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00:21And so, Coronation Day is upon us for the first time since 1953.
00:31A three-day people's festival has been declared with concerts and street parties up and down
00:37the country.
00:43The former queen is understood to be devastated and is unlikely to attend the service.
00:53Many had been unable to imagine life without Elizabeth II.
00:58But after almost 50 years on the throne, it's out with Queen Elizabeth and in with King Tony.
01:10New Britain has a new royal family.
01:13The Labour Party.
01:21The King leaves the Abbey to the strains of the new national anthem.
01:26You can walk my path, you can wear my shoes, not to talk like me, and be an angel too.
01:42I'm singing it now, please.
01:48It's all.
02:02The usual rounds of controversies of political office, the Prime Minister's personal satisfaction
02:09action ratings raised by one point to an extraordinary 66 percent moment we'll join
02:15our colleagues at the world service but in the meantime on behalf of everybody at broadcasting
02:27here
03:04I'd like to talk briefly about the Prime Minister, if I may.
03:08Oh?
03:10Historically, I've not worried too much about Prime Minister's popularity.
03:14It tends to come and go very quickly.
03:16But I have a feeling that could be different with Mr Blair.
03:20People really do seem to love him and see him as a true son of England
03:24and a unifying national symbol in a way they used to see.
03:29Well, me.
03:30And with Mr Blair scoring higher than me, in every survey one can find,
03:36perhaps now is the time.
03:39Ma'am?
03:40To find out what seems to have gone wrong and how we could...
03:44I could do better.
03:47I understand the impulse.
03:49But I'm not sure it's a good idea.
03:54The Crown doesn't ask existential questions of itself.
03:58Perhaps it should.
03:59It suggests a loss of confidence.
04:02It's putting blood in the water.
04:04It's just information, Robert.
04:07I agree.
04:09And I think, finally, I'm ready to hear it.
04:32The focus groups you asked for, ma'am, have now been conducted.
04:36In Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, and Liverpool.
04:47The British Royal Family.
04:49Yeah.
04:50Professional liabounds.
04:51More than 2,000 subjects over the age of 18
04:55were asked a series of yes or no questions about the monarchy.
04:59I consider the Royal Family to be an important part of British society.
05:04Yeah, I'll go along with that.
05:05I think you're being quite disrespectful.
05:07Followed by some, at times, spirited debate.
05:11Having reviewed the data, the pollsters have now presented their findings.
05:18Asked if the Royal Family were out of touch with ordinary people, 69% said yes.
05:26Badly advised, 62% said yes.
05:32Asked if they were wasteful of public money, 54% said yes.
05:37Asked if they lacked compassion.
05:4053% said yes.
05:44Asked if they had failed the Princess of Wales as badly in death as in life,
05:49a sobering 66% said yes.
05:55Asked if Britain should have a smaller, more informal monarchy
05:58like the Netherlands or Scandinavia, 54% said yes.
06:04And when asked if the monarchy should continue in its present form,
06:09the proportion that agreed was just 10%.
06:13I'd like to propose my own survey.
06:16How many of us think that polls are a daft idea in the first place?
06:21I don't see why we should have to listen to these people.
06:23Because we might actually learn something.
06:26And the sample, as I understand it, is selected to represent society as a whole, isn't it?
06:30It's still a folly to subject something as enduring as the monarchy to the whims of marketing men.
07:05Oh, no.
07:06Yeah.
07:08Wonderful.
07:10Yeah.
08:38We hoped never to see war in Central Eastern Europe again in our lifetimes.
08:46Sadly, it has come, and it has consequences for the whole world.
08:54Tonight, NATO allies launched an offensive against Serb military targets.
09:05Slobodan Milozovic is a monstrous dictator, carrying out the systematic and violent persecution of innocent civilians.
09:14He has to be stopped.
09:16We have a moral duty to ensure he does not succeed.
09:25To all of us in free countries who think this is a remote conflict, and someone else's problem, I say
09:33this.
09:35If you value your freedom, you cannot remain neutral.
09:40This is your war, too.
09:52It's encouraging that our native partners have come together like this against the Serbs, but, well, moral purpose is one
09:58thing.
