The Victorian Bourgeoisie Pleasure Palace Of Baron Rothschild | Historic Britain | Absolute History

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the secrets of the National Trust sitting in the heart of the English Countryside is a thrilling surprise a glamorous French Chateau so rich in Treasures it drew kings queens and princes from around the world through its front doors inside in these Sumptuous and luxurious rooms a multi-millionaire would host extravagant soirees for a who's who of 19th Century High Society home to three generations of the wealthy Rothschild family this pleasure Palace was created with just one intent to surprise and Delight the visitors who flocked here and boy does it do just that welcome to what is the manner by discovering secret staircases oh my goodness revealing sparkling guest lists Victoria is everybody allowed to leave through it like this absolutely not and hearing from both family so he's my great great great uncle and the Creator himself weeds will spread over the gardens oh we'll uncover a man whose imagination was fueled by tragedy filling the Gap that she'd left and who found Comfort how spectacular only in the happiness of others also tonight yeah but it's rather sharp writer and journalist Clive aslud visits the breathtaking new house on the estate with Lord Rothschild so this house is full of things that you've collected it really is a very large part of my life wow presenter Alison Hammond parties at polston Lacy see that she could get much closer and writer Oz Clark gets a little scared we haven't broken it don't worry it's only dismantled when a wasden treasure gets a little TLC uh that screw is very precious [Music] when you're out for a jaunt in rural buckinghamshire the very last thing you expect to be confronted by is the French Renaissance but as you approach waddeston's elegantly turreted Chateau well it's exactly like stepping into a fairy tale [Music] built in the 1870s its French architect Gabriel ipayit detaier had worked on some of France's classic 16th century chateaus and bequeathed to the National Trust in 1957 The Manor in its Gardens now enchant over 400 000 visitors a year but for all its outward glory wadsden and its estate is largely the creation of one man who was tragically widowed at the age of 27 and devoted the rest of his life to creating it that man was Baron ferdinander Rothschild a member of the super rich banking Dynasty from humble beginnings the Rothschilds Financial Empire expanded across Europe both dazzling and defending High Society with their new money and extravagant spending Ferdinand included I'm meeting the trust pepper Shirley at the front lobby love is to meet you here we go she takes me on an exclusive tour showing me the VIP treatment A-list victorians would receive upon their arrival people tell me about Baron Ferdinand it was a a particularly amazing kind of man to want to build a place like this I think he was an extraordinary man in lots of ways he was a complete kind of perfectionist and he was fascinated by arts and culture and architecture and he wanted a place where he could bring people to entertain them so the extraordinary thing really about wadstone is that he starts from a completely blank canvas this was a bear Hill when he began and he created this whole world both for his entertaining and to act as a as a setting for the extraordinary collection which he was putting together if you were invited here to be a house guest when would you come how long would you stay you'd do one of the famous Saturday to Monday parties which is what the weekend was known as in the in the 19th century so you arrive on Saturday and then you'd leave on Monday morning okay so I'm going for the weekend what would I have done where would I have started my weekend well you just started in the red drawing room so should we go and have a look I have to tell you I'm not really a party anymore but then when I see this outside I think I could become one come on as soon as you enter the house you're immediately struck by its opulence whether it's views of Venice captured in the largest Francesco guardi paintings known to exist or richly decorated mechanical elephants in glass cases this was an entrance designed to impress oh my goodness so this is your this is your first glimpse of what is it when you come as a guest exactly exactly so this is the first room that you'd see it was the main Gathering space of the house you could have arrive crimson and gold painted ceilings great craftsmanship yes well you know every detail thought about they knew the moment they came here this is going to be a good weekend absolutely no expense will be yes absolutely what sort of people came here well all sorts of people I mean Ferdinand as you or I would if we were putting a house party together you know he started with his friends his family Circle his political Circle and of course also members of the royal family royalty yes I've got the visitors book here so if you want to come have a little nosy you can see and see exactly you can see exactly gosh so visitors books are actually quite valuable aren't they they give us a picture of society they're astonishing documents I mean you learn who was here when who they were with what they might have been talking about completely fascinating many great houses had a visitor's book but few rival Watson's impressive signatories Israel luckily treasure troops it is so here for example that's Edward so that's the future edit this episode of the seventh and Prince of