One Foot in the Past - Raine Spencer - Brighton Pavillion

[@LordFrancisco1000]

Lovely and elegant lady with impeccable taste. RIP Countess. 💐 🌹

[@marysmyth8288]

Sheer Elegance with charm , sophistication at it’s highest level . A wonderful graceful lady R.I.P Raine Spencer

[@sarafahmee681]

I have just watched a documentary on Netflix about Raine , she’s beautiful inside out . An elegant glamorous, sophisticated lady .💕🌹🌷

[@MiriamCeciliaMontesZuñiga]

R.I.P. ... is she dead?

[@princessalexandra1613]

Only wish there are more videos of Raine available! She was gorgeous and well-spoken! She could have been a leading Hollywood actress if she liked!

[@guilhermebranco7729]

So many beautiful comments about Raine. She was truly amazing and I know some people who met her in person and say the most wonderful things about her. She used to be very dear at Harrods. She was really polite while working there and very nice to the costumers (rich or not) I can't understand why Diana and her brother hated her so much... Wait, I understand: they were two boors! Raine Spencer was far too grande for them. R.I.P Raine, Countess Spencer

[@marysmyth8288]

Simply love the History of the Brighton Pavillion as presented by Raine Spencer. (R.I.P.)

[@jennifereguakhide4176]

What a great and lovely lady. God bless her.

[@good2btheking]

She is just as magnificent as the Pavilion itself.

[@robertgbarcenasjr9559]

She’s was fantabulous!!!

[@sarafahmee681]

She’s beautiful, glamorous, elegant , eloquent, typical example of English aristocracy . We share the same qualities a part from I’m not royalty and got married only once .

[@leonietaylor7054]

Same here🙂

[@ninianmacmillan-keith7435]

I think she is wonderfully fabulous . Very few like her now,mores the pity

[@maxwellfan55]

A completely adorable creature and national treasure. Should have been invited to host shows such as Antiques Roadshow, University Challenge and Question Time.

[@mariedupre7933]

Enjoyed ⭐️Loved her mother Barbara Cartland ❤️!

[@juliewatson2281]

Cartland romances of the regency period were my favorite reads 60 years ago. I found them highly descriptive and informative of society in that day and age. I knew Cartland was the grandmother to Lady DIANA Spencer, but being American, it didn’t click immediately what the relationship of Raine Spencer was in the family. Thank you for the clarification. I have read of the Brighton Pavilion most of my life, and seen an occasional drawing of it, but this is a first to see it in a photo, video of the actual structure. It is as magnificent as described. Thank you for the privileged view. More of these types of videos need to be produced and shown. Indeed, the sun never set on the British Empire, it was a light seen and felt around the world by those of British descent.

[@monicamarkiewicz6475]

The higher the hair, the closer to God!

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

This was very good rare footage

[@misspurrr-fect3684]

She was a very good narrator .

[@timfly767]

I love Raine Spencer. She grabbed life by the balls and lived it her way, and on her terms.

[@maxwellfan55]

Doubt she would have approved of such a vulgar summery.

[@heyyyguuurl]

Fun fact, : the song at 0:30 and 9:15 is - "I'm In Love" The lady singing this in 1957, then known as Mrs Gerald Legge, is better known today as Raine, Countess Spencer, stepmother of Diana Princess of Wales. Born Barbara McCorquodale she went through six different names. On her marriage to the Hon Gerald Legge in 1948 she became Mrs Gerald Legge. In 1958 she became Lady Lewisham, and in 1962 Lady Dartmouth. On marrying Johnnie Spencer in 1976 she became Lady Spencer. Her final name from July 1993 was Comtesse de Chambrunsung. she truly was an elegant, gentle, beautiful, educated, extraordinary, high class woman.

[@seerjc123]

Marvellous woman...classy and elegant!

[@Flughafenkaiser]

An inspiration to every Ru Paul Drag race contestant. Spectacularly dazzling and camp.

[@justinwilliams7290]

her mother, Barbara Cartland, was even better.

[@nicolelillis2077]

​@@justinwilliams7290Here, here, you are quite right Sir! Dame Barbara certainly woud've given those drag queens a run for their money, mere amateurs.!! ☮️😁

[@johnking8724]

Classy Lady ! Rest In Peace !

