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Queen's critic is at it again!
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Peer attacks the Queen!
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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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- 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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Here he comes, here he comes.
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There he is.
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- Please, gentlemen.
- Don't push.
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- Lord Altrincham?
- Yes.
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You traitor!
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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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Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
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Wait for no man,
Private Secretary.
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- Good afternoon to you.
- Good afternoon, sir.
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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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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.
- Sorry I'm late.
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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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National
and 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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...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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- 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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I've...
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"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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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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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, it's concerning the speech
the Queen is due to give next week
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at the Jaguar car factory.
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- What about it?
- 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?
- 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.
- Hm.
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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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In its... uh, paternalism.
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May I?
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Thank you.
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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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- 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, I shall leave the drawing
of that inescapable conclusion to you.
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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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♪ 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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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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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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- Really?
- Yes.
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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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No, I have nothing
against it personally.
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Stop it.
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Sure it will provide ample protection
against any falling masonry.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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♪ Come on, everybody
Let'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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- 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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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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Well, let's hope
it brightens up later.
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Good shot, ma'am.
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National and English
Review! 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.
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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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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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- Traitor!
- Coward!
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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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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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00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,200
Why?
You've seen how he interviews people.
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He dismembers them.
Tears them to shreds.
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00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,360
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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Thank you very much.
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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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This way. Thank you for coming.
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00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,200
Not at all.
How long do we have until we start?
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We'll pop into makeup quickly.
We should start in ten minutes.
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- Just here, if you will.
- Right.
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- Help yourself to water.
- Thank you.
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Shouldn't be too long.
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00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,640
- All good?
- All good.
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He's standing by, sir.
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- And he's prepared?
- Ready as he can be.
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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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- Stand by, studio.
- Yes. Thank you.
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Five, four, three...
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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
around the world,
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00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,200
so why do you hate her so very much?
348
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,080
I... I don't.
349
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,760
Then why criticize her like this?
350
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,720
That's like asking
an art critic why he criticizes art.
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00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,480
I'm a passionate monarchist
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who believes constitutional monarchy
is Britain's greatest invention.
353
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,320
Do you, indeed?
354
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,200
Yes, I do.
I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
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00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,520
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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00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,840
who go in and out of office,
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00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,600
who, as King Lear wonderfully says,
"ebb and flow by the moon."
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00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,440
But when working at its best,
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00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,920
monarchy can rise above such matters
and unify a society.
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00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,640
It can set the tone and become
the embodiment of the nation,
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00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,400
of national character.
363
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,720
But the problem is, at the moment, it's...
It's not doing that.
364
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280
It's doing very little right,
as far as you're concerned.
365
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,720
No, that's not true.
366
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,080
You would like to see Her Majesty
endowed with superhuman powers.
367
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,160
It's not superhuman
to be a little spontaneous.
368
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,520
Judging from your article,
you'd like the Queen to have
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the qualities of a wit, you'd like her
to be a better orator, a TV personality,
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00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,480
in addition to being a diligent,
dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
371
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,960
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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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,720
Her style of speaking is, quite frankly,
a pain in the neck.
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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,000
She sounds strangled.
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00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,080
I had the misfortune of hearing
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00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,280
one of the Queen's speeches
in a dental waiting room recently.
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00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,680
I was horrified
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00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,440
by the indifference and inertia
with which the speech was greeted.
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00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,280
But you'd accept that being Queen
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,
381
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,600
it's arguably a harder job
than editing a small periodical.
382
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,920
No, I quite agree. Her Majesty
has a seemingly impossible task.
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00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,520
She has to be ordinary and extraordinary,
touched by divinity and yet one of us,
384
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,880
but being ordinary doesn't have to mean
bland or ineffectual.
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00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:45,560
Or forgettable.
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00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,120
And against whom do you lay
the main charge? Her courtiers?
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00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,880
Well, in the end, if the
court is wrong, if the setup is wrong,
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00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,760
you have no choice
but to criticize the boss.
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00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,160
The Queen?
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00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,480
Yes, because only the boss
can get rid of the bad servants.
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00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:01,720
She hires them.
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00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,720
She alone can fire them.
393
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,360
Now, they may be bad, I believe
some of them at the moment are.
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00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,200
They're quite dreadful, but it is
her responsibility, it's not theirs,
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00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,280
in the sense that they
are just hired hands.
