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Wealthy English aristocrats insist on their relevance in modern society | 60 Minutes Australia

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is nothing sacred the Brits have finally

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had enough of being lorded over by the

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aristocracy the government's giving the

00:09

hereditary page the chop evicting them

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from those hallowed Halls the House of

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Lords add to that the high cost of

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living in a stately home and your Lord

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and Lady ship's days could be numbered

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but as history has shown us you can't

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keep a true blue blood down the landed

00:28

gentry are sharpening their swords and

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polishing their armor for one last

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battle against the barbarians and I

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should warn you that this story contains

00:37

scenes of upper class privilege and

00:40

moments of sublime

00:50

eccentricity you're about to meet a

00:52

threatened species the dinosaurs of the

00:56

British class system just your regular

00:59

Suburban yeah with we and

01:01

to odd Siege you

01:04

know right and you come in here they

01:08

once ruled their Thoms lording it over

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the commoners from their Grand Estates

01:14

now some of them like Frances fulford

01:17

can barely keep a roof over their heads

01:20

we had one of those unfortunate

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Financial accidents of the 19th century

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in other words I had an ancestor who

01:27

pissed the money up against the war

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probably in some boo like um the railway

01:32

Bo they may be down on their luck they

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may be battling for their very existence

01:37

in the House of

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Lords but the aristocracy is Alive and

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Well in modern Britain there's only one

01:46

way in and that way is there you shut

01:48

the big doors and then you can stand on

01:50

the battlements and say off to everybody

01:52

coming who's waving their pitchforks or

01:55

size or other weapons invasive at you

02:03

the foulmouthed fulford's have owned

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this estate for 900 years ever since

02:08

Richard the linhard gave 3,000 Acres of

02:11

prime land in Devon to Francis fulford I

02:15

for services in the

02:17

Crusades I always say we peaked in about

02:19

1485 and we've been on a slippery slope

02:22

ever since today Francis fulford the

02:25

23rd is still here please pull your Tri

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up along with longsuffering wife

02:33

kander and they're four somewhat unruly

02:37

children not mental it just looks stupid

02:40

who and you are old money is old money

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better than new money oh

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definitely because because oh you've had

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oh you've only just got money we've had

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it for

02:53

ages what is the perception of

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aristocracy but maybe they think we're

02:59

Relic so of a bygone age or maybe they

03:02

think um we're irrelevant relics or

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