Kings and & Queens of England: Episode 5: Georgians

Lust, tempestuous relationships and madness feature in the colourful reigns of the Georgians. George I brought two mistresses over from Germany, George II quarrelled openly with his son Frederick, and George III became ruler of the British Empire - but madness eventually disabled him. His son reigned as Prince Regent for eight years, and later as King George IV.

[@TheKoolbraider]

I love this series and especially the very capable commentator who's expressive voice brings history to life.

[@SR-uf8pt]

Alan Ereira cracks me up. My favorite moment in this episode is at the end, when he says that Victoria would make a demure and pretty little queen who could leave running the country to the professionals. Then his expression falls and he says, "Couldn't she?" He clearly likes the subject matter but he doesn't feel the need to be super-reverent about it like some historians do.

[@monkfan72]

I like a little snark and humor with my history. Thanks for the upload. I am enjoying this series immensely.

[@ComradeApep]

I love this guy's sarcasm and bluntness.

[@crabsy6452]

A true Brit

[@eunicenagoya4018]

Me too. I really enjoy his videos.

[@Coryiodine]

Its like if Ricky Garvais did narration

[@arnieus866]

I like the series. A thousand years of people trying to figure out how to organize and govern themselves. The compact presentation makes comprehendible the constant ebb and flow of the shifting balance between the power of masses against the power of concentrated wealth. It is really a study of how nation states came into existence. I may watch it again.

[@jijhih2055]

I think it's natural that the masses never hold power in government. Anyone who would tell you otherwise is selling you a bridge. In America for example there are over 300 million people. Imagine direct democracy on that scale!? It would be complete chaos and nothing would ever get done. That's ignoring the fact that many people have no desire or ability to be involved in decision making. I think the term oligarchy gets overused and has a (sometimes) undue negative connotation. I would say it is the most natural form of government. Even under an "absolute" monarch it always emerges in the form of nobles and ministers. It is even more obvious in a republic, when business interests and representational privileges collide. I think in the end we have to do the best with what we have. The 250 year rule seems to be the most accurate representation of an enlightened government, completely independent of structure whether "democratic" or absolutist.

[@jamesditchkoff2557]

That's - comprehensible ', just saying.......

[@timchen5299]

Thank you for this very informative & entertaining narration of England's Monarchy.

[@guardian08527]

Since this series aired they have done a test on the bones allegedly belonging to Phillip who's corpse was supposedly hidden under Leineschloss castle. They turned out to be a mixture of animal bones and human remains from 5 different people. Also, according to Wiki Sophia didn't die of shock from Anne's letter. She died a few days later in her garden when she was trying to run for cover in a downpour and simply dropped dead from old age.

[@mikealvord55]

Don’t take wiki as a source

[@d.hanafin5204]

This series is brilliant, thank you very much.

[@bendalymckenna6271]

It's the line "Longest reigning British monarch until Victoria". This was made in 2004 , eleven years before Queen Elizabeth became the longest reigning British monarch.

[@monapause8108]

I bet ol' Victoria started spinning in her grave the day Elizabth II passed her up as longest reigning monarch. ha ha.

[@colinp2238]

Is she also the oldest yet?

[@brianapennington7384]

@Jeremy Thomas she's literally surpassed both victoria and george iii

[@snicers9039]

This is a wonderful series. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@larskolme9740]

How I wish I had had a history teacher like this man!

[@mikealvord55]

You probably did, you were probably just not paying attention or sluffing

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

I did. It's what hooked me on History as a subject.

[@edbadyt]

This family still have the throne. Victoria was George IV's niece and the queen is Victoria's great great grandaughter.

[@worddunlap]

Thick with the Habsburg genes.

[@amybrooks7612]

Correct. Although the name of the dynasty changed twice since then, current royals are direct descendants of Sophia of Hanover.

[@williamsanders7221]

Amy Brooks:-- The Protestant "Royal Stewart", Queen Anne was obliged to pass the"Stewart" line to her Scots/German cousin Sophia. All of her children died before adulthood.The two women loathed each other, one was called "That Drunkard" and the other one "That Hanoverian Peasant".

