This proud Brit-American i.e. "Anglophile" enjoyed this so much , I had to watch it again! Cheers from Yankee New England where we still have some British traditions here like teas, Scottish Highlander games and bagpipes and a restaurant chain called 'The British Beer Company"! We also have many towns and cities named after the ones in England like Boston, Cambridge, Plymouth, Chatham, etc. The apples didn't fall far from the tree, we just sailed across the 'Big Pond" and revolted! lol ♥♥🍻🫖💐💜💜
You're only one part of America. The whole is a lot more complicated than that. Nor are the town names exclusive to the East Coast. Many English names are found on streets and towns throughout the US. I don't think Highlander games are "British." What you watched was one small facet of life in England which does not include the vast majority as the title seemed to imply.
@@susanharris5926 Highlander games are Scottish, still part of the UK. Obviously some British towns/cities exist elsewhere in the states as people moved west and elsewhere!
I'm Irish so I'll start here. Gone is Made in Ireland, Great Britain. United States of America, France and even Germany. No prize for guessing why, its our addiction to cheap Oriental stuff, Okay its cheap but is crap, its a false economy. If its made in my neck of the woods or even next door I'll buy it there quicker. We need our manufacturing back.
Ian, the always humble You are the queen's knight. He is a big charitable donor. Be the person who makes the world a better place. He deserves the title Sir. Although Ian always said not to call him sir. But I think I want to use the words sir Ian. 🎉
if all of this shown is quintessential for being British, then most of the British population don't belong to what makes the country. Though I enjoyed the documentation very much for it procovoced many great memories, it still made me thinking, because I have seen many other places of much lesser privilege.
You echo my thoughts entirely. I consider my self quintessentially English and have never been to Robbs or Seville Row or most of the establishments detailed here. A situation common to 98.99 per cent of the remainder of the population of these islands.
@@athenaellis1902 The topic designated in the title was NOT the truth. This is not a British way except for a very few. The comments aren't catty, but truthful. Seems you can't accept the truth either. The topic as it turned out was BS.
@@athenaellis1902 I forgot to mention with respect to your Envy? - I am am expat living in the Pacific Northwest of America for a long time, and there is NOTHING about polo, Savile row suits etc that could compare to life here or to the beauty of the geography I live with. I do not envy anyone living in the UK frankly.
Some guy who used to make men's suits on Saville Row said once that he did some of King Charles' suits and put obscene words between the fabric and the liner. He was joking, but someone actually brought the King's suits to the tailor to have them checked for hidden swear words just the same.
I think this documentary is a sales pitch for England, not Britain. The rest of Britain will not relate to the boat race nor to Lock & Co or Savile Row. And it should rather be about pints at lunchtime and Gregg's sausage roll if it was to be accurate and contemporary.
Weekend is here, BRITS, let's share some cute tips for trips outdoor, never stop believe in guys, never let bad guys win to screw us the joy of life, it's a big big very big fate challenge to deal with, a nice ... travel in time might help to bring up your moral facing the next struggles...this is the most insidious war to deal with, pull out the famous British cleverness & go for it champs ❤
It's weird how most people feel about .. rules and laws, it's a very British approach, establish rules of a game and ask respect, that's how order make us feel humans, seems it's very British being disgusted of corruption, of breaking the rules, of cheating and being traitors, of lying and being unfair, that's the biggest problem of the global humankind, loving sports games but in a very fair play way. ...which a lot of big bosses rulers of the world have no intentions to respect at all. Therefore, you can always give lessons of ...how to feel BRITS, of how to care about rules and order, of how to stay away from corruption and dirty games, it's still a huge asset to be exploited. A century ago, a British property used to work like a restrained community or maybe, enlarged family, any castle had an agriculture farming business, still crucial these modern times, having oxygen factories all surroundings a precious mansion, saving water and having the... Spa swimming pool all around the property border, can you imagine it? African countries suffer of extreme fragile positions all the times, have you ever noticed? Time for them to feel BRITS building up new families like gorgeous English countryside, there was room for everybody, like a real supermarket shopping center serving the family, there was the catering service, the articrafts man, the taylor man, the public events organizer, you name it, modern lifestyle it's about having festival happenings all the time in the backyard, can you imagine it?
