All language subtitles for Being the Queen_ The Life of Queen Elizabeth II _ National Geographic (inglés_ASR)

look at how the great problems of the

queen and the monarchy in her lifetime

have been all about love and marriage

and sex

the question a lot of people here in

britain are asking this morning is

where's the queen

it's like being brought up in a

monastery with glass walls everyone can

look in

and every moment of weakness it'll all

be seen and exposed and ridiculed

the red lights off we are interviewing

larry adler bringing to prince we are

interviewing commander michael agustin

into the year in lady janet mary

for the first time in her reign the

queen put family before duty

we could now be witnessing the end of

the monarchy and the reigning queen

could possibly be the last

she was being the princess

and working

very hard

he was still in the navy

now in our innocence we thought this was

going to go on for a very long time

after all the king was quite young

there might have been 40 more years as

princess

when we were on that commonwealth tour

and we were in kenya and the people of

kenya having the wedding present in the

little cigar a lot

we had a day out there to do to adjust

and rest and do things prince philip

went i went to sleep in a little room

that was off to one side

the queen was at a desk writing letter's

phone rang my colleague

said mike there's a

ghastly rumor going around that the king

has died

and they used it amongst all the press

people there and they were saying that

they'd heard

so i said well

martin that's frightening but i cannot

do a thing

on a rumor like that

i mean i just won't do anything and he

said no i'm not suggesting he should

darn went the phone

i saw a radio

on the shelf above me

and there's a door open to where the

queen is sitting so i shut the door and

switched on the radio

and hunted about the bbc and then i

could hear the bell

of um

big ben

i thought we need god

so my hair stood up a little bit more

this is london

it is with the greatest sorrow that we

make the following announcement

at 10 45 today

february the 6th 1952

that the king

passed peacefully away in his sleep

earlier this morning

and uh that was that so

there was drought into where prince

william was sleeping and told him

his

first reaction was one of

almost there's a huge way to hit him

and he just stood there

silently in thought

the implications of the fact that she's

becoming the queen

and then he

straightened himself up and he went in

to tell the queen

and she was

in you know weeping desperately for the

loss of her father

they walked up and down together

very close

and then she strengthened up

fully uh conscious of the fact that she

was queen

and that she must tend to that affair

immediately

and she went into the desk that she'd

been working on and started to send all

these telegrams off around the

commonwealth and to

friendly countries like the united

states

there was no time then for her

if she had wanted to

to grieve

and a very typical reaction actually she

said oh i'm so sorry

it means we forgot

to go home

as the plane was about to touch down at

london airport

and the prime minister winston churchill

and my parents that you've noticed of

johnston and all the receiving lines of

the cabinet were drawn up there

in their black clothes

and she sort of leans across and looks

out and says oh god they sent the

hearses meaning that instead of her car

one of the big

black cars

and somehow the way she said when you

this 25 year old realized that the

end of her

private life had come

and that for the rest of her life

she would be about it bigger don't they

should die

i asked you all

whatever your religion

to pray for me on the day of my

coronation

and as the storms of cheering surge with

the approaching procession along the

river here in contrast the abbey holds

its ancient peace

i think what changed for the queen

at the moment that she succeeded her

father

was the sense that

she was on her own

i think that that's what really changed

for her

she did have the enormous advantage of

being trained by her own father and i

think she must have enjoyed those

training sessions with papa because it

was something so special between those

two nobody else has it

i remember once saying to me that

my father told me i must always remember

that whatever i've said or did to anyone

that they would remember it

so that if i show disapproval they will

remember that i showed disapproval

therefore i i think she's very very

careful

not to give any sort of impression that

might be

construed of disapproval

the duke of edinburgh comes to vow

lifelong allegiance to his queen

she's the queen

and he

performs as the husband

so what does the husband do

elizabeth

as princess and queen

has always been

guided by her sense of duty

but it's one of the extraordinary things

about the queen is that

she fell in love

and married just about the first man she

met

my father happened to be there when the

king and queen took the two girls to

dartmouth

when i think

princess elizabeth was only about 12

years old and

as prince philip was

almost the senior cadet

and of course this absolute greek god

and i think that the princess fell

headlong enough with him at that moment

the queen was too young nobody talked

about

falling in love

and remaining in love with that person

for the rest of her life i mean she was

a

child

but clearly he made a great impression

on her and the romance if you like

developed sort of rather gradually

now it caused her parents

great anxiety

what parent wouldn't be anxious about a

daughter

who wants to marry the very first man

she's fallen in love with

it was a matter of her personal

happiness it was a matter of the

stability of the crown

her parents in fact while accepting

philip and having philip because he was

after all a member of the family to stay

wouldn't let her actually get engaged

until she was over 21

