TOUR amazing PENA PALACE, Sintra. True Story of the First American to Marry into European Royalty.

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Discover the enchanting true story of enduring love and companionship at Pena Palace in Portugal, when widowed King Ferdinand II of Portugal, fell in love with Elise, a Swiss-born American actress and singer who later was ennobled to become Countess of Edla.
In the second part of this episode, next week we will take you into the enchanting, hidden Lodge, deep in the forest, at Pena Palace, designed by Elise herself and for which the King awarded her a medal.
Ollie and Stephanie are using profits from Travels With My Friend to go towards the restoration and renovation of their historic homes - one an Art Nouveau mansion in Spain and the other, a Chateau in France.
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[@Esmecat283]

The sounds keeps dropping out and coming back, but it is a beautiful travel log which I love.

[@karenlynn7731]

Same. I am wondering if YT is messing with things.

[@lindascott2008]

I was wondering if the sound went off in certain places in the video on purpose during the editing process. It seemed to me that the timing of the sound going off was censoring of content that someone decided was either incorrect or inappropriate. When I look at what the topic was that was being talked about, it seemed like when editing, it was decided to leave parts out without cutting into the flow of the visual. That is my guess anyway. Notice the content when the sound cut off. She was talking about King Ferdinand "living in sin" with the woman opera singer and about their room situation. Another time, she was talking about workers or even "slaves".....My guess is censorship.

[@cwatson3495]

I have notice this on other of these videos

[@mychristmasemporium5927]

Oh yes I’ve had that issue too

[@beautyallaroundme724]

@@lindascott2008 I was wondering about that, too.

[@Lstanfield]

I can’t imagine how all the workers and artisans who created the palace arrived at work every day with their lunch pails , did their jobs and went home each day. They must have stayed there until their work was done. It’s hard, in the twenty first century to conceptualize.

[@miareal1746]

Thank you for another great video however the sound was dropping out frequently! Great place and your passion makes all the difference on how it can be appreciated 🙏👏😀

[@marierisdon8894]

Ah, thought it was just me having an issue with the sound. And the text banners.

[@jeanr7089]

I was wondering if it was just me or everyone was having sound issues. Good to know others were having issues as well. Great video despite the sound issues.

[@billgreen1861]

​@@marierisdon8894 I tried the close caption but it " said " missing words, so no CC either.

[@cristinabarco7273]

Hi Stephanie, the Portuguese you are learning it's not the Portuguese from Portugal, it is Portugal from Brasil! I'm Portuguese and I'm very happy watching you in your trip to Portugal ❤

[@marianapereira2130]

I was about to say the same. Português from Portugal is a bit different from Brasil Português. Some words can be offensive in Brasil while in Portugal they are not.

[@jimdepereira985]

The words are different and even the inflection of the pronunciation is far different.

[@juliemitchell9835]

You'll surprise us and be early one day Steph

[@billgreen1861]

​@@jimdepereira985 Ollie, did the same with the Spanish course he was taking and he never read my comment where I was telling him that Spanish was from Mexico not Spain. Two different ways to interpret the same thought.

[@pamorama]

This palace is absolutely marvelous. Every room was interesting and particularly the arches, tile work and amalgamation of styles. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! What a treat!

[@cwatson3495]

I CAN NOT imagine any better vlog on Lisbon. This was so much fun and so informative!

[@jeffreyskinner7167]

Stephanie as my health is poor, you have made my wish come true to see these amazing places. Thank you i feel like i am there ! Amazing.Thank you and your friend! I also watch his journey on he and his wife channel . God speed , Jeffrey Skinner. XXXXX

[@lilkirsche]

This was such a strong episode!!! Your storytelling - again - was outstanding and the rooms were breathtaking!!! MY GOSH WHAT A PALACE!!

[@PauloCarnaxide]

It amazes me the fact that some tourists know substantial more about our History than we portuguese. Congratulations and keep on your great work ❤

[@sallysampson628]

I am captivated by your vlogs and all they contain made even more interesting by your passion and dedication to finding out all about the history of the time. You really ough to have another TV production, but together. Fascinating and so informative! PS the audio dropped out several times in case you were unaware.

[@TheFiown]

So many foreigners love this sort of Henri II furniture, a style I find hideous along with embossed leather chairs !

