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[NEWS VENDOR]
Queen's critic is at it again!
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Peer attacks the Queen!
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[MAN] Thank you.
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Queen's critic!
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Queen's critic is at it again!
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- Good morning, Jack.
- Good morning, sir.
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I'll take one of each
this morning, please.
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- And the Sunday as well.
- Oh, a bit of light reading, eh?
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That's right.
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Queen's critic is at it again!
Peer attacks the Queen!
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No, I shan't have anything.
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Sorry, dear.
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[CHATTERING]
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- I think he's right.
- Do you?
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Yeah. Now I think about it,
she is a bit priggish.
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- [COUPLE LAUGHS]
- [BELL DINGS]
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[CHATTERING]
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Here he comes, here he comes.
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[MAN] There he is.
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- [POLICEMAN] Please, gentlemen.
- [POLICEMAN 2] Don't push.
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- Lord Altrincham?
- Yes.
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[CROWD GASPS]
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You traitor!
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[CROWD CHATTERING]
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[TICKING]
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Really?
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Really?
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Really?
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Well, I shall certainly let
Her Majesty know. Thank you.
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[TICKING]
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Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
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[CHUCKLES] Wait for no man,
Private Secretary.
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- [ADEANE] Good afternoon to you.
- Good afternoon, sir.
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[DOOR OPENS]
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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
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[SIGHS]
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[DOOR CLOSES]
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What is it now?
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Lord Altrincham has been struck.
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Dumb, I hope.
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Better than that, ma'am.
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In the face.
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Quite forcefully, I'm told.
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By whom?
Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
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Afraid we don't have
those details yet, ma'am.
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The incident occurred
outside the television studios,
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and the perpetrator is now on his way
to the Bow Street Police Station,
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where we expect him to be released
without charge.
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How very gratifying.
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Yes. Very.
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Which television studios?
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The Independent Television
Network Studios, ma'am,
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where Altrincham had
just recorded an interview.
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For what?
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A program appropriately called Impact.
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When will it air?
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Tonight, ma'am. Nine o'clock.
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[CLOCKS CHIMING]
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[IMPACT THEME MUSIC PLAYS ON TELEVISION]
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[ANNOUNCER ON TELEVISION] Tell
the people. Tell them on television.
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Questions in the public mind,
answered by people in the public eye.
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This is Impact, the program that examines
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the most important matters of the moment
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- and brings the debate to you at home.
- [PHILIP] Sorry I'm late.
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[ANNOUNCER] Robin Day puts the questions.
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It's just starting.
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Tonight, we have a man who,
because of press activity in recent days,
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probably needs no introduction,
Lord Altrincham.
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In the space of just a few days,
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his inflammatory
and deeply personal attacks on the Queen
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in a periodical of which
he is also publisher,
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have become the most pressing issue
of the day
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and caused something
of a constitutional crisis.
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So, I'd like to begin by asking
Lord Altrincham a simple question.
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She's our head of state,
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loved, respected and admired
throughout the world,
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so why do you hate her so very much?
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[NEWS VENDORS SHOUTING]
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[NEWS VENDOR] Nationaland English Review, two shillings!
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Your National and English Review!
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- Morning, Fred!
- Good morning, sir.
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National and English Review,
two shillings!
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[ALTRINCHAM] ...far too long.
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People are beginning to notice,
and that is why the...
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And that is why the ending
of doctrinal tests
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and the introduction of women priests
is the only viable solution
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for saving the Church of England,
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an institution that is becoming
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increasingly outdated and irrelevant
hour by hour.
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Who's got a thousand words
for me on that?
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- [HUMPHREY] Hello, Patricia.
- Would anyone like some toffee?
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Bring it over here, Patricia darling.
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- Oh, divine.
- Much like Patricia herself.
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Come, come, my dear. Be seated.
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Right. If no one's keen
on the church story,
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I can knock something up.
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Now, a piece on
reforming the House of Lords.
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Dermot, you were going to look at that,
weren't you?
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- Something nutty about it?
- Mm, molasses.
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And Europe,
we need to work out our official stance.
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Are we for or against
a single European market?
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Are we in or out?
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- Toffee, John?
- Oh, you must try some, John.
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I'm afraid I have a thing against toffee.
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Why didn't I know that?
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You can't know everything about me.
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It's not the taste I object to so much.
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I just have... painful memories.
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As a child, I was sitting
in a dentist's chair
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because of a piece of toffee I ate.
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Mm.
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Oh, Lord.
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Not again.
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Sorry.
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[MUMBLING] I've...
