The American Teen that Changed the British Aristocracy Forever

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  • @MannyD90
    @MannyD90 4 роки тому +567

    I absolutely love that they had Elizabeth McGovern narrate this. Cora Crawley was exactly one of these ladies.

    • @shannonwysinger3335
      @shannonwysinger3335 4 роки тому +19

      I agree. Her voice was perfect.

    • @Chellebelle1211
      @Chellebelle1211 4 роки тому +11

      Omg, I knew it was her!! Lol

    • @mcaskey358
      @mcaskey358 4 роки тому +3

      She was actually based on one of them. Her husband married her solely for her fortune, and then after the marriage fell madly in love with her. Sadly she died young, but they had a wonderful, happy marriage.

    • @ElizabethSmith0408
      @ElizabethSmith0408 4 роки тому +9

      I knew I recognized that voice! I definitely agree. Also her voice is so calming

    • @emmapulford6141
      @emmapulford6141 2 роки тому +2

      Was thinking same thing 😃

  • @Roedygr
    @Roedygr 6 років тому +2039

    It is very frustrating. Smithsonian channel video end right in the middle of a sentence, just when things were getting interesting. Finish what you start.

    • @meeeka
      @meeeka 6 років тому +73

      Roedy Green They are teasers, designed to get the viewer to seek out their pay cable channel.

    • @stephsmanicshenanigans8017
      @stephsmanicshenanigans8017 5 років тому +28

      I rarely ever see anything interesting on this channel anyway. Usually have to record things because they play at like 7am. Otherwise they just constantly play ‘Air Disasters’ which gets old after one episode.

    • @StrawberryFeildsforNever
      @StrawberryFeildsforNever 5 років тому +23

      Roedy Green they wanted it to stop at 420

    • @lanekelly79
      @lanekelly79 5 років тому +3

      Roedy Green the link is below.

    • @iamsnehanair
      @iamsnehanair 5 років тому +15

      this is why i don't subscribe to channels that only tease but never really complete their content.

  • @annebay8093
    @annebay8093 6 років тому +37

    Yes the narrator is the mom on Downton Abbey. I love her voice. There are some movies about Winston Churchill’s mom. She was an American whose father was ridiculously wealthy and I think Sir Randolph was pleasantly pleased to court a young woman who is perfect for what he was looking to marry. A lot of English Aristocracy in Victorian times needed money and came to the U.S. searching for wealthy families to marry into. But Jennie Churchill proved to be a fantastic person on her own right. Her story is totally worthwhile to read and learn about. And her husband Sir Randolph died prematurely and she just carried on. Winston didn’t get to be who and what he turned out to be on his own !!

  • @plumemoths
    @plumemoths 4 роки тому +239

    The wealthy Americans wanted titles & the Brits holding titles wanted to ensure their wealth. Thus, marriage.

  • @itzkirml
    @itzkirml 4 роки тому +33

    I love how calm and soothing the women's voices are when talking, and then the guy with the glasses gives off mad scientist vibes

  • @AuthorLHollingsworth
    @AuthorLHollingsworth 4 роки тому +18

    That new money versus old money way of thinking still exists in some arenas. Insane!

  • @helsinki
    @helsinki 4 роки тому +51

    I want to watch a reenactment of this with Jeanie Jerome talking in thick brooklyn accent.

  • @margotmadden1119
    @margotmadden1119 7 років тому +651

    She's Winston Churchill's Mother

    • @jasondaricus4513
      @jasondaricus4513 6 років тому +3

      No

    • @jasondaricus4513
      @jasondaricus4513 6 років тому +6

      Churchill was a popular name back then their not related

    • @patrickcdg8086
      @patrickcdg8086 6 років тому +27

      The Churchill was related to the Duke of Marlboro I believe so.

    • @Nzie
      @Nzie 6 років тому +131

      Margot's right-it's totally his mother. She was quite the socialite and ended up married two more times if I remember correctly, and probably had an affair with Edward VII. His cousin, the eldest son of the eldest son, married Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose fortune gave Marlborough a very nice new garden.

    • @treehouse2902
      @treehouse2902 6 років тому +33

      Yes she was.

  • @HamCubes
    @HamCubes 8 років тому +646

    American Teen *who* Changed the British Aristocracy Forever

  • @lilianevanfrankrijk7490
    @lilianevanfrankrijk7490 9 років тому +766

    Who is narrating this? It sounds like the actress who plays the mother in Downton Abbey, Elisabeth Montgomery.

