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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  • @JeansDolls
    @JeansDolls3 жыл бұрын

    I never get these in the right order, how hard would it be to number the parts of each story!

  • @jaccoet9894

    @jaccoet9894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Word

  • @fuzzymarmot4628

    @fuzzymarmot4628

    3 жыл бұрын

    I totally agree!

  • @cindz4618

    @cindz4618

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @pgl7950

    @pgl7950

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @loveorangeToledotribe

    @loveorangeToledotribe

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true! I am hooked but i got really confused where is the beginning of their story 😨

  • @GlobetrotterBR
    @GlobetrotterBR4 жыл бұрын

    I love Annie's voice, presence and personality. One of my favourite artists ever.

  • @unacceptableviews1505
    @unacceptableviews15054 жыл бұрын

    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

    @tessabiggs2917

    4 жыл бұрын

    People's Front of Canada can add David Bowie to that list too?

  • @unacceptableviews1505

    @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

    @tessabiggs2917

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@unacceptableviews1505 Freddie and Annie will always share the number one spot.

  • @mrpleasant2566

    @mrpleasant2566

    4 жыл бұрын

    Please include Moby too:) Porcelan is AMAZING.

  • @colliness

    @colliness

    3 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree

  • @gibadias1637
    @gibadias16372 жыл бұрын

    Annie is, before a fantastic vocalist, a wonderful human being.. love her ❤

  • @englishrose4388
    @englishrose43882 жыл бұрын

    Annie's deductions at the end are powerful. "It's all a very dark Victorian melodrama to me."

  • @teaCupkk

    @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.

  • @michaeltaylor8835
    @michaeltaylor88353 жыл бұрын

    Annie is a legend

  • @Sauvageonne
    @Sauvageonne Жыл бұрын

    I love Annie's spoken voice as much as her singing voice!

  • @scouser2010ify
    @scouser2010ify3 жыл бұрын

    I really like the lady who’s with her she seems very sweet

  • @wendymudkins668
    @wendymudkins6684 жыл бұрын

    One of my favourite singers very interesting finding her story out of her family

  • @BM-lw6gn

    @BM-lw6gn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to come across this.

  • @gaylecheung3087
    @gaylecheung30874 жыл бұрын

    I wish these segments were numbered or something they’re all randomly all over the place not good

  • @traciekinser8554
    @traciekinser85543 жыл бұрын

    Why aren't these darned things numbered? Would make it a lot easier to watch them in order if they were.

  • @nikkil764
    @nikkil7644 жыл бұрын

    Love her voice

  • @tricia4479

    @tricia4479

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same as mine. We are obviously both Scottish & born in the same town.

  • @TheCaptainKim
    @TheCaptainKim4 жыл бұрын

    The divine Miss Annie as Bowie announced her once.

  • @lisaackland8342
    @lisaackland8342 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t care whether you’re rich or poor, your soul is priceless ~ xxx…

  • @soldtobediers
    @soldtobediers4 жыл бұрын

    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.''

  • @bobbycoleman3759
    @bobbycoleman37594 жыл бұрын

    My auntie has done the family tree and I’m related to Annie, my great grandmothers maiden name was Lennox

  • @NK-rk2uu

    @NK-rk2uu

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi where do u come from?

  • @elizabethbower2168

    @elizabethbower2168

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lennox is quite a common surname

  • @lmc2375

    @lmc2375

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elizabethbower2168 Suggesting what? Aren't all of our surnames eventually, common?

  • @lmc2375

    @lmc2375

    Жыл бұрын

    How fabulous for you. She def. has one of the greatest voices the world has known. 💖💫🦋

  • @heyokaempath5802
    @heyokaempath58024 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE Annie Lennox!

  • @laminage
    @laminage4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @ML-ul2zq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the incredible Dusty Springfield.

  • @clairegolden8261
    @clairegolden82613 жыл бұрын

    That poor girl. I hope she found love and a family.

  • @ML-ul2zq

    @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.

  • @lynnrichardsrichards1081
    @lynnrichardsrichards10814 жыл бұрын

    It's true what your parents do comes back on You !

  • @faganquin6483
    @faganquin6483 Жыл бұрын

    "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.

  • @Themanwhocameback2
    @Themanwhocameback24 жыл бұрын

    Poor Mary!

  • @antidoteify
    @antidoteify25 күн бұрын

    ok I'm lost, I will have to rewatch ..

  • @yotesaludoati9645
    @yotesaludoati96453 жыл бұрын

    Hermosa Ani

  • @cleverclogs2244
    @cleverclogs22444 жыл бұрын

    I have Stewart crofters in my ancestry too - from about 30 miles from Banff...