[@michael88h]

Uhm no they don't. It bascially ended with Victoria.

[@cyanmegafauna5038]

They're British enough now. George VI & Elizabeth II, good monarchs. I like Charles & William & all the rest of them.

[@ProfessorDarkAcademia]

Richard III: “i shall forever be known as the Mad King.” George III: “hold my beer.”

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

Richard lll isn't known for being mad and he wasn't. I think you mean Henry Vl.

[@SkepticallyQueer]

@@idontgiveafaboutyou yeah, Henry VI was off his rocker. Think of how different things would be had he been sane... no War of the Roses, no Tudors, etc.

[@iluvcamaros1912]

I'm American, but it'd be a wee bit of an insult to say that Richard III was merely mad. The "Princes in the Tower" were either murdered at his command, or in sympathy to his cause. That intramural betrayal was so great it contributed to Henry Tudor's successful capture of the throne via an almost comically tenuous Lancaster claim.

[@ButtonsCasey]

@@iluvcamaros1912 Assuming they were murdered and it wasn't Henry Tudor who did it.

[@kathgibbs2881]

@@idontgiveafaboutyou Henry VI was the mad king

[@fantasyfiction101]

Really wish we learned more about William IV, he sounds interesting!

[@chewybacon32]

I love King George I's face when he realizes he'll be "almost powerless". Lol.

[@GodConsciousness]

Absolutely, friend. I got unnerved to say the least. I hate it when nonsensical injustices are done to any historical figure, especially such a benevolent and cultured monarch as George III.

[@jasonkeenan4154]

Historically accurate or not, as an American, I'm positively enthralled with the history of England's monarchs. I truly appreciate the subjective take and how the narrative is critical of the things one should be critical of.

[@Aidankiwi]

These are not England's monarchs. England ceased to be a sovereign state in 1707. The Hanvoverians were British/UK monarchs.

[@eryllflynn4856]

Aidankiwi Right you are! Once these sausage biters showed up bonny Prince Charlie didn't stand a chance. We're still mourning over Glencoe and Culloden!! Bloody Murderers.

[@VisualAssault2011]

@ Jason Keenan so, you are enthralled by historically inaccurate "history", providing the narrative is critical in a subjective, rather than objective, fashion... I would guess you are an avid viewer of CNN and a reader of the New York Times or LA Times....

[@Frankowillo]

@Eryll Flynn Bonnie Prince Charlie my arse. Even the Scots make fun of him running away like a coward while they fought and died for a hopeless cause.

[@Nat.Dialogue]

Outstanding with a rare informal sense of humour. Enjoyable and charismatic education is always going to be welcomed

[@dmitriysmirnov9084]

The way the narrators do the german accent of british kings reminds me how russian actors picture the accent of Ekaterina the Second. Honestly, very similar!

[@captainbackflash]

I am german myself, and I loved that german accent. *lol* really wonderfull!

[@ThomasHarding1990]

Thank you for uploading! This was FASCINATING! :)

[@Kez_h]

the effects they use for the dramatization parts are killing my eye!

[@richardlawson4317]

You are not alone. I can't watch the blurry parts. Who came up with THAT???

[@milagrosleevespitti9455]

I think is the KZbin video has a problem I saw the same video with another KZbin account and looked clear

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

The last King of England was William III (William of Orange) and the last Queen of England was Queen Anne.

[@niclouds5292]

Australian children used to have to sing god save the queen at school everyday at muster.

[@rangersasc]

Good the thieving bastards should honour their Ancestry :)

[@niclouds5292]

Raymond Duke We aren't German dude. We have 65 thousand years plus of ancestry and history to acknowledge and honour, not some English centuries old arbitrary distinction. We have millennia of agriculture, architecture, philosophy etc, we have knowledge that the whole world needs. We aren't just Germans and English and Dutch and French. We aren't just Irish and Scottish and Welsh. We aren't Normans and Vikings and Romans. Just because landed and literate elite said that THIS IS ENGLAND, does not make it so. We are an amalgam of thieving bastards ruling by right of conquest. It sucks that people are so confused they believe in a monarchical myth. It sucks that people are still whitewashing Aboriginal agriculture and architecture. The Queen is a joke, but it's not as funny as you think.

