Treasures from Chatsworth, Episode 11: The Devonshire Parure

[@jasonhenderson9833]

A very interesting subject which only adds to the frustration of not being able to see. Must the jewels spin constantly? Could we not just be allowed to look at them?

[@damonturnbull5903]

Thank you! I was about to state the same thing. Most frustrating.

[@spicyibis9087]

My thoughts exactly.

[@patriciamcaulay6036]

Bingo

[@autumnfall8829]

Of course not. We are just peasants. Duh.

[@adrianguynn5807]

Very poor presentation of the "subject"!

[@MrJohnjs]

The jewels seem amazing - but the camerawork is distracting. Why not do a slow closeup of each piece, then a slow wider shot showing the entire parure. The constant turning didn't do justice to the pieces.

[@caligulalonghbottom2629]

Exactly and I could care less about the new Duchess' modern jewels... might as well be David Yurman prasiolites for all I care.

[@uberglamazon]

A whole video that was well done...except why were we not as allowed to see the jewelry? Just dark spinning blurry snippets of the actual parure...disappointed.

[@tootsla1252]

Really poor, distracting camera work. But, HI, Chatsworth, and your Graces! I visited last year, and loved touring the house and the spectacular grounds.

[@sebeckley]

It's tragic that the don't have any of the jewelry on stands so you can see it properly. Spinning it around while it's flat is the worst.

[@mark-j-adderley]

It would have been interesting to be given more information about the people who were featured in the clip, and also to have been able to actually see the pieces that were supposed to be the point of the film. The rather incongruous music did little to enhance the presentation.

[@SuperMan-xy8ui]

The video would have made more sense to viewers if it had showed how the various pieces of the parure are worn - perhaps on a mannequin. Modern viewers don't understand stomacher. Interesting to know that President Kennedy's sister, Kathleen, was the wife of William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, heir apparent to the Duke of Devonshire (upon marriage, Kathleen was styled Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Harrington). Sadly, William Cavendish was killed on active WWII service in Belgium by a German sniper only four months after their marriage, in 1944. As William Cavendish left no heirs, his younger brother Lord Andrew Cavendish, who was married to Deborah Mitford of the famous Mitford sisters, thus became the heir apparent to the dukedom. Sadly, Kathleen was to also meet an untimely death in a horrific plane crash in 1948. She was buried in St Peter's Churchyard, final resting place of most of the Dukes of Devonshire. When Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, passed in 2014, she was buried beside Kathleen.

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

Since I love to read blogs about royal jewelry (the older the better), I had quite forgotten that "stomacher", or _devant corsage_ is not readily understood anymore! 😁

[@elsajones6325]

@@thekingsdaughter4233 only to those of us who love the old designs. Old photos or paintings of the aristocrat ladies give us a glimpse

[@mscott3918]

Duchess Deborah once wore it for a charity evening, when she went as the oldest Miss World in the world.

[@tesscameron3699]

Was she the one they called the double duchess?

[@williamweimian]

Is this the voice of Mr. Carson from Downton??????

[@nutcaseneo191]

yes , I think so too

[@victoriamilonas1942]

Why yes, yes it is. It's the main reason I put up with that overlong, dizzying intro.

[@Carol-D.1324]

YES! 🥰

[@rosemarywharfe7347]

Yes the intro only.

[@melindadouglas1673]

Sounded like it to me! He has such a distinctive voice.

[@island661]

Those rings look fabulous!! 😍

[@patstokes3615]

Well they sure didn't saw any of the pieces did they. Just a whirling table of stuff that all looked the same and not a diamond in the bunch.

[@Kathy12Ray]

I'm guessing the bad camera work is to make the pieces obscure and unappealing to thieves who investigate potential targets on social media? That is the only excuse for how blurry fast that went by, my eyes couldn't focus on anything that was shown.

[@vickilindberg6336]

As I understand it, many of the British aristocracy dint have much old jewelry because it was sold off to cover expenses, so having a family collection to pass down is somewhat unique & speaks of the financial stability of the family.

[@myriamickx7969]

Argh! How frustrating this is! No idea what the parure actually looks like or the size of the jewels (the stomacher is larger than a man’s hand!). I had the same criticism about the part about the silverware : items filmed in spinning motion in semi-darkness, some didn’t even seem to have been polished. I am going to watch a few more segments from this collection, hoping to see some improvements. Otherwise I’ll have to conclude that they are all teasers to make you visit Chatsworth several times to actually see all these gorgeous things.

[@yvettemarshallTWN]

I got the goosebumps! 🤩

[@Canerican.]

