HONG KONG: CHRIS PATTEN LEAVES GOVERNMENT HOUSE FOR GOOD

(30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound
The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten has left his colonial-style mansion for good.
Patten bade his 250 staff an emotional farewell and left the house carrying the Union flag which had been flown from its roof.
The staff of Government House who have taken care of Governor Chris Patten for the last five years gathered to bid him farewell on Monday afternoon.
The Pattens have lived in the house for almost five years, with their youngest daughter and two dogs.
Their other two daughters have visited for holidays and have spent the last few days celebrating the final days of British rule in Hong Kong with their parents.
Governor Patten bowed his head during the British National Anthem - a gesture made because he does not wear a hat.
Many of the 250 staff members looked on the verge of tears as Patten said a personal goodbye to each one.
A drill by a band of Honour Guards, Cordon guards as well as musicians from the Royal Hong Kong police was specially designed for the event.
In a final symbolic ritual the Governor's standard was lowered from the portico of Government House and presented to him as a memento.
During this part of the ceremony, Patten's favourite tune ' Highland Cathedral' was played.
Patten's daughters left Government House in a Daimler, while the Governor and his wife waved from a Rolls Royce.
After boarding his Rolls Royce the governor drove three times around the circular driveway - a Chinese tradition meaning he will return.
Between now and the official handover at midnight Hong Kong time (1600 G-M-T) Governor Patten will attend various ceremonies.
There have been rumours that China plans to turn Government House into a museum.
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  • @CASpyder
    @CASpyder7 жыл бұрын

    Quite possibly the saddest day in Hong Kong history and for the Patten family as well. Many thanks for Mr. Patten for making Hong Kong a great city during his five year tenure there!

  • @YY-vs9pe

    @YY-vs9pe

    4 жыл бұрын

    WHO are you?

  • @iu2

    @iu2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Saddest day for HK? You must be high. I don't see how the removal of the invaders would be a sad day. Imagine if the Chinese was leaving a coastal city that they had ruled for 150 years, would that be the saddest day too?

  • @Matthewgez

    @Matthewgez

    4 жыл бұрын

    Go fuck yourself.

  • @godefroydebouillon225

    @godefroydebouillon225

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@iu2 yeah dude stfu

  • @mickatkin9728

    @mickatkin9728

    4 жыл бұрын

    cl what will HK be if the British didnt come? Swamps and villages that do not even have a pin on the map? No more baby formula for you.

  • @petelosuaniu
    @petelosuaniu3 жыл бұрын

    I am same age as his daughters, who were the highlight of this ceremony when I watched live back in 1997.

  • @wangwang2048

    @wangwang2048

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am the same age as Alice, but I won't feel that's unfortunate. Because Hong Kong always has to return to China. TThe UK cannot return Hong Kong without excuses. The UK Should return Hong Kong to China

  • @itsme-sn5gi

    @itsme-sn5gi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wangwang2048 shame the Chinese didn't respect the democratic values of the people of Hong Kong like the British did

  • @deenagara9151

    @deenagara9151

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@itsme-sn5gi Well, China meant well, the British spoiled them! No one likes spoiled brats like those dumb youths!

  • @magnaviator

    @magnaviator

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@itsme-sn5gi Lol, you for real? There was zero democracy under British colonial rule. There was never one single election in all the time the British flag flew over HK.

  • @itsme-sn5gi

    @itsme-sn5gi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@magnaviator Yes they did, the people elected their government every five years from the 60's on. They also had free speech, in which they no longer have. Im not saying British rule was perfect, it wasn't. But in the later years Hong Kong was a thriving, free city. That has since been lost to a dictator, and continues to only get worse...🇬🇧🇭🇰

  • @dd-ew2sn
    @dd-ew2sn2 жыл бұрын

    24年後香港人才感受到原來英國真的為香港貢獻良多。

  • @wangwang2048

    @wangwang2048

    11 ай бұрын

    小朋友,真的是小朋友。 你連大朋友都不如呀。 英國付出香港有幾多? 你哋都未知,你都未出世呀。 貢獻? 英國從來無貢獻過香港,只是貢獻添麻煩的製造者。

  • @wangwang2048

    @wangwang2048

    11 ай бұрын

    難怪你是人頭豬腦,豬排一名。

  • @mbsec

    @mbsec

    10 ай бұрын

    @@wangwang2048 You are certainly a Chinese lackey who has never tasted freedom or dignity.