[@jayjay2129]

I love all these places you're visiting...And you and Oliver make it so interesting. You're a good team!!

[@carolweaver3269]

My grand- daughter married a young man with family roots in Portugal. Such a lovely place! Thanks Stephanie and Oliver, for taking this trip, and sharing them all with us through the vlogs and in such a wonderful way! Have been learning so much as well of their history!

[@jennifermansfield8382]

Yes the audio is dropping sadly

[@endeavouringit]

Sending love and blessings for those at Lalande.

[@rowandowland1391]

The historical insights and commentary on the architecture of the palace make this episode most enjoyable......

[@josephinedavidson5968]

Stephanie and all x Thinking of you xxx

[@JoeChanTV]

Is it just me or the video audio is having intermittent mute?

[@jasminepillay9049]

The sound kept disappearing.

[@jenoxley5092]

you're both so fortunate to beable to travel so much and bring all the sights to us viewers,amazing informative videos!X

[@lindagage7315]

So enjoyed That well done you two!

[@portialipton]

Why does the sound disappear when you are talking about the construction of the building (I think in reference to who actually did the work to build it)? Has it been censored?

[@triplet3023]

I find your narratives so full of information and historical details. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much.

[@sallylee8851]

Why are we loosing sound even so often????

[@cathyholt5215]

My favorite was her dressing room ceiling. Stunning

[@rvaprep]

Wonderful video full of history and architecture.

[@philiphughes3694]

Fantastic Stephanie and Oliver. I learn a lot from your travels. Thank you from Oz - Bindi, as always!🥳🥰🐝🐝🌼🌻🌞

[@annemackenzie7295]

Another great video 😀 I am learning so much from your travels, it is so interesting, you are bringing history to life. Thank you ❤👏👏👏

[@rayn8740]

Another amazing location. I love the history lesson too. So little time was spent on Portuguese history during my primary and secondary education. Beyond Henry the Navigator, Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco de Gama, I don't recall much. The sound editing was a bit frustrating, but it wasn't bad enough to bail. There were some beautiful fabrics throughout, too many to mention. The Vista Alegra porcelain is lovely. I can see why Camilla likes it. It really is of exceptional quality. I've never run across that in charity shops. Philip must have been loving the experience. I'd love to know what the Master of Tassels thought of the pretty trims on the chaise longue. Thanks again for bringing us along on your adventures. ❤ from TX!

[@leahhamdaoui7755]

love the choice of music... slight eerie and mysterious ...

[@blakehahn-atlantaga8510]

Another amazing vlog! I love seeing places that I probably would have never seen! Thank you Stephanie and Oliver!

[@foretb1162]

I was intrigued by the last item of the menu in the dining room. so much so that I looked it up: plombière au parfait. Ends up that it is a parfait (in other words layers of either ice cream (French) in honor of Napoleon, served with a chocolate sauce between the layers or a caramel sauce layered between custard layers) of ice cream that is made from cream, fresh egg custard, sugar and fruit confits steeped in kirsch for 2 weeks then blended into the cream custard, frozen then layered with a complimentary sauce, usually chocolate but sometimes caramel or port custard. Plombière refers to the type of goblet that was used to hold the parfait - lead crystal. Hence the name "plombiere" derived from "plomb" which is "lead" in French. It is also said that the first ever ice cream molds (popular in Victorian times and 19th century) were in fact made of lead.

[@nikbull1258]

Love these adventures. 1+1= more than two.

[@user-vk7zr9uc6g]

EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY, THANK YOU.

[@tinacarrol6702]

Fabulous Stephanie Oliver. What a Beautiful Building. X 😊

[@mrsl3758]

Love your travel show! I worry about Ollie and Camilla with all that's going on in Spain! Keep up the good work and everyone stay safe.

[@endeavouringit]

I eat Portugese custard tarts daily. What a location and beautiful palace, WOW !!!

[@TravelsWithMyFriend]

I am not surprised - you have the best custard tarts!

[@gailstevens1275]

Thank you showing the inside of this palace. My husband and I have visited the Penna Palace x2 but never got to look inside the palace as the queues were too long. The views are beautiful.

[@1231ms54]

Beautiful place.