Adapt it so you can wear it!! What’s the point of having these incredible pieces of jewelry if they’re going to sit in a vault for 100 years! That goes for HM The Queen also ,let’s see that bling!

[@elsajones6325]

They are works of art to be enjoyed in private. They do bring happiness, don't they. One can spend hours looking at every facet of a cut stone. Or design detail on worked gold.

[@frenchbeauties5140]

Waste of time because no real shots of the Pardue.

[@LadyJGeek]

The Duchess appears to be such a lovely lady; I suspect I'd very much enjoy getting to talk with her. Her poise and sense of humor are delightful! Perhaps it's her generation, but she doesn't seem to portray the rather dour seriousness of many titled people.

[@stephemmurphy2554]

Quite stunning frippery.

[@shelleyharris2850]

Unique gold and jewels

[@autumnfall8829]

Imagine how many homeless could be housed and fed.😐but jewelry is good too.😒

[@beagle8boy]

Very bad camera angles to show this collection of jewelry.

[@francesquinn-escott744]

Just beautiful

[@elderlypoodle9181]

I’ve got to visit. Let the Cavendish daughter wear the jewelry !

[@lindastorey6685]

Badly filmed,cannot actually see the items because of the camera work.

[@Eric_200]

It was Czar Alexander II's coronation..not Nicholas II.

[@michaelhenryadams9256]

Was it not Tsar Nicholas I, in whose honor the Emperor fountain at Chatsworth was created?

[@mscott3918]

@@michaelhenryadams9256 Yes it was

[@m.s.4238]

I wish the camera would have settled on each piece rather than panning around them so quickly.

[@shelleyharris2850]

The shoe. I've seen this video about a week or so ago.

[@jeffcampbell1555]

Women wore corsets for centuries, and these not only forced upright posture, they retracted the abdomen whether standing or sitting. Thus, a stomacher pinned at the break of the bust or just below could drape freely enough to move and catch the light like a waterfall. The duke's niece would have worn the stomacher at the coronation, ball and banquet with no problem. The Devonshire parure uses intaglios and cameos that formed a hefty part of the Marlborough Gems, a fabled collection of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance carved stones assembled by that ducal family and sold by descendants. Because European elites of the sixth Duke's time knew he owned the Marlborough Gems, their appearance as jewelry at a coronation would have been understood as a coup de theatre of wealth and power. Personally, I don't believe the historic stones can be best appreciated mounted en masse into jewelry, and I like the Devonshire diamond tiara so much I think the duke's niece could have worn that piece only and upheld Britain's Imperial glory at the glittering Russian court.

[@shelleyharris2850]

I like those tearias

[@MrGleek22]

Has these been sold?

[@정길주-w9p]

멋찝니다~~

[@MD_80906]

Carson is that you!!!!

[@lymf9157]

2:20 is it me? Or I'm seeing pizza?🤔

[@ЕленаМиронюк-й1з]

Великолепны!

[@kimsherlock8969]

Lucky you didnt have a revolution Wherewith one lost the head .

[@fratwatch]

Horrible presentation

[@brindade2004]

Duchess Deborah was beautiful in her days

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Discover what owning slaves can do for a family

[@shelleyharris2850]

Huntsman?

A "let them eat cake" video in the grand style.

[@ashleybartsch6642]

Carson!

[@ЕленаМиронюк-й1з]

Все правильно

[@kobaltblau]

Poor and distracting camera work.

[@nevada531]

Good Lord! Right off the bat this is wrong. The 6th, Duke of Devonshire ( The Batchelor Duke) died decades before Nicholas II was tsar. It was the coronation of Nicholas I (Nicholas II's great grandfather) that the 6th duke attended - representing Britain. That the current duke got that wrong (his mother would be appalled) and that the presenters of these episodes missed such an obvious mistake makes me stop watching 1.36

[@elsajones6325]

Your being miffed is quite a chuckle. We all get forgetful

[@beneworth2946]

ho hello Carson

[@NamNam-d9u]

Thiên nhãn thiên ty quan thế âm bồ-tát dalani thần chú kinh.

[@megcrimson8589]

Stop with the spins already

[@conversacionesconmipadre]

Rich people are called collectors while poor people are called hoarders

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

😁 It also depends on the stuff. Old newspapers, empty yoghurt containers, and rubber bands won't make a _collection_. Ever. 😉

[@okimawilcox1550]

Spot on

[@normathomas8276]

Well I've collected jewellery for years so ism happy to be a boarder if that's what iam xx

[@Pete-z6e]

, an incoherent theory.

[@emrazum]

EAT THE RICH!!!

[@mailio4536]

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[@jimjam6598]

Eat shit