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[ADEANE] "Perhaps you don't understand
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that on your steadfastness
and ability to withstand
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the fatigue of dull, repetitive work,
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and your great courage in meeting
constant small adversities,
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depend, in great measure,
the happiness and prosperity
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of the community... as a whole.
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The upward course of a nation's history
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is due, in the long run,
to the soundness of heart
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of its average men and women."
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Um...
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Working men and women?
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It has a touch more dignity, uh...
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[ADEANE] No, I think "average" is fine.
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Thought you might be interested
to see this.
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It's a draft of the speech the Queen's
going to give in a week's time.
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I don't mind telling you
I felt a bit uneasy about it.
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Sir.
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[SIGHS]
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[ADEANE] Yes?
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Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering
beyond my station...
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- Tommy.
- Martin.
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You were about to interfere
beyond your station.
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Uh, [STUTTERS] it's concerning the speech
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the Queen is due to give next week
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at the Jaguar car factory.
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- What about it?
- [CHARTERIS] I was just... wondering
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if you were happy with it.
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Well, obviously I'm happy with it,
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or I wouldn't have shown it
to Her Majesty
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for the approval
which she immediately gave.
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- Did the Queen read it?
- [ADEANE] She didn't need to.
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She merely asked if I was happy.
I replied in the affirmative.
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- That was good enough for Her Majesty.
- [LASCELLES] Hm.
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[ADEANE] But I can see that
the really important question is,
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is it good enough for Colonel Charteris?
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You don't think it strikes
the wrong tone?
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In which sense?
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[EXHALES] In its... uh, paternalism.
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May I?
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Thank you.
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[STUTTERING] I suppose
if I had a concern...
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it would be that, post-Suez,
in this new climate...
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in this new Britain...
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the tone of the speech is... somewhat...
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Somewhat what?
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Old-fashioned.
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And would leave her open to attack.
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- [LASCELLES] From whom?
- The newspapers.
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People.
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If I had a shilling for every time
someone of a progressive
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or liberal disposition had warned
needlessly of a popular attack
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against the Crown, I'd be a rich man.
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The British people adore their sovereign.
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It is what constitutes, indeed defines,
being British.
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No, the worst I've ever encountered
is, uh, apathy,
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where people simply accept
the King or Queen
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as they accept the sky above their heads.
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But it's a long way
from apathy to insurrection.
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Now, as regards the newspapers,
the Crown can count on their support
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for two reasons:
first, there is nothing to attack.
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That's the advantage
of a constitutional monarchy.
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They have no power
so there's nothing to complain about.
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And even if they wanted to,
they'd always let us know first.
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The palace would then
threaten them with a boycott
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on the next major royal event,
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causing the newspapers immediately
to back down.
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Because the very people you fear
will hate the Queen
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are the same ones who buy copies
in their millions.
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Why? Because they love her.
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So I'm worrying unnecessarily?
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Martin,
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I shall leave the drawing
of that inescapable conclusion to you.
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[SIGHS]
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I'm going to take it in
a little shorter, ma'am,
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- and rounder at the back.
- Lovely.
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[HANDEL'S "ZADOK THE PRIEST" PLAYING]
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♪ Zadok, the priest ♪
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♪ And Nathan, the prophet ♪
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♪ Anointed ♪
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♪ Solomon king ♪
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Thank you. I... I... like it very much.
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[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]
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[CHATTERING]
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[ELIZABETH] Ah.
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Thank you.
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I thought you were hoping
for more children from me.
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I am.
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Then why on earth would you do
something like that to your hair?
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What's wrong with it?
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- [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]
- I thought it was tidy and... sensible.
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Adjectives to stir the loins.
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Apparently it's very à la mode.
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All the regimental wives
are wearing their hair like this now.
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- [PHILIP] Really?
- Yes.
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[PHILIP] Well,
it's certainly very practical.
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And should you ever feel compelled
to ride a motorcycle,
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it could always double as a helmet.
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Well, I like it.
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[PHILIP LAUGHS]
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[PHILIP] No, I have nothing
against it personally.
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- [PHILIP LAUGHS]
- Stop it.
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Sure it will provide ample protection
against any falling masonry.
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[LAUGHING]
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But... if enlarging the family
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and enticing your husband
to procreate is the goal...
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It is.
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...then you might take a look
at Jayne Mansfield...
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or Rita Hayworth.
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Ooh, Rita Hayworth. [CHUCKLES]
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[CLAMORING]
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[MAN] Sir William Lyons, Your Majesty.
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- Welcome, Your Majesty.
- Thank you. Hello.
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How do you do?
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It's very, uh, spacious.
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This is our research
and development area.
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[PHILIP] Splendid. Now we're talking.
