He was actually a really lovely man

He was a Good Man

fantastic man. He came to my school to give D of E awards and he said he wanted to meet all the girls and talk to them . He was interested in their work. No fuss just a genuine fellow who we all loved .He will be sorely missed

@betweenlamppost

Жыл бұрын

He was a great man, very humble and approachable

@helenwalker2986

2 ай бұрын

I bet he did... any of them ever go missing?

@suea7387

2 ай бұрын

@@helenwalker2986 What a weird and unpleasant comment.

@helenwalker2986

2 ай бұрын

@@suea7387 Id rather be wierd and unpleasant than someone who blindly gives respect to an elite child trafficking cartel.. cheers... it used to be a mark of morality... now its 'weird and unplesant'... so sorry to be an unrelenting irritant to you... I am the SALT... as the bible instructs... You are the sugar... ; )

@ABUTARI70

Ай бұрын

Down to earth, very admirable, money is a blessing but you don't have to be boorish if you have lots of it

He seems to have been unusually diligent in community/ public service and charity

Decent chap - may he rest in peace.

@Dog.soldier1950

3 жыл бұрын

He also served for decades in the Territorials

Duke seemed to be very sensible and eloquent 😮😢 i want see his other interviews

@admiralbenbow5083

6 ай бұрын

He wasnt. He was thick as a brick.

@Tezzmeuster

3 ай бұрын

​@@admiralbenbow5083Really 😂😂 someone's jealous

@davebrayfb

3 ай бұрын

He was an upper class toff.

@admiralbenbow5083

3 ай бұрын

@@Tezzmeuster Of what? A man with one O`level ?

@helenwalker2986

2 ай бұрын

@@admiralbenbow5083 All that 'philanthropy'... total scammers.

I met him in 2008/2009 @ 11 Downing Street when Alistair Darling was the chancellor a few of us were invited to No. 11 and he was mingling with us after the ceremony. A very short man - very polite and friendly, though and was very interested in what I was saying; so I didn't really get to ask much of him. I didn't realise who he was until we finished chatting someone told me he was the wealthiest landowner in London; or something along those lines. Turns out he had a lot of the secret MOD communication cables and exchanges running under the basements of some of his properties that's how trusted he was. I think his son took over his portfolio, now.

@TodayFreedom

9 ай бұрын

One of the curious elements of being born into incredible wealth is that it either makes you or utterly breaks you. I’ve known people from both sides of that equation- a friend whose father left him over £300 million and it turned him into a paranoid, selfish, self-obsessed prat. I barely speak to him any more- a guy who watched a good fiend of ours almost driven to suicide by a divorce settlement yet didn’t lift a finger to help him. The other person is a chap I’ve known since I was a student, his father was an earl and one of the wealthiest landowners in Britain. He’s a gentleman to the core. He’s given away tens of millions of pounds over the past twenty years and always with the caveat that he never be named with the donations. He’s a devout Christian and feels the money is a colossal burden. I think money is very much like alcohol- it accentuates whatever you already are; if you have no moral core then it’ll be bloody obvious when you suddenly have two or three hundred million in the bank.

He speaks so clearly that the English subtitles, usually surreal, corresponds to what he is actually saying.

@NitrousMcBread

8 жыл бұрын

+Beirut27 All the better to order hookers down dodgy Transatlantic telephone lines :)

@Beirut27

8 жыл бұрын

If he did which his lawyers denied, threatening to sue because on the alleged night he was somewhere else.

@NitrousMcBread

8 жыл бұрын

When do obsecenely rich married guys caught with their pants down not send lawyers to deny everything and threaten everyone?

@Beirut27

8 жыл бұрын

But when witnesses will swear that they were with them with their pants on, at the time of their alleged use of a prostitute, people who still accuse them can and will be sued for defamation. Just saying...

@NitrousMcBread

8 жыл бұрын

+Beirut27 I wonder whose hourly rate was higher, the prostitutes, the lawyers or the "witnesses"...

Heavy smoking had the last word and Gerald Grosvenor died of lung cancer :( . Interesting man who, with his wife, refused to send his children to boarding school where he suffered hell.

@chrisdurant4627

2 жыл бұрын

Why was he bullid at school, I was,.and.still. am, n.am ,59, hmm,

What a great man. This man was so authentic.

