All language subtitles for Royal Stories_ Episode 8_ Royal Wives

is in the grip of a coalition government

we've seen a quarter of a million March

as one against the coalition stance the

country has just lived through the worst

recession in living memory I'm afraid to

tell you there's no money left but not

everyone is unhappy

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hundreds of thousands more will join

this crowd many are already settling

down for the night

you've even got monarchist socks on and

the pants to go with Prince William and

Kate Middleton are getting married on

sale Thank You royal collectibles are

selling like hotcakes even stars and

celebrities are joining it well either I

would send them some congratulatory

marijuana what I buy him a toaster

obviously I would send them a hand

beautifully handcrafted jewel-encrusted

ball Kate's life is about to change

Thank You fairy tale wedding of a

commoner marrying her Prince very much a

reality

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when Kate Middleton married Prince

William she became the most famous royal

wife on the planet and a future Queen of

England her profile was so great that

she transcended Britain's previous most

popular royal wives her husband's mother

Princess Diana she was the people's

princess and that's how she will stay in

our hearts and in our memories and her

late great grandmother in-law Queen

Elizabeth the Queen Mum

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at the turn of the 20th century the

future kings of England had little

choice in their partners

despite their status they had less

control over their future than most of

their subjects future wives were often

picked by royal parents from a pool of

eligible princesses from across Europe

each royal marriage was forged to

strengthen alliances and allegiances

ensuring peace and trade across the

continent Queen Victoria was the master

of this real Game of Thrones her nine

children were married off to the royal

families of Germany Denmark and Russia

when Edward the seventh died in 1910 his

funeral was attended by dozens of royal

heads of state most of whom were his

relatives but these family ties would be

of little use when four years later war

broke out across Europe the marriage

between the new King George the fifth

and the German born Mary of Teck could

not hold Europe together King George the

fifth visited Berlin with the peasant

female a far more vividly than the

colourless sentences of history books

these earlier pictures convey the

untiring efforts of the English royal

house to Wed the relations of Europe

into a peace nothing family the

peace-loving family was torn apart and

royal marriage making was never the same

again by the 1920s Britain's royal men

had graduated to choosing their own

women how times had changed

Klaus and previous relationships were

now the biggest considerations when the

heir to the British throne Edward Prince

of Wales and his younger brother Albert

started to hang out with married women

who were also Australian and American

the establishment and their royal family

was in up

édouard lost his throne when he refused

to give up his American divorcee but

Albert chose more wisely and became King

Lady Elizabeth bowes-lyon was to become

the most popular royal wife of modern

times though no one knew it then

Elizabeth was the youngest daughter of

the Earl of Strathearn from a noble line

of Scots that stretched back to the 14th

century

she was raised with nine siblings in

their ancestral home of gloms Castle a

huge medieval pile in the Scottish

lowlands her upbringing was religious

with a focus on the responsibility that

came with wealth but that didn't stop

her from regularly indulging in parties

cocktails and wicked humor at one party

in 1910 a fortune-teller is said to have

given Elizabeth a prediction you will

live to be a queen and the mother of a

queen when the Great War maimed and

injured thousands of soldiers gloms

was turned into a nursing home and a

teenage Elizabeth became the life and

soul of the Charis

she also showed a cool head when fire

broke out in the castle she was the only

member of the family at home she took

control and set up a human chain but

saved many of the families priceless

