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[Robert] Look at how the great problems
of the Queen and

the monarchy in her lifetime
have been all about love

and marriage and sex.

[man over TV] The question a
lot of people here in Britain

are asking this morning is,
"Where's the Queen?"

[man] 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.

[Michael] The red light's on.

[Deborah]
We are interviewing Larry Adler,

friend to Prince Philip.

We are interviewing Commander
Michael Avison Parker.

We are interviewing
Lady Janet Mary Young.

[Dickie] For the first time
in her reign,

the Queen put
family before duty.

[man] We could now
be witnessing the end of the

monarchy and the
reigning Queen could

possibly be the last.

[theme music plays]

[Michael] 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.

[Pamela] When we were on that
Commonwealth tour,

and we were in Kenya.

And the people of Kenya,
had as a wedding present...

had given them
little Sagana Lodge.

[Michael] We had a day or so
there to do, to adjust,

rest, and do things.

Prince Philip went,
went to sleep in a,

in a little room that
was off to one side.

The Queen was at a desk,
writing letters.

The phone rang.

My colleague said,

"Mike, there's a ghastly rumor

going around that the
King has died."

And he was sitting amongst all the
press people there,

and then 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,
"I'm not suggesting you should."

Down went the phone.

I saw a radio on
the shelf above me.

And there's a, a door open to
where the Queen is sitting.

So I shut the door, and
switched on the radio,

and hunted about for the BBC,
and then I could hear

the bell of Big Ben.

I thought, "Ye gods."

So my hair stood up
a little bit more.

[man over radio]
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.

[Michael] And that was that.

So, I whizzed around into
where Prince Philip was

sleeping and told him.

His first reaction was one of
almost as though a huge weight

had hit him.

And he just stood there,

silently, in thought.

The implications to the fact
that she's becoming Queen.

And, then he straight, he straightened
himself up and he went in to

tell the Queen...

and she was, you know,

weeping desperately for
the loss of her father.

They walked up and down together,
very close.

And then she straightened up,

fully 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 had been working on,

and started to send all
these telegrams off,

round the Commonwealth and to
friendly countries like the

United States and so on.

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've all
got to go home."

As the plane was about to
touch down at London Airport,

and the Prime Minister
Winston Churchill,

and my parents and the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester,

and all the receiving line of the
cabinet were drawn up there

in their black clothes.

And she sort of leans across,
looks out,

and says, "Oh god, they've
sent the hearses."

Meaning that instead of her car,

one of the big black cars.

And somehow, the
way she said it,

one knew this twenty-five-year-old
realized that the

end of her
private life had come.

And that for the
rest of her life,

she would be a public figure
until the day she died.

[Elizabeth II] I ask you all, whatever
your religion,

to pray for me on the
day of my coronation.

[man over TV] And as the
storms of cheering surge with

the approaching procession
along the river, here,

in contrast, the abbey holds
its ancient peace.

[Tim] 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.

But I think she must have enjoyed those
training sessions with Papa...

because it was something so
special between those two.

Nobody else had it.

I remember her
once saying to me that,

"My father told me
I must always remember...

that whatever I said or did to anyone,
that they would remember it.

So if I showed disapproval, they will
remember that I showed disapproval."

Therefore I think she's very,
very careful not to

give any sort of impression that might
be construed as disapproval.

[man over TV]
The Duke of Edinburgh comes to vow

lifelong allegiance
to his Queen.

She's the Queen.

And he, perforce,
is the husband.

So what does the husband do?

[Robert] 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 a senior cadet.

And, of course, this
absolute Greek god.

And I think the princess fell headlong
in love with him at that moment.

The Queen was too young.
Nobody thought of her falling in love...

And remaining in love with that person
for the rest of her life.

I mean, she was a child!

[Hugo Vickers] But clearly, he made
a great impression on her,

and the romance, if you like,
developed rather gradually.

[Robert] 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.

I was at his bachelor party

the night before the wedding

to Princess Elizabeth.

He was scared.

His face was white.

This man just began to realize
what he was getting into.

And now he finds he
doesn't like it.

It was very much...

a conventional
British household.

He was very much the
man of the family.

He took the decisions.

She looked up to him...

in their private life.

Obviously, as Princess...

she had a lot of
official things to do.

But they were still able, with
these two small children...

to have this family group.

[Michael] Prince Philip was
basically a man.

And he was a big man.

And he was a man's man, too.

I think there must
have been moments

when it would have been
pretty heavy for him to take.

This extremely active

enthusiastic young man.

Who suddenly finds his...

whole life is going to
be taken away from him.

And probably thinking he
will become a yes man...

for the rest of his life.

This really devastated
their lives...

actually, as a married couple.

Could you tell me, what
is your job in your own mind?