    • @JKLoans
      @JKLoans 9 років тому +165

      It is! However, her name is Elizabeth McGovern.

    • @lilianevanfrankrijk7490
      @lilianevanfrankrijk7490 8 років тому +19

      Ooops, my bad, one out of two!

    • @DivineSimply
      @DivineSimply 8 років тому +31

      +Liliane van Frankrijk There is an Elizabeth Montgomery. She played Samantha on the TV sitcom "Bewitched."

    • @opinionatedbitch-
      @opinionatedbitch- 7 років тому +8

      Liliane van Frankrijk it is that's Elizabeth McGovern

    • @lilianevanfrankrijk7490
      @lilianevanfrankrijk7490 7 років тому +6

      My bad, thanks.

  • @nathanracher2911
    @nathanracher2911 7 років тому +201

    ah a classic tale of Old money v New money.

    • @bastianskaye
      @bastianskaye 6 років тому +1

      old empty pockets in need of refilling.
      one cause (aside from their ridiculous spending habits) was cheap American corn... at the time, ruinous to the UK landowners, which was how the titled maintained their estates and themselves.
      you know it's peculiar to old money when a gentleman doesn't EARN money, but inherits it.
      and I guess if the old US money won't accept them, the even older money in the UK will... and did!! LOL
      (please excuse my nattering. it is an interesting subject!)

    • @ingriddubbel8468
      @ingriddubbel8468 6 років тому

      Nathan Racher I don't think that is the point. Her child saved the World.

  • @emberrey1814
    @emberrey1814 5 років тому +88

    Why the heck did I legitimately read it as "The American *TEETH* That Changed the British Aristocracy???"

    • @sirennumber5248
      @sirennumber5248 5 років тому

      Right

    • @nnicollan
      @nnicollan 5 років тому +3

      Maybe because of 'that' instead of 'who' ;-)

    • @kateli1880
      @kateli1880 4 роки тому +6

      You’re not too far off as the “Old Money” does bare its teeth and bites off the head of those who tried to inch their way into the society aristocracy. Lol

    • @jamesmcinnis208
      @jamesmcinnis208 4 роки тому +2

      "Legitimately"? No.

    • @Cadreouiyiosiollouiiu
      @Cadreouiyiosiollouiiu 4 роки тому

      So did i .. lolz

  • @ricardorodriguezbarraza781
    @ricardorodriguezbarraza781 7 років тому +208

    WHERE THE HELL IS THE REST OF THIS?!

    • @2pekes568
      @2pekes568 6 років тому +10

      You can find it in the Smithsonian Channel series of American Millionaire women marrying British monarchy. I think they have the series here in UA-cam for renting per episode. I guess you can always check your local library?

  • @heatherbowlan9822
    @heatherbowlan9822 5 років тому +19

    OH ! How I wish a movie would be made out of this awesome piece of history !

    • @johanna6050
      @johanna6050 4 роки тому +3

      A mini series was made about 25 or 30 years ago, with Lee Remick playing Jennie Jerome. I think it was produced by the BBC.

    • @carolthomson4705
      @carolthomson4705 3 роки тому

      @@johanna6050 there is a dvd available

    • @Angel-ts8rc
      @Angel-ts8rc Рік тому

      This clip is from
      A show!!! Million dollar American princesses on Smithsonian and paramount +

  • @duandee5174
    @duandee5174 6 років тому +45

    It's so annoying that the story just ended when it just getting very interesting.. :-/

  • @williamwallace2278
    @williamwallace2278 5 років тому +106

    Strange? America fought for freedom from the old country. But sought the titles, pomp & circumstances of its predecessor

    • @ykmvp1870
      @ykmvp1870 4 роки тому +6

      Bruh they were still brits even if they became independent

    • @Freshie207
      @Freshie207 4 роки тому +3

      In 1783 only a 3rd of the Colonial Population favoured Independence, many preferred the stability of the status quo.
      Those who pushed hardest for it had huge financial incentives, namely the British had ordered the Americans not to colonise west of the Ohio river, however the Colonists believed this to be prime land for the tacking.

    • @Freshie207
      @Freshie207 4 роки тому

      +Well Known 1783, they were independent from the Treaty of Paris in 1783

    • @cooldloop2381
      @cooldloop2381 4 роки тому +1

      Freshie207, so you are saying colonization and moving west is why they seceded from England?