Wales obviously at this point who was a great friend and he came a lot sometimes with a lady presumably not necessarily always with Princess Alexandra there would be other with the other friends unlike his mother Queen Victoria who was not amused Prince Edward a noted Victorian Playboy was amused with a variety of mistresses [Music] so what's this one this is a Shah of Persia who rather famously came in 1889 and here Ferdinand was acting really on behalf of the government he was asked to host part of a state visit so this is diplomatic so this is diplomatic work the Shah of Persia was the king of what is now Iran and as an absolute monarch he was probably used to getting his own way this was a famous occasion when the elephant the mechanical elephant the automaton was pressed into service because the Shah had this great sulk because the Prince of Wales hadn't come he was supposed to have come right and this party but he hadn't been able to make it so by way of a sop and compensation they turned on turn on the elephant he shouted exactly [Music] often made for rulers in India and China this guilt bronze mechanical elephant sometimes known as a sing-song would have Enchanted all of ferdinand's guests built by a French clockmaker around 1770. it would have taken hundreds if not thousands of man hours to complete but the results are oh so worth it [Music] the elephant so enchanted the Charlotte his Good Humor was completely restored the elephant saved the day elephant saved the day wonderful and this one yes oh now this is another red letter day so that is that's the Victoria yes yes so that's 1890 and then members of the other members of the royal family so is everybody allowed to leave through it like this absolutely not am I being very careful but this really is a secret of the National Trust yes well it's very fragile so most of the time we keep it carefully I could just sit down with this now for hours absolutely leave me alone for a bit I'm quite happy after lapping up their envious surroundings ferdinand's guests would have made their way to the dining room oh how spectacular and a table fit for a queen this is some supper table so how many would they entertain here well the table is set at the moment for 18 but it could expand for 40. what sort of things do they eat very elaborate meals lots of courses and the food of course here was completely legendary a grand Victorian dinner was the host's opportunity to show the affluence and style with an endless procession of courses and on Grand occasions sometimes as many as 13 of them Ferdinand would end the meal with an extravagant and indulgent flourish often you'd finish with a Rothschild souffle which would be garnished with gold leaf and Queen Victoria was immensely impressed in fact after she came for the famous lunch she sent her own household Chef back to learn the secrets of the Rothschild kitchen and we know that she had two helpings of the beef which is why she had to go for a little lie down afterwards [Music] so what about Ferdinand did he love all this Grandeur all this entertaining well we think he loved it but on the other hand I mean guests commented that quite often or their hosts be sitting at the head of the table and having water and dry bread and sometimes a little bottle of pills he was also tea totaler of course so his guests should be enjoying the finest but all this just for everybody else but if it's all right with you I'll just have a glass of water and become plan no fun being a host is it [Music] filled with fabulous Treasures from around the world the Great and the good flock to wadstone Manor seduced by the host's generosity but I want to find out more about who the man was behind all this lavish entertaining so I'm about to meet Hannah daughter of the present Lord Rothschild in The Baron's private room to see if we can shed some light on this secretive character how lovely to see you hello your relationship then to Ferdinand what is he to you oh yeah well this is this is where it gets difficult I'm going to concentrate now so he's my great great great uncle did you spend much time here as a child yeah not very much no because the house was already open to the public when I when I was growing up so we would be brought round in our kind of Sunday Best as a member of the public but I never grew up here or slept here or anything like that this room here has a different feel to the rest of the house well the furniture is elaborate but if anything it's that little bit more friendly it's a bit more cozy this was obviously very special to Ferdinand this one well this was his private study and this is where he used to come to escape if you look around for example you can see lots and lots of family photographs scattered around and what he particularly liked uh rather unusually was collecting paintings of the most glamorous actresses that he could find I don't think that's unusual and these are very example you had Mrs Jordan who was the if you like the Nicole Kidman or Jennifer Lawrence of her day or you had Emma Hamilton who was a you know not an actress but a famous well she was Nelson's mistress was not very much so famous in a kind of scarlet woman perhaps there's a contrasting character here a lavish house yes into which he invited masses of guests and yet clearly at some point he just had to be on his own and be quiet is he a man of two two hours in a way no very much so what Ferdinand liked most of all was being alone with his works of art and members of his family he invited everybody down