I feel like this is something Squidward would watch and love.

The Queen Victoria portrait, is truly breathtaking, real life, at it's very best. The Elizabeth II, has a unique charm, due to it's wonderful execution.

An excellent and thought-provoking presentation BUT I was quite horrified at his evaluation of Queen Anne. As a young woman she was dazzling - look at any of the Willem Wissing portraits of her as Princess of Denmark - as beautiful as any of the granddaughters of Henrietta Maria. Her marriage was happy but with no less than 18 pregnancies to her husband's credit, and all her children either stillborn or dying as neonates from hydrocephalus, it is not astounding that her figure became amorphous, and her expression dour and sad...

@zimnaya

8 жыл бұрын

cookiessprite She was in fact so marked by the huge number of children to whom she gave birth and which died that, a religious woman, she began to believe that it was God's judgment on her for having usurped her father's throne (recall that William and Mary's only child also died after a few fragile days, and that Anne and Mary themselves had been at the forefront of disseminating the lie that their father's heir, his son by his queen, Mary of Modena, had been a changeling, smuggled into Saint James' Palace in a warming pan).

@globalman

5 жыл бұрын

Too much inbreeding and intermarriage with cousins and near relations throughout Europe weakened the genes of many aristocratic and royal families.

@zimnaya

5 жыл бұрын

It is recorded that whenever she miscarried, or one of her babies died, she and her husband would sit together, each holding the other's hand, and weeping. Her husband, Prince George of Denmark, was not terribly clever but he was devoted to his wife...this was probably the one truly great and unsung pillar of strength in her tragic life.

I think it was quite courageous of the queen to sit for Freud. I sure wouldn't attempt it.

@guidoahsam8043

5 жыл бұрын

what about rolp harris?

@user-xxxxxn

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus christ....

@Divertedflight

5 жыл бұрын

@@guidoahsam8043 She was safe from Rolf Harris as she's nowhere near his age interest.

@thatonegirlthatcanneversleep

5 жыл бұрын

@@eliseereclus3475 there's literally a photograph of him painting her, as she sits for him, in the video...

@user-co6yu8wh3t

4 жыл бұрын

1955/04/02👁️😆😲👈🏾😎

what a beautiful show!! very well done ,a bit funny and very historical insightful in Royal history

a very interesting and well made documentary ...full of food for thought and reflection on history and art ...thank you

Excellent presenter ...lovely ...brilliant ...Queen Elizabeth, has been a great Queen ...no doubt about it ...Queen Victoria, would be impressed, I'm sure ...hopefully 😃💂🙋

Correction: Queen Victoria's eldest child was her daughter VICTORIA NOT her son ALBERT EDWARD.

@puffyjo

4 жыл бұрын

@Sicilian Gecko wrong , Victoria was first born

@mscott3918

4 жыл бұрын

@@puffyjo You are correct. Victoria was born first. Seems some people aren't too good at history.

@mscott3918

4 жыл бұрын

@@puffyjo Victoria was born first. Check the Royal Family tree or just Google.

Very informative documentary. Thank you.

Alastair Sooke is so beautiful

Alastair Sooke has become a new role model for me, he´s cultivated, nice, open minded, modern, and has a great voice. I thankfull for the whole production as well, very bbc.

Nice portrait of the Queen

22:27 when you get overexcited about historical discoveries

Only Lucien Freud would have the balls to paint the queen on such a tiny canvas. I think he was trying to say something.

All the paintings were good but something about Lucian Freauds painting is really stunning

@WESSERPARAQUAT

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Marlowe it is THE worst painting :P looks like M'aam is chewing a wasp!

@WESSERPARAQUAT

8 жыл бұрын

+GiGi it is an AWFUL portrait , absolutely awful

@41BobDylan

8 жыл бұрын

+WESSERPARAQUAT According to you.

@AndrewMarloweTV

8 жыл бұрын

if you all cant see the beauty and rawness in luceans freids work then im assuming your not a lucian freud fan

@Trysmiling

8 жыл бұрын

Andrew Marlowe I don't know his work really. I can appreciate it but I don't like the 5 o'clock shadow she seems to have.

Enjoyed this! Thx :)

Alastair you always do such a great job - good work.

