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elizabeth ii
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queen of the united kingdom
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service of her country for 70 years
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there's nobody else on earth that has
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that experience
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although she wears the imperial state
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crown the political power in her kingdom
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is wielded by others
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14 prime ministers have held office
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during her reign
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tradition demands that once a week they
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report to her majesty at buckingham
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palace
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all of them come to find it one of the
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most treasured moments of the week
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these meetings are strictly confidential
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it has never ever leaked from buckingham
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palace ever
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what a queen
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has said to a prime minister or prime
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minister to the queen
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we take a look behind the facade and we
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discover secret power games rivalries
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but also
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genuine friendships
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the british love their queen
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maybe because she doesn't talk about
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politics
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it's often said she's never put a foot
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wrong and that is true
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but she has understood the importance of
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silence
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of not expressing her opinions
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of not reacting
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10 downing street is the headquarters of
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her majesty's government
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from here the prime minister starts
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every week on a little business trip to
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buckingham palace for their weekly
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audience with the queen
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the queen has already met 14 prime
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ministers
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the first was winston churchill her
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paternal friend
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particularly close was her relationship
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with prime minister number five
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the labour lefty harold wilson
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at the end of the 70s the first female
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prime minister margaret thatcher the
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iron lady
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equally difficult was her relationship
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with tony blair
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neither he nor her latest prime minister
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boris johnson were born when she held
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her first audience in 1952.
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we the rest of us in britain love this
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we love the idea that once a week the
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prime minister even if we voted for him
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has to go and bow the knee to somebody
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that's his greatest significance of all
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that once a week
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the powerful prime minister with all his
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connections and everything has to go
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and give an account has to literally
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bow the knee
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to
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somebody who represents something bigger
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than him
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during the audience the queen listens
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more than she talks
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but she's always well prepared and
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guides the conversation by asking the
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right questions
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during her youth elizabeth spends many
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carefree summers in the countryside
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she is a conscientious modest
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down-to-earth girl
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i think the secret to understand
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elizabeth ii's success is to realize she
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was not born to be a queen
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for the first 11 years of her life she
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was royal
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she developed all the reverence for
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royalty for her grandfather george v but
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there was no prospect of her becoming
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queen so it never went to her head
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i think the fact that she is not a
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conceited person
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is the essence of her success
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suddenly in 1936
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her grandfather whom she actually called
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grandpa england
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died
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to be succeeded by
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uncle david as she called him that was
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king edward viii
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and within months king edward viii is
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wanting to marry an american divorcee
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he's being thrown out of his job by the
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british people
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um who's to take his place the
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stuttering george vi
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he had
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an enormous
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respect for the monarchy
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and the constitutional monarchy in
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particular and that's what he inculcated
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into his
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daughter
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but then the second world war breaks out
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even during the blitz prime minister
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winston churchill and the royal family
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stay in london to boost the morale of
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their people
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during the victory celebrations on the
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8th of may 1945
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one million britons celebrate
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elizabeth's family and their prime
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minister
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the close relationship between her
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father and his people impresses
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elizabeth so much that she makes a
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solemn vow on her 21st birthday i
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declare before you all
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that my whole life
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whether it be long or short
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shall be devoted to your service
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enter the service of our great imperial
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family to which we all belong
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soon on the 6th of february 1952 she has
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to fulfill her pledge
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her father dies of lung cancer
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elizabeth cancels a holiday trip winston
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churchill greets her back home
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everybody who lived through it will
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remember the moment
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when the door opened and this
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young girl appeared
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at the top the first time really
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of many occasions in her reign that she
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brought reassurance to the country
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out of respect for her father elizabeth
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waits 16 months before she is finally
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crowned on the 2nd of june 1953.
