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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
05:10the very beginning
05:10and again
05:10King for a
05:11King to give
05:11the King for a
05:16better life and over
05:17find another thing
05:17about the
05:17King in the
05:17world for the
05:17King by the
05:19King that the
05:20the King
06:23I stood in darkness, she in light, and yet here I was, the diurnal, and she the crepuscular,
06:31if such a...
06:33mugatory distinction can pretend.
06:38The aurora was breaking, the island Seagird was fast stirring.
06:44I looked at her again, her fullness pellucid in that lambent sunshine, seemed as if a fish
06:50skin pulled taut.
06:52She gave me one last glancing look, and then stepped off, and plunged down into the waxing
06:59viridescence of the Ionian waters below.
07:03Morstua, Mita, Mayer.
07:09The end.
07:23Golly, your 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.
07:41Bravo.
07:42Uh-uh.
07:42No congratulations till you've read it.
07:44You deserve congratulations for being able to carry it up the stairs.
07:48Kidding again.
07:52Well, I look forward to hearing from you.
08:02Taxi!
08:09Buckingham Palace, please.
08:11Quite well, sir.
08:30Good work.
08:31Keep it on my desk.
08:32Good morning, James.
08:33Good morning, sir.
08:34Good morning, Michael.
08:37Sarah.
08:37Sorry to ambush you, but I've got the Today newspaper asking for confirmation of an apparently
08:42open secret in Commonwealth government circles, that the Queen is deeply frustrated by Thatcher's
08:48refusal to back sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
08:52A frustration which threatens to strain her relationship with the Prime Minister, who the Queen
08:57holds personally responsible, and they'd like you, as Palace Press Secretary, to comment.
09:03You should know better than to come to me with nonsense like that, sir.
09:07In the 33 years she's been on the throne, the Queen has never once expressed a point of
09:11view about her Prime Ministers, positive or negative, and never will.
09:15Political impartiality and support of her Prime Minister is an article of faith to her.
09:21And we all know how the Queen is about her faith.
09:33It's been nearly four decades since the system of racial segregation termed apartheid became
09:39the official policy of South Africa. The current violent oppression of black protesters by
09:44government forces is creating increased international outrage.
09:58The situation is getting worse and worse, ma'am. Countless instances of brutality by the South African
10:04police against members of the public. As you know, we believe the only way to stop these
10:08atrocities is through sustained economic pressure. 48 of the Commonwealth countries are committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on
10:16Pretoria to try and bring the
10:17down the apartheid regime. But, as Her Majesty knows, in order to implement those sanctions, total
10:24unanimity is required and one country remains against.
10:29United Kingdom.
10:29Mrs. Thatcher remains opposed.
10:34I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Thatcher about all this in private, at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads
10:40of Government meeting in the Bahamas.
10:43The Commonwealth. Ridiculous waste of time. Ridiculous organisation. Worse, morally offensive. Why we allow our Queen to fraternise with countries
10:59like this.
10:59Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland.
11:06Unstable countries. Unstable despotisms with appalling human rights records and calling them family.
11:16Yes.
11:17Anyway, she's requested a private audience on board the Royal Yacht.
11:21For what the palace is calling a frank conversation about the way forward in South Africa.
11:26Spare me. I'll give her a frank conversation about not wasting my time. Oh, excuse me, boys.
11:35Oh.
11:37Right. Who wants Kedgeri? It's not my best, I'm afraid.
11:44For the dinner, this sunshine chiffon. To pick out the yellow in the flag of the Commonwealth.
11:51Mmm. Yummy.
11:52Oh, and a brooch. Given to you by King Otumfuo Apokawari.
11:57Is that a porcupine?
11:58A symbol of courage and strength in Ashanti culture.
12:02Oh, you might need some 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 that I've decided to ask Edward to be my best man.
12:18Not Charles?
12:20No.
12:21Oh, that will raise some eyebrows.
12:22Good.
12:23And him see what it feels like to be sidelined in a slimmed down row.
