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00:00:08The Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:11Here, attach the Queen!
00:00:14Queen's Critic!
00:00:17Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:19Come on, Jack.
00:00:21I'll take one of each this morning, please.
00:00:24And a sundae as well.
00:00:27That's right.
00:00:30Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:32Here, attach the Queen!
00:00:50No, I shan't have anything.
00:00:53Sorry, dear.
00:01:21I think it's right.
00:01:23Do you?
00:01:24Yeah.
00:01:25Now I think about it, she is a bit priggish.
00:01:28jaką she is?
00:01:33All right, man?
00:01:35It's all right.
00:01:36It's OK to run for that?
00:01:38It's OK to run.
00:01:59That's it.
00:02:00Don't push him.
00:02:02Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really.
00:02:53Really.
00:02:55Well, I shall see.
00:02:57I'll certainly let her manage to know.
00:03:04Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
00:03:07Which I know, my own private secretary.
00:03:09Good afternoon to you.
00:03:11Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altrincham has been struck.
00:03:33Dumb, I hope.
00:03:35Better than that, ma'am.
00:03:37In the face.
00:03:39Quite forcefully, I'm told.
00:03:42By whom?
00:03:44Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
00:03:46I'm afraid we don't have those details yet, ma'am.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios
00:03:54and the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:59where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:02Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am,
00:04:13where Altrincham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:18What?
00:04:19A programme appropriately called Impact.
00:04:23When will it air?
00:04:25Tonight, ma'am.
00:04:27Nine o'clock.
00:04:40Nine o'clock.
00:04:47Tell the people.
00:04:48Tell them on television.
00:04:51Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:58The programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which can debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07Hmm.
00:05:07He's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:05:14probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks
00:05:21on the Queen, in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:05:24have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:05:26and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our head of state, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:04What do you think?
00:06:05What does that mean?
00:06:07What do you do?
00:06:13When I write a class and B-1.
00:06:17I'm not.
00:06:19We know.
00:06:24If you don't know his commitment,
00:06:24It's very difficult.
00:06:24It's very difficult.
00:06:24When we get to the U.S.
00:06:25And it's very difficult.
00:06:26But it's very difficult.
00:06:26You're not.
00:06:31You're not.
00:07:13It's far too long. People are beginning to notice. And that is why the ending of doctrinal tests and the
00:07:25introduction of women priests is the only viable solution for saving the Church of England, an institution that is becoming
00:07:31increasingly outdated and irrelevant, hour by hour. Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:37Hello, Patricia.
00:07:39Would anyone like some toffee?
00:07:41Oh, bring it over here, Patricia darling.
00:07:49Oh, divine. Much like Patricia herself. Come, come, my dear. Be seated.
00:07:58Right. If no one's keen on the Church story, I can knock something up.
00:08:03Now, a piece on reforming the House of Laws. Dermot. You were going to look at that for me, weren't
00:08:08you?
00:08:08Something nutty about it?
00:08:11Mmm. Molasses.
00:08:11And Europe. We need to work out our official stance. Are we for or against a single European market?
00:08:21Are we in or out?
00:08:25Toffee, John.
00:08:27Oh, you must try some, John.
00:08:29Afraid I have a thing against toffee.
00:08:34Why didn't I know that?
00:08:36Right. You can't know everything about me.
00:08:42It's not the taste I object to so much. I just have painful memories.
00:08:49As a child.
00:08:51Or sitting in a dentist's chair because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:08:59Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:05Bye.
00:09:07Have a... Sarah?
00:09:09Perhaps you don't understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage in meeting constant, small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history
00:09:41is due in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average
00:09:47men and women.
00:09:50Um...
00:09:53Working men and women?
00:09:57Has a touch more dignity?
00:10:00Uh...
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22I wish you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in a week's time.
00:10:29I... I don't mind telling you
00:10:31I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:51Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Oh, dear.
00:11:04You were about to interfere beyond your station.
00:11:08But it's concerning the speech the Queen is due to give next week
00:11:13at the Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:16I was just...
00:11:19...wondering if you were happy with it?
00:11:24Well, obviously I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have shown it to Her Majesty
00:11:29for the approval which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:35She didn't need to.
00:11:36She immediately asked if I was happy.
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was good enough
00:11:43for Her Majesty.
00:11:46But I can see
00:11:48that the really important question is
00:11:50is it good enough
00:11:52for Colonel Chatteris?
