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A feud between Randolph and the Prince of Wales results in the assignment to Ireland for Randolph and the family.
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00:00The End
01:00See, sir, here's the grand approach.
01:22This way is for his braces coach.
01:26There lies the bridge.
01:27And here's the clock.
01:30There lies the bridge.
02:00There has broken any wind.
02:30This gallery is contrived for walking, the windows to retire and talking.
02:45The council chamber for debate.
02:58And all the rest are rooms of state.
03:11Thanks, sir, cried I.
03:18It is very fine.
03:19But where do you sleep?
03:23And where do you dine?
03:25And where do you sleep?
03:38I find by all you have been telling that tis a house, but not a dwelling.
04:08Fine.
04:11Bedtime.
04:13Bedtime.
04:14Bedtime, bedtime.
04:21Dad.
04:23Bedtime.
04:29Bedtime.
04:30Good night, Father.
04:58Good night, Father.
05:00Good night, Father.
05:02Good night, Lord.
05:06Good night, Rosemary.
05:10Good night, Jimmy.
05:11Good night, Father.
05:13Good night, Randolph, dear.
05:15Good night, Lord.
05:28Thank you, Gentry. Good night.
05:35Good night, my lady.
05:37Good night, Arnold. Good night, Gentry.
05:39Randolph, we're going back to London. I refuse to stay here another night.
05:43Jenny, what on earth's the matter?
05:45Blenheim! Your mother's sniffing and spying and trying to find fault
05:48and your two frumpy sisters and your horrible brother. Blenheim!
05:51Oh, come on, they're not that bad.
05:53Oh, I've never been so achingly bored in all my life. Take me home.
05:57Darling, it's just your condition.
06:00There is nothing wrong with me. I'm not ill. I'm having a baby.
06:03Everyone has babies. I feel wonderful.
06:05And you're lucky, too, when your blood's up.
06:07Oh, I'm serious.
06:07Yes, darling, of course you are.
06:09But you don't want to be alone, and in London you would be,
06:12whereas here you've got Mama and Rosamond.
06:15Bertha?
06:16Bertha!
06:22Bertha, may I come in?
06:24Of course, darling.
06:27Bertha, may I come in?
06:41Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy,
06:44for I am the Lord your God.
06:46and ye shall keep my statutes and do them
06:51I am the Lord which sanctify you
06:54for everyone that curseth his father or his mother
06:58shall be surely put to death
07:01he hath cursed his father or his mother
07:05his blood shall be upon him
07:07and the man that committed adultery with another man's wife
07:11even he that committed adultery with his neighbor's wife
07:16the adulterer and the adulteress
07:19shall surely be put to death
07:22here it is the first lesson
07:26see that father
07:34good shot Randolph
07:37ah
07:41yours Blanford mark
07:57for God's sake man
08:00load both battles
08:01do people shoot in America Jenny?
08:11only each other
08:11goodness me
08:13you must find Blanham awfully strange
08:16after your upbringing and everything
08:18more awful than strange frankly Bertha
08:21Jenny
08:22say
08:23are you all right?
08:25oh yes I'm all right
08:26Randolph
08:29I did advise you not to go out with the men Jenny
08:41I felt I must have some fresh air Duchess
08:43this is your first time
08:45you really should listen to those who have some experience in these matters
08:48well I can't stay locked indoors
08:51like a nun
08:51no one would ever take you for a nun my dear
08:54least of all in your condition
08:56well it hardly shows
08:58it isn't due for another two months at least
09:00but you have a very clever and costly dressmaker
09:03no one could help noticing
09:04oh good
09:05I'd hate it not to be noticed
09:07well now Jenny
09:08you mustn't mind me saying this
09:10you've led a very carefree life up to now
09:12well I'm only trying to help you
09:14but
09:16but now is the time for you to realize
09:18that as Randolph's wife
09:20you have duties as well as privileges
09:22and the first of those duties
09:23is as the mother of Randolph's child
09:25Randolph's child?
09:28isn't it to be mine at all then?
09:29don't be foolish
09:30Randolph is a younger son of course
09:32but Blanford has only the one boy
09:35and well
09:37oh I see
09:39my child might be the next link in the chain
09:42exactly
09:43I'm very glad you're beginning to understand our ways Jenny
09:48it's like being a broodmare
09:53I'm just here to have babies
09:55in case little Sonny dies
09:57and Bertha has no more sons
09:58oh darling of course not
10:00even you think about that don't you
10:02well I wouldn't mind being Duke
10:04and you wouldn't mind being Duchess either
10:06don't pretend you would
10:08oh
10:09well it's silly to think about things
10:13which aren't going to happen
10:13well they might
10:15Bertha's not going to have
10:16any more sons or daughters
10:17if you ask me
10:18you don't think she and Blanford
10:19how can you make love to a woman
10:20who drops ink pots on your head
10:22Blanford's nerves have never been strong
10:24you don't suppose he's in love
10:26with Edith Aylesford do you?