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for months she's prepared herself for
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this moment and worked through state
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papers
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three million spectators cheer the young
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woman who at this moment becomes queen
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of the united kingdom and of 15 other
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countries
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her old friend winston churchill becomes
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her first prime minister
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seventy-eight-year-old churchill has
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known elizabeth since she was born
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when she was only two years old she
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already impressed him with her authority
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and thoughtfulness
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now during their first audience it
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becomes clear that he feels a lot more
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than just respect for her
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i think the queen valued my
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grandfather's experience
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and he of course loved the queen and he
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did love her i mean he really all his
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she aroused in him
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all his romantic ideas of
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sovereignty and monarchy
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and the new elizabethan age which he
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referred to
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but they also have their differences
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churchill fought five wars for the
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empire and he wants to retain britain's
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global supremacy by force if necessary
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elizabeth on the other hand favors a
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loose confederation of states
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five months after her coronation she
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embarks on a world tour to promote the
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commonwealth
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churchill doesn't think much of this
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idea
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my grandfather was a child of a
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victorian empire
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you wouldn't expect him i think to be
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overjoyed
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probably but he was a pragmatist
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churchill and he
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understood the movement of events and
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history and time
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but unlike his young queen
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churchill finds it difficult to accept
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britain's new role in the world
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he fights against the dissolution of the
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empire increasingly he is plagued by
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depression my grandmother tried very
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hard to get him to retire after the war
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and to end his
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his political career and a great wave of
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glory
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but he couldn't he was like an old war
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horse you know he couldn't give it up
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then churchill has a stroke
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officially he says that he suffers from
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exhaustion
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but elizabeth knows the truth
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she must have been very moved by the
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occasion because
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you know this was her first prime
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minister she had her known him all her
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natural life
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uh it was the end of an era
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the end of a year as you say at the end
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of you know looking back at the end of
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the empire in a way
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a single euro
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in the years after elizabeth settles
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into her position as head of state
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each year she opens parliament in a
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lavish ceremony and each year she reads
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a speech that she hasn't written the
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prime minister puts his words into her
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mouth
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today
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for the first time
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this ceremony is being watched not only
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by those who are present in this chamber
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but by many millions of my subjects
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elizabeth is britain's best ambassador
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she meets marilyn monroe and other
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hollywood stars
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the queen who doesn't have a passport
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makes 43 state visits during the first
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10 years of her reign she is britain's
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most important diplomat
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back home her kingdom is in upheaval
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the 60s usher in a new era the young
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rebel against tradition
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after decades of conservative rule the
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britons want somebody who's a bit more
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modern
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the new prime minister is called harold
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wilson the labour party leader
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everybody the establishment were
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absolutely terrified of wilson when he
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was in power i mean it was what was he
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going to do next
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elizabeth's conservative advisors warn
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her wilson's supposed to be a lefty and
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plans a social revolution
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there was quite a lot of trepidation in
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buckingham palace as to what this chat
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would be like but to their surprise they
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found that wilson himself was quite a
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monarchist a royalist
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elizabeth's advisors forget that harold
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wilson is not only the leader of the
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labour party but also an oxford don
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wilson i think was
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the first to treat her as an equal
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um and and
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not look down on her uh and certainly to
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make it clear that he wasn't looking
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down on her
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but wilson's government is facing huge
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problems
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the industry is still suffering from the
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consequences of the war and exports are
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low because trade with the former
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colonies has broken down
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the workers revolt against wilson they
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want him to nationalize the coal and
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steel industries and go on strike
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the palace doesn't understand the rift
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between the workers and the labour party
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but the prime minister can explain
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he saw himself
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as teaching her a lot about
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whole sections of of her kingdom which
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she didn't really know from first hand
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you know from firsthand she knew this
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the kind of things that um old-fashioned
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conservative prime ministers did like
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going shooting and having grand country
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house parties but she didn't really know
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about the trade unions he didn't really
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know about how the labour party worked
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interestingly over the years harold
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wilson's audiences with the queen with
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the queen's agreement
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became longer and longer and he would
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stay for drinks afterwards
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that has never happened before
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alcohol used to be tabooed during the
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audiences now brandy and jyn are being
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served
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the prime minister spends his summer
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holidays with his family in cornwall
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picnicking and golfing harold wilson
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loves the country life
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just like his queen she traditionally
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spends her summer holidays up in
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scotland and invites all prime ministers
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for a weekend to balmoral
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on the second day um a big barbecue is
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cooked
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and it's cooked by the duke of edinburgh
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and the queen herself does the washing
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up and
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harold wilson thought it was great to to
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go to belmore
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but in the industrial cities of the
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north the riots are becoming more
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violent high inflation rates
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unemployment and endless strikes turn
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britain into the sick man of europe
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march 1976 after eight years in power
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the exasperated prime minister requests
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a private audience with the queen
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he's i did ask him myself about why he
