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(crowd cheering)
NARRATOR: The British Royal Family,
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one of the most famous
dynasties in the world.
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CROWD: God save the Queen!
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NARRATOR: For more than a century,
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the lives of the Windsors
have enthralled the nation,
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mesmerized the press,
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and inspired
some of the most popular films
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and dramas of recent decades.
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But what's fact
and what's fiction?
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There were rumours that not
everything was right in the marriage.
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PIERS: He was only on extremely loose
terms with monogamy.
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KATIE: That's the moment
when the Palace
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absolutely lost grip
of the narrative.
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NARRATOR: In this series,
we delve deep into the archives
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to reveal controversial
documents concealed for decades
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ROBERT:
This is a hand-written note
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saying: "We're going to tap
the King's phone".
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NARRATOR:
And meet royal insiders
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who witnessed history first-hand.
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She steps out and we realise
this is a horror story.
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I'm about four feet
from the Princess.
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It was the first sign
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something was wrong.
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NARRATOR: In this episode,
we look at the perpetual conflict
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for the royal family
between love and duty.
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One of the hardest challenges
of being a royal is marriage.
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You're not just marrying a person,
you're marrying a job.
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- There is this added
component, this duty thing.
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NARRATOR: After
the fairy tale wedding,
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comes a reality which has seen
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three out of four of
the Queen's children divorced.
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We were living a lie,
the marriage was pretty much dead.
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NARRATOR: The Queen
and Prince Philip, however,
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have reconciled
both love and duty.
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It has been
the great royal love story.
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He calls her "cabbage",
for goodness sake.
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WESLEY: Seventy-two years
is a very, very long marriage.
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But what Prince Philip said,
I think, is "the key, is tolerance".
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NARRATOR: But will the next
generation be able to do the same
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in the pressure cooker
of the modern monarchy?
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The fact that I fell in love
with Meghan so incredibly quickly
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was a sort of confirmation to me
that...
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all the stars were aligned,
everything was just perfect.
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It was this beautiful woman just
tripped and fell into my life,
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I fell into her life.
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Meghan and Harry are
an incredibly tactile couple.
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There's a lovely chemistry
between them,
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and, without a doubt,
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it has increased
Harry and Meghan's popularity.
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You know, they suddenly seem
more real than royal.
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NARRATOR: Love has never
seemed more important
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to the royal family's
popularity,
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but it's only
part of the picture.
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I know the fact
she'll be unbelievably good
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at the job part of it as well.
It's obviously a huge relief to me.
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She'll be able to deal with
everything else coming with it.
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I really believe that William and
Harry have learnt a lot of lessons
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from watching
their parents' marriage.
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KATIE: Diana told William
and Harry to marry for love,
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and, to their great credit,
both of them have married for love.
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William is completely
devoted to Kate,
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they're very much in love,
they make a great team.
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The big difference was
that William knew Kate
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before they married one another.
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WESLEY: They were
at university together,
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they shared a house together
as flatmates
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before they started going out,
so there was a long courtship.
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And I think that she'd been
sort of inducted into the family
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and knew what she was getting into.
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NARRATOR: Harry's marriage to
Meghan was more of a whirlwind.
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KATIE: Here is Prince Harry,
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he's married an American,
he's married a divorcee,
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and, without a doubt, this has been
a very fast-moving royal romance.
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Yes, behind the scenes, there were
some questions being asked,
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just to make sure that Harry
was sure, because of course,
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divorce is something that has
tainted the House of Windsor.
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NARRATOR:
The spectre of divorce has been
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hanging over the Windsor dynast
since 1936,
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when Edward VIII
chose love over duty,
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and abdicated rather than
give up Wallis Simpson.
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REPORTER: The same loyal welcome,
the amazing scenes of enthusiasm
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that mark him as undoubtedly
deserving his well-earned title:
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the most popular man
in the world.
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NARRATOR:
Despite his huge crowd appeal,
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Edward VIII was, behind the scenes,
obsessed by Miss Simpson.
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PIERS: Wallis Simpson was
"an American adventuress",
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in the words of Queen Mary.
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She absolutely captivated,
entranced, bewitched him.
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NARRATOR: Although she was still
married to her second husband,
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the King was determined
to make her his wife,
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which put him at loggerheads with the
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
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He said to Baldwin
that he was going to marry her,
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and Baldwin said:
"Look, this simply isn't on.
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Parliament won't wear it".
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NARRATOR: The King responded
that he would marry Mrs Simpson
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without government approval,
and, if necessary, abdicate.
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JANE: What Edward VIII
did was to say,
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"I have to be with the woman I love
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and that takes priority
over everything".
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NARRATOR:
Royal biographer Robert Hardman
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has spent his career
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examining the decisions
the royal family make.
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His investigations
at the National Archives at Kew
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have uncovered secrets
about the abdication,
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kept under wraps
for over eighty years.
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ROBERT: Everyone from the Prime
Minister down was extremely worried
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about the state of the King's mind,
which way he was gonna go.
