Annie Lennox Discovers Family Class Divide | Who Do You Think You Are
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Annie Lennox learns of the situation revolving around her paternal great great great grandmother’s birth, and how one ancestor was living in luxury, while just round the corner his family was living in squalor.
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I never get these in the right order, how hard would it be to number the parts of each story!
@jaccoet9894
3 жыл бұрын
Word
@fuzzymarmot4628
3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree!
@cindz4618
3 жыл бұрын
Me too
@pgl7950
2 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@loveorangeToledotribe
2 жыл бұрын
So true! I am hooked but i got really confused where is the beginning of their story 😨
I love Annie's voice, presence and personality. One of my favourite artists ever.
In my opinion,Annie Lennox and Freddie Mercury are the two best vocalists in the world,hands down.This was a very interesting story,and its so nice to see her.
@tessabiggs2917
4 жыл бұрын
People's Front of Canada can add David Bowie to that list too?
@unacceptableviews1505
4 жыл бұрын
@@tessabiggs2917 I wouldn't.I liked him don't get me wrong but he was not in Freddie's league
@tessabiggs2917
4 жыл бұрын
@@unacceptableviews1505 Freddie and Annie will always share the number one spot.
@mrpleasant2566
4 жыл бұрын
Please include Moby too:) Porcelan is AMAZING.
@colliness
3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
Annie is, before a fantastic vocalist, a wonderful human being.. love her ❤
Annie's deductions at the end are powerful. "It's all a very dark Victorian melodrama to me."
@teaCupkk
Жыл бұрын
Her "deductions" are terribly dull. These people are given a rare glimpse into the lives of their ancestors, and they ruin it by being unable to set aside their modern sensibilities for a few minutes.
Annie is a legend
I love Annie's spoken voice as much as her singing voice!
I really like the lady who’s with her she seems very sweet
One of my favourite singers very interesting finding her story out of her family
@BM-lw6gn
4 жыл бұрын
Glad to come across this.
I wish these segments were numbered or something they’re all randomly all over the place not good
Why aren't these darned things numbered? Would make it a lot easier to watch them in order if they were.
Love her voice
@tricia4479
3 жыл бұрын
Same as mine. We are obviously both Scottish & born in the same town.
The divine Miss Annie as Bowie announced her once.
I don’t care whether you’re rich or poor, your soul is priceless ~ xxx…
Sometimes the statement the late Leonard Cohen had coined makes sense to much of past... ''The less I was of who I was the better I felt.''
My auntie has done the family tree and I’m related to Annie, my great grandmothers maiden name was Lennox
@NK-rk2uu
3 жыл бұрын
Hi where do u come from?
@elizabethbower2168
3 жыл бұрын
Lennox is quite a common surname
@lmc2375
Жыл бұрын
@@elizabethbower2168 Suggesting what? Aren't all of our surnames eventually, common?
@lmc2375
Жыл бұрын
How fabulous for you. She def. has one of the greatest voices the world has known. 💖💫🦋
I LOVE Annie Lennox!
She is truly amazing. She and Joss Stone are the only folks who could hold their own with The Revernd Al green, because the Man can get a bit Cray Cray on Stage. When Justin Timberlake and he did a Show on Memphis, TN., he knew he had so much work to do. The Scots, Irish, and British have produced some of the best Blue Eyed Soul Singers.
@ML-ul2zq
4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the incredible Dusty Springfield.
That poor girl. I hope she found love and a family.
@ML-ul2zq
Жыл бұрын
Jessie married after working in a flax mill from the age of 13. She and her husband had 4 sons and she died at age 35 from cancer. Hopefully her family life was stable in the last portion of her life.
It's true what your parents do comes back on You !
"they were in a relationship" .... highly unlikely. what a polite way to tiptoe around the distinct possibility that Rose forced himself on Mary, perhaps she was a servant of his at the time. this is was quite common as we all know.
Poor Mary!
ok I'm lost, I will have to rewatch ..
Hermosa Ani
I have Stewart crofters in my ancestry too - from about 30 miles from Banff...
@markholder9640
3 жыл бұрын
Ooh me too. Wonder if we are distant cousins
Ilove you somuch miss
There only 2 comments but it is so good
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Thats my childhood home
It’s too bad they didn’t do “child support” back then or Mary’s child by that man might have had a better life. Of course there wasn’t a way to prove paternity so I guess it wouldn’t have been possible.