This guy’s wealth stretches back through the generations to the 1000’s. (ie: 1021 years ago 😵‍💫)

Great man, he will be missed.

@chrisdurant4627

2 жыл бұрын

Did ya no him, like a what,, he seens rate enoufe, don he, bless him,

I love his eyebrows 😍 It gave him a lot of personality to his face.

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose messing about with one's eyebrows is unmanly, although shaving one's chin every day is fine. Sadly for me I've never been able to grow bushy eyebrows, but am OK in the beard department.

@admiralbenbow5083

3 ай бұрын

I shared a flat with 2 nieces of his. Same eyebrows.

May you please REST IN PEACE = requiscant inipace Le Duc De Westminster - your enormous hard work has sown the seeds into tomorrow and beyonds

The new young Duke is very handsome as well!

It's so amazing to find who my family is & to be able to find more on KZread

@gaetanaroberto9044

3 жыл бұрын

Non il duca, ma l uomo che c'è dietro è davvero intelligente e molto affascinamte 🎼🌈🎼

A lovely interview . Saw him several time in his Range Rover GG1 .

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

Shame his son can't use it! HG1 is boring, no reference to racehorse ownership.

I like the ducal coronet atop the ducal throne. This man has no time for fools, seemed like a very serious person. His smiles transformed to serious expression instantly, he was not amused by the dumb blonde interviewer - the same trick the BBC tried on Trump. He was there just for the business of publicising the fund-raising task for RNIB, a laudable thing. Certainly had the gift of the gab.

*There's Nothing Beyond the wit of Man😊

A great humble man and very approachable

As a member of the Wrexham tropical fish society I’m outraged!

A very interesting interview. I was, however, amazed to hear him say "pacifically" three times when clearly the relevant word was "specifically". Its most surprising to hear this kind of mistake from one who is so well educated and speaks so fluently and eloquently.

@chrisdurant4627

2 жыл бұрын

Nobodys any bodie, realy, im alow life,.ahh, studie, psalm, 39,'psalm' 90, ,quiet interestin, its money, that causes class, war,,.well ye, teck all lollie from queen, she,d.be.like.me a lowlife,, ahhh, dya like that one,

@admiralbenbow5083

6 ай бұрын

He wasnt well educated. He had one O level.

Very clear speaker

I've just found out. May he rest in peace.

in his later interviews he sounds consdierably less posh

Good dude,,with great kids

He financed the entire new Liverpool city centre. Wealthy but generous

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

I think that was a business venture, not a donation.

She sounds like Joanna Lumley and he sounds like David Niven.

@Gar96229

7 жыл бұрын

I never noticed that until you said it.

A forty-year-old GCG was steaming hot

Terribly sad that he died early..he sounds wonderful and inconceivable why his death could not have been evaded..

Interesting and intuitive man. An attractive but unusual face. Sleepy beautiful eyes. The Duke was an unassuming and shy person so it took effort for him to assume the Duke of Westminster's many duties and obligations. Appreciate his aristocracy articulation. One of the few UK accents easily understood. Unfortunately in this interview, the Duke was more intelligent than the interviewer. Difficult sparing with her PC carping and redundant questions. The interviewer even insinuated it was presumptuous of the Duke to use private charities to usurp the prerogative rights "responsibility" of centralized government to control and allocate the people's money.

@mscott3918

3 жыл бұрын

Most people are more intelligent than interviewers

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

BBC don't understand the concept of "charity", for them it's an obscenity as big government should be responsible for everything, not our fellow citizens giving of their own free-will.

Taking the time period into consideration, I can't help but think he's being guarded.

Is this Mr. Grosvenor? His son just got married, 34 yrs after this interview? Hope his son sounds so bright and eloquent.

I would have loved to have waxed and trimmed his eyebrows

@cromerbeach

3 жыл бұрын

Caterpillars for sure

@bg588

3 жыл бұрын

No, he doesn’t have a vane microbe in his body. Such a naturally attractive man

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

@@bg588 Come on, that floppy hair took some doing in front of a mirror, must have been something holding it up from a spray can. But nothing wrong with a modicum of vanity.

