The American Teen that Changed the British Aristocracy Forever

[@Roedygr]

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]

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

[@stephsmanicshenanigans8017]

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]

Roedy Green they wanted it to stop at 420

[@lanekelly79]

Roedy Green the link is below.

[@iamsnehanair]

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

[@MannyD90]

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

[@shannonwysinger3335]

I agree. Her voice was perfect.

[@Chellebelle1211]

Omg, I knew it was her!! Lol

[@mcaskey358]

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]

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

[@emmapulford6141]

Was thinking same thing 😃

[@plumemoths]

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

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

Well put.

[@kimberleymorris8052]

Remind you of anyone!! Apart from the wealthy American

[@annebay8093]

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 !!

[@margotmadden1119]

She's Winston Churchill's Mother

[@jasondaricus4513]

No

[@jasondaricus4513]

Churchill was a popular name back then their not related

[@patrickcdg8086]

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

[@Nzie]

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]

Yes she was.

[@itzkirml]

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]

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

[@helsinki]

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

[@lilianevanfrankrijk7490]

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

[@JKLoans]

It is! However, her name is Elizabeth McGovern.

[@lilianevanfrankrijk7490]

Ooops, my bad, one out of two!

[@DivineSimply]

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

[@opinionatedbitch-]

Liliane van Frankrijk it is that's Elizabeth McGovern

[@lilianevanfrankrijk7490]

My bad, thanks.

[@emberrey1814]

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

[@sirennumber5248]

Right

[@nnicollan]

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

[@kateli1880]

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]

"Legitimately"? No.

[@Cadreouiyiosiollouiiu]

So did i .. lolz

[@nathanracher2911]

ah a classic tale of Old money v New money.

[@bastianskaye]

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]

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

[@HamCubes]

American Teen *who* Changed the British Aristocracy Forever

[@solanaavila5040]

AeroDoe is the same, that replaces which who or where

[@corettaha7855]

Thank you.

[@Rockb149]

Whom'st've

[@marissa_two1425]

saltyturkey yep :(

[@jab5498]

Arwin Hochauser Whom'st've'nt

[@ricardorodriguezbarraza781]

WHERE THE HELL IS THE REST OF THIS?!

[@2pekes568]

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

[@heatherbowlan9822]

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

[@johanna6050]

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]

@@johanna6050 there is a dvd available

[@Angel-ts8rc]

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

[@duandee5174]

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

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

Read There are books

[@williamwallace2278]

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

[@ykmvp1870]

Bruh they were still brits even if they became independent

[@Freshie207]

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]

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

[@cooldloop2381]

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

[@bootstrap52]

Yes the entire continent of America

[@cellpat2686]

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

[@bitterbeauty6144]

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

[@glen7318]

|it was a love match

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

You are sooo wrong Read your history

[@Angel-ts8rc]

No it was a Love match, it later became unhappy when they grew apart and he got syphillis

[@codyshi4743]

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

[@misssissivoss]

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.

[@vhlaura97]

The narrator sounds like Lady Grantham

[@erikkr.r.m7380]

It is

[@48mavemiss2]

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

[@kamzamosweu2269]

@calihartley2010 So what?

[@Mayakran]

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

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

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]

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

[@whatadollslife]

agree, terrible juxtaposition

[@Mayakran]

@@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-]

@@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.

[@anamariamunoz1253]

Would LOVE to see the full documemtary. Please!

[@dlronevich]

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]

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

[@Andrew-hl3tk]

HAHA ENGLISH FUCKER

[@MrsNoji]

"Manly man, not girly man" Wow

[@leahvillanueva5402]

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

[@lizryan6289]

And this union gave Britain Winston.

[@magdalenak9498]

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

[@21whichiswhich]

Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae Yes! Major cliffhanger!

[@MyDiamond99]

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

[@GrinMonister]

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

[@barbaravick5634]

Mugduhlena Kuzluwskae American Princesses.

[@scottibrown3274]

Million Dolllar American Princess

[@ssmalik8945]

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

[@colewebb4643]

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]

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]

Main94 thank you so much.

[@colewebb4643]

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]

+Main94 that was very nice of you

[@gng11]

Nouveau riche (new rich) is the word.

[@vermontDavid]

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

[@Katiedid93]

Love that Elizabeth McGovern is narrating. Downton!!!

[@bastianskaye]

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]

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

[@oughtssought1198]

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

[@barbaravick5634]

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]

@@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]

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

[@catofthecastle1681]

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

[@SoniaCasey-jg1wb]

Lol

[@maureendavidson4635]

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.

[@franmellor9843]

Didn't stop him from affairs

[@jogriffiths5766]

SHE didn't know how to love anyone, however.

[@janmeyer3129]

Pity neither of his parents cared much for him.

