Annie Lennox Discovers Family Class Divide | Who Do You Think You Are

Annie Lennox learns of the situation revolving around her paternal great great great grandmother’s birth, and how one ancestor was living in luxury, while just round the corner his family was living in squalor.
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[@JeansDolls]

I never get these in the right order, how hard would it be to number the parts of each story!

[@jaccoet9894]

Word

[@fuzzymarmot4628]

I totally agree!

[@cindz4618]

Me too

[@pgl7950]

Yes!

[@loveorangeToledotribe]

So true! I am hooked but i got really confused where is the beginning of their story 😨

[@GlobetrotterBR]

I love Annie's voice, presence and personality. One of my favourite artists ever.

[@unacceptableviews1505]

In my opinion,Annie Lennox and Freddie Mercury are the two best vocalists in the world,hands down.This was a very interesting story,and its so nice to see her.

[@tessabiggs2917]

People's Front of Canada can add David Bowie to that list too?

[@unacceptableviews1505]

@@tessabiggs2917 I wouldn't.I liked him don't get me wrong but he was not in Freddie's league

[@tessabiggs2917]

@@unacceptableviews1505 Freddie and Annie will always share the number one spot.

[@mrpleasant2566]

Please include Moby too:) Porcelan is AMAZING.

[@colliness]

Totally agree

[@Sauvageonne]

I love Annie's spoken voice as much as her singing voice!

[@gibadias1637]

Annie is, before a fantastic vocalist, a wonderful human being.. love her ❤

[@englishrose4388]

Annie's deductions at the end are powerful. "It's all a very dark Victorian melodrama to me."

[@teaCupkk]

Her "deductions" are terribly dull. These people are given a rare glimpse into the lives of their ancestors, and they ruin it by being unable to set aside their modern sensibilities for a few minutes.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Annie is a legend

[@scouser2010ify]

I really like the lady who’s with her she seems very sweet

[@lisaackland8342]

I don’t care whether you’re rich or poor, your soul is priceless ~ xxx…

[@traciekinser8554]

Why aren't these darned things numbered? Would make it a lot easier to watch them in order if they were.

[@gaylecheung3087]

I wish these segments were numbered or something they’re all randomly all over the place not good

[@wendymudkins668]

One of my favourite singers very interesting finding her story out of her family

[@BM-lw6gn]

Glad to come across this.

[@bobbycoleman3759]

My auntie has done the family tree and I’m related to Annie, my great grandmothers maiden name was Lennox

[@NK-rk2uu]

Hi where do u come from?

[@elizabethbower2168]

Lennox is quite a common surname

[@lmc2375]

@@elizabethbower2168 Suggesting what? Aren't all of our surnames eventually, common?

[@lmc2375]

How fabulous for you. She def. has one of the greatest voices the world has known. 💖💫🦋

[@soldtobediers]

Sometimes the statement the late Leonard Cohen had coined makes sense to much of past... ''The less I was of who I was the better I felt.''

[@TheCaptainKim]

The divine Miss Annie as Bowie announced her once.

[@nikkil764]

Love her voice

[@tricia4479]

Same as mine. We are obviously both Scottish & born in the same town.

[@laminage]

She is truly amazing. She and Joss Stone are the only folks who could hold their own with The Revernd Al green, because the Man can get a bit Cray Cray on Stage. When Justin Timberlake and he did a Show on Memphis, TN., he knew he had so much work to do. The Scots, Irish, and British have produced some of the best Blue Eyed Soul Singers.

[@ML-ul2zq]

Don't forget the incredible Dusty Springfield.

[@heyokaempath5802]

I LOVE Annie Lennox!

[@clairegolden8261]

That poor girl. I hope she found love and a family.

[@ML-ul2zq]

Jessie married after working in a flax mill from the age of 13. She and her husband had 4 sons and she died at age 35 from cancer. Hopefully her family life was stable in the last portion of her life.

[@faganquin6483]

"they were in a relationship" .... highly unlikely. what a polite way to tiptoe around the distinct possibility that Rose forced himself on Mary, perhaps she was a servant of his at the time. this is was quite common as we all know.

[@lynnrichardsrichards1081]

It's true what your parents do comes back on You !

[@cleverclogs2244]

I have Stewart crofters in my ancestry too - from about 30 miles from Banff...

[@markholder9640]

Ooh me too. Wonder if we are distant cousins

[@Themanwhocameback2]

Poor Mary!

[@shelleyrightmyer6421]

Ilove you somuch miss

[@yotesaludoati9645]

Hermosa Ani

[@anthonyocana3382]

There only 2 comments but it is so good

[@gphx]

Annie is descended from Stewarts and had a relationship with Dave Stewart. Nothing negative, 'Stewart' is probably a huge umbrella, but it's interesting how people with things in common find each other, whatever those things may be.