because that's what you did but for him I think it was Agony so he didn't really want or need people here he did it in a way as a kind of Duty I think it was a duty it was about expanding the business it was about assimilating into society the Russia just wanted to be accepted they wanted to make their homes here they loved England and they used presumably their money to help them get into society very much so for example you know Queen Victoria didn't want to come to lunch here she thought the restaurant was rather vulgar but she couldn't resist seeing what all the fuss was about so I'm afraid they did use that vulgarity and that ostentatiousness you know to get people to come here Ferdinand realized hosting lavish parties bought him entry into high society and he wasn't alone at the beginning of the 20th century another social climber Margaret greville overcame the circumstances of her birth to become the party hostess of the day presenter Alison Hammond has quick stepped her way to polston Lacey in Surrey to find out more foreign was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Scottish Brewer Who Rose to become a sparkling socialized and society's Best Host despite being born out of wedlock Maggie's father fully supported his daughter and bought paulston Lacey as a country Retreat for her in 1906. to give me an insight into the life of the party hostess of the early 20th century I'm meeting conservation manager Jonathan Marsh thanks for having me yeah welcome so post and Lacey this was Maggie's home her country Retreat why was it such a great place to throw parties absolutely well I guess the first two things are probably setting and lavish Interiors so amazing views over the Surrey landscape and then the Interiors being remodeled by the same Architects as the Ritz hotel in London and then it was Maggie herself who really understood her guests was it every weekend pretty much throughout throughout the summer so right from from Ascot in June all the way through and then Christmas was a highlight as well here so what would she greet her guessing that's right so all the guests will assemble here in the evening say six o'clock wait for their host to arrive downstairs but she paused for effect uh like any good Hostess and then came down to then meet the guests I love the fact that she added drama and I can see she's got champagne absolutely and we know even when Maggie gave the property to the National Trust there were 144 bottles of Bollinger in the cellar really oh wow they did party didn't they absolutely and with the pop of a cork Maggie and her guests would take supper so yeah so this is the dining room this is beautiful and Edwardian who's who sat around this dinner table including the king and queen of Spain and the Duke of York King George VI also spent part of his honeymoon at polston Lacy with the late Queen Mother I do to entertain the guests all weekend yeah so there was lots of Outdoor Pursuits so actually Maggie had a tennis court she had golf course and croquet as well for an evening's entertainment Maggie's party goers would hit the dance floor right I've got my dancing shoes on so I can learn some moves so I can really immerse myself in the whole Maggie party experience teaching me a few Edwardian quick steps wow it's historical dance choreographer Stuart Marston [Music] with 18 karat gold paneling and a sparkling 4 000 piece Crystal Chandelier the saloon was the perfect place for guests to try the latest fashionable dances why do you love Edwardian dancing so much oh right okay as a dance historian it's the first time that you can see stuff on film it's the new era it's a new century and then we start getting horse Hitler stresses it meant that the women didn't have to have lots of furniture underneath them petticoats and so it was a lot more Freer so you actually could get much closer so when Maggie used to have her parties here what sort of dancing would they have been doing she was a neck girl it was up to date she would have been doing the one step the two-step the three step should have been doing tango so what are you going to teach me today the evil three-step and they're still dancing it today okay so we hold hands start with the outside foot which is one furthest from me and we walk three steps forward one two three and then three steps back after a practice a IM to put my moves to some typically Edwardian music [Music] by 1913 Maggie's guests would have been dancing the far more scandalous Tango [Music] foreign wolves could talk they'd have some gossip about the rich and famous who once parted here a century ago Maggie certainly was a Hostess to rival the Rothschilds [Music] back at wollstone Manor Baron Ferdinand could throw an extravagant shindig too but hidden behind the exuberant parties lay a much simpler man hit by a devastating personal tragedy the loss of his beloved wife Evelina foreign 's more intimate study with his descendant Hannah Rothschild here is the picture of Evelina his wife which he always kept very close to him and this is his favorite chair yeah I know it's Posh isn't it oh it's a glamorous version that was his favorite show in the entire house she's a statuesque figure isn't she she apparently had a fantastic sense of humor and he absolutely adored her in her letters are full of these very very good aside so how long were they married they're only married for a year but they knew each other since they were children and how old was he when she died 27 so it's very very young to be widowed and heartbroken Evelina died