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

@@franmellor9843 So what? He is one of the greatest leaders ever What a middle class comment

[@marilynjones5749]

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

[@riggs20]

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.

[@TK-ij2xi]

I can't believe the Smithsonian quoted RHONY.

[@SoniaCasey-jg1wb]

Lol

[@elden5052]

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

[@ninacadavis4073]

arrrhghhhh!!! where's the continuation?

[@claudiajadeGrioli69]

the mother of winston churchill

[@shoebill181]

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

[@lizageorge8923]

Leonard Jerome had an absolutely _amazing_ mustache.

[@angienatoyn]

Speculators are "manly men". Riiiiight.

[@mainlyfine]

...with soft white hands

[@melanietoth1376]

I thought that was pretty amusing.

[@christinash2235]

Yeah I found that annoying too

[@felixfaster]

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

[@SkyelarEagle]

More like the king of mustaches

[@ramonlopez9440]

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

[@P3891]

Did she?

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

Even here? Heavens You are like sort of plague

[@AnushaSinghOfficial]

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

[@stefanie7823]

The actress playing Jennie looks just like her! Wow!

[@jessejones5985]

WHERE CAN WE WATCH THE REST OF THE DOCUMENTARY??

[@lola.cruz916]

Smithsonian Channel : Million Dollar American Princesses Maybe they're playing re-runs

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

@@lola.cruz916 She was not a princess Heavens What is this thing with American people

[@Checkmatey94]

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

[@Civgamer]

3 days and you're engaged????

[@acuerdo3]

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]

When you know, you know.

[@elza8785]

Lol happens to some of us

[@Living4YHWH]

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]

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

[@Stuffnsuch736]

History always repeats itself doesn’t it

[@KeyJM]

Omg, I LOVE this series!

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

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

[@jamesmcinnis208]

The most irritating background music I've heard.

[@Richardsonprincess00]

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

[@hop208]

Churchill looked like Czar Nicholas.

[@stephaniediasz4248]

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

[@cellpat2686]

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

[@gaellehubert6060]

Sounds like the Bucaneers story written by Edith Warton

[@Richardsonprincess00]

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

[@NewPlacesSameFaces]

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

[@katew.176]

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

[@ingriddubbel8468]

She was Winston Churchill's mother.

[@kell6702]

Omg Churchill likes George V in 0:48

[@roberthudson1959]

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

[@chronicstitcher7933]

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

[@barbaravick5634]

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

[@christy1819]

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

[@Rye_Toast]

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

[@cocoaorange1]

I saw it years ago.

[@tictacterminator]

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

[@zarinaromanets7290]

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

[@henryc1000]

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

[@theloversbook]

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

[@MrKONEWKO]

I love the Die Fledermaus music they used!

[@mj9949]

where is the rest of the story???????????????

[@amp279]

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.

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ-ξ9ε]

Yes!

[@abutterfly7975]

Why did u cut it off😳

[@sarahpena9501]

Where can I watch the entire show?

[@Herbsandspices100]

Is this just a clip from a program or is it the full thing?

[@maquillamelily212]

Omg I need to see this

[@karenkurby]

Can you upload the full episode. It’s not on the website anymore

[@zynnkasili2171]

Wait... where's the end of this?

[@lisabullock7461]

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

[@chikkachinijohannady]

where's the rest

[@northbridge4665]

Is that Kaya scodelario in the beginning?

[@diannholland]

Who plays the young Jennie Jerome?

[@MangaCrazy7890]

Who narrates this? She sounds like Cora from Downton Abbey

[@fernandovaldez9263]

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

[@rosepearl7092]

The music is too loud and distracting

[@o0paulii0o]

I’m confused how do I find the rest of the story. 😩

[@charyoungberg6623]

wish you had cc on this

[@smileandpresson]

Where is the rest?!

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Go to Amazon Prime for the rest of the story

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Go to Amazon Prime for the rest of the story

[@Ninasim123]

Long time ago I watched a film with a plot very similar to the history in the vídeo. I think It's a 90's movie...

[@Anonymous18531]

Funny to think of the Vanderbilts as New Money

[@cherylklaas7171]

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

[@dominicdmello7531]

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?

[@moniquewhite2850]

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]

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

[@flamingbull3438]

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

[@thenoirgirlskpop7701]

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

[@barbaravick5634]

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 KZbin before from the Smithsonian channel.

[@Angel-ts8rc]

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

[@slab6046]

Ummm , is there a part two.....

[@cleoneruatita2012]

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

[@barbaravick5634]

CR Love Cora

[@suzannereilman4516]

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

[@az956]

What is the music in the background please?

[@az956]

Oops..in the opening 😊

[@okimawilcox1550]

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

[@coopsevy5664]

Was the Rochester a nice family? This is my 3rd grandmother last name.