09:59Military success is quite another.
10:02Every bombing target has to be approved by committee, which makes decisions agonizingly slow.
10:08We thought this aerial campaign would be over in days.
10:11Instead, two weeks and little or no progress has been made.
10:15The Serbs are laughing at us.
10:17I read that the problem was cloud cover.
10:20American stealth bombers need good conditions to see their targets.
10:25The most sophisticated weaponry in the world, and it can't handle the weather.
10:29Which is why we ultimately need ground troops.
10:32I proposed to President Clinton a limited invasion of 80,000 troops, which would drive Serb forces out of Kosovo
10:38and create safe havens for refugees to return.
10:40But he said most Americans can't point to Yugoslavia on a map, so why put U.S. servicemen's lives at
10:46risk?
10:47Yes.
10:48It's most frustrating.
10:50But I won't give up, morally.
10:53This is the right thing.
10:58Mr. Blair was unusually resolute today.
11:02In my experience, prime ministers tend to be either domestic or foreign policy focused.
11:09At this early stage, I'd say Mr. Blair falls very firmly into the latter camp.
11:14Yes.
11:15Statesman syndrome.
11:18Which am I, do you think?
11:20The domestic or foreign policy queen?
11:23Ha!
11:23Good question, ma'am.
11:26And it's not immediately obvious.
11:28The Commonwealth of Nations is such an article of faith to you, so one would be inclined to say foreign.
11:32For you, sir.
11:34Who else, off the top of their heads, for example, would be able to reel off the name of the
11:38president of Malawi?
11:40Macilli Malutzi.
11:42And the next member state to have general elections?
11:45Fiji.
11:46Their first since readmission.
11:47But despite all that, it's your interest in every part of the British Isles that I think ultimately makes you
11:53a domestic queen.
11:54Take today's engagement at the Women's Institute, composing the speech yourself, with, if I may say, evident enthusiasm.
12:02Of course.
12:03The uncomplaining, hard-working countrywomen of Middle England.
12:07You underestimate them at your peril.
12:10And if the sea, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains sweet, and cross the wall, in the land of
12:28the sea.
12:50The women's institute movement came to Britain in 1915.
12:56Since its humble beginnings in a Welsh garden shed, our membership and our goals have reached new and remarkable heights.
13:07I've been a member of the WI for longer than I've been queen.
13:13Many of you will remember how vital we were to the war effort, from growing produce to hosting evacuees.
13:22I have fond memories of collecting rose hips for rose hip syrup.
13:27Do you remember the rose hips?
13:29Yes.
13:30For vitamin C deficiency.
13:35There are approximately 250,000 members of the Women's Institute in the United Kingdom.
13:43Roughly, the population of Hull.
13:47Can you imagine a city run and populated entirely by the WI?
13:54It would have the tidiest streets in Britain, everything would run on time, and we would take all the men's
14:01jobs.
14:12No, I'm not, no, I'm not trying to patronise you.
14:14I'm not trying to make you look, yeah.
14:17Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand.
14:19All right.
14:20Okay, bye-bye.
14:24And then he said, answer me this, Tony.
14:27No, please, don't do the accent.
14:29How many ground troops are y'all prepared to come in?
14:33So, I say, look, Bill, we can talk about numbers all day.
14:38This is about the bigger picture.
14:39What if Milosevic wins?
14:41NATO's credibility is at stake.
14:43To which he said...
14:44NATO's credibility is already a busted flush.
14:47So you're allowed to do the accent.
14:49I do it better.
14:50He knows the fact you're coming to him like this means that NATO's air campaign has failed.
14:56But he still won't do what it takes, commit American ground troops.
15:00He's worried about it looking like another Vietnam with no political upside for him domestically.
15:05Well, you're never going to persuade the White House by appealing to their interests.
15:10So do what you do best.
15:14Appeal to their consciences.
15:26While we meet here in Chicago this evening, terrible things are happening in Europe.
15:36No one who has seen what has happened in Kosovo to those refugees can be in any doubt that NATO's
15:45military action is justified.
15:51But we must do more than simply make our case.
15:56We must also succeed.