10:27well I don't know
10:28it's perfectly obvious
10:29he can't stand the sight of Bertha
10:31if she wasn't so incredibly stupid
10:32she'd have noticed months ago
10:33oh you're as bad as he is
10:35you don't talk about her
10:36as though she were a real human being
10:37well she scarcely is one is she?
10:38no she's just a link in the chain like me
10:40oh come on darling
10:42you know perfectly well
10:42that's not what I think about you
10:44it's what your mother thinks
10:45well I'm not my mother's keeper
10:46or my brother's either
10:47thank God
10:47come in
10:48thank you Gentry
10:52good night my lady
10:55good night my lord
10:56good night Gentry
10:57what do you suppose Bertha's going to do
11:00when she finds out about Edith?
11:01nothing
11:02well I'd do something I can tell you
11:04no no you wouldn't
11:06Bertha's the daughter of one Duke
11:07and she means to be the Duchess of another
11:09she knows the rules
11:10grin and bear it
11:12well of course
11:12well now how good she is at grinning
11:14now she must bear as well
11:15we can't have a scandal
11:17it'd rock the whole social order
11:18don't you count on me to behave like that
11:20if you're ever unfaithful to me
11:22I should scratch your eyes out
11:23darling
11:24in our case
11:25the question will never arise
11:26Jerry
11:31what are you doing?
11:33Bertha
11:34come and look at this
11:35good lord
11:38has that always been there?
11:41hmm
11:42what is it?
11:44it's the first Duke
11:45receiving the keys
11:46to the kingdom of heaven
11:47oh
11:48the Churchills have regarded them
11:50as family property
11:51ever since
11:52hmm
11:52Jenny
11:55oh
11:57good morning Doctor
11:58you're not thinking of going out
12:00well I'm sorry to disappoint you
12:02but as a matter of fact I am
12:03after what happened last time
12:05oh
12:06are you going to blow around the park
12:07in the pony carriage?
12:08I think that most unwise
12:10Jenny will be shaken about
12:11she should stay indoors
12:13but this house is so stuffy Duchess
12:15I felt I must have some air
12:16blend him
12:18stuff him
12:20there
12:25have a setter
12:26I say
12:30are you alright?
12:31I think we'd better get back
12:32tell her Grace
12:43quickly
12:44now
12:47we must be practical
12:49is she going to stop?
12:50yes
12:50it's not due till January
12:51it won't be any the worse
12:53for being a few weeks early
12:54now
12:55we've not succeeded
12:56in stopping the pains
12:57and as it is Sunday evening
12:58and there are no trains
12:59we shall simply have to make do
13:01with this little local doctor
13:02he's very good really
13:03but has he got any chloroform?
13:05well I'm afraid not
13:06oh my god
13:06oh random
13:07well can't we get someone
13:08from Oxford even?
13:09oh my dear
13:10babies don't wait for drugs
13:12and doctors I'm afraid
13:14don't worry Jenny
13:27you're doing awfully well
13:28really
13:29how long does it go on?
13:33you never can tell
13:34I'm afraid
13:35Rosamund
13:40Mrs. Brown
13:43is expecting her time
13:45in January
13:46she must have some
13:46baby clothes ready
13:47go and ask her
13:48if we can borrow them
13:49tell her
13:50tell her Jenny's
13:52are all in London
13:52she hasn't even
13:53finished buying them
13:54some people
13:55fortunately
13:56are more provident
13:56than others
13:57and solicitors' wives
13:59by nature
14:00more so than most
14:01if you'll do that
14:03Rosamund
14:04I'll go and sit
14:05with Jenny
14:05may I come?
14:08certainly not
14:09I say oh boy
14:17you're firstborn
14:19wrapped in the
14:20swaddling bands
14:21designed for an infant
14:22solicitor
14:23there are excellent
14:24there are excellent
14:24precedents for children
14:25taking their mothers
14:26unaware Blanford
14:27may I draw your
14:28attention to that
14:29picture over there?
14:31aiming pretty high
14:32aren't you?
14:33nothing but the best
14:34for my child
14:34oh Randolph
14:40Jenny was a brick
14:42is she alright?
14:45she's so brave
14:46she'll be alright
14:48women don't die
14:49in childbirth
14:50like they used to
14:51unfortunately
14:53not long now dear
15:17sit down Randolph
15:42cut
15:42oh Randolph
15:48it's a
15:49Winston Leonard
15:54I baptize thee
15:56in the name
15:56of the Father
15:57and of the Son
15:59and of the Holy Ghost
16:01now can we go back
16:07to Dayton?
16:08Royal Highness.
16:38Jolly good speech of yours in the house, Randolph.