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This is an extraordinary document
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from senior Home Office official
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to the Head of the Post Office
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saying, "We're gonna tap
the King's phone.
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You'll arrange the interception
of telephone communications
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between Fort Belvedere,
certain addresses in London,
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and the continent of Europe".
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This is effectively saying,
"Yes, he is our head of state,
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we have sworn
oaths of allegiance,
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nonetheless,
we're gonna spy on him,
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because we feel
it's in the national interest".
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Mrs Simpson has
all sorts of devious contacts
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and friendships,
not least with German diplomats.
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The King was known
to have met leading members
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of the British fascist movement.
They want to know it all.
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And indeed, it was later discovered
that it was an MI5 operative
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hiding in a bush in Green Park
listening to the conversations.
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You actually heard the first
conversation where
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King Edward VIII
told his brother,
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the Duke of York,
that he was going to abdicate.
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PIERS:
The public only knew about it
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on 3 December, and by 10, 11
December, the King had gone.
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NARRATOR: On 12 December, his
brother was proclaimed George V
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and Edward left the country.
He married Wallis in France in 1937.
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None of his family
attended the wedding.
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Putting love over duty had changed
the course of British history.
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PIERS: None of them
had been prepared for this.
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They'd been prepared for a life
of living in a country house
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with horses and dogs: basically
what Elizabeth wanted to do.
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That's what she was prepared for,
she wanted to be a country lady.
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NARRATOR: Just a decade later,
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the girl who had hoped to live
a quiet life in the country
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had fallen in love,
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and the Palace thought her choice,
Prince Philip of Greece
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was also unsuitable.
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There was this strand of
British establishment thinking
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that he was a slightly
dangerous outsider
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from a foreign royal house.
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The Greek royal family
had been imported from Denmark
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and so Prince Philip
is not actually Greek at all,
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he has quite a lot of German
and Russian blood in him.
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NARRATOR: When he was just a baby,
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Philip's family went to live
as impoverished exiles in Paris
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and soon after, the
Greek royal family were deposed.
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He was very much a man
who had to make his own way in life.
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He said to me once
that his mother was ill
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and his father was away so he said,
"I had to get on with it".
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And get on with it he did.
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NARRATOR: Luckily for Philip, he was
rescued by his extended family,
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his mother's brother,
Louis Mountbatten,
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helped transform Philip's fortunes
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by encouraging him
to join the Royal Navy.
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PIERS: He'd come up through
this school of hard knocks
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and been very successful,
he was good looking,
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he was extremely attractive
to women
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and he caught the eye of
Princess Elizabeth at Dartmouth.
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WESLEY: And Philip was
a naval cadet,
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and he impressed the girls,
he jumped over a tennis net,
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and then, as the Royal Yacht was
leaving,
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he went behind it
in a rowing boat.
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NARRATOR: 13-year-old Elizabeth
fell in love with Philip
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at Dartmouth Naval College.
But her mother was less enamoured.
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HUGO: Queen Mother would
have much preferred her
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to marry a Grenadier Guard
and indeed spent
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quite a lot of time putting
Grenadier Guards in her path.
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NARRATOR:
After the Second World War,
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the prevailing feeling
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was that Elizabeth should marry
someone British.
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PIERS: The Queen Mother
saw him as a Hunnish Junker,
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with all sorts of
very embarrassing Nazi relations.
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NARRATOR:
But the determined princess
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saw something in the
dashing young naval officer
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and remained resolute.
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HUGO: She was still
very young and, so,
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the King took them all to
South Africa on the African tour.
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NARRATOR: George VI
had agreed they could marry
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as long as his daughter waited
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until they came back
to announce her engagement.
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One of the most welcome feature
of the royal train,
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which transported
the family across South Africa,
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was the post-office carriage
with its telephone exchange.
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A vital lifeline to Philip.
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PIERS: She was strikingly in love
with him and made it clear.
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He certainly saw the advantages of
marrying into the House of Windsor.
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Somebody described him
as a big dog wanting a basket.
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NARRATOR: The Queen's was
a love match which endured,
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but fast forward a generation,
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and her son felt impelled to
sacrifice love on the altar of duty.
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INDIA: What I do remember is
as the weeks passed,
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Diana became thinner
and thinner and thinner.
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PENNY: By the time
they walked up the aisle,
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the relationship was
in a very, very bad way.
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NARRATOR: In 1980,
Prince Charles was 32,
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and the pressure was on for him
to marry and produce an heir.
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In a way, it was
the last marriage played out
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by old royal rules -
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that the Prince of Wales had to find
a suitable bride,
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a young, aristocratic,
virgin bride.
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And of course, Diana Spencer
ticked all these boxes.
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PENNY: Everybody loved her.
She was funny, she was uncomplicated.
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But the reality was
actually rather different.
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It was the most curious
engagement really,
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they didn't know one another.
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Diana was taken out
of her lovely flat
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where she shared
with bubbly girls
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and she was given a suite
of rooms at Buckingham Palace.
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The perfect girl Charles thought
he was falling in love with,
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was much darker,
and was much more moody,
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and by the time
they walked up the aisle,
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the relationship was
in a very, very bad way.