[@rangersasc]

Ni Clouds Actually i was joking but yeah good points too

[@hardy3407]

And that is cool , I want to sing it every time ^-^

[@LeePenn2492]

@@rangersasc lol QUALITY

[@ARedMagicMarker]

Louie the 14th's mistress sung him a song that was originally meant for some other guy's ass getting better? BAWHAWHAWHAHWAWHAWHAW

[@grayowl3205]

Why not? Many asses have ruled.

[@eunicenagoya4018]

It is just hilarious ;)

[@davebeecher6579]

Good save the king,from tennis ball?? Crack me up!!

[@crabsy6452]

My one problem with this series is that i didn’t know about it before

[@thorstenr.fotografia4954]

A great series. Thanks for uploading.

[@GodConsciousness]

"Powerless" he said. What nonsense. The fact remained that had George I learned adequate English he could have still presided over Cabinet meetings, appointed or dismissed Ministers of the Crown, declared war, commanded HIS Army in the field or HIS Fleet at sea, concluded an honourable peace, and elevated anyone he desired to the Peerage. I don't know about you, but THAT still smacks of POWER to me.

[@supernova7848]

Frederick died by being hit in the stomach with a tennis ball??? So random !

[@rabbi120348]

Similar to Houdini.

[@조금성-c8n]

고맙습니다. 감사하고요. 아침에 들으면 느낌이 좋아여.

[@Nat.Dialogue]

Perhaps true..

[@lexigrimhaive]

His wife's "best friend"? Okay then.

[@Carol-D.1324]

Lexi Grimbrooke Is that what they are calling it now?

[@danielbrock5449]

I was thinking the same thing

[@johnpayne3770]

No

[@legendarysixsamurai-shien402]

Step queen

[@jmingrey]

@@danielbrock5449 it’s my

[@matt_cummins28]

These are excellent; thanks for posting.

[@pattysherwood7091]

Pitt the Younger, Pitt the Toddler, Pitt the Embryo. From Blackadder.

[@TheNickel1964]

You're editing of this series leads me to wonder what got cut out. I'm the curious sort, you understand. Other than that, this is a fascinating series and I appreciate the upload.

[@kate_cooper]

I get the impression this narrator really enjoys doing a German accent.

[@BrideofFatmaccam]

if you mean george the first, he wasn´t born in england. he was simply the next protestant in line to the throne.

[@choosetolivefree]

5:23 A pentagram next to a star of David on a giant public clock tower. Interesting.

[@cambs0181]

hektik Pentagram is an old symbol of Christianity.

[@opinionday0079]

why are the filmed parts blurred, I am going blind trying to watch this

[@F00dTube]

Still waiting for the part where they take back Harrenhal..

[@HrhFish]

hi ya colin

[@F00dTube]

Hrh Fish Heh. It's you again :)

[@F00dTube]

Breda Jake I don't understand.

[@cush6827]

We've noticed.

[@mscott3918]

The last King of England was William III. The Hanoverians were King of the United Kingdom, then of Great Britain.

[@stacyk1997]

"everywhere else they've been given the chop" wink wink Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. *sigh* poor Marie.

[@Frankowillo]

Yeah, poor Marie. I wonder if they gave her a slice of cake for her last meal.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Boohoo

[@shanegrant8441]

@@Frankowillo she never said that and there no proof

[@Frankowillo]

@@shanegrant8441 : I was merely making a joke based on a common belief, be it true or not. So, what's *_your_* point??

[@the-chillian]

19:25 -- George III spoke English as his first language. He did not have a German accent.

[@youarecrazy7777]

listening to that accent as a german speaker is actually quite hard. I've also never heard somebody in my surrounding speaking english that bad.