00:11:55You don't think it strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:03In its paternalism.
00:12:08May I?
00:12:13I suppose if I had a concern
00:12:18it would be that post-Suez
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:23in this new Britain
00:12:26the tone of the speech is
00:12:30somewhat...
00:12:31Somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39Then would leave her open to attack.
00:12:42From whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling
00:12:48for every time
00:12:49someone of a progressive
00:12:50or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly
00:12:53of a popular attack
00:12:54against the Crown
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what constitutes
00:13:01indeed defines being British.
00:13:04Now the worst I've ever encountered
00:13:06is apathy
00:13:07where people simply accept
00:13:09the king or queen
00:13:10as they accept the sky above their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way
00:13:13from apathy to insurrection.
00:13:16Now as regards the newspapers
00:13:18the Crown can count on their support
00:13:20for two reasons.
00:13:21First, there is nothing to attack.
00:13:24That's the advantage
00:13:24of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:27They have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to
00:13:31they'd always let us know first.
00:13:33The palace would then threaten them
00:13:35with a boycott
00:13:35on the next major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people
00:13:42you fear
00:13:43will hate the queen
00:13:45and the same ones
00:13:46who buy copies
00:13:47in their millions.
00:13:49Why?
00:13:50Because they love her.
00:13:55So I'm worrying unnecessarily.
00:13:58Martin
00:13:59I shall leave the drawing
00:14:01of that inescapable conclusion
00:14:03to you.
00:14:22I'm going to take it in
00:14:23a little shorter, ma'am
00:14:24and rounder at the back.
00:14:26Lovely.
00:14:52I'm going to take it in
00:15:17I like it very much.
00:15:44I thought you were hoping for more children from me.
00:15:49I am.
00:15:52Why on earth would you do something like that to your hair?
00:15:55What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidy and sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins.
00:16:05Apparently it's very anemone.
00:16:07All the regimental wives are wearing their hair like this now.
00:16:10Really?
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:11It's certainly very practical.
00:16:14And should you ever feel compelled to ride a motorcycle, it could almost double as a helmet.
00:16:20Well, I like it.
00:16:24I have nothing against it, Pastor.
00:16:27Stop it.
00:16:28She won't provide ample protection against any falling masonry.
00:16:37But if enlarging the family and enticing your husband to procreate is the goal...
00:16:43It is.
00:16:44Then you might take a look at Jane Mansfield.
00:16:48Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:51Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:18Sir, will you be a part of this place?
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, John.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23Elliot.
00:17:24It's very, very, um, spacious.
00:17:27Is this our research and development area?
00:17:29No, no, at all.
00:17:30Yes.
00:17:31May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes?
00:17:36You started drawing, did you?
00:17:37No, nothing.
00:17:38Very good, sir.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's not so lovely.
00:17:46With top speeds of over a hundred miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing, I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Is it horse or cow?
00:17:57Hello.
00:18:10I wish first to express to you my very great pleasure at being here today.
00:18:18My husband and I have been most profoundly moved by your hospitable welcome.
00:18:24And would like you to know how very grateful we are to you all for the work that you do.
00:18:32We understand that in the turbulence of this anxious and active world, many of you are leading uneventful, lonely lives.
00:18:44Where dreariness is the enemy.
00:18:48Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work depend in
00:19:00great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:19:07The upward course of a nation's history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its
00:19:15average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems most monotonous,
00:19:26what you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow.
00:19:34Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:36Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:39Come on, everybody, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner.
00:19:44Evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
00:19:48Evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing.
00:19:57Oh, you're going home.
00:19:59I don't need to be.
00:20:05I've just heard a ridiculous speech by the Queen, and I want to write an immediate response.
00:20:12I'll find someone else.
00:20:13No, no, it's no trouble.
00:20:15I had nothing else planned.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:48A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:20:57Don't get the driver.
00:20:57I'll find another driver.
00:21:09I'll find another driver.
00:22:24Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Well, let's see if it happens up here.
00:22:29What are you doing?
00:22:38Good to be back.
00:22:39Good to be back.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:10Excuse me.
