00:07Now, Anne, what's this?
00:09A penguin.
00:10Very good.
00:11And Charles, who do you suppose is surrounded by penguins at the moment?
00:15Daddy.
00:15Yes, that's right.
00:17That's because he's in the Antarctic.
00:18And from there, he goes to the South Shetland Islands,
00:21and then he goes on to the Falkland Islands,
00:24and then goes all the way up here to Ascension Island.
00:28Now, all these are British overseas territories,
00:30and they have to be visited every once in a while,
00:32so they don't feel neglected or forgotten.
00:34They don't get any silly ideas like becoming independent.
00:37Right, you brush your teeth?
00:38Yes.
00:39Good.
00:39Have you said your prayers?
00:40Yes.
00:40Dolly good.
00:41Right.
00:41Night-night.
00:42Night-night, Mummy.
00:45Oh, we might put a picture of the Duke of Edinburgh by the children's bed,
00:49so they recognise him when he gets back.
00:51Five months is a long time at that age.
00:58Oh, what's that?
01:00From his Royal Highness, ma'am.
01:02Footage from the Royal Tour.
01:04How nice.
01:07We might watch that instead of our next film.
01:14Oh, what's that?
01:51Hansen 3-7-4-2
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35:38in the West End apartment of a society photographer, Baron Nahum.
35:43Nahum is also president of the Thursday Club in Soho,
35:48of which the Duke of Edinburgh is a founder member.
35:51Anyway, that story has rather lit the touch paper.
35:55The British press has caught on, with the Manchester Guardian reporting,
35:59not since the first rumours of a romance
36:02between the former King Edward VIII and Mrs. Ernest Simpson
36:06have Americans gobbled up the London dispatches so avidly.
36:12Go on.
36:13The Sunday Pictorial on its front page reminds its readers
36:18that the royal family is loved and envied throughout the world
36:21because it is a family.
36:24Time magazine has a headline, Too Much Thursday-ing.
36:27It goes on to say,
36:29Not since Wallis Simpson stalked the corridors of Buckingham Palace
36:33unless have the eyes of the world been turned so beadily
36:36towards those chintz drapes.
36:53I say we fly the Duke of Edinburgh back straight away.
36:57That's one thought, Your Majesty, and it's a good one.
37:00The Devil's Advocate might argue,
37:03and I'd be interested to hear Michael's thoughts on this,
37:07that the Duke's early return,
37:09obviously stage-managed by the palace,
37:12might appear too much of a concession to the newspapers
37:15and pour even more petrol on the flames.
37:20I would agree.
37:22And we don't want that.
37:25No.
37:33So what, then?
37:43What?
37:49Yes?
37:52The Admiral would like a woe, sir.
37:55It's fine.
37:56Tell him he can come.
37:58As a matter of fact,
37:59he suggested you go to see him, sir.
38:30Come on.
38:39Admiral.
38:41Could you come in?
38:43Come on.
38:45Buckingham Palace has been in touch
38:47regarding your reunion photo call
38:49with Her Majesty the Queen.
38:51With you, not me.
38:53I'm in command of this ship.
38:56I am her husband.
38:58It's been agreed that Her Majesty will fly out to Lisbon
39:00a day ahead of schedule.
39:03As I see it, your instructions...
39:04Instructions?
39:06... are to meet her at the airfield.
39:07You've been quite specific
39:08for how the reunion is to be managed.
39:21Thank you, sir.
39:42Thank you, sir.
40:14Those were the instructions.
40:16For God's sake, it has hearts on it.
40:20And the hat, too.
40:21Yes, sir.
40:22I hate hats.
40:23I believe its value on this occasion is not in its being worn, but in its being removed.
40:28Ah.
40:30In a gesture of chivalry and deference.
40:33Before I enter the aircraft.
40:35Before you reach the stairs of the aircraft.
40:59Michael, you want a hat, sir.
41:40We'll talk later.
41:44Shall we?
43:49I think we both agree it can't go on like this.
43:57No.
44:15So I thought we might take this opportunity without children, without distraction, to lay our cards on the table.
44:30And talk frankly, for once.
44:32About what needs to change to make this marriage work.
44:37All right.
44:38Who goes first?
44:40Stupid question.
44:41I've learned one thing by now, it's that I go second.
44:45If I am to go first, that's where I'd start.
44:52You're complaining.
44:53My complaining?
44:54It's incessant.
44:55Whining and whinging like a child.
44:57Are you surprised?
44:59The way those god awful moustaches that run the palace continue to infantilize me.
45:03Perhaps if you weren't behaving like an infant.
45:04You're giving me lists, sending me instructions.
45:06Do this, don't do that.
45:07Wear this, don't wear that.