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NARRATOR: An interview filmed
on the eve of the wedding
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exposes the
state of their relationship.
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INTERVIEWER: What sort of reactions
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have you encountered to your
marriage?
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Well, the most overwhelming and
touching reactions as far as
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we've been concerned.
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They're stiff, they have
no kind of body contact.
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INTERVIEWER: When you make your vows,
that's the most personal moment.
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And hardly any sort of
eye contact.
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INTERVIEWER: Is it gonna be that for
you, even though you know
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the eyes of the world
are watching you
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at that very important moment?
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Well, I hope so, yes.
I don't know about...
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People often say,
"Why did Charles not marry Camilla
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"when he had the opportunity?
When they first met,
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"when they were young
Both were single?"
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But Camilla was in love
with Andrew Parker-Bowles.
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Charles, I think,
fell very much in love with her.
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But actually,
he didn't ask her to marry him.
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But I don't know that she would
have accepted if he had done.
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Charles always said
that when he married,
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he would marry
with his head and not his heart.
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And that, I think,
was a hangover
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from the lesson
learnt from Edward's abdication.
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It could not be a passion
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that swept him away.
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I suspect they quite quickly found
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they weren't ideally suited
to each other,
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but unfortunately, the world
had fallen in love with her.
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(crowd cheering)
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NARRATOR: Charles and Diana's wedding
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was to be the biggest national
celebration since the coronation,
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with Lady Di
in the starring role.
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Everything was huge about it.
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St Paul's, because it could
take this enormous crowd.
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A wedding dress that
practically covered the steps.
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It was a sort of surrogate
love affair for the nation.
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It seemed to be a completely
romantic wedding.
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Of course, we didn't know what
was going on behind the scenes.
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NARRATOR: Prince Charles's
god-daughter, India Hicks,
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was one of the five bridesmaids
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and witnessed
the feverish speculation
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surrounding the wedding dress.
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There were extraordinary...
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An extraordinary experience
for a 13-year-old child.
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Whenever we turned up
for dress fittings,
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the organisation
of the car coming up,
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and the world's press descending
and trying to get any snap.
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When we were actually
inside the Emmanuel's studio,
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I remember they had blocked out
a lot of the windows
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because, of course,
cameras had camped out
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on neighbouring buildings,
with long lenses to spy inside
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to see what the greatest fashion
secret was going to look like.
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There was a feeling of fun
around it all.
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We would be on the floor above,
she would be on the floor below.
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What I do remember is
as the weeks passed
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Diana became thinner
and thinner and thinner,
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and they had to take the dress
in and in and in and in.
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And so, there was
a lot of scurrying around
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to make sure
that dress was fitting her.
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You got pretty close
to Diana during those times,
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and there was always this feeling
of Diana being the head girl,
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and we were in awe of her.
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And looking back, you think:
"My god, she was 19,
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she was just a child herself".
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But as a 13-year-old,
I was quite impressed by her.
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During the dress fittings,
this beautiful silk taffeta
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felt very princessy
and very fairy-tale-ish.
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Of course, what no one had tested
or anticipated
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was cramming that amount of fabric
into a very small carriage.
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Her father, herself,
her dress and her 25-foot train
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trot gloriously down The Mall
as the world watches.
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The carriage draws up,
and the trumpeters, the horses,
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and the atmosphere was sensational,
and the crowds are going crazy.
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And the carriage door is opened
by the footman and she steps out
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and of course the train
then begins to unfold itself
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and we realise
this is a horror story.
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It is just 25 feet
of crumpled mess.
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And so, Sarah Armstrong-Jones
and I just set to work
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and really all he would see
of me was my bottom in the air
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as I'm bending down
trying to undo this.
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There was a great ball
afterwards at Buckingham Palace
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and I was so excited that was
going to be my first ball.
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And after Charles
and Diana's wedding,
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we went home and I lay down
for a moment, just a moment,
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and I woke up to discover
my family had gone to the ball
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and I had been left alone
in the house. I was livid.
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I was so cross.
Why had they not woke me?
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My mother thought: "She's so tired,
we'll leave her behind".
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I thought: "Bloody hell,
I've missed the ball".
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NARRATOR: In contrast
to the extravagance
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of Charles and Diana's wedding,
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when Elizabeth and Philip
got married in 1947,
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the country was
in the grip of post-war gloom.
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PIERS: People felt that they
hadn't had the rewards
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that they should have got
as a result of victory.
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And all of a sudden,
this great event took place,
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the marriage
of the future Queen of England.
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And it was, as Churchill said,
a great flash of colour
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in a period of grim, grey,
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dark, gloomy austerity.
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People were standing in queues.
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Rationing.
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People really had
not enough to eat.
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NARRATOR: In keeping
with the straightened times,
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the Prime Minister refused
to make the wedding day
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a national holiday.
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The royals themselves wondered
whether a private ceremony,
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out at Windsor maybe,
would be more appropriate.