00:28:11Excuse me.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer,
00:28:21inviting me to record an interview this afternoon which program impact with Robin
00:28:29Day I wish it weren't day we all wish it weren't day he's terrifying don't be
00:28:36silly the fact that it's day is what makes it valuable you don't think I'm
00:28:42walking into a trap you walked into the trap when you wrote the article now
00:28:46you're the most unloved individual in Britain ironically a day is the one
00:28:52person who could help you why you've seen how he interviews people he dismembers
00:28:59them tears them to shreds yes but keep your cool under his scrutiny make your
00:29:06case politely respectfully intelligently it could turn people around
00:29:23thank you very much
00:29:31Lord Aldrian how do you do how do you do shall we yes this way thank you for coming
00:29:43just here if you will all right
00:29:48let myself to water thank you shouldn't be too long
00:30:13we tell how all this works recording now transmission tonight yes
00:30:25tonight we have a man who because of press activity in recent days probably needs no
00:30:30introduction Lord altering him in the space of just a few days his inflammatory and deeply personal
00:30:36attacks on the Queen in a periodical of which he is also publisher have become the most pressing
00:30:41issue of the day and caused something of a constitutional crisis so I'd like to begin
00:30:46by asking Lord altering him a simple question she's our head of state loved respected and admired around
00:30:54the world so why do you hate her so very much I don't then why criticize her like this that's
00:31:03like asking an art critic why he criticizes art I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest
00:31:10invention
00:31:11do you indeed yes I do I believe that monarchy provides clarity a symbolic head of state transcending the self
00:31:20-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians who go in and out of office who as King Lear
00:31:29wonderfully says ebb and flow by the moon but when working at its best monarchy can rise above such matters
00:31:35and unify a society can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation of national
00:31:41national character but the problem is at the moment it's it's not doing that it's doing very little right as
00:31:47far as you're concerned no that's not true you would like to see her majesty endowed with superhuman powers it's
00:31:54not superhuman to be a little spontaneous judging from your article you'd like the Queen to have the qualities of
00:31:58a of a wit you'd like her to be a a better orator a TV personality in addition to being
00:32:05a diligent dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother all I'm suggesting is that
00:32:09in her public speeches and in her appearances she should be more natural her style of speaking is quite frankly
00:32:18a pain in the neck she sounds strangled
00:32:23I had the misfortune of hearing one of the Queen's speeches in a dental waiting room recently
00:32:28I was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was greeted
00:32:34but you'd accept that being Queen and head of the Church of England is not an easy job or a
00:32:40simple one if you'll forgive me it's uh it's arguably a harder job than editing a small periodical
00:32:46I know I quite agree her majesty is a seemingly impossible task she has to be ordinary and extraordinary touched
00:32:53by divinity and yet one of us but being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland or ineffectual or forgettable
00:33:02and against whom do you lay the main charge her courtiers
00:33:06well in the end if the court is wrong if the setup is wrong you have no choice but to
00:33:11criticize the boss
00:33:12the Queen yes because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants
00:33:18she hires them she alone can fire them now they may be bad I believe some of them at the
00:33:24moment are they're quite dreadful
00:33:26but it is her responsibility it's not theirs in the sense that they're just hired hands
00:33:32and so the personal attack on the monarch continues
00:33:35let me just say this to criticize the monarchy
00:33:39to criticize her majesty personally gives me no satisfaction
00:33:44but we have to remember that since the second world war since Suez
00:33:48Britain has changed beyond recognition
00:33:51and yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened
00:33:56I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until recently
00:34:01monarchies were the rule and republics the exception but today republics are the rule
00:34:09and monarchies very much the exception
00:34:13lord alteringham i have to terminate the interview i'm obliged to you for answering my questions
00:34:19next week at the same time there will be another edition of impact good night
00:34:25that went very well
00:34:33thank you again lord alteringham
00:34:35thank you good day
00:34:41thank you
00:34:42i was using the stereo in real life
00:34:47and i uh
00:34:48lord alteringham
00:34:50yes
00:34:53thank you
00:35:03something stronger
00:35:06what about a brandy
00:35:08why not
00:35:31Yes, what is it Michael there have been some reactions in the newspapers
00:35:38to last night's television interview and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham and I'm afraid
00:35:44it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:52Well, the man that struck Altrincham, it turns out, is a member of the extreme right League
00:35:58of Empire Loyalists, which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution
00:36:05of the Empire and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy.
00:36:11Oh dear.
00:36:12And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altrincham on television, that
00:36:20he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25Now, almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments, and there are new polls
00:36:32to support this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altrincham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this I believe reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone
00:36:55calls that he has been receiving, the Prime Minister suggested that he come up a week earlier
00:37:02than planned, in order to discuss it all with you, in person.