antiques Elizabeth started dating her

royal husband-to-be when she moved south

to London and attended one of the great

high society walls of the age she was

just 19 and it wasn't love at first

sight

Britain's latest royal wife first met

her husband-to-be

when they both signed up for the

University of st. Andrews

unlike Elizabeth bowes-lyon Kate had not

come from a line of aristocrats she

doesn't have a drop of royal blood in

her her ancestors include coal miners

and labourers and her second cousin

twice removed is a current burlesque

dancer and former playable model however

her parents former airline cabin crew

became multimillionaires after starting

a successful party business they live in

a Georgian mansion in the quaint village

of buck Aubrey in Berkshire Kate whose

younger sister Pippa was later to cause

a huge stir at the royal wedding

attended one of the best schools in

Britain Marlborough College popular

intelligent and good at sports Kate

holds the school's high jump record to

this day we played hockey together in

tennis and she was an incredible swimmer

but she was also quite famous for being

an a cricketer as well and a bit of a

touch rugby player she was pretty good

kate was also pretty good at acting in

school she played a woman who receives a

prediction but echoed that given to

Elizabeth bowes-lyon 80 years earlier

she reaches is it all I never hope for

people to love me Indy's you look grainy

and very long enough

this YouTube video becomes even more

amazing when you hear the name of the

man Kate falls in love yeah oh yeah the

fictional prediction started to come

true

at a university charity fashion show

when William paid 200 pounds to see Kate

walk down the catwalk in this outfit

there's one in particular sort of

semi-transparent very nice very

flattering dress he couldn't help but

notice her that was perhaps the time and

he really saw her as a little bit

special Prince William was smitten soon

William and Kate's had started a love

affair and in their second year like

millions of other students they shared a

flat with two friends in a terraced

house in a sand Andrews street renowned

for its parties the parties might have

been fun the Kate would soon find that

as with any royal romance the course of

true love rarely run smooth Elizabeth

bowes-lyon also have none usual start to

her relationship with her future king at

first she and Prince Albert were more

tennis partners than lovers Elizabeth

who valued her freedom saw the life of a

royal wife as far too restricted and

twice turned down Albert's marriage

proposals his brother Edward met with

Elizabeth to try and persuade her to

marry Albert and at least one newspaper

of the day got the wrong end of the

stick reporting that Elizabeth was to

Wed the Prince of Wales when it was

finally announced that Elizabeth was to

marry the Duke of York she agreed to

talk to the press giving a candid

interview in which she revealed the true

story of their courtship multiple

proposals no engagement ring and worst

of all

Albert's private nickname was Bertie and

new in-laws to be responded quickly by

banning her from speaking directly to

the press again a royal edict she was to

follow for the rest of her life in the

1920s there was no such thing as a press

pack or 24/7 news Elizabeth bowes-lyon

was left alone

unlike Kate Middleton in 2007 more of a

hunted animal than a potential fiance of

a future king

Britain's paparazzi were now hounding

Kate around the clock even a fairly

average photo of her made the cover of

this magazine and she's not just there

through being Prince William's

girlfriend she's there as a fashion icon

as gossip column fodder even as a role

model it means people are interested in

her it means people can make money off

her while at official engagements Kate

was to some extent protected and press

inclusion there was suddenly interest in

every aspect of her life her treatment

through parallels with the way William's

mother Lady Diana was treated when she

became engaged to Prince Charles Paul

will you coping with all the present

tension as you can see you can tell you

bearing up with her quite well it was it

must be quite a strain with all of us

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Prince William would tell her about her