  • @lucadellalombardia9055

    @lucadellalombardia9055

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@wangwang2048the development of HK was due to GB....

  • @stopfartingplease

    @stopfartingplease

    3 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@wangwang2048大陸為香港人帶來了什麼失去自由,共產黨傷害了不但香港影響所有中國人, 民革,數十萬至數百萬中國人失去生命,現在香港政府亂洗錢和中國大陸經濟衰退和大量貧窮! 你D被洗腦的井底之蛙真係可憐😊

  • @danieltodd1750
    @danieltodd17508 ай бұрын

    These colonial governors did a fantastic job all in all. Civilized the world, brought the rule of law, development, trade, justice, courts, security, science, education, public schools, order and hope. Thank you Britain! Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the king.

  • @zimoliu9714

    @zimoliu9714

    4 ай бұрын

    ok daniel todd

  • @minui8758

    @minui8758

    3 ай бұрын

    Here here!

  • @TheSabugosa
    @TheSabugosa Жыл бұрын

    I just can say: Please come back!

  • @cloudygor8948
    @cloudygor89488 жыл бұрын

    Hong Kong has became hell after 1997.. I miss Patten.

  • @m.w.6609

    @m.w.6609

    6 жыл бұрын

    S- Cloudy unobjective speech makes you look funny

  • @frankieleung2215

    @frankieleung2215

    5 жыл бұрын

    Stupid man you are.

  • @jennyhuang7820

    @jennyhuang7820

    4 жыл бұрын

    how surprisingly that you enjoying being a second class citizen LOL

  • @atillar3321

    @atillar3321

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jennyhuang7820 how surprisingly you are enjoying being Communist puppet

  • @Nnnagoya

    @Nnnagoya

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jennyhuang7820 how surprisingly HK people would rather be under British rule than the so-called Compatriot rule, which is brutal at all.

  • @hillmoon9833
    @hillmoon98332 жыл бұрын

    Hongkonger miss u very much❤️💗💙💚💞💓💕💖💝💛💜

  • @trissimusslos4722
    @trissimusslos47223 жыл бұрын

    Good bye, democracy.

  • @kunalvashisht8360
    @kunalvashisht83604 жыл бұрын

    What is the song at 1:49?

  • @571norman

    @571norman

    4 жыл бұрын

    highland cathedral

  • @lixifa-hello8705
    @lixifa-hello87052 жыл бұрын

    Welcome back

  • @mw2889
    @mw28892 жыл бұрын

    End of an era

  • @fakecorny9807
    @fakecorny9807 Жыл бұрын

    Patten's daughters are so beautiful! I would love to meet them one day. 😍

  • @friday3036
    @friday30363 жыл бұрын

    Even I just 14 but I still miss united kingdom. That is sad...

  • @frankieleung2215
    @frankieleung22155 жыл бұрын

    I miss the British.

  • @YY-vs9pe

    @YY-vs9pe

    4 жыл бұрын

    Go back to your british master.