15:59For that, we depend on you.
16:03The United States.
16:06You are the most powerful country in the world and the richest.
16:14You are a great nation.
16:18And it must be difficult and sometimes irritating to find yourself the recipient of every demand.
16:27To be called upon in every crisis.
16:30To be expected always and everywhere to do what needs to be done.
16:36The cry, what's it got to do with us, must be heard fairly regularly.
16:44Yet those nations which have the power, have the responsibility to use it wisely.
16:51We need you.
16:54We need America engaged.
17:00And so I say to you, never fall again for the doctrine of isolationism.
17:06Because the world truly cannot afford it.
17:10Stay, please, a country outward looking with the vision and the imagination which is the very best of your nature.
17:20And realize, too, that in doing so, you will find in Britain a friend and an ally that will stand
17:29with you.
17:30Work with you.
17:32Fashion with you, the design of a future built on peace and prosperity for all.
17:40Which is the only dream that makes humanity worth preserving.
18:04A resounding success for the Prime Minister in America.
18:08The New York Times says the Prime Minister has a new nickname.
18:13King Tony.
18:15The Wall Street Journal has come out in emphatic support of his attempts to persuade a reluctant White House.
18:21But I think the best summary is from the Chicago Sun-Times.
18:24It claims Mr. Blair has beguiled the city with his charms,
18:28leaving Americans pining to have him as their president instead.
18:32Goodness.
18:34I gather President Clinton is now considering ground war,
18:37which would leave Milosevic and his Serb forces with the option to either fight and face total annihilation,
18:44or else withdraw.
18:46And I suspect even they are sensible enough to choose the latter.
18:51So, the Prime Minister pulled it off.
18:54So it seems.
18:56This is an extraordinary political feat.
19:21The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
19:24Your Majesty.
19:28I hope you didn't slip on the way here.
19:31Ma'am?
19:32It can't be easy walking on water.
19:37Please, do sit down.
19:40So, you insisted the West no longer stand by while genocide and slaughter take place,
19:48and pulled it off without a single NATO casualty in combat.
19:52Great credit must go to the Americans when they signaled their openness to a ground invasion.
19:57Milosevic realized the game was up.
19:59But Clinton's change of heart is in great part thanks to you.
20:03It's one thing to have popularity.
20:06It's quite another to have influence.
20:09So, I offer you my congratulations.
20:12You are, at this moment, by some margin, the most celebrated leader on the world stage, with remarkable instincts.
20:20And so, in the light of that, it's no secret that the Crown has not had the best time of
20:30it in recent years.
20:31Often, our values and those of the country have not been perfectly aligned.
20:36You, on the other hand, since you entered number 10, you've shown an uncanny ability to read the mood of
20:43the country better than anyone.
20:47And so, I can't help but ask.
20:54What would you do to turn things round for us, if you were in charge?
21:04If I were in charge of the monarchy.
21:08If you were in my shoes.
21:12If I were king.
21:15If I were in charge of the monarchy.
21:20Goodness.
21:23For someone who so rarely puts a foot wrong, this seems to be a dangerous loss of judgment.
21:28She's asking for advice, Robert. She doesn't need to take it.
21:31But who is she asking?
21:32The Prime Minister.
21:33An avowed reformer and modernizer.
21:35Her chief advisor.
21:37I'm her chief advisor.
21:41Actually, constitutionally, Robert, I think you'll find he is.
21:48Can we walk through the five big changes that we want to make?
21:52Modernization.
21:52We reduce expenditure.
21:54Everyone's doing it.
21:55It's only fair that the queen is doing it as well.
21:57Right?
21:58Some examples.
21:59Listen to this.
21:59Royal train.
22:00£1,500 for catering per journey.
22:03This is the time to get them in line with new labor.
22:06Honestly, it's an anachronistic, unrepresentative feudal system based on a thousand years of hereditary
22:12privilege.
22:13You'd be better off trying to modernize Stonehenge.
22:16Let's do the monarchy first, and then we can get around to prehistoric monuments.
22:20Aren't those two things the same?
22:23Okay, I know it's unexciting, but administrative reform.