"God and Her Majesty be with you. Amen." - Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing

Very very beautiful

Love this picture. It reminds me of the artists at carnivals that draw a caricature of the sitter. This one is great!

Dr Anna's hair extensions @ 11:31 are amazing! Ka-Boi-oi-oi-oi-oing!

I understand why Lucien Freud added the 2" of canvas to include the diadem, but I really wish he hadn't. Without it we'd have a true to the person portrait, meaning Elizabeth is foremost a human being with a great deal of weight on her shoulders. With it we have just another monarch that is suffering through her duties. Something of the humanity is lost.

Go to San Francisco or Key West; you can paint all of the queens you want.

@kimono7350

8 жыл бұрын

ROFL😂😂😂💋

@SK22000

7 жыл бұрын

Vertical Horizon hahahaha

@rhondaprice5202

5 жыл бұрын

How stupendous...

@franmellor9843

4 жыл бұрын

Not regal enough...merely AMERICANS

I think the best part of this portrait is the crumpled cushion behind Prince Philip...it's right in the center of this amazing photo, and shows that even perfection might be flawed...

as a canadian i feel like im learning about my family that gave me away as a child

@devina8812

6 жыл бұрын

Lmao ok

@ashnasingh9280

5 жыл бұрын

As an American, I feel like I’m learning about my family that I refused to listen to and ran away from

@runawaydogs6784

5 жыл бұрын

As a Canadian, smh.

@runawaydogs6784

5 жыл бұрын

Or smh as a Canadian*

@martykopka

5 жыл бұрын

As an Australian i feel like I'm learning about my family that jailed me till I got free

22:29 that laugh, is she related to Sheldon Cooper?

so where would those portraits be hanging if they are meant to influence their image? I doubt they would be shown in a public place, would they? or are they only for guests of the palace?

Lol britain today is much less formal !! as a foreigner you brits still seem plenty formal to me i cant imagine what you must have been like also congratulations with your queens 90th birthday !

She had some sort of quiet inexplicable beauty like no other.

The royal family screams endogamy in those portraits, Elizabeth II has the same eye and nose structure as Mary II, you can see similarities in their facial structure since Mary queen of the Scots, is beyond amazing they can even being able to speak.

29:41 now that's a painting , fine art as in shes beautiful. 👌 Mary the 2nd , a lovely painting With the transparent shadows and the risky pose of the shoulders and bossom uncovered. I liked it but back then it probably wasn't shocking because the maidens probably ran about half nude anyway , and that would have been fine with me. Lol.

0:03 You clearly haven’t seen my camera roll

10:05 song is Nils Frahm - Said and Done

Her majesty is ageless in my mind because when anyone names her I see her in all her ages.

Flatteringly.

does somebody know the name of the music in the background at 49:30 ?

QEII doesn't RULE over her subjects, she REIGNS. The difference is the constitutional monarchy bit...rather than absolute.

La T05 on est là

The portrait of Queen Anne reminds me of my mother.

How did you keep the children in place? i wonder. please explain

Myth making? She is not myth Elisabeth II. Unwise words. Beautiful photo by Cecil Beaton who also photographed my mother.

I didn't realize that this was an hour long video and I just finished half of it thinking huh ain't this a long vid

What i never saw was the queen pregnant. How did she hat 4 children and never showed the bellies?

@barakaabey1744

6 жыл бұрын

they dont have their own children......kate did not have them ....dianna might have being that she was dianna

@nunyabiznez6381

5 жыл бұрын

In those days famous women rarely let themselves be photographed while pregnant. The queen made few if any public appearances while pregnant. If a photographer did see the queen out in public pregnant no paper or magazine would have published the photo. Any attempt to sell such a photo would probably have ended their career. It just wasn't done. Today, the queen is lucky they don't have hidden camera's in her loo.

@mscott3918

5 жыл бұрын

Barakaa Bey That really is either a joke or a truly silly comment.

@user-co6yu8wh3t

4 жыл бұрын

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@user-co6yu8wh3t

4 жыл бұрын

ดารา นักแสดง ขับรถยนต์ส่วนตัว ทำให้ผู้อื่นเสียชีวิต (อุบัติเหตุ😁) เข้าใจครับ ว่าเป็นอุบัติเหตุ ที่หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้🤗? ..บังเอิญ เกิดวันที่22 👈🏾😲?..