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NARRATOR: Robert Hardman has sifted
through dozens of documents
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at The National Archives
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that show a government
determined to economise.
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ROBERT: It's two years
after the Second World War,
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the country's broke,
there's no money for anything,
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and what you see here
is the extraordinary extent
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to which the government
is going to try
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and scrimp and save on everything.
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This is October, one month to go,
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and the Palace are
finally approving
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a press stand, 275 pounds.
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6-foot red carpet from the
West Door to the Sacrarium steps.
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There's a debate going on about
whether they're gonna have
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new blue carpet
in Westminster Abbey for 100 pounds,
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or there's
a second-hand red carpet
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that might be used
which would 83 pounds,
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although someone else has found
another red carpet that might do
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for 75.
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NARRATOR: While other couples
couldn't afford to get married,
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there were inevitably concerns
about wasting money.
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ROBERT: Here is
a letter of complaint
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from a branch of the Labour Party
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saying there can be
no undue expense on anything.
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This has got to be
an austerity wedding.
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"Intolerable for any
substantial quantity
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of labour or materials to be
diverted". "Justified indignation".
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"The British people will be
discouraged in the immense efforts
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"they are making
towards economic recovery
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"if this wedding is made
the occasion
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"for displaying a vast inequality of
sacrifice".
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NARRATOR: But in the end,
the public didn't have the appetite
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for a wedding done on the cheap
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and they wanted to play a part
in making it a day to remember.
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Wedding gifts were sent
from all over the world,
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and displayed
at St James's Palace.
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And huge numbers of people
turned up to see them.
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ROBERT: A lot of people abroad
thought Britain was starving,
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so a lot of people
sent the Princess food.
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She received something
like 500 tins of pineapple.
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A lady in Brooklyn
sent a turkey.
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She also received
148 pairs of stockings.
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And a couple of kittens,
sent by a pair of district nurses.
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Highbank Council decided
it'd be a good idea
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to send her a sewing machine.
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Oh, and Gandhi sent a tray cloth
that he'd spun on his own loom,
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and old Queen Mary, famously,
thought--
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mistook it for a loincloth,
and complained about the indelicacy.
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NARRATOR: Hundreds of sympathetic
women across the country
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sent in clothing coupons
for the wedding dress.
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Designed by Norman Hartnell,
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it was an exquisite
austerity miracle,
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complete with 15-foot train.
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LADY MARY: Oh, look at all that!
I love that dress.
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It was a beautiful sort of satin,
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and I think there was
a huge lily somewhere,
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and it was embroidered
with sequins.
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I just remember it being
lovely for her.
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NARRATOR: Lady Mary Colman
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is the Queen Mother's niece,
and the Queen's cousin.
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She's never spoken about
the Queen in public before.
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Now, at 87, she's agreed to remember
that joyous day back in 1947.
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We were 14, my twin and I,
we were at boarding school.
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And...
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the thought of coming
up to London
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was dread instead of excitement.
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Because it was sort of unknown.
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I remember the whole thing,
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the crowds,
they were just so enthusiastic.
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You just gasped when you saw them all
waving their flags.
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You know, after the war,
it was such a break
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to have some happiness.
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The ceremony was very touching.
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The Archbishop said
that in many ways
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this was just like the wedding
of an ordinary couple,
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in all the Yorkshire Dales.
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(organ plays wedding march)
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LADY MARY: She looked
as if she could almost see heaven,
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she was really happy.
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It was wonderful,
and he looked happy too,
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so that's good.
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I remember being glad
that we were there.
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REPORTER: Following the King
and Queen in the procession,
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Princess Andrew of Greece,
Queen of the Hellenes,
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and the Boy King of Iraq.
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SARAH: The people who
couldn't come to the wedding,
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rather tellingly,
were Prince Philip's sisters,
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because
all of his surviving sisters
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had been married
to German nobility,
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who played an active part
in the Nazi cause,
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so they couldn't possibly
make an appearance.
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It was that close to the war.
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There was a great feeling
of euphoria suddenly,
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a release of tension, a feeling that
things could only get better.
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REPORTER: Seldom
has a bride and groom
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received such a tumultuous
expression of goodwill.
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ROBERT: We could look forward
as a nation, instead of looking back,
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and it was a turning point
for the monarchy, no question.
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NARRATOR:
But in just a few years,
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Princess Margaret's love
for a married man
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would threaten to undermine
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the bright new era
for the royal family.
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People were very shocked,
they felt he'd taken advantage.
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PIERS: The Queen's Private
Secretary said to Townsend,
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"You must be either mad or bad".
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NARRATOR: Ken Lennox
photographed the royal family
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for over half a century
and took the first grainy photograph
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of Diana with Charles on the
banks of the River Dee in 1980.
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He got to know Lady Di
trying to capture her on camera
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outside her Earl's Court flat.
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KEN: I couldn't give away
photographs of the royal family
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before Diana came on the scene.
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When Diana came along,
all that exploded.
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NARRATOR: Ken was
to photograph the Princess
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for the rest of her life.
