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00:01You
00:16Everybody set
00:19Yes, hurry up, hurry up
00:22Right
00:24Absolute silence
00:25everywhere
00:30Cue this
00:30Right recording
00:31Ready, Your Royal Highness
00:35Five
00:36Four
00:37Three
00:38Two
00:39One
00:41And
00:46On this
00:48the occasion of my 21st birthday
00:51I welcome the opportunity
00:53to speak to all the peoples
00:55of the British Commonwealth and Empire
00:57wherever they live
00:59whatever race they come from
01:02and whatever language
01:03they speak
01:07As I speak to you today
01:09from Cape Town
01:10I am 6,000 miles
01:12from the country
01:14where I was born
01:17But I am certainly not
01:196,000 miles from home
01:23That is the great privilege
01:24of belonging to our place
01:27in the worldwide Commonwealth
01:30There are homes
01:31ready to welcome us
01:33in every continent
01:34in every continent of the earth
01:36Before I am much elder
01:38I hope I shall come to know
01:39many of them
01:41Although there is none of my father's subjects
01:44from the eldest to the youngest
01:46I do not wish to greet
01:48I am thinking especially today
01:51of all the young men and women
01:52who were born about the same time
01:55as myself
01:55and have grown up like me
01:59in the terrible and glorious years
02:01of the Second World War
02:03Will you
02:04the youth of the British family of nations
02:07let me speak on my birthday
02:09as your representative
02:12Now that we are coming to manhood
02:14and womanhood
02:15it is surely a great joy to us all
02:18to think that we shall be able
02:20to take some of the burden
02:21off the shoulders of our elders
02:24who have fought and worked
02:26and suffered to protect our childhood
02:29To that generation I say
02:31we must not be daunted
02:33by the anxieties and hardships
02:34that the war has left behind
02:36for every nation of our Commonwealth
02:39We know these things are the price
02:42we are cheerfully undertook to pay
02:44for the high honour
02:46of standing alone
02:47seven years ago
02:50in defence of the liberty of the world
02:52If we all go forward together
02:55with an unwavering faith
02:57a high courage
02:58and a quiet heart
03:00we shall be able to make
03:02of this ancient Commonwealth
03:03which we all love so dearly
03:05an even grander thing
03:09more free
03:10more prosperous
03:12more happy
03:14and a more powerful influence
03:16for good
03:17in the world
03:18than it has been
03:19in the greatest days
03:20of our forefathers
03:22Please welcome
03:23Margaret Roberts
03:29To accomplish that
03:31we must give nothing less
03:33than what my father
03:34King George
03:35the first head of the Commonwealth
03:37calls
03:38the whole of ourselves
03:40good evening
03:44there is a motto
03:46which has been born
03:48by many of my ancestors
03:50a noble motto
03:51I serve
03:54I should like to make
03:56that dedication now
03:58it's very simple
04:00I declare before you all
04:02that my whole life
04:05whether it be long
04:06or short
04:08shall be devoted
04:09to your service
04:12and the service
04:13of our great imperial family
04:15to which we all belong
04:18God help me
04:19to make good my vow
04:21and God bless all of you
04:23who are willing to share in it
04:34thank you
04:35thank you
04:36thank you
05:09for your support
05:10thank you
05:10thank you
05:10dear
06:41The island Seagird was fast stirring.
06:44I looked at her again.
06:46Her fullness pellucid in the lambent sunshine,
06:49seemed as if a fish skin pulled taut.
06:52She gave me one last glancing look,
06:55and then stepped off,
06:56and plunged down into the waxing viridescence
07:00of the Ionian waters below.
07:04Moris Tua,
07:06Nita Mea.
07:09The end.
07:23Golly,
07:24your very own war and peace.
07:26Ulysses, please.
07:31I shall set aside a year of my life.
07:36What?
07:36Just kidding.
07:37I'll have it read by the end of next week.
07:39You're very kind.
07:40And Michael, bravo.
07:42No congratulations till you've read it.
07:44You deserve congratulations
07:46for being able to carry it up the stairs.
07:48Kidding again.
07:51Well,
07:53I look forward
07:55to hearing from you.
08:02Taxi?
08:09Buckingham Palace.
08:11It's what it was.
08:30Good work.
08:31Keep it on my desk.
08:32Morning, James.
08:33Morning, sir.
08:35Good morning.
08:35Morning, Michael.
08:37Sarah.