  • @markholder9640

    @markholder9640

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh me too. Wonder if we are distant cousins

  • @shelleyrightmyer6421
    @shelleyrightmyer64213 жыл бұрын

    Ilove you somuch miss

  • @anthonyocana3382
    @anthonyocana33824 жыл бұрын

    There only 2 comments but it is so good

  • @lauraleecreations3217
    @lauraleecreations3217 Жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @leilagomulka5690
    @leilagomulka56902 жыл бұрын

    🌹🌹🌹

  • @BryanHRBrodie
    @BryanHRBrodie Жыл бұрын

    Thats my childhood home

  • @meganr9280
    @meganr92804 жыл бұрын

    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

    @patriciamitchell9365

    2 ай бұрын

    Back then DNA hadn't been invented. His word against hers.

  • @lisaackland690
    @lisaackland690 Жыл бұрын

    I’m working class, my Dad was an electrician.

  • @gphx
    @gphx Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet3594 жыл бұрын

    Annie looks like my neighbor's mom.

  • @taddawson68dawson68
    @taddawson68dawson684 жыл бұрын

    Why not the whole damn story!?

  • @rutabagasteu

    @rutabagasteu

    4 жыл бұрын

    One of the suggested videos in my list for this one is the previous part.

  • @taddawson68dawson68

    @taddawson68dawson68

    4 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @paulinehignett1202

    @paulinehignett1202

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you click on the little triangle top right side,it will give you all the programs.

  • @sarahd.787
    @sarahd.7874 жыл бұрын

    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

    @NK-rk2uu

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi do u have more info?

  • @lisabellamy8424
    @lisabellamy8424 Жыл бұрын

    I can hear her anger at J Rose & how he treated Mary.

  • @cate4338
    @cate43383 жыл бұрын

    Despicable then and now... history shows that there is decency shown by wealthy relatives towards so-called illegitimate - Rose was just a horrible man.

  • @paulreynolds9003
    @paulreynolds90034 жыл бұрын

    Don’t worry Ann I think your life will work out ok.

  • @lmc2375

    @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.

  • @fredrika27
    @fredrika274 жыл бұрын

    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

    @meganr9280

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it’s too bad he isn’t still alive for all to tell him to his face.

  • @floraposteschild4184
    @floraposteschild41844 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @EchoBravo370
    @EchoBravo3703 жыл бұрын

    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

    @paulmaguire2714

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't think so. A solicitor was grander then than now.With two servants to pay.

  • @dorothymason8882
    @dorothymason88824 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry Anne, They worked it out amongst themselves.

  • @siouxsioux2725
    @siouxsioux27252 ай бұрын

    Annie doesn't seem very impressed with James Rose

  • @brianearner5092
    @brianearner50924 жыл бұрын

    Age, have to respect of it, right and wrong, that's your call

  • @raleighburner1589
    @raleighburner15894 жыл бұрын

    I'd rather be a peasant than a toff

  • @karentaylor9446

    @karentaylor9446

    4 жыл бұрын

    My dad always said: “Cast your lot with the common man. You’ll always outnumber your enemies.”

  • @loucrappi5869
    @loucrappi58693 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy and side

  • @georginamannor4373
    @georginamannor43734 жыл бұрын

    So cruel.

  • @JACKDAWFISH
    @JACKDAWFISH4 жыл бұрын

    Love you Annie, but the Victorian period started in 1837.

  • @ML-ul2zq

    @ML-ul2zq

    4 жыл бұрын

    It lasted until 1901.

  • @karentaylor9446

    @karentaylor9446

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not 1820 when Victoria took the throne?

  • @zbr76

    @zbr76

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the events she describes as a 'Victorian melodrama' were in the 1850s, so she's got her history right.

  • @dondavis6997
    @dondavis6997 Жыл бұрын

    Deceit and underhandedness

  • @jwoo5778
    @jwoo57784 жыл бұрын

    So we're not going to acknowledge that Annie Never acknowledge these as her kind people when speaking on the subject.

  • @lisaackland690
    @lisaackland690 Жыл бұрын

    I was sleeping, unconscious when Frazer impregnated me with my son and daughter.

  • @5dkauhanespiritualarts775
    @5dkauhanespiritualarts7754 жыл бұрын

    English people are so cold..I’m Hawaiian and Italian and it’s a completely different culture

  • @cherrypickle8332

    @cherrypickle8332

    3 жыл бұрын

    English?? Annie Lennox is Scottish...

  • @tricia4479

    @tricia4479

    3 жыл бұрын

    She’s not English...... She’s Scottish.

  • @bostonblackie9503

    @bostonblackie9503

    2 жыл бұрын

    She is a Celt not Anglo-Saxon!

  • @nicolad8822

    @nicolad8822

    Ай бұрын

    @@bostonblackie9503All sorts of influences. Did you see a DNA test here?

  • @SKY-jv9ue
    @SKY-jv9ue4 жыл бұрын

    All this is useless, leave the dead alone; they can't do nothing for you.

  • @angelalurtz3638

    @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

    @rogerborroel4707

    Жыл бұрын

    @@angelalurtz3638 Ok, sounds good!

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