hahahahahahahaha

This scene is so British, it turned my cookies into biscuits.

This scene is so British it made Zimbabwe Rhodesia again

This scene is so British, it made Hong Kong return to Her Majesty's fold.

This scene is so british, it tried to take my kitchen knife.

yo he was a rapist tho

S.J. Duarte amazing quote!!

@@caj-plays5419 evidence?

@J B I was asking for evidence why the hell are you insulting and throwing a whole essay in my face?

@@caj-plays5419 Exactly like a king

I think a lot of people have known for a good many years what a brilliant actor he is. Hence why he was cast in GOT.

I did not know him before got tbh

@@eclaire_x88x I don't understand why he hasn't won an oscar before now every part he plays he knocks it out the park

@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 true hes one of our greats

@@eclaire_x88x he's a national treasure. Watch his interview on Jonathan Ross he has a naughty but cracking sense of humour. I watched Ian Beattie (Meryn Trant) on Thronescast talking about the show and how he doesn't wanna know the storylines of other characters and he said Charles Dance came off set still in the clothes of his death scene and said to Ian " well the little bastard finally killed me" 🤣🤣 what a way to get a spoiler 🤣🤣🤣

I really wanted (still do) him to play philip in the 5th and 6th seasons

tyler trotter me too

Charles Dance is so commanding that he sticks in your head as a leader.

You know, I thought Helena Bonham-Carter was the the scene-stealer in this season... ...then, suddenly, Charles Dance.

His “Who Do You Think You Are?” episode is fascinating. His father was a Boer War veteran!

Yes! The association tried to prevent the import of Japanese cars to the UK after the war due to the war crimes that had been committed by the Japanese in WWII.

@@twjclarke1 buy the cars from those who bayoneted your countrymen in Singapore and Malaya? Fuck that! Good on Mountbatten for doing so.

@@histman3133 They bayoneted Indians. Indians were 80 percent of the invading British troops in Malaysia, Singapore and Burma. There are photos of Sikhs being shot blindfolded by Japanese troops in captivity.

@@NoobMaster-or2jf So you can disregard the 20 precent very easily, can you read the names every one of them?

@@NapolyonKiKo Yes. Nobody remembers Indians. We lost people. But Indian government ignores them because they fought under British command. Think about their sacrifices never being commended at all.

"George V sends his regards"

Lord mountbatten should be blown up by the IRA... Oh wait...

Except he is dead

-Jerry Adams- Martin McGuinness sends his regards

and who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low

Me too

The soundtrack and editing is wonderful.

Oh please!

You just always have to rewind ⏪

Certainly it is.

Chicken guts.

Wouldn't say he's defying anything though

Definitely not defiantly

He forgot an epaulet somewhere.

@@LordTalax Those Royal Navy dress uniforms only have 1 epaulette on the right for some reason... I sort of like the asymmetry, especially when it has an aiguillette.

Wtf 🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This guy was the first head of state of independent India, ironically

lol feel tat ahaha

Hahahahahaha

STFU or I’ll colonize you myself!

Mountbatten was a great man, regardless with how one feels about him personally, he was never mediocre.

The sheep in lion's clothing

*doesn't

This is known as the Trump affect. cHInA

Chaii Na

Wasn't Trump's version a lot funnier? Like "GINA?" Okay I'm getting a bit out of hand in my thoughts on that. I deeply apologize. 🤣

He says it like he wanted Britain to invade it. Wait a second... Do I smell opium?

me too! it's like he says it with such conviction. really makes the poem.

Mountbatten was supreme allied commander in South East Asia against a tenacious enemy were many British, Australian troops never made home .

The Lord of Mountbatten...

The Lord of Castamere, But now the rains weep o'er his hall, And not a soul to hear.

:D

He was hand of the king since Aerys Targaryen days actually

Hands of the Prince of Wales

Joffrey Baratheon, First Of His Name. Give him his proper title.

Marksman29 it’s called the forgotten war because it’s is sadly forgotten by history

Slim did it. Slim, and no other man.

@@andmos1001 Yes, you really have to search the history out; I learnt, via the National Army Museum, that over 70,000 volunteers from the West African colonies fought in Burma and terrified the Japanese!

@@Happyheretic2308 well said

Kohima and Imphal are in India

Ufff

True.

Same

God!!

and it gives me Burmese goosebumps my great grandfather worked as an informant for the British during ww2 walking hundreds of miles to get the information where it needed to go.