Very cute inspiring documentary, I feel British since.. Shakespeare's ages... because a Queen decided that BRITS deserve to have a theater entertainment of a kind, because she was like a Mother and the whole Kingdom was her family to take care about. This doc is revealing us how it works the very British style that.. went much far beyond UK borders, hanging on the Past, on the ancestors assets, on the family heritage and fortune, on being conservatives, preserving things and assets, on being...on defence all the time. The last challenges instead are pushing people break the limits once again, wishing you guys, never give up the Shakespeare's effect, making of a British property a theater entertainment asset for having guests all the time, that's the point. Trying to seduce wealthy people make strategic investments bringing their homes a bit of British spirit is crucial if not vital. The biggest question above all, why can not other countries live like BRITS but then so many immigrants need to live in UK to feel... respectable humans?
People fail to realize that Churchill was "moody" because he suffered from the anguish of full blown depression. It's important for people to ascertain things you know.
OT: So if you don't deserve anything you personally haven't earned the inheritance laws should be changed I guess, that will of course apply to everyone even those indignant that someone has more then them.
England. Great place to be if you have money..I will never understand why our Canadian dollars is worth so much less than the pound..we have everything, they have nothing
Canada is mediocre. I said this when I left 50 years ago. No regrets. The UK is where I base myself when not working abroad. Britain is much more vulgar in parts but much more tremendous in parts.
Heavens to murgatroyd, Brits seem to be having an identity crisis. Perhaps it's easier for an Aussie to describe it, from a distance. It's your language, accent(s), art, history, political systems, symbols and ethnicity. Yes, ethnicity - Anglo Celts (put simply) - if that is retained more or less intact, and that archipelago off the coast of continental Europe, is Great Britain, which has never been fully realized because the rapproachement with Ireland is incomplete. Post-Brexit and what looks like the demise of the United Kingdom, Great Britain as England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland could be its natural destiny. As far as manner and behaviour is concerned, Brits are a well-balanced lot; not so shut down as the Japanese, nowhere near as loud as most of the rest, yet still spontaneous.
It’s not Irelands destiny to be a part of Great Britain or a United Kingdom. We are not a part of Britain and don’t aspire to be. They are our nearest neighbours. That’s about it. Thanks
I love the English, but this documentary is quite lop-sided, leaning towards the more touristy take of “the English”. Quintessentially, one can’t make a documentary about true Englishness asking the English for a definition of it: The privileged especially will never tell you what they really think. Most of them wouldn’t dream of doing so to their best friend…
... the typical British pork sausage - thank goodness it isn't available abroad the "typical" pink slime is _ abominable rubbish... lol... (There may be exceptional exceptions to "typical". of course)
The House of Lords should be reformed properly and not abolished. The Lords should be a meritocracy of Junior Peers, Life and Hereditary peerage back in. Accession committees would decide who moves up the meritocracy. Sons and daughters who inherit an hereditary peerage would enter the Lords as Junior peers. Hereditary peerage should be earned, not abolished. Blair hated the independence of hereditary peers. They owed no allegiance to him.
I wonder if this was made for Americans? Bottom line, every culture has it's ideals and in every culture, almost nobody lives up to the ideals - that's why they are called 'ideals' instead of ' norms.' If you want to know what the British are like, go to the pubs. There you'll meet a cross-section of society (of course, visit different pubs because not every class of person lives in the same neighborhood), and you can draw conclusions about how the British really ARE, rather than the ideals they aspire to. (Mind you, it can take a very long time to enter into a British person's circle and start to hear what they are saying and thinking about you when you're not there. Don't assume that because they are civil, they like you. They may be slicing you to ribbons the minute you leave the room. The one characteristic the British have in spades is hypocrisy, but don't expect them to admit it.)
