Historical Reenactment | The Story of Dido Belle by English Heritage
English Heritage cares for over 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites all while running an amazingly entertaining and educational Youtube channel. The channel has a series titled, 'What Was Life Like?'. Previous episodes have discussed people that lived during Medieval and Tudor historical eras. Episode 9 of the series focuses on Dido Elizabeth Belle. The only known portrait of Dido Belle, showing her with her cousin and close companion, Lady Elizabeth Murray, at Kenwood © By kind permission of the Earl of Mansfield, Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland Thanks to the incredible 2013 film Belle , most period film fans have a general idea of what life was like for Dido Elizabeth Belle. This entertaining short video shows a historical reenactor portraying Dido Elizabeth Belle's ty pical day at Kenwood. According to Kenwood It was not unheard of for a powerful aristocrat to be the legal guardian to such a relation. But it was extremely unusual at this time for...