several years after she wanted

because you know she wasn't just taking

on the man she thought she loved she was

taking on the man who had to shoulder

almost half the burden of the monarchy

well i was this back to the party the

night before the wedding

the princess delivered

he was scared his face was white

this man just began to realize what he

was getting into

and now he finally doesn't like it

it was very much a conventional

british

household he was very much the man of a

family he took the decisions

she looked up to him in that private

life obviously as princess she had a lot

of visual things to do but they were

still able with these two small children

to have this family group

prince philippe was basically a man

and he was a big man

and he was a man's man too

i think

there must have been marriage

when it would have been

pretty heavy for him to take

this extremely active

enthusiastic young man who's suffering

advice is so life is going to be taken

away from him and probably thinking

he'll become a yes man for the rest of

his life

that's really devastated their lives

actually it's america

could you tell me

what is your job in your own mind

well i've got one i'm self-employed

but you must have some clear idea of

what role you fulfill

in modern society

very difficult to answer

the queen can't be

the wife anymore the mother she really

had very little time to be with her

children so prince philip

in a way sort of became the house

husband and he was the one that

looked after the children not actually

physically looked after them but he

organized them

when she became queen they would see her

perhaps for half an hour in the morning

nine o'clock for half an hour and then

she would go off

for a week maybe a month maybe several

months but in a good week she might be

there in the evening and go up to see

them having their baths and sit on a

little guilt chair which will be brought

in by a lackey not take part in bath

time or splashing or anything like that

but just sit there rather and easily and

then dash away after half an hour

i don't think it was you know in that

prince phillip and indeed the queen was

significantly different to an awful lot

of upper middle class british parents

since that was the way

behaving you didn't cry in public you

don't cuddle

et cetera

life may be a lot more civilized but it

wasn't something peculiar to

prince charles's relationship with his

parents

and it wasn't

that anybody was being deliberately

unkind

or cold it was just that was the way you

you did things

what the queen and the dude did with

their children

boarding school that often had strict

discipline and didn't always produce

rounded human beings emotionally

at the end of the process

you know she's really sacrificed her

family in a way

duty really what came before personal

happiness and she had her work and that

came first

elizabeth and her younger sister

margaret were always very close as

children but both of them

knew

that in the end

elizabeth would be on the throne

and princess margaret would need to find

a role for herself i don't think she

ever really settled to that to be honest

the arrival of princess margaret and her

husband is greeted with a cheers the

crowd

the flashing lights

and nervous children

dignified bedlam rings

most adults remember margaret growing up

with her sister and the two children

were as loved by americans as they were

by britons

the british and european press has tried

to make margaret the subject of romance

with 29 year old rodney lewellen but

despite pictures of them in the

caribbean together there has been little

substance to back up the perennial

gossip mongers

queen elizabeth has ruled out divorce

for her sister margaret instead the 45

year old princess may obtain a legal

separation from her husband lord snowden

they've been married for 16 years but 10

of those years have reportedly been

stormy and recent stories of princess

margaret's involvement with a 28 year

old jet setter named roddy llewellyn

provide motivation for the current

separation talk

divorce is a thorny subject for the

british royal family

she was a divorcee i think and the quest

whether it was

appropriate for the

king of england

to be

married to already was first divorced

this is london

a quarterback an hour ago

the prime minister came to the bar of

the house

and handed to the speaker a message from

his majesty the king

a few hours ago

i discharged my last duty as king and

emperor that i have found it impossible

to carry the heavy burden of

responsibility without the help and

support

of the woman i love

we therefore

do now hereby

proclaim

that the high and mighty prince

albert friedrich author george

is now become

our only lawful

and rightful king

god save the cake

the two girls were in a house at hyde

park corner

when elizabeth heard

all the noise of the

cheering

when george became king

and

elizabeth ran downstairs to see what all

the excitement was and footman told her

that her father

was king she came back and told her

little sister who was six

and

princess margaret said does that mean

you'll be

queen and she said yes someday

princess margaret said poor you

princess margaret has been leading an

active and for royalty a somewhat

untraditional social life

now england is intrigued by the rumor

that margaret has fallen in love

the man is peter townsend a war hero a

captain in the raf

townsend however has been once divorced

and powerful social and religious forces

are marshaled against the romance

still margaret wants to marry townsend

invited me to dinner and we talked about

this

very disturbing situation obviously

but the queen i shall never forget her

reaction was one of great sympathy

although no doubt she harmed the

greatest anxiety i expect

marriage seemed to be the least likely

solution

the queen was in conflict because as

head of the church of england she could

not really permit her sister