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KEN: This is
the honeymoon photocall
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of the couple, locked up,
sat in a little style,
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and really full of affection.
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They answered questions and they were
hugging in front of the cameras.
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We'd never seen royals do
an official photocall like that.
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It's not only an age difference,
but there's a mind difference
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between the way
they thought life should be.
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Prince Charles was worried
about so many things,
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and Diana was young, and wanted
to have a young woman's life
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and I think Charles
found that quite difficult.
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I think that Diana was genuinely
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in love with Prince Charles
at the beginning,
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but Prince Charles
didn't respond.
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I think they were incompatible
characters was the basic problem.
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NARRATOR: Ken was part
of the royal press pack
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for their first overseas tour of
Australia and New Zealand in 1983.
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Before Diana got on the scene,
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it was Prince Charles who was
the most photographable royal.
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He was Action Man, and there was
choruses of girls crying out for him.
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I felt sorry for Charles now,
because no one wanted to see him.
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This time, Charles would work one
side of the street
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and Diana the other, and, at Charles,
they would just say to him,
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"Sir, can you get your wife
to come over here?"
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And from being "Mr Popular"
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to "Mr Please-can-you
bring-your-wife-over-here"
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was not a happy situation for him.
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I'm about four feet
from the Princess
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and I'm trying to get a bit of the
Opera House in the background
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and some of the crowd,
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and Diana burst into tears,
and wept for a couple of minutes.
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After it was over, I went to see
the press officer
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for the Prince and Princess at that
time, and I said, "What happened?"
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And he said, "Ken, mozzies
and jet lag and heat and so on".
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So I just accepted that.
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Charles, I don't think noticed it
at that stage, you know.
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00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,040
If he has, typical of him
to look the other way. (laughs)
477
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:14,400
But it was the first sign
of something was wrong,
478
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,080
and we then began to see
other things happening later on.
479
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,800
DICKIE: You could tell
by the mid-'80s
480
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,800
that things were not particularly
good. It wasn't hostility,
481
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,240
but it was just the sense
that everything wasn't right.
482
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,840
PATRICK: The idea that there could be
actually anything
483
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,240
seriously wrong
with the marriage was unthinkable.
484
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,440
It had to work.
And it was our job to make it work,
485
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,600
or at least appear to work.
486
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,480
NARRATOR: Patrick Jephson was
equerry and Private Secretary
487
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,440
to The Princess of Wales
for eight years,
488
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,840
with responsibility
for her household,
489
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:56,080
and he witnessed the problems that
were not yet apparent to the public.
490
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,960
As professional Royal performers,
they were unbeatable,
491
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,840
but behind the scenes,
it was quite different.
492
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,240
They didn't talk to each other,
there was the minimum of eye contact,
493
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,280
they were short-tempered
with each other.
494
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,080
Diana, of course, being who she was,
495
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,800
enjoyed upstaging her husband.
496
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,920
And if she was laughing
or smiling or...
497
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,520
it wasn't just
because she was happy and smiley,
498
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,600
it was also because
she knew it got on his nerves.
499
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,560
I remember on one particular occasion
in Seville,
500
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,720
he was looking one way,
and she was looking the other way,
501
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,360
and you could have driven
a double-decker bus
502
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,120
between the two of them,
such was the hostility.
503
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,360
PATRICK: We went to Glasgow
for the Glasgow Garden Festival.
504
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:48,600
Charles and Diana were seen happily
together among the crowds,
505
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,400
but they had actually arrived quite
separately in different aeroplanes.
506
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,560
We were living a lie,
507
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,280
we were covering up for the fact
that the marriage was dead.
508
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,320
The piece de resistance, in terms of
the ending of the marriage
509
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,600
was South Korea.
They looked like "Mr and Mrs Glum".
510
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,080
They looked like two people
511
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,000
who didn't want to be
in each other's company,
512
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,760
and who didn't particularly
want to be in South Korea.
513
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,480
It says just how bad it had got that
divorce, even to Queen Elizabeth,
514
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,240
looked like the solution,
not the problem.
515
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,000
JANE: The Queen intervening to say
516
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,160
"enough is enough, the time has come
to divorce"
517
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,040
was really giving closure to
something that was going to happen
518
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,160
at some point
in the near future.
519
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,520
NARRATOR: The idea of the Queen
ordering her son to divorce
520
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,640
would have been unthinkable
in a previous era.
521
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,640
In the early 1950s, the possibility
that her sister might wed
522
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,280
a married palace equerry
with children
523
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,560
led to a crisis that ended
with the Princess giving up
524
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,560
the man she loved.
525
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,720
LADY GLENCONNER: I remember Peter
Townsend was very good looking,
526
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800
he was a war hero,
the King adored him,
527
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,880
he was like sort of proxy son.
528
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,640
Princess Margaret said that it was
very romantic because, every evening,
529
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,760
they all went riding off
into the sunset.
530
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,800
And that, I think,
was the first time
531
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,840
that, you know, they sort of,
I suppose, fell in love.
532
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,760
NARRATOR: Lady Glenconner has known
the royal family her whole life.