[@yeseniafroml.a.8020]

Love all the details.❤

[@juliagregg7155]

Beautiful place I would love to go there .Thank you for sharing

[@alicebrevoord7012]

Beautiful music with it

[@zander8018]

I really love this adventure. ❤️💯❤️🇨🇦

[@mariafaris653]

What a place.... Love it

[@reneef3222]

So for the first time ever there's two videos out right now and rather than click on the one from the main Channel I'm definitely more excited to watch this one🎉🎉🎉

[@shirlhalverson2363]

I enjoyed seeing the palace. But there's a number of places where the audio drops out for a few seconds.

[@charmainejfritz]

just wow!!!

[@claudiamann7111]

Incredible!! The artisans it took to make this is just amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@paulettebarber7219]

I so enjoy seeing these beautiful places and learning some of the history of them.

[@TaniJohnson]

Spectacular video @stephaniejarvis luv luv luv it!!!! Absolutely glorious!!!!!

[@okienana11]

Love this trip, thank you.

[@marilynwade9448]

Amazing

[@alicebrevoord7012]

Great, very enjoyable, thanks

[@jolombardi1391]

Loved this blog I thoughtyall would show where they lived in the farden.

[@peterwhite9261]

This is my favorite castle so far and such an interesting love story. The architecture is incredible. ❤

[@ginnyrabbitt-jenkins535]

Love that you have so many participants in dressing up. Ty for sharing.

[@wendy-moore]

So nice.

[@GRANDIPRTradeMarkAcceleartor]

Ooops the sound dissapeared twice.... wonder what's happening? Only commenting aobut this as I love hearing all the details...oh no again the sound dissapeared... It's so intresting to hear these details. Ollie and Steph are doing so well.

[@Marykguise]

Another incredible video!! Thank you so much for sharing!! Love from Mary in Southern California 💗

[@lindawentink2725]

Absolutely wonderful .Thank you. You are such great guides , love your relaxed but incredibly informative style. We are so lucky🥰

[@juliawoodhead4879]

What an astonishing place. Stunning. The best ‘Travels’ so far. Totally absorbing.

[@josephinedavidson5968]

Stephanie and Oliver your enthusiasm and Joie de Vivre naturally transports us all xx another wonderful Vlog ! Channel 4 should give you your very own channel ! It would be such a winner x love the humour of friendship between you ! Philip we know how involved you too are ! simply silent so as to not intrude XXX well done all and much love to all xxx

[@MnGirl1994]

The audio keeps dropping off. Otherwise lovely video.

[@lindaallen9721]

Oliver and Stephanie-do you already know all this amazing historical information before you go to the site or do you research before your filming? Do you have notes you work from? I’m curious about your process….and the outtakes! Also, what are the silent portions of the narratives? Is it due to potential incorrect info that had to be removed?

[@wendymaybury6329]

Is anyone else losing sound every so often or is it my blasted tablet 😢

[@hollykeller1545]

Wow! Absolutely beautiful and so interesting ‼️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎃🎃🎃

[@patriciacsapo]

Estou adorando ouvir a Stephanie falar em português! 🥰(I just love to hear Stephanie speaking in Portuguese). When I started the video and heard her speaking Portugueses I thought I was in the wrong link hahahaha

[@juliefuggle314]

Julie from tenterden here hello all

[@erikaperry4817]

At 10:00 minutes in it starts to go out every maybe 5mins . Weird .

[@jorgevieira4489]

Beautiful

[@karenlynn7731]

Stephanie, I love your sunglasses!! I am now on a mission to find them. Anyone know where I can get these?

[@eileeng2492]

So interesting This channel needs to grow,so informative in a fun way

[@jomeyer13]

swiss born american!// amazing!!

[@lisac1110]

As always spectacular but lost some of the sound ❤😊❤😊

[@myhillslife27]

Kept loosing sound Steph and Ollie

[@jimloughran2131]

King Ferdinand was a Saxe Coburg Kohary - so German in practice

[@jomeyer13]

wonder why or how ir got to be yellow ans orange red color. .. tiling work done so well with all the angles

[@emmarowse8071]

❤

[@mp7519]

😍😍

[@joydeal2988]

happy

[@jeanmkaufmann]

A beautiful palace. It is unfortunate that you had audio problems. 🙂🇨🇦

[@SouthernArtist77]

Sherri from Arkansas USA.

