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History Tea Time

Debutantes & The Regency Social Season

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

From Jane Austen novels to Downton Abbey, to Bridgerton young debutantes dressed in white gowns with feathers in their hair curtsy before the Queen and then get down to the serious business of attending balls and bagging a rich husband. Debutantes balls and the London season have been highly romanticized. But who were these young women, what was the etiquette of court presentation and the social season? What was the upper class marriage market really like? How did it all come to be and is it still going on today? Put on your finest court gown or your tailcoat and knee breeches and let’s find out! Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Bellissimo by Doug Maxwell #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to History Tea Time.

1:03.4

I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.

1:12.6

Royalty 101. Debutants and the Social Season

1:15.6

From Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters to Downton Abbey and Bridgerton,

1:21.6

young debutants dressed in white gowns with feathers in their hair, curtsy before the queen, and then get down

1:29.7

to the serious business of attending balls and bagging a rich husband.

1:35.1

Debutant balls and the London season have been highly romanticized. But who were these young

1:41.2

women? What was the etiquette of court presentation and the social season?

1:45.6

What was the upper-class marriage market really like? How did it all come to be and is it still going on today?

1:53.8

Don your finest court gown or your tailcoat and knee breeches and let's find out.

2:01.9

In England, in the Middle Ages, the daughters of the aristocracy had no choice about

2:07.1

who they married. That decision was made by their fathers. The bride's family paid a dowry

2:13.5

to the groom who would be expected to provide for his wife financially for the rest of her life.

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