There was a time when British welfare had the meaning of ... having everything. Starting with food. Well, everybody can recycle this very healthy tradition, ancestors lectures of life are still the best friends. Having the roses garden, the winter garden and the tea garden, from my behalf. .. like Olympic champions in 190 countries world wide if possible, some other nations need support to become trully BRITS about these matters, some of them in this TV doc, ask them if they would be happy, watching their siblings abroad living ...by BRITS rules at all in their birth place. Well, if you take a closer look, I did not see yet the hazelnuts plantation, every countryside property, have you ever tried to imagine people enjoying the vegetal butter instead of the animals one? Roses are a very British trend, then why not giving branches to climb up other climbing species? Green beans are spectacular guys, the most precious vegetal proteins on our diet, can you realize this? Cucumbers can bloom all the time of the year as long as you harvest the fruits young, cucumbers juice is very healthy rich of C Vitamin...very good for skin care as well. If you try to imagine how UK used to look like a century ago, the Belle Epoque trends made all be like... National Geographic scientists about all Mother Nature weird exotic gifts. If we care to save the planet well, it must look like a... Brasilian jungle, think about it friends, living in the Past is not enough...but using the Past as best inspiration for the future
According to this, correct me if I'm wrong, being quintessentially British is being toffs, well off and privileged. Where are the majority, which, I know, have bled and died for being British? Is this a joke? Ian Mckellen, how could you ??
it is now becoming common knowledge due to the study of genetics all Englishmen are related. so is that a horrifying thought or just inverted snobbery in its death throws. It has been said Australia is classless, it certainly is not... Your address gives it away every time.
My very first English teacher was Walt Disney, Chip & Dale naughty squirrels adventures were my very favorite ones, still, my life is a funny chipmunks entertainment of a kind, fighting back the big bossy meany arrogant Donald the Duck owner and master of the universe, then why feeling so sorry learning the best marketing solutions and making of every asset we can hold another Disneyland multi billionaire fortune? Once there were the garden dwarfs decorations to cheer up a backyard, well, what about giving some further artists the chance to build up new touristic atractions? The monsters that surface from the ground are my very favorite ones, they might help as well as security guardians like spirits and ghosts from another parallel dimension there to protect a property. Centuries ago BRITS had no fear for such fate challenges, time for them to have them back guys, think about it, Lord Of The Rings fantasies are not bad at all, from my behalf... every house is a Disneyland asset guys
Ahhh yes, the British Garden. As my father once said about describing them, "just drop a seed.... and stand back." lol
Such a good documentary - loved every minute of it.
Yes...we are...traditionalists...original..............reserved....sensitive....politeness......imaginative...and warm hearted....
One just has to love Ian McKellen play pretend “not sir, man of the people”.
Brilliant, that was simply brilliant - well done.
This proud Brit-American i.e. "Anglophile" enjoyed this so much , I had to watch it again! Cheers from Yankee New England where we still have some British traditions here like teas, Scottish Highlander games and bagpipes and a restaurant chain called 'The British Beer Company"! We also have many towns and cities named after the ones in England like Boston, Cambridge, Plymouth, Chatham, etc. The apples didn't fall far from the tree, we just sailed across the 'Big Pond" and revolted! lol ♥♥🍻🫖💐💜💜
You're only one part of America. The whole is a lot more complicated than that. Nor are the town names exclusive to the East Coast. Many English names are found on streets and towns throughout the US. I don't think Highlander games are "British." What you watched was one small facet of life in England which does not include the vast majority as the title seemed to imply.
@@susanharris5926 Highlander games are Scottish, still part of the UK. Obviously some British towns/cities exist elsewhere in the states as people moved west and elsewhere!
@@brendadrew834 Precisely. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom, but is not British. That has only ever been England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
I'm Irish so I'll start here. Gone is Made in Ireland, Great Britain. United States of America, France and even Germany. No prize for guessing why, its our addiction to cheap Oriental stuff, Okay its cheap but is crap, its a false economy. If its made in my neck of the woods or even next door I'll buy it there quicker. We need our manufacturing back.