00:37:08Goodness.
00:37:09A constitutional crisis.
00:37:12Well, I hope you're going to apologise to Mr Macmillan, too.
00:37:16No.
00:37:17You're not going to deny that this hell mess springs from a badly written speech which
00:37:21I gave unquestioningly because I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altrincham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the real
00:37:31world.
00:37:34Thank you, ma'am.
00:38:01And you believe it's now a government measure?
00:38:03I do, ma'am.
00:38:06Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me.
00:38:10Concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries have overthrown their
00:38:17monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:21Egypt.
00:38:22Bulgaria.
00:38:23Italy.
00:38:24Tunisia.
00:38:25Only last month.
00:38:27Of course, we're not at that point.
00:38:29Not at a red light.
00:38:31We're not even at an amber.
00:38:34But we'd hate it to become amber.
00:38:38And so it is my view, the government's view, that it would be wise to contain this as soon
00:38:43as possible.
00:38:44And do what?
00:38:46The obvious thing.
00:38:49Altering them is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you.
00:39:02Go at you.
00:39:16Go at you.
00:39:19Go at you.
00:39:29Palace has offered up a chap called Charteress.
00:39:33To meet.
00:39:35I looked him up.
00:39:36He used to be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, there you are.
00:39:43Before the king died.
00:39:45When she was princess.
00:39:48And now?
00:39:50He's assistant private secretary.
00:39:54So, not quite a pawn, but certainly not a bishop or knight either.
00:39:59Go.
00:40:01Go in order to be fobbed off.
00:40:03Go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together.
00:40:06If they wanted to work together, they would have sent someone higher up.
00:40:09Go.
00:40:11All right.
00:40:13And take a list of suggestions, recommendations.
00:40:18Don't go empty-handed.
00:40:26Not yet.
00:40:28John!
00:40:28Your tooth!
00:40:29John!
00:40:31Sorry.
00:40:56Don't go empty.
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Broad or Tringham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:11In one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Altrincham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:27Thank you, sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what would that be?
00:43:05Your Majesty.
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
00:43:16Which you attended to, I gather.
00:43:19Yes.
00:43:20Going on to become an officer of the guards at both St. James's Palace and Windsor Castle.
00:43:27Doesn't quite fit the profile of a revolutionary.
00:43:31It's the assumption everyone has made.
00:43:33Because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the temple down.
00:43:38On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives.
00:43:42Well, those of us in the temple are very much looking forward to hearing what it is we must do
00:43:47in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:52Shall we begin?
00:43:55Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:11So, what is it that you'd have me change?
00:44:14It's not so much what I'd have you change.
00:44:16Just an acknowledgement that it has changed.
00:44:20What?
00:44:22Everything.
00:44:25And to prepare yourself for the fact we now live in a time where people like me...
00:44:32Can say exactly what they think?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:35In any way they want?
00:44:37Yes.
00:44:38And remind me, why is that exactly?
00:44:44Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:48And what is left without deference?
00:44:52Anarchy?
00:44:54Equality.
00:44:55How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?
00:44:58You can.
00:44:59But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage to return
00:45:05fire on their own people.
00:45:07But you have managed to think of how this monarch might do something to her advantage.
00:45:13I have.
00:45:14And that same monarch is sitting before, forgive me, a failed politician, and an unrecognized journalist, and taking his advice
00:45:27on how to do her job.
00:45:30The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49You've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations, recommendations of things to change.
00:45:59But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six.
00:46:07Six.
00:46:09Three things to start and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:16Very well.
00:46:18Ah, yes.
00:46:20Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign, and women who are not
00:46:30of that class are not presented to the sovereign, and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:35This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation, certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
00:46:49Uh, allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles.
00:46:58Why?
00:47:00The sovereign is head of the Church of England, and the church does not recognize divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:17Uh, I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here.
00:47:23The old school.
00:47:24Stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, with their heads buried in the sand.
00:47:30They're stopping the palace evolve in keeping with the rest of the world.
00:47:33Those ostriches provide an indispensable function of monarchy.
00:47:39The preservation of tradition.
00:47:44You asked for my recommendations, ma'am.
00:47:48I'm respectfully passing them on.
00:47:54What would you have me start?
00:47:57Open up, ma'am.
00:48:00Know the drawbridge.
