How To Speak Fan | with Lucy Worsley

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  • Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
  • Learn the secret language of the fan with your guide Lucy Worsley, then test out your new skills! Learn some of the key phrases and moves you’ll need in order to communicate at the Georgian court: how to introduce yourself, flirt a bit, or just get that annoying courtier to leave you alone…
    And once you're ready, try out your new skills with your very own decorative hand fan from the Historic Royal Palaces Shop, just like Lucy is using: bit.ly/hrpshop...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 106

  • @zimo9529
    @zimo9529 3 роки тому +560

    Imagine getting friend-zoned by a fan.

  • @kmoffett213
    @kmoffett213 4 роки тому +354

    I will always watch anything with Lucy in it.

  • @StacyL.
    @StacyL. 3 роки тому +47

    The last fan holder can be subject to interpretation since it's a still picture. She could've been married or engaged and in the process of fanning the respective speed of each.

  • @clyne_er_mi
    @clyne_er_mi 2 роки тому +23

    Accurate. I use these techniques for warning my companion and not flirting. I've been fascinated by fans since I was a child and had my own fan by four years old. I learnt the ettiquette from a Chinese text translated in English when I was in grade three from our library. They laugh at me before, but now they just feel fascinated especially in fancy parties where I could use it to deny anyone of communication with me hahahahhahahah. Some of them don't understand, but some get the gist of it. I especially love bringing tassels fans out in public when I leave the house.

  • @evelyn_r
    @evelyn_r 4 роки тому +33

    Lol it’s so silly, it’s like speaking loudly for all to understand 😂

  • @weRarmy_weRBL
    @weRarmy_weRBL 3 роки тому +33

    I love, love fans... since I was really small I remember my mum fanning herself together with the other mums while attending church in the hot spanish summers. So I'm a huge fan of fans lol... pun intended!. Got a huge collection and as soon as the weather changes I do try to have always one in my bag that matches my outfit...Just love it! Thanks Lucy!

  • @octaviews
    @octaviews 4 роки тому +57

    My Fan has only 3 settings...

  • @dianneledford3681
    @dianneledford3681 4 роки тому +52

    I immensely enjoy watching Lucy and I have been enjoying the new PBS series with her in it thanks for sharing this clip of the lovely Lucy

  • @nancyM1313
    @nancyM1313 4 роки тому +15

    Can you say "hot flashes."
    Lol.
    Thanks Dr. Worsley👑

  • @xoxchickenoodles
    @xoxchickenoodles 3 роки тому +7

    Hi lucy ! I was just at your performance at the old wollen in leeds. I was the lil girl sat at the front. U wont see thi but i wanna say that even tho u said u were shy u are so brave and amazing. I have no regrets if making my dad get me a signed coppy of your book . I have all 4 kids books and want more because they are amasing. I loved the outdit change and everything. Yeah it was worth it

  • @madamkeme7077
    @madamkeme7077 4 роки тому +98

    The "i hate you" doesn't look like an "i hate you" to my dirty mind though.

    • @StacyL.
      @StacyL. 3 роки тому +13

      It could mean F*** off in which that hand gesture would be appropriate lol

  • @sazfretz1945
    @sazfretz1945 2 роки тому +6

    LOL If I hated someone, I'd just crack them over the head with the fan!!

  • @juliacruzanpayas2368
    @juliacruzanpayas2368 4 роки тому +13

    I love it !! Thank you ! I will always watch anything with Lucy.

  • @CountessKitten
    @CountessKitten 2 роки тому +3

    Lucy Worsley is a LEGEND! 👑💫⚜️

  • @tihanna_
    @tihanna_ 3 роки тому +5

    2:15, sooo, 😂😂 this is the way Lily acts in front of the poor Mr. Fitzgerald during the ball. Lol. Lily is such a badass. Ref : Silence is Golden, Chpter 9

  • @vikingodin1986
    @vikingodin1986 4 роки тому +8

    Love this beauty her programmes are excellent

  • @melanieohara6941
    @melanieohara6941 3 роки тому +8

    Fabulous! Yet again, Dame Lucy-I wish-blends history with fun. Watch from Wyoming-Cheers.😷

  • @shervonlim
    @shervonlim Рік тому +4

    In enola holmes 2 that's what tewksbury did to tell enola he loves her

  • @comet1227
    @comet1227 4 роки тому +2

    Let us all gather round and listen! 🤩

  • @HannaARTzink
    @HannaARTzink Рік тому

    This was delightful. Thank you!

  • @ramayanaroxas5457
    @ramayanaroxas5457 Рік тому +8

    Anyone else here from Enola Holmes 2?

  • @lindsaywharton-howett3664
    @lindsaywharton-howett3664 2 роки тому

    I love the fan language I even talk to my friend is it and we love it and we use it all the time

  • @allisoncarter7421
    @allisoncarter7421 4 місяці тому

    this is so informative but is it my left &, right or the recipient's left & right

  • @aminadoce
    @aminadoce 9 місяців тому

    I remember to see another actions for the high victorian era (like "i love you" being a open fan pressed to the heart), for what I've read in a contemporary journal of the period... I'm puzzled now lol.
    Do the movements change according to place and time?