08:37Sorry to ambush you,
08:38but I've got the Today newspaper
08:40asking for confirmation
08:41of an apparently open secret
08:43in Commonwealth government circles
08:44that the Queen is deeply frustrated
08:47by Thatcher's refusal to back sanctions
08:49against the apartheid regime
08:50in South Africa.
08:52A frustration which threatens
08:54to strain her relationship
08:55with the Prime Minister,
08:56who the Queen holds
08:57personally responsible,
08:59and they'd like you
09:00as Palace Press Secretary
09:01to comment.
09:03You should know better
09:04than to come to me
09:04with nonsense like that, sir.
09:07In the 33 years
09:08she's been on the throne,
09:09the Queen has never once
09:10expressed a point of view
09:11about her Prime Ministers,
09:13positive or negative,
09:14and never will.
09:15Political impartiality
09:16and support of her Prime Minister
09:18is an article of faith to her.
09:21And we all know
09:22how the Queen is
09:24about her faith.
09:33It's been nearly four decades
09:35since the system
09:36of racial segregation
09:37termed apartheid
09:38became the official policy
09:40of South Africa.
09:41The current violent oppression
09:42of black protesters
09:43by government forces
09:45is creating increased
09:46international outrage.
09:58The situation is getting worse
10:00and worse, ma'am.
10:01Countless instances of brutality
10:03by the South African police
10:04against members of the public.
10:06As you know,
10:06we believe the only way
10:07to stop these atrocities
10:09is through sustained
10:10economic pressure.
10:1248 of the Commonwealth countries
10:13are committed to imposing
10:14a policy of sanctions
10:15on Pretoria
10:16to try and bring down
10:18the apartheid regime.
10:19But, as Her Majesty knows,
10:22in order to implement
10:23those sanctions,
10:24total unanimity
10:25is required
10:26and one country
10:27remains against.
10:29United Kingdom.
10:30Mrs. Thatcher
10:31remains opposed.
10:34I will have an opportunity
10:36to speak to Mrs. Thatcher
10:37about all this in private
10:38at the forthcoming
10:39Commonwealth Heads of Government
10:40meeting in the Bahamas.
10:43The Commonwealth.
10:45Ridiculous waste of time.
10:48Ridiculous organisation.
10:50Worse, morally offensive.
10:54Why we allow our Queen
10:56to fraternise with countries
10:59like Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria,
11:02Swaziland.
11:07Unstable countries.
11:09Unstable despotisms
11:10with appalling
11:12human rights records
11:14and calling them family.
11:16Yes.
11:17Anyway,
11:18she's requested
11:19a private audience
11:19on board the Royal Yacht.
11:21What the palace
11:22is calling
11:23a frank conversation
11:24about the way forward
11:25in South Africa.
11:26Spare me.
11:27I'll give her
11:28a frank conversation
11:30about not wasting
11:32my time.
11:34Oh, excuse the eggs, boys.
11:36Oh.
11:37Right.
11:38Who wants Kedgeri?
11:41It's not my best,
11:43I'm afraid.
11:44For the dinner,
11:46this sunshine chiffon
11:48to pick out the yellow
11:49in the flag
11:50of the Commonwealth.
11:52Yummy.
11:52Oh, and a brooch
11:54given to you
11:55by King Autumnfuo
11:56a pocowire.
11:57Is that a porcupine?
11:58A symbol of courage
12:00and strength
12:00in Ashanti culture.
12:02Oh, he might need
12:02some of that.
12:06What's all this?
12:07Choggle.
12:08Oh, of course.
12:09To what do I owe the honour?
12:14I came to tell you
12:15that I've decided
12:16to ask Edward
12:16to be my best man.
12:18Not Charles?
12:20No.
12:21Oh, that will raise
12:21some eyebrows.
12:22Good.
12:23Let him see what it feels
12:24like to be sidelined
12:25in a slimmed-down role.
12:29Since I gather
12:30that's what he now thinks
12:31the future of the monarchy
12:32should be.
12:33You,
12:34him in his own
12:35precious bloodline
12:37to hell with the rest of us.
12:39Insecure,
12:40jealous fool.
12:41What's he jealous of?
12:43Me.
12:44Always has been.
12:45Oh, Andrew.
12:46Of me and you.
12:48Of our...
12:50Of our closeness.
12:53Of the fact that
12:54I fought in a real war.
12:56Won real medals.
12:58Of the fact that
12:59I'm happier in love.
13:00More popular.
13:03And...
13:03Like other second sons
13:05I could mention.