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00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,200
And so the personal attack
on the monarch continues.
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00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,400
Let me just say this.
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00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,960
To criticize the monarchy,
to criticize Her Majesty, personally,
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gives me no satisfaction.
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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,440
But we have to remember that,
since the Second World War,
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00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,160
since Suez, Britain has changed
beyond recognition.
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00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,360
And yet the monarchy continues
its pre-war routines
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00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,520
as though nothing has happened.
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00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,320
I believe it would serve the Queen
and her courtiers well to remember
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00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,920
that until recently, monarchies were
the rule and republics the exception,
406
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,800
but today, republics are the rule
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00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,560
and monarchies very much the exception.
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00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,200
Lord Altrincham, I have
to terminate the interview.
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I'm obliged to you
for answering my questions.
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00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,560
Next week at the same time,
there will be another edition of Impact.
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00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,240
Good night.
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00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,640
That went very well.
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00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,440
- Thank you again, Lord Altrincham.
- Thank you. Good day.
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00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:21,680
Thank you.
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00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,000
I thought he was even scarier
in real life than I, uh...
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00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,760
- Lord Altrincham?
- Yes.
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00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,120
You traitor!
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00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,520
- Is that him? It is, isn't it?
- Well done.
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00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,200
- Congratulations.
- Well done. Well done, sir.
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00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,360
- A glass of white?
- Well done.
421
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,680
Or something stronger?
What about a brandy?
422
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:46,760
Why not?
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00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,560
Well done.
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00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,000
Humphrey.
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00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,400
Well done. You looked incredibly calm.
426
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,600
- Really?
- Man of the hour. Really.
427
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,840
- Your Majesty.
- Yes, what is it, Michael?
428
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,960
There have been some reactions
in the newspapers
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00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,159
to last night's television interview,
and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham.
430
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,800
I'm afraid it's not quite
as we'd hoped.
431
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,400
Why not?
432
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,840
Uh, well, the man that
struck Altrincham, it turns out,
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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:36,239
is a member of the extreme right
League of Empire Loyalists,
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00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:41,560
which is a pressure group that campaigns
against the dissolution of the Empire
435
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,239
and has a clear doctrine
of English racial supremacy.
436
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,120
Oh, dear.
437
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,400
And it seems that most people
have decided,
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00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,159
having watched Altrincham
on the television,
439
00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:58,640
that he is eminently reasonable.
440
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:05,280
Now, almost half the country appears
to agree with his sentiments,
441
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,520
and there are new polls to support this.
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00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:10,960
Letters to the Daily Mirror
are running at four to one
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00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,560
in Altrincham's favor...
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00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,600
and even the normally conservative
Daily Mail...
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00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,440
changed its tune this morning.
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00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,920
Um, in addition,
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00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,760
and this, I believe,
reflects on his growing concern
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00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,640
at some of the telephone calls
he has been receiving...
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00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:36,800
the Prime Minister has suggested that
he come up a week earlier than planned,
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00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,320
in order to discuss it all
with you in person.
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00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,720
Goodness! A constitutional crisis.
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00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,680
Well, I hope you're going
to apologize to Mr. Macmillan, too.
453
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,600
Ma'am?
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00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,040
You're not going to deny this whole mess
springs from a badly written speech
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00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,720
which I gave, unquestioningly,
because I trusted you.
456
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:58,880
Perhaps Altrincham's right.
457
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,840
Perhaps I should surround myself
with younger, more dynamic people
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with one foot in the real world!
459
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:06,880
Thank you, ma'am.
460
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,080
And you believe it's now
a government matter?
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00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,840
I do, ma'am.
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00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,600
Ambassadors from all around the world
have been calling me, concerned.
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00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,360
Her Majesty will hardly need reminding
a great many other countries
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00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,320
have overthrown their monarchies
and become republics in recent years.
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00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,840
Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy,
Tunisia only last month.
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00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,360
Of course we're not at that point.
Not at a red light.
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00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:06,000
We're not even at an amber.
But we'd hate it to become amber.
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00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,600
And so, it is my view,
the government's view,
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00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,720
that it would be wise
to contain this as soon as possible.
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00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,120
- And do what?
- The obvious thing.
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00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,720
Altrincham is a fire
which needs to be put out.
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00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,440
Got you!
473
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,560
Got you!
474
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:47,920
Got you!