  • @lila6117
    @lila6117 4 роки тому +2

    That was fun!

  • @minxyayala
    @minxyayala 2 роки тому

    I just whated to know how to hold a fan, now there an entire language for it?!? (Supper cool)

  • @dorsetdesoie
    @dorsetdesoie 2 роки тому +3

    Everyone knows that this language of the fan never existed. It was an advertising booklet from the English branch of the Duvelleroy house, a fan manufacturer in France. How could a historian ignore this!!!!

  • @Naamushkit
    @Naamushkit 7 місяців тому

    What would be the "neutral" way of fanning?

  • @SmartassX1
    @SmartassX1 4 роки тому +3

    And what if you just want to wave it for some air?

    • @OcarinaSapphr-
      @OcarinaSapphr- 3 роки тому +1

      The slow wave’s probably a reasonable universal- waving it fast, or ‘fluttering’ it had more specific meaning

  • @7ajhubbell
    @7ajhubbell 3 роки тому

    Thank you.

  • @lindsaywharton-howett3664
    @lindsaywharton-howett3664 2 роки тому

    I love the fan language

  • @faroshscale
    @faroshscale 2 роки тому

    What does a thworp mean?

  • @Zmbe_glttr_gutz
    @Zmbe_glttr_gutz 3 роки тому +1

    I got my fan out 🧍🏽‍♀️

  • @danafloraladd
    @danafloraladd Рік тому

    Amazing!!!

  • @Boxermom0317
    @Boxermom0317 3 роки тому

    This reminds me of baseball signs. :)

  • @botw3581
    @botw3581 Рік тому

    2:13 Wow.

  • @verahobbs90
    @verahobbs90 3 роки тому

    Carols from the palaces

  • @retro6732
    @retro6732 3 роки тому

    Talk to the Fan :)

  • @estieglandwr
    @estieglandwr 4 роки тому +3

    Fan off be-ach 😮😆😆

  • @wholderby
    @wholderby 4 роки тому

    I prefer the fan techniques employed by Ms. Sally Rand back in the 1930s :)

  • @pierrehenribiger830
    @pierrehenribiger830 4 роки тому +8

    It is truly a pity that somebody, who is supposed to be learned, lets people think that such a stupid language did exist! If you are truly interested in this matter, and not only kidding, you can read what I wrote for instance in « Faux et vrais langages de l'éventail »,
    European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture,
    M. Volmert & D. Bucher, ed., De Gruyter, 2019, p. 23-39. (Sorry, it is in French. But some other interesting papers are in English (and German).

    • @ecriresurlaroute5616
      @ecriresurlaroute5616 4 роки тому +6

      In english, you can read "The mystery of love, courtship and marriage" by Henry J. Wenham, where you can find this so-called langage of the fan, and of the hat, the gloves, the handkerchief, the parasol, the flowers, the eyes... Nothing but pure fantasy! archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n3/mode/2up
      (de mon côté, je ne suis pas historienne, juste auteure de romans historiques, mais j'ai aussi écrit un petit article de vulgarisation à ce sujet pour expliquer que ce n'était qu'un mythe : www.liseantunessimoes.com/le-langage-de-eventail/)

    • @ecriresurlaroute5616
      @ecriresurlaroute5616 4 роки тому +2

      @@pierrehenribiger830 Merci ! Oui, j'ai trouvé facilement. Si vous le permettez, je me suis permis de citer votre thèse dans la conclusion de mon article, en y indiquant le lien et les crédits adéquats.

  • @Knappa22
    @Knappa22 4 роки тому +2

    That fan needed to be bigger

  • @wuyanggroup7484
    @wuyanggroup7484 3 роки тому

    nice lucy.................hehe ..........nice fan

  • @nostromo7928
    @nostromo7928 Рік тому

    And I thought I had to be careful when wording my texts .......... 😳

  • @liliamnunez3757
    @liliamnunez3757 4 роки тому

    Cuando dicen te odio, el abanico es arrojado abierto.

  • @mikaylaeager7942
    @mikaylaeager7942 Рік тому

    Imagine me scratching an itch on the side of my face and accidentally confessing my love to some stranger.

  • @RecklessFables
    @RecklessFables Рік тому

    Here because of the Enola Holmes 2 movie

  • @tiberiu_nicolae
    @tiberiu_nicolae 2 роки тому

    Can't tell if this is serious or not

  • @emmastraub6842
    @emmastraub6842 3 місяці тому

    🪭❤️

  • @onegoodjoe
    @onegoodjoe 3 роки тому

    What a strange creature we are.

  • @kimberlycosta6283
    @kimberlycosta6283 3 роки тому +3

    Omg this old lie again

  • @jadesmith6823
    @jadesmith6823 3 роки тому

    Oh FFS 🤦

  • @bfoster2335
    @bfoster2335 4 роки тому +5

    Poor men trying to figure this all out.

  • @anitawhite9694
    @anitawhite9694 2 роки тому +1

    What a hoot! I see why THAT went out of style!

