She aimed to confuse her guests. Like all true malignant narcissists, she enjoyed making people feel stupid and incompetent. That gave her so much satisfaction - pure narcissistic fuel, feeling superior.

Oh, so Meghan had a lot more in common with Wallis huh?

@annazurawska-hh3ms

5 ай бұрын

All narcissists are the same, regardless of the country, nationality, age, epoch, gender. Textbook. Once you've met one, you've met them all. May God spare you that misfortune.

@MsKK909

5 ай бұрын

Hmmmm.. I would love to have seen Wallis meet her guests barefoot and wearing ripped jeans! LOL!!

@ShindlersFiist

5 ай бұрын

@@MsKK909 lol!!

@ShindlersFiist

5 ай бұрын

@MsKK909 definitely a hugger! 🤣

@1234cheerful

5 ай бұрын

Bit of a surprise. No one covered these details that I recalled.

Ahhh the face AND the accent! Just adorable Cheere.😍

Looks like Meghan took some pages from Wallis’ playbook on how to treat staff! The turnover of her staff while she was in the RF raised alarms and confirmed by Jason Knauf’s email to his boss. Holy terrors!

Omg Walmartwallis is the absolute reincarnation of original Wallis and prince Arden cream his great great uncles

I love this book and just watched Andrew Goldman interview the author

@Robutube1

5 ай бұрын

This author's book on the spy Guy Burgess - "Stalin's Englishman" - is equally jaw dropping in the tolerance for decadent behaviour amongst the upper echelons of society. I recommend it!

I think David explained to Wallis how royals act. In 2012 they were still handing out pictures of themselves. The staff for the Queen, at all locations, at least until the 80's, let them pick out anything they wanted up to 20 pounds. The gifts would be wrapped and handed out by the queen. All servants at all houses were given Christmas parties. To this day, Royal staff are paid less than contemporaries. Cheap very cheap.

@capt.obvious2460

5 ай бұрын

Where did you hear about this? I'm curious and would love to see the original source.

@1234cheerful

5 ай бұрын

Several videos on the royals mention itand a lot of books. Years ago a reporter for the Sun went undercover and got a job as a footman. He mentioned it too. Photographed the Queen's breakfast tray and I think he photographed Prince Andrew's bears too. Before the days of NDAs and not much in the way of background checks then.

@marilynpenner9196

5 ай бұрын

I read that the late Duke of Edinburgh liked to give "gag gifts": inexpensive gifts with a joke behind them, like a silver napkin ring for someone recently engaged, or a toy wind-up bucking horse for Princess Anne or Prince Charles, who had been thrown during a competition or political match.

@Claireanlite

5 ай бұрын

@@capt.obvious2460 the source for the Christmas info is from Royal Service by Stephen Barry. Then Prince Charles Valet.

@Claireanlite

5 ай бұрын

@@capt.obvious2460 It might also be in Housekeepers diaries by Wendy Berry. Not related although her son was a footman. There is also Royal Secrets by Stephen Barry.

This is brilliant.

Ridiculously conspicuous consumption. If ya got it, flaunt it, early and often. He took millions with him into exile at the start.

Gold dish was likely a little dish that is gold and looks too fancy to be used for cigarette butts.

I read this book some months ago and it is good to revisit it via CD and her very entertaining here, and to be reminded about how utterly awful people can be if there's no-one to say 'no' at any point. I think that the spirit of noblesse oblige flew way over their heads. PS - Top tip for cutlery usage is to start at the outside and with each course just move one set in🙂.

@ednanieves8572

5 ай бұрын

Indeed

Actually, last I heard anyway, Buckingham Palace employees are paid less than minimum wage for exactly the same reasons David paid his staff less. It's a privilege to work for royalty & a prestigious job to have on your resume.

@peteregan7864

5 ай бұрын

It would be illegal to pay less than the minimum wage.

The servants that work for the monarchy in Britain also get paid less and most of them get treated very badly. It blows my mind that people put up with being treated so badly.

Save the sheets🧯.. AND the cheeseee!!🧀 😂😂 Another great video Cheere! ❤

The reason why the cluttered table confused the guests was to demean them, what narcissists do to feel superior to others.

Henry Luce - it's pronounced "loose" Thanks for going through the book for us. I like hearing your reactions and thoughts. I am going to find the videos I have missed.

It goes to show you that when one grows up wanting things others have, the result is a very despicable, pathetic little human being.

I think you did a good job reading the book. I liked the accents, when I clued in that you were mimicking the Windsors. If you picked out parts of the book, you picked out and commented on the most interesting parts.