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May I introduce you, ma'am,
to Nigel Willoughby?
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He sketches all of our prototypes.
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You studied drawing, did you?
Lovely. Very good to see it.
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- And that's the chassis.
- It is, indeed.
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A finished MK-1, Your Majesty.
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Ah. It's lovely.
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With top speeds
of over 100 miles per hour.
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Quite the thing.
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I've always been interested
in the red leather.
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Is it horse or cow?
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Hello.
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[ELIZABETH] I wish first
to express to you
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my very great pleasure
at being here today.
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My husband and I
have been most profoundly moved
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by your hospitable welcome
and would like you to know
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how very grateful we are to you all...
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- Thank you.
- ...for the work that you do.
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We understand that in the turbulence
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of this anxious and active world,
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many of you are leading
uneventful, lonely lives...
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where dreariness is the enemy.
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[MURMURING]
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Perhaps you don't understand
that on your steadfastness and ability
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to withstand the fatigue of dull,
repetitive work...
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depend, in great measure, the happiness
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and prosperity of the community
as a whole.
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The upward course of a nation's history
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is due, in the long run,
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to the soundness of heart
of its average men and women.
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May you be proud to remember
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how much depends on you,
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and that even when your life
seems most monotonous...
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what you do is always of real value
and importance to your fellow...
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[JOHN BARRY AND THE SEVEN'S
"LET'S HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME" PLAYING]
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[CHUCKLING]
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♪ Come on, everybodyLet's have a wonderful time ♪
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Lord Altrincham?
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Evening edition! News Chronicle!
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Evening edition!
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Ah. I need a favor, some typing.
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Oh, you're going home.
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I don't need to be.
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I've just heard a ridiculous speech
by the Queen,
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and I want to write
an immediate response.
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No, I'll... I'll find someone else.
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No, no, it's no trouble.
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I had nothing else planned.
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Thank you.
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[TYPEWRITER CLATTERING]
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- I've had another thought.
- Super.
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A rather heretical thought.
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I got the idea
from something Walter Bagehot said
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about the first duty of royalty
being to inspire.
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[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]
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[BAGPIPES PLAYING]
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[CLAMORING]
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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Hello.
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I trust you had a safe journey,
Your Majesty.
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- Yes, very lovely.
- Good to be back.
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[ELIZABETH] Well, let's hope
it brightens up later.
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[STAGS GRUNTING]
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[CLICKS]
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[GUNSHOT]
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[STAG GRUNTS]
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Good shot, ma'am.
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[NEWS VENDOR] National and EnglishReview! National and English Review!
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Thank you. Two shillings
for National and English Review.
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Thank you, sir. Morning.
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- Thank you, madam.
- [COINS CLINK]
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National and English Review.
Two shillings, thank you very much.
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There we go, sir.
Thank you very much. Two shillings.
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I see.
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Right.
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Well, thank you.
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[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
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Sorry to disturb, Your Majesty,
Your Royal Highness.
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Just to say it might be worth
avoiding certain newspapers this morning.
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Why? What's your sister done now?
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Nothing to do with
Princess Margaret, sir. Uh...
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It's an article written
by Lord Altrincham.
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Never heard of him. You?
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Taken originally
from his own publication...
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The National and English Review.
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Never heard of that, either.
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Which several newspapers have chosen
to run, partially or in full.
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What kind of article?
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It's quite a critical article, ma'am.
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What gives him the right?
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Tell me honestly, Mommy...
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is there any part of you
that agrees with him?
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Certainly not.
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And that's not just your mother
saying that.
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The palace press secretary called me
an hour ago to say
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the vast majority of the country
not only disagrees with Altrincham
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but is disgusted by him.
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It's an irrelevant article
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written by an irrelevant man
for an irrelevant publication...
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only picked up because it's August,
people are on holiday,
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government is in recess,
and there's nothing to write about.
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Today, 85% of the country is against him.
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By tomorrow, it will be 95%.
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That man's going to wish
he'd never been born.
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[CROWD SHOUTING]
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- [MAN] Traitor!
- [MAN 2] Coward!
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[CROWD SHOUTING]
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[HUMPHREY] Excuse me!
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Excuse me. Thank you.
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Excuse me. Excuse me. Thank you.
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I asked you to come because
I had a phone call an hour ago
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from a television producer,
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inviting me to record
an interview this afternoon.
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Which program?
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Impact. With Robin Day.
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I wish it weren't Day.
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We all wish it weren't Day,
he's terrifying.
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[PATRICIA] Don't be silly.
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The fact that it's Day
is what makes it valuable.
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You don't think I'm walking into a trap?
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You walked into the trap
when you wrote the article.