Hugh Grosvenor should accept interviews

Iam not a native English speaker may i ask u about his account... what kind of British accent its .... so lovely and appealing to ears❤😊

@TodayFreedom

9 ай бұрын

It’s called “Received Pronunciation” also called “RP”. It’s the same accent that was used on all BBC News channels until about twenty years ago. It’s still very common among the British upper-class and in British academia.

Smart, eloquent, articulate, aristocrat (23/7/23 1:40am)

How very eloquent he was for a man with only one O level

@mortonsalt5055

5 жыл бұрын

2 O levels english and history

The interviewer sounds like Selena Scott...

What's got more hair? The eyebrows or the combover?

he was unhappy at the end

@GuyRips

2 ай бұрын

At this time he was going at it hard

Selina Scott was considered to be an above average interviewer in her day. This is the second I’ve seen and heard, and both are quite dreadful. When she co chaired the newly televised Mann Booker prize she admitted to not reading any of the short list and then asked the judges table “ so, who do you think will win”. 45 minutes before the reveal. So to ask a patron in the first few seconds “will you be making up the short fall if you don’t make the full £10.000000

@jamesjameson4566

Жыл бұрын

Donald trump had a bit of a spat with her

真有钱啊…

'Makes me proud to be British!'

The topic is incredibly tedious, boring, outdated, and of no interest to me. However, it was a great pleasure to listen to him

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

We are lucky to be fully sighted, reading these comments. If you have the misfortune to go blind one day, you will be grateful, and it won't seem so boring.

@fatimamohammad6358

6 ай бұрын

For me too it was pleasure to discover this man 😊

Superior eyebrows

Like all his kind the real charity is themselves , although its well documented he's donated £1000 to hookers to help keep them gainfully employed...

@lanabanana68

8 жыл бұрын

well said.

@layla-loon75

5 жыл бұрын

Well documented yes but based on very flimsy 'evidence. Some of those girls were paid by the News of The World to tell them what they 'wanted to hear'. Or should I say, they were paid to say things that fitted with the NOTW's narrative.

아버님 뭐라하시는지 모르겠는데 목소리가 너무 멋있으니세요

Who is the interviewer?

@fightbacktohealth9625

6 жыл бұрын

Selena Scott(?)

@layla-loon75

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that's what I thought. Selena Scott.

I don’t understand why the British love wealthy ppl so much. So downtown abbey like

@TodayFreedom

9 ай бұрын

He wasn’t loved for his money; he was loved because he used his life to support dozens of charities for over fifty years. He had the option to do absolutely nothing and yet he used his life AND money to promote and support work for the blind, and a dozen other causes. He was a kind, hardworking, decent guy. Are you?

job-shy

Ha ha ha , ‘visually handicapped’,!!!!🥴Does he realise what he said.

@charleswhite758

2 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with 'handicapped'? these words come and go as fashions. Used to be "disabled", then "disadvantaged", replaced by "impaired", that will go out of fashion too, as a new euphemism is discovered to continue the pretence that blindness doesn't exist. All these words were coined with the very best of intentions, to help blind people. They were never ever derogatory terms that later generations suppose.

Monobrow I'm guessing werewolve. C'mon the royals are vampires theres a connection somewhere.

@layla-loon75

5 жыл бұрын

He was not royal.

@europeangirl9936

5 жыл бұрын

So all the people who have a monobrow are werewolves? Lol no, it's just a gene that causes that and many people have them.

@itsmeGeorgina

2 жыл бұрын

Not with his short life, surely

@Austin8thGenTexan

2 жыл бұрын

Rude and simpleton comments to be sure... 🙄

Not a bad interview, although as a visually impaired person I find his use of the term 'handicapped' to be nothing short of disgusting

@nelsonr32

8 жыл бұрын

Different times.

@carefree1905

8 жыл бұрын

+Jack Black (Jackblack1313) please watch your language

@carefree1905

8 жыл бұрын

+Jack Black (Jackblack1313) please stop using that derogatory term!

@kyldy

7 жыл бұрын

yes back in the 1990s it was different times. the late duke was a kind generous man who never blew his own horn I will never forget when he took on Margaret Thatcher on the poll tax, May his son do as good a job, I can see why the Grovenors are a private family this man and the Percys are too. The yellow press needs to mind their own business.

@leotheo5163

6 жыл бұрын

People don’t say handicapped anymore ? Lol what do they say

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