13:05So obviously
13:06be better at it than him.
13:08At what?
13:10Being the heir.
13:13I just want
13:13to see you all happy.
13:15There are two families
13:16I care about.
13:17My own family
13:18and the Commonwealth
13:18Family of Nations.
13:20Keeping them all together
13:21is my life's work.
13:22Now I must get on.
13:24Mummy.
13:29For the state breakfast.
13:31A dress of the
13:32painless blue and gold
13:33brocade.
13:34Sarah!
13:34You do very well
13:35with the diamond necklace
13:36given to you by the people
13:38of South Africa
13:39on your 21st birthday.
13:40Mummy.
13:43She's probably
13:43of any disease.
13:45I don't do that.
13:46What?
13:46Let's go.
16:58Yes.
16:59The Commonwealth.
17:02Yes, the Commonwealth.
17:06I recognize that for your family, the transition of this nation from empire to comparative
17:13supplicancy on the world stage must have come as a greater shock than to the rest of us.
17:19But I would argue that the Commonwealth is not the way to fill that gap.
17:25There are ways of Britain being great again, and that is through a revitalized economy,
17:31not through association with unreliable tribal leaders in eccentric costumes.
17:38But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister?
17:40A tribal leader in eccentric costumes.
17:43Certainly not.
17:45You are head of an evolved constitutional monarchy that stretches back to William the Conquerites,
17:51not comparing like with like.
17:54Ah, now that's where we differ.
17:55You see, I consider myself to be exactly like them.
17:58To me, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi are all great sovereign nations with great histories.
18:04I am aware you probably don't share that view.
18:07To you, the Commonwealth is something of a distraction, a waste of time.
18:13But in many ways, I have given my life to it.
18:16It was the pledge I made 40 years ago.
18:19On the wireless to our great imperial family.
18:23I remember listening to it as a student at Oxford.
18:27But we cannot let the values of the past distract us from the realities of the present,
18:35particularly where Britain's economic interests are concerned.
18:40Forty-eight countries of the Commonwealth are now preparing a statement
18:44condemning the South African regime and recommending tougher sanctions.
18:47What they, what I would like you to do is sign that statement.
18:54If I didn't know better, that sounded very much like a directive.
19:02Think of it as a question.
19:08The jolly atmosphere at the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Nassau, nicknamed the Chogham, fooled nobody.
19:14Within an hour, South Africa came up with the Indian Prime Minister making his position crystal clear.
19:20How was it?
19:21I'm meeting with the Queen.
19:23It was a little testy.
19:26Although I must say, I do like the boat.
19:29Yacht.
19:30It isn't a yacht.
19:32It's a great big ship.
19:34And when the Sovereign sails in it, historically, it's called a yacht.
19:37Don't be a know-all.
19:38It's unbecoming.
19:41And why was it frosty?
19:43I didn't say frosty, I said testy.
19:45Although I wish it had been frosty.
19:47It's far too hot here.
19:50Because my fellow heads of government are now coming up with a statement condemning the South African government they want
19:57me to sign.
19:58I told them they won't accept anything with the word sanction.
20:01And they've started...
20:03Getting their knickers in a twist.
20:07Insisting they won't accept anything less.
20:11So now we need to come up with a word that works for everyone.
20:16Well, good luck with that.
20:18Thank you, DT.
20:30No, no, no, no.
20:32No.
20:40She rejected any mention of proposals.
20:46I'm determined to win this battle, Sunny.
20:48I don't often get into a fight.
20:50But when I do, I want to win.
20:52You will, ma'am.
20:53Remember, you are not alone.
20:55It is 48 against one.
20:57We are going back with another word.
21:01Measures.
21:03No, no, no.
21:06No.
21:10I'm sorry.
21:13A no to measures.
21:15Yes.
21:16So we are going back with actions.
21:19And should that fail?
21:20We still have controls.
21:22Yes, I'm beginning to see this is all about control.
21:27No, no.
21:31No, no, no, no.
21:43No, no, no.
21:45Oh, no.
21:51I must be out of the mind.
21:54No.
21:55No.
21:55No.
21:58Definitely not.
22:00No.
22:04Ridiculous.
22:14What we need here is not useless politicians.
22:16Sorry, Sunny.
22:17But a writer.
22:19Where might we find one?
22:29No.
22:35No.
22:36No.
22:36No.
22:37No.
22:37No.
22:39No.
22:39No.
22:40No.
22:52No.
22:54No.