like his mother that the trauma she had

their distress she had the one thing

that you could say about Kate that she

would think things through for herself

we don't know a lot about Kate she's

kept herself quite protected she's given

no interviews

she said nothing and

a model of discretion but even the model

of discretion couldn't second-guess the

tactics of the press when she wouldn't

talk they'd read her lips it was at

Sandhurst at Williams passing a parade

the cake made her first official

appearance as Prince William's

girlfriend while William founded the

parade ground in front of his

grandmother mom lip-reader

reveals her innermost thoughts to be I

love him

uniform so so sexy not a remark you'd

often hear in royal circles the constant

attention of the cameras eventually took

its toll and Kate tried to put a stop to

it by complaining officially to

Britain's Press Complaints Commission

the photograph in today's Daily Mirror

shows Kate Middleton just walking down

the street carrying a cup of coffee but

alongside they say she looks stony-faced

perhaps they say it's because she's fed

up with Prince William today's complaint

to the Press Complaints Commission

suggests she's fed up with anyone it's

with photographers she's got to expect

to some photos to be taken if she's out

in public she's got to expect us to

leader

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royal weddings are now

multimillion-pound events no matter who

the bride is or how rich or poor her

family really are for these lavish

occasions the father of the bride cannot

possibly afford to pick up the tab for

the newly betrothed couple the guests

emotes are coming thick and fast the

actual cost between 20 and 40 million

with a potential security bill in the

tens of millions

they do say organizing a wedding can be

the most stressful time of your life in

1923 when Elizabeth bowes-lyon and

Prince Albert got married there was far

less stress and they didn't have to pay

for the wedding cake a famous cake and

biscuit maker came up with one of the

biggest ever made a 300 pound ten-foot

tall cake with icing miniatures of gloms

and Windsor Castle they charged six

months of time to see it and thousands

stood in line for hours for the actual

wedding seats were sold at between 250

and 5,000 pounds at today's prices the

streets of London were filled with

people eager to catch a glimpse of the

beautiful bride and chose an unusual

medieval style wedding dress her groom

wore the uniform of a royal airforce

group captain complete with a chest full

of medals when it came to Kate

Middleton's wedding her in-laws to be in

the new age of austerity made sure costs

were kept within reason waving in some

of the grandeur of when Prince Charles

married Diana at that time three million

people were unemployed but the event

reportedly cost as much as 30 million

they invited three and a half thousand

guests by comparison

Princess Elizabeth in 1947 saved up

ration cards to purchase the fabric

needed for her dress there were two

thousand invited guests Kate and

William's wedding was mostly funded by

the Queen and Prince Charles with the UK

taxpayer picking up the security bill

security for the Royal Wedding will

involve thousands of extra police

officers many of them lining the route

between Buckingham Palace and

Westminster Abbey problem is paying

those officers for the day will actually

cause the Met millions of extra pounds

worth of overtime Kate and William also

had a giant cake eight tiers of it not a

freebie this time but one paid for

personally by her mum and dad they also

bought her wedding dress it was in this

that the woman who never looks bad had

never looked better her dress had come

from the fashion house of the late great

Alexander McQueen designed by his

successor Sarah Burton demure long lace

sleeves a corset saturd top which flared

from the waist her lace veils sheer

enough to show her every expression

expressions are an important part of

being a successful royal wife in the

1920s Elizabeth bowes-lyon was so

radiant she became known as the smiling

Duchess

when she unexpectedly found herself

queen alongside her husband King George

the six she continued to smile and one

even more for us

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth receives the

crown of glory honor and joy they got in

rich your royal heart with his abundant

grace and with everlasting gladness in

the life that is to come the new Queen's

crown of glory was specially made for

her platinum with 2,800 diamonds as the

threat of war with Germany depressed

Europe Britain's king and queen made a

state visit to France it was expected to

be a Samba in black affair because

Elizabeth's mother had died three weeks

earlier Elizabeth got her favorite

fashion designer Norman Hartnell to

create an entire white wardrobe it

caused a sensation and won her a legion

of fans it is a gracious unfailing

channel between have won the respect and

affection of the whole

one diplomat said we have taken your

queen to our hearts from now on she

rules over two nations fifty years later

Princess Diana

assumed Elizabeth's role as the Royal

fashion icon

whatever she wore became a must-have and

that included the styles and customs she

adopted when on royal visits Elizabeth's

influence was still being felt in 2015

when the president of China Xi Jinping

made his first state visit to Britain