@@thekingminn Thank you for his service and loyalty

Britain between 1945 and 1979 (the "socialist wolves") was far better for the average person compared to the cold civil war of Thatcherism that followed. Regarding your general point and the lament about the Empire's death, it was killed by nationalism, and this happened not only in Britain, but also in France, with equally bloody and inevitable results (Vietnam and Algeria).

​@@giannb5145 Socialism had undermined Imperialism since the First World War. The German Imperials, arrogantly, even literally weaponised socialism in the form of sending Lenin back into Tsarist Russia, knowing the damage he could cause (and the fact German Imperials in the German Imperial Army debated on whether this was a risky gamble as it might backfire on Germany if the movement spread West, says a lot) Socialism obviously predates Leninism, as a broader umbrella category arguably long preceding WWI for a century in proto-forms. However, your assertion that nationalism killed imperialism is plainly incorrect. Imperialism survived into the early part of the second half of the 20th century, in some forms, and technically up until the end of the late 20th century in a more paltry manner. Your error is to suppose that all nationalism was anti-imperial and my disliking for later forms of socialism (post early-mid 19th century) was exacting to the point of ignoring major social reforms built on some form of socialism in the 20th century. For instance, the sacred (cash)cow that is the NHS. That was born of the 20th century and rightly so. In it's origins, it was more than justified. Just look at the average heights of British soldiers in WWI, to see the problems with nutrition, and the tawdry state of affairs in terms of the lack of welfare coverage in many aspects of life in the Victorian era for example. It is not so much a lament for imperialism. It is about the better aspects of that. I'm not interested in debating the pros and cons of empire right now, I'm just saying that obviously it was what it was in it's time, and it is common for revisionists such as yourself to try and gloss over imperial history and tar it with the same brush, and to say that 'nationalism killed imperialism'. Well, no. It is far too simplified and you know it, but it doesn't suit your narrative so you push that on me anyway and insult my intelligence as if it's not paper thin obvious why you're doing it. Because you don't like my comment and you're here to argue. And fine, I don't particularly care, but let's just say this determination to defend socialism, the vague, nebulous thing that it is, is needless. Hint: a lot of socialism is a good thing. Might surprise you to say that considering you obviously didn't bother to read the comment properly and assumed me to be solely in defence of imperialism with zero context. Obviously some socialism did good things for society. When I say socialism undermined Empire, I am allowed to say that completely dispassionately, you know? You seem to assume that there is no criticism of Empire from me. Of course Imperialism had glaring moral and financial problems. Logistically, it wasn't easy and fiscally it was arguably running at a loss by the 20th century. The world was changing. Every system of governance has it's day. And changing geographical situations meant that the world itself had become a more competitive place and one which could not so easily be managed. Yet imagine the world without the Industrial Revolution. One of the many reasons for why Britain lost primacy, was because of other major powers, such as the United States, slowly eclipsing British power. In a scenario where Britain more jealously guarded her secrets and technology, rather than exporting it and establishing it and outright making public boasts about it, on the world stage, then perhaps Britain could have kept an active scientific and technological lead. Once the cat was out of the bag, it wasn't going back in. Hindsight is easy, though. The British Imperials were colonialists and technologists, yet for a long time, ironically, also Christian believers and patriots. There wasn't socialism as much as there was patriotism. Socialism took a long time to find it's feet. Arguably, voters rights movements in Manchester and other Northern towns, represent some major advances on the social development landscape of Britain, as it were. Manchester in 1830 still didn't have an MP. That, even after the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. If you think for one moment I don't know the many problems with British Imperialism and all Imperialism, well, you'd be very wrong. The system was obviously not fair to the English working classes very pointedly, and there had been a terrible ordeal to simply get political representation. The Thirteen Colonies had sent delegations to British Parliament prior to the outbreak of war during the American War of Independence. They wanted representation, with seats in Parliament, in London. They were unwisely denied. This exacerbated an already fraught situation. I am not unthinkingly pro-Imperialism. Far from it. It is fair though to acknowledge that socialism was ultimately the nemesis of imperialism. As social reforms chipped away at imperial hegemony and the very nature of international geopolitics paradigm shifted massively after the harrowing world wars, there had to be a reckoning for imperialism. It was obvious. How could women, now able to vote, be told they could not remain in various work sectors they had been working in while the healthiest and halest men were signing up to go to war, after it ended? Well, sadly for many women, that still happened to them after the First World War. Yet after WWII, things had really started to turn against this attitude that the imperial society could just shut women out of male dominated work spaces. Sure, many male dominated lines of work such as construction and engineering are still that way, in spite of many more women being able to work in those fields. In some walks of life, it is not due to some mythical glass ceiling as far why women aren't flocking to it. Some lines of work just aren't known for being commonplace roles. For instance, binmen. Are there a lot of female bin truck drivers and workers? I somehow doubt it, even in 2022. It's not as if they are not allowed to work in that job, and there will be some female bin lorry drivers. But still. Everyone knows it's mostly going to be men in those jobs. Same with the military, same with bricklayers, same with heavy engineers and security guards. It's just how it goes. Socialist reforms had allowed that to even happen in the first place, though; and we're not talking Communism or anything like that. Just a form of English Libertarian proto-socialism that had been around for a very long time in all fairness, long before the 20th century and perhaps long before the 19th century. A really old sense of English justice and fairness. A lot of which, ironically made more directed and efforted, by religion. For instance, the social reformers of the British Abolitionists against slavery, were rightly fighting against slavery, in the 18th century. To a man, they'd have been god fearing Christians. Does this mean their movement was a Christian aka religious one? Well, no, but it does show that the Abolitionists were not really socialists but more or less idealist libertarian Christians, not theocratic as such, but driven by moralism and ethical values. Values, considered, 'Christian values'. Doesn't mean they weren't self-righteous in other ways, such as in how Christian Imperials from the West, such as the UK, were outright of the opinion that they had to introduce civilisation to 'barbaric places' and to bring the 'light of Christianity' to such lands as they regarded. Does it mean that Imperialism lost instantly to Socialism? No. Imperialism was slain more by an admixture of socialism and corporatism. Where you credit public nationalism, for the death of Imperialism, you entirely overlook the role of private corporatism. Private enterprise (as in, pre-20th century) had always been at the mercantile heart of the British Empire. Maritime trade, mercantilism, the gold standard, the free trade doctrine, the trade lanes, the entrepreneurial investors in London bidding on imports in the Age of Sail. The exploiters and empire builders. The tax burdens and revenues. The levied added taxation and the political corruption. The oligarchic politicians and aristocrats. It all went hand in hand, in Britain, long before what we might call, 20th century mass market, internationalism and corporatism, in the 'boom years' of Americana in the Cold War. It had been realised during the tumult of the earlier half of the 20th century, how important manufacturing was in a modern war, and the economic muscle and logistical means of modern nations, were harshly observed. No longer could an Empire casually hold sway over continental land masses without a much more serious investment. The role of technology cannot be ignored in that, as I pointed out earlier. If any old randomers can be milling around with machine guns and heavy weapons, what then happens to the idea of cheaply maintained colonies? What then comes of the idea of armies operating as enforcers from the state for the empire? Clearly it starts to get more risky, especially if it is a big empire; risky, expensive, highly strung. Socialism could easily and cynically destroy Imperialism. Nationalism is not the bane of Imperialism. A hybrid of Socialism and Corporatism, as well as Materialism and Individualism, clearly become more important. The Nationalism destroying Imperialism concept is far too simplistic. In Britain there was a lot of nationalisation post-WWII but then what happened? By Thatcher's day it was privatisation which reshaped British society. And that is rightfully controversial change to the UK that is still argued over.