22:54No.
22:55No.
22:55No.
22:55No.
22:55No.
22:59No.
22:59No.
22:59No.
23:00No.
23:00No.
23:03No.
23:04No.
23:04No.
23:05No.
23:32No.
23:34No.
23:35No.
23:35No.
23:36No.
23:36No.
23:38No.
24:02No.
24:03No.
24:30No.
24:37No.
25:00No.
25:01No.
25:02No.
25:05No.
25:28No.
25:29No.
25:30No.
25:31No.
25:32No.
25:33No.
25:40No.
25:50No.
25:54No.
26:02No.
26:10No.
26:20No.
26:30No.
26:42No.
26:43No.
26:43No.
26:43No.
26:43No.
26:43No.
26:52No.
26:53No.
26:59No.
26:59better than you. No. No, if this magnum opus doesn't work, I'll call it a day. You could
27:05expose it all under an assumed name. I could. But sadly, I'm old-fashioned and would never
27:13betray those confidences or the people I'm proud to serve. Had to try. Was that very
27:21grubby of me? Not grubby. Just quietly heartbreaking.
27:34With violence escalating in South Africa, tensions between the United Kingdom and other nations of
27:40the Commonwealth are at breaking point. Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions is being
27:47good meeting. Great. Thank you. Hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know
27:54they are now running a front page story about the increasingly sour relations between Buckingham
27:58Palace and Downing Street following the recent crisis at the Commonwealth Heads of Government
28:03meeting. What is it with these people? And that relations between the two women are in danger of
28:10completely breaking down. Well, the good news is it's today, as so can expect it to have little
28:19impact. The bad news is it won't be long before bigger, more influential newspapers realise this
28:26warrants further scrutiny. So I think the time might have come for Your Majesty to make some kind of
28:33preemptive statement. What kind of statement? One of support. Even, dare I say, personal affection for the
28:43Prime Minister. About the job she's doing. Something that would kill gossip stone dead. But what if I'm not
28:51happy with the job she's been doing? What if on this occasion I'd be happy for people to know the
28:56displeasure was actually real? That I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion? You know
29:02how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility to remain silent. But each of us has our line in the
29:07sand. And if it were to become public knowledge that there had been an unprecedented rift between
29:13Sovereign and Prime Minister, would that really be so bad?
29:26Well, if that really were your intention. And for the record, ma'am, I must say, I think that would
29:36be a
29:36misjudgment. And risk doing serious and irreparable harm to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and
29:43Downing Street. Then today would not be the newspaper I would go to. I'd go somewhere with
29:57more heft. Somewhere that also had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this. Where they
30:07understood the rules of the game. Right. Well, can I leave that with you then, Michael? You are the expert.
30:13Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. It's reckless. It's reckless, Martin. And irresponsible. I'm as surprised as you are.
30:30It goes against my professional advice. And I want my objection noted.
30:36Noted. Noted. Noted. Noted, Martin. It's noted. It's noted.
30:59Simon Freeman of the Sunday Times is on the line. He's run three times. Following up on rumours about a
31:07deep and irreconcilable rift between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.
31:11Sir. All right. Put him through.
31:28254, sir.
31:30All right.
31:30Mm-hmm.
32:03Evening, privateers.
32:04Evening, Bernard.
32:05I've just had a phone call from the Sunday Times
32:07letting us know that there will be a difficult piece
32:10in the paper tomorrow.
32:11About what?
32:12The fault lines that have developed in the relationship
32:14between Sovereign and Prime Minister.
32:16What?
32:28Sunday Times, first edition!
32:36Sunday Times, first edition!
32:43Sunday Times, first edition!
32:55Sunday Times, first edition!
33:31A constitutional crisis was on the verge of erupting this morning as the Sunday Times published details of a sensational
33:38rift between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
33:41This story, which is likely to have a serious impact on what have traditionally been cordial relations between the sovereign
33:48and her prime ministers,
33:50cites the cause of the rift as an alleged dispute over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of
33:56sanctions against apartheid in South Africa.
33:59A position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval, marking a distinct break with the monarch's long-held
34:07practice of never passing comment on political affairs.
34:10So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report.
34:15The palace spokesman declining to comment on an article entitled...
34:19The African Queen at odds with number 10.
34:22It has been an eventful week for Buckingham Palace.
34:26Queen Elizabeth II, a well-intentioned, apolitical figurehead, has been dragged into a messy row over South Africa because of
34:34the stubbornness and insensitivity...