Kate wore a diamond studded tiara passed

down from Elizabeth's collection her

sparkling designer gown matched the

Chinese flag how charming the Queen

looks she is wearing a Finland gown of

silver and gold with white furs in the

glittering tiara in the late thirties

Elizabeth's wardrobe cheered a nation

being dragged into war one that would

put her husband in the frontline without

freedom

there can be no enduring peace and

without fee no enduring leader and she

firmly by his side the King's Speech

made it difficult for him to communicate

but he made up for it by personally

supporting the Armed Forces while

Elizabeth became the royal face on the

homefront when Hitler's bombs destroyed

the East End of London during the night

she was there the next day dressed in

pastel shades to show compassion and

hope Britain's wartime leaders noticed

that when Elizabeth visited munitions

factories productivity shotta

she also became the champion of the

women who now mans the factories in a

hundred ways you have fill the places of

the men who've gone away to fight you

our work whatever it may be is just as

valuable just as much more work as that

which is done by the bravest soldier

sailor or airman who actually meets the

enemy in Bevin the enemy had already

noticed a woman who had never been

taught how to be a queen Adolf Hitler

dubbed her the most dangerous woman in

Europe and the guard of honour of the

Royal Navy the Army and the Royal Air

Force dipped our colours in Reverend

homage

to a king leaving his capital forever

after the death of her husband in 1952

Elizabeth became the Queen Mother as her

daughter took the throne she quickly

became the nation's favorite granny as

the new Queen's children were born and

raised and she made sure that the entire

family followed her devotion to royal

duty and service to the country later in

life the Queen Mum became a media

personality in her own right

the satirical puppet show spitting image

characterized her as a gin drinking

royal matriarch who just loved to have a

good time in the year 2000 it was as she

celebrated her 100th birthday the first

British royal to do so it wasn't only

her family we turned out to wish her

well 40,000 members of the British

public were there too

apart from being Britain's favorite oil

for most of the 50 years she was the

Queen Mum Elizabeth was a guiding light

for her daughter the Queen

according to royal insiders they spoke

every single day of their lives when the

Queen Mother died at the age of 101

everyone mourned the loss of a national

treasure when the Queen Mother first

became a royal wife women were still

campaigning for equal voting rights

during her lifetime in bad times and

good she saw massive change as a royal

Elizabeth was never able to exert

political influence however she became

patron of more than 350 charities many

of them connected to disability or

social injustice even when homosexuality

was illegal she surrounded herself with

gay stars and friends when a

Conservative government minister

admonished her for recruiting gay people

the Queen Mother replied without them

we'd have to go self-service it was her

daughter Elizabeth who signed into

British law the equal marriage Act of

2013 the royal wives who followed her

broke many of the royal traditions and

protocols she had held dear Diana caught

the mood of 1980s feminism when she

refused to vow to obey when she married

Prince Charles and her subsequent public

feud with the family and divorce from

the heir to the throne was not what

royal wives were supposed to do

Kate Middleton has also changed the way

the House of Windsor is perceived by

being commonly known as Kate rather than

the Duchess Cambridge or Princess Kate

she is very much one of us the genuine

people princesses everything to life and

nothing to dislike how great a sight

kate has caused a stir by using her

royal status to bring mental health

issues amongst children into the

forefront of her charitable work I often

get asked why I decided to spend time

highlighting the mental health of

children since beginning my work in

areas like addiction for example I had

seen time and time again that the roots

of poor mental health in adulthood are

almost always present in unresolved

childhood challenges this was the

Duchess doing what she does best making

herself at home among the children at

the Harlem based mental health center

immediately making one new friend who

then introduced her to all his friends

the staff were more than impressed oh

she got on her knees to play with them

which was great Misha's partners she got

on her knees to play with my children if

it all looked a little familiar there's

a good reason

25 years ago Princess Diana visited

Harlem the similarities are striking and

not lost on the American media following

in the footsteps of royal wives before

her kate has put her huge popularity to

good use bringing light to taboo

subjects around the world they are

fascinated with William and Kate and in

particular the Duchess whose every

public move is accompanied by the

clicking of countless cameras

in that spotlight it was again towards

the children that she was drawn she

feels comfortable with them it's clearly

reciprocated look at the face of the

little boy shaking her hand who can now

tell his friends he's met the future

Queen of England

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