Mountbatten | The Glamorous World of a Dazzling Dynasty
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The late Countess Mountbatten of Burma was born into a dazzling dynasty of royal and political relations. Together with her husband Lord Brabourne, they lived their lives at the very heart of the British establishment. In this episode of Expert Voices, get a glimpse into the lives of the two legendary families through the art and objects they lived with. Our upcoming sale The Family Collection of the Late Countess Mountbatten of Burma (24 March | London), includes over 350 lots and features jewels belonging to Queen Victoria, a Fabergé timepiece, Chippendale furniture, stunning collections of jade and silver, as well as paintings, sculpture, books, ceramics and a car.
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What a sharp reminder that naked we come from the womb and naked we return to the tomb😳🫣
Yes and a lot of hidden history especially from Mountbatten.
Fascinating collection from such a noble family.
@wendigo1881
5 ай бұрын
Noble? 😂😂😂 Kiddy lovers are noble. Pathetic and disgusting!
@aliciabxxx691
4 ай бұрын
Noble ‘ are you serious ? 🤣
In Kuala Lumpur we used to have a road called Mountbatten Road which was renamed with a Malay name but we all (oldies) still associate it as Mountbatten Road.
@hilarymurray9540
3 жыл бұрын
It would be greatly improved if the narrator could pronounce Patricia properly
@aileen694
3 жыл бұрын
@@hilarymurray9540 Yes, several of us found that strange habit very annoying.
@conserztasfia0078
2 жыл бұрын
0:09 "viscount mountbatten of burma" Wasnt lord mountbatten an earl???
Part of our history,thankyou for showing us such lovelies.
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Barbara, How are you doing today?
Absolutely fascinating! Congratulations
In Singapore there is a road called Mountbatten Road and a subway station called Mountbatten Station
@onita9138
3 жыл бұрын
Serving the Mountbatten subzone, the area and the station is named after British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command who accepted the Japanese surrender of Singapore during the Second World War.
@hatro4731
3 жыл бұрын
But, Singapore is GiveAway Country 😂
condolences on Mountbatten and John Duffy Strategy Corporation what a year!~
I was under the impression the Earl and Countess Mountbatten couldn't stand one another
@prismaticmarcus
4 ай бұрын
quite the opposite. they would regularly have guests...um...stay overnight...
My school was near a train station called Mountbatten. Facinating, I always thought it was named after a person.
You missed the great origin of the name! Battenberg mount Batten!
Thank You...enjoyed watching
Great narrator. Clearly fascinated with and knowledgeable about his subject, while conveying relatability and warmth as well. Almost distracts one from the precious heirlooms and history, impressive as they are.
@pukka2701
Жыл бұрын
Yes, although he does keep calling her 'Perticia' instead of 'Patricia'.
How many bottoms did MountBottom mount ?
Never heard of them. But they're making it appear as if coming from all that so called great lineage makes you immortal
@OsirisIxchel
3 ай бұрын
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A lot of Mountbatten’s men were killed because of his damn hubris.
@mariaevans7811
2 жыл бұрын
Correct!!!! 🐩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Just wonderful! Thank you...
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Joan, How are you doing today?
Zara looks like this side of the family. Never noticed that before.
Loved it!
Have to say they were the literal definition of ECLECTIC! Oh Ancient Egyptian bust next to a Indo-Persian writing table... I am sure there's some Mayan civilization artifacts with some Titanic memorabilia! Something in this sale for everyone, literally.
@shealstewart271
3 жыл бұрын
Some of those things shouldn't have been ON sale they should been return to the places and peoples they were *taken* from.
Battenberg!
@edwardoleyba3075
3 жыл бұрын
Yep! Anglicised to Mountbatten. Same as the Royal Family changed to Windsor.
What is the music in the background called?
She is very mannish looking.
@joao_mta_03
3 жыл бұрын
But beautiful regardless
@charm8167
3 жыл бұрын
Sure he maybe liked that about her, (boyish) I say no more.
@jeanross7430
3 жыл бұрын
@@charm8167 😊
Adorooooo estas historia me facinan las gentes con poder
@Luciasantos-by9np
2 ай бұрын
A mim tambem me fascinam.