00:48:03Let people get to know you.
00:48:05I don't wish to be known.
00:48:09Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:12Become more transparent.
00:48:14Accessible.
00:48:18And finally.
00:48:19Oh, finally.
00:48:20Spend time with normal people.
00:48:23Not just courtiers or the great and the good, but real people.
00:48:27Average people.
00:48:29Working people.
00:48:32Open the doors.
00:48:34Make it more inclusive and egalitarian.
00:48:40Let normal people get to know you too.
00:48:56Would you mind stepping out into the corridor for a moment?
00:48:59Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:42Your Majesty.
00:49:44Who matters?
00:49:51Your Majesty.
00:49:53Who matters?
00:49:59Who matters?
00:50:02Your Majesty.
00:50:02Rorange.
00:50:04Please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:24Vanished into thin air.
00:50:26Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went home to tell me that no one can ever know that I met the Queen.
00:50:33And that should I ever claim that I did, the palace would robustly deny it.
00:50:38They will, however, concede that I had an appointment with Her Majesty's Assistant, Private Secretary.
00:50:44And that concessions might be made to one or two of my recommendations.
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Let's get these lights in, quickly.
00:51:02Please, with that camera.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the cake.
00:51:21You're like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing make-up.
00:51:36You're the Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It was memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing make-up.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way, please, ma'am.
00:52:10Go, Mr.
00:52:11Let's go.
00:52:14Come on.
00:52:14Check, please.
00:52:15Everyone on stand bar.
00:52:16This is a front line here.
00:52:19Here.
00:52:20Here.
00:52:21Here.
00:52:23Here.
00:52:24Here.
00:52:24Here.
00:52:25Here.
00:52:36Matt.
00:53:215, 4, 3.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible for many of you to see
00:53:47me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television, as they are at this moment, and
00:53:58that is how I think of you all now.
00:53:59I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and
00:54:07direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor
00:54:18to the kings and queens of history.
00:54:21Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, but who never really touches your
00:54:28personal lives.
00:54:30But now, at least for a few minutes, I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed
00:54:49at which things are changing all around us.
00:54:57I would like to read a few lines from Pilgrim's Progress.
00:55:09And though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do repent me of all the trouble
00:55:17I have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill
00:55:29to him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles,
00:55:42who now will be my rewarder.
00:55:51I hope that 1958 may bring you God's blessings and all the things that you long for.
00:56:01And so I wish you all, young and old, wherever you may be, all the fun and enjoyment and peace
00:56:10of a very happy Christmas.
00:56:15And we're off air.
00:56:31Thank you very much.
00:56:32Thank you, Mr. Mo
00:57:13Oh, hello.
00:57:14Oh, my, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes, Tony, you're the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm.
00:57:28Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb.
00:57:32No, that's not quite right.
00:57:35Um...
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:38Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon, I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Good one.
00:58:16There it is.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:30I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones, a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur, a bus driver, a bank clerk, and a woman policeman.
00:58:54All to open things up.
00:58:56Yes.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:59:00Democratise us.
00:59:03And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away, bit by bit, piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority, our absolutism, our divine rights.
00:59:30The history of the monarchy in this country is a one-way street of humiliation.
00:59:34Sacrifices and concessions in order to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us, then the merchants, now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss about curtsies, protocol and precedent.
00:59:44It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour as we go from ruling to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:08Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13I told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses, so if you get a dud, don't
01:00:18worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:29I can't.
01:00:31I can't.
01:00:33I can't.
01:00:34I can't.
01:00:35I can't.
01:00:36I can't.
01:00:37I can't.
01:00:43I can't.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Ah, here we go.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello, dear.
01:00:51Mr. Harry the Hamlet.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You look absolutely...
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What are you telling me?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:01Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:01Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:03Sergeant Ethel Denrack.
01:01:04Hello, dear.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you with us.
01:01:07Here he comes.
01:01:08Go, go, go.
01:01:09Here he comes.
01:01:10Here he comes.
01:01:11Here he comes.
01:01:11Here he comes.
01:01:11Here he comes.
01:01:12Here he comes.
01:01:15Here he comes.
01:01:15Here he comes.
01:01:18Here he comes.
01:01:22Here he comes.
01:01:23Here he comes.
01:01:24Here he comes.
01:01:24Here he comes.
01:01:25Here he comes.
01:01:36Here he comes.
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