admired and respected but never loved. She was a very cold person. I've never saw a picture of her funeral, except that you give us here. The pic is very small and I can't see if her crown is placed above her coffin. Do you have other pics of that funeral? Thanks a lot and best regards from Chile.
MPM1943 2 years ago
i found that video on the Pathe company web site. They are available for free downloads. I did fudge the sound track, the audio is from the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
i saw one picture and i did not see a crown.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Queen Mary did indeed, have a crown made - it was called the Crown of Queen Mary as did Queen Alexandra, her mother-in-law and consort of Edward VII
mcgonagall123 2 years ago
I find her taking an umbrella with her everywhere an amusing affectation - it seems very English!
fishhead06 2 years ago
I once read that she used to tap her husband with it when she thought he was speaking for too long and needed to stop.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Queen Mary does not seem to have had a crown made for her for George V's coronation or his appearance at the Durbar. Strange, because George VI's concort, Queen Elizabeth, did have a crown.
Not also that at the end of his life, George V and Queen Mary are clearly promoting their second son and his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as their preferred offspring. The Prince of Wales seems absent. They clearly understood that he was a walking disaster waiting to unfold.
mc0558 2 years ago
Many thanks for this posting. Very rare footage of her funeral. Wonderful woman
rickyeastbelfast1 2 years ago
You've done a very nice job with this video! Thank you for posting it!
ehwashdc 2 years ago
Queen Mary had a way of spinning her arm in the air like windmill that was supposed to be a wave. She also never smiled in public, because she thought it was unroyal. She was a real character--and the greatest collector of jewelry that family ever had. A memorable Queen! May she rest in peace! :-)
mc0558 2 years ago 2
1:08 Not quite true. Cinematographers filmed them in some sort of early color system at the 1911 Delhi Durbar.
soulierinvestments 2 years ago
It is clear that Edward VIII has strong nazi sympathies. If he were King, there is a good chance that he may have influenced Lord Halifax to agree to become Prime Minister from The House of Lords over Churchill. If this were the case, Britain well may have taken Hitler's generous terms for the end of hostilities Needless to say, Mrs. Simpson did the world a favor by getting rid of this pathetic character.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
You can see that King George V and Queen Mary did everything they could to promote Albert (George VI), his wife Elizabeth and their daughters as their heirs over and above David (Edward VIII). Being pros they knew in their bones that Edward was totally unsuited for the job and as George V said, would "ruin himself in 6 months".
mc0558 2 years ago 2
Actually her royal status was in dispute. Her father, the Duke of Teck was the product of a morganatic marriage, which meant him himself was not royal. However, her mother, was a grandaughter of George III and a first cousin of Queen Victoria, herself in line for the throne. Queen Victoria accepted Queen Mary's royal status. However, the Archbishop of Canterbury did not, and at her coronation used the term "royal rank which you now attain", and not, "which you were born".
eddihaskell 2 years ago
She was German, a princess of Tex.
PaultjeL 2 years ago
She was not German, "Teck" was just her title.
Edmund24 2 years ago
Germany as a country did not exist when her parents were born. However, here is the "nationality" of her parents,
Paternal Grandfather: Duke Alexander of Württemberg (German)
Paternal Grandmother: Klaudia Rhédey (Hungarian)
Maternal Grandfather: Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (British, a son of King George III). George III, although born in London, had Hannoverian ancestry, and married a German, Queen Charlotte.
Maternal Grandmother: Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (German)
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Very well made - congratulations!
fishhead06 2 years ago 2
one of the best and most moving films i ever saw thankyou
jobwell 2 years ago 2
What a Queen! Excuse me, "Queen - Empress". She was the most regal person imaginable. My grandmother had a photograph on the wall behind her bed. With diamond mounting from her bodice to her chin and a diamond tiara on top of that, she was every inch a Queen.
She was also a character: a lady to laid claim to what she liked and expected to be offered it as a gift. Half the jewels in the present Queen's collection were accumulated by her. She also sewed beautifully. A bit ditsy and warm-hearted.
mc0558 2 years ago 7
Amen to that!
Although she was far from ditsy, her knowledge of History was fantastic and she did so much research for the Royal Collection.
Edmund24 2 years ago
I love the way she reportedly added to the royal collection. If she saw a piece of furniture or a knick-knack that she believed belonged at the palace, she would comment on how lovely it was repeatedly, and send her driver to retrieve it afterwards.
One story has it that one of Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Beatrice, who had the social status to take Queen Mary on, said to the Queen after a clock on her mantle was noted at a dinner party "There the clock IS! And there it will STAY!