[@sarafahmee681]

I really admire this gorgeous glamorous lady . She worked at Harrods as a manager and always found on shop floor mingling with customers. How sweet 🌹

[@lindahedman3115]

Very enjoyable tour!

[@pattskatoey3139]

Raine was a very very beautiful lady. Would have loved to meet her.I like how she pronounced often as orfen. RIP.

[@sevengo6652]

She was divine!

[@robertgbarcenasjr9559]

She's fantastic!

[@user-qy4ir9lw3x]

❤❤❤❤

[@naturalcambion3747]

That hair!

[@hatefullll]

I think she's GORGEOUS.

[@aprilwalker4167]

TTaylor me2

[@hisdivinegraceimperialmaje4178]

absolutely right

[@ritahorvath8207]

And she took care of Earl Spencer when he was old and sick.

[@kareninacarado]

Now we’d have to see how the season 4 of The Crown will portray her!!

[@suebayliss1897]

Emma Thompson FTW.

[@guilhermebranco7729]

Too good to be truth

[@victorsilvester78]

RIP dear Raine.

[@IsherwoodWilliams1]

Diana eventually got to like her.

[@chollaalertdalla9342]

What did she use to call her rainy painy

[@mscott3918]

@@chollaalertdalla9342 Acid rain

[@ritahorvath8207]

Diana is the most immature celebrity I ever learned about. The more interviews I watch with her the more shocked and ebarrassed I am.

[@ruthjohn2781]

@@ritahorvath8207 This shows how immature you are!!

[@sarafahmee681]

@@ritahorvath8207 Princess Diana loved her father and didn’t want him taken away by a step mother . But after his death the two strong beautiful ladies became close friends .

[@sharongarcia9640]

Raine would be very hard to live with. She sold many of the treasures in the Spencer home in order to redecorate. Earl Spencer allowed Raine a free reign. The Spencer children were appalled by the insensitive sale of their family inheritance. I really don’t blame them for hating Raine.

[@RoseSharon7777]

The back story....Althorp was near being condemned due to years of neglect. She sold the "treasures" to fix the estate and bring it back to livable condition and to ensure the Spencer Estate would stay in the Spencer line of decendants and not the tax mans gavel to the highest bidder.

[@caligulalonghbottom2629]

@@RoseSharon7777 I agree. She was passionate about historical preservation.

[@leonietaylor7054]

@@RoseSharon7777 The Earl Apencer Dianas dad had lots of money.She should have used that to upgrade the home.Selling the heirlooms is sorrowfull.

[@avian8338]

@@RoseSharon7777 EXACTLY

[@maxwellfan55]

@@leonietaylor7054 Judging by your grammar, spelling, and casual assumptions, I doubt you had any knowledge of either the Earl's finances or the Countess's ability to decide wisely.

[@simongreenham]

Vive la Raine !

[@carlinkay1151]

According to Lady Collin Campbell, Raines children only ever met the Spencer children (Diana) twice during her marriage to Johnny. It was said, she felt the Spencer children were so poisonous, she didn’t want them associating! Very smart lady!

[@joshuataylor6087]

Lady C didn't say it that judgementally, she said they were so damaged as a result of growing up the hostages of their waring parents.

[@ritahorvath8207]

The Spencer children were plain horror. 😱

[@maplecosy9429]

SHE is the poisonous one.

[@avian8338]

Quite! Diana really was venomous.

[@guilhermebranco7729]

Of course, Diana was a poisonous snake.

[@ivansmom]

Julianne Moore should play Raine in a movie!

[@mReneAstrid]

RIP

[@justinwilliams7290]

Juilianne Moore should play her in a movie. She looks VERY similar around the mouth and eyes

[@TheCheese4450]

To think that Diana pushed her down the stairs when she was acting up over Frances Spencer being at Charles's wedding. Acid Raine lol.

[@ritahorvath8207]

Slapping her own father in the face Diana can't be proud of either. 🤢

[@maplecosy9429]

Good for Diana. They deserved it.

[@maxwellfan55]

@@ritahorvath8207 No being seen with a darkie.

[@snd7810]

Diana was a brat

[@lisastallingskeelor3328]

Are there more mini docu’s done by Raine?