Well, I haven't got one.
I'm self-employed.

But surely you must have
some clear idea of what role

you'll fulfill in
modern society.

Very difficult to answer.

[Ingrid] 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 househusband.

And he was the one that
looked after the children.

Not actually physically
looked after them,

but he organized them.

[Ann] When she became
Queen, they would see her perhaps for

half an hour in the
morning, 9:00,

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 gilt chair,

which would be brought
in by a lackey.

Not take part in bath time or splashing
or anything like that,

but just sit there
rather uneasily,

and then dash away
after half an hour.

I don't think it was,
you know, in that respect...

Prince Philip and, indeed,
the Queen were significantly

different from an awful of...

upper-middle class
British parents.

That was the way that you...

behaved and you didn't
cry in public...

you don't cuddle
in public, etc.

And, life may be a lot
more civilized now.

But it wasn't something
peculiar to...

to Prince Charles's
relationship with his parents.

And it wasn't...

that anybody was
being deliberately...

unkind...
or cold.

It was just that
that was the way... you did things.

What the Queen and the Duke did
with their children...

boarding school
would often have...

strict discipline...

and...
didn't always produce...

rounded human beings,
emotionally,

at the end of the process.

[Ingrid] You know, she's
really sacrificed

her family in a way.

Duty really came before
personal happiness,

and she had her work
and that came first.

[Nicholas] 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.

[man over TV] The arrival
of Princess Margaret and her

husband is greeted with
the cheers from the crowd,

the flashing lights,
and nervous children.

Dignified bedlam reigns.

Most adults remember
Margaret growing up

with her sister and the two
children were as loved by

Americans as they
were by Britons.

[man over TV] The British and
European press has tried to

make Margaret the subject of romance
with 29-year-old Roddy Llewellyn,

but despite pictures of them
in the Caribbean together,

there has been little
substance to back

up the perennial
gossipmongers.

[woman] 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 Snowdon.

They've been married
for 16 years,

but ten of those years have
reportedly been stormy,

and recent stories of princess
Margaret's involvement with a

28-year-old jetsetter named
Roddy Llewellyn provide

motivation for the
current separation talk.

Divorce is a thorny subject
for the British royal family.

She was a divorcée,
I think.

And the question of whether
it was appropriate for the

King of England to be married to
a lady who was twice divorced.

[man over radio]
This is London.

A quarter of 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.

[Edward VIII] 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.

[man] We therefore do now
hereby now proclaim

that the high and mighty Prince Albert
Frederick Arthur George

is now become

our only lawful
and rightful king.

God save the King!

The two girls were in the house of 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 the 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."

[man over TV] 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.

The Queen and Prince Philip very kindly

invited me to dinner
and we talked about this

very disturbing situation,
obviously.

But the Queen, I shall never forget, her
reaction was on of great sympathy,

although, no doubt, she harbored the
greatest anxiety, I expect.

Marriage seemed to be the
least likely solution.

[Hugo Vickers] 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.

[Nicholas] 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 advisors that it was not on.

Very painful for
all concerned.

[Camilla] It's sometimes been
misreported that 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 Clarence House,

by Her Royal Highness
Princess Margaret.

I would like it to be known
that I have decided...

not to marry 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.

[Camilla] 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.

[Nicholas] 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.

[Nick] 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.

[man] Fall back, please.

Fall back!

Fall back.
Fall back.

[man] I don't
mean to disturb you at all.

[woman] Will you please...

[man] We need to see, ma'am.

[cameras clicking]

[man over TV] It is a scene
of chaos and destruction.

This castle, dating back
to the ninth century,

the fire started in the
private chapel near to

St. George's Hall.

[woman] The events
read like a tabloid re-do

of Old Testament curses.

Plague and pestilence have
been replaced by fire, rumor,

and outright scandal, rocking
the British royal family.

[woman] With three broken marriages
among her four children,

the Queen's efforts to promote
an image of family harmony

are now under the
severest strain.

[Robert] 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 and
Peter Townsend later.

And that creates problems.

[man over TV] Buckingham
Palace has condemned the

publication of a series of photographs
of the Duchess of York

and the Texan
businessman John Bryan.

Divorce?

[man] Very well.

Never been mentioned.
By anybody.

I just feel very sad.

I think it's very sad when
two people who appear to be so

happy married quite
suddenly divorce.

[man over TV] 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 or one of my more
sympathetic correspondents,

it has turned out to be
an "Annus Horribilis".

No 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.

[Elizabeth II] 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 be witnessing
the end of the monarchy and

that the reigning Queen
could possibly be the last.

[woman] Britain's Queen Elizabeth
says she has had it.

It's time for Prince Charles and
Princess Diana to officially

end their troubled marriage.

[man over TV] 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 response
after the holidays.