Manufacturing? Engineering? Finance? Science? Music? The people? The land?
Great reminder why as a Scot I don't feel British
I loved this. Thank you!!
Ian, the always humble You are the queen's knight. He is a big charitable donor. Be the person who makes the world a better place. He deserves the title Sir. Although Ian always said not to call him sir. But I think I want to use the words sir Ian. 🎉
I knew him well in the 1990s he is a vain man who broke countless promises too me ,he doesn’t show he smokes but he does he is very very vain
Maybe should have asked Clarkson. I'm a proud English woman. Also a Brit. So proud of our inclusive history, a real melting pot.
if all of this shown is quintessential for being British, then most of the British population don't belong to what makes the country. Though I enjoyed the documentation very much for it procovoced many great memories, it still made me thinking, because I have seen many other places of much lesser privilege.
You echo my thoughts entirely. I consider my self quintessentially English and have never been to Robbs or Seville Row or most of the establishments detailed here. A situation common to 98.99 per cent of the remainder of the population of these islands.
it's all about money and so very exclusive
I think it's a love letter to all things that money can buy which is not so much the majority of people in the United Kingdom.
Thank you, you said it so much better than I.
All I could think to say was:
"are you fuqn kidding me???"
True, but why not spoil a topic with catty comments? Envy? I think yes.
@@athenaellis1902 I think you're the catty one here. No one needed you to come in and make judgments on everyone here.
@@athenaellis1902 The topic designated in the title was NOT the truth. This is not a British way except for a very few. The comments aren't catty, but truthful. Seems you can't accept the truth either. The topic as it turned out was BS.
@@athenaellis1902 I forgot to mention with respect to your Envy? - I am am expat living in the Pacific Northwest of America for a long time, and there is NOTHING about polo, Savile row suits etc that could compare to life here or to the beauty of the geography I live with. I do not envy anyone living in the UK frankly.
Some guy who used to make men's suits on Saville Row said once that he did some of King Charles' suits and put obscene words between the fabric and the liner. He was joking, but someone actually brought the King's suits to the tailor to have them checked for hidden swear words just the same.
That guy was none other than Alexander McQueen.
I love that anecdote-I hope it’s true! Alexander McQueen ❤❤❤
I think this documentary is a sales pitch for England, not Britain. The rest of Britain will not relate to the boat race nor to Lock & Co or Savile Row. And it should rather be about pints at lunchtime and Gregg's sausage roll if it was to be accurate and contemporary.
Weekend is here, BRITS, let's share some cute tips for trips outdoor, never stop believe in guys, never let bad guys win to screw us the joy of life, it's a big big very big fate challenge to deal with, a nice ... travel in time might help to bring up your moral facing the next struggles...this is the most insidious war to deal with, pull out the famous British cleverness & go for it champs ❤
Here we go all over again.
British = English = British.
He should be elevated to "Sir" whether he likes it or not. The people have spoken.
British is what you call yourself when you don't want people to think you are English.😂
Calm down.
Did Prince Philipp polish his shoes himself? Oh, I'm so impressed.
Haha😂
Basically, we're well-mannered sociopaths!
Quintessentially toffee-nosed.
Love it!
VERY NICE well done ex TV movies
God and His Majesty be with you.
Amen.
Do you reside in Westminster Abbey by any chance?
Wonderful must be an English actors and actresses, they have such a beautiful gifts.
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." - Cecil Rhodes
It's weird how most people feel about .. rules and laws, it's a very British approach, establish rules of a game and ask respect, that's how order make us feel humans, seems it's very British being disgusted of corruption, of breaking the rules, of cheating and being traitors, of lying and being unfair, that's the biggest problem of the global humankind, loving sports games but in a very fair play way. ...which a lot of big bosses rulers of the world have no intentions to respect at all. Therefore, you can always give lessons of ...how to feel BRITS, of how to care about rules and order, of how to stay away from corruption and dirty games, it's still a huge asset to be exploited. A century ago, a British property used to work like a restrained community or maybe, enlarged family, any castle had an agriculture farming business, still crucial these modern times, having oxygen factories all surroundings a precious mansion, saving water and having the... Spa swimming pool all around the property border, can you imagine it? African countries suffer of extreme fragile positions all the times, have you ever noticed? Time for them to feel BRITS building up new families like gorgeous English countryside, there was room for everybody, like a real supermarket shopping center serving the family, there was the catering service, the articrafts man, the taylor man, the public events organizer, you name it, modern lifestyle it's about having festival happenings all the time in the backyard, can you imagine it?