34:37...of her prime minister.
34:39Far from being a straightforward, uncomplicated countrywoman, a late-middle-aged grandmother who is most at ease when talking about
34:47dogs and horses,
34:49she's shown that she's also an astute political infighter who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street...
34:56...when provoked.
35:02Really?
35:03Well, that's what it says.
35:08I'm feeling something for the very first time.
35:12Something which I never imagined feeling.
35:15What is that?
35:18Impatience for our next audience.
35:28Buckingham Palace has continued to deny accusations published in the Sunday Times regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing
35:36Street.
35:36Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship between sovereign and first minister was in danger of being blown apart.
35:44Prime Minister's here.
35:46Hello.
35:47Oh, my God.
36:42Oh, my God.
36:48Oh, my God.
36:48Oh, my God.
36:54Oh, my God.
36:56Oh, my God.
37:12Oh, my God.
37:42Oh, my God.
38:21Oh, my God.
38:43Oh, my God.
39:04Oh, my God.
39:05Oh, my God.
39:19Oh, my God.
39:28Oh, my God.
40:18Oh, my God.
40:22Oh, my God.
40:48Oh, my God.
40:54Oh, my God.
41:20Oh, my God.
41:36Oh, my God.
41:45Oh, my God.
41:54Oh, my God.
41:56Oh, my God.
42:01Oh, my God.
42:30Oh, my God.
42:33Oh, my God.
42:44listen to me carefully there is no story here there's not a shred of truth to these rumors
42:49the queen continues to have an extremely cordial and productive working relationship with the
42:54prime minister sunday times maintains that the story came from a highly placed source within
42:58the palace and that's the line we're running with and we will deny it and you will look like fools
43:16hello can i take your details
43:20what's all this don't tell me the groom's having last minute doubts no andrew's asked us all to come
43:26together because he wants someone to explain why god's name is going on with our mother
43:31the wedding of the duke of york should be a landmark event at home and abroad instead
43:38thanks to the queen's inexplicable lapse of judgment the newspapers are full not of
43:44sarah and me the mummy's rift with the prime minister
43:50ah yes sunday times you have to admit she has made a go awful mess of it what was she
43:55thinking
43:55she did what she spent her life telling me i cannot do she opened her mouth and expressed an opinion
44:03and is being slaughtered for it bloody thoughtless of her if you ask me oh come on you can hardly
44:09blame the newspapers wanting to write about something other than the wedding of a fringe
44:12member of the family who'll never be king ouch well it's true isn't it fourth in line now and by
44:20the
44:20time williams had children his children have had children fringe
44:37joe you really just say that on my wedding day that was impressively cunty
44:54it would be hard to imagine there'd be anything that could knock a royal wedding into second place
45:00on the news but the continuing escalation of the row between the queen and mrs thatcher
45:05threatens to overshadow the nuptials the queen has made a very serious error of judgment
45:11and this sunday times article has lit a touch paper to what could very quickly become a major
45:17constitutional crisis what the palace was hoping to achieve by this is hard to say
45:22but the fact is they've stirred up a hornet's nest and so far seem to lack the wind to avoid
45:29getting
45:29stung this story i might interrupt man serious impact one unfortunate consequence of our denial of
45:38the story is that the editor of the sunday times has now come out all guns blazing and whilst we
45:43could continue to deny it my own view is that it's no longer to our advantage and i think we're
45:51now
45:52going to have to give them something what a culprit to deflect blame from you and to put these flames
46:00out asap we need to let them have a name
46:17martin michael
46:21uh this escalating situation between buckingham palace and downing street you can't say i didn't
46:29warn you i think you know how seriously the queen takes her responsibility and how much she values the
46:35close relationship between the two houses of course and to see it a compromise like this
46:45as a consequence of your actions
46:51what
46:53fact is that the steps you took were completely unprofessional
46:58martin stop it impugning the integrity of the palace and of the queen herself we know one another
47:03too well this is madness
47:08i hope we can rely on you to do the right thing
47:26of course
47:52michael
47:56was
48:17like
48:24I don't know.
49:11I don't know.
49:19I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted
49:27to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
49:35God help me to make good my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share in
49:42it.
49:45God bless all of you.
50:20God bless all of you.
50:23God bless all of you.
51:03God bless all of you.
51:08God bless all of you.
51:10God bless all of you.
51:45God bless all of you.
51:48God bless all of you.
52:07you
52:42you
53:12you
53:37you
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