    • @bootstrap52
      @bootstrap52 4 роки тому

      Yes the entire continent of America

  • @bitterbeauty6144
    @bitterbeauty6144 4 роки тому +41

    Churchill married her for her money and she married him for his title. The marriage was arranged and very unhappy.

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 4 роки тому +12

    Let me guess Jenny will later on become the mother of the future British Prime Minister “Winston Churchill.”

  • @Mayakran
    @Mayakran 4 роки тому +55

    This is great, but the jazzy brass music is really throwing me off. About 50-70 years off...

    • @OcarinaSapphr-
      @OcarinaSapphr- 4 роки тому +6

      That One
      It might have been ‘band music’- which has a vague similarity to jazz, but it isn’t wrong for the period, I don’t think....1870’s-1890’s (don’t quote me, lol)

    • @alexmsevans
      @alexmsevans 4 роки тому +2

      Also the costuming (those dresses are 1890s but whatever :P)

    • @whatadollslife
      @whatadollslife 4 роки тому

      agree, terrible juxtaposition

    • @Mayakran
      @Mayakran 4 роки тому

      @@OcarinaSapphr- there wasn’t really any “big band” type of music during this time-it was mostly Romantic with the likes of Chopin (early), Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Wagner, Puccini, etc. They EASILY could have gone with that XD

    • @OcarinaSapphr-
      @OcarinaSapphr- 4 роки тому +1

      @@Mayakran
      I said 'band music', not 'big band'- they are, in fact, two different things- & using Romantic era music would have been outdated- by like 30-odd years or so.

  • @vhlaura97
    @vhlaura97 5 років тому +39

    The narrator sounds like Lady Grantham

  • @lizryan6289
    @lizryan6289 6 років тому +16

    And this union gave Britain Winston.

  • @48mavemiss2
    @48mavemiss2 5 років тому +23

    These men were manly men with foot long mustaches to prove it

  • @misssissivoss
    @misssissivoss 4 роки тому +5

    In 1860 a fountain gushing out eau de Cologne seams to be a very good thing. The New Yorker didn't get ridd of their waste until 1890. So the city stank.
    Please, correct me, if I'm wrong.

  • @MrsNoji
    @MrsNoji 5 років тому +15

    "Manly man, not girly man"
    Wow

  • @leahvillanueva5402
    @leahvillanueva5402 5 місяців тому

    They killed it with the casting. She looks JUST like Jennie. 😍

  • @ssmalik8945
    @ssmalik8945 5 років тому +11

    Me : omg! What?! Then??!!
    Smithsonian channel : keep asking ..

  • @cellpat2686
    @cellpat2686 Рік тому +2

    Lord Churchill and Jenny Jerome had a dance that years later saved the free world.

  • @Katiedid93
    @Katiedid93 4 роки тому +1

    Love that Elizabeth McGovern is narrating. Downton!!!

  • @maureendavidson4635
    @maureendavidson4635 4 роки тому +63

    Why is this channel trying to make a big secret mystery out of this? Everybody knows Churchill's mother was an American called Jenny and he loved her dearly.

  • @TK-ij2xi
    @TK-ij2xi 5 років тому +9

    I can't believe the Smithsonian quoted RHONY.

  • @riggs20
    @riggs20 5 років тому +8

    They need to reveal in the title if this is just an introduction and not the whole documentary. It's deceptive and not in keeping with the way I would expect the Smithsonian to conduct itself.

  • @bastianskaye
    @bastianskaye 6 років тому +40

    surely the TRUE teenager who changed the aristocracy was the one who caught a duke rather than a duke's second son?
    what about Consuelo Yznaga, the duchess of Manchester?
    she was in the same set as Jennie, true.
    and yes, I know whose Jennie's son was... I just think the duchess of Manchester deserves that credit. she was just as interesting, too!

    • @mariamead4444
      @mariamead4444 6 років тому +8

      bastianskaye Consuelo Vanderbilt became the Duchess of Marlborough, not Manchester.

    • @oughtssought1198
      @oughtssought1198 5 років тому +3

      + jennie gets bonus pts for being winston's only parent

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 5 років тому +1

      oughts sought
      She wasn't Winston and Jack's only parent, they had a syphillitic (probably, but not absolutely confirmed) daddy named Randolph too.