  • @rogejosephcaballero7467

    @rogejosephcaballero7467

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@YY-vs9pe yeah serve well your communist masters

  • @user-nx4pg1su9v

    @user-nx4pg1su9v

    3 жыл бұрын

    God save our Queen🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @wangwang2048

    @wangwang2048

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rogejosephcaballero7467 Shut up Stupid. both of you. Because you are the Filipino who have not qualified to speak out about everything between Hong Kong, China, and the UK

  • @wangwang2048

    @wangwang2048

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nobody wanting to think about them

  • @TheGovernortom
    @TheGovernortom3 жыл бұрын

    BRITISH ADMINISTRATION, WE MISS YOU

  • @danipotatoxd
    @danipotatoxd7 жыл бұрын

    what is the music 2:23

  • @julietarmstrong3019

    @julietarmstrong3019

    7 жыл бұрын

    Auld Lang Syne

  • @chakbuntam3170
    @chakbuntam31702 жыл бұрын

    I felt nothing then but now I cried when I saw this…..

  • @DaehounAn_LLM
    @DaehounAn_LLM2 жыл бұрын

    He had become an alien in his land.

  • @user-lb4yx1ms5f
    @user-lb4yx1ms5f5 ай бұрын

    And to think they were part of the establishment that were responsible for Chinese people hooked on opium, I am lost for words to describe my emotions seeing these people leave.

  • @RS-rj5sh

    @RS-rj5sh

    4 ай бұрын

    That was 1850.....a "bit" had changed by the 1990"s.......

  • @kopynwa1271
    @kopynwa12714 жыл бұрын

    Lord Patten, you'll be back

  • @SAMER_89
    @SAMER_89 Жыл бұрын

    The look of his daughters eyes explains everything

  • @user-dl2nr8zi9i
    @user-dl2nr8zi9i4 жыл бұрын

    I love his daughters

  • @mastercountdown

    @mastercountdown

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love you

  • @realdonaldtrump7260

    @realdonaldtrump7260

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trickster l love you

  • @emmacooper1114

    @emmacooper1114

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@realdonaldtrump7260 I love you

  • @kaustavchattopadhyay5666
    @kaustavchattopadhyay56663 жыл бұрын

    0:56 Su from Rang De Basanti - Alice Patten

  • @royske123
    @royske1234 жыл бұрын

    They didnt sleep well last night

  • @jasonyeung7383
    @jasonyeung7383 Жыл бұрын

    現在來看更想哭了😢

  • @0071089
    @00710892 жыл бұрын

    I love Sir Christ Patten

  • @ConceptofFreedom
    @ConceptofFreedom3 ай бұрын

    Let's not forget the Brits built Hong Kong for themselves.

  • @harrytsoi310
    @harrytsoi3103 жыл бұрын

    24 year ago

  • @janethattler4145
    @janethattler41452 жыл бұрын

    Its do sad !

  • @frankieleung2215
    @frankieleung22156 жыл бұрын

    God Save the Queen.

  • @johncolasito5185
    @johncolasito51853 жыл бұрын

    Now everyone is sorry this happened.

  • @ihsanbajwa3974
    @ihsanbajwa39743 жыл бұрын

    کرسٹوفر فرانس پیٹن ہانگ کانگ میں برطانیہ کے آخری گورنر تھے۔۔۔۔1997 میں برطانیہ نے ہانگ کانگ چائنہ کو واپس کر دیا تھا ۔۔۔

  • @lawalan4782

    @lawalan4782

    2 жыл бұрын

    Still, the British Sino Joint declaration is currently a legal document, and the Chinese government is continuing not to fulfill the contract. The British government can claim back Hong Kong at any time.

  • @user-nn6eo5zh8l

    @user-nn6eo5zh8l

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lawalan4782 真的吗?吹牛逼的吧?变态岛国敢吗?

  • @crisantinapangilinan8375
    @crisantinapangilinan8375 Жыл бұрын

    Nalakkam

  • @BarberJ95
    @BarberJ956 ай бұрын

    Colonialism is awful but HK is like the one place it worked lol and its end was tragic. Unfortunate the UK sold out those millions of British subjects and future generations to come. Maybe one day Hong Kong will taste liberty again.