[@the-chillian]

youarecrazy7777 To be fair, that would be largely because most Europeans who learn English nowadays do so as schoolchildren. Because of the way the brain rewires itself at puberty, it becomes exponentially more difficult for most people to learn a new language as adults. George I therefore probably spoke heavily accented English, which he only would have begun to learn after coming to the British throne in his 50s. However, George II learned English as a young child and was probably fluent, and any suggestion that George III spoke English with anything but an upper-class London accent is just silly. I can't speak to the quality of the German language they use here, mind you...

[@youarecrazy7777]

that's a good point

[@matthewallenlufcy7199]

+Lytrigian Actually, the royals had a german accent all the way until Victoria's children. George V would have been the first without a noticeable accent.

[@the-chillian]

Matthew Allen Lufcy Nonsense. Pure bigotry. They wouldn't have had a German accent any more than I have a Russian accent.

[@MrBrownnn696]

They stopped everybody trying to get ride of the King haha

[@GeeJayO1022]

Plaid, weaponry, AND BAGPIPES were banned?!?!?! That’s next level

[@thomasbenck9525]

Argh, that fake german accent is done so bad that I almost can't make sense of it and i am german. Sounds more like french to me. lol

[@corn1971]

That's rather what German sounds like to English speakers who don't know the language.

[@thomasbenck9525]

I know, I now, it just is kinda grating.

[@NDNgirl4ever]

I'm an American, and I thought they sounded French as well.

[@thomasbenck9525]

NDNgirl4ever Trust me, i have a german accent and it sounds nothing like this. ;-)

[@reflectingqueen]

it is because you are german

[@larryjung8062]

King Richard 1 was a great king!.Queen Elizabeth 2 has done fine job as the British Queen and her husband Prince Philip has defended and suported his queen and wife!.

[@조금성-c8n]

징기스칸 선조님 실제는 그저 조용하고 착한 족장정도 이겼다고 합니다. 단지 족장들의 뜻을 잘 관리 성공 시키는 분. 노시던 곳이 아주 좋은 자연이고 바이칼호와. 그 아래 절기있는 곳을 참 좋아했다고 알았어요. 또한 황인이 아니라 백인 닮은 황인으로 알고 있읍니다자이칼호는 백인과 황인이 동서로 갈라져 상기된 기점이지요.

[@moester75]

Great Video

[@Albukhshi]

I'm assuming with Matthew Baynton as Prince Frederick?

[@bendalymckenna6271]

Albukhshi shame they never did Prince Fredrick on Horrible Histories.

[@1974Asha]

if George was born and brought up in England, why would he have a ropey German accent? ~ Jussayin

[@jellybumfruitcakes]

Same reason why many Kings in the early middle ages spoke French, it was the language of the court.

[@LevWobegon]

If you mean George II, he was born and brought up in Germany. He was born in 1683 and his father didn't become King of England till 1714.

[@AnamCaraDeMexico]

George iii born in England was raised in his mother Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha strict German style court. .Although English was his primary language it wasn't his mothers tongue.

[@Mike-ul1xn]

So, "God Save the King" was originally written in French? That actually makes a lot of sense

[@alpspitz1]

the tune to the British national anthem was taken from a German hymn called " Heil dem seiger kranz "

[@deanunio]

And everyone says we British don’t love Europe. Of course we do!

[@HrhFish]

This makes a change.Some intelligent comments here.I wonder what Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) would make of the fact that the UK national anthem was written by a French person!! The Georgians were responsible for satire and came up with the concept of freedom of speech.Debating clubs were popular in coffee shops.I wonder what they'd think of You tube. Probably disgusted with what trolls/morlocks use this technology to say. I am pleasantly surprised to see some genuine decent comments about the subject matter instead of morons going off on unrelated tangents

[@megabyteme5545]

This slice of paradise This sacred throne of Kings riiiiggghhhtttt cause you obviously can believe everything on Google....

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

+Laura Bennett He’s right, there’s no evidence to say the English national anthem was wrote by the French, in fact, the claim was made by a women that hated the English. The whole notion is laughably ridiculous....the French spiriting our national anthem....it’s like something said in a playground by children.