    • @vespermartini2556
      @vespermartini2556 4 роки тому +1

      @@mariamead4444 I think he's referring to Consuelo's grandmother, Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, not Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough) confusing isn't it?

    • @karlamariaramirezfigueroa4190
      @karlamariaramirezfigueroa4190 2 роки тому

      @@vespermartini2556 you mean godmother? She was friends with Alva Vanderbilt, which is why her daughter was named after the duchess of Manchester

  • @lizageorge8923
    @lizageorge8923 4 роки тому +1

    Leonard Jerome had an absolutely _amazing_ mustache.

  • @claudiajadeGrioli69
    @claudiajadeGrioli69 6 років тому +11

    the mother of winston churchill

  • @elden5052
    @elden5052 4 роки тому +14

    23-year-old? He looks 40 😑Guess that was an older picture of him.

  • @stefanie7823
    @stefanie7823 2 роки тому

    The actress playing Jennie looks just like her! Wow!

  • @anamariamunoz1253
    @anamariamunoz1253 6 років тому +6

    Would LOVE to see the full documemtary. Please!

  • @dlronevich
    @dlronevich 10 років тому +45

    Tried to watch Cash for Class but, it stated that it's not available in this country. When will it be available in the United States ? Many Downton Abbey fans are looking forward to watching this series.

    • @cheryl457
      @cheryl457 8 років тому +8

      +dlronevich it is available now on the Smithsonian's website all three episodes just watched them this past weekend

    • @Andrew-hl3tk
      @Andrew-hl3tk 6 років тому

      HAHA ENGLISH FUCKER

  • @angienatoyn
    @angienatoyn 7 років тому +51

    Speculators are "manly men". Riiiiight.

  • @AnushaSinghOfficial
    @AnushaSinghOfficial 4 роки тому

    Omg i thought it was Cora Crawley talking and then I read the comments and it is!!!!

  • @Stuffnsuch736
    @Stuffnsuch736 3 роки тому +2

    History always repeats itself doesn’t it

  • @catofthecastle1681
    @catofthecastle1681 4 роки тому +9

    This is on disney +. There are stories of i think 7 episodes.

  • @magdalenak9498
    @magdalenak9498 7 років тому +168

    what's this a segment from? I need the whole story!!

    • @21whichiswhich
      @21whichiswhich 7 років тому +11

      Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae Yes! Major cliffhanger!

    • @MyDiamond99
      @MyDiamond99 7 років тому +5

      Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae oh good god I need to know where the rest of it is!!!

    • @GrinMonister
      @GrinMonister 7 років тому +13

      Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae million dollar American princesses: cash for class. It's in the description too

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 5 років тому

      Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae
      American Princesses.

    • @scottibrown3274
      @scottibrown3274 5 років тому

      Million Dolllar American Princess

  • @colewebb4643
    @colewebb4643 7 років тому +182

    hello some of us have no hearing there you have lot I would like to watch but don't caption any and I love history