That Jaguar is beautiful 😍
Anyone know what the opening music is called?
...after generations Valueables are only things. nothing is priceless and All Humans turn to Dust
@deliamillanes7141
3 жыл бұрын
Words of wisdom indeed!
@satyasingh713
3 жыл бұрын
"In the dust, scepter and crown must tumble down and be equal made " - some English poet. This talk has no value?
@amandadassonville4043
3 жыл бұрын
It's leaves insight to what was before, tells a story and leaves us with a thing called history. We should be thankful that we have that privilege. 🙏🐝
@stephenwilliams1269
3 жыл бұрын
Many years ago a dear friend of mine said to me as I was admiring his antiques No pockets in a shroud love we are mere caretakers of objects that we pass on. So true.
@patriciagraham2287
3 жыл бұрын
Souls are priceless!
멋찝니다~~
Ah yes, the Battenbergs. Cracks me up that they stealthily (lol) changed their name
@robertlower6212
3 жыл бұрын
They did not change it stealthily. King George V changed the RF name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917. He changed name Battenberg (Batten Mountain) to Mountbatten! He changed the names from German to English because of the war between the two nations. The Kaiser joked that the drama Merry Wives of Windsor should be changed to Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha!
@kathybest6950
8 ай бұрын
There was nothing stealthy about the changing of their name. The royal family did exactly the same thing for the same reason.
The movie was great
Does the specialist from Sotheby's have difficulty saying her name: PATricia, not PERticia.
@aileen694
3 жыл бұрын
Corinthian Columnist, yes, I too was wondering about that bizarre pronunciation of the name "Patricia". He seemed so knowledgeable and articulate otherwise. Weird!
@ashleejones1690
3 жыл бұрын
I heard it as "PRAticia", but yes, very annoying.
@blaise6652
2 жыл бұрын
Oh I thought he was saying Perdita.. lol
@irefi64
2 жыл бұрын
Minor detail. I thought he was lovely.
what are you talking about? they were all crazy.
@taniac1860
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulawynne6420 Genetic pain = “ I’m a spineless,woke, wimp with no one to blame my own simpering, miserable attitude on, so I’ll go with that” 🙄
@julzdixon63
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulawynne6420 think id enjoy all that fancy livin. Idk
@julzdixon63
3 жыл бұрын
@@taniac1860 😂🙋
@lordcawdorofmordor2549
3 жыл бұрын
@@taniac1860 What part of "aristocratic toffs" is woke?
If the scandal of molestations at Kerkora are true, perceptions of Mountbatten and the British establishment that hid the facts will be devastating.
@lindafielding4583
Жыл бұрын
Only one of the reasons he ws blown to bits in Ireland.
@robertbriggs7100
Жыл бұрын
They will cover that up
@williamsstephens
Жыл бұрын
They may try; but that cat has already escaped its bag.
@wendigo1881
5 ай бұрын
If?? What you mean man there's no doubt anymore.
Darn, just missed the auction.
Wonderful family,so much of our history revolve around this family,Lord Mountbatten always strived to reinstate his Fathers name,Lord Louie of Battenberg,forced into changing his name because of WW1.Some people may deride these families,but we will never see the like again.
@astriddriscoll8665
3 жыл бұрын
Ludvig of Battenberg wasn't forced to change is name to Mountbatten. He chose to do so inorder to sound less German, which he was. Being the First Sea Lord of the British navy, it wasn't good to remind people of his German origin, obviously. But he still had to resign. The Mountbattens weren't particularly good people. They were ambitious, not to say grasping parvenues, ready to use their slim royal connections to get on.
@neilgodfrey6578
Жыл бұрын
Thank god we will never see his or his famiy's like again, he was an evil paedophile and the Royal Family always covered it up, perverts.
@meeeka
Жыл бұрын
But Lord Mountbatten remembered ---and never forgot--- when his father, a Naval officer who was in line to become First Sea Lord---was not allowed to take up the job because the public considered him a foreign royal, all on the cusp of WWI. That knowledge of the oversight of his father sharpened Lord Louis' own senses of ambition and need for publicity. He said that as a school boy, this denial of his father, hurt him terribly and made him eager to change the world, in ways his father would have done.