12:29Since I gather that's what he now thinks the future of the monarchy should be.
12:34You, him in his own precious bloodline, to hell with the rest of us.
12:39Insecure, jealous fool.
12:41What's he jealous of?
12:43Me.
12:44Always has been.
12:45Oh, Andrew.
12:46Me and you.
12:48Of our...
12:50Of our closeness.
12:53Of the fact that I fought in a real war.
12:56Won real medals.
12:58Of the fact that I'm happier in love.
13:00More popular.
13:02And...
13:03You know, like other second sons I could mention.
13:05So obviously be better at it than him.
13:08At what?
13:10Being the heir.
13:13I just want to see you all happy.
13:15There are two families I care about.
13:17My own family and the Commonwealth Family of Nations.
13:20Keeping them all together is my life's work.
13:22Now I must get on.
13:24Mummy.
13:29For the state breakfast, a dress of the painless blue and gold brocade.
13:34Sarah!
13:34You do very well with the diamond necklace given to you by the people of South Africa on your 21st
13:40birthday.
13:42I told you.
13:43Excuse me, Father.
13:44They're doing disease.
13:45How do you do?
13:46Right.
13:46Let's go.
13:48Bye.
13:50Let's go.
13:56Let's go.
13:58Let's go.
13:59Let's go for your babies.
14:08Let's go for your babies.
14:13Let's go for your babies.
14:15Help me just say this.
14:17Let's go for your babies.
14:18Thank you, Father.
14:19Let's stay in the house so far.
14:21I'll be back.
14:51This union offers us all something rare and valuable, the capacity to celebrate difference, to value, compromise over conflict, and
15:06to find a way to heal divisions in the interests of peace and goodwill.
15:53Your Majesty.
15:54It was kind of you to come. I won't keep you long. I was hoping we could briefly discuss South
16:00Africa.
16:00Ma'am.
16:29I am, ma'am. South Africa is already a disinvestment economy.
16:35But black South Africans want sanctions, so shouldn't we listen to them?
16:39Black South Africans don't want to inherit a wasteland.
16:42They will if they feel it is their wasteland. President Kaunda of Zambia would confirm as much.
16:47It is not the business of a British Prime Minister to consult with unelected dictators.
16:53But it is a sovereign's duty when they are part of the Commonwealth.
16:56Yes.
16:59The Commonwealth.
17:02Yes.
17:03The Commonwealth.
17:14Yes, the Commonwealth.
17:19It is not the best of us. But I would argue that the Commonwealth is not the way to fill
17:25that gap.
17:26There are ways of Britain being great again. And that is through a revitalized economy.
17:31Why? Not through association with unreliable tribal leaders in eccentric costumes.
17:38But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister? A tribal leader in eccentric costumes?
17:43Certainly not. You 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. You 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 condemning the South African regime
18:45and recommending tougher sanctions.
18:47What they...
18:49What 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 Chogam 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. It 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.
19:33And when the sovereign sails in it, historically, it's called a yacht.
19:37Don't be a know-all. It'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. It'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.
20:40She 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.
21:14A no to measures.
21:15Yes.
21:16So we are going back with actions.
21:19And should that fail?
21:20We still have controls.
21:21Yes.
21:22I'm beginning to see this is all about control.
21:27No.
21:28No.
21:32No.
21:33No.
21:35No.
21:46No.
21:51They must be out of the mind.
21:54No.
21:55No.
21:55No.
21:57Definitely not.
22:00No.
22:14What we need here is not useless politicians, sorry, Sonny, but a writer.
22:19Where might we find one?
22:25Sonny, shots, respiration, cultural, measurements, postcards, curves, gestures, experiences, signals.
23:04Yes, I think we can work with that.
23:09Signals?
23:10Yes, she agreed to signals.
23:13And among the signals she agreed to are actually several of the sanctions she would never have contemplated had they
23:18been called sanctions.
23:20Oh, thank you, Michael. And congratulations.
23:24Have we won?