22:26We run the royals like we run the civil service.
22:28Yes.
22:30Accountability.
22:31There's nothing else that matters.
22:33It's just that.
22:34I mean, not being allowed to marry a Catholic.
22:37Pretty sure Article 12 of the Human Rights Act states that people have the right to marry whoever they want.
22:41Says the Queen's Council.
22:42Well, that's wrong too.
22:43I should be called Senior Council.
22:45I think we can spin it like this.
22:47It would look really good if it came from the palace that they're prepared to tighten the purses.
22:52She knows that there has to be a change.
22:54Yes.
22:55Yes.
22:56The voters don't want to take down the monarchy.
22:58You put a version of that in the dossier.
23:01It's all wrong, Tony.
23:04Seriously.
23:05Wrong.
23:08Needs changing.
23:19I'd like to start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to do this.
23:24I'm ashamed to say most of the time we don't think seriously about the monarchy in this country.
23:28We just subject you all to a lot of hurtful and frivolous gossip.
23:32Really?
23:33I hadn't noticed.
23:36But having consulted with my closest advisers, we do all agree that the institution is in need of some reform.
23:46That much was clear after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, when we saw an outpouring of grief turn
23:53into a mass movement for change.
23:56So, uh, I thought we might start with something I know you're already considering.
24:02Primogeniture.
24:04Yes.
24:06Demoting eldest daughters in the line of succession, I think we can all agree, makes little sense in a modern
24:11society.
24:12As an eldest daughter myself, I don't object to that in principle.
24:16But to turn over centuries of royal legislation is no small task.
24:21You'd have to consult with the 15 other countries where I'm head of state.
24:25Well, where the will is there, these things can usually change quickly.
24:30Um, another area is transparency.
24:34My government will soon be introducing a Freedom of Information Act.
24:37I believe the monarchy might benefit from something similar.
24:40An annual report setting out performance, assets, salaries, total accountability.
24:46Think of the Crown as a public limited company and the people of Britain as shareholders, not subjects.
24:52I see.
24:54Look, um, it's now nearly 300 years since William III signed the Act of Settlement to secure a Protestant monarchy.
25:01And there have been growing calls for a review of some of the more anti-Catholic provisions,
25:09which surely have no place in a plural society like ours.
25:14I can understand permitting members of the royal family to marry Catholics.
25:20But for Catholics to be in the direct line of succession would open the way to a Catholic monarch.
25:26Well, of course there'll be technical issues.
25:28Slightly more than technical issues.
25:30It would be the disestablishment of the Church of England.
25:35But we have to be willing to look at the big questions.
25:38There's no use nibbling around the periphery.
25:40Should it be the monarch's role to appoint the Prime Minister?
25:43Of course.
25:44It's a government in the sovereign's name.
25:46But to be able to dissolve Parliament, to give laws royal assent, they don't in Sweden.
25:52These functions can be carried out by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
25:56Should the monarch be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces?
25:58Again, they aren't in Sweden.
26:00They aren't in the Netherlands.
26:01Which brings me to the matter of pomp and splendor.
26:05I've been looking at some of the ceremonial offices in the royal household.
26:10And they include a hereditary grand falconer.
26:14Dear Murray, what about him?
26:17Does the job really need to depend on birth, not merit?
26:24The Queen's herb strewer?
26:26The washer of the sovereign's hands?
26:28That is only once per reign.
26:30And only when I'm in residence at Holyrood House.
26:34Still, a royal barge master and 24 watermen,
26:37even though there hasn't been a royal barge since 1849.
26:41A warden of the swans?
26:43Someone has to oversee the swans in England's inland waterways,
26:46over which the crown has an ancient prerogative right.
26:49But is that prerogative right?
26:52I understand that the role dates from the 12th century
26:55as a way to claim swans as delicacies for royal banquets.
26:58Now that the swan has, one imagines, fallen out of the culinary repertoire,
27:02how does one justify the role today?
27:04Kings and queens might not be eating them anymore.
27:07Someone has to care for them.
27:09We check them for injuries.
27:12Maintain their habitat.
27:14Ring them with tags from the British Trust for Ornithology.