[@Aidankiwi]

There is no official 'English' national anthem. Also England is not a sovereign state. if you mean the UK national anthem, then say so.

[@colinp2238]

@@megabyteme5545 Or maybe he saw it on Jeremy Kyle?

[@BrideofFatmaccam]

wait a minute - did i miss something or are we to imply that one of louis XIV´s mistresses wrote "god save the king"? any experts out there?

[@Aidankiwi]

The Hanoverian's of the Georgian era never had the title King of England. That title was abolished in 1707 during the reign of Queen Anne.

[@lexigrimhaive]

Who's are you talking about?

[@kendomyers]

Aidankiwi right, they were Queens of England

[@Aidankiwi]

The title King or Queen of Engalnd was abolished in 1707 during the reign of Queen Anne. In 1707 the Parliaments of both Scotland and England passed their respective Acts of Union. The result was that on the 1st of May 1707 Scotland and England yielded their sovereignty to the newly created nation of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the UK parliament was formed. So the Georgians (King George I-IV) never held the title King of England they were the respective Kings of Great Britain (until 1801 when Ireland was incorporated into the union and the nation became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)

[@sapiensursus3034]

You may observe this is the 5th video in the series. The previous videos covered monarchs of england

[@leanie9660]

Urg....they sing that "god save our king" thing sooooo slooooowly !

[@caelan8819]

Goooorrd savvvvve ouuurrrr greaaaaatest kiiing, longggg livvve theeee noooobbllle kingggg, Gooooorrrd saaaavvve thhhe kiiiinng

[@swissmiss572]

Wie angenehm: Keine störende Musik unterlegt !

[@Popperite]

10:53 and 16:42 The maps used in this episode are from the Napoleonic era.

[@ArchibaldBagge]

Why does Prince Frederick's accent become comical French at 09:06?

[@bendalymckenna6271]

ArchibaldBagge meant to be German however it isn’t very good.

[@robertb4000]

There are no protestant Stuart left...

[@bethbartlett5692]

Thus series is a Portrayal - if actually a greater description of accuracy - *demonstrates the human exemplifying - led by Ego Mindedness, void of Empathy, which is a requirement for any wise action.* A lower minded existence, Tabloid compared to Clinical Peer Review Journal, in worthiness.

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

The throne of England had never belonged to French Plantagenets and Welsh Tudors...that’s just hilarious. The Angevins were anglicised from the beginning, Henry II was dual ancestry, his mother even hired the English Scholar William of Malmesbury to write the famous Gesta Regum Anglorum so he could study his English ancestry in depth. Richard I held the crown legally but was nothing to do with England, as England during his reign was a republic in all but name, run by ministers and clergymen (which is why they fought hard for the Magna Carta). King John was total opposite to his brother and was raised in England and lived in England his whole life....he drank English wine from Corfe, wore Opus Anglicana clothes, he spoke at least broken English, worshiped in English churches and his favourite Saint was the Anglo-Saxon St.Wulfstann and he’s even buried next to him at Worcester...how the fuck are these French...Henry III felt so English he even named his sons after famous English saints

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

As for the Tudors, they were just the same....Owain Tidr was Welsh....just like Geoffrey Plantagenet was French...but their descendants were English through and through (England is politically a strong country and changes the whole nature of people, it’s makes sons foreigners to their fathers). Owain’s son to Cathrine of Valois was called Edmund (famous English saint name), was born in England and was lord over Pembrokeshire, it’s a part of Wales known as little England and the people that live there to this very day still acknowledge the English element in them. Henry VII and Henry VIII are as English as is gets...it’s this over simplification amongst the other messed up claims that render this series a joke to anybody that’s ever read even a single scholarly paper of the English monarchy.

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

+Henry V of England Heir of France On top of that...the Georgians might have been German in origin....George I was a full blown Kraut but skip forward to George III and the man never left England once in his entire life and loved being British.

[@christiancristof491]

Lol, look at this one.