[@user-fj1po6hq2l]

Thanks for the relaxing vlog in this time of war in ISRAEL😓 After the horror murders and kidnappings!! I'm sure that you know...HOPE FOR BETTER DAYS🙏 Mona from Israel♥️🌷

[@carolweaver3269]

Very extravagant! Just my style! lol Could not imagine the climbing though to get there but guess with a Castle like this, you would stay right there most the time with much to do. Painting away the days and nights, Reading and writing and just making sure all is done as you would please! What a life. At least until you are, 'assassinated! ' Seems like these poor Kings could not stand a chance! But they sure lived the perfect life for several years. But unfortunately, their lives were cut shorter than it should have been. So hard to be the ruler and to realize you will make enemies, as not all can think or agree alike. Much jealousy! They paid highly for all the fame and elegance, in the end. But I guess they had fun while they could! Most would only dream of this kind of living now. The wives were not the most gorgeous of all of the kingdom as you may expect, I noticed and am so surprised. (Depends on where love ends up though. There is much more than looks involved.) But maybe the styles were different, and they did not have the ability to maybe fix up like one can today and do so much to try to look young or dye hair or do things as such, to be nice looking including the "extensions" it was harder in those days to really be photogenic and that was just for pictures in later years. Often a painting was all that could be relied on. The paintings and artwork were fabulous, as well as choices of China and furnishings. LOVED that dining-room/refectory, and that is what I truly found to pop right out, as it is that kind of style, that seems so perfect in a castle, at least!! Thank you, thank you, thank you Stephanie, and Oliver for making this vlog a success and so enjoyable! Could not imagine seeing this in person, and all the 'tiles' all over the Castle was marvelous to say the least! Am positive this was hard work especially done in those times with what they had to work with!

[@Atuamaeelindasimsenhora]

I just wanted to say something! If you say desculpa to random people you dont know its seen as rude! You would say perdão or desculpe! something that you cant learn with an app ALSO american/brasilian portuguese is kind of different so be aware of that

[@bluefluffmt]

Still waiting for the new palace episode January 3, 2024!

[@nlstevens1]

❤❤❤

[@hedgewood7152]

✨🌞✨

[@TheFiown]

I think that they call it a 'bain de siege' (not sure in Portuguese) it's for washing the important stuff !

[@marierisdon8894]

Haha, seems right given the foot placement on the side.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

PIty about the sound

[@P.Galore]

Stephanie can pull off a t-shirt and jeans as easily as a designer gown. She is confidently elegant.

[@joshuab79]

I’m looking for more information on the bathtub chair. I can’t find it online. Does anyone know what that is called?

[@marielcalder103]

Hip bath?

[@joshuab79]

@@marielcalder103 thank you very much.. sitz bath or hip bath … you’re awesome 👏. Thanks for the help..! I’m restoring a old home and I want one of these baths for my dog wash room

[@charliehowell23]

I like your videos better with no sound ...

[@michaelflick1177]

So glad that you got to the Pena paiace. I visited it many years ago. The interiors are wonderful and the architecture is stunning. The views are truly magnificent. Hope you also got to the city palace in Sintra with its two towers. The Ajuda palace is also lovely. Queen Maria Pia, grandmother of King Carlos lived there. She was great friends of Queen Alexandra. Sadly the subtitles are not working very well.

[@DiogoF.]

You are so classy ❤🇵🇹🇪🇺🕊

[@jomeyer13]

commercial right off the batt.. babel is great

[@jomeyer13]

i take it you arent a big fan of that dining furniture style. Some of that tile looks like the ones billy may use by the organ.Wish i could have seen more pan of the room as stephanie explained things.

[@KG-ui7ji]

Loving your travel vlogs so informative and interesting. P.S. The photo of Philip with the shorter hair...it suits him I think he needs a haircut lol.

[@cindymaceda2999]

Yes, definitely! Philip with shorter hair will make him even handsomer.

[@DiogoF.]

'So civil.' 😂🇵🇹🇪🇺

[@beautyinkandbeyond]

Ok, that's not a Palm, its a fern in the shell.

[@lynnralph8373]

Correct it is a Tree Fern.