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Wasn't that Princess Louise who said that?!
Chamberien 2 years ago
Thank you very much for doing this. She is by far my favorite Royal. She used to wear so much jewelry (perfectly, I might add) that the more proletariat types used to call her bosom "Cartier's Counter." ;o)
alltop 2 years ago
There are wonderful anecdotes about her.
For her coronation, the "people of South Africa" game her a gift of over 80 emeralds which she set and wore all at once in various settings. The nickname that the members of the Royal Family had for this was "granny's chips".
One of her godsons was dressed up like her when visiting her sons at Buckingham Palace. She stumbled across them and conversed with them as if she did not notice anything. I am sure the joke was on them.
eddihaskell 2 years ago
Long live our beloved Queen!
anaclet 3 years ago
Wonderful. Greetings from the United States of America!
dondonp12004 3 years ago
That was great! Never saw George V pick up Pss Elizabeth on the balcony at the Silver Jubilee. Never saw moving pics of the Royal Family posing for pics in 1937. Thx!!!!
rupviv 3 years ago 3
Very good video. Pictures quality and historical content well put together.
Thank you so much.
mickjai 3 years ago 2
and thank you! I am thiking about doing one on Princess Margaret next.
eddihaskell 3 years ago
Very nice tribute indeed.
Long live our British Monarchy...
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!
324wilson 3 years ago
That was lovely. Thanks. What a beautiful figure she had. I understand she was originally engaged to her husbands older brother but he died suddenly and it was customary for a brother next in line to ask her hand in marriage. That event would have endeared her to the king and Queen.
FinCups 3 years ago 2
Her engagement to Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), was arranged by Queen Victoria. Queen Mary was the daughter of her first cousin, Princess Mary Cambridge. When Prince Albert Victor died (under somewhat controversial circumstances as he may have been caught in a gay brothel, the Cleveland Street Scandal), Queen Victoria after a one year waiting period approved her engagement to his brother, the future King George V.
eddihaskell 3 years ago
I did hear that Prince Albert had a dubious character - like his Father - but how wonderful the second born King his brother made!! Funny how the next King was a second born also. HIS brother also failed morally and miserably and wasn't fit o be King. What is it about second borns??
FinCups 3 years ago
why disable the ratings?? this was a great movie 5 stars!
Ourumov66 3 years ago
ok, ill allow ratings !
eddihaskell 3 years ago
Thank you so much! I can't redo the typo easily- but Wikipedia says this about her being the Queen Mother. "She was now officially Queen Mother (see English Queen Mothers), though she did not use that title and was instead known as Her Majesty Queen Mary".
eddihaskell 3 years ago
Great job. A few minor points:
At 4:46 there is a misspelling. It is "emperor" not "emporor." Also, upon the death of George VI in 1936, she specifically rejected the title, "Queen Mother," and wished to be known as "Queen Mary." Upon the death of George VI, she was known as "the Dowager Queen Mary."
mindspring57 3 years ago
She was a character, Queen-Empress Mary, but the most regal lady ever to fulfil that role. I remember a photography of her that was next to my grandmother's bed. With diamonds mounting from her bodice to the top of her neck, who could doubt she was a cut above the rest of humanity?
mc0558 3 years ago
During the first world war, one of the princesses complained about having to visit the sick and wounded yet again Queen Mary called her in and said "You are a member of the British Royal Family. You are never tired and we all love hospitals! That I think verifies your point.
eddihaskell 3 years ago
Yes, in her own unique way she was a wonderful Queen!
I heard this story from a Great Aunt. An acquaintance of hers had been a butler for King George and Queen Mary for many decades. When he retired, she summoned him for a private audience. He, thinking she was going to give him some of those diamonds she wore in such abundance, went with great anticipation. Instead, she gave him a cane and thanked him very much indeed.
She also finagled half the gems Elizabeth II wears so magnificently! :-)
mc0558 3 years ago
I don't think any human is "a cut above" the rest. Some people are just born under different circumstances. That doesn't make them any better or "above" anyone else, in my opinion.
firmingitup 3 years ago
I think in the appropriate context
Queen Mary was a cut above the rest.
In terms of duty to country, she was unmatched. During the general strike of 1926, King George V was urgently called back to London to deal with high matters of state. One of the high members of the household notified Queen Mary that the King asked her to wait at Balmoral I believe) until his return. Her famous answer was "Have the bags packed immediately. I will not be left sitting on some mountain".
eddihaskell 3 years ago
I think that you did a wonderful job in this presentation of not only Queen Mary but also the King snf the rest of their family. Bravo, Eddi!
timujin02 3 years ago