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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
05:14thank you
05:14we have a great day
05:15a whole new community
05:15thank you
05:15thank you
05:15thank you
05:15thank you
05:15thank you
05:15thank you
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, bravo.
07:41Uh-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.
08:02Yeah, taxi.
08:09Buckingham Palace.
08:11It's what it was.
08:30Good work.
08:31Keep it on my desk.
08:32Good morning, James.
08:33Good morning, sir.
08:34Good morning, Michael.
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, Sam.
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 Minister's. 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.
09:41The current violent oppression of black protesters by government forces is creating increased
09:46international outrage.
09:58The situation is getting worse and worse, ma'am. Countless instances of brutality by the South
10:03African police against members of the public. As you know, we believe the only way to stop
10:08these atrocities is through sustained economic pressure. Forty-eight of the Commonwealth countries are
10:13committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on Pretoria to try and bring down the apartheid regime.
10:19But, as Her Majesty knows, in order to implement those sanctions, total unanimity is required and one country
10:27remains against.
10:29United Kingdom.
10:30Mrs. Thatcher remains opposed.
10:34I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Thatcher about all this in private.
10:38At the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the Bahamas.
10:43The Commonwealth. Ridiculous waste of time. Ridiculous organization. Worse. Morally offensive.
10:54Why we allow our Queen to fraternize with countries like Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland.
11:07Unstable countries. Unstable despotisms with appalling human rights records and calling them family.
11:16Yes. Anyway, she's requested a private audience on board the Royal Yacht.
11:21What 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.
11:33Oh, excuse the eggs, boys.
11:36Ah.
11:37Right. Who wants Kedgeri?
11:41It's not my best, I'm afraid.
11:44For the dinner, this sunshine chiffon.
11:48To pick out the yellow in the flag of the Commonwealth.
11:51Mm. 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 honor?
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.
12:23Let 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.
12:33You.
12:34Him 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.
13:03And...
13:04Like 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.
13:31A 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 her.
13:43She's fine with it.
13:44They're doing disease.
13:45Don't you dare.
13:46Right.
13:46Let's go.
13:50Let's go.
13:52Let's go.
13:53Let's go.
13:56Let me just...
13:57Let me just...
13:58Let me just...
13:59Let me just...
14:00Let me just...
14:01Let me just...
14:30Those of you who know me will be aware...
14:34that the Commonwealth of Nations
14:35is a second family to me,
14:38as it was to my late father,
14:41King George VI.
14:43There are always tensions between nations.
14:46Global peace is fragile.
14:49But I believe this union
14:51offers us all something rare and valuable.
14:57The capacity to celebrate difference,
15:00to value, compromise over conflict,
15:05and to find a way to heal divisions
15:08in the interests of peace and goodwill.
15:46The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
15:53Your Majesty.
15:54It was kind of you to come.
15:55I won't keep you long.
15:57I was hoping we could briefly discuss South Africa.
16:00Ma'am.
16:02It is my fervent hope
16:03that Britain will join the other countries
16:05of the Commonwealth and impose sanctions
16:07on an apartheid regime
16:09that has no place in the modern world.
16:10Let us be quite clear about this.
16:13Nothing useful can be achieved by sanctions.
16:17Really?
16:18It was my understanding
16:19they would devastate the South African government.
16:21Well, they would devastate us too.
16:23Trade between our two countries
16:25is worth three billion pounds a year.
16:27I thought we might look at it
16:28from the South African point of view.
16:30I am, ma'am.
16:31South Africa is already
16:33a disinvestment economy.
16:35But black South Africans want sanctions,
16:38so shouldn't we listen to them?
16:39Well, black South Africans
16:40don't want to inherit a wasteland.
16:42They will if they feel it is their wasteland.
16:45President Kaunda of Zambia
16:46would confirm as much.
16:47It is not the business
16:49of a British Prime Minister
16:50to consult with unelected dictators.