to marry a divorced man

but as the sister of princess margaret

she obviously was very keen that

princess margaret should be happy

and it wasn't easy

i don't think for a moment that the

queen said to her listen here margaret

you can't do that

the queen would have been told by

advisers that it was not on

very painful for all concerned

it's sometimes been misreported that it

was the queen that said that this

relationship couldn't be allowed

actually she was devastated that when

push came to shove it was the government

who said actually we can't allow you to

marry this man

the following statement has just been

issued from clan's house by her royal

highness princess margaret

i would like it to be known that i have

decided not to marry a group captain

peter townsend

mindful of the church's teaching that

christian marriage is indissoluble and

conscious of my duty to the commonwealth

i have resolved to put their

consideration

before any others

i think she had a lot of sympathy for

margaret because after all the queen

knew what true love was she had married

the man of her dreams

i don't envy the royals their life at

all really they have to live under the

glare of publicity all the time

everything they do is reported and

quoted and criticized

but princess margaret she had a really

difficult life

i think this is one of the tragedies of

her life that she never knew who she was

never knew who she was supposed to be

and she left it to others not least the

media to work it out for her

oh

it is a scene of chaos and destruction

this castle dating back to the ninth

century the fire started in the private

chapel miatas and george's fall

the events read like a tabloid redo of

old testament curses plague and

pestilence have been replaced by fire

rumor and outright scandal rocking the

british royal family

with three broken marriages among her

four children the queen's efforts to

promote an image of family harmony are

now under the

strain

look at how the great problems of the

queen and the monarchy in her lifetime

have been all about love and marriage

and sex

the abdication

princess margaret peter townsend later

and that creates problems

buckingham palace has condemned the

publication of a series of newspaper

photographs of the duchess of york and

the texan businessman john bryan

i just feel very sad i think it's very

sad when two people who

appear to be so happily married quite

suddenly divorced

royal composure collapsed as princess

diana under extraordinary media

attention broke down in tears since a

book detailing her unhappiness was

published last week the book claims

diana's marriage became so miserable

that she tried to take her life

1992

is not a year

on which i shall look back with

undiluted pleasure

in the words of one of my more

sympathetic correspondence

it has turned out to be

new institution

city

monarchy

whatever

should expect to be free from the

scrutiny of those who give it their

loyalty and

support not to mention those who don't

but we are all part of the same fabric

of our national society

and that scrutiny by one part of another

can be just as effective

if it is made with a touch of gentleness

good humor and understanding

as a result of the occurrences over the

course of the past several months and

the pushing of the self-destruct button

by the monarchy

that we could now be witnessing the end

of the monarchy and the reigning queen

could possibly be the last

britain's queen elizabeth said she has

had it it's time for prince charles and

princess diana to officially end their

troubled marriage

the prince who made his televised

admission of adultery over a year ago is

said to agree

the princess who made her televised

admission of adultery a few weeks ago is

said to be devastated and will give her

a response after the holidays

the queen actually tried to

bring diana under her wing but diana was

very reluctant

obviously charles couldn't handle it and

neither could the queen

the princess of wales embroiled now in a

fresh round of personal controversy the

polo playing former guards officer

claims he had a three-year affair with

the princess this morning as she left

her exclusive london health club the

princess of wales was saying nothing

rugby star will carling and his wife

julia are splitting up and everyone's

asking is the princess of wales to blame

confirmation of princess diana's first

serious romance since her split with

charles will be shown in london's sunday

mirror tomorrow the evidence of

photograph of a kiss with millionaire

dodie fired during a mediterranean

cruise cost four hundred thousand

dollars

this is bbc one we have interrupted our

programs for a news report we now go

over to martin lewis in the news studio

we interrupt this film to tell you we

are getting reports that diana princess

of wales has been badly injured in a car

crash in france

just to confirm the news that diana

princess of wales has died in a car

accident in paris which also killed her

companion bloody fired

the question a lot of people here in

britain are asking this morning is

where's the queen

the oceans of flowers from diana's

mourners are piling up in front of

buckingham palace but they haven't been

acknowledged and unlike the rest of

britain where the flags are at

half-staff in diana's memory there's no

flag flying over the palace nobody's

home

when princess of wales died the queen

was up at belmore with the two little

princes whose mother had been killed

and yet she was passed

for not leaving there

they're coming to london to mourn in the

streets with people who never even let

the people

she had two grandchildren

he must be very caught up with their

mothers one such dead

to

rush them down to london

for the height of this big it seemed

palace

i'm now looking through the walls of the

shattered school into the main hall

which is a massive people of firemen and

policemen

mothers fathers

brothers and sisters and everybody