Excellently put.

My Canadian great great grandfather served in South Africa during the Boer War for King and Empire in 1902.

@@histman3133 Those men were very brave. Be proud.

I like your aesthetic sense.

I literally applauded as I rewind ⏪

Why didn’t you I did but I’m British

not us !!!! It were the Americans & aussies who stopped them !!! & a little boy & a FAAAATT MAAANNN !!!like the soviets in the other theater !!!

True and it’s also partly a love poem as the soldier met a woman from Burma when he was stationed there. It’s nostalgic and reminiscing both for the soldier it’s about and of the time it was written.

Tom Burton Was it actually really created? Did it not actually happen with Lord Mountbatten reciting the poem at an actual event?

Rough Rider02 - good catch. I see from the Burma Star Association’s website that Mountbatten was the Association’s first Patron, and held this position until his death on 27 August 1979. So there’s every chance this event occurred - at least once. (Though Charles Dance did recite it on Horseguards - see. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNOCp5hh3N_FfJs.html. I’ve been unable to find out if Charles Dance had any personal relationship with the Burma campaign and Association). BTW, I see the Burma Star Association will be winding itself up on the 75th anniversary in 2020 - due to its dwindling numbers. Such a shame for an Association built on intense comradeship, but inevitable. If you get the chance to read a biography of Bill Slim, you will find an absolutely extraordinary man.