    • @Main94
      @Main94 7 років тому +69

      Hi, I couldn't add captions, but I wrote what they said: "On the afternoon of August 12, 1873, 19 year old Jenny Jerome is attending a ball. Also present is Lord Randalf Churchill, a 23 year old third son of the Duke of Malburn (sp?). It takes just one dance for Randalph to fall madly in love with the dark-haired beautiful Jenny. And it's a dance that will change forever the fortunes of the British aristocracy.
      (0:38) ANNE SEBBA: "I say three days that change the world, because within those three days they were talking about each other as being engaged and nobody could really stop the power of this relationship." Jenny is born in Brooklyn in 1854, one of 3 daughters to Clara and Leonard Jerome. LEonard was brought up in a modest farmhouse but Clara was a wealthy young woman.
      In the 1850's, the young couple move to New York. The goal of Clara is social advancement. For Leonard, it's money.
      (1:26) STEVE: "Jerome made fortunes, lost fortunes, made them again... and in that respect, was not unlike others of his [group] (he said some word I didn't understand)."
      Jerome is a Wall STreet speculator, a gambler. In a city notorious for conmen and robber barons, he becomes known as the King of Wall Street.
      (1:46) STEVE: "These men were manly men. They were not girly men as Arnold Schwarzenegger might have described them. They considered themselves conquistadores, they had triumphed over the vagueries of the marketplace, its unpredicatability, its dangers. They stared risk in the face and not blinked."
      By the early 1860's, Leonard is worth an estimated $10 million dollars. He moves the family from Brooklyn into a brand new widely-extravagant mansion on Madisone Avenue and 26th Street. It boasts its own private 600-seat opera house.
      (2:36) WOMAN: "For the opening party, there was a fountain gushing champagne and another one gushing [Odda-cologne] (Sorry, I'm not familiar with alcohol names) and I still can't figure out why that would be a good thing."
      But as the Jeromes are about to find out, money can't buy you class.
      (2:55) WOMAN: "Leonard and Clara Jerome wanted to use their money to launch their daughters into society. To make grand marriages. They wanted to break through into this older-moneyed society."
      The rulers of New York Society are known as the knickerbockers. A few hundred families who have dominated the city for generations. Names still familiar today like Roosevelt and [Stidescent] (obviously I don't recognize this name, haha). The Jeromes find the doors of high society firmly shut. The knickerbockers are contemptuous at new money. Men like Leonard Jerome and his friend the railway baron Cornelius Vanderbilt, they have derogatory names for people like that.
      (3:46) MAN: "A chip-chop aristocracy."
      WOMAN: "Swells."
      WOMAN: "Arrivesce."
      WOMAN: "The bouncers."
      WOMAN: "The nuvo reese."
      (Okay, I had no idea what the women said).
      MAN: "An aristocracy born just yesterday."
      (3:55) WOMAN: Leonard Jerome didn't mind that he wasn't included into the fanciest balls and the most wonderful parties. However, Clara minded terribly and she certainly wanted better for her daughers. So with Leonard's reluctant blessings, she decides to take the girls to Europe where she can relaunch them."
      Hope they add captions one day!

    • @ThinWhiteLuke
      @ThinWhiteLuke 7 років тому +11

      Main94 thank you so much.

    • @colewebb4643
      @colewebb4643 7 років тому +18

      Markus Wilson and thank you lost my hearing from job i used to have end up eith permanent nerve damage always love history i look at it a little different than most people these were real people that for the good the bad the total some of there life's we're just trying to get though life that how Iook at these were real people

    • @bleeka325
      @bleeka325 6 років тому +14

      +Main94 that was very nice of you

    • @gng11
      @gng11 6 років тому +3

      Nouveau riche (new rich) is the word.

  • @vermontDavid
    @vermontDavid 4 роки тому +7

    That music is very distracting. Who Put these things together?

  • @Checkmatey94
    @Checkmatey94 5 років тому

    Like 45 and his family. Were never accepted in polite high society but now wanted everywhere.

  • @ramonlopez9440
    @ramonlopez9440 5 років тому +1

    And today, we have an American that change the British ROYAL forever.

  • @marilynjones5749
    @marilynjones5749 6 років тому +4

    Where’s the rest of the story? Who has a working link. I want to se the full story unravel.

  • @SkyelarEagle
    @SkyelarEagle 7 років тому +42

    More like the king of mustaches

  • @kell6702
    @kell6702 5 років тому +1

    Omg
    Churchill likes George V in 0:48

  • @Civgamer
    @Civgamer 7 років тому +19

    3 days and you're engaged????

    • @acuerdo3
      @acuerdo3 6 років тому +14

      Civ6gamer 2017 the first time my grandfather saw my grandmother, he totally fell in love, he knew he wanted to marry her. He proposed marriage to her the second time he saw her. They were married for almost 50 years before he passed away.

    • @NC-hu3ti
      @NC-hu3ti 5 років тому +13

      When you know, you know.

    • @elza8785
      @elza8785 5 років тому +1

      Lol happens to some of us

    • @Living4YHWH
      @Living4YHWH 5 років тому +2

      I met and married my first husband in three months and then he met and married his second wife in the same time. Consider the generation this was and that doesn't seem so different.

    • @chanaberlove8720
      @chanaberlove8720 4 роки тому

      I read somewhere that they acted like they were married so...

  • @roberthudson1959
    @roberthudson1959 4 роки тому +1

    The title should have been "Changed British HISTORY forever."

  • @hop208
    @hop208 5 років тому +2

    Churchill looked like Czar Nicholas.

  • @tictacterminator
    @tictacterminator 4 роки тому +3

    i thought this was gonna be about bart simpson
    i heard the queen is a big fan of the simpson

  • @ninacadavis4073
    @ninacadavis4073 7 років тому +13

    arrrhghhhh!!! where's the continuation?