475
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,880
The palace has offered up
a chap called Charteris.
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00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,880
To meet. I looked him up.
477
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,840
He used to be
her principal private secretary.
478
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,040
- Well, there you are.
- Before the King died.
479
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,880
- When she was princess.
- And now?
480
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:22,440
He's assistant private secretary,
so not quite a pawn,
481
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,880
but certainly not a bishop
or knight, either.
482
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,160
Go.
483
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,760
Go, in order to be fobbed off?
484
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,720
Go in the spirit of openness
and wanting to work together.
485
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:32,840
If they wanted to work together,
486
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,480
- they would have sent someone higher up.
- Go.
487
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
All right.
488
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,720
And take a list of suggestions.
Recommendations.
489
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,720
Don't go empty-handed.
490
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,200
Not yet! John!
491
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,040
Your tooth! John!
492
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:56,920
Sorry.
493
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,760
- Do you have a comment, sir?
- Sorry.
494
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,040
Lord Altrincham!
495
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:56,600
Lord Altrincham?
496
00:39:57,240 --> 00:39:59,280
- Yes.
- This way, please.
497
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,160
Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
498
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,520
In one sense.
499
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:41,960
Here we are, Lord Altrincham.
500
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,200
Colonel Charteris
will be with you shortly.
501
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,320
- Thank you.
- Sir.
502
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,000
I see we have something in common.
503
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,160
And what would that be?
504
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:24,800
Your Majesty.
505
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:33,080
I was referring to the photos
of Eton and Sandhurst.
506
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,120
Hm. Which you attended too, I gather.
507
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,640
Yes.
508
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,800
Going on to become
an Officer of the Guards
509
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,560
at both St James's Palace
and Windsor Castle.
510
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,360
It doesn't quite fit the profile
of a revolutionary.
511
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,800
It's the assumption everyone has made.
512
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,600
Because I dare offer an opinion,
I must be trying to burn the temple down.
513
00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:58,680
On the contrary,
I'm trying to make sure it survives.
514
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,160
Well, those of us in the temple
are very much looking forward
515
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,960
to hearing what it is we must do
in order to survive.
516
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:07,760
Shall we begin?
517
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,440
Is my voice all right?
You can understand me?
518
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,840
- Yes.
- Not too strangled?
519
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,280
Not too much a pain in the neck?
520
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,680
- No.
- Good.
521
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,840
So, what is it that
you'd have me change?
522
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,600
It's not so much
what I'd have you change,
523
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,960
just an acknowledgment
that it has changed.
524
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,040
- What?
- Everything.
525
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,200
And to prepare yourself for the fact
we now live in a time where...
526
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:46,640
people like me...
527
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,760
- Can say exactly what they think.
- Yes.
528
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,640
- In any way they want.
- Yes.
529
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,960
And, remind me, why is that, exactly?
530
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,760
Because the age of deference is over.
531
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,920
And what is left without deference?
532
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,320
Anarchy?
533
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:08,720
Equality.
534
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,040
How can it be equality
when I cannot return the fire?
535
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,440
You can.
536
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,360
But I struggle to think of a moment
in history where it has worked
537
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,520
to a monarch's advantage
to return fire on their own people.
538
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,080
But you have managed to think
of how this monarch
539
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,520
might do something to her advantage.
540
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:27,440
I have.
541
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,040
And that same monarch
is sitting before, forgive me...
542
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,160
a failed politician
and an unrecognized journalist...
543
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,960
and taking his advice
on how to do her job.
544
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,800
The situation is as baffling to me
as it is to you, Your Majesty.
545
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,640
- Ah. You've got a list.
- I do.
546
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,760
As you might know from my article,
I made a series of observations,
547
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:13,040
recommendations of things to change,
but for the purposes of this meeting,
548
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,160
I chose to limit those recommendations
to, um, six.
549
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,200
Six?
550
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,760
Three things to start
and three things to stop.
551
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:28,120
- Well, let's start with the "stops."
- Very well.
552
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,240
Ah, yes. Putting an end
to the debutantes' ball.
553
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:39,080
The idea that young women of a certain
class are presented to the sovereign,
554
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,960
and women who are not of that class
are not presented to the sovereign
555
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,680
and somehow not acceptable.
556
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,040
This is the sort of inequity
that should have died out
557
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,880
with our grandparents' generation,
certainly after the war.
