Britain's Most Incredible Castles | Full History Hit Series

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That lady has studied Windsor castle so well! Extremely knowledgeable lady ❤

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These films are all great! Well worth collecting them together in this way. Thank you everyone! 🌟👍

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"The Boleyn's rise to power was cut brutally short" Savage.

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As well as inexistent

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@@xavisanchez7522 What do you mean 'inexistent'?

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​@@danielkarmy4893 Anne wasn't the only one; George got the chop too.

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@@tombombadilofficial Jeez you tell 'em eh Tom. Hilarious 🙂

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Aristocratic Thugs, all of 'em.

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We just visited Hever castle yesterday absolutely beautiful gardens and Castle we had a brilliant day.❤

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I'm glad you made a just visit.

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Green with envy.

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this is my favourite video youve done so far HH ive lpved your channel since the start but have not become a member so i have to wait for the free videos. I also loved that you sonsor American visecountess cos she has awesome videos to. thanks for all the great work... please, more castles and estates and palaces please please

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Me too!

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Same 🫶

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What's "bizarre" about the obsession? And why be so "obsessed" ?? Does this obsession get in the way of your responsibilities?

[@naizajaninedemavivas2424]

Me too. I am a filipino and obsessed with english history 😂

[@asheikh2877]

I stayed at Hever Castle, loved it! 💜

[@matthewjay660]

These castles 🏰 are MAGNIFICENT! 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

[@happylostsouls3327]

Ehhhh who cares about Etheling kingdoms

[@RandomJane104]

They're all great, but Arundel is breathtaking.

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Let's go then 😂😂😂

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How cosey and beautiful are the rooms though! Love the wooden walls ❤❤

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Well worth watching again again.

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Warwick Castle and Dover castle are my favourites. Dover even has a Roman lighthouse, which was built in the 2nd century.

[@neilfleming2787]

what a great start, the beautiful Alice Loxton and Hever castles, though how Bodiam castle didn't end up on this list or Dover or the Tower of London even

[@laurenl5843]

Wonderful castles! Many of which I have had the pleasure of visiting. 🏰😊💜🇬🇧

[@allantaylor7028]

Thanks for these videos. The Hever castle staircase random step hight was interesting. What you omitted was why castle staircases are built clockwise ?

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It's really interesting.. wishing everyone a fun evening

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I liked 😍😍😍😍

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Interesting 🧐💗🌺

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Glorious England. Proud to be from England.

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This is so cool 🫶

[@johnwymer1215]

Would you care for some tea? Be glad to get some from the harbor for you...

[@rickynieves3144]

I love how Dr Eleanor Janega always stresses the importance of the little people ❤

[@charlesBramast]

I think the term is dwarf

[@charlesBramast]

I'm jk obviously

[@sophiabee8924]

Without the "little" people, the "big" people are nothing.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

But what Dr. Janega doesn’t mention is what the big people did for the little people: protect their families from being raped and murdered by foreign armies. It wasn’t always a one-way system: however, it was a system where the Kings and their armies could, and did, take advantage of their peasants.

[@erinthomasson1399]

This is just perfect.

[@narsil1984]

Great series of documentaries, amazing job. The only one I found disappointing was the one about Chillingham and all the ghost nonsense. I get the "what we learn about medieval society" and studying old supersticions is a valid tool for history. But all of the learning happened in the last 1-2 minutes of conclusion while everything before read like a spooky halloween story and the bearded "ghost hunter", while seeming a very nice fellow, has a job that is somewhere on the intersection of conman and entertainer. Id much rather have learned something about the castle's own real history, not the ghost story that came about by supersticious people in history or the modern tourist industry.

[@R2Zmedia]

What a great series

[@xfoolsgoldx]

Enjoyed visiting this castle as a child. That was a very long time ago😁

[@andrearock2208]

Wow. Thank you to Mr. Astor for saving the castle from ruin and building such gardens. Who is responsible for casted and gardens now? I missed this on video?

[@robertagardner5461]

They didn't mention that Prince Rupert of the Rhine, King Charles the seconds cousin, arranged the swords, guns and other armour into designs that are on the walls today. He also arranged for the famous artist of the time, I think it was Wren or Jones, to do all the inside decorations. Beautiful and well done.

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I love this channel

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Can we visit this Castle. Looks beautiful 😍

[@Bobcat9]

@46:25 you mention the size of the windows are all different and the reason they're so small at the bottom is "because the people at the very bottom level are the very most common people" - I think that's entirely false. It makes far more sense that those windows are sized for security, not an expression of social status amongst those who are in the castle, like your quote suggests. Those windows are deliberately too small to fit a person through because big strong walls for protection are weakened when, if the windows are big enough, assailants can just break in through the windows at the ground level. Bigger windows at the top aren't just because that's where the nice rooms are and so they can take in the views, but because a window that far from the ground is increasingly difficult to break into.

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Thank you.

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love Alice she brings History alive.

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6:58 He gave the clock to anne to represent that she was on the clock to give him a son, which was the grounds in which he left catherine to marry her.

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Bolton Castle is one of my favorites

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Why did they stop the Challenge of the Champion at coronations? That would be SO cool to still have it!