27:18Conservation.
27:20And that's before we get to the most anachronistic of all ceremonies,
27:24the state opening of Parliament.
27:25Do we really need ten heralds,
27:27including the Rouge Dragon Percement
27:29and the Maltravers Herald Extraordinary?
27:33The gold stick in waiting?
27:35The silver stick in waiting?
27:36The gentleman usher of the Sword of State?
27:40I think what we're suggesting is
27:43a purge of honorifics,
27:46a bonfire of sinecures
27:48might be a useful concession.
27:52And PR victory.
28:01I obviously need to give all this careful thought.
28:04Your Majesty.
28:14So, how was it?
28:18A little frosty.
28:20I bet.
28:22But she promised to give our proposals
28:23some further thought.
28:25No.
28:26But if she doesn't
28:27and the people get fed up with them,
28:29she'll only have herself to blame.
28:32Britain is mature enough
28:33as a country and a democracy now
28:35to live without this nonsense.
28:39Preservation of the monarch
28:40is her life's work.
28:42She must know that
28:44they have to change
28:45in order to survive.
28:48They don't want to change, Tony.
28:50I mean, she probably thinks
28:52the only way to survive
28:54is to double down on the madness.
28:58like the Catholic Church.
29:00Let's not bring the Church into this.
29:01Well, they modernized
29:03and the old guard
29:05has never forgiven them for it.
29:07Why?
29:08Because they got rid of the Latin
29:09and the incense
29:10and the miracles
29:11and the mystery
29:12and people stopped coming.
29:14they are designed
29:15of the cheap attraction.
29:16This is different.
29:18Is it?
29:19£758 million
29:21cost of the project
29:22is money well spent.
29:33Mr. Hawkins next, please.
29:36Yes.
29:40Please, make yourself comfortable.
29:45Swans.
29:46That's it.
29:46I'm the warden of the swans.
29:49It says here your role
29:50is one of the oldest
29:51in the household.
29:53That's right, sir.
29:54We've gone through
29:54several incarnations
29:56over the years.
29:57Keeper of the King of Swans,
29:58the King Swanmaster,
30:00and now
30:01the warden of this one's.
30:07And what is your precise title?
30:10I am the Queen's Herbstrawer.
30:12The Queen's Guide to the Suns.
30:15Yeoman of the Glass and China Pantry.
30:18Could you tell us
30:19what your role involves
30:20day by day?
30:22It's my job to supervise
30:25the glassware and earthenware
30:26across all the royal palaces.
30:28I oversee stocks.
30:31I guard against any damage
30:34and breakages.
30:35What have you got there?
30:37Laws, orders, and customs.
30:40Swans.
30:41The authoritative text
30:43of what was then
30:44the keeper of the King Swans
30:45has been guiding us
30:47for centuries,
30:48since 1482,
30:49by my reckoning,
30:50by the reign of Edward IV.
30:52I've seen the bay
30:52change in all manner of ways.
30:54Years of high tides
30:55and heavy rainfall
30:56will change suns
30:58beyond recognition.
30:59Believe me,
31:00I've seen shallow gullies
31:02turn into deep ravines.
31:03What is your official title?
31:06Astronomer royal.
31:07Piper.
31:07The sovereign.
31:08Lord High Admiral
31:09of the Wash, ma'am.
31:10My responsibilities
31:11also include
31:13folding all 170
31:15of the embroidered
31:17white linen napkins.
31:19Oh, that's you.
31:20Yes, ma'am.
31:21You are clever.
31:22How on earth
31:23do you do that?
31:24Few have truly mastered
31:25the Dutch bonnet
31:27napkin fold.
31:28The swan
31:30is a pure
31:32and graceful
31:34beast.
31:36How's your 15th century
31:38calligraphy, Robert?
31:40A little rusty.
31:41Tell her.
31:45Her feathers
31:46are white as snow
31:48and as brief
31:50in duration.
31:53For she signifieth
31:55the past in nature
31:56of fair things.
32:00For though we wish
32:02our splendor
32:03to be everlasting,
32:05no thing
32:06must remain
32:08of what is past.