16:57Oh, thanks very much.
16:59Just a bit of fun, you know.
17:00No, no, no.
17:00It was jolly good.
17:02HRH said he wished someone would speak up for us like that.
17:04We need more money for our trip to India, you know.
17:06But my dear Ellsford, it's no use speaking to me.
17:08I'm not in the government yet.
17:10Speak to Dizzy.
17:12Oh, HRH has done.
17:13It's the Queen.
17:14Oh, Lord.
17:17I say, why don't you come with us?
17:20It's going to be the greatest fun.
17:21I've only been married a year, old chap.
17:23What do people think?
17:24I'm leaving Egypt.
17:26Are you indeed?
17:28Well, HRH was so insistent I must go.
17:30We can't take women, of course, so...
17:32Oh, Edith will be all right.
17:34She can hunt.
17:36I wish to God they'd go now.
17:43They'll never come back.
17:46I can't wait till next week, Edith, let alone next month.
17:49Darling, once he's gone, we'll have all the time in the world.
17:52That's what I want you to know.
17:55Next weekend.
17:56I'm sorry.
17:57We've been asked to Sandring.
17:59I've chosen out the rumour about Lady Ellsford.
18:01That isn't true.
18:02If she were with Charles now, it might be most embarrassing for everyone.
18:05Eh?
18:10Can't you get out of it?
18:11I could come down to you at Packington.
18:13Everyone would know.
18:14Everyone knows already.
18:16Except Jo and Bertha.
18:17So then I put some soap in with the cheese, Clara, and he had the lot, without saying a word.
18:24Poor man.
18:24Afterwards, he was terribly sick.
18:29How very, very funny.
18:31He's never forgiven me, never.
18:33Are you surprised?
18:35Who's that Jenny's dancing with?
18:37I think, yes, it is.
18:39It's Lord Hardwick.
18:40Oh, so that's Lord Hardwick.
18:43Jenny's told me about him.
18:45Oh.
18:47You're wasted on Randolph.
18:48My dancing certainly is.
18:50He'll hardly step on the floor.
18:52Don't be silly, you know what I mean.
18:53No?
18:54I don't think so.
18:55Come to bed with me, Jenny.
18:58It's very kind of you to ask me, but these masks are so deceptive, aren't they?
19:03I'm afraid you must have mistaken who I am.
19:05If you'd like it, I know you would.
19:06I can always tell.
19:08I don't know what class of woman you normally consort with, Lord Hardwick,
19:12but I'm afraid your experience with them can be of no use to you at all with me.
19:16Good evening.
19:17Come on.
19:17You want it.
19:18I want it.
19:21Take your hand off me.
19:24Thank you so much.
19:32It's Lady Randolph.
19:33I'd know that complexion anywhere.
19:37If it was any other woman, I'd say she was angry.
19:40But with you, my dear, I know it's no more than natural pride.
19:44Oh.
19:45Don't say I'm proud.
19:46I should blush.
19:47I only mean you should be very proud of Randolph's success in the house.
19:52If you say it was a success, Mr. Disraeli, then it really must have been.
19:55Oh, it was.
19:56It was.
19:58You should make him speak more often.
20:00He's too modest.
20:01Now, there, sir, you've shown ignorance I never would have expected.
20:05Who ever heard of a modest Churchill?
20:06My dear Lady Randolph, all I wish to say is, if your talented husband would only attend
20:13the House of Commons with half the assiduity he attends the race course, he could go very
20:19fine.
20:20Do you mean that?
20:23Or is it just another of your flattered?
20:25I flatter you, never.
20:27Oh, no, I promise you, Randolph ever takes himself seriously if he studies and exercises
20:35a little self-control.
20:37Ah, self-control is, I'm afraid, like modesty, something that Churchill simply do not have.
20:41And who is this beautiful lady?
20:44What secrets lie behind that tantalizing mask?
20:48Such eyes, surely I know those eyes.
20:50Lady Randolph, the eyes have it indeed, sir.
20:53Well, and what office have you got for Randolph?
20:56Nothing, sir, yet.
20:57Oh, sir, do not destroy an old man's illusions.
21:01I hoped you were stronger just because she liked me.
21:04Nonsense, you were talking to her.
21:06I saw it all.
21:06Then the sooner your royal highness removes to India, the better, so we may conduct our
21:14amour with something more like privacy.
21:17Oh, intrigue, intrigue.
21:19Let me take you from this order of wickedness.
21:22So long, sir, as it's not to claim to one, you say, near.
21:25I claim only this dance, though when I cling, my dear.
21:28Oh, oh, oh, oh.
21:36I claim only this dance.
21:49I claim only this dance.
22:51Good morning.
23:21Give me a kiss.
23:23Come on, kiss for Mama.
23:25It's no use, my lady.
23:26He'll only do it if you say it's for his papa.