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Very interesting

[@websterlf]

I heard a rumour there are one or two castles in Scotland... Have you heard this?

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

I hears there are a few in Wales too.

[@websterlf]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Wales at least gets one out of the ten featured!

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

​@@websterlf One out of 10! Wow. I actually gave up long before that, because the idiot presenters irritated me

[@Frustrationcentral]

Batten down the hatches, Scotland has entered the chat!

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@@Frustrationcentral Do they call you Frustration because that is the emotion you engender in people?

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LOVE the Downton Abbey them on the piano

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Enjoyed that 😊

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Nice piano playing.😊

[@Midds1_]

So gorgeous!

[@smithnatalie4803]

Can we have second video with castles located in the North please?? 🙏

[@TheBTG88]

Astor could not have entertained Queen Elizabeth II at Hever Castle as he died in 1919 and she was not born until 1926.

[@julieblais514]

Im sure he had sons. That did.

[@TheBTG88]

@@julieblais514 Perhaps, but that’s not what she said, hence, the error.

[@julieblais514]

John astor jr. Met the queen at. Hever castle.

[@julieblais514]

Lol. You are wrong and wont acknowledge the fact. Hence you seem a bit pompous.

[@julieblais514]

John Astor jr.

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You are wrong. White wash is not made with " powdered chalk and water." It is fired and slaked limestone . Just using powdered limestone would offer no protection at all.

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Thank you for your presentation. Jump at the end was not appropriate. :)

[@adamcaldwell8776]

So beautiful! Amazing to think how plumb and squared they have everything with primitive tools. And we cant get that right now with all modern tools. Least here in us with cheap houses and material

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Please do some Welsh castles!!!!!! 😁😁😁

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why are historians still using " Flanders mare " to discribe Anne of Cleves?.The reference to Anne looking more like a "flanders mare" than a princess was first made in the 17th century by historian Gilbert Burnet who critisized Holbein's painting of her. Do better!

[@Bunz69er]

An awful lot of errors in this castle muddle, heaps. Too many to mention. Other than the glaring inaccuracies, great stuff. Much appreciated, very many thanks.

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Love it 🙏💕🇦🇺

[@emilysmith7788]

All these castles in the UK and its so special knowing that my ancestors owned/ lived in them. I winder sometimes what happened because I didn't own a brick let alone a castle, i wish i did!!

[@rosebudadkins6803]

When you find out where the money came for the few to live such lavish lives it will turn your stomach.

[@dabreal82]

So the entire history of humans...

[@shadow_flux2304]

I don't think anyone watching this video doesnt know tbh

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Shit virtue signal

[@MrGozer23]

There were a few astors with the same name at different times. Also some lived in Britain and had a rich life there as well.

[@wbbartlett]

On the one hand Windsor is quite spectacular, yet on the other it represents an obscene amount of wealth siphoned from the British people for the benefit of a select few.

[@rosebudadkins6803]

My comment exactly. These places built by the blood of others…..child/people trafficking, drugs, wars/conflicts while the elite eat, drink and be merry. So much misery and darkness to build those places. When truth will be told one day…..we all will never look on these people or places the same.

[@manmaje3596]

Just like all government property then.

[@karenabrams8986]

Wow. She just started playing the downtown abbey song! 🥰

[@Actual_Malice]

The thumbnail is Bodiam Castle, no? Why isn’t it included in the video?! Clickbait lol!

[@laurenl5843]

Yes I thought that also! I was just at Bodiam Castle last summer at took the same photo! 😊🏰

[@maunkee]

Just about to say the same thing

[@SB-sj4uz]

Looks like a castle but really a fancy house with a moat.

[@sforza209]

@@SB-sj4uzyour a fancy house with a moat.

[@craigroaring]

@@SB-sj4uz I heard that when built, the defences wouldn't have been good enough for a proper army but would have been more that adequate for defence against peasant revolts, which were supposed to be common at the time.

[@LanaiHaselton]

I think it’s really cool that they have the coat of arms of the order of the garter on the ceiling at Windsor castle. My ancestors (3) I think were garter members.

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Ahhhh that is Dr Eleanor Janega. I recognize her voice from Well There's your Problem. I am beyond Excited

[@calico27]

She's the best!

[@vickywitton1008]

Harlech castle means a lot to me I spent a lot of time in the area in my youth. Never been in thiughw, as I am scared of heights!

[@wolfzmusic9706]

How is Dover not here? I went there recently and it's pretty good

[@anitk.brahma7354]

Reminiscent of the old England. It is crystal clear that huge amounts of money were spent on building those mega castles. They look quite expensive.

[@gwynwellliver4489]

Harlech! ❤

[@ropi5103]

Fascinating and really professionally presented.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

i thought they were competing to see who could be the most irritating.

[@Baskerville22]

I'm a de Vere living in Brisbane, Australia. I never got a castle !!

[@wandapowell4003]

Criminals sent away😂😂😂 .

[@richardhodges3593]

Slight correction, Lincoln Crown Court is situated in Lincoln Castle, not the magistrates court.