45:08Say this, don't say that.
45:09Can you imagine anything more humiliating?
45:11Yes.
45:12As a matter of fact, I can.
45:16I've learned more about humiliation in the past few weeks than I hoped I would in a lifetime.
45:28I've never felt more alone than I have in the past five months.
45:33And why do you think that was?
45:36Because of your behavior.
45:38Because you sent me away.
45:40Yes, and why do you think that was?
45:41I don't know.
45:42You tell me.
45:43Because you're lost.
45:45You're lost in your role and you're lost in yourself.
45:49Christ.
45:52Look.
45:55I realize that this marriage has turned out to be something quite different to what we both imagined.
46:00Understatement.
46:01And that we both find ourselves in a...
46:05Prison.
46:09In a situation that is unique.
46:15Our marriage is different to any other in the country because the exit route which is open to everyone else.
46:21Yes.
46:21A divorce?
46:22Yes.
46:23A divorce.
46:26It's not an option for us.
46:31Ever.
46:43No.
46:56This restlessness of yours, it has to be a thing of the past.
47:03It's what I need.
47:05And it's what our family needs.
47:10The monarchy is too fragile.
47:11You keep telling me yourself.
47:13One more scandal, one more national embarrassment, and it would all be over.
47:25So what would make it easier on you?
47:28To be in, not out.
47:35What will it take?
47:40You're asking my price.
47:45I'm asking what it will take.
48:02All right.
48:05To make it work.
48:08To make it bearable, I'll need the respect and acknowledgement of the dreaded moustaches.
48:16Please stop calling them that.
48:17I'll stop calling them that when they don't all have one.
48:20An end to their snobbery and prejudice.
48:22No more being sniffed at for being a foreigner with a background, nobody understands.
48:25Will you earn their respect with your behavior?
48:28No.
48:29No.
48:29No.
48:30I will earn their respect with the only thing those creatures understand.
48:34A gesture, a statement, something irrefutable that shuts them up and commands their respect.
48:39Right now, I am currently outranked by my eight year old son.
48:42Yes, of course.
48:43He's the heir to the throne.
48:54Yes, of course.
49:08He's the heir to the throne.
49:17His right now.
49:18Toat the throne of the throne, the throne of the throne...
49:29Kissing the throne of the throne throne, suddenly.
49:32And I will never give up.
49:35Pad evaluation.
49:36That's my jemandem for arise.
49:38Seattle and whenzo panci Integration Week with a powerful the throne of his own balance.
49:42Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
50:32Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
51:12Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
51:42Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
51:57Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
52:11Quite marvellous, sir. Thank you.
52:14Now to the roll of muffled drums, to thee the greatest soldier comes.
52:19For this is he who give him welcome.
52:22This is he, England's greatest son.
52:26He that gained a hundred fights, nor ever lost an English gun.
52:34Quite magnificent, sir.
52:38Michael.
52:39Michael, do you have a moment, Cosma?
52:44No.
53:27Sorry it's a bit gloomy.
53:29A bit.
53:31Don't live much good around the house without Eileen.
53:34You could have at least put the fire on.
53:36Oi, I provided whisky.
53:39All right, I've burnt some sausages.
53:41Who do you think you are, royalty?
53:45There you are.
53:48There you are.
53:59Our wives and sweethearts.
54:00May they never meet.
54:04What will you do now?
54:06Go back to the Navy?
54:08Yeah.
54:09Going back home.
54:11The Navy is home.
54:13I'm either home.
54:14Australia.
54:16Oh.
54:18Can I come?
54:21I thought everything was all sorted in your world.
54:23Well, as sorted as it can be, when you sell yourself.
54:37She wants more children.
54:40Ouch.
54:40I told her the last thing the world needs is more romance to feed, she said.
54:46You should think of it as a second act.
54:48Of what?
54:49A Greek tragedy?
54:50Of her life as a mother.
54:54That makes sense, from her perspective.
54:58Charles isn't a child to her, is he?
55:00Is also the crown.
55:02A living embodiment of who will replace her.
55:06Supersede her.
55:09Loving a child who through no fault of his own represents your own death can't be easy.
55:14No.
55:15Because she is a little cold with him.
55:19She tries her best.
55:22Might be nice to have a couple of kids that are just kids.
55:25Not mortal threats.
55:27Who she can actually love.
55:35It's the airport driver.
55:42What would I do without you?
55:44I'm always at the end of a telephone.
55:46That's it then.
55:48End of an era.
55:54Thank you for that era.
55:56Thank you for that era.
55:58No.
56:00No, Mike.
56:04Sir.
56:07Philippe.
56:11Sir.
56:11Sir.
56:38Sir.
56:41Sir.
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