32:17The longer it went on,
32:18the heavier my heart
32:19became.
32:20I agree.
32:22A sense of pride
32:24in the tradition.
32:28I think my favourite
32:30was the Yeoman bedhanger.
32:32Yes.
32:34Or the Lord High Admiral
32:35of the Wash.
32:45So they don't want
32:46Blackrod knocking
32:47on the door
32:48or the Lord Great Chamberlain
32:50walking backwards.
32:51They've also suggested
32:52getting rid of
32:53the cap of maintenance.
32:55Presumably
32:56on the grounds
32:56that it can only be worn
32:57by a peer of the realm.
32:59But it's so full of
33:00colour and character
33:02and a glorious
33:03sea of vermilion.
33:05Well, I think
33:05from a PR standpoint
33:07it might be sensible
33:08to make one or two
33:09concessions.
33:10Really?
33:11Leave us less open
33:12to charges of elitism
33:13and grandiosity.
33:14Well, that's missing
33:15the point.
33:16The whole purpose
33:18of the state opening
33:19is to humble
33:20the monarch.
33:22The Crown's
33:22representative,
33:23Blackrod,
33:24knocks on the door
33:25of the House of Commons
33:26and is rebuffed
33:27three times.
33:28Why?
33:30Because the last time
33:31a king
33:33overstepped the mark
33:34and entered
33:35the Commons,
33:36Charles I,
33:38it led to civil war
33:39and his execution.
33:43Parliament is warning
33:44the monarch.
33:46Never forget,
33:48we're in charge.
33:50She still arrives
33:51in the Irish state coach
33:52with an escort
33:53of household cavalry
33:54and hundreds of guardsmen
33:56lining the route.
33:56doesn't immediately feel
33:58like a lesson
33:59in humility.
34:00Are we really
34:01being lectured
34:01on humility
34:02by the Prince of Wales?
34:03We are.
34:04Well, I just
34:04don't feel
34:05there's anything wrong
34:06with running the monarchy
34:07on more rational
34:08and democratic lines.
34:11But monarchy
34:12isn't rational
34:13or democratic
34:14or logical
34:15or fair.
34:18Haven't we all
34:19learned that by now?
34:22People don't want
34:23to come to a royal palace
34:24and get what they
34:25could have at home.
34:27When they come
34:28for an investiture
34:29or a state visit,
34:31when they brush up
34:32against us,
34:33they want the magic
34:34and the mystery
34:35and the arcane
34:36and the eccentric
34:37and the symbolic
34:38and the transcendent.
34:43They want to feel
34:44like they've entered
34:45another world.
34:46That is our duty,
34:49to lift people up
34:50and transport them
34:51into another realm,
34:52not bring them
34:53down to earth
34:54and remind them
34:54of what they already
34:55have.
34:58Hear, hear.
34:59The world has been
35:01gripped as the race
35:02for the White House
35:02has boiled down
35:03to a recount
35:04in the battleground
35:05state of Florida.
35:07Many in the Labour Party
35:08had hoped for a victory
35:09for Vice President Al Gore.
35:12But in a dramatic
35:13late-night ruling,
35:15the US Supreme Court
35:16voted 5-4
35:17to stop the recount,
35:19effectively handing
35:20the presidency
35:21to Texas Governor
35:22George W. Bush.
35:23Mr Blair's closest
35:25international ally
35:26will be a man
35:26he has never spoken
35:27to before he met.
35:28It couldn't have
35:29been more awkward.
35:30As you know,
35:30the Clintons were
35:31making their farewell
35:32visit to the UK
35:33and staying with us
35:34at Chequers
35:35while the ruling
35:36was being made.
35:37So there we all were,
35:39watching CNN
35:41in the middle of the night
35:42as the election
35:42is being decided.
35:44Oh dear.
35:44The following day,
35:45President Clinton
35:46had to deliver a speech
35:47at the University of Warwick
35:48with me giving
35:49the opening remarks.
35:50Well, I had no choice
35:52but to offer
35:53warm congratulations
35:54to President-elect Bush
35:55in front of my good friend.
35:58Will it be challenging
35:59for you
36:00to have a Republican
36:01White House?