@karensayer3089
Жыл бұрын
Modern day,the people are unaware our RF is German,up toCharles generation. New blood now. The Queen said that Diana was more English than them.
@here_we_go_again2571
Жыл бұрын
@@karensayer3089 Not exactly --- British/Scots until the Georges (Hanover) George 1st's mother was Sophia of Hanover, but *her mother was* *Elizabeth Stuart*(daughter of James vi and i ... Scotland/England) George 1st's grandmother was a Scot. The late Queen Mum's family are Scots
Is the family auctioning off some of their things?
why cant the presenter here say Patricia?
Take. A look at poverty levels in the UK about this time.
@patriciahisoire5753
11 ай бұрын
There was one Mountbatten who didn’t want the railroad in England because…. It encourages the lower classes to move about.
“Special relationship”...😂 Yeah..you could say that about the Mountbattens.
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Jane, How are you doing today?
I thought he was saying "Porticia", but its Patricia
@hotoneinspai
3 жыл бұрын
So did I... yet I knew it had to be Patricia... A number of times I thought he was saying Porticia
@geoffstone1296
3 жыл бұрын
It sounded like “Portricia” to me! What is wrong with the man? 🤨
@danndeelion
3 жыл бұрын
@@geoffstone1296 He's English. Their enunciation of words is a travesty of the English language!
@denesecarberry8826
3 жыл бұрын
@@geoffstone1296 Yes it is Patricia. I am astounded he is selling the Collection and yet he can’t pronounce her name properly!
❤️
There's a dual carriageway in Congleton, Cheshire called Mountbatten Way.
@timmytrimble4069
4 ай бұрын
Does it go both ways?
It could be my hearing but the narrator seems to pronounce the lady's name Partricia. Am I wrong?
@Luciasantos-by9np
2 ай бұрын
Her name is Patricia but he pronounced Potricia.
Or a family that oversaw many of the atrocities that engendered the world’s divisions today
@cwraper
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, such ignorant and arrant nonsense.
@starcrib
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly- a monstrous duplicitous lineage. 🌿🏛🌿
@RahulSingh-vp8dx
3 жыл бұрын
@@cwraper Lord MountBottom's story cannot be complete without mentioning his special love for the poor kids of Kincora Boy's Home in Belfast.
@agnusdeiquitollispecatamundi
Жыл бұрын
@@RahulSingh-vp8dx pure evil, sadly the media has everyone spell bound by the gliterrati of the Royal Family while siphoning millions of pounds from the British public and the enormous wealth of former colonies that they stole, but most importantly the lives that were lost fighting their tyranny.
@spoffspoffington
5 ай бұрын
Piss off loser
Louis Mountbatten had a boat...
A treasure trove built off the backs of slave folk. Tragic.
very royal; his daughters both married queens. more fizzling than dazzling.
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Jan, How are you doing today?
@mayajrj
Жыл бұрын
His daughters didn't marry queens. His sister Louise became Queen of Sweden , His nephew married a Queen Regnant . one of his Aunts became the last czarina of Russia and another married into the romanov family and was murdered in 1918 and has been recognised as a saint. She's one of the modern Martyrs portrayed outside Westminster Abbey
He was gay, wasn’t he? Love from Australia 🇦🇺
@souadghazal2533
3 жыл бұрын
from what they say he was everything
Alexandra of Russia was QV 1st grand daughter
Lord Mountbatten was really good looking and so was Prince Philip. Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of our country, India and we remember him as that.
@babagama4232
3 жыл бұрын
And later in life he was ASSASSINATED with many family members in a boat!!!!
@brindade2004
3 жыл бұрын
@@babagama4232 yeah I know that. Patricia was with him. One of her sons died. It's really sad. But Patricia survived.
@babagama4232
3 жыл бұрын
@@brindade2004 well...feel.sorry for the tragedy but he did put our region through hell and kashmir is still paying through the nose....