23:25Oh, yes. It is a victory for the Commonwealth, a victory for humanity, and most of all, a victory for
23:30you.
23:30When put in the ring with her queen, the Iron Lady melted.
23:55Well played, Margaret. A victory for common sense.
23:58Whatever are you talking about?
24:00I'm sure the other heads of government will appreciate your willingness to seek a compromise.
24:06There's a reason the top job has always alluded to, Geoffrey. The absence of the killer instinct.
24:16That our families are once more united along the common consensus.
24:22But, ladies and gentlemen, first, Prime Minister Margaret Hatcher.
24:26Prime Minister, you have been forced to make significant concessions.
24:31Not that I noticed.
24:33You signed a document prepared by 48 countries who were in conflict with you.
24:38I did. But the question is, did one person move to the 48, or did 48 move to one?
24:50Yes, I agreed to signals.
24:53But as you know, with one simple turn, a signal can soon point in an entirely different direction.
25:14That's what she said.
25:16Yes, ma'am. Before walking off.
25:19Really?
25:30Ready?
25:31Here we go.
25:32Please.
25:33We're ready.
25:34Position.
25:36Perfect.
25:38Look at me.
25:40Three, two, one.
26:20Everyone's reading.
26:21Some early reactions have come in, and so far, very encouraging.
26:26Right, but no offers yet.
26:30Oh, well, not yet.
26:32But regardless of whether we get this one published, what is undeniable is that you write vividly,
26:40catchily, dare I say it, even commercially.
26:45Well, it's not a dirty word, Michael, you could really tell a story.
26:49I am wondering, have you ever considered a political thriller?
26:53What?
26:54The inner workings of Whitehall Westminster, the palace.
26:57No one could write it better than you, no one could write it better than you.
27:00No.
27:01No, if this magnum opus doesn't work, I'll call it a day.
27:05You could expose it all under an assumed name.
27:08I could.
27:10But sadly, I'm old-fashioned, and would never betray those confidences, or the people I'm proud to serve.
27:18Had to try.
27:20Was that very grubby of me?
27:24Not grubby, just quietly heart-breaking.
27:34With violence escalating in South Africa, tensions between the United Kingdom and other nations of the Commonwealth are at breaking
27:42point.
27:43Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions is being blamed for the latter of the Commonwealth.
27:48Good meeting?
27:49Great.
27:50I hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know they are now running a front
27:55-page story about the increasingly sour relations between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street,
28:00following the recent crisis at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
28:05What is it with these people?
28:07And that relations between the two women are in danger of completely breaking down.
28:14The good news is it's today, as so can expect it, to have little impact.
28:20The bad news is it won't be long before bigger, more influential newspapers realise this warrants further scrutiny.
28:28So I think the time might have come for Your Majesty to make some kind of preemptive statement.
28:34What kind of statement?
28:37One of support, even, dare I say, personal affection for the Prime Minister.
28:47But what if I'm not happy with the job she's been doing, what if on this occasion I'd be happy
28:55for people to know the displeasure was actually real?
28:58That I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion.
29:01You know how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility to remain silent, but each of us has our line in
29:07the sand.
29:09And if it were to become public knowledge that there had been an unprecedented rift between Sovereign and Prime Minister,
29:14would 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 misjudgment.
29:37And risk doing serious and irreparable harm to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
29:50Then today would not be the newspaper I would go to.
29:56I'd go somewhere with more heft, somewhere that also had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this, where
30:07they understood the rules of the game.
30:09Right. Well, can I leave that with you, then, Michael? You are the expert.
30:12Ma'am.
30:13Ma'am.
30:23It's reckless.
30:25It's reckless, Martin, and irresponsible.
30:27I'm as surprised as you are.
30:30It goes against my professional advice.
30:33And I want my objection noted.
30:37Noted?
30:38Noted, Martin.
30:40It's noted.
30:44It's noted.
30:59Simon Freeman of the Sunday Times is on the line.
31:02He's run three times.