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resigned he said you know it's because
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i've been here so long that i've seen
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the questions
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coming round and they're coming round
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again and coming around again
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and i don't have any new answers so i
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decided it was time to go
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over the next three years an ambitious
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grocer's daughter from lincolnshire
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fights her way to the top of the
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conservative party
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yes i am an iron lady
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after all it wasn't a bad thing to be an
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iron duke
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margaret thatcher's success is the
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result of hard work
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the advertising agency sachi and sachi
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designed her campaign she employed a
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style consultant and a voice coach
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britain was unique in these years
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we had a head of state
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and the chief executive who were both
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female stuffy al britton was ahead of
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the game in this sense
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and you have these two women
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um a woman who loved confrontation
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that's mrs thatcher
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with a woman the queen who'd do anything
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to avoid an argument i mean one of the
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reasons the queen is a successful
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constitutional monarch is that she much
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prefers to agree than disagree she hates
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arou
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margaret thatcher immediately
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deregulates the financial markets the
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stock market is booming
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but the gap between the rich and the
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poor widens
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the ladies not for turning
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she quells protests with force
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there was more social unrest
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riots
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strikes um and lack of
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social cohesion under margaret thatcher
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than at any other time um because
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partly because she felt she had to grasp
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the nettle and her style was was
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confrontational and
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there is evidence that that um the queen
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herself was was deeply unhappy about
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what what
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uh went on for a lot of the time under
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mrs thatcher
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the two ladies also disagree on foreign
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affairs
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the commonwealth countries want thatcher
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to take a stance against the apartheid
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regime in south africa
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but the prime minister doesn't want to
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be bothered with the problems of the
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commonwealth
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african countries were fed up with white
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britain effectively supporting slowing
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down the sanctions and they knew that
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margaret thatcher was part of this she
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had actually delayed debates
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stopped debates in the british
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parliament about sanctions
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against thatcher's will elizabeth
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traveled to a meeting of commonwealth
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countries effectively supporting their
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claims
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thatcher must give in and is forced to
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the sidelines
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and at home the royal family is more
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popular than ever
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on the 29th of july 1981 prince charles
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marries diana spencer
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on the day it was wonderful it was just
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the whole nation celebrated you know it
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was a lovely fairy tale love story
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there's never been another wedding in my
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view
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that could equal it it was just
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wonderful the bride was the most
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beautiful
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the whole world was interested in that
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wedding
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the sad thing was that the prince wasn't
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thatcher's popularity is tumbling as she
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introduces the poll tax
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a quarter of a million people take to
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the streets in london alone
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rioting breaks out and more than 100
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people are injured the country is in
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turmoil
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in the end even her own party has had
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enough of margaret thatcher
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john major succeeds her she leaves
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downing street in tears
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the queen was very upset by the way in
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which mrs thatcher was
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deposed by the conservative party and
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she told somebody that all right miss
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such a may have been tired and things
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but it was a horrible way that it was
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done and that's why i think it was very
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important that there was the queen kind
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of waiting in the wings
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politically elizabeth's kingdom returns
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to normal but suddenly her family life
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becomes a target for the tabloid press
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in 1992 her son andrew and his wife
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sarah separate
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and then charles and diana's marriage
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breaks up
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she's been on the throne a long time and
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now it's all
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falling apart she was called the mother
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of a dysfunctional family
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they all thought that um
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you know it was her fault that her
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children had bad marriages i mean the
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monarchy was
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under threat because people thought well
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what's the point of having a monarchy
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like that you know they're all
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scandals going on all the time and
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it was just a disaster
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during a reception in november the queen
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shows her true feelings
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1992
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is not a year
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on which i shall look back with
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undiluted pleasure
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the words of one of my more sympathetic
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correspondence
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it has turned out to be an anus
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horribilis
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the mood in the country is bleak
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john major's government seems lackluster
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britain is yearning for a fresh start
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43 year old tony blair is the labour
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party's new hope he promises to change
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things
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and indeed on the 2nd of may 1997
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tony blair enters downing street with a
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landslide victory
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blair came into office with an enormous
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majority so i think it would have been
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quite natural that the palace might have
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been a little bit scared as to what he
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was going to do with it as it were and
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you know he he was very very cocky when
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he started out
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he he walked to the state opening of
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parliament holding his wife's hand which
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made the state procession look slightly
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sort of antiquated at least that was the
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impression it was all new labor it was
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always you know cool britannia it was
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all
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everything was going to change things
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were going to apparently get better
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during their first audience elizabeth
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cuts her self-confident prime minister
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down to size
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when tony blair first
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became prime minister his very first
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audience with the queen he told me the
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queen said
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ah mr blair
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welcome to your first audience as prime
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minister
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of course my first prime minister was
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winston churchill
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and you weren't even born then