@brindade2004
3 жыл бұрын
@@babagama4232 May I know from which country you are?
@babagama4232
3 жыл бұрын
@@brindade2004 pakistan.....
Why can the narratoe pronounce the name Patricia? He says it as Perticia.
India me bhi rahe the
That collection is pure lavish ridiculousness - people with wealth and position who have no taste and no idea how other people live on a limited sum of money (salary). Mountbatten was known for his penchant for young boys and his disastrous naval career. Edwina and he had an open marriage with many affairs on both sides while presenting the face of respectability and privileged upper class position to the masses and that to me is purely disingenuous - dishonest and shallow. Why not sell off the baubles and distribute the proceeds somewhere worthwhile. Ugh. Awful people.
@berylanjous6932
Жыл бұрын
Yes the bored affluent amusing themselves but causing much pain to others, especially young boys.
@evadinusova4737
Ай бұрын
A takychto zivite ?
Lord MountBottom's story cannot be complete without mentioning the special love & favour he showered over the poor kids of Kincora Boys Home in Belfast.
@casteretpollux
2 жыл бұрын
A horror story.
@raydavison4288
2 жыл бұрын
Rahul says with tongue firmly in cheek. 😉
@wellbeingandtraininghubkil7044
Жыл бұрын
And his abuse of #Indian #children #YOUTH. Breaking news.
A family who clung on like limpets to the royal family for their own selfish reasons
le faltan subtitulos en español
So sad to see this collection being parted with...family portraits etc.
The Perfect couple, he liked boys and she liked what she liked. Incompetent seamanship.
@maeve926
3 жыл бұрын
😜😜😂😜
@gustavomaciel3309
3 жыл бұрын
Mountbottom !!!!!
@gwenmarie7311
3 жыл бұрын
🤐Speechless
Black and white TV
The camera centers too much on the speaker's face and not the objects and context. Pity.
Wallis Simpson said that the Mountbattens/ Battenburgs served horrible food at their home and always brought her own food when staying at their home. What happened to the younger daughter?
@starcrib
3 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha...Wallis was a perfect Bitch- absolutely zero people could could nail her... 🇺🇸🔥🥂
@amyneil5573
Жыл бұрын
Pamela. She’s still around. She was the late Queen’s Lady in Waiting, and was with her in Africa when they learned of the Kings death. It’s a fascinating story that can be found on KZread.
@martino2794
11 ай бұрын
Did Wallis Simpson eat?
@carolbell8008
11 ай бұрын
@@martino2794 Yes, food prepared by her favorite chef,
You sure can see the familia resemblance between Lord Mountbatten and the late HRH Phillip Duke of Edinburg. Both very good looking men in their prime.
@harveyspecter111
Жыл бұрын
The Mountbatten family is an attractive family unlike the windsors
@mayajrj
Жыл бұрын
@@harveyspecter111 Prince Philip's Grandfather. Earl Mountbatten's father Prince Louis of Battenberg (1st Marquess of Milford haven was a good looking man. it seemed to run in the family.
Isn't he the famous English homosexual?
In, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia too.
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Christina, How are you doing today?
Mountbatten is remembered with horror by former boys of the Kincora Boys Home. Also known for dabbling in a coup attempt in 1979. He was homosexual and she was well known to be totally promiscous. His diaries on events in India are still suppressed by the British Government. How much exploitation and robbery to accumulate that obscene wealth? Disgusting.
@UNIT294
Жыл бұрын
The FBI had a file on him too.
@RichardCarpenter-or9mq
11 ай бұрын
100% ocean going scumbag.
@juliehurst3846
8 ай бұрын
All bent
For a group of people who present themselves as being proud of family and heritage, it’s odd they’d change their German names. Is it out of embarrassment? Not wanting to be associated with German links? Is it an attempt to “erase” that heritage?
@here_we_go_again2571
Жыл бұрын
@ Xamry None of the above! The names were changed because the family are English/Scots as well as German (and other royal continental families) and at war with Germany The Hanovers began ruling England/UK since 1714. That was 200 years before WW1 (1914) began. The family were English/Scots on George1st's grandmother's side His mother, Sophia of Hanover' was the next Protestant relative in the line of succession, after Queen Anne. But she died before Anne died .. so her son George was next in line. George 1st's grandmother was *Elizabeth Stuart (i.e.daughter of James vi and i ... Scotland/England)
Happy Family home???