[Ingrid] The Queen actually tried to
bring Diana under her wing,

but Diana was very reluctant.

I think,
the Diana phenomena...

obviously Charles couldn't handle it,
and neither could the Queen.

[man over TV] The Princess of Wales
embroiled now in a fresh

round of personal
controversy.

[man over TV] The polo-playing former
guards officer claims he had a

three-year affair
with the Princess.

[woman] This morning as she left her
exclusive London health club,

the Princess of Wales
was saying nothing.

[woman] Rugby star Will Carling and his
wife Julia are splitting up,

and everyone's asking,

"Is the Princess of
Wales to blame?"

[man over TV] 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 Dodi Al-Fayed

during a Mediterranean
cruise costs $400,000.

[woman] This is BBC One.

We have interrupted our
programs for a news report.

We now go over to Martin Lewis
in the news studio.

[over TV] 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.

[over TV] Just to
confirm the news that Diana,

Princess of Wales,
has died in a car accident in Paris,

which also killed
her companion, Dodi Fayed.

[over TV] The question a
lot of people here in Britain

are asking here 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 the Princess of Wales died, the
Queen was up at Balmoral

with the two little Princes
whose mother had been killed.

And yet, she was castigated

for not leaving them
and coming to London

to mourn in the streets with people
who'd never even met the Princess.

She had two grandchildren,

who must have been very cut up at their
mother's rather sudden death.

To rush them down to London

for the hype of publicity,
seemed to me unnecessary.

Why you could be less feeling at
Balmoral than at Buckingham Palace.

I do not know.

I'm now looking through the walls of the
shattered school into the main hall,

which is a mass of people
and firemen and policemen.

Mothers, fathers, brothers
and sisters, and everybody.

The South Wales disaster.

It's now feared that nearly
200 lives were lost

when the coal tip at Aberfan
near Merthyr Tydill

slid forward today.

[Gyles] One of the few
regrets that the Queen has

about her reign was that she
felt that she reacted too

slowly in Wales,
in a place called Aberfan

back in the 1960s.

[Gaynor] There's always been
a controversy and criticism

about the Queen not actually
coming earlier to Aberfan or

immediately to Aberfan,
because obviously Lord Snowdon

was the first royal to
actually come to Aberfan.

[Snowdon] Princess
Margaret couldn't understand why I

wanted to go down.

I just did, you know,
thought I, I must.

And I stayed there, just
going into people's houses,

making cups of tea.

They wanted to talk,

but they were in a state
of terrible shock.

[Gaynor] 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.

[man over radio] 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.

[Gaynor] I know with all the
tragedies in the world,

I think Aberfan has been the
main one that's touched the

Queen forever and
ever in a day, really,

until the day she dies.

[man over TV] 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 Queen's 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 wobbled,
it was in those

48 hours when they were
stuck up in Balmoral,

when the country wanted the
Queen in London and grieving.

[over TV] On the eve of
Princess Diana's funeral,

the royal family is
returning to London,

hoping in perhaps to quell
some of the criticism of their

actions since Diana's death.

[man over TV] The Queen's
convoy arrived in London.

As it swept up to
Buckingham Palace,

the limousine
halted at the gate,

and the Queen and Prince
Philip got out to take in the

mass of floral tributes.

[Ingrid] The Queen was actually
extremely nervous because she

could feel the hostility,
and actually she heard them say,

"Oh, it's about
time you've come."

You know, you, they could hear
an awful lot of things that

the crowd was saying.

And then, I think a woman
actually gave her a bunch

of flowers and she said,

"Would you like me to
place it for you?"

and the woman said,
"No, Ma'am, 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,
this is a grandmother

and she's got to
deal with all this."

[man over TV] 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 from the
Queen to speak to her subjects.

Any idea what she
will say today?

[Goldfarb] Uh, 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 at Diana's death.

So what I say to you now as
a 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
at 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
she left out at all.

I think it's
completely appropriate.

[man over TV] 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.

[Ingrid] At the funeral, the Queen
was very dignified and

she bowed her head when
Diana's coffin went past.

And It was spectacularly done.

[Elizabeth II] 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.

[over loudspeaker] 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 her 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 our country over
more than six decades.

In 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,

sent over 100,000
telegrams to centenarians

across the Commonwealth, and
met more people than any other

monarch in history.

She has served this country
with unerring grace, dignity,

and decency, and long may
she continue to do so.

[crowd] Yeah.

[Robert] 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."

[Elizabeth II] There is a motto which
has been borne by

many of my ancestors.

A noble motto, I serve.

I should like to make
that dedication now.

It is very simple.

I declare before you
all that my whole life,

whether it be long or short,
shall be devoted to your

service and to the service
of our great imperial family,

to which we all belong.