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Now you're the most unloved individual
in Britain.
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Ironically, Day is the one person
who could help you.
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Why? [SCOFFS]
You've seen how he interviews people.
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He dismembers them. Tears them to shreds.
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Yes, but keep your cool
under his scrutiny...
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make your case politely,
respectfully, intelligently.
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It could turn people around.
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[ALTRINCHAM] Thank you very much.
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[REPORTERS CHATTERING]
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- Lord Altrincham. How do you do?
- How do you do?
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- Shall we?
- Yes.
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[PRODUCER] This way.
Thank you for coming.
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[ALTRINCHAM] Not at all.
How long do we have until we start?
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[PRODUCER] We'll pop into makeup quickly.
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We should start in ten minutes.
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- Just here, if you will.
- Right.
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- Help yourself to water.
- [ALTRINCHAM] Thank you.
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[PRODUCER] Shouldn't be too long.
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- All good?
- [CAMERAMAN] All good.
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[PRODUCER] He's standing by, sir.
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- [DAY] And he's prepared?
- [PRODUCER] Ready as he can be.
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[DAY] Let's make a start.
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You've been told how all this works?
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Recording now, transmission tonight?
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- [FLOOR MANAGER] Stand by, studio.
- Yes. Thank you.
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- [BELL RINGS]
- [FLOOR MANAGER] Five, four, three...
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[DAY] Tonight, we have a man who,
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because of press activity in recent days,
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probably needs no introduction.
Lord Altrincham.
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In the space of just a few days,
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his inflammatory
and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
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in a periodical of which
he is also publisher,
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have become the most pressing issue
of the day
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and caused something
of a constitutional crisis.
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So, I'd like to begin by asking
Lord Altrincham a simple question.
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She's our head of state,
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loved, respected and admired
around the world,
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so why do you hate her so very much?
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I... I don't.
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Then why criticize her like this?
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[STUTTERS] That's like asking
an art critic why he criticizes art.
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I'm a passionate monarchist
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who believes constitutional monarchy
is Britain's greatest invention.
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[SCOFFS] Do you, indeed?
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Yes, I do.
I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
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A symbolic head of state,
transcending the self-serving interests
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of the egocentric
and self-motivated politicians
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who go in and out of office,
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who, as King Lear wonderfully says,
"ebb and flow by the moon."
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But when working at its best,
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monarchy can rise above such matters
and unify a society.
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It can set the tone and become
the embodiment of the nation,
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of national character.
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But the problem is, at the moment,
it's... It's not doing that.
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It's doing very little right,
as far as you're concerned.
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No, that's not true.
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You would like to see Her Majesty
endowed with superhuman powers.
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It's not superhuman
to be a little spontaneous.
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Judging from your article,
you'd like the Queen to have
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the qualities of a wit,
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you'd like her to be a better
orator, a TV personality,
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in addition to being a diligent,
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dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
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All I'm suggesting is that,
in her public speeches
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and in her appearances,
she should be more, uh, natural.
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Her style of speaking is, quite frankly,
a pain in the neck.
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She sounds strangled.
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I had the misfortune of hearing
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one of the Queen's speeches
in a dental waiting room recently.
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I was horrified
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by the indifference and inertia
with which the speech was greeted.
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[DAY] But you'd accept that being Queen
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and head of the Church of England
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is not an easy job or a simple one?
If you'll forgive me,
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it's arguably a harder job
than editing a small periodical.
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[LAUGHS] No, I quite agree.
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Her Majesty has a seemingly
impossible task.
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She has to be ordinary and extraordinary,
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touched by divinity and yet one of us,
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but being ordinary doesn't have to mean
bland or ineffectual.
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Or forgettable.
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[DAY] And against whom do you laythe main charge? Her courtiers?
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[ALTRINCHAM] Well, in the end,
if the court is wrong,
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if the setup is wrong,
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you have no choice
but to criticize the boss.
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00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,160
The Queen?
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Yes, because only the boss
can get rid of the bad servants.
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She hires them.
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She alone can fire them.
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Now, they may be bad, I believe
some of them at the moment are.
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They're quite dreadful, but it is
her responsibility, it's not theirs,
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in the sense that they
are just hired hands.
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And so the personal attack
on the monarch continues.
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[ALTRINCHAM] Let me just say this.
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To criticize the monarchy,
to criticize Her Majesty, personally,
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gives me no satisfaction.
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But we have to remember that,
since the Second World War,
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since Suez, Britain has changed
beyond recognition.
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And yet the monarchy continues
its pre-war routines
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as though nothing has happened.