31:05Following up on rumours about a deep and irreconcilable rift between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.
31:14All right.
31:15Put him through.
31:18Yeah.
31:28We're using aЧeller.
31:29It's 154, sir.
31:30nope.
31:31Strange.
32:03Evening, Prime Minister.
32:04Evening, Bernard.
32:05I've just had a phone call from the Sunday Times letting us know that there will be a difficult piece
32:09in the paper tomorrow.
32:11About what?
32:12The fault lines that have developed in the relationship between Sovereign and Prime Minister.
32:16What?
32:28Sunday Times, first edition!
32:36Sunday Times, first edition!
32:43Sunday Times, last edition!
32:50Hello?
32:51Michael?
32:52Michael?
32:53Michael?
32:55Michael?
32:57Michael?
33:01Michael?
33:02Michael?
33:03Michael?
33:06Michael?
33:09Michael?
33:10Michael?
33:12Michael?
33:13Michael?
33:14Michael?
33:14Michael?
33:20Michael?
33:31A constitutional crisis was on the verge of erupting this morning
33:35as the Sunday Times published details of a sensational rift
33:39between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
33:41This story, which is likely to have a serious impact
33:44on what have traditionally been cordial relations
33:47between the sovereign and her prime ministers,
33:49cites the cause of the rift as an alleged dispute
33:53over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of sanctions
33:56against apartheid in South Africa.
33:59Nice.
34:00A position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval,
34:04marking a distinct break with the monarch's long-held practice
34:07of never-passing comment on political affairs.
34:11So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report,
34:15with the 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,
34:30has been dragged into a messy row over South Africa
34:33because of the stubbornness and insensitivity...
34:37...of her prime minister.
34:39Far from being a straightforward, uncomplicated countrywoman...
34:43...a late middle-aged grandmother who is most at ease
34:47when talking about dogs and horses...
34:49...she's shown that she's also an astute political infighter
34:53who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street...
34:56...when provoked.
35:02Really?
35:03That'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
35:33regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing Street.
35:36Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship
35:40between sovereign and first minister was in danger of being blown apart.
35:44Prime Minister's here.
35:51Prime Minister's here.
36:19Prime Minister's here.
36:19Prime Minister's here.
36:23Prime Minister's here.
36:28Prime Minister's here.
36:30Prime Minister's here.
36:31Prime Minister's here.
36:32Prime Minister's here.
36:33Prime Minister's here.
36:34Prime Minister's here.
36:35Prime Minister's here.
36:35Prime Minister's here.
36:35Prime Minister's here.
36:36Prime Minister's here.
36:37Prime Minister's here.
36:40Prime Minister's here.
36:41I don't know.
37:11Your Majesty.
37:12Prime Minister.
37:20Before coming today, I checked with the Cabinet Secretary,
37:25and it turns out that in the seven years I have been Prime Minister,
37:29we have had 164 audiences,
37:32always the model of cordiality, productivity and mutual respect.
37:37So it is perhaps not unreasonable to expect an isolated hiccup.
37:43What hiccup?
37:44I was under the impression that Her Majesty never expressed her political views in public.
37:52I don't.
37:53That there was an unbreakable code of silence between Sovereign and First Minister.
37:58If you're referring to the Sunday Times,
38:00I've always advised my Prime Ministers against reading the newspapers.
38:03I don't, ma'am.
38:05If you misunderstand, misquote and misrepresent, then everybody gets into a fluster.
38:09But my press secretary does.
38:11And he has working relationships with all of the editors,
38:14and the editor in this case assured him that the sources were unimpeachable,
38:19close to the Queen,
38:22unprecedentedly close.
38:27Well, I'm sure a clarification will soon be forthcoming.
38:32In the meantime,
38:33should we not make a start from the business of the week,
38:35only I am mindful of the time.
38:38This is the business, ma'am.
38:41The only business.
38:44I think we have enough respect for one another personally
38:47to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions.
38:51Woman to woman.