23:29Hmm, ungrateful little beast.
23:31All right then, Winnie.
23:32A kiss for Papa.
23:33Come on.
23:34Good Lord, Everest.
23:36Has her ladyship regressed to second childhood already?
23:38You're just in time.
23:40He's just going to bed.
23:42Extraordinary things, babies.
23:44Getting them decently, respectably into the world requires such fearfully complicated arrangements.
23:49Doesn't it, Everest?
23:51Babies are the whole basis of morality, you know.
23:53There must be babies, my lord.
23:55Otherwise, the world will come to a stop.
23:56That I do know.
23:57Perfectly true.
23:58A profound observation.
23:59You're a philosopher, Everest.
24:01A sage.
24:01Oh, it's only common sense, my lord.
24:03And what could be sager than that?
24:06Jenny, I thought you said this repulsive moral object was on its way to bed.
24:10Oh, poor little Winnie.
24:12Good night, Everest.
24:13Thank you so much.
24:14Good night, my lady.
24:15Good night, my lord.
24:16Good night, Everest.
24:23You really shouldn't tease her like that.
24:25She might understand you.
24:26Good thing, too.
24:27I meant every word of it.
24:34We've got trouble, Jenny.
24:36Oh?
24:36What's the matter?
24:38Blanford.
24:40He's announced that he's leaving Bertha
24:41and running away with Edith Aylesford.
24:45Oh, how ridiculous.
24:47It's insane.
24:49And Edith's written to Joe, telling him all about it, if you please.
24:51So now he's dashing back from India,
24:53full steam ahead, demanding a divorce.
24:56Oh, really?
24:57They're like children.
24:58Don't they know how to behave?
24:59Apparently not.
25:00Blanford's asking Bertha for a judicial separation.
25:04You mean he wants to marry Edith?
25:06So he says.
25:07But nobody will ever speak to him again.
25:09Right.
25:10That's why we've got to stop him before he does something even sillier than what he's done already.
25:13I say, we are going to have fun.
25:21Fun?
25:22I've never heard of anything so stupid and sordid in my life.
25:26Blanford's decided to do the decent thing and offer Joe a duel.
25:29Pistols at dawn and all that.
25:31Oh, I love it when people make fools of themselves.
25:34Thank God Papa's in Greece and can't spoil it all.
25:36Randolph, do you mean they're actually going to fight?
25:39Oh, God, no.
25:39We can't let it come to that.
25:41We'll have a splendid time pretending.
25:44Well, I don't find either dueling or divorce the least bit funny.
25:48If there won't really be a duel, I told you.
25:51And no divorce either, I hope.
25:53I have every intention of making Edith my wife.
25:56You can't possibly.
25:57Don't be ridiculous.
25:58Edith and I love each other.
25:59Well, so I should hope with all this row.
26:01And what's that got to do with anything?
26:03Do you really love her so much you want to ruin her forever?
26:05Ruin, Piffle.
26:06What the devil does it matter what people think so long as we're happy?
26:08Oh, nothing at all, of course, provided you are happy, that is.
26:12I can just see you night after night, year in, year out,
26:15eating your solitary dinners together at Blenheim.
26:17No one will come, Blanford, not even Mr. and Mrs. Brown.
26:20No one will invite you out either.
26:21It'll just be you and Edith till you die.
26:24That's what divorce and disgrace mean.
26:26I don't care.
26:27What about Edith?
26:28What about her?
26:28Have you asked her whether or not she cares?
26:33Yes, I know love is blind,
26:36but don't you think you ought to start thinking a little less about yourself
26:39and a little more about her?
26:40I think about her all day long.
26:47Look, old chap,
26:49if Edith's to have any sort of happiness,
26:53she can't be cut off from everything and everyone she knows and loves.
26:58I want to marry her.
26:59You can't! Stop thinking about it!
27:01And stop thinking how you can stop Jo Ellsford divorcing Edith.
27:05Huh.
27:06That would be quite easy.
27:08Not from what I hear.
27:10I've got some letters.
27:16Jo's?
27:17Much better.
27:18H.R.H.'s.
27:20To Edith.
27:21Good God.
27:25They're pretty hot stuff.
27:29Do you want to see them?
27:31The Prince of Wales is the greatest hypocrite on God's earth!
27:34Darling, we all know that.
27:36It's his job!
27:37Well, it's a much dirtier job than you think.
27:39He's deliberately letting it be known all over London that he thinks poor Blanford is a...
27:43Poor Blanford!
27:44Certainly!
27:45Poor Blanford!
27:46Six months ago, H.R.H. was slapping him on the back and winking about his affair with Edith.
27:51Now he turns round and calls him a blaggard.
27:53If that's not hypocrisy, then I don't know what is.
27:55Of course it is.