  • @KeyJM
    @KeyJM 5 років тому +1

    Omg, I LOVE this series!

  • @cellpat2686
    @cellpat2686 Рік тому

    The actress is the spitting image of the real Jenny. Wow.

  • @gaellehubert6060
    @gaellehubert6060 4 роки тому +3

    Sounds like the Bucaneers story written by Edith Warton

    • @Richardsonprincess00
      @Richardsonprincess00 3 роки тому

      True, from her final unwritten novel until her death that she didn't write the end of the story

  • @chronicstitcher7933
    @chronicstitcher7933 6 років тому +25

    Reminds me of the story/movie by Edith Wharton, The Bucaneers. If you like this story, you'll that one too.

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 5 років тому

      chronic Stitcher
      Except one involves real people and other characters from Ms. Wharton's imagination.
      Kind of a HUGE difference there.

    • @christy1819
      @christy1819 4 роки тому +4

      Barbara Vick Do you know the difference between a story and reality? They never said it was the same.

    • @Rye_Toast
      @Rye_Toast 4 роки тому +1

      Barbara Vick Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone...

    • @cocoaorange1
      @cocoaorange1 3 роки тому

      I saw it years ago.

  • @MrKONEWKO
    @MrKONEWKO 4 роки тому

    I love the Die Fledermaus music they used!

  • @Richardsonprincess00
    @Richardsonprincess00 4 роки тому +1

    No wonder old money hated new money so much that they are out of class!

  • @felixfaster
    @felixfaster 7 років тому +6

    But....where's the rest of it? the link is dead.....

  • @shoebill181
    @shoebill181 2 роки тому +1

    Enjoyed this video, but the background music took away f rut on it. Not even the style of music for the time period.

  • @henryc1000
    @henryc1000 3 роки тому

    1:45 in other words these men were not men who thought they were trapped in a woman’s body. 🤣

  • @jessejones5985
    @jessejones5985 6 років тому +10

    WHERE CAN WE WATCH THE REST OF THE DOCUMENTARY??

  • @KINGCABA-if4nk
    @KINGCABA-if4nk 3 роки тому

    Great content but how do you watch this online for people outside the USA?

  • @jamesmcinnis208
    @jamesmcinnis208 4 роки тому +4

    The most irritating background music I've heard.

  • @NewPlacesSameFaces
    @NewPlacesSameFaces 6 років тому +3

    I don’t get it, how did she change the British aristocracy??? Where’s the other half of the video !’ 😫😫

    • @katew.176
      @katew.176 6 років тому +1

      daniel kavanagh it's about 45 minutes long. You can buy it to watch it all. It's part of a series.

    • @ingriddubbel8468
      @ingriddubbel8468 5 років тому +5

      She was Winston Churchill's mother.

  • @suzannereilman4516
    @suzannereilman4516 5 років тому +2

    ...not for nothin’, don’t care HOW much coin this dude had, canNOT get past that...MUTANT....THING...on his face...eeeyyyeeecccchhhh!!!

  • @amp279
    @amp279 4 роки тому

    Arguably, she gave birth to Englands greatest Prime Minister, but she didn't change the aristocracy & she was emotionally if not physically absent a lot of the time, the aristocracy will be the same no matter the Americans who come & go, marry or divorce within it.

  • @okimawilcox1550
    @okimawilcox1550 5 років тому

    The ball they attended was during the day on a yacht.

  • @Anonymous18531
    @Anonymous18531 4 роки тому

    Funny to think of the Vanderbilts as New Money

  • @kathrynmolesa1641
    @kathrynmolesa1641 4 роки тому +1

    So sad a life for Jenny and Randolph.

  • @fernandovaldez9263
    @fernandovaldez9263 6 років тому +2

    But did they use their wealth to extend hospitality to those in need?

  • @sarahpena9501
    @sarahpena9501 4 роки тому

    Where can I watch the entire show?