in childbirth as did their child and Ferdinand would never marry again but it was it was a really tragic story so I often think when I walk around this house that it is really a testament of love to one woman and one stillborn baby this was his compensation I think so very much filling the Gap that she'd left and he brought himself in here and just sort of disappeared yes and then even better than that so he disappeared in here and then he had a very very secret exit which very few people know about no oh yes [Music] I want you to find the secret door that's it oh yes right so oh my goodness all right girl isn't it snaking staircase go on I'll follow you up I'll tell you what you'd have been ready for bed by the time you got off it's a it's a long way out but we are going further than we should have done because actually they blocked off the um the exit to his bedroom so now we're in the ballet's room oh so this Valley's bedroom would have been above yes how many staff in in the house in the garden so in the garden there were 160. I know amazing and in the house there are about 26. so he was never alone so actually to be able to escape up a staircase into your own private space must have been Heaven can't imagine that the frustration of never being alone I would just want to be solo and Ferdinand found a way of doing it indeed your life has been tied up with this place what does it mean to you now what do you feel about the place when I was young I didn't like it very much I found it very formal and constrictive I was always worrying about knocking something off but I think over the years I've fallen in love with it and it's partly because it's one man's Obsession and it's partly because every single thing here is excellent you know there is not one thing which isn't perfect and you just think gosh human spirit is so extraordinary to create such beauty [Music] what's the Manor in buckinghamshire was home to the most fabulous parties of the 19th century getting an invite from ferdinander Rothschild was like winning Willy Wonka's golden ticket and its glamorous facade its magical creator has proven to be a more complicated and at times introverted character but despite the many layers of his personality Ferdinand remained committed to captivating and Charming his many guests and his efforts even extended into the garden [Applause] designed to complement the manner the garden was intended to be a pleasure ground elegant teas were held on the manicured lawn guests could visit an Aviary filled with exotic birds or admire sculptures which drew them further into the garden but if Ferdinand built the garden it was his younger sister an eventual Heir Alice who slight blossom nowhere more so than on the grand part air a magnificent display of garden tears filled with boldly colored Victorian bedding to find out more about the indomitable Alice I'm taking a stroll in the part air with the trust's pepper Shirley Tipper tell me about Alice Rothschild she was obviously very involved in the garden she was hugely involved in the garden and she was absolutely passionate about Horticulture in fact I think in lots of ways it was the garden that really kind of you know set her a light rather than the kind of the house and the collection what's wonderful for me is coming here for a fabulous example of what proper Victorian bedding was like it wasn't subtle it was so in your face and vibrant and this is it what would she like to work for with these 160 gardeners that she had she was a dragon I think is a long and short of it you know she was an absolute martinet I mean her standards were legendary she used to walk around always with a weeding tool in her hand so that she could extract that kind of offending lead wherever she found it but all of that I think she would deeply respect it because she just knew so much even the queen was impressed by Alice and her standards in fact she referred to Alice as the all-powerful which I think oh does that mean she was a bit intimidated I think I think so I think so and there was certainly indication when she was told not to go on the grass so you know Alice told the queen not to go on she pulled no punches [Music] I think for Alice because she spent so much time in the garden um that there are a few interesting features one might say for example it's a tree it's a tree but down at the bottom there yeah and that's a telephone point precisely so what you do if you're a very busy Gardener and you want to keep in touch with your family but you know you want to be in the garden and you're a Rothschild what you do you have a telephone point I've heard of ringa ringa roses but I've never rung a tree [Music] Alice was ferdinand's younger sister what was their relationship like I think it was really close I mean she came to be His companion really after the death of Evelina she clearly also safeguarded his legacy because it's in no small measure due to her also as well as Ferdinand thought we have the ones do we know today I think that's absolutely right in lots of ways she was the The house's first curator because she cared for the collection she introduced the housekeeping rules things like protecting the collection against light first and foremost she introduced the cleaning methods things like only clearly the porcelain in silence so you couldn't be distracted so things of that sort I'm building up an impression of a woman that you would not argue with but then Queen Victoria knew haven't she future generations of the family have continued Alice's work