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and he said that put me in my place
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straight away
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just three months after blair takes
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office princess diana dies in a car
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accident
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her death is a test for the relationship
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between the queen and her prime minister
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elizabeth is on summer vacation in
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balmoral
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she hears the news of diana's death in
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the morning
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the queen's first
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concern
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was her grandsons
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william and harry
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she said to prince charles we must take
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the radios out of their rooms
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then she clicked on the television
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across all the channels and of course
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every channel
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had pictures of the dead princess that
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crash
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her life was endlessly rehashed
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um
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she said we've got to get them out we've
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got to get them up on the hills
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organize a barbecue for them this
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evening
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her preoccupation
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was
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with her own family
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and she forgot that she had another
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family down in england
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us
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tony blair however comforts the grieving
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nation straight away
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just hours after the accident he steps
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up to the microphones
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prime minister can we please have your
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reaction to the news
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i feel like
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everyone else in this country today
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utterly
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devastated
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[Music]
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our thoughts and prayers are with
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princess diana's family
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in particular her two
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sons the two boys
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her hearts go out to them
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she was the people's princess
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and that's how she will
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stay how she will remain
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in our hearts and in our memories
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forever
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the grief over diana's death turns into
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rage against the silent queen
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the newspapers attack elizabeth
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the extraordinary emotions that came out
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in the in the country
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the gap between that and and the way the
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royal family seemed totally standoffish
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and everything like that
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and blair
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did advise
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the queen via prince charles as to how
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she the queen
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should behave and this is
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he'd only been prime minister for about
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three months to to be advising the
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monarch as to how she should behave
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towards her own people was quite a
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tricky thing
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[Music]
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the queen and her prime minister confer
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every day he urges her to address the
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nation
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[Music]
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i guess history will say that
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the
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the
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the week in which um
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the queen was slow to come back from
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balmoral was
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a mistake not necessarily a personal
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mistake but a mistake of the institution
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um
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actually
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i think it's unfair because
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it was
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for the best of reasons
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to protect
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the grandsons at the most terrible time
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after their mother's death
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but it that history judges harshly and
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that that will be one of the judgements
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five days after diana's death elizabeth
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finally returns to london
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[Music]
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downing street and the palace agree that
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the queen must make a speech showing
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that she shares the grief of the people
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the queen's private secretaries mull
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over the wording
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[Music]
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just at the last minute they sent it to
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downing street
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not for approval but to see if they had
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any ideas and it was campbell who
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diffidently suggested on tony blair's
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behalf
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could
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her majesty perhaps say speaking as a
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grandmother and they grabbed it
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so what i say to you now as your queen
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and as a grandmother
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i say from my heart
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first i want to pay tribute to diana
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myself
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she was an exceptional and gifted human
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being
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in good times and bad
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she never lost her capacity to smile and
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laugh
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nor to inspire others with her warmth
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and kindness
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[Music]
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thanks to blair's bright idea the queen
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wins back the hearts of the people
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but her relationship with the prime
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minister remains difficult
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at her 50th wedding anniversary blair
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blabs about the highly confidential
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audience for a moment elizabeth loses
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her eternal smile
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actually your majesty's closing words to
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me at buckingham palace on tuesday at
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the end of our our weekly session where
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please don't be too effusive
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no british prime minister can afford
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such a mishap maybe one of the reasons
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why blair's audiences with elizabeth are
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often over after just 20 minutes
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queen
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with a keen sense of humor
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and amenability for mimicry
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in the end blair loses both popular and
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political support
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he vacates downing street to make room
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for his successor gordon brown
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brown's government is hapless and after
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only three years he has to make way for
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david cameron a tory
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the queen's 12th prime minister
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in 2011 prince william and kate's fairy
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tale wedding makes the monarchy more
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popular than ever
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[Music]
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politically however the united kingdom
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is facing one of the biggest crises in
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its history
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brexit
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although david cameron is against
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britain leaving the eu he promises his
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people a referendum he hopes this will
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strengthen his position as prime
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minister
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above all he doesn't expect to be
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defeated
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[Applause]
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but he's wrong
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in june 2016
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a wafer thin majority of 52 percent of
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britain's voted to leave the eu
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the british people have made a very
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clear decision to take a different path
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cameron resigns
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his successor theresa may has the
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difficult task of making brexit happen
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brexit means brexit and we are going to
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make a success of it
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the second female prime minister in
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british history has a good working
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relationship with the queen but she is
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unpopular within her party and with the
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people