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I believe it would serve the Queen
and her courtiers well to remember
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that until recently,
monarchies were the rule
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and republics the exception,
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but today, republics are the rule
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and monarchies very much the exception.
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[DAY] Lord Altrincham, I haveto terminate the interview.
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I'm obliged to you
for answering my questions.
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Next week at the same time,there will be another edition of Impact.
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Good night.
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That went very well.
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- Thank you again, Lord Altrincham.
- Thank you. Good day.
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Thank you.
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I thought he was even scarier
in real life than I, uh...
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- Lord Altrincham?
- Yes.
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[CROWD GASPS]
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You traitor!
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[MAN LAUGHING]
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- [MAN] Is that him? It is, isn't it?
- [MAN 2] Well done.
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- [MAN 3] Congratulations.
- [MAN 4] Well done. Well done, sir.
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- [ALTRINCHAM] A glass of white?
- [MAN 5] Well done.
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00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,680
Or something stronger?
What about a brandy?
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00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:36,760
Why not?
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00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,560
Well done.
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00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,000
Humphrey.
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00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,400
Well done. You looked incredibly calm.
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00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,600
- Really?
- Man of the hour. Really.
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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,840
- Your Majesty.
- Yes, what is it, Michael?
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There have been some reactions
in the newspapers
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to last night's television interview,
and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham.
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[STUTTERING] I'm afraid it's not quite
as we'd hoped.
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00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,400
[ELIZABETH] Why not?
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00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,840
Uh, well, the man that
struck Altrincham, it turns out,
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is a member of the extreme right
League of Empire Loyalists,
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which is a pressure group that campaigns
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against the dissolution of the Empire
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and has a clear doctrine
of English racial supremacy.
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Oh, dear.
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And it seems that most people
have decided,
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having watched Altrincham
on the television,
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that he is eminently reasonable.
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00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,280
Now, almost half the country appears
to agree with his sentiments,
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and there are new polls to support this.
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Letters to the Daily Mirror
are running at four to one
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in Altrincham's favor...
498
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,600
and even the normally conservative
Daily Mail...
499
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,440
changed its tune this morning.
500
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,920
Um, in addition,
501
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,760
and this, I believe,
reflects on his growing concern
502
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,640
at some of the telephone calls
he has been receiving...
503
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,227
the Prime Minister has suggested
504
00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:26,824
that he come up a week
earlier than planned,
505
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,320
in order to discuss it all
with you in person.
506
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,720
Goodness! A constitutional crisis.
507
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,680
Well, I hope you're going
to apologize to Mr. Macmillan, too.
508
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:39,600
[ADEANE] Ma'am?
509
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,813
You're not going to deny this whole mess
510
00:35:41,838 --> 00:35:43,064
springs from a badly written speech
511
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,720
which I gave, unquestioningly,
because I trusted you.
512
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:48,880
Perhaps Altrincham's right.
513
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,840
Perhaps I should surround myself
with younger, more dynamic people
514
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,520
with one foot in the real world!
515
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:56,880
Thank you, ma'am.
516
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,080
And you believe it's now
a government matter?
517
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:25,840
I do, ma'am.
518
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,600
Ambassadors from all around the world
have been calling me, concerned.
519
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,360
Her Majesty will hardly need reminding
a great many other countries
520
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,320
have overthrown their monarchies
and become republics in recent years.
521
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,840
Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy,
Tunisia only last month.
522
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,360
Of course we're not at that point.
Not at a red light.
523
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:56,000
We're not even at an amber.
But we'd hate it to become amber.
524
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,600
And so, it is my view,
the government's view,
525
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,720
that it would be wise
to contain this as soon as possible.
526
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,120
- And do what?
- The obvious thing.
527
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,720
Altrincham is a fire
which needs to be put out.
528
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,440
[CHARLES] Got you! [LAUGHS]
529
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,560
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
- Got you!
530
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:37,920
[CHARLES] Got you!
531
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,880
The palace has offered up
a chap called Charteris.
532
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,880
To meet. I looked him up.
533
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,840
He used to be
her principal private secretary.
534
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,040
- Well, there you are.
- Before the King died.
535
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,880
- When she was princess.
- And now?
536
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:12,440
He's assistant private secretary,
so not quite a pawn,
537
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,880
but certainly not a bishop
or knight, either.
538
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,160
Go.
539
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,760
Go, in order to be fobbed off?
540
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,720
Go in the spirit of openness
and wanting to work together.
541
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:22,840
If they wanted to work together,
542
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,480
- they would have sent someone higher up.
- Go.
543
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000
All right.
544
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,720
And take a list of suggestions.
Recommendations.
545
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,720
Don't go empty-handed.