38:53We are the same age after all.
38:56Really?
38:57Just six months between us.
38:59Oh?
38:59And who is the senior?
39:02I am.
39:04Now.
39:11Uncaring,
39:13confrontational,
39:14and socially divisive.
39:16That's how these sources so close to the Queen describe me.
39:20Prime Minister.
39:20That I lack compassion.
39:22And that my government has done
39:25irretrievable damage
39:26to the country's social fabric.
39:35My responsibility
39:37for the time I have in office
39:40is to put sentimentality to one side
39:43and look after these countries' interests
39:46with the perspective of a cold balance sheet.
39:50And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness
39:53and compassion for those less fortunate than us...
39:56Do you?
39:56Really?
39:57Let us not forget
39:59that of the two of us,
40:02I am the one from a small street
40:05in an irrelevant town
40:08with a father who could not bequeath me a title
40:11or a commonwealth,
40:13but only grit, good sense, and determination.
40:17And I don't want people's pity
40:19or charity or compassion.
40:22Nothing would insult me more.
40:25My goal
40:26is to change this country
40:29from being dependent
40:31to self-reliant,
40:33and I think in that
40:34I am succeeding.
40:36I have had to learn
40:37many difficult lessons as sovereigns.
40:38Britons are learning
40:39to look after number one,
40:42to get ahead,
40:43and only then,
40:45if they choose
40:47to look after their neighbour.
40:50Of those?
40:50No one would remember the good Samaritan
40:54if he only had good intentions.
40:58You see,
41:00he had money as well.
41:03Perhaps the hardest
41:04is that I am obliged to support my prime ministers
41:07on any position they take,
41:09even yours,
41:11regarding sanctions against South Africa.
41:16My question is,
41:18given the lack of impact it has
41:19on your day-to-day political fortunes,
41:21yet how important it is to me,
41:24could you not have supported me just once?
41:28My fellow commonwealth leaders,
41:30many of whom I consider to be friends,
41:33now feel that I have betrayed them
41:35on an issue most important to them.
41:37Well, they need only read
41:40the Sunday Times.
41:41It will give them no doubt
41:43as to your position.
41:53Oh, look, our time is up.
41:55How it flies.
41:59You must be very much looking forward
42:01to the wedding tomorrow,
42:03of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
42:05Yes, we are.
42:07They seem like a good match.
42:09Yes, we think so.
42:10My own son, Mark,
42:12recently announced
42:14that he would be getting married.
42:15Your favourite,
42:16the explorer.
42:18Not an explorer, ma'am.
42:19That was just the once.
42:21He's a businessman now,
42:23in the Middle East, mostly,
42:25and South Africa.
42:28Of course.
42:31Your Majesty.
42:44Listen to me carefully.
42:46There is no story here.
42:48There's not a shred of truth
42:49to these rumours.
42:50The Queen continues to have
42:51an extremely cordial
42:52and productive working relationship
42:54with the Prime Minister.
42:55Sunday Times maintains
42:56that the story came
42:57from a highly placed source
42:58within the palace.
42:59And that's the line
43:00we're running with.
43:01And we will deny it
43:02and you will look like fools.
43:03Bear me the indignation.
43:04I understand you have to say it,
43:06but we both know that it's true.
43:08And your continual denial
43:09is making you lot look like fools.
43:15Hello?
43:16Can I take your details?
43:20What's all this?
43:22Don't tell me
43:22the groom's having
43:23last-minute doubts.
43:24No.
43:25Andrew's asked us all
43:26to come together
43:26because he wants
43:27someone to explain why...
43:28God's name is going on
43:29with our mother.
43:31The wedding of the Duke of York
43:33should be a landmark event
43:35at home
43:35and abroad.
43:37Instead,
43:38thanks to the Queen's
43:40inexplicable
43:40lapse of judgment,
43:42the newspapers are full
43:43not of
43:43Sarah and me.
43:45The mummy's
43:46riffed with the Prime Minister.
43:50Oh, yes.