@markjalex2366
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Nancy, How are you doing today?
Your song is very loud
They are my cousins
Assembled and presented with touching deference to the family. I'm a bit saddened to see it all chopped up and sold to the highest bidders.
@h.calvert3165
3 жыл бұрын
It's not that these families are indifferent to their possessions & the history connected to them. It's that the inheritance tax is absolutely crippling at their level & they have to sell most everything just to pay it. It's criminal, I think. 💍
PAR-TICIA/??
Phil B. No,not pitiful,just proud of my country,my Father served 3 Monarch's(4 if one counts Edward)my Brother has served this country from the age of 15,my Aunts were mentioned in Dispatches and honoured for bravery,what,may I ask have you done?Would you rather we revered the likes of 'Made in Chelsea?
@misschachanaomi
3 жыл бұрын
I take your point Catherine, however, research Lord Mountbatten's involvement in partition and Kincora Boys' Home and you may find his conduct was less than honourable.
The auto captioning is writing natural when you are trying to say Knatchbull. Because your accented pronunciation is unclear (or perhaps how the British pronounce Lord Braborne's surname is nothing like my American reared mind would prounce it based upon it's spelling. Anyway it took me forever to realize the story text that kept writing the natural family was meaning the Knatchbull Family.
All very well, but what one should always remember is that this dynasty acquired their status and riches and objets d'art thanks to the beneficence of the British tax-payer. They were only enitled by virtue of heredity. They were lucky not to have been born in France. Their like was abolished in the revolution of 1789. One can only admire them on account of their custodianship. Nothing more.
aaaah so they need some money
British royal family you mean those pretender to the throne German
He seems to be pronoucing the name Patricia as 'Petisha'.....🤔
Lordy was a boys hunter. Like tho defloured them putting his hand in their mouth.
@ychongong4680
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god?! True?
@daughterofpatriots3165
3 жыл бұрын
Yes...he was murdered probably by the Outraged Irish by blowing up his boat, for hurting their children. “These people are sick..” Q
@bananacake9289
3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know THAT about him! Yikes 😱😳😳🇬🇧
@smiley9872
3 жыл бұрын
@@daughterofpatriots3165 you are wrong, very wrong and know nothing of Ireland to make such a statement!
@daughterofpatriots3165
3 жыл бұрын
@@smiley9872 I know The Irish love their children.
Taking money and treasure from others. Pigs, not humans
@evadinusova4737
Ай бұрын
Presne! A takych obdivuju?
Why is the music louder than the people talking.. terrible production
I.B,yes,I am part of the old Empire and proud so to be.I find it puzzling that you decrierers of the Empire that gave freedom to the world,are living in this great cou try,if you hate what Great Britain stands for,why are you not living elsewhere?
@cocoyeabroom
3 жыл бұрын
We are.
@catherinebosley7539
3 жыл бұрын
So why,I.B, are you criticising our wonderful country and ome of our prestigious families?
His story is now being reexamined
Fancy garage sale
I have never heard Patricia pronounced as Purticia. How odd and annoying.
@charm8167
3 жыл бұрын
I agree totally. Should be pronounced pat-ricia
Battenberg/Saxe Coburg Gotha did keep it in the Family…Literally, Folks…get a life..
A tale of exploitation and looting of conquered people told by the conqueror. My soul cringes and wonders if these stolen objects and looted wealth brought them peace at the end.... That is, if they had any consciousness of what the British Empire did to its colonies, including Ireland
@babagama4232
3 жыл бұрын
Madam,,,pointed so rightly..... and surely an artist like u knows the value of all this....
@catherinebosley7539
3 жыл бұрын
You are obviously not English nor proud of our history.My family were in India from the late 1700's right up to 1983,they were proud of Englands achievements.My Father,boy bugler,North West frontier at the age of 11,served 3 Monarchs,4 if Edward was included and you sneer at the Empire,what have you achieved?