preserving the manner and its collections but the present Lord Rothschild has commissioned a stunning new space age home with an eye on the future Clive aslate has ventured further into the estate to discover the breathtaking Flint house as you approach the Flint house you realize what an incredibly stark contrast it makes with Watson Manor it's on the same estate but it could be on a different planet I'm meeting the architect Charlotte skein cackling hello it's lovely to meet you to find out how she worked for the landscape to make this contemporary design a reality when you first came here Charlotte what was it like it's at the lowest point of the whole estate and so all the water drains naturally to this point and very very beautiful very quiet very calm but it felt like a slightly enchanted place very very different to the rest of these days and here we have Flint yes yes it's so beautiful isn't it I mean it is sort of jewel-like and and it's amazing each one yeah but it's rather sharp yeah it's very beautiful and different now one of the the Flint workers said you must never get drunk close to this building [Music] historically Fint was fashioned into tools or weapons but where it was abundant it could be used to construct whole buildings it's incredibly durable and resists weathering better than almost any other Stone I sent this a building which is changing here when the trees have grown up yeah it's going to be hidden away exactly a secret place yes absolutely as the site was when we first found it you know covered in lichen and Moss and I hope that landscape to sort of reclaim it Charlotte might have been the architect but the driving force behind the project was the current Lord Rothschild Jacob who now in his 80s commissioned this extraordinary house how did you come to decide to build it quite a long story I had been chairman of the pritzker appraiser architecture so I developed some knowledge of architecture and thought it would be interesting in England particularly to try and do some interesting buildings and what do you think Baron Ferdinand would have made to the Flint house he had an imagination and he was prepared to do eccentric things I think he would have loved it let's go and have a look inside yeah as well as building striking homes Lord Rothschild shares another passion with Ferdinand collecting so this house is full of things that you've collected yes I'm afraid that um about jeans it's almost impossible for me not to collect because on the roster outside my father collected quite a lot and then in the 19th century they collected intensively and I've collected from the edge of night so it really is a very large part of my life well you've got this wonderful house how's it going to be used that was the problem we hope that the director of Watson might live here but she prefers to go to her own home then I thought well maybe my children would like to live here none of them wanted to I ran out to get a museum in Los Angeles and said look um why don't we do a giant scholarship scheme Flint house is now a home and place of study for a scholarship program in the fields of conservation and history of Art we hope that one would be inspired to yeah write a great article by Nature um which is very beautiful [Music] by building this astonishing house the old Rothschild is following in the footsteps of his ancestor Baron Ferdinand who I'm sure would have approved [Music] ferdinand's beloved wasden was eventually bequeathed to the National Trust in the 1950s by Alice's nephew James de Roth's child he and Alice had both continued to entertain at wadsden and one treasured thank you letter from the family's vaults is particularly precious and never on display we've got a letter here from Churchill so this is in 1920s this is James roster so this is James so James his great friend and here he's thanking him so it's Churchill writing from Chartwell saying yeah dear Jimmy how very kind of you to send me a token of your friendship in such an agreeable form I shall smoke them with the greatest pleasure we know what they were then don't we and see many Visions in their wreaths of smoke May the new year bring you health it is the only thing you lack let 1926 fill the Gap such is the wish of your sincere friend Winston s Churchill that's a very nice thing it's a very nice Setter and they would genuinely close friends and of course at this point in 1925 he's a big cheese politically he's a big cheese but he still remembers his thank you let us note to self when I've gone away at the end send you the little thinking absolutely and within the week furthermore the very next day actually to be [Music] it took Ferdinand many years to realize Watson Manor and he wanted to ensure it lasted with that in mind I'm being given rare access to one of the mala's greatest but rarely displayed artifacts um this is an impressive red but what's in it well it is the red book of what's the manor and it's a photographic album which Ferdinand put together in 1897. so this is the history of the house it's the most wonderful record for us because it records the house at a moment in time at the end of the 19th century there's the the gardens out there yes exactly and then it moves inside so there for example is Ferdinand in the room that you were in in his favorite chair in his favorite chair exactly oh that's exciting exactly so I stood here yes I always find that a wonderful moment where you think I've just leapt back yes 100 years yes yes one of the things which I find really interesting about