[@nicolad8822]

It’s a very common name. But they were often marrying cousins of some sort in rural Scotland, it was inevitable.

[@BryanHRBrodie]

Thats my childhood home

[@lauraleecreations3217]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lisaackland690]

I’m working class, my Dad was an electrician.

[@meganr9280]

It’s too bad they didn’t do “child support” back then or Mary’s child by that man might have had a better life. Of course there wasn’t a way to prove paternity so I guess it wouldn’t have been possible.

[@patriciamitchell9365]

Back then DNA hadn't been invented. His word against hers.

[@leilagomulka5690]

🌹🌹🌹

[@sarahd.787]

My grandfather told me stories that I/we were related to royalty. 👸🏼Apparently there was a female who renounced the royal throne because she fell in love with a man who was not suitable to marry. Of course I have the RH- blood-type supposedly the royals have but who really knows. Wouldn’t it just be fun to have someone lookup your family tree for you? I would be completely intrigued .

[@NK-rk2uu]

Hi do u have more info?

[@cate4338]

Despicable then and now... history shows that there is decency shown by wealthy relatives towards so-called illegitimate - Rose was just a horrible man.

[@lisabellamy8424]

I can hear her anger at J Rose & how he treated Mary.

[@taddawson68dawson68]

Why not the whole damn story!?

[@rutabagasteu]

One of the suggested videos in my list for this one is the previous part.

[@taddawson68dawson68]

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[@paulinehignett1202]

If you click on the little triangle top right side,it will give you all the programs.

[@heru-deshet359]

Annie looks like my neighbor's mom.

[@fredrika27]

And no one is saying what a dush James Rose was to the mother of his daughter! We're not to malign James's good name by saying he possible took advantage of his maid servant! It's simply they had an affair. The baby was born, but the father didn't behave like a gentleman. He chose to keep up appearances by living a lie! He most probably knew about his daughter's condition all along! When it came to a head and the family was going to the poor house, he saved the youngest because she was the most convenient and could be sheltered under the radar while his own daughters would never be put into service! King Edward VIII treated the bed chamber maid with more reverence! I have no respect for him at all!

[@meganr9280]

Yeah, it’s too bad he isn’t still alive for all to tell him to his face.

[@EchoBravo370]

1) It shows the curse of being born illegitimate 2) James was probably not as wealthy as you think. He did what he could given the confines of the 'system'. But he and his sister were probably just forking out a living as well.

[@paulmaguire2714]

I wouldn't think so. A solicitor was grander then than now.With two servants to pay.

[@floraposteschild4184]

James was probably not wealthy. Middle class, lower class, and even fairly poor people had servants, either living in or coming in to help occasionally.

[@paulreynolds9003]

Don’t worry Ann I think your life will work out ok.

[@lmc2375]

She likely isn't worried for her own life. Clearly, it's well within reason she is disturbed by the hardship her ancestor had endured. That is if one is compassionate, and she is very much that.

[@dorothymason8882]

Don't worry Anne, They worked it out amongst themselves.

[@siouxsioux2725]

Annie doesn't seem very impressed with James Rose

[@raleighburner1589]

I'd rather be a peasant than a toff

[@karentaylor9446]

My dad always said: “Cast your lot with the common man. You’ll always outnumber your enemies.”

[@loucrappi5869]

That's crazy and side

[@brianearner5092]

Age, have to respect of it, right and wrong, that's your call

[@jwoo5778]

So we're not going to acknowledge that Annie Never acknowledge these as her kind people when speaking on the subject.

[@georginamannor4373]

So cruel.

[@JACKDAWFISH]

Love you Annie, but the Victorian period started in 1837.

[@ML-ul2zq]

It lasted until 1901.

[@karentaylor9446]

Not 1820 when Victoria took the throne?

[@zbr76]

And the events she describes as a 'Victorian melodrama' were in the 1850s, so she's got her history right.

[@lisaackland690]

I was sleeping, unconscious when Frazer impregnated me with my son and daughter.

[@dondavis6997]

Deceit and underhandedness

[@5dkauhanespiritualarts775]

English people are so cold..I’m Hawaiian and Italian and it’s a completely different culture

[@cherrypickle8332]

English?? Annie Lennox is Scottish...

[@tricia4479]

She’s not English...... She’s Scottish.

[@bostonblackie9503]

She is a Celt not Anglo-Saxon!

[@SKY-jv9ue]

All this is useless, leave the dead alone; they can't do nothing for you.

[@angelalurtz3638]

Nobody is asking for anything to be done for them. Just want to know their stories and understand their lives a bit more. Epigenetics also suggests that a person's traumas change their DNA, and those changes are passed down for up to 7 generations, so really you're learning a little something about your own building blocks when you find out about the experiences of your ancestors.

[@rogerborroel4707]

@@angelalurtz3638 Ok, sounds good!