558
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:56,240
Next.
559
00:44:59,040 --> 00:44:59,880
Uh...
560
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:06,120
Allow divorced people to move more freely
in royal circles.
561
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,160
Why?
562
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,400
The sovereign is head
of the Church of England,
563
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,160
and the Church does not recognize
divorced persons.
564
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,520
It's unkind. Discriminatory.
565
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,560
Quite possibly unlawful.
566
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:23,120
Next.
567
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:25,360
Uh...
568
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,240
I would recommend getting rid
of an entire generation of courtier.
569
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,200
The old school, stuck in the past.
570
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,480
Ostriches with their heads buried
in the sand.
571
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:41,040
They're stopping the palace evolve
in keeping with the rest of the world.
572
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:46,080
Those "ostriches" provide
an indispensable function of monarchy:
573
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,040
the preservation of tradition.
574
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,080
You asked for my recommendations,
ma'am.
575
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,720
I'm respectfully passing them on.
576
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,720
What would you have me start?
577
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,880
Open up, ma'am.
578
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,400
Lower the drawbridge.
579
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:10,840
Let people get to know you.
580
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,600
I don't wish to be known.
581
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,920
Televise the Christmas speech.
582
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,160
Become more transparent, accessible.
583
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,800
- And finally...
- Oh, finally.
584
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,920
...spend time with normal people.
585
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,920
Not just courtiers
or the great and the good,
586
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,560
but real people, average people.
587
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,080
Working people.
588
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,600
Open the doors.
589
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,720
Make it more inclusive and egalitarian.
590
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,720
Let normal people get to know you, too.
591
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,520
Would you mind stepping out
into the corridor for a moment?
592
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,880
Not at all.
593
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,600
And would you ask
my private secretary to come in?
594
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,600
Of course.
595
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:24,240
Your Majesty.
596
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,960
Colonel Charteris?
597
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:48,760
Your Majesty.
598
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,840
Lord Altrincham. Please.
599
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,240
When I went back
into the room, she was gone.
600
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,960
Vanished into thin air.
601
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,160
Do sit down.
602
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,240
Charteris then went on
to tell me that
603
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,080
no one can ever know that I met the Queen,
604
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,960
and that should I ever claim that I did,
the palace would robustly deny it.
605
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,920
They will, however,
concede that I had an appointment
606
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,400
with Her Majesty's
assistant private secretary,
607
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:49,080
and that concessions might be made
to one or two of my recommendations.
608
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,040
May I ask which ones?
609
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,240
Let's get these lights in.
Quickly. Easy with that camera.
610
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:03,160
Right-o.
611
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:08,040
This one next. Well done.
Now, let's have the rest of the cables.
612
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,200
I feel like an actress.
613
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,920
A common little showgirl.
614
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:24,240
Don't be silly.
615
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,360
In what way am I different?
616
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:33,160
Memorizing lines and remembering angles,
wearing makeup?
617
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,360
Well, you're the Queen
of the United Kingdom for one thing.
618
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,360
Yes, who's memorizing lines
619
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,440
and remembering angles
and wearing makeup.
620
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,120
Your Majesty.
621
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:54,120
Right.
622
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,400
- Where do you want me?
- This way, please, ma'am.
623
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:33,400
Ma'am.
624
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,400
Five, four, three...
625
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:22,400
Happy Christmas.
626
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,920
Twenty-five years ago,
my grandfather broadcast
627
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,080
the first of these Christmas messages.
628
00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:35,520
Today is another landmark,
629
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:40,320
because television has made it possible
for many of you to see me in your homes
630
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,080
on Christmas Day.
631
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,120
My own family often gather round
to watch the television,
632
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,400
as they are at this moment,
and that is how I think of you all now.
633
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:56,600
I very much hope that this new medium
will make my Christmas message
634
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,720
more personal and direct.
635
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:07,440
It is inevitable that I should seem
a rather remote figure to many of you,
636
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,040
a successor to the kings
and queens of history,
637
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,520
someone whose face may be familiar
in newspapers and films
638
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,680
but who never really touches
your personal lives.
639
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,040
But now, at least for a few minutes,
640
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:28,320
I welcome you into the peace
of my own home.
641
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,160
That it is possible for some of you
to see me today
642
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,360
is just another example of the speed
at which things are changing
643
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,080
all around us.