27:56But, darling, you know, I know, everyone knows that whatever he says or does in public has
28:02nothing to do with what he really thinks or feels.
28:04He has to set an example.
28:05Example?
28:06So you think he was setting an example when he insisted on taking Joe with him to India,
28:12knowing perfectly well about Edith and Blanford when he virtually forced them into each other's arms?
28:16Oh?
28:17I thought they were there already.
28:20Well, he doesn't give him the right to call Blanford names now.
28:23Oh.
28:24Names don't mean anything.
28:25It's Blanford's fault for letting it become public knowledge.
28:28Once it was, the Prince had no choice.
28:30Hadn't he?
28:31You don't know the half of it yet.
28:34You talk about public knowledge?
28:36Well, privately, H.R.H. was after Edith himself.
28:40Well, he's been after half the women in England.
28:43He thought Joe was going to find out.
28:45That's why he encouraged Blanford.
28:47He wanted Blanford to carry his blame.
28:49I don't see why you have to invent a story like that.
28:52I haven't invented anything.
28:55It's the truth.
28:57H.R.H. is using his public position to clear up a little awkwardness in his private life.
29:03Which is why I say he's not only a hypocrite, but I can.
29:06Oh, you are not to talk about him like that.
29:08He's always been extremely kind to us.
29:10For his own reasons, no doubt.
29:12Well, he's never tried anything like that with me.
29:14Yet.
29:15He likes him older than you.
29:17Your time will come, I have no doubt.
29:20Don't be so disgusting.
29:22Why do you defend him?
29:23Why don't you believe what I tell you?
29:25Because, my darling, when you talk wildly like this, your judgment's just never any good
29:39at all.
29:40I see.
29:41So that's what you think of me.
29:43What I think, Randolph, is that it's extremely stupid to quarrel with such a powerful man.
29:52He can ruin us as quickly as he's ruined your brother.
29:56He can't touch us.
29:57Because what you don't know is I've got the crown of England in my pocket.
30:02Here.
30:03Randolph.
30:04I'm not afraid of the crown of England.
30:07You Americans will never understand.
30:09People like us have been fighting the crown throughout history.
30:12We don't kowtow to kings.
30:15We make them and break them.
30:21I have done all I can, Lord Randolph.
30:24I have spoken to Lady Aylesford and your brother.
30:27I do not see what more I can do.
30:29I believe Your Royal Highness could urge the Prince to be even more active than he has been
30:34in trying to persuade Lord Aylesford to withdraw his threat of a divorce.
30:37But he has been very active already.
30:39He believes with you that a divorce could only do very great harm.
30:43But he is not in a position to compel Lord Aylesford to give it up.
30:53There are peculiar and grave matters affecting this case, ma'am.
30:57I'm determined to use every means in my power to prevent it coming before the public.
31:01I commend your feeling.
31:04I have such means at my disposal.
31:06Well?
31:09I regret to say that certain letters have come into my possession.
31:12Indeed.
31:13They are addressed to Lady Aylesford and are of the most compromising character.
31:17I must tell you that I have shown them to my solicitor who has shown them to the Solicitor General.
31:21I'm not sure that I wish to know any more about this business, Lord Randolph.
31:25I'm afraid you must, ma'am.
31:36The letters are from the Prince of Wales.
31:38It is the Solicitor General's opinion that if they ever come before the public,
31:42His Royal Highness will never sit on the throne of England.
31:47And I must tell you that if Lord Aylesford persists with his intention of suing for divorce,
31:53His Royal Highness will be called as a witness.
32:00I'm afraid I'm quite unable to judge the importance of what you say, Lord Randolph.
32:06But I will, of course, let His Royal Highness know that you called.
32:11Good morning.
32:16Your Royal Highness.
32:21Randolph is so impetuous.
32:24I was sure something like this would happen.
32:27He proposed to you after only three days.
32:29You seem to forget, Mama, that I accepted him after only three days, too.
32:33I know.
32:34You and Clara had better understand that I am not going to listen to you abusing Randolph in his own house.
32:38All he was trying to do was save his brother.
32:41Some people simply aren't worth saving.
32:44Oh, I'm sorry if my family has incommoded you, Clara.
32:47But they are my family.
32:48I think, Jenny dear, you had better come and stay with us in Paris for a while.
32:54No, thank you, Mama.
32:55My place is at Randolph's side.
32:57And I am most grateful to you and Clara for making it so clear to me.
33:01Well, I don't think there's any point in us staying in London, Mama.
33:05Clara, it was very nice having you with us for the season last year.
33:11But if you find us so tiresome and stupid, perhaps this year you'd better stay away.
33:15I'd love to come, Jenny dear.
33:18So long as there's something to come for,
33:22do you think there will be?
33:24Good night, my lady.
33:27Good night, gentry.
33:28Good night, my lord.
33:29Good night.