546
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,200
Not yet! John!
547
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,040
Your tooth! John!
548
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:46,920
Sorry.
549
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,520
[CLAMORING]
550
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,760
- [REPORTER] Do you have a comment, sir?
- Sorry.
551
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,040
[REPORTER 2] Lord Altrincham!
552
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:46,600
Lord Altrincham?
553
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,280
- Yes.
- [EQUERRY] This way, please.
554
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,160
Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
555
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,520
In one sense.
556
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:31,960
Here we are, Lord Altrincham.
557
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,200
Colonel Charteris
will be with you shortly.
558
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,320
- Thank you.
- Sir.
559
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,960
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
560
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,000
I see we have something in common.
561
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,160
[ELIZABETH] And what would that be?
562
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:14,800
Your Majesty.
563
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:23,080
[STUTTERING] I was referring
to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
564
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,120
Hm. Which you attended too, I gather.
565
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:27,640
Yes.
566
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,800
Going on to become
an Officer of the Guards
567
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,560
at both St James's Palace
and Windsor Castle.
568
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,360
It doesn't quite fit the profile
of a revolutionary.
569
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,800
It's the assumption everyone has made.
570
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,600
Because I dare offer an opinion,
I must be trying to burn the temple down.
571
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,680
On the contrary,
I'm trying to make sure it survives.
572
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,160
Well, those of us in the temple
are very much looking forward
573
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:55,960
to hearing what it is we must do
in order to survive.
574
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:57,760
Shall we begin?
575
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,160
[ALTRINCHAM LAUGHS]
576
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,440
Is my voice all right?
You can understand me?
577
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,840
- [STUTTERS] Yes.
- Not too strangled?
578
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,280
Not too much a pain in the neck?
579
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,680
- No.
- Good.
580
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,840
So, what is it that you'd have me change?
581
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,600
It's not so much
what I'd have you change,
582
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,960
just an acknowledgment
that it has changed.
583
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,040
- What?
- Everything.
584
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:34,200
And to prepare yourself for the fact
we now live in a time where...
585
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:36,640
people like me...
586
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,760
- Can say exactly what they think.
- Yes.
587
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,640
- In any way they want.
- Yes.
588
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:46,960
And, remind me, why is that, exactly?
589
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,760
Because the age of deference is over.
590
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,920
And what is left without deference?
591
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,320
Anarchy?
592
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:58,720
Equality.
593
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,040
How can it be equality
when I cannot return the fire?
594
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,440
You can.
595
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,360
But I struggle to think of a moment
in history where it has worked
596
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,520
to a monarch's advantage
to return fire on their own people.
597
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,080
But you have managed to think
of how this monarch
598
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,520
might do something to her advantage.
599
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:17,440
I have.
600
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,040
And that same monarch
is sitting before, forgive me...
601
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:27,160
a failed politician
and an unrecognized journalist...
602
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,960
and taking his advice
on how to do her job.
603
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,800
The situation is as baffling to me
as it is to you, Your Majesty.
604
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,640
- Ah. You've got a list.
- I do.
605
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,760
As you might know from my article,
I made a series of observations,
606
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,387
recommendations of things to change, but
607
00:44:01,412 --> 00:44:03,064
for the purposes of this meeting,
608
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:07,160
I chose to limit those recommendations
to, um, six.
609
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,200
Six?
610
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,760
Three things to start
and three things to stop.
611
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:18,120
- Well, let's start with the "stops."
- Very well.
612
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,240
Ah, yes. Putting an end
to the debutantes' ball.
613
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,080
The idea that young women of a certain
class are presented to the sovereign,
614
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,960
and women who are not of that class
are not presented to the sovereign
615
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,680
and somehow not acceptable.
616
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,040
This is the sort of inequity
that should have died out
617
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,880
with our grandparents' generation,
certainly after the war.
618
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,406
Next.
619
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:49,967
Uh...
620
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:56,120
Allow divorced people to move more freely
in royal circles.
621
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:58,160
Why?
622
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,400
The sovereign is head
of the Church of England,
623
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,160
and the Church does not recognize
divorced persons.
624
00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:07,520
It's unkind. Discriminatory.
625
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,560
Quite possibly unlawful.
626
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:13,120
Next.
627
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:15,360
Uh...
628
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,240
I would recommend getting rid
of an entire generation of courtier.
629
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,200
The old school, stuck in the past.
630
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,480
Ostriches with their heads buried
in the sand.
631
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,040
They're stopping the palace evolve
in keeping with the rest of the world.
632
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:36,080
Those "ostriches" provide
an indispensable function of monarchy:
633
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,040
the preservation of tradition.