  • @aisforamerica2185
    @aisforamerica2185 4 роки тому

    my first guess was Pocahontas then I guessed Dolley Madison

  • @Gunners4life629
    @Gunners4life629 4 роки тому

    Knickerbocker in New York Knickerbocker get it

  • @stephaniediasz4248
    @stephaniediasz4248 4 роки тому

    Where on earth is the rest??????!!!! It was just getting interesting

  • @theloversbook
    @theloversbook 3 роки тому

    How do I watch the full episodes? I’m in South Africa and I can’t access them anywhere

  • @maquillamelily212
    @maquillamelily212 8 років тому +17

    Omg I need to see this

  • @lisabullock7461
    @lisabullock7461 5 років тому

    Yes it only shows a snippet, when your getting into the story

  • @zarinaromanets7290
    @zarinaromanets7290 4 роки тому

    ...I don't understand the story, where is the rest of it? How do I finish the video?

  • @lindawatkin9667
    @lindawatkin9667 6 років тому

    Born in Brooklyn,just like me.

  • @texasred2702
    @texasred2702 5 років тому +7

    "The American Teen WHO Changed British Aristocracy etc." WHO. WHO, WHO. NOT "That."
    "Who" refers to a person, "That" refers to a thing.
    And on the Smithsonian Channel no less. Jesus, how embarrassing for a once-great institution.

  • @barbaraespinosavanleer5926
    @barbaraespinosavanleer5926 4 роки тому

    Jennifer Jerome isn’t that a criminal minds character name...💋

  • @moniquewhite2850
    @moniquewhite2850 7 років тому +32

    Be careful this channel only makes part documentary so if you like history I suggest a full documentary channel because these are never completed check the years.

    • @b_____d
      @b_____d 6 років тому +4

      Monique White I thought they have the whole videos on their website. Usually the videos are 45+ minutes long.

    • @flamingbull3438
      @flamingbull3438 6 років тому

      天空龍 RYU Some of them are full and free on the website, but not all of them are free.

    • @thenoirgirlskpop7701
      @thenoirgirlskpop7701 5 років тому

      They have a whole channel on cable😂😂 you would have to pay for it if you don’t have cable

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 5 років тому

      Monique White
      They ARE complete, they simply aren't showing the entire episode on here. They used to. I've watched the hour long episodes on UA-cam before from the Smithsonian channel.

    • @Angel-ts8rc
      @Angel-ts8rc Рік тому

      Its a clip from the show Million dollar American princesses on Smithsonian and paramount +

  • @dominicdmello7531
    @dominicdmello7531 4 роки тому +3

    What is an aristocrat or royal? Someone who's got there on the blood and sweat of others ? Isn't it high time we drop such absurd titles in 2020? Isn't it high time we recognise that these were largely undeserved titles?

  • @diannholland
    @diannholland 8 років тому +9

    Who plays the young Jennie Jerome?

  • @cherylklaas7171
    @cherylklaas7171 4 роки тому

    Thumbs down for no captions. No captions = no can hear. Smithsonian, you try watching this without sound!

  • @rattussapiens2854
    @rattussapiens2854 4 роки тому +9

    "The American teen WHO changed the British aristocracy forever..."
    C'mon, Smithsonian, you're supposed to be an educational institution, among other things.

  • @merangreen
    @merangreen 4 роки тому +6

    "...manly men, they were not girly men, as Arnold Schwarzenegger says...". Oh. So you mean they were a**holes! Goootcha. ;)

  • @youtubeviewer4171
    @youtubeviewer4171 4 роки тому

    0:40 3 days changed the world and I come to know there name today... strange!!

  • @scottjharris
    @scottjharris 5 років тому

    Anyone else notice the girl at 2:53 wearing modern clothing and has an iPhone in her hand ?

  • @cleoneruatita2012
    @cleoneruatita2012 5 років тому +2

    Is it me or dose the narrator sound like Kora from Downtown Abby?

  • @justanotherhappyhumanist8832
    @justanotherhappyhumanist8832 4 роки тому

    She was very beautiful!

  • @hayetbent4804
    @hayetbent4804 5 років тому

    Is it just me, or is the narrator "Cora" from Downton Abbey?

  • @RootMenu
    @RootMenu 4 роки тому

    Ok. I'm not a fashion historian but the costumes in the ball scene were more Edwardian than Victorian.

  • @MangaCrazy7890
    @MangaCrazy7890 4 роки тому +2

    Who narrates this? She sounds like Cora from Downton Abbey

  • @thegaycatholic4739
    @thegaycatholic4739 7 років тому +22

    Is that Cora Crawley narrating this?

  • @husseinabdelsattar2418
    @husseinabdelsattar2418 4 роки тому

    She reminds me of Anna for some reason