I think we are ignorant of a gold dish (ash tray) because no one of any class (except trailer trash 😂). would smoke at the table anymore. Horrors! In that era, the elites would each have their own small ashtray as part of their place setting, and it was often elaborate and unique. Especially after the main course, when desserts and after dinner wines came out, that’s when the smoking started! This is what I read this in an Emily Post book of etiquette if I recall. 😂

Celebrities in the film industry are notorious for paying their staff about 20 percent below the average, justified by the honor and privilege of working for them and being on call 24/7/365. People will be treated like dirt if they allow it.

If the staff were happy to work for crap wages, which obviously they were, that can not be a criticism of those two pathetic selfish wastrels but the idiots who chose to be abused, all they had to do was walk away.

@cheeredenise

5 ай бұрын

Good point

Haven’t felt strongly about Wallis until I heard her gross cheese substitute and to make matters worse she was in France surrounded by great cheese and she served that frozen mess? Nah!

4.6 million divided by 18 is 2 hundred and fifty five thousand recurring. If I was earning that much, I'd have servants of my own. So what happened to the rest of that money? 😨

14:37 Parmesan ice cream is an old dish, I believe, so cheese ice cream is nothing strange. I have had mascarpone ice cream, if I don't remember incorrectly, and it was delicious.

Its called future faking when promises far off into the future are made.

(lol - chilly after church)

Where did the money come from.

@mary-annebarnett654

5 ай бұрын

The Royal Family paid him off to get rid of them.

I thought the Cammonbert ice cream was awful too, when I read that. And the throwaway income was hard to imagine anyone getting, let alone an ex-king who was really no-account. Some exiled royalties did not get perks for being exiled royalties. The French had Bourbons and Napoleons galore living in France, yet an English ex-king was so pampered by the French. Why? Because his brother and then his neice were still on the throne that he once sat upon? It still sounds bazarre. And they lived off their friends too. Someone paid for their hotel in New York City. Someone else paid for their limousine whenever they went shopping. I had read of other hostesses at the time keeping a "grumble book" at the dining table to jot down faux pas by the staff, what the guests seemed to enjoy and what they did not. What topics of conversation each guest were interested in and with whom they were interested in conversing. So I was not surprised that Wallis kept one, but I agree that it was tacky to have it in view beside the plate. It would make me uncomfortable to eat or to talk with my companions on the right and left. And the Duke playing his bagpipes around the room after dinner. I mean, bagpipes??

I googled the gold dish. No help just a gold dish literally. Does anyone know if this is something that is part of a dinner setting?

@bonniebaltz5717

5 ай бұрын

Maybe it was another example of pretentiousness, you can only use a REAL GOLD dish to snuff out a cigarette."We're so wealthy we can only use golden ash trays".

@mary-annebarnett654

5 ай бұрын

It was an ashtray.

@hollybrooke322

5 ай бұрын

An ashtray

Sounds so familiar?

Was that an annual cost of servants?

@cheeredenise

5 ай бұрын

Yep!

What book are you reading?

@cheeredenise

5 ай бұрын

This is from Traitor King by Andrew Lownie. It’s incredibly well researched and the whole book, chapter by chapter, is on my channel at least the first 18 chapters. I’m still putting out a chapter a week and there are 25 chapters in total.

@marilynpenner9196

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. Perhaps you should mention the title and author at the beginning of each episode, since KZread or whoever hosts these videos scattered them about my feed. There are so many books about Wallis or Wallis and Edward.

Playing soldiers on the staircase - she never had children herself, a sudden attack of kindness? But really, WHY are you even trying to reconcile sweetness and cheapness when both come down to self interest and self regard. "I have no money today." I'd bet he never came across when the mill was sold either. Probably the vase was a gift she despised or the other guests were being boring. Or she had a similar bad incident in childhood and so was NOT reacting in a scolding blaming way. I could speculate all day! I dont think you would be taken advantage of though. Back to the video!

Sound as narcissistic as Markle!

What are you reading from?

@cheeredenise

5 ай бұрын

Traitor King by Andrew Lownie. The whole review chapter by chapter is on my channel

@user-nz7db1nl6g

5 ай бұрын

ty for the information

Why are you standing in front of a clutter of books in what looks like a cold-cellar in a basement for storage of wines or canned fruit? It looks like storage clutter, not like a library. It is distracting.

@cheeredenise

5 ай бұрын

What a silly thing to care so much about.

@artemisjuno

5 ай бұрын

Does anyone really care ?