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

Funny thing is that many of the Plantagenet monarchs spoke French, so not 100% pro English lol

[@clivegoodman16]

Henry II was French on both his father's side and his mother's side. His native tongue was French and he did not speak any English. It was centuries before any King of England spoke English.

[@kendomyers]

_(George the 3rd) spent the wedding night drunk_ so did I, both times.

[@조금성-c8n]

여왕님과 여왕님의 시민도 이런 지나가는 한 순간이 되시고 좋은 일이 가득차길 바랍니다. 저는 그냥 움직이는 것이 아니라 진실된 마음으로 있는 그대로 움직이는 것입니다. 실제. 여왕님 만세.

[@sidneybrooks5020]

I watched the whole series while eating. today was ben and Jerry.

[@salahabdi4179]

in Word wide kingdom being from where ? sur

[@AryanAleviZaza]

The Act of Establishment of 1701 removed all Catholic posterity from the Stuarts, preferring the Protestant lineage of Sophie, the last daughter of Elizabeth Stuart and the Elector Palatine Frederick V of Bavaria, to begin with his son George I. Or, during the succession of August 1, 1714, at least 54 princes (his) were better placed in the British succession than that Sophie of Bavaria and his son George I from Hanover. Parliament broke the succession of divine rights of kings This act of another age is still in force, it is a shame for a country like England

[@LockSteady]

Indeed. It should also be noted that one in three native american tribes thought waging war on their neighbors to increase their ownership of slave workers and slave wives, was the greatest possible use of their time. There was nothing particularly noble about the myth of the noble savage as the remaining fraction of tribes merely preferred total slaughter. Wholesale murder of men women and children after a war victory isn't exactly what anyone could call the ethical, or moral highground.

[@melissasanfilippo2549]

Thank you! Im so tired of the bullshit image of the peace loving, own-business-minding Native American. Its just not true. Many tribes were greedy, murderous and barbaric with little respect for human life. They were slave owners long before any white man set foot here. And nobody EVER talks about it, NOT EVER. After all, ppl cant possibly process in their narrow little minds a ppl being villainous when theyre taught from day one that they are history's poorest victims.

[@harrisonshone7769]

The map at 10:55 is from the height of the Napoleonic Wars, not 1743.

[@johnwatt2411]

Funny how it's England's Kings and Queens as if their was never a personal union of the crowns of Scotland and England under James VI of Scots and I of England.

[@Fanny_Snuffle]

I don’t think George II or George III would have spoken with a German accent.

[@gvreximp6565]

King George III didn’t

[@happyicare5053]

Gosh perfeecttt sorry It's the Marykeyboard galloping alone betongued

[@richardlawson4317]

Why all this blurriness? It hurts my eyes. Totally unnecessary.

[@조금성-c8n]

아픔은 있어도 잘 극복하면 괜찮아요 제도 얼굴에 화상을 입어 타이거 마스크를 하지를 않나 이유없이 4층에서 떨어져서 4디리를 다 잃을 뻔도 했읍니다 어려움 다 지나가는 순간 나 자신의 극복이라는 운명이지 그 까짓거. 또 오겠지요. 문물이 잎을 기리는 이 순간 역시 나를 여러가지로 괴롭힐 뿐 또 지나가려다. 가는 길은 꽃길은 아니어도 잘될거에요.

[@MrRyanholder]

I believe saying that the Americans declared independence because they were jonessing for for some British, Spanish and Indian land would be a statement a little closer to the truth (although admittedly still quite a bit of a biased and misleading statement as it doesn't consider many other motives). As for the Dutch, the British had already taken their NA territories in the century before the American War for Independence.

[@kathieawoyomi66]

The hatsburg clan was so in bread they were distorted

[@severianmonk7394]

What a brilliant idea to film all the historical segments out of focus. It makes them impossible to watch.

[@조금성-c8n]

새해부터 여왕님과 시민 여러분께 좋은 일이 많으시길. 다 지나가는 한 순간 입니다. 하하.

[@davemojarra4734]

James II's grandson, Bonnie Prince Charlie.