[@nelsonbailey310]

Stunning

[@Mma-basement-215]

This is so cool 🫶

[@Beefy5039]

Ref Chillingham Castle, the local guide has a great example of the Geordie dialect

[@rskb1957]

He is not a Geordie, or if he was it was a long time ago. There is a marked difference between urban Geordie and the rural Northumbrian accent. Geordie is rougher. My grandparents who were respectively born in Morpeth and Belsay in the 1900s spoke the dialect. Their siblings and wider family spoke with an accent that was softer than Geordie. Chillingham is further from Newcastle than either Morpeth or Belsay and the accent would be softer still. Sadly, one no longer hears dialect spoken. I would add that both Geordie and Northumbrian are true dialects, if not separate languages, more akin to Lowland Scots than to English. I'm also reminded of the Northumbrian saying: All England would be Scotland if not for Northumberland. Hence all the castles and pele towers.

[@ourhumblecommode]

I enjoyed this but also realized that I'm not mature enough for this style of documentary . . . all I could think was "Come and see the violence inherent in the system" 😅

[@shambleslongplay3566]

this is far from being the most formidable.

[@aggrosaxon459]

The inteo music was super cool .....really adventurous

[@kelliv2995]

❤❤❤

[@derfdoerfler260]

She's funny. Interesting topic, as well. 🎉

[@oakguard]

interesting that these things still stand with some degree of strength still in them and yet in our present day you can punch a hole in the wall of a house with just a fist turning it into the serving hatch you never knew you needed between bedrooms :3

[@wolfzmusic9706]

Well many of them were made for defence and even if they weren't they wanted to show off their wealth anyway. Today we don't need to fight off a group of attackers from our house.

[@Hmanzidler]

had to skip Harlech castle, the camera operator walking backwards by those low walls made me nervous haha

[@leonstevens1382]

Dowsing rods are for finding water, not ghosts. They find neither water nor ghosts.

[@sharonl_74]

They do find water. I know several people who have done it multiple times, including the males in my family. It's not magic, it's about magnetic ener.

[@2gfan]

Anne was played by a French Actress, Genevieve Bujold

[@sammyb1651]

Yup. Canadian in fact. Stunningly beautiful and an incredible performance as Anne.

[@youpeopleareallinsane]

I hope this young woman got an A in her filmmaking class hosting this video

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

1:17:49 Fortunes could be made and broken? Did you mean to say “made and lost”

[@kevwhufc8640]

Most of Britain's castles ( the ruined ones) would still be standing today if Oliver Cromwell hadn't had them blown up in the 17th century.

[@itsmeme8544]

The girl talking about Hedingham Castle is so charming and she give us so much interesting information very very nice!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Eleanor Janega is actually a woman.

[@jetsons101]

So much history, So little time...........

[@nickim6571]

and money

[@jetsons101]

@@nickim6571 I remember when money had value..... lol

[@southeastcoastalphotography]

8:31 I love that Henry VIII came for only one night and would drill and cut a rather large hole in you beautiful solid wood door to install a lock the he would take it with him when he left just leaving a large hole.

[@calico27]

He was an absolute arse and it didn't surprise me to learn this about him.

[@southeastcoastalphotography]

@@calico27 the only way it surprised me is seeing such tangible proof of how much people feared him to the point that they would do things like with this door. I’m sure there were countless examples of these kinds of things but obviously few survive to this day.

[@marconius101]

For Windsor castle, 40 million Pound renovation costs will get you something... they did a great job..

[@Halcyonedgar1]

Windsor Castle - Reader's Digest version - "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely", "absolutely" !!

[@grahamfisher5436]

A riddle... If I told you "I'm on the Throne" Could you tell me the name of the town I call my home?

[@vickywitton1008]

Hurst castle is an on going restoration project by EH but has been shored up for now, as of 2024

[@lucifernebulae]

9:00 - really? The steps were different height to make life of attackers more difficult?

[@orbtastic]

Yes. Same way most staircases were clockwise.

[@Actual_Malice]

It’s a common defensive feature of castles yea.

[@uderzo1984]

No, it's a common misconception, there is no evidence of that.

[@craigroaring]

@@uderzo1984 Yeah, i've heard it was a misconception too. If the enemy have manage to break through walls or gatehouses, the occupants are most likely doomed. If the defences didn't stop them, hoping for them to trip up is almost comical.

[@durangodave]

one day i hope to buy a castle and restore it. Maybe i will invite her to visit 😁

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Maybe pigs will fly...

[@durangodave]

@@samuelgarrod8327 and go wee wee wee all the way home.

[@WackyNZ]

Most famous castle i visited was Bran Castle.

[@MrLordingit]

Hedingham Castle: "Essex can be very rainy" driest county in the UK. I'm related to every family in this video.

[@petejones7532]

Why isn't this available on the History Hit app which I pay to subscribe to?☹

[@DoomWalker42]

Of course I am watching the UK's most haunted castle at 4 am! lol

[@lespaddick6248]

"Britain'ss" most incredible castles" They're all English Castles I'm pretty certain Scotland has a few Castles

[@harerichard1]

Hay Castle is in Wales

[@wolfzmusic9706]

Harlech is in wales