36:03I see no reason
36:04not to be optimistic.
36:07Let's not forget,
36:08I'll be the senior
36:09partner now,
36:10so I hope to be able
36:11to influence
36:11President Bush.
36:20Your Majesty.
36:21Prime Minister.
36:30My office
36:30sent some suggestions
36:31ahead of the state
36:32opening a parliament.
36:33I was wondering
36:33if you had a chance
36:34to look at them.
36:35Rather more than that.
36:37I discussed them
36:38with my family.
36:40Believe it or not,
36:41for my first child,
36:43it was still custom
36:44to summon the Home Secretary
36:45to witness a royal birth.
36:49My father put a stop to it
36:51with my consent.
36:52So I'm not against reform.
36:54The question is
36:55what is worth preserving
36:57and where to draw the line.
36:59We have now conducted
37:00a thorough review
37:01of all the offices
37:02in my household
37:03and what we discovered
37:04was not indefensible
37:06extravagance or luxury
37:07or a collection
37:08of empty Ruritanian titles,
37:10but an extraordinary array
37:12of precious expertise,
37:14skills that have been
37:15passed down for generations,
37:17often within the same families.
37:19And the vehicle
37:20for that continuity
37:22is the crown.
37:24The spell that we cast
37:26and have cast for centuries
37:27is our immutability.
37:30Tradition is our strength,
37:32respect for our forebears
37:35and the preservation
37:36of generations
37:38of their wisdom
37:39and learned experience.
37:42Modernity is not always
37:44the answer.
37:46Sometimes antiquity is too.
37:54Wait.
37:55Are you ready?
37:56Are you ready?
38:02Am I disturbing, ma'am?
38:04Oh, Robert.
38:05No, not at all.
38:08I just wanted to express
38:10my relief, ma'am.
38:12That I came to my senses.
38:14For a moment,
38:15I think we risk compromising
38:16the very things
38:17that make us distinctive.
38:20Please.
38:23Which leads me to think...
38:28that it might be best
38:29if I personally
38:30were to move on.
38:32Robert.
38:34It's true, ma'am.
38:35At crucial moments,
38:37the palace has failed
38:38to read the public mood.
38:40And much of the blame
38:42rests with me.
38:43Surely not.
38:44It's a question of temperament.
38:46Knowing where to be flexible.
38:48My problem is I'm an old stick.
38:51I'd rather not change anything
38:52at all.
38:53I tend to see things
38:54as binary.
38:56Either you keep things
38:58as they are,
38:59or it's closing time
39:01in the gardens of the West.
39:03But you can
39:05make alterations
39:06without tearing down
39:07the building.
39:08My deputy,
39:10Robin Janvin,
39:11is far better place
39:12to do that.
39:13He's much more
39:13attuned
39:15and deserving
39:16of a step up.
39:17Of course,
39:18Robin will make
39:18an excellent private secretary,
39:20but he's still a young man.
39:23Is there nothing I can do
39:24to persuade you to stay?
39:27Sometimes it's helpful
39:28to offer a scalp.
39:31This way,
39:33everyone benefits.
39:34The public gets
39:35sent a signal.
39:37You get better advice
39:38than I could ever possibly give.
39:42I get to play more cricket.
39:46I don't know how I'll manage.
39:47I should be utterly lost.
39:49No, ma'am,
39:50you won't.
39:50It'll be just fine.
39:52You've navigated
39:53this latest matter
39:54perfectly without my help.
40:07Every minute
40:08has been an honor, ma'am.
40:30And finally, ma'am,
40:31your visit to Brighton & Hove
40:32as one of the government's
40:33designated Millennium Cities.
40:35Yes.
40:36I have drafted
40:37a program of engagements
40:38that I hope
40:39preserves the traditional
40:40but adds a somewhat
40:42modern sensibility.
40:45On the one hand,
40:46lunch at the pavilion
40:47in tribute to your
40:48great-great-great-great-uncle
40:50George IV.
40:51On the other,
40:52a visit to the
40:53Sussex Innovation Center
40:54to see a demonstration
40:56of an insectoid robot
40:57called Maggie.