33:32Clara never did care about anything except parties and the dresses she was going to wear.
33:39Well, you're quite fond of parties and dresses yourself.
33:42I don't care what you've done, but if we're to have all these worries, do for heaven's sake let's go through them together.
33:58I thought you shared your family's views of my behavior.
34:02As long as I have you, I don't care what happens.
34:05I wouldn't give you up for all the crowned heads in Europe.
34:19That's the nicest thing I've heard since you said you'd marry me.
34:22For better or worse.
34:33I'm afraid the worst has hardly started yet.
34:37The prince has decided to send Lord Hardwick to act as go-between.
34:42He can't know, can he? That Hardwick tried to...
34:46Do you suppose he does know?
34:47I don't know, but it's just what that dreadful little man would think a tremendous jape.
34:52If he'll tell Hardwick precisely what I think of him and his master.
34:56Oh, darling, you mustn't let him know for one second what I told you.
35:07They're all such unspeakable.
35:09Cats.
35:11Letchers.
35:12They ought to be exposed.
35:14It's all so confused already.
35:17If my name gets involved as well.
35:21Yes, well...
35:23No, of course it mustn't be.
35:25No, it'd give H.R.H. such pleasure to drag you in the mire too.
35:29Oh, all right. My quarrels only with the prince.
35:33Of course.
35:35Hardwick's one of my oldest friends.
35:37I'm totally ignorant of the fact that he tried to seduce my wife.
35:40I'm only so sorry that we should have to meet under such unhappy circumstances for both of us.
35:47Keep calm this time, Randolph. For both our sakes.
35:52It won't be easy.
35:55Well, then...
35:58I'll help you.
36:03Hardwick.
36:05Yes, ma'am.
36:11Lord Hardwick, my lord.
36:12This is a very bad business, Lord Randolph.
36:20Good morning, Lord Hardwick.
36:22Oh, good morning.
36:24What a pleasant surprise.
36:26We haven't had the pleasure of seeing you since...
36:28Oh, since when can it have been?
36:29I don't remember.
36:31Well, not since the prince went to India.
36:33Have you any word of him?
36:34He's reached Egypt on his way home.
36:36Enjoying the fleshpots of Cairo, no doubt.
36:38No doubt.
36:40They do say Egypt can be very beautiful at this time of year.
36:44I believe so.
36:52If I might have a word, Lord Randolph.
36:54Oh, I'm sorry.
36:55Am I de Tro?
36:57I thought you'd come to see me.
36:59Well, I'll leave you then.
37:00So nice to see you again.
37:14Well?
37:17Look here.
37:19This is awfully embarrassing.
37:21HRH has asked me to represent his interests here in England till he gets back.
37:26You must feel greatly honored.
37:28I have to inform you that his royal highness is extremely angry to hear of your disgraceful and dishonorable threats to the princess.
37:35Oh, dear, I am sorry.
37:37He demands your apology.
37:42I won't give one.
37:44Then he requests you to name your seconds.
37:46He will meet you at any convenient time and place on the north coast of France.
37:50You will appreciate that he cannot, of course, meet you here in England.
37:53Foils?
37:55Sabres?
37:57Pistols.
38:00I say.
38:02At dawn?
38:04This is not a laughing matter, Randolph.
38:06Your action in going to the princess with the intention of blackmailing the prince...
38:10Will you please be serious?
38:12Serious?
38:13You march into my drawing room and ask me to take seriously a challenge from the heir to the throne? Don't be such a fool.
38:20His royal highness has every intention of dealing in this matter...
38:23His royal highness knows damned well that such a duel is impossible!
38:28His challenge is absurd!
38:30Is he trying to make an even bigger cat of himself than he has already?
38:32Look here!
38:43I'll tell you what I'm prepared to do.
38:48I'll apologize to the princess.
38:49You can tell HRH that if I acted indiscreetly or was guilty of the slightest disrespect to her, I unreservedly offer my most humble and sincere apologies.
39:00He wants you to apologize to him?
39:03I won't.
39:04His behavior has been scandalous throughout this affair.
39:07And if any apology is due, it is from, not to him.
39:10Look here, Randolph. It's no good taking that line.
39:13You'll tell him what I've said.
39:15Please use my exact words.
39:18Very well.
39:20Your message is as insulting as your original behavior.
39:24Challenging me to a duel.
39:27It's very easy for him to do that when he knows I must refuse him, isn't it?
39:32That is unforgivable.
39:35The truth often is, Lord Hardwick. Good morning.
39:54You really must not always take such extreme positions, Randolph.
39:58You must learn to be more conciliatory.
40:02If the Prince refuses to meet me, Mama, it is because he has a guilty conscience.
40:06I'm happy to be reconciled at any time.
40:09My conscience is clear.
40:11There's no point in taking that attitude.
40:13You should think of the future.