634
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,080
You asked for my recommendations, ma'am.
635
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:46,720
I'm respectfully passing them on.
636
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,720
What would you have me start?
637
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,880
Open up, ma'am.
638
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,400
Lower the drawbridge.
639
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,840
Let people get to know you.
640
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,600
I don't wish to be known.
641
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,920
Televise the Christmas speech.
642
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,160
Become more transparent, accessible.
643
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,800
- And finally...
- Oh, finally.
644
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,920
...spend time with normal people.
645
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,920
Not just courtiers
or the great and the good,
646
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,560
but real people, average people.
647
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,080
Working people.
648
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,600
Open the doors.
649
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,720
Make it more inclusive and egalitarian.
650
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,720
Let normal people get to know you, too.
651
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,520
Would you mind stepping out
into the corridor for a moment?
652
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,880
[STUTTERS] Not at all.
653
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,600
And would you ask
my private secretary to come in?
654
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:06,600
Of course.
655
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:14,240
Your Majesty.
656
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,880
[DOOR CLOSES]
657
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:28,960
[ALTRINCHAM] Colonel Charteris?
658
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,760
[CHARTERIS] Your Majesty.
659
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:40,720
[DOOR CLOSES]
660
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,320
[DOOR OPENS]
661
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,840
Lord Altrincham. Please.
662
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,800
[DOOR CLOSES]
663
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,240
[ALTRINCHAM] When I went backinto the room, she was gone.
664
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,960
Vanished into thin air.
665
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,160
Do sit down.
666
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,240
[ALTRINCHAM] Charteris then went on
to tell me that
667
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,080
no one can ever know
that I met the Queen,
668
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,960
and that should I ever claim that I did,
the palace would robustly deny it.
669
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,920
They will, however,
concede that I had an appointment
670
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,400
with Her Majesty's
assistant private secretary,
671
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:39,523
and that concessions might be made
to one or two of my recommendations.
672
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,040
May I ask which ones?
673
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,240
Let's get these lights in.
Quickly. Easy with that camera.
674
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:53,160
[MAN] Right-o.
675
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,140
[PRODUCER] This one next.
676
00:48:55,165 --> 00:48:58,064
Well done. Now, let's have
the rest of the cables.
677
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,880
[SIGHS]
678
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,200
I feel like an actress.
679
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,920
A common little showgirl.
680
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,240
Don't be silly.
681
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,360
In what way am I different?
682
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,160
Memorizing lines and remembering angles,
wearing makeup?
683
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,360
Well, you're the Queen
of the United Kingdom for one thing.
684
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,360
[ELIZABETH] Yes, who's memorizing lines
685
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,440
and remembering angles
and wearing makeup.
686
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:35,840
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
687
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,120
[PRODUCER] Your Majesty.
688
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,120
Right.
689
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,400
- Where do you want me?
- This way, please, ma'am.
690
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:23,400
[PRODUCER] Ma'am.
691
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,840
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
692
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,400
[FLOOR MANAGER] Five, four, three...
693
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:12,400
Happy Christmas.
694
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,920
Twenty-five years ago,
my grandfather broadcast
695
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,080
the first of these Christmas messages.
696
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:25,520
Today is another landmark,
697
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,853
because television has made it possible
698
00:51:27,878 --> 00:51:30,344
for many of you to see me in your homes
699
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,080
on Christmas Day.
700
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,120
My own family often gather round
to watch the television,
701
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,400
as they are at this moment,
and that is how I think of you all now.
702
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,600
I very much hope that this new medium
will make my Christmas message
703
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,720
more personal and direct.
704
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,547
It is inevitable
705
00:51:53,572 --> 00:51:57,464
that I should seem a rather
remote figure to many of you,
706
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,040
a successor to the kings
and queens of history,
707
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,520
someone whose face may be familiar
in newspapers and films
708
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,680
but who never really touches
your personal lives.
709
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,040
But now, at least for a few minutes,
710
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,320
I welcome you into the peace
of my own home.
711
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,160
That it is possible for some of you
to see me today
712
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,360
is just another example of the speed
at which things are changing
713
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,080
all around us.
714
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,760
I would like to read a few lines
from Pilgrim's Progress.
715
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,880
'"And though, with great difficulty,
I am got hither,
716
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,880
yet now I do repent me
of all the trouble I have been at
717
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,600
to arrive where I am.
718
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,440
My sword I give to him
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage
719
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,320
and my courage and skill
to him that can get it.
720
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,680
My marks and scars I carry with me
721
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:19,480
to be a witness for me
that I have fought his battles
722
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,800
who now will be my rewarder."