40:59Right.
41:04One last thing
41:05you might be
41:06interested to know.
41:36the Prime Minister
41:37will be no exception.
41:57This will be no exception.
42:09A modern voice for women.
42:13It is a clear and admirable
42:15statement of ideals.
42:17But what does it mean to be modern
42:20in a new Britain
42:22driven by change and innovation?
42:26Make no mistake,
42:27there are many traditions
42:28we can be proud of,
42:29but we must never cling to tradition
42:31for its own sake.
42:33in the 21st century.
42:36In the 21st century,
42:36we must ask ourselves
42:37what kind of values
42:39we want to promote.
42:41We must take what's best
42:43from the past,
42:44but never be enthralled to it.
42:46Old-fashioned practices
42:48can sometimes
42:50hold progress back.
42:52I believe,
42:54and the Labour Party
42:54believes,
42:55that a new
42:57updated concept
42:59of community
42:59is needed
43:00to keep up
43:01with the fast pace of change
43:03in the modern world.
43:05I was elected leader
43:06of the Labour Party
43:07because I understood
43:08that we had a radical mission
43:10to change
43:11not just the politics
43:12of this country,
43:13but the constitution
43:15of this country,
43:16the soul
43:17of this country.
43:20Radical
43:20is not a word
43:22to be frightened of,
43:23it is a word
43:24to embrace.
43:26Because I fear
43:27that if we are not radical,
43:29we will not succeed
43:30in our mission.
43:32Look at what we've done
43:33in the House of Lords,
43:35taking...
43:37taking drastic action
43:39against hereditary privilege.
43:42Thank you very much.
43:45Look,
43:45the world is changing fast.
43:49Oh, okay, right.
43:51And change is tough,
43:52we know that.
43:58It's no wonder
43:59people feel worried
44:00and wish to hold tight
44:01to the old ways.
44:02A run-in with
44:03the Women's Institute
44:04was surely not
44:05what the Prime Minister
44:06had in mind
44:06as he made his return
44:07to the political fray.
44:09The chairwoman of the WI
44:10says that she had urged
44:11Mr. Blair
44:12not to make his speech
44:13party political.
44:14Take all of that
44:15forces that prevailed
44:16by the change
44:16than the very
44:18poor traditions
44:19received him.
44:23I'm glad we're
44:24having a good debate.
44:34He can charm America,
44:36indeed the whole world,
44:38but it comes up short
44:39with the Women's Institute.
44:41I'm getting terrible
44:42stick for it
44:42from my aides
44:43who all advise
44:44against doing it.
44:45You were political
44:46with the WI,
44:48the one thing
44:48we pride ourselves
44:49on never being.
44:50As far as criticisms
44:51go,
44:52being too political
44:53is one I think
44:54I can live with.
44:55Be like someone
44:55describing you
44:56as being too royal.
44:59I think I've come
45:00to realize
45:00there's no such thing
45:01as too royal.
45:04If you're doing it,
45:05do it properly
45:06and unapologetically.
45:13I understand.
45:17So?
45:22I'm sure you're aware
45:24the EU has just
45:25published a draft
45:27of its new
45:28Charter for Fundamental Rights
45:30ahead of the
45:31forthcoming summit
45:32in Portugal.
45:33Our hope
45:34is that it will reflect
45:35the original
45:36way of the EU
45:37to summarize
45:38the existing rights.
45:45You can walk my path
45:49You can wear my shirt
45:52Not to talk like me
45:57I'd be an angel at all
46:01I'm singing it now
46:02Please
46:03Please
46:05Can only get
46:06Please
46:06Can only get
46:08Can only get
46:10Can only get
46:12Take it all
46:13From here
46:14No
46:15I know
46:15That things
46:17Can only get
46:18Better
46:19Things
46:21Can only get
46:22Can only get
46:26Can only get
46:27Now I've found you
46:32Things
46:33Can only get
46:34Things
46:35Can only get
46:37Better
46:37Can only get
46:39Can only get
46:41Better
46:43Now I've found
46:45Now I found you
47:42Now I found you
48:12Now I found you
48:15Now I found you
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