43:51It's Sunday Times.
43:52You have to admit
43:53she has made a god-awful mess of it.
43:54What was she thinking?
43:55She did what she spent
43:56her life telling me
43:57I cannot do.
43:59She opened her mouth
44:00and expressed an opinion.
44:03And is being slaughtered for it.
44:06Bloody thoughtless of her,
44:07if you ask me.
44:08Oh, come on.
44:08You can hardly blame
44:09the newspapers
44:10wanting to write about
44:11something other than
44:11the wedding of a fringe
44:12member of the family
44:13who'll never be king.
44:15Ouch.
44:16Well, it's true, isn't it?
44:19Fourth in line now,
44:20and by the time
44:21William's had children,
44:22his children have had children.
44:24Fringe.
44:29Joe.
44:37You really just say that?
44:40On my wedding day?
44:42That was impressively cunty.
44:55It would be hard to imagine
44:56there'd be anything
44:57that could knock
44:58a royal wedding
44:59into second place
45:00on the news.
45:01But the continuing escalation
45:03of the row
45:04between the Queen
45:05and Mrs. Thatcher
45:05threatens to overshadow
45:07the nuptials.
45:08The Queen has made
45:09a very serious error
45:10of judgment.
45:12And this Sunday Times
45:13article has lit a touch paper
45:14to what could very quickly
45:16become a major
45:17constitutional crisis.
45:19What the palace was hoping
45:20to achieve by this
45:21is hard to say.
45:23But the fact is
45:24they've stirred up
45:24a hornet's nest
45:25and so far
45:27seem to lack the wind
45:28to avoid getting stung.
45:30this story
45:31If I might interrupt, ma'am.
45:35One unfortunate consequence
45:37of our denial
45:37of the story
45:38is that the editor
45:40of the Sunday Times
45:41has now come out
45:42all guns blazing
45:42and whilst we could
45:44continue to deny it
45:46my own view
45:47is that it's no longer
45:48to our advantage.
45:50And I think we're
45:51now going to have
45:52to give them something.
45:54What?
45:54A culprit
45:57to deflect blame
45:59from you
45:59and to put
46:00these flames out
46:00ASAP.
46:02We need to
46:03let them have a name.
46:16Martin.
46:17Michael.
46:20Uh.
46:23This escalating
46:24situation between
46:25Buckingham Palace
46:26and Downing Street.
46:27You can't say
46:28I didn't warn you.
46:30I think you know
46:32how seriously
46:32the Queen
46:33takes her responsibility
46:34and how much
46:34she values
46:35the close relationship
46:36between the two houses.
46:37Of course.
46:39And
46:40to see it
46:42a compromise
46:44like this
46:45as a consequence
46:47of your actions.
46:51What?
46:53The fact is
46:54that the steps
46:55you took
46:55were completely
46:56unprofessional.
46:58Martin, stop it.
46:59Impugning the integrity
47:00of the palace
47:01and of the Queen
47:02herself.
47:02We know one another
47:03too well.
47:05This is madness.
47:08I hope we can rely
47:10on you
47:11to do the right thing.
47:26of course.
47:28Of course.
47:52Michael.
47:53the door
47:57who's
47:58and the right thing.
47:58Do you
47:58What's
48:08Who's
48:09What's
48:09going on?
48:11Do you
48:12what's going on?
48:18That's
48:19going on?
48:23I don't know.
49:12I don't know.
49:23Whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family
49:31to which we all belong.
49:35God help me to make good my vow.
49:39And God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.
49:46God bless all of you.
50:18God bless all of you.
50:23God bless all of you.
50:53When me just come to London town, we used to work on the underground.
51:00But working on the underground, you don't get to know your way around.
51:07England is a bitch.
51:11There's no escaping it.
51:14England is a bitch.
51:45There's no running away from it.
51:46In the shut-down, I got to try for hide from me.
51:49When them confuse the liquid pocket.
51:52First, they wrap it with them big daps.
51:55Rock it.
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