723
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,600
I hope that 1958 may bring you
God's blessings
724
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,480
and all the things that you long for.
725
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:42,880
And so I wish you all, young and old,
wherever you may be,
726
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,840
all the fun and enjoyment and peace
727
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,240
of a very happy Christmas.
728
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:52,640
[PRODUCER] And we're off air.
729
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:07,800
Congratulations, ma'am.
730
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,520
[CHATTERING]
731
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,080
- [MARGARET] Ah, hello.
- My, my.
732
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,160
You look pretty. I like the dress.
733
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,000
- Thank you.
- And the hair.
734
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:56,400
- Very unregimental.
- Mm, yes.
735
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,287
Tony knew the top person, of course.
736
00:54:58,312 --> 00:55:00,304
The only stylist who could be trusted.
737
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,000
Does he have a name, this stylist?
738
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,160
I want to say Victor Gabon,
but that's not quite right.
739
00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:07,160
Um...
740
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:09,080
Vidal Baboon?
741
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,760
- Vidal Baboon?
- Yes, I think.
742
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,880
Well, anyway, he talked endlessly
about hair as a geometric art form.
743
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,480
- It looks jolly pretty.
- Thank you.
744
00:55:15,505 --> 00:55:17,453
If you happen to have
a number for this Baboon,
745
00:55:17,478 --> 00:55:19,289
I might pass it on to my wife.
746
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,880
Is that appropriate, by the way,
that a red-blooded man
747
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:24,720
should know the correct hairdresser
for a woman?
748
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,400
There's almost nothing
that's appropriate about Tony,
749
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,360
but he's made it his mission in life
to improve me.
750
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:31,320
[PHILIP] Mm.
751
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,800
- Your very own little Altrincham.
- Yes.
752
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,760
Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
753
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,880
- Oh, dear God.
- Look at them.
754
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:44,640
[CHATTERING]
755
00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:49,640
- There it is.
- [MAN] Thank you very much.
756
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:53,480
Who do you suppose that is?
757
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,760
It could be Mr. David
Smith, a car dealer.
758
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,520
- [ELIZABETH] And that?
- [QUEEN MOTHER] I believe...
759
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,640
that is Harry "The Hammer" Jones.
760
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,480
A boxer from the Old Kent Road.
761
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,920
Rounding up the numbers,
we have a local restaurateur,
762
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,320
a bus driver,
763
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,240
a bank clerk...
764
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:22,120
and a woman policeman.
765
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,640
All to open things up.
766
00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:26,560
Yes.
767
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,760
Bring us more in line with the real
world. Democratize us.
768
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:33,240
And so it goes.
769
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,800
The stings and bites we suffer
as it slips away.
770
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,560
Bit by bit, piece by piece.
771
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:49,680
Our authority, our absolutism,
our divine rights.
772
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,520
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
773
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,160
[FOOTMAN CLEARS THROAT] Ma'am?
774
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,000
[QUEEN MOTHER] The history
of the monarchy in this country
775
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,160
is a one-way street of humiliation,
sacrifices and concessions
776
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:04,640
in order to survive.
777
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,400
First, the barons came for us,
then the merchants, now the journalists.
778
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:10,500
Small wonder we make such
a fuss about curtsies,
779
00:57:10,525 --> 00:57:12,129
protocol and precedent.
780
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:13,520
It's all we have left.
781
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:18,400
The last scraps of armor as we go
from ruling to reigning to...
782
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,280
- To what?
- To being nothing at all.
783
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:27,360
Marionettes.
784
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,720
- Right, gloves on.
- Ah.
785
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:43,000
I told the master of the household
to rotate the guests between courses,
786
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,560
so if you get a dud, don't worry,
it'll be 15 minutes at worst.
787
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,080
[QUEEN MOTHER SIGHS]
788
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:08,800
Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
789
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,920
- Ah, David. Lovely to meet you.
- Ma'am.
790
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,720
- Hello.
- Very nice to meet you.
791
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,800
- Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
- [ELIZABETH] Hello there.
792
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,240
Thank you for coming.
793
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,648
Mr. Harry "The Hammer."
794
00:58:17,673 --> 00:58:19,344
[ELIZABETH] I've heard so much about you.
795
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,840
- Thank you for coming.
- You look absolutely beautiful.
796
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:22,920
Mr. Martin Jones.
797
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,600
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
798
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,720
- Sergeant Ethel Danmyer.
- Ah, hello there.
799
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,240
- Such a pleasure to have you here.
- [CORGIS BARKING]
800
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,080
Oh, here they come, dog-dogs.
There they go. [LAUGHS]
801
00:58:41,510 --> 00:58:49,510
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