@patriciamitchell9365
2 ай бұрын
Back then DNA hadn't been invented. His word against hers.
I’m working class, my Dad was an electrician.
Annie is descended from Stewarts and had a relationship with Dave Stewart. Nothing negative, 'Stewart' is probably a huge umbrella, but it's interesting how people with things in common find each other, whatever those things may be.
@nicolad8822
11 ай бұрын
It’s a very common name. But they were often marrying cousins of some sort in rural Scotland, it was inevitable.
Annie looks like my neighbor's mom.
Why not the whole damn story!?
@rutabagasteu
4 жыл бұрын
One of the suggested videos in my list for this one is the previous part.
@taddawson68dawson68
4 жыл бұрын
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@paulinehignett1202
3 жыл бұрын
If you click on the little triangle top right side,it will give you all the programs.
My grandfather told me stories that I/we were related to royalty. 👸🏼Apparently there was a female who renounced the royal throne because she fell in love with a man who was not suitable to marry. Of course I have the RH- blood-type supposedly the royals have but who really knows. Wouldn’t it just be fun to have someone lookup your family tree for you? I would be completely intrigued .
@NK-rk2uu
3 жыл бұрын
Hi do u have more info?
I can hear her anger at J Rose & how he treated Mary.
Despicable then and now... history shows that there is decency shown by wealthy relatives towards so-called illegitimate - Rose was just a horrible man.
Don’t worry Ann I think your life will work out ok.
@lmc2375
Жыл бұрын
She likely isn't worried for her own life. Clearly, it's well within reason she is disturbed by the hardship her ancestor had endured. That is if one is compassionate, and she is very much that.
And no one is saying what a dush James Rose was to the mother of his daughter! We're not to malign James's good name by saying he possible took advantage of his maid servant! It's simply they had an affair. The baby was born, but the father didn't behave like a gentleman. He chose to keep up appearances by living a lie! He most probably knew about his daughter's condition all along! When it came to a head and the family was going to the poor house, he saved the youngest because she was the most convenient and could be sheltered under the radar while his own daughters would never be put into service! King Edward VIII treated the bed chamber maid with more reverence! I have no respect for him at all!
@meganr9280
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it’s too bad he isn’t still alive for all to tell him to his face.
James was probably not wealthy. Middle class, lower class, and even fairly poor people had servants, either living in or coming in to help occasionally.
1) It shows the curse of being born illegitimate 2) James was probably not as wealthy as you think. He did what he could given the confines of the 'system'. But he and his sister were probably just forking out a living as well.
@paulmaguire2714
3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't think so. A solicitor was grander then than now.With two servants to pay.
Don't worry Anne, They worked it out amongst themselves.
Annie doesn't seem very impressed with James Rose
Age, have to respect of it, right and wrong, that's your call
I'd rather be a peasant than a toff
@karentaylor9446
4 жыл бұрын
My dad always said: “Cast your lot with the common man. You’ll always outnumber your enemies.”
That's crazy and side
So cruel.
Love you Annie, but the Victorian period started in 1837.
@ML-ul2zq
4 жыл бұрын
It lasted until 1901.
@karentaylor9446
4 жыл бұрын
Not 1820 when Victoria took the throne?
@zbr76
4 жыл бұрын
And the events she describes as a 'Victorian melodrama' were in the 1850s, so she's got her history right.
Deceit and underhandedness
So we're not going to acknowledge that Annie Never acknowledge these as her kind people when speaking on the subject.
I was sleeping, unconscious when Frazer impregnated me with my son and daughter.
English people are so cold..I’m Hawaiian and Italian and it’s a completely different culture
@cherrypickle8332
3 жыл бұрын
English?? Annie Lennox is Scottish...
@tricia4479
3 жыл бұрын
She’s not English...... She’s Scottish.
@bostonblackie9503
2 жыл бұрын
She is a Celt not Anglo-Saxon!
@nicolad8822
Ай бұрын
@@bostonblackie9503All sorts of influences. Did you see a DNA test here?
All this is useless, leave the dead alone; they can't do nothing for you.
@angelalurtz3638
Жыл бұрын
Nobody is asking for anything to be done for them. Just want to know their stories and understand their lives a bit more. Epigenetics also suggests that a person's traumas change their DNA, and those changes are passed down for up to 7 generations, so really you're learning a little something about your own building blocks when you find out about the experiences of your ancestors.
@rogerborroel4707
Жыл бұрын
@@angelalurtz3638 Ok, sounds good!