533
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,800
She was the Queen's
maid of honour at the coronation,
534
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,400
and Princess Margaret's
lady-in-waiting and close friend.
535
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,560
LADY GLENCONNER:
Here's a picture of me,
536
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,920
Princess Margaret, the Queen,
537
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,600
and Princess Margaret
is looking at my feet.
538
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,080
And when she was staying with me,
539
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,080
we were looking at old photographs,
540
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,040
I said, "Why are you
looking at my feet?"
541
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,240
And she said, "Well,
because you had silver shoes,
542
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,880
I had brown ones, I was so
jealous of your silver shoes".
543
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,360
Anyway, Princess Margaret
and I did have great fun,
544
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,680
and in those days, we had
this nursery footman,
545
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,720
and we were always
hiding behind doors to go "boo",
546
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,800
you know, when
he came along with his tray.
547
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,000
And I can remember
the Queen saying,
548
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,960
"Margaret and Anne, what are
you doing? Are you behaving?"
549
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,840
Of course, we weren't.
550
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,280
The traditional picture
of Princess Margaret
551
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,680
is that she was the naughty one,
552
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,960
while her eldest sister
was the goody goody two-shoes.
553
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,120
And there's a lot of truth
in that.
554
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,960
HUGO: Her father
absolutely adored her,
555
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,640
he couldn't believe he'd
created this beautiful creature,
556
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,200
and he always used to say,
"Lillibet is my pride,
557
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,920
"and Margaret is my joy".
558
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,280
PIERS: It's difficult to think back
559
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,400
as to the extraordinary glamour
and good looks.
560
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,920
She was a pocket Venus,
561
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,920
she was absolutely
the Princess Di of her age.
562
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,920
NARRATOR: Margaret had
the world at her feet,
563
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,760
but it came crumbling down
when her father died
564
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,640
and her sister became Queen.
565
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,760
I remember at the coronation
566
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,920
we arrived back
at Buckingham Palace
567
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,600
and the Queen
skipped along the passage with us,
568
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,360
and then behind her, came the Duke of
Edinburgh and the Queen Mother,
569
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,200
and then behind that,
Princess Margaret looking so sad.
570
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,400
I remember saying,
"Ma'am you look so sad".
571
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,000
And she said, "Of course I do.
I've lost my beloved father
572
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,760
"and my sister".
573
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,480
Because she was Queen, she'd moved
into Buckingham Palace.
574
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,920
She said: "I've got to live at
Clarence House with my mother".
575
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,360
NARRATOR: Princess Margaret had
turned to Peter Townsend
576
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,360
in her distress.
When he divorced his wife,
577
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,600
she told the Queen she
wished to marry this man
578
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,360
16 years her senior.
579
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,000
In those days, being divorced
was a really big, you know. no no.
580
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,520
And people were very shocked,
they felt he'd taken advantage.
581
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,480
Princess Margaret was
so much younger than him.
582
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,920
And of course,
Peter Townsend was staff.
583
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,200
PIERS: When the Queen's
Private Secretary, Tommy Lascelles,
584
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,880
heard about this, he said to Townsend
"You must be either mad or bad.
585
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,560
Your intruding in this way
into the royal household
586
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,960
constitutes a danger
to the monarchy".
587
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,800
NARRATOR: Less than 20 years
after the abdication,
588
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,640
the very mention
of the word "divorce"
589
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:26,280
in Palace, government and church
circles caused grave concern.
590
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,160
Townsend was sent to Brussels,
591
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:31,160
and the Queen asked
Margaret to wait a year.
592
00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:34,360
And so, the traditional story
begins to unfold
593
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,080
of an unhappy Princess thwarted
in love by the establishment.
594
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,200
But documents released
by the National Archives
595
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,920
rewrite that history.
596
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,800
ROBERT: What we see here
is that, actually, by 1955,
597
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,320
Anthony Eden, himself a divorcee,
598
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,400
and his government have decided
that actually she can marry.
599
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,240
In fact, they're gonna give her
some more money.
600
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,680
"The civil list have provided
that she should receive
601
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,040
"on her marriage
a further sum of 9000 a year
602
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,000
"in addition to the 6000 a year
which she has already".
603
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,160
This is the government's plan in
the event that Princess Margaret
604
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,920
and Group Captain Townsend
are gonna get married.
605
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,280
And she would have been
aware of this.
606
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,840
"Ministers understand that
it is Princess's Margaret's wish
607
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,640
"that despite her renunciation
of her right to the Succession,
608
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:18,920
"she should continue to live
in the United Kingdom
609
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,760
"and carry out her public duties
as member of the Royal Family".
610
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,240
So, what they're saying is
611
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,480
"We're happy with her
carrying on being Royal,
612
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,200
"we're happy with her staying in
the country and this marriage.
613
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,960
"The one thing that has to change
is she herself cannot be Queen
614
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,480
"and nor can her children".
615
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,480
Life would really not have changed
very dramatically at all
616
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,920
for Princess Margaret.