  • @user-db7dv6jr9z
    @user-db7dv6jr9z10 ай бұрын

    England used to be the greatest nation of the world

  • @merahboy69
    @merahboy697 жыл бұрын

    patten's daughters look very do-able for english girls

  • @iceomistar4302

    @iceomistar4302

    5 жыл бұрын

    They were 17 at the time

  • @mastercountdown

    @mastercountdown

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@iceomistar4302 HAHAAHAH. Call the cop!! Oh wait, is 17 legal in Britain?? If it is, then he's off the hook, I guess.

  • @user-gf7vt8gr3p

    @user-gf7vt8gr3p

    Жыл бұрын

    His daughters are really elegant and beautiful

  • @maylyfanko369
    @maylyfanko3692 жыл бұрын

    來時歡笑別時愁,孤臣孽子懷舊主。淚看祖家旗落下,正是旭日破夢時。

  • @unaadair2137
    @unaadair21373 жыл бұрын

    Problems with Hong Kong Chinese in Surrey.Too political for English life.

  • @deenagara9151
    @deenagara91512 жыл бұрын

    The British Empire has end, the end of British imperialism, FINALLY!

  • @WillHayes44

    @WillHayes44

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well done, you singled out the place fondly remembering Britain wishing to wake up from a lasting nightmare. But nobody is sleeping, dreaming... It's reality. Those who celebrate the end of british rule already living in darkness and ignorance, now tyranny is befalling Hong Kongs population. Subjects and lesser pawns of Jinpings vision, a vision of blood and death. Chinese Imperialism won't end in prosperity and parliamentary democracy but in genocide and fear.

  • @che_tan77
    @che_tan77 Жыл бұрын

    The British imperialist mentality still exists.

  • @nottmjas

    @nottmjas

    11 ай бұрын

    Really, please explain? Or are you confusing the UK with Russia and the PRC?

  • @aldrintoscano

    @aldrintoscano

    9 ай бұрын

    Stfu cowpis drinker

  • @user-jd9kl5iw2g
    @user-jd9kl5iw2g4 жыл бұрын

    A moment in the history that Hong Kong can finally pick their own leader

  • @tbseow344

    @tbseow344

    4 жыл бұрын

    @叶正茂 There r ppl who dunno and refuse to learn. Also ppl who r easily brainwashed by colinialist propaganda. I'm Sgporean 77 yo with HK PR from 1979, I lived under colonial rule in SG and HK. Nobody's gonna tell me that the Brits r great and good. I've seen their corruption in the streets and in biz. Fortunately SG have a LKY. HK hasnt

  • @emmacooper1114

    @emmacooper1114

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tbseow344 If only the communist bandits are LKYs... The HKers wouldn't have to protest

  • @tbseow344

    @tbseow344

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@emmacooper1114 I'm a 77 yo HK PR. I've lived under colonial rule. I've lived under LKY & I also lived 26 years in China. I know the 3 systems. I've travelled the world seen Old Blighty seen the dysfunction in Uncle Sam's place. I prefer HK. The kids never knew what they r talking about. Just pawns in a big chessboard

  • @Lou1Ka1Si1

    @Lou1Ka1Si1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow we can pick our own leaders? That’s what we’ve been fighting for, u dumbass. The chief executive is chosen by a CCP chosen committee. HongKongers can’t choose their own leaders, only the pro Chinese committee chosen by China can.

  • @user-jd9kl5iw2g

    @user-jd9kl5iw2g

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Lou1Ka1Si1 zzz... Can you vote for the leader under British HK? You have about a century to fight for that under British HK. What did you do?

  • @bsun3
    @bsun36 жыл бұрын

    wonderful moment, new era for hong kong

  • @mmf19

    @mmf19

    6 жыл бұрын

    ah, PRC pundit

  • @Dreinsel

    @Dreinsel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Depends, good and bad together, kind of inevitable though

  • @staceyrox111

    @staceyrox111

    5 жыл бұрын

    Even your name & pic is so mainland Chinese. Go back to your stupid firewall

  • @iu2

    @iu2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mmf19 ah, a hypocritical pundit.