  • @isabellawall3241
    @isabellawall3241 3 роки тому +157

    When she said to drop the fan, I genuinely thought we were literally meant to drop it... think I need to re-watch the lesson hahah

  • @hidinginsight1879
    @hidinginsight1879 4 роки тому +207

    I've often seen in movies, like "Pride and Prejudice" with Merle Oberon, that young ladies will open and flutter their fan as they walk away in annoyance, disgust or outrage. Glad to know there's a whole lexicon of fan lingo that even artists will incorporate into their works!

  • @vinacarissa7928
    @vinacarissa7928 4 роки тому +35

    Suddenly I remember that scene from the princess diaries...

  • @talosheeg
    @talosheeg 4 роки тому +21

    Queen Lucy is back!

  • @skippymagrue
    @skippymagrue 4 роки тому +9

    I would be sending all sorts of wrong messages because I can't do left and right.

  • @bugganettedupan-cheng5135
    @bugganettedupan-cheng5135 Рік тому +3

    Here after seeing the Enola Holmes 2

  • @topherUSA
    @topherUSA 4 роки тому +6

    That is one formidable Historian. We are great admirers here in Santa Monica, CA... 🌴🌴🌴

  • @louisxiv631
    @louisxiv631 4 роки тому +7

    Fascinating video! Thanks for the education in the language of the fan. I'm sure it'll come in handy when I next visit the palace!

  • @michirumaeda
    @michirumaeda 3 роки тому +3

    Interesting! I have seen some of these fan gestures on period movies. I didn't know what they were about until this. Thank you Lucy!

  • @historeewithC
    @historeewithC 4 роки тому +3

    Lucy is fantastic!

  • @rossigrace5031
    @rossigrace5031 Рік тому

    I fidget way too much for this, I'd be throwing up gang signs and starting a war without realizing 🤣

  • @Mickiwalk
    @Mickiwalk Рік тому +1

    "I'm married and my small dog is overheating." That's how I read #3.
    Did anyone catch the unbearably cute tiny hand holding the bottom of the fan together in #2?

  • @RavenGent
    @RavenGent 2 місяці тому

    This is practice at Victorian balls and I seemed to practice it when I practice ballroom dancing. 🎩

  • @ka-chow7894
    @ka-chow7894 Рік тому

    Imagine just scratching your cheek and accidentally gesture I Love You to a random person 😭

  • @luciexvxvxvx
    @luciexvxvxvx 8 місяців тому

    Lmao 😂 I can imagine someone at the background gasping after witnessing a woman dropped a fan to a man 😂

  • @93Premium_3
    @93Premium_3 8 місяців тому

    I just feel so Classy *pinky out*🥰

  • @lillia.s
    @lillia.s 3 місяці тому

    This is so goofy 😭

  • @АЛЕКСАНДРГорбунов-ж4й

    Люси Уорсли - Настоящая Леди !!! Я тоже Ваш Поклонник ( DEPECHE MODE from Besildon U.K. Essex ) ... a from Russia .
    Александр .
    До свидания .

  • @carmenibarra5402
    @carmenibarra5402 Рік тому

    Me encanta esta mujer ,es una historiadora inglesa . Aquí en España he visto varios documentales de ella ,sobre personajes históricos. Unos documentales muy buenos muy bien documentados y hechos .Espero que vuelvan a emitirse en España .Lucy me cae genial.💜💜❤️❤️

  • @orangejuice5435
    @orangejuice5435 Рік тому

    I'm going to a regency ball and I've got a fan, I thought it would be fun to learn how to speak with my fan. Not sure anyone else will speak fan but still pretty cool.

  • @alaskacosplay
    @alaskacosplay 3 роки тому

    I know how to say "Get Away From Me, You Creep!!!" in fan. Just continuously hitting the creep using the fan because I don't wanna scream in church.

  • @047DianeB
    @047DianeB 3 роки тому

    I'm with Katie M. I could watch and listen to Lucy all day and all night! She's showing us how to "speak fan?" I'm all in!

  • @rbeckhoff89
    @rbeckhoff89 3 роки тому

    I respect she is a married lady.. But I have a thing for her.. just a complement

  • @Brontyger
    @Brontyger Рік тому

    And now to spice things up.... In Tai Chi we were taught how to fight and defend ourselves with fans! 🤣

  • @annetcell-ly4571
    @annetcell-ly4571 3 роки тому

    Love it. What year are we in? They obviously knew their left from their right.

  • @artboxfashion4042
    @artboxfashion4042 3 роки тому

    I wish she would do something with Nell Gwynne

  • @SkarKingg
    @SkarKingg 3 роки тому

    I'm going to assume she's a dominatrix

  • @lakeshagadson357
    @lakeshagadson357 3 роки тому

    i would like to use a fan when im bored.

  • @lindahedman3115
    @lindahedman3115 4 роки тому

    😀

  • @terrortara6994
    @terrortara6994 4 роки тому

    🤣❤️

  • @dxmxo9427
    @dxmxo9427 4 роки тому

    I love it