this south wales disaster

it's now feared that nearly 200 lives

were lost when the cold tip at abervan

near martha tidwell slid forward today

one of the few regrets that the queen

has about her reign was that she felt

that she reacted too slowly in wales at

a place called abbavan back in the 1960s

there's always been a controversy and

criticism

about the queen not actually coming

earlier to abervan or immediately to

abervan because obviously lord snowden

was the first royal to actually come to

abervan princess mark couldn't

understand why i wanted to go down

i just did you know but i i must

and i stayed there

just going into people i was just making

cups of tea

they wanted to talk but they were in a

state of terrible shock

so for the queen i think her decision

not to come at that time wasn't probably

the right decision for

surviving people and i think to this day

the queen actually had a bit of guilt

about that herself

the queen stood there as a mother

knowing that had circumstances been

somewhat different

her child's name might be fastened to

the sandbag

to mark his place of honor

in death's final ceremonial occasion

i know with all the tragedies in the

world i think abervan has been the main

one that's touched the queen forever and

a day really until the day she dies

queen elizabeth and the rest of the

royal family are on summer holiday as

usual in scotland

and apart from a customary trip to

church on sunday the queens made no

public appearance and no public

statement but to those who are close to

the royal family that's no surprise

and if ever the monarchy was it was in

those

48 hours when they were stuck up in

balmoral

when the country wanted the queen in

london and grieving

on the eve of princess diana's funeral

the royal family is returning to london

hoping and perhaps to quell some of the

criticism of their actions since diana's

death

the queen's convoy arrived in london as

it swept up to buckingham palace the

limousine halted at the gates and the

queen of prince philip got out to take

in the mass of floral tributes

the queen was actually extremely nervous

because she could feel the hostility and

actually she heard people say oh about

time you've come you know

they can hear an awful lot of things at

the crowd and say and then i think a

woman actually gave her

a bunch of flour and said would you like

me to place it for you and said no mom

it's for you

and that sort of broke the ice it was

that moment

and i think suddenly people saw her

instead of feeling all prickly and angry

they suddenly thought my goodness this

is a grandmother and she's got to deal

with all this

queen elizabeth will speak publicly

today about the death of diana princess

of wales joining me from london is npr's

michael goldfarb to talk about the

extraordinary move by the queen to speak

to her subjects any idea what you will

say today

it will be a very carefully crafted

speech because people will listen to it

with great interest

since last sunday's dreadful news

we have seen throughout britain and

around the world

an overwhelming expression of sadness of

diana's death

so what i see to you now as your queen

and as a grandmother

i say from my heart

first i want to pay tribute to diana

myself

she was an exceptional and gifted human

being

in good times and bad

she never lost her capacity to smile and

laugh

nor to inspire others with her warmth

and kindness

i admired and respected her for her

energy and commitment to others

i hope that tomorrow we can all wherever

we are

join in expressing our grief of diana's

loss

and gratitude for her all too short life

i thought she said everything she should

have said i can't think of anything that

she left out until

i think it's completely

and they're gathering now at the

entrance

this is an extraordinary

view we're seeing here we've never

as far as i'm aware seen the royal

family standing like this at the gates

of buckingham palace

at the funeral the queen was very

dignified and she bowed her head when

diana's coffin went past

and

it was

spectacularly done

i for one believe there are lessons to

be drawn from her life

and from the extraordinary and moving

reaction to her death

it is a chance to show to the whole

world the british nation united in grief

and respect

mr speaker today her majesty the queen

becomes the country's longest reigning

monarch and it is of course typical of

her selfless sense of service that she

would have us treat this day just like

any other but mr speaker while i rarely

advocate disobeying her majesty least of

all in our own parliament i do think

it's right that today we should stop and

take a moment as a nation to mark this

historic milestone and to thank her

majesty for the extraordinary service

that she's given to our country over

more than six decades

63 years and 216 days she's worked with

12 prime ministers six archbishops of

canterbury nine cabinet secretaries

she's answered three and a half million

pieces of correspondence send over a

hundred thousand telegrams to

centenarians across the commonwealth and

met more people than any other monarch

in history

she has served this country with

enduring grace dignity and decency and

long nation continue to do so

the important thing to remember about

the early upbringing of princess

elizabeth was that although she was a

princess she was not in line for the

throne

and i believe this gave her a modesty

that

people respect

i think the only thing she might allow

herself to feel

is to say

to her father

look i've done it

i've been queen for such a long time and

i've tried to do it

the way you taught me

there is a motel which has been born by

many of my ancestors

a noble motto

i serve

i should like to make their dedication

now

it is very simple

i declare before you all

with my whole life

whether it be long or short

shall be diverted to your service

enter the service of our great imperial

family to which we all belong

so

you