644
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,760
I would like to read a few lines
from Pilgrim's Progress.
645
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,880
'"And though, with great difficulty,
I am got hither,
646
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,880
yet now I do repent me
of all the trouble I have been at
647
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,600
to arrive where I am.
648
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,440
My sword I give to him
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage
649
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,320
and my courage and skill
to him that can get it.
650
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,680
My marks and scars I carry with me
651
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,480
to be a witness for me
that I have fought his battles
652
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,800
who now will be my rewarder."
653
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,600
I hope that 1958 may bring you
God's blessings
654
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,480
and all the things that you long for.
655
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:52,880
And so I wish you all, young and old,
wherever you may be,
656
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,840
all the fun and enjoyment and peace
657
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,240
of a very happy Christmas.
658
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:02,640
And we're off air.
659
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:17,800
Congratulations, ma'am.
660
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,080
- Ah, hello.
- My, my.
661
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,160
You look pretty. I like the dress.
662
00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:05,000
- Thank you.
- And the hair.
663
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:06,400
- Very unregimental.
- Mm, yes.
664
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,280
Tony knew the top person, of course.
The only stylist who could be trusted.
665
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,000
Does he have a name, this stylist?
666
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,160
I want to say Victor Gabon,
but that's not quite right.
667
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:17,160
Um...
668
00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:19,080
Vidal Baboon?
669
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:20,760
- Vidal Baboon?
- Yes, I think.
670
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,880
Well, anyway, he talked endlessly
about hair as a geometric art form.
671
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,480
- It looks jolly pretty.
- Thank you.
672
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,320
If you happen to have a number for this
Baboon, I might pass it on to my wife.
673
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,880
Is that appropriate, by the way,
that a red-blooded man
674
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:34,720
should know the correct hairdresser
for a woman?
675
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,400
There's almost nothing
that's appropriate about Tony,
676
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,360
but he's made it his mission in life
to improve me.
677
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:41,320
Mm.
678
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,800
- Your very own little Altrincham.
- Yes.
679
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,760
Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
680
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,880
- Oh, dear God.
- Look at them.
681
00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:59,640
- There it is.
- Thank you very much.
682
00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:03,480
Who do you suppose that is?
683
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,760
It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
684
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,520
- And that?
- I believe...
685
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,640
that is Harry "The Hammer" Jones.
686
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,480
A boxer from the Old Kent Road.
687
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,920
Rounding up the numbers,
we have a local restaurateur,
688
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,320
a bus driver,
689
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,240
a bank clerk...
690
00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:32,120
and a woman policeman.
691
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:35,640
All to open things up.
692
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:36,560
Yes.
693
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,760
Bring us more in line with the real world.
Democratize us.
694
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,240
And so it goes.
695
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,800
The stings and bites we suffer
as it slips away.
696
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,560
Bit by bit, piece by piece.
697
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:59,680
Our authority, our absolutism,
our divine rights.
698
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,160
Ma'am?
699
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,000
The history
of the monarchy in this country
700
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,160
is a one-way street of humiliation,
sacrifices and concessions
701
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:14,640
in order to survive.
702
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,400
First, the barons came for us,
then the merchants, now the journalists.
703
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,160
Small wonder we make such a fuss
about curtsies, protocol and precedent.
704
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:23,520
It's all we have left.
705
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:28,400
The last scraps of armor as we go
from ruling to reigning to...
706
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,280
- To what?
- To being nothing at all.
707
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,360
Marionettes.
708
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,720
- Right, gloves on.
- Ah.
709
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,000
I told the master of the household
to rotate the guests between courses,
710
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,560
so if you get a dud, don't worry,
it'll be 15 minutes at worst.
711
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:18,800
Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
712
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,920
- Ah, David. Lovely to meet you.
- Ma'am.
713
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,720
- Hello.
- Very nice to meet you.
714
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,800
- Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
- Hello there.
715
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,240
Thank you for coming.
716
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,320
- Mr. Harry "The Hammer."
- I've heard so much about you.
717
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,840
- Thank you for coming.
- You look absolutely beautiful.
718
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:32,920
Mr. Martin Jones.
719
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,720
- Sergeant Ethel Danmyer.
- Ah, hello there.
720
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,240
Such a pleasure to have you here.
721
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:44,080
Oh, here they come, dog-dogs.
There they go.
56501
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