617
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,760
But what we do know from other
correspondence in this file,
618
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,000
including the remarkable letter
from the Princess herself,
619
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,880
is that it wasn't a sort of
crazy love affair by this stage.
620
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,400
This is the Princess
writing to the Prime Minister.
621
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,520
It's a very honest letter,
it's really rather touching.
622
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,960
She's saying, "I'm not going
to see him during this time,
623
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,040
"but in October I shall be
returning to London,
624
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,800
"and he will then be
taking his annual leave,
625
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,960
"and only really then
can I make up my mind".
626
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,120
She says here, "It's only
by seeing him in this way
627
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,920
"that I feel I can properly decide
whether I can marry him or not".
628
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,560
I think, inevitably,
as a young woman
629
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,800
who was initially head over heels
in love with this man,
630
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,400
but possibly
after all this time now,
631
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,200
having had all these people
poring over her relationship,
632
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,360
maybe it's started to rub off.
633
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,520
Maybe she's started to think,
"You know what? I'll think again".
634
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,480
Within a couple of months,
635
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,680
the couple would have
made up their mind
636
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,680
and the Princess issued
her famous statement
637
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,000
to say, "Mindful of the teachings
of the Church,
638
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,360
"she's not going to go ahead
with it." It doesn't happen.
639
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,920
Some people said absence
makes the heart grow fonder,
640
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,040
but I think it does
make you think
641
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,400
exactly what you're going to give up.
642
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,240
I think during the wait,
she started to enjoy herself again,
643
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,680
her friends rallied round...
644
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,760
I think personally,
if the King had lived,
645
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,800
she would have married
somebody more suitable.
646
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:12,240
And I did once ask Princess Margaret
about her set.
647
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,960
"Among all of them, who
would you might have married?"
648
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,080
And she said Sunny Blandford,
so she would have had Blenheim.
649
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,480
I think that would
have been more suitable.
650
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,960
She would have had a palace,
of course.
651
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,360
NARRATOR:
The demands of the crown
652
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,920
would not only pit
sister against sister,
653
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,840
but husband against wife.
654
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,080
He wasn't even allowed to call
his children by his own name.
655
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,560
He became emasculated.
656
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,560
It really sounds
as though it threw him
657
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,560
into something like
a depression.
658
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:57,080
NARRATOR: When George VI died
aged just 56 in 1952,
659
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,960
it sent shock waves
through the entire family.
660
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,040
Not only did Princess Elizabeth
661
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,760
take on the heavy responsibility
of the Crown,
662
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,080
but her husband had
to give up the career he loved.
663
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,960
This posed a massive strain on the
Queen's marriage to Prince Philip,
664
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,960
because Prince Philip imagined,
with good reason,
665
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,040
that he was going to have
a good career in the navy.
666
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,320
PENNY: Suddenly, she went from
being a naval wife to Queen.
667
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,920
And he went
from being a naval officer
668
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,640
in command of his own ship,
to being a consort,
669
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:35,920
to walking
three steps behind his wife.
670
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,480
Which totally, totally
went against the grain
671
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,600
for this man
who is the ultimate alpha male.
672
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,600
PIERS: He wanted to modernise
and streamline the monarchy,
673
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,440
and, of course, the courtiers
weren't having any of this.
674
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,240
Prince Philip came up against
675
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,640
plenty of opposition
from the Palace old guard.
676
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,080
He used to refer to these
establishment figures
677
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,840
as the "men with moustaches".
678
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,480
And he's not allowed
anywhere near red boxes,
679
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,440
he's not allowed anywhere near
prime-ministerial audiences,
680
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,920
he's very much kept
at arm's length.
681
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,520
He wasn't even allowed to call
his children by his own name.
682
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,640
He became emasculated. I mean, he
said at one point, "What am I?
683
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,120
Just, am I nothing more
than a bloody amoeba?"
684
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,400
SARAH: It really sounds
as though it threw him
685
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,840
into something like
a depression.
686
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,920
He began living
this slightly raffish life.
687
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,600
His membership
of the famous Thursday Club,
688
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,520
a lunch club, you know,
with other young men about town,
689
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,800
but also with
a certain number of party girls.
690
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,720
It must have been
a very difficult period for her.
691
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,960
She knew that her husband was hurting
and that it was difficult for him
692
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,240
and that some people were
not treating him very well.
693
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,400
NARRATOR: A solution seemed to lie
in the newly-completed Britannia.
694
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,560
Philip would open
the Olympic Games in Australia,
695
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,360
and then tour the far-flung islands
of the Commonwealth
696
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,720
aboard the Royal Yacht.
697
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,600
It was to fly the flag,
of course,
698
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,000
but perhaps it was also
to give Prince Philip
699
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,720
a little time back at sea
700
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,640
and a little time away
from the constraints of his role.
701
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,040
REPORTER: Everyone
was dressed up to kill.
702
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,040
Indeed, not so long ago
that really was the big idea.
703
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:31,280
- But that all went wrong when one of
the close associates of the Prince,
704
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,400
Mike Parker,
was summoned back to England
705
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:39,040
to appear in the divorce courts,
and that tar spread.