40:14I am thinking of the future.
40:16The apology the Prince wants him to sign is too groveling.
40:19Randolph simply cannot sign it.
40:21He'll have to sign something in the end.
40:23I am surprised to hear you encouraging him to be obstinate, Jenny.
40:26I should have thought you must regret what has happened.
40:29Well, I think we can all agree that Randolph was quite right.
40:33Absolutely right.
40:35To do everything possible to prevent Blanford from bringing disgrace on himself and on his family.
40:39Oh, yes. All my fault, of course.
40:42Well, isn't it?
40:44I never thought you'd turn against me.
40:46What makes you think I was ever for you?
40:48Oh, this is wonderful.
40:50All my friends pretend they've never met me.
40:53And now my family turns on me too.
40:55Can't you think of anyone but yourself?
40:57You never had any plans for a career.
41:00But Randolph had wonderful prospects.
41:02Oh, my dear brother was dizzy about to offer you a seat in the cabinet.
41:05I'm so sorry.
41:06It's not simply a question of the damage to Randolph's prospects.
41:09Oh, Randolph's prospects!
41:11He's been in Parliament two years and hardly opened his mouth.
41:14Blanford, if you can't control yourself,
41:17perhaps you will leave us to continue our discussion without you.
41:20No, let him stay. Just do shut up for two minutes, Blanford.
41:23What I was about to say was this.
41:40The political effects of this quarrel may not in the long run be of any importance.
41:46Though for the time being, of course, Randolph cannot look for any advancement.
41:49However, as HRH has gone to the lengths of saying he will not even enter a house
41:56where Randolph and Jenny are received,
41:58the social effects will be...
42:00are already, I think I may say, considerable.
42:10People say that a crisis like this is a great test of friendship.
42:15And it's true.
42:16I find I have no friends at all.
42:19Blanford.
42:22Randolph, I...
42:24don't really wish to enter your personal dispute with the Prince.
42:28But you must!
42:29If you think he was right, and he was, then you must support him.
42:32My dear Jenny,
42:34it'll do absolutely no good for me to take sides.
42:37But this unhappy affair must be settled as soon as possible.
42:41Randolph did what he did for the sake of the family.
42:42Now the family must stand by him.
42:45Of course we stand by him.
42:47Really, Jenny.
42:53Yes.
42:55Well, I suppose I'd better go and see the Prince.
42:59And see if some form of reconciliation cannot be achieved.
43:01You won't do any good.
43:03The Prince will listen to your father.
43:05Of course he will.
43:06Oh no, Mama.
43:08You see, I won.
43:10Aylesford has withdrawn his demand for a divorce,
43:12and he wouldn't have done if I hadn't gone to the Princess.
43:14And the Prince can never admit that.
43:16That's why he's making such a fuss.
43:18He's a hypocrite.
43:20The Cad.
43:22And the damned bad loser too.
43:24Your son has forfeited forever the right to describe himself,
43:28or to be described as a gentleman.
43:30It's a pity there's no desert island to which he and his brother could be banished.
43:34If your Royal Highness will forgive me,
43:37that's not a very conciliatory way to open our discussion.
43:40Well, I'm not in a conciliatory mood.
43:41I never wish to see either of them again.
43:43I understand your feelings, sir, of course.
43:45I expect you do, being their father.
43:48Sir, I'm sure I can persuade Lord Randolph to offer you a handsome apology.
43:55My dear Duke, I have no wish to exacerbate this quarrel,
43:58but that does not mean I'm ready to make peace.
44:01Lord Randolph's language has been quite inexcusable.
44:04To the Princess first, and then to Lord Hardwick.
44:07The things he said to Hardwick!
44:09Don't defend his language, sir, of course.
44:12But I must ask you to believe that he felt at all times he was acting for the best.
44:17He lied! He told the Princess he'd shown the letters to the Solicitor General.
44:21It was quite untrue!
44:24Sir, my sole purpose in asking for this meeting was to heal the wounds, not to reopen them.
44:33Well, you're right.
44:36All right, sit down, sit down.
44:38Thank you, sir.
44:43But I must tell you that what particularly rankles is your son's ingratitude.
44:47How was that, sir?
44:48Well, I was extremely kind to him last year.
44:49He was newly married.
44:51A young man with an American wife.
44:53We quite took them up.
44:55And for him to behave like this now, it's dreadful.
44:57It's quite dreadful!
44:58Sir, will no form of apology be acceptable to you?
45:03I very much doubt it. It's too soon.
45:05If you intend to remain so highly displeased with my son, sir, I think you'd better extend your displeasure to my wife and myself.
45:18Oh, no. Please do not feel that.
45:23Do you force it on me, sir? Unless you will accept an apology.
45:29Well, if I receive one, I will consider it. I will acknowledge it. You'll have to be satisfied with that.