  • @annich.3044

    @annich.3044

    3 жыл бұрын

    New era of HK is shit tbh

  • @sandyg244
    @sandyg2443 жыл бұрын

    Worse governor in Hk history

  • @ikennao5299
    @ikennao52994 жыл бұрын

    Pattens daughter sure looked pissed, colonisers

  • @Dryhten1801

    @Dryhten1801

    7 ай бұрын

    Colonisers that turned a fishing village into the pearl of the orient, correct.

  • @adrian25487285
    @adrian254872856 жыл бұрын

    Hong Kong isn't hell now, we should credit China for keeping the policy of One Country Two systems. British has done a good job in HK but HK belongs to China thousand of years ago, that won't change.

  • @tomsparks9582

    @tomsparks9582

    6 жыл бұрын

    adrian254 Do you know the content of Treaty of Nanking?

  • @Kelvinaton

    @Kelvinaton

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes. But 100 years of british rule has made hk a western country. Hk have different values and political ideology compare to mainland china

  • @staceyrox111

    @staceyrox111

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL. Their idea of ‘keeping promises’ is very different to standards. If you would’ve access outside the firewall to ANY news platform you would know that they broke their promise and taking it further every day

  • @iu2

    @iu2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@staceyrox111 keeping promises? Do you mean when the Brits invaded HK and stole it from China, the Chinese needed to keep promises? Hahahaha

  • @staceyrox111

    @staceyrox111

    4 жыл бұрын

    cl it’s not stolen but it was won during a war- go to baidu and study that. Oh you poor was kid, it’s like saying everyone stole from you but in fact you were too weak and not enough to defend your own land 😂😂😂😂 大陸人真的原始,自大變自卑的思想

  • @tbseow344
    @tbseow3444 жыл бұрын

    It's not sad. What's not yours isnt yours. Just like India, Malaysia, Singapore etc U have to return to its rightful owners.

  • @farrington4918

    @farrington4918

    4 жыл бұрын

    So give it to a Communist Authoritarian country which restricts media and puts wrong-doers of the state into re-education camps or keep it in the hands of the British government which triumphs in free speech?

  • @w00borg34

    @w00borg34

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@farrington4918 as if the brits havent done anything wrong lmao. china ccp is definitely shady af but they've done good as well. they modernised china. every country has its good and bad. the original commenter was saying theres nothing wrong with land being rightfully returned to its original owner.

  • @mickatkin9728

    @mickatkin9728

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hong kong belongs to Hong Kongers. If what you said is true, the Chinese should start packing

  • @tbseow344

    @tbseow344

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mickatkin9728 U have to learn History. I'm 77 y.o. HK PR. I know HK belongs to whom. Not the Brits nor Uncle Sam. In the same manner, Catalonia cannot be independent from Spain.

  • @mickatkin9728

    @mickatkin9728

    4 жыл бұрын

    TB Seow Hong kong doesnt belong to Britain and the US neither to CHINA. The people had spoken. The Chinese only treated Hongkong as cash cow. Enough is enough

  • @Luvianka
    @Luvianka5 жыл бұрын

    Long live Mao!

  • @user-ks3vs9cm6y

    @user-ks3vs9cm6y

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@P53eud0nym05 Can't wait for Brexit to destroy the UK.

  • @atillar3321

    @atillar3321

    4 жыл бұрын

    God Save the Queen

  • @WillHayes44

    @WillHayes44

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mao is dead, may Jinping follow him soon before spiraling most of Asia in war.

  • @glocktop916

    @glocktop916

    Жыл бұрын

    @@atillar3321 shes dead...

  • @atillar3321

    @atillar3321

    Жыл бұрын

    @@glocktop916 thank you, Mr. Obvious and so did Mao

  • @hamidqayyum
    @hamidqayyum3 жыл бұрын

    What is the music at 02:08?

  • @dranelemakol

    @dranelemakol

    3 жыл бұрын

    Auld Lang Syne