One of the kings pictures on the wall looked like walter mattahaw the actor

My grandmother looks remarkably like Queen Elizabeth 2.

@whatwouldaudreyhepburndo4260

4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother looks remarkably like the queen mother...lol

Beautiful accent. Is that POSH ?

Anyone know the song that starts playing at about 30:04

@sqosh12

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Bird "plastcities"

Strange approach - not measuring properly and such a small canvas

it always triggers me when curators and conservators wear gloves, but no masks are they aware of how basic pH of spit is

@MsMesem

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the know how to breathe.

What on God's name is the title of the song being played on the piano in the background?

The presenter’s description of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation earrings (at 48’30”) is erroneous. They did not belong to the first Queen Elizabeth. They are diamonds taken from the original Indian armlet setting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Queen Victoria had them made into earrings to replace some of the jewels she had been obliged to relinquish to the King of Hannover in 1858 after a lengthy lawsuit. What probably did belong to the first Queen Elizabeth were three of the four drop pearls suspended under the arches of the Imperial State Crown.

Great documentary that ended with the great "Ceremony" from "New Order/Joy Division".

The good ones are by Lawrence and Chinese artist Chen(work not show).

Reminds me of Lucian Freud

Yep: Hans Holbien

Y nt ask the Artist while he painted it: Henri Toulouse Latrec : Charles Prince of Wales: Camilla: Latrec Film: Cica 1956

I'm Australian by birth and English by decent. My grandparents and parents grew up with the queen. I have their knowledge and my own research. The queen really needs to be able to have the peace to know she's done everything she can as a woman. She's just a little older than my parents and she is absolutely so like them. She's loving, caring and very funny. She was chosen, pushed towards falling in love with someone. They have managed together to so call modernise her family. I modernised my mum and it's basically leaven her very shaken and I've just had a nervous breakdown myself because of facebook, which after trying to hard to de-activate this morning, I'm finally rid of it. I never realised how hard it was to actually shut it down and you can't even delete it? Anyway, I'm healing now and I think it's time for her to. She's protected her family as best she can and they are making a difference in our world, even as we speak her grandchildren, etc are doing just that. The press needs to remember their private life should be private, however the pressure to find the right one is very hard. I pray that we can heal our world. I watched a documentary the other day about Rolph Harris painting her. I have to say I did feel very unhappy and tearful to watch it. I think we all know why. Knowing the queen, her mother and grandmother senses would have been tingling. A woman knows if a man is too informal and I think he invaded her personal space by engaging with her. I have nothing to say other than nobody really knows the truth about anything. We can at best make educated guesses and through my own personal life experience I would probably say there was truth to that story, but we'll never know unless he actually is man enough to tell it.

@joshuajackson4742

6 жыл бұрын

Long live the Queen and the commonwealth!

@sarapatricius8473

6 жыл бұрын

Nicole Hayward .... I like your post... It was very true about "women understating one another when another woman cringes because their personal space is invaded like Rolf Harris did to her".... Great post

@kromantik9589

5 жыл бұрын

You can delete your fb account, it takes like 2 weeks but after that it's gone forever

@catwithhands

5 жыл бұрын

You’re Australian? What crime did your ancestors make?

So why does Alastair have a wedding ring on in one bit but not in most of the others? :\

22:29 omfg hahaha oh god now I feel bad

Femininity IS power.

Go Little Hans Freud Mam

You think the creators of The Favourite saw this and thought, "Well you're rude. We're gonna make Queen Anne great again, hold my drink!" Hands up if you loved that movie 🖐

I get it

Mire ha mi y expongo lo sigiente sobre hoyente y pintor cliente o galeria casa

You haven't answered anything.

I'm so rubbered

The problem with this program I felt was when these men were talking and showing the picture that he took of Queen Elizabeth they should’ve kept the camera on the picture that they were talking about not the man I wanted to study the picture of Queen Elizabeth and Philip sitting on the couch the part of the program

@dougholliday467

3 ай бұрын

Ever consider pausing the film???? duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

42:00 why is the second son wearing a fancy dress with a giant bow in the back and everything? :D

@9Tailsfan

5 жыл бұрын

That's how they dressed kids. Especially young kids. It made changing diapers and underwear easy.