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after three years she finally gives up
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[Music]
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while the government stumbles from
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crisis to crisis the royals add some
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glamour to the tristess
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in may 2018 megan and harry get married
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at the time no one would have guessed
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that the marriage would soon spark a
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major family row among the windsors
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in july 2019 boris johnson replaces
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theresa may and becomes elizabeth's 14th
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prime minister
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when he was born she had already been on
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the throne for 12 years
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johnson's government stands for much
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that runs counter to elizabeth's
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principles
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nationalism confrontation and disruption
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and what does the queen think about
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brexit
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[Music]
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it's complicated to even try and go into
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what the queen thinks about anything of
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a political bent because she's spent her
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entire life on the throne being
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politically impartial and
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actually rather inscrutable because
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she's never given any interviews and
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therefore it's probably quite difficult
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to determine whether she was for or
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against
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leaving the eu when it came to the
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referendum
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early 2020 the united kingdom leaves the
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eu
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the brexiteers celebrate
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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but brexit is far from over
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johnson faces months of difficult
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negotiations with the eu
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the prospect of a disorderly exit
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exacerbates the economic crisis
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brexit is followed by mexit harry and
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megan retire from royal life in january
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2020
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their accusations too much control by
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the palace racism too much media hype
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megan even speaks of suicidal thoughts
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the usa is to become their new free home
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without financial support from the royal
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family
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a heavy blow for the queen
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so she's having to deal with it both as
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a grandmother and a great grandmother
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but also as head of the monarchy and
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there is this sense that you have to
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preserve the monarchy
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no one or two people are bigger than the
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institution itself
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and that's what she ultimately did
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[Music]
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2020 turns into another anna's herbalist
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for the queen
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besides brexit and mexico covet hits the
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country particularly hard
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the nhs is overwhelmed intensive care
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units are overcrowded
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great britain is recording high death
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rates
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several members of the royal family
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become infected the queen and her
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husband go into isolation at windsor
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castle
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initially the audiences with johnson are
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only held by telephone the queen no
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longer leaves her home
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london turns into a ghost town
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prime minister johnson gets infected and
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governs from home
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but then his condition deteriorates
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he has to go into intensive care a
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government crisis is looming
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in this extraordinary situation the
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queen becomes a symbol for stability
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once again
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there's a sense that she's the mother of
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the nation as well as head of state and
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particularly throughout cronover iris
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she's been proved to be
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a woman of wisdom and experience and the
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type of person that the public turns to
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in a time of crisis
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johnson survives
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nevertheless the british continue to
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suffer from covid but also from the
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economic crisis
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[Music]
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politically johnson can finally
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celebrate her success
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after months of tough negotiations
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london and brussels agree on a trade
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deal
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a no deal brexit has been averted thank
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you all very much thank you
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johnson has achieved his goal but brexit
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has deeply divided british society
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all the more important that the queen
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remains strictly neutral in this
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conflict
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[Music]
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on top of brexit and covid she now
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worries about her husband
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for over 70 years prince philip has been
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the man at her side
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but in spring 2021 his health
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deteriorates
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[Music]
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the 9th of april becomes probably the
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most difficult day in queen elizabeth's
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life
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prince philip dies
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two months before his 100th birthday
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[Music]
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they had been married since 1947
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[Music]
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the britons mourn with their queen
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the next few weeks are hard for the
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queen
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but with her typical sense of duty she
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soon resumes her public engagements
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whether brexit makes it covid or the
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death of her husband her duties take
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priority
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[Music]
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two months after the death of prince
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philip
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she and boris johnson opened the g7
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summit in cornwall
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her greatest success is her continuity
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her ability to move with the times and
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not look like a
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fusty fuddy-daddy old reactionary
870
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on the other hand could she have moved a
871
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:49,359
little bit more could she have seemed a
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00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,119
little bit more human but
873
00:40:49,359 --> 00:40:52,880
the great
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00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:54,880
victorian constitutional historian
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00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,720
walter badgett said
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be very careful
877
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don't let daylight shine in on the magic
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and it's a very very uh difficult
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balance
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00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:09,920
and i think she's left some daylight
881
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shine in and it hasn't spoiled the magic
882
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during the past 70 years the queen has
883
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helped more than three and a half
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thousand audiences with her prime
885
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,760
ministers
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00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,960
no one has more experience in office and
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no one talks less about it
888
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:28,000
elizabeth's power lies in her acts not
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in her words
890
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,280
my lord's pray be seated
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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,680
she has never openly interfered with
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00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,680
politics
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00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,200
my government's priority
894
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,599
has always been
895
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:44,240
to secure the united kingdom's departure
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from the european union but every prime
897
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:49,200
minister knows
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00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:51,040
governing with queen elizabeth is smart
899
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,400
governing against her
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is impossible
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