Continue to keep those borders open and there will no longer be such a thing as "quintessential British".
Britain was made by foreigners! If we close the borders we will end up like the Trumpanzees across the Atlantic.
You are yourself the result of millennia of migration, out of Africa, from Romans and Vikings and more.
Lord Palmer died in July.
I'm a kiwi. We are very similar.
Ian a national Treasury ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very cute inspiring documentary, I feel British since.. Shakespeare's ages... because a Queen decided that BRITS deserve to have a theater entertainment of a kind, because she was like a Mother and the whole Kingdom was her family to take care about. This doc is revealing us how it works the very British style that.. went much far beyond UK borders, hanging on the Past, on the ancestors assets, on the family heritage and fortune, on being conservatives, preserving things and assets, on being...on defence all the time. The last challenges instead are pushing people break the limits once again, wishing you guys, never give up the Shakespeare's effect, making of a British property a theater entertainment asset for having guests all the time, that's the point. Trying to seduce wealthy people make strategic investments bringing their homes a bit of British spirit is crucial if not vital. The biggest question above all, why can not other countries live like BRITS but then so many immigrants need to live in UK to feel... respectable humans?
People fail to realize that Churchill was "moody" because he suffered from the anguish of full blown depression. It's important for people to ascertain things you know.
I love Cambridge 🌳🎓🛶
OT: So if you don't deserve anything you personally haven't earned the inheritance laws should be changed I guess, that will of course apply to everyone even those indignant that someone has more then them.
This documentary encapsulates what is wrong with the UK - it is not about the UK, not even about England, it is about London.
England. Great place to be if you have money..I will never understand why our Canadian dollars is worth so much less than the pound..we have everything, they have nothing
Canada is mediocre. I said this when I left 50 years ago. No regrets. The UK is where I base myself when not working abroad. Britain is much more vulgar in parts but much more tremendous in parts.
They have history
Canada? You joking right... Canada is non descript at best.
44:35..... what a pranny.
Heavens to murgatroyd, Brits seem to be having an identity crisis. Perhaps it's easier for an Aussie to describe it, from a distance. It's your language, accent(s), art, history, political systems, symbols and ethnicity. Yes, ethnicity - Anglo Celts (put simply) - if that is retained more or less intact, and that archipelago off the coast of continental Europe, is Great Britain, which has never been fully realized because the rapproachement with Ireland is incomplete. Post-Brexit and what looks like the demise of the United Kingdom, Great Britain as England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland could be its natural destiny.
As far as manner and behaviour is concerned, Brits are a well-balanced lot; not so shut down as the Japanese, nowhere near as loud as most of the rest, yet still spontaneous.
It’s not Irelands destiny to be a part of Great Britain or a United Kingdom. We are not a part of Britain and don’t aspire to be. They are our nearest neighbours. That’s about it. Thanks
I love the English, but this documentary is quite lop-sided, leaning towards the more touristy take of “the English”. Quintessentially, one can’t make a documentary about true Englishness asking the English for a definition of it: The privileged especially will never tell you what they really think. Most of them wouldn’t dream of doing so to their best friend…
"Civil"...yes.
... the typical British pork sausage - thank goodness it isn't available abroad the "typical" pink slime is _ abominable rubbish... lol...
(There may be exceptional exceptions to "typical". of course)
The House of Lords should be reformed properly and not abolished. The Lords should be a meritocracy of Junior Peers, Life and Hereditary peerage back in. Accession committees would decide who moves up the meritocracy. Sons and daughters who inherit an hereditary peerage would enter the Lords as Junior peers. Hereditary peerage should be earned, not abolished. Blair hated the independence of hereditary peers. They owed no allegiance to him.