[@조금성-c8n]

옛 선조님분들의 이야기. 그저 좋아여. 말하고 행진하고. 그런데 옛날은 좀 무식해요. 하하.

[@Nat.Dialogue]

Exactly..

[@randyrysdale852]

more oligarchies, they've been around , they'll be around. some things never change....unless you change them

[@happyicare5053]

Que va insane the Royals están todos marVillosos

[@patsupromajakr8498]

This guy is funny !

[@조금성-c8n]

모르지요 가기도 푸틴이 태웠는지. 한 걱정입니다. 정말 마무들이 이유없이 타들어 가는 모습은 보았지만. 실제 내 살 타들어 가는 것 같았어요. 화가 많이 났지요. 저기인데. 하며. 저는 그냥은 화 안내요 그저 웃을 뿐인데. 이 비디오를 보고 아이고. 뙈놈도. 티벳 고원 히말라야 지역에 같은 일이 일어나. 눈으로 보았지요. 나무 이 생각하면 아파요.

[@happyicare5053]

perfrcttt

[@matthewmann8969]

Victorian styles were something

[@boychildnew1]

He is making the very silly, but common, mistake of saying just 'England' here, when it shold be 'Britain' or 'the UK', from programme 5, as everything is after 1707 and the formation of the UK. He makes a brief mention that its actually Britain now, then goes right back to saying England again almost every time. A rude and historically inaccurate habit.

[@johnjohnson4628]

I can no longer watch this because of the incredibly blurred picture. Are you aware of this AngelDocs?

[@corn1971]

It's an effect done in the program to diminish the appearance of people who don't and can't truly look like the historic figures they are to portray. Is rather silly.

[@highonimmi]

corn1971 oh man...I thought my eye sight was going bad....whew! but, now, I've got a migraine from the eye strain...

[@bunney3272]

Let the duke of wellington decide on Ireland

[@richardlawson4317]

What is the purpose of all the blurred parts? Made my eyes hurt. What a silly effect.

[@jenmb2679]

The dates he is stating is wrong, or the dates on the timelines are wrong

[@chel3SEY]

The Georgians were not "Kings of England". No such position existed at the time. They were Kings of Great Britain and, after 1801, the United Kingdom. How can one trust the historical accuracy of this video that can't even get these basics right?

[@Magicmike57]

nigga fuck u

[@davidtownsend6092]

See you say basics I say irrelevant semantics. You knew what he meant all the same. And anyone who watches KZbin for serious history isn't a historian. Go find a book.

[@prbrase]

Aaaand it was Walpole.

[@adamantium112768]

funny how god save the king turned into god bless America

[@VisualAssault2011]

@ adamantium112768... funny how many people don't know that the music for "God Save the King" was never used for the US national anthem, and that most of them don't know what the US national anthem is... the music was used for "My Country Tis of Thee" not "God Bless America" nor "The Star Spangled Banner"...

[@cbradley1391]

they considered it deplorable. american troops intentionally targeted officers. most european countries considered that a war crime at the time because they thought their nobles should be exempt from death in warfare. but we turned it to our greatest advantage. how the american militia fought was considered for their time in how we considere how al-queda fights today.

[@nope24601]

Who did they hire to sing? Yikes!

[@carywest9256]

If georgie lll wouldn't have been a nut,we probably would be like Canada. But then again,l don't think so,Homey don't play that!

[@cambs0181]

Cary West The King didn't have any real say in wars after 1685, so it would have been parliament who would of run it. The king would have commanded in name only.

[@erroleabrown4317]

Unfortunately for other countries the British castle was cutthroat at ruling the land and under cover of Royalty crashed every other country’s castles so they would be sole sovereignty in the world of ruling monarchies. It’s cruel and twisted all right and the whole world pays for them still being around.

[@crusherbmx]

Alan Ereira reminds me of Johnny Rotten

[@analothor]

its insane to think really succession was such a problem they crowned a man that didn't even speak english good king or no

[@aarondavis8943]

Why on Earth did Britain need a king? What use was it to man or beast? 🤣🤣