706
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,840
NARRATOR:
The divorce of his close friend
707
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,560
coupled with Philip's
four-month absence
708
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,480
was enough to open
the floodgates of speculation
709
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,960
about the state of the
royal couple's marriage.
710
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:56,240
There were rumours that not
everything was right in the marriage.
711
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,680
NARRATOR: For the first time ever,
712
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,000
the Queen issued an official denial
713
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,280
saying it was quite untrue
that there was a rift,
714
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:04,840
and for added emphasis,
715
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,720
she made the Duke a Prince
on his return home.
716
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,000
JANE: It must have been
a crisis in the early marriage,
717
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,440
and it's the sort of crisis that
is only possible to negotiate
718
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,680
if you actually love
the person you're married to.
719
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,360
ROBERT: It has been
the great Royal love story,
720
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,000
it's the longest Royal marriage
in history.
721
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:27,040
It's one of the many records
that the Queen can lay claim to.
722
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,560
I suspect it's probably
the one she holds most dear.
723
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,480
WESLEY: I remembered the Queen,
724
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,320
if the Duke was arriving
back from an engagement,
725
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,760
she would sort of perk up a bit,
726
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,160
and become sort of smiley
and relaxed.
727
00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,200
The Duke of Edinburgh would
start fiddling with his hair
728
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,120
or adjusting his buttons when he
was going in to see the Queen.
729
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,320
Unlike some of the other
Royal marriages
730
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,520
she took on
somebody her own size,
731
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,160
and I think she's appreciated
over the years the fact that
732
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:57,720
he is the one person who can actually
say exactly what he thinks to her.
733
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,120
There's a lot of intimacy
734
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,800
almost in crowds is
that you're these two people
735
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,960
on this very strange journey,
and with this unique life
736
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,080
and I think that there's
a very, very powerful bond.
737
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,440
As Harry famously said,
738
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,640
"I don't think she could
have done it without him".
739
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,920
NARRATOR: Today, the young Royals
have more freedom than ever before
740
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000
to marry who they want.
741
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,120
KATIE: William, without a doubt,
tore up Royal history
742
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,440
because Kate was a commoner.
743
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,200
She was a regular girl
from the home counties.
744
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,080
NARRATOR: But putting duty first
745
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,920
is still the number one quality
in any Royal marriage.
746
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,880
KATIE: There is a sort of
tick list that has to be met -
747
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,760
discretion, duty,
748
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,760
and putting duty before self,
most importantly.
749
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,160
And the Queen has very much been
the personification of that.
750
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,640
Prince William must look at
his grandparents' relationship,
751
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,840
which has endured 70 years,
752
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,680
a great example of a successful
matrimony.
753
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,240
And I'm sure he hopes that
for himself too.
754
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,240
NARRATOR: William certainly
seems to have had this in mind
755
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,160
when he proposed to Kate.
756
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,640
I do think that William
always has one eye
757
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:18,560
to the fact that he is
going to be King,
758
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,280
so whomever he married
is going to be Queen.
759
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,320
I think it helped
that Catherine was a personality
760
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,920
who is quite publicly closed,
is quite careful,
761
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,040
she never puts
762
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,400
a nude-court-shoe-heeled foot wrong
does she?
763
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,240
Prince William lives
next door to me up here,
764
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,880
I see them shopping.
765
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,040
Duchess of Cambridge
has done a really good job,
766
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,280
she hasn't put herself forward,
767
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:49,600
which was what happened
with the Princess of Wales.
768
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,960
And she's glorious-looking
769
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,240
and sweet and perfect,
770
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,400
but she lets Prince William
take the lead
771
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,800
and I think that is
what the Duchess of Sussex
772
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,760
may have to learn,
773
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,080
that, you know, that's
what we want in a Royal family.
774
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,240
NARRATOR: Kate had the benefit
of ten years knowing William
775
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,920
to size up the demands of
Royal life before they married.
776
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,560
For Meghan, it was different.
777
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,280
EMILY: Meghan has had
a normal life. (chuckles)
778
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,880
If an acting, Hollywood career
can be called a normal life.
779
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,440
I think they're massively in love,
780
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,400
and together they are
a very powerful couple.
781
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,480
I think they both realise
they have this public position.
782
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:32,920
It's global.
783
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,640
And I've been told by aides that
they want to change the world.
784
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,680
CROWD (cheering): Meghan! Meghan!
785
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,320
I think the challenges
for the Sussexes
786
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,240
will be balancing
that sense of duty
787
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,280
and the life they want
as private people,
788
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,040
as a family.
789
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,680
NARRATOR: Like the Queen,
both William and Harry
790
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,360
have chosen partners
who are their equals -
791
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,520
women they love, but who share their
vision for a relevant monarchy
792
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,360
that's a positive force
in the world.
793
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,160
But the challenge remains.
794
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:14,000
Will they be able to live
with the conflicting demands
795
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,760
of love and duty?
796
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,760
Only time will tell.
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