Was about to comment this

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNOCp5hh3N_FfJs.html

Rough Rider02 Mountbatten held the Title Earl of Burma

If you think that about him, best not look at the headlines the past few days. It was the worst kept secret what he was at in the the 70s.

I think there's a little island just off of China that could use some good old British colonising right about now.

@Alex Jones as a Canadian and a proud British subject I say onward!

@Alex Jones My grandfather and my great uncle fought for King and Country in the Mediterranean and Europe. Earning the equivalent to the Burma Star: the Italy Star and France and Germany Star as a tank gunner. How proud it is to have these heroes in my family. 🇬🇧.

@Alex Jones in the words of Sir John A. MacDonald: A British Subject I was born and a British Subject I will die.

@Alex Jones If only the Empire still existed. What an adventure it would be. To me Britannia will always Rule the Waves. God Save the Queen!

I've read that Mountbatten was the kind of person who knew a little something about everything, plus he had the Royal way of polite interest in everyone they meet (no matter how boring their job may be) so he was probably very pleasant to meet & talk with. However, as a person Mountbatten was also vain, always convinced he knew better, chased after fame & fortune and gave Prince Charles some of the worst marital advice on record: "sow your oats first and then find a sweet simple girl to marry" (well, maybe that last one is Charles' fault for trying to follow the advice) 😁

C.C. Ekeke Right? Charles Dance was made for this role.

Соглашусь! А эта сцена(+музыка) вообще шикарна.

They subjugated the Burmese.

It has not been performed better anywhere

Maybe turned one down. Some do.

M Scott Incredibly rarely . And an actor receiving an honour from the Queen. Moment of a lifetime

God bless him, it’s sad that the battle and indeed the campaign are so forgotten nowadays

Great poem by Rudyard Kipling about the exoticism of the Orient

It's a love poem told by a soldier about his beloved in the far east

It's Rudyard Kiplinger's poem ode to the British Raj.

Yes

Arthur Fair enough. He was kinda forgettable in Game if Thrones. I’ll ask my horse

He didnt stay for winterfell as well

NOT BY ME

i'll even ask my horse

But we can agree Charles Dance is better at it than Mr. Johnson.

Burma

He was not good, read comments above, he forcered Prince Charles to an awful school and worse he forced him to marry Diana. And he was untrue to his wife!

@@theodosios2615 I meant KBE. I'm Not that familiar with the composition of the award.

@@Silent_Shishya either way he deserves to be knight. Officer of the british empire (OBE) is not enough for this 😂

unlikely to happen. Charles Dance has a TERRIBLE reputation in the acting industry. Very Very disliked by many people.

@@lukegregy10 for what

TMPanos96 he’s apparently not a very nice man. I’ve heard lots of anecdotes over the years about him being particularly horrible to women. Lots of people I know were surprised nothing came out about him during the #metoo moment. Now of course these are just rumours and I have no evidence personally. But have a little look at his acting career over the years - one of his first movies back in the 80s was Plenty where he starred alongside Meryl Streep but then his career never really took off after that. He wasn’t really well known for another 30 years until Game of thrones. One story I heard was between him and Meryl Streep (who everyone agrees is the nicest woman in Hollywood) - she HATED him....

He definitely is back

Idk man Is this an actual fact or are you just trying to connect something that might not be their

I heard it

@@kp-legacy-5477 Well listen carefully, if you have an ear for music you'll hear it.

I HEARD IT OMG

Yes the first 4 notes of the Lannister theme.

Although our monarchy is completely embarrassed by the British we are still proud

@@magednosseir8304 nothing to be embarrassed of

The rich mourning that their evil is no longer profitable.

I wouldn't call the Empire heroic

@@ChildOfTheWilderness Indeed, the hero myths of Empire are just self justification to sooth their conscience and pretend they earned their wealth instead of seizing it from the vulnerable.

@@ChildOfTheWilderness It was for the English.

@@kylelapointe2289 In the past maybe. I wouldn't look back on it fondly now. Nothing but oppression and occupation

I'm not a true patriot to Ireland because I don't care for this butcher of a character?

What? European... patriot? What? You are American I presume?

The IRA killed him!

It calls belief