Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous | Inside Tatler E1 | Our Stories

Tatler is the oldest magazine in the world and has been reporting on the lives of Britain's most privileged and powerful for 300 years. Tatler not only documents but also dictates the social calendar of Britain's elite. With an archive full of society's movers and shakers, being pictured in its pages has long been a rite of passage for Britain's ruling classes.

We meet the editor, Kate Reardon, a self-confessed 'honking, great Sloane', and her features team, who are all expected to be well-versed in the rules of upper-class life. We follow the newest addition to the Tatler team, writer Mathew Bell, over his first few months at the magazine as he tries to find his feet and go from middle-class outsider to privileged insider. We see the team put together an issue, and follow them on shoots and key social events to meet the people featured in their pages, such as Lord Glasgow in his 13th-century castle in Scotland or Nigerian millionaire Kola Karim, who has no idea how many cars he owns.

This film was first broadcast: 24 Nov 2014

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[puccarts]

They call themselves the "upperclassmen" and yet judge those that aren't born with the same privileges as them or from different cultural backgrounds. If you are really educated, should you not know better than to look down on others?
I think being elegant and eloquent is more than simple social status. Genuine respect for people, kindness, and patience for others is what I think makes someone "classy."

[lo]

Imagine casually saying with a full chest that you when got a higher position at 21 "didn't know what you were doing, you made it up as you went along". It must be nice!

[msinvincible]

I'd love to be filthy rich, but I would hate to go to those society events. It's so boring. I'd prefer to stay in my castle, with my books and my garden and animals

[atlaslex]

The scene in Poundland is hilarious. ‘If people knew about this place it would be absolutely packed to the rafters!’

[susieenglish]

Watching posh people in a pound shop should be a reality show

[santbr]

The amount of envy, jealousy and backstabbing that occurs in this class must be brutal. To have a true friend must be so incredibly difficult.

[IwasBlueb]

My mother, aunts, grandmother were nothing like these people... They were so gentle, ladylike, kind and unassuming

[DaniB]

It’s ironic; the Tatler schools guide is consistently littered with grammatical and factual mistakes. Given all the money the writers/editors supposedly had spent on their education, you’d hope someone would have taught them to proofread, clearly not.

[ronyagpd]

So sad that members of the Bullingdon Club appear to assume that you can treat anybody's premises and possessions with total disrespect as long as you pay the repair bill. Love to see how they'd react to someone doing it on the premises they themselves own!

[baffledmouse]

I don't understand the stuffed dead animal obsession. Just sort dusty and bulky and dead. I went to Poundland today. It wasn't exciting. I live near Cheltenham Ladies College. The girls spread out and walk in a big group and don't get out of the way to let people past. Does it say anything about that in the etiquette book? Or do they only get out of the way of people who aren't carrying Poundland bags?

[cunderw]

I am obsessed with old castles, and mansions around the world. If I could just travel and tour them all I would!

[rhonwenbaker]

"It would be ghastly if everything in life was relevant." What a line.

[v.a.l.]

We'll for now set aside the sinister implications of clubs where young men inevitably aimed at governance acquire a taste for getting into trouble and getting away with it.

[oliviaglick]

“they smash up the restaurant and then send a check to pay for it, but it would only be bad form if they didn’t pay for it” are you JOKING how is that what you take away from it

[donaminta]

27:15 loved hearing about this guy and his family! im always fascinated by people who have such long lineages that they can trace back. plus that castle is so gorgeous.

[michellewinn]

How lovely a stuffed polar bear and lioness - horrible woman.

[mukunimulundika]

I hope the Nigerian oil tycoon is putting as much Nigerian culture into his young son as he is British upper class culture. 🙏🏾
Don't forget that we never have and never will truly belong. The belonging is based on money. Our rich, warm, cultural African heritage is what runs in our blood and will always welcome us warmly home.

[chrispaul]

When you invest, you're buying a day you don't have to work

[miranda]

Watching this is so depressing. Why do these people revolve their lives around something so meaningless as class? I respect the young Scottish duke who is keeping his heritage home purely for the sake of maintaining his family's history for future generations, it's a shame it's so difficult to keep these old homes maintained. I think alot of these old buildings need to be renovated into smaller sized units. It's also sad that so little of Scottish land is owned by the Scots. I've stayed in Scotland for a year, there is a lot of poverty and very little work in the country. The economy needs a big change, maybe restore some of the old fabric and clothing factors? Restore the land to the people so independent farmers don't have to rent the land they've been working on for generations?

[afterthestorm]

I like how Kate isn't afraid to say "I didn't really know what I was doing, I just made it up as I went along."