[@sarafahmee681]

There’s a documentary on Netflix about gorgeous Raine 🌹called ( Princess Diana’s wicked step mother ). After watching I wanted to do more research about her .

[@lisastallingskeelor3328]

@@sarafahmee681 thank you. I’ll go check it out.

[@bastimeier]

That's at least one entire bottle of hairspray every day.

[@aprilwalker4167]

So pretty and dainty

[@maplecosy9429]

Surely we're not watching the same woman.

[@washington9347]

How did she achieve that hair style?

[@jakecavendish3470]

I think she spent the money she saved on dentistry on hair spray

[@Pinerocks]

I love dear Raine

[@toniace2274]

Gosh thats princess diana’s step mom. Hahahahaha i heard they hated her.

[@mscott3918]

They eventually got on well together and often went out to lunch

[@ruthjohn2781]

@@mscott3918 thank God for that.

[@seansmith445]

She put Margaret Thatcher in the shade with that hairdo.

[@iam1ina1000000]

Haaaah! I love how they put a filter on the camera lenz, to reduce the visibility of the wrinkles on her face... regardless of whether the viewers can see the actual design details throughout the palace pavilion. (Would it have killed them to hire a younger show presenter and let the viewers focus on the actual beauty of the Pavillion. Ridiculous to see how her vanity wins, instead of the viewing public actually being allowed to enjoy the amazing art and craftsmanship, when watching the show.)

[@mscott3918]

iam1ina1000000 Perhaps they wanted an intelligent lady presenter, not just eye candy.

[@iam1ina1000000]

@@mscott3918 (If only that were the case darling.) I think it is blatently obvious, that this is a case of pure vanity over substance. This old woman is desperately trying to hang onto her fading looks, as it was her only claim to fame... afterall nobody in British polite society ever claimed that she captured her rich aristcrat husband, based on her charming personality or her gift for witty conversation. She was known to be an obnoxious phoney and a miserable ball buster and as Princess Diana recounted in her memoirs... her evil step mother was pure hell to live with.

[@caligulalonghbottom2629]

@@iam1ina1000000 She was a person who didn't have to simply 'present' other peoples research... she knew this information on her own, she was passionate about historical buildings and one of the greatest saviors of british heritage in the 20th century....

[@andrewwalton1520]

@@iam1ina1000000 Meooooow !!

[@leonietaylor7054]

Go get a cup of tea then take a nap!! For Gods sakes!!!

[@chollaalertdalla9342]

She looks and talk similar to diana father no wonder he married her after divourcing that blonde doll diana mother

[@Mike8981]

elegant woman

[@johnbutler6538]

I just wish Johnny's kids loved her

[@gabriferrari7143]

Acid Raine

[@ritahorvath8207]

No. Some immature children thought so and slapped their own father in the face. Nothing to be proud of.

[@BillyCavendish]

The famous Acid Raine … 😂

[@lyonspainter]

Barbra Cartland on steroids. Goche and high camp. Not a favourite of the royals

[@Mimi-jq1bc]

I think this elegant and sweet lady isn't acid. All negative comments are envious.

[@mscott3918]

Mimí A very able lady. Chair of London County Council and totally restored Althorp and made it profitable.

[@jennifereguakhide4176]

@@mscott3918 I totally agree with you

[@ritahorvath8207]

Some immature judgemental narcissistic Spencer teenagers said so. Nothing to be taken seriously.

[@guilhermebranco7729]

I agree with you. She was marvellous. Diana was a nasty and bitter woman. She hated everyone yet people called her "The Princess of Hearts" pleaseeee 🙄

[@jakecavendish3470]

I once had to help her disentangle her hair from an apple tree

[@robingale100]

All on the strength of the poor.....

[@Eddy191152]

Yes, but now the Pavillon is there for EVERYONE to enjoy, rich or poor!...it make it all worth it!

[@maxwellfan55]

Haha, except without the rich, there wouldn't be the poor.

[@camillechang7120]

Di Ana step mom

[@salviaofficinalis02]

Raine got pushed. End of story.

[@afaqanwar2500]

A true aristocrat

[@afaqanwar2500]

Sophisticated aristocrat