@ib4038
3 жыл бұрын
@@catherinebosley7539 you are part of the old dinosaur Empire that suppressed people around the world; the UK is not even the UK anymore... look at its leaders.
@casteretpollux
2 жыл бұрын
@@catherinebosley7539 I'm not blaming a bugler but Empire so called was nothing but murder and larceny.
@here_we_go_again2571
Жыл бұрын
@@ib4038 Virtue-signal much? *Haven't YOU ever gone on a vacation/holiday and bought a souvenir of your travels?* What do you think the Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Phoenicians did? It isn't "looting" if the English (or whatever empire's representative or tourist) buys the items from an artist/antique dealer. People with money have the disposable cash to purchase items when they are abroad or from an art/antique dealer. The Nazi's pillaged art. UK government never went into a country and just took whatever .... Those items were purchased.
How sad that it came to this.
How come he can’t pronounce PATRICIA properly?
Es waren Deutsche.
What about the paedophile rumours?
@udayshan888
Жыл бұрын
All rumours.
@jstone247
Жыл бұрын
@@udayshan888 so he didn't pursue younger boys?
@eshiestrik2756
Жыл бұрын
What a ridiculous question ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
@anthonygallagher1397
11 ай бұрын
Rumors, it's FACT, that him and his gang of dirty perverted pedophiles, CYRIL SMITH etc, boy's being taken from KINCORA BOYS HOME, to be forced into violent pedophilic orgies, FACT.
Were not english , german, then grabbed everything with two hands,
Harry ran like a bat out of hell with his wife and son to sunny modern California. To escape all that museum crap.I cannot blame him.
@here_we_go_again2571
Жыл бұрын
What son? The rent-a-kid or the life-like doll?
She's nothing to look at. M
@rhonr
3 жыл бұрын
Must be those titles.
@YWNBARW2
3 жыл бұрын
Do you own a mirror?
@julzdixon63
3 жыл бұрын
@@YWNBARW2 😂😂😁🙋
@irefi64
2 жыл бұрын
The upper classes like that type. Or did.
Most of these things were stolen
@vikihalikia4650
3 жыл бұрын
I'm amazed that they didn't have any of the Greek marbles in their collection.... And how did they end up with all these important objects???
Mountbattens were hardly a dazzling family. Whem the Stuart dynasty ended, britain had to find a protestant king. The battenburgs were a tiny german royal family and they got chosen. None of the battrnburgs were great brains, none was remarkable Charles is a good man but thick.
Louis Mountbatten was obsessed by his family's inferior status and its morganatic origins and worked constantly to ingratiate himself i to the Royal Family. Not a decent person at all
@evadinusova4737
Ай бұрын
Zakomplexovany vykoristovatel. A tenro chudak sa chhcel prizenit do ruskej carskej rodiny Tak jedine v jeho snoch.
Fiddler.
Don’t call it “a dazzling dynasty” - they were disgusting and the wealth revolting. All about position and money and connections with the future king of England who Mountbatten influenced greatly in his early years. What absolutely ridiculous titles and people these are. All of this is so dark ages. We need to get rid of it all. Get modern and progressive or modernise the royal family like other countries have. Make them real and relevant.
@patriciasanches9545
3 жыл бұрын
Amen!!!
@catherinebosley7539
3 жыл бұрын
Fergal,does your soul 'cringe' at the wonderful improvements this country took to other countries? Language,Education,Health,Parliament's,Railways,Scholarships, a Civil Service,Employment,When Africa starves through mis management,is'nt it always Britain she turns to?Does your soul 'cringe' when we hand over billions? in aid?
@mub___lol9297
3 жыл бұрын
@@catherinebosley7539 nothing compared to what the colonies contributed to britain, lmao
@mub___lol9297
3 жыл бұрын
@@catherinebosley7539 the railways were used to extract wealth much more quicker, the countries would've developed without british involvement like japan, you guys are obsessed with us
@karinschlatter734
3 жыл бұрын
Dazzling
Alexandra of Russia was QV 1st grand daughter