The British empire was the shadow of Satin stalking the earth.
Do you mean Satan?
I wish McKellan joy however, how such a self conscious actor ever achieved such success and adulation beats me. He is always McKellan, never the part.
I wonder if this was made for Americans? Bottom line, every culture has it's ideals and in every culture, almost nobody lives up to the ideals - that's why they are called 'ideals' instead of ' norms.' If you want to know what the British are like, go to the pubs. There you'll meet a cross-section of society (of course, visit different pubs because not every class of person lives in the same neighborhood), and you can draw conclusions about how the British really ARE, rather than the ideals they aspire to. (Mind you, it can take a very long time to enter into a British person's circle and start to hear what they are saying and thinking about you when you're not there. Don't assume that because they are civil, they like you. They may be slicing you to ribbons the minute you leave the room. The one characteristic the British have in spades is hypocrisy, but don't expect them to admit it.)
INNIT.....SHAMELESS....JEREMY KYLE....etc......the other side.
There was a time when British welfare had the meaning of ... having everything. Starting with food. Well, everybody can recycle this very healthy tradition, ancestors lectures of life are still the best friends. Having the roses garden, the winter garden and the tea garden, from my behalf. .. like Olympic champions in 190 countries world wide if possible, some other nations need support to become trully BRITS about these matters, some of them in this TV doc, ask them if they would be happy, watching their siblings abroad living ...by BRITS rules at all in their birth place. Well, if you take a closer look, I did not see yet the hazelnuts plantation, every countryside property, have you ever tried to imagine people enjoying the vegetal butter instead of the animals one? Roses are a very British trend, then why not giving branches to climb up other climbing species? Green beans are spectacular guys, the most precious vegetal proteins on our diet, can you realize this? Cucumbers can bloom all the time of the year as long as you harvest the fruits young, cucumbers juice is very healthy rich of C Vitamin...very good for skin care as well. If you try to imagine how UK used to look like a century ago, the Belle Epoque trends made all be like... National Geographic scientists about all Mother Nature weird exotic gifts. If we care to save the planet well, it must look like a... Brasilian jungle, think about it friends, living in the Past is not enough...but using the Past as best inspiration for the future
According to this, correct me if I'm wrong, being quintessentially British is being toffs, well off and privileged. Where are the majority, which, I know, have bled and died for being British? Is this a joke? Ian Mckellen, how could you ??
it is now becoming common knowledge due to the study of genetics all Englishmen are related. so is that a horrifying thought or just inverted snobbery in its death throws. It has been said Australia is classless, it certainly is not... Your address gives it away every time.
My very first English teacher was Walt Disney, Chip & Dale naughty squirrels adventures were my very favorite ones, still, my life is a funny chipmunks entertainment of a kind, fighting back the big bossy meany arrogant Donald the Duck owner and master of the universe, then why feeling so sorry learning the best marketing solutions and making of every asset we can hold another Disneyland multi billionaire fortune? Once there were the garden dwarfs decorations to cheer up a backyard, well, what about giving some further artists the chance to build up new touristic atractions? The monsters that surface from the ground are my very favorite ones, they might help as well as security guardians like spirits and ghosts from another parallel dimension there to protect a property. Centuries ago BRITS had no fear for such fate challenges, time for them to have them back guys, think about it, Lord Of The Rings fantasies are not bad at all, from my behalf... every house is a Disneyland asset guys
This documentary is a hot mess. Just a bunch of random thoughts and interviews string together.
I am sorry, but I did not see any hommage to 400 years of COLONIALISM and the degrading of other people who you considered to be less than!!!!!
Because that wasn't great
Trust me, the colonies are moving there.
Codswallop
Try other countries, France for instance!
Greatest Empire the Worlds ever seen, fool.
What I took from that film was we are a bunch of massive dillussional bell ends who have everything they deserve coming to them. Vote Tory 2024.