28:24 - Women are allowed to be beautiful and not every representation of them or celebration of that is a "you have to be" statement. It is not a crime to appreciate the beauty of a woman. A woman's beauty can be an very unique and special thing.

35:47. a canenit is when 2 are more do full cabs simoltainesoly

Ace

I'm just saying, maybe the face pattern is very similar because it's the same person and the same artist, not because he was particularly purposefully copying the miniature

First you have to call the groom of the stool so you have something to mix the paints with then keep a knotted bedsheet neatby in case you have to leave by the window or if jimmy saville wants to take you into his moror home or on a tour of an insane asylum 😮

I knew it was a Freud right when I saw it

@mscott3918

5 жыл бұрын

Bryan Vasquez Too awful to be anything else.

"Her husband and first cousin"

This presenter reminds me of Alex Honnold, they could pass a twins

nice mortimer at the start

In the charcoal x-ray queen Charlotte looks like Einstein

pls add translate

37:49 photoshop ancestor

Painting reptiles requires a fair amount of green.

@mollybrown8361

5 жыл бұрын

Ry Green I suppose that must be why a lot of green paint wasn’t utilised in painting the monarchs then

39:21 Anyone else seeing a big skull in the portrait?

@zulfiquarkhan2330

3 жыл бұрын

Yup..in her corset ....

If I like tht one mam

Omg 22:30 what the hell is she doing weird ass laugh

Basically Instagram photos and Facetune.

36 hours to produce that, no way. Freud painting.

44:10 This is incorrect, Queen Anne lived to be 49

why start a portrait ?

I liked that very excitable historian hah

In the UK, Monarchy and Democracy work HAND IN HAND!! Rule Britannia!! God Save the QUEEN!!!

@PrimeAlex35

9 жыл бұрын

Fuck the traitor joke of a queen bowing down to all manner of muslim hordes. I think you mean "Rule Britainistan!"

@gordywestmids

9 жыл бұрын

***** You need a lesson in British constitutional history. Your ignorance is only outdone by the foulness of your language. You're not clever, you're just an nasty oaf.

@drinkapavlovic

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, democracy, so nice.. except killing Diana

@joshuajackson4742

6 жыл бұрын

Diana wasn't an angel, luv.

@joshuajackson4742

6 жыл бұрын

Favourite comment in history!

54:35

I'm also an old Queen and people are more than willing to paint my portrait yours an old Queen from the UK

the presenter is cute

They always talk over these old documents you know talk spit is flying all over them. all over them.

where is rolf harrises portrait?

@tigerwa

9 жыл бұрын

hoplite46 In a bin somewhere I would imagine.

2:19 I don’t care what you say, that portrait is awful.

@MM-vs2et

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like Van Gogh meets 2 years of depression and hateful regret

@oke.565

5 жыл бұрын

how so? i would be interested to know why you think that.

@truemoonman8634

5 жыл бұрын

@@oke.565 I think that for them it conflicts with the idea of what the queen is suppost to look like.

@easilydistracted5192

5 жыл бұрын

"hey, established modern painter and all y'all art critics and theorists who do nothing but think about academic art all the time, meet M J and the crowd. they have a really valid opinion they think, and it's just one adjective long."

@truemoonman8634

5 жыл бұрын

@@easilydistracted5192 What are your gripes against the painting?

There is an error in the current way of evaluating past motives. When looking at portraits of queen's, surely you have to measure the portrait against what the loftiest ideas of women were at that point. Looking at the trend of representation of women over time is a different story, but understanding them simultaneously without conflation is necessary. The portrait of Consort Charlotte is as much of a royal portrait as can be expected of that time. Surely, emphasising her feminity with her children at her feet is cherishing her as a symbol of motherhood, as the mother of future monarchs and heads of the CoE. To miss this is downright dishonest.

Eighteen two hour sittings? He must have been getting paid by the hour.

I don't understand all this.

Why would she want to sit for him????