this volume is that it was put together in in 1897 and of course A year later very unexpectedly he died so you know the red book has this very kind of iconic State it's probably more so than he ever intended this season in effect his last will and testament this is what he bequeathed to his heirs and subsequently interacted the nation exactly and the essay at the beginning in which he talks about you know the efforts he went to to create wadsden and what he thought might happen to it at the end it's an astonishing comment a future generation May reap the chief benefit of a work which to me has been a labor of love though I fear that wadsden will share the fate of most properties whose owners have no descendants and fall into Decay May the day be at distant when weeds will spread over the gardens oh The Terraces crumble into dust the pictures and cabinets across the channel or the Atlantic and The Melancholy Cry Of The Night jar sound from the deserting towers and thanks to the National Trust to all of us who support it that's never happened okay he couldn't have been more wrong could he no 400 000 plus visitors a year 30 don't worry it's fine laughs with ferdinand's red book to hand the Rothschild family and the National Trust continue to preserve ferdinand's great collection but missing from the morning room where guests would have kept up with their correspondence is an extravagant black lacquer desk in need of a little attention presenter Oz Clark is on its restoration Trail in Kent where it's under the care of esteemed conservator Yannick shasto oh nice to meet you welcome Yannick is a specialist conservator in antique furniture and has worked on some of the finest pieces ever made when you deal with a cabinet that is so historically important we don't want to make it look new the point is not to turn it into a new object if you want to buy a new cabinet you make a new one we are preserving history we are preserving the objects for the Next Generation the desk was already over a hundred years old when Baron Ferdinand bought it in 1890 for a rumored 40 000 pounds that's five million pounds in today's money although it might not look it right at this minute [Music] we haven't broken it don't worry it's only dismantled you've taken all of the drawers and all of the door and the guild bronze you remove them for conservation obviously what is that there that's a clock face which at the moment we're storing here because it's a very fragile glass but that's going right at the top yeah but what's interesting is when you're sitting at your desk writing your letter then you want to check the time but you can't because you bend your neck and you still can't see the clock at the top so they have another clock just here there is a clock face right at the front of you when you're writing and the movement there is not one movement for this clock but it's communicating with a clock movement at the top so it makes sure that it keeps exactly the same time top and bottom it's quite awe-inspiring actually to just see the guts of it and it's been built obviously for projecting status and it's as though it's the emperor without any of its clouds on fascinating [Music] a lot of the desks bronze and wood trimmings have been removed to give them a bit of love and attention including some Japanese lacquer doors which Yannick is currently working on next you want to start but in order to get to all of the lacquer the bronze will have to come off great if you just go down you hold it there so always hold your screwdriver with two hands oh I see yes just in case you just whoops I I that screw is very precious so we put a screw in the right place where it came from on the map you just Pierce there and it goes here 10 months time we can put the screw back in the right place so the bronze is coming off because what's interesting is to see the condition of the lacquer but also as you can see you've got a lot of white residues in the cracker lure and that is from previous cleaning track alert what does that mean that's the shrinking of the lacquer but because it lacquer shrinks too much eventually it's going to start cracking everywhere so that's a natural effect of 200 years to see what Yannick is aiming for he has another door he's just finished the lacquer as you can see has been dramatically improved just by removing the white residue was that like that it was like that that's fantastic but still seeing the crack Allure and still seeing that it is an old 250 year old I think that works very well and um it's only at the beginning of the project and we'll see in 10 months time hopefully we'll get it all looking glamorous again there's an awful lot of work still to do to conserve this stunning piece of furniture but on its return it will once again stand proud in wadstone's morning room you come to wadsden for its elegant house for its unrivaled collection and its beautiful gardens you come for the dazzling Allure the glamor attached to walking the same halls and Pathways as the Great and the good from the 19th century foreign but when you get to know it you discover a man who not only had the vision to build it but who hosted his famous parties so that others could share it it's clear that Baron Ferdinand was a complex man who never got over the profound sadness of losing his wife Evelina at such an early age but he devoted the remainder of his life to giving joy to others who visited wadsden and that Joy continues to this day foreign [Music]

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