45:35I will acknowledge it, but I will not accept it.
45:38But, sir, that won't...
45:39That is all I'm prepared to do.
45:40That is all I'm prepared to do.
46:10What's that? Funeral march? Might as well be.
46:20Oh. Is it that bad?
46:23I'm afraid so.
46:25Sorry, Jenny.
46:27Oh, I don't want an apology.
46:29I won't give one. He won't accept one.
46:32So we're dished.
46:34Utterly dished.
46:36Disraelis call in the Lord Chancellor to try and work something out.
46:38What we do in the meanwhile? I really don't know.
46:42Oh. We go on.
46:44Darling, we can't. Not as before.
46:46Well, then, differently.
46:48There's more than one way to live, Randolph.
46:51You're very brave.
46:52Oh, not at all.
46:54You were the brave one. You took up a cause which you thought was good.
46:58And landed you in this hole just to try and save Blandford from his own folly.
47:02Well, I'd have thought a good deal less of you if you hadn't tried.
47:05Ah, you are good to me.
47:07I'll tell you one thing.
47:10We know who our friends are.
47:12Yes. We have none.
47:14That's a very useful thing to know.
47:17Oh, Jenny, what's our sort of life been worth then?
47:21It's been fun, I suppose.
47:23Dancing, parties.
47:25Hunting, shooting, racing.
47:27Doing the social round.
47:28Now, of course, it's been fun.
47:31But...
47:33But...
47:35It's over.
47:36For the time being, anyway.
47:37And in England.
47:39So let's try somewhere else.
47:41I'm afraid the Prince still refuses to have any dealings with your son in spite of the apology.
47:47It was the remarks about his challenge which incensed him most, I think.
47:53No, thank you.
47:54Surely I thought this sort of thing had gone out with the Regency.
47:58Well, I wish it had.
48:00I shall stand by my son, of course.
48:03By Lord Randolph, you mean?
48:05Yes.
48:06Oh, Blanford, it...
48:09Blanford.
48:10Quiet.
48:13Your own behaviour, if I may say so, my dear Duke, has been beyond praise, really admirable.
48:21Well, I know my duty, I believe.
48:25I shall be quite happy to remain with my family at Blenheim.
48:28Ah, well, now, I was going to suggest something rather more...
48:32I won't say agreeable, but at least more useful.
48:37Your talents are too great to remain hidden, even in the most gorgeous of palaces, my dear friend.
48:46I know you have declined the post before.
48:50But now that circumstances have changed, what do you say to Ireland?
48:57Ireland.
48:58The Viceroy wishes to retire, and I would like you to replace him.
49:03And, of course, you could take Lord Randolph with you as your private secretary.
49:08He would be most useful to you.
49:10And, I think, most usefully employed for his own benefit.
49:14I see, I see.
49:18My dear old friend,
49:20I happen to know it would give Her Majesty the very greatest pleasure if you would accept.
49:28I'll tell you something, Jenny.
49:32Ireland may be the back of beyond,
49:35may be full of Republicans and peasants and madmen,
49:39but there's damn good hunting.
49:40Then we'd better buy some damn good horses.
49:41My dear, you'd better not have Everest here using that kind of language.
49:42No wonder where I could have learnt it.
49:43I'll tell you something else.
49:44Fit for my ears, I hope.
49:45The next 20, 30, maybe 50 years of English politics are going to be all about Ireland.
49:48I'll tell you something, Jenny.
49:49Ireland may be the back of beyond,
49:52may be full of Republicans and peasants and madmen,
49:55but there's damn good hunting.
49:57Then we'd better buy some damn good horses.
49:59My dear, you'd better not have Everest here using that kind of language.
50:02No wonder where I could have learnt it.
50:04I'll tell you something else.
50:06Fit for my ears, I hope.
50:08The next 20, 30, maybe 50 years of English politics are going to be all about Ireland.
50:14And you know what?
50:16I'm going to be the only Englishman who really understands them.
50:19Mr. Stansham.
50:49Mr. Stansham.
50:50Mr. Stansham.
50:51Mr. Stansham.
50:52Mr. Stansham.
50:53Mr. Stansham.
50:54Mr. Stansham.
50:55Mr. Stansham.
50:56Mr. Stansham.
50:57Mr. Stansham.
50:58Mr. Stansham.
50:59Mr. Stansham.
51:00Mr. Stansham.
51:01Mr. Stansham.
51:02Mr. Stansham.
51:03Mr. Stansham.
51:04Mr. Stansham.
51:05Mr. Stansham.
51:06Mr. Stansham.
51:07Mr. Stansham.
51:08Mr. Stansham.
51:09Mr. Stansham.
51:10Mr. Stansham.
51:11Mr. Stansham.
51:12Mr. Stansham.
51:13Mr. Stansham.
51:14Mr. Stansham.
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