16:53But it is a sovereign's duty
16:54when they are part of the Commonwealth.
16:58Yes.
16:59The Commonwealth.
17:02Yes, the Commonwealth.
17:06I recognise
17:07that for your family,
17:10the transition of this nation
17:11from empire to comparative supplicancy
17:14on the world stage
17:15must have come as a greater shock
17:18than to the rest of us.
17:19But I would argue
17:21that the Commonwealth
17:22is not the way to fill that gap.
17:26There are ways of Britain being great again,
17:28and that is through a revitalised economy,
17:31not through association
17:33with unreliable tribal leaders
17:36in eccentric costumes.
17:38But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister?
17:40A tribal leader in eccentric costumes?
17:43Certainly not.
17:45You're head of an evolved
17:47constitutional monarchy
17:49that stretches back
17:49to William the Conquerites,
17:51not comparing like with like.
17:54Ah, now that's where we differ.
17:55You see, I consider myself
17:57to be exactly like them.
17:58To me, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi
18:01are all great sovereign nations
18:02with great histories.
18:04I am aware
18:05you probably don't share that view.
18:07To you, the Commonwealth
18:08is something of a distraction,
18:11a waste of time.
18:13But in many ways,
18:14I have given my life to it.
18:16It was the pledge I made
18:1840 years ago.
18:19On the wireless,
18:20to our great imperial family,
18:23I remember listening to it
18:25as a student at Oxford.
18:27But we cannot
18:29let the values of the past
18:31distract us
18:33from the realities
18:34of the present,
18:35particularly where
18:36Britain's economic interest
18:39are concerned.
18:4048 countries
18:41of the Commonwealth
18:42are now preparing
18:43a statement condemning
18:44the South African regime
18:45and recommending
18:46tougher sanctions.
18:47What they,
18:49what I,
18:50would like you to do
18:52is sign that statement.
18:54If I didn't know better,
18:57that sounded
18:58very much
18:59like a directive.
19:02think of it
19:03as a question.
19:08The jolly atmosphere
19:09at the opening
19:10of the Commonwealth
19:11conference in Nassau,
19:12nicknamed the Chogham,
19:13fooled nobody.
19:14Within an hour,
19:15South Africa came up
19:16with the Indian
19:17Prime Minister
19:18making his position
19:19crystal clear.
19:20How was it?
19:21I'm meeting with the Queen
19:23who was a little testy.
19:26Although I must say,
19:27I do like the boat.
19:29Yacht.
19:30It isn't a yacht.
19:32It's a great big ship.
19:34And when the Sovereign
19:35sails in it,
19:35historically,
19:36it'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.
19:44I said testy.
19:45Although I wish
19:46it had been frosty.
19:47It's far too hot here.
19:50Because my fellow
19:51heads of government
19:52are now coming up
19:53with a statement
19:54condemning
19:55the South African government
19:57they want me to sign.
19:58I've told them
19:59they won't accept
19:59anything with the word
20:00sanction.
20:02They've started...
20:03Getting their niggers
20:04in a twist.
20:07Insisting they won't
20:08accept anything less.
20:11So now we need
20:12to come up with a word
20:13that works for everyone.
20:16Well, good luck with that.
20:18Thank you, DT.
20:30No, no, no, no, no.
20:39She rejected any mention
20:42of proposals.
20:46I'm determined to win
20:47this battle, Sonny.
20:48I don't often get
20:50into a fight.
20:50But when I do,
20:51I 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
20:58with another word.
21:01Merit.
21:03No, no, no.
21:06No, no, no, no, no.
21:10I'm sorry.
21:14A no to measures?
21:15Yes.
21:16So we are going back
21:17with actions.
21:19And should that fail?
21:20We still have controls.
21:22Yes, I'm beginning to see
21:23this is all about control.
21:27No, no.
21:50I must be out of the mind.
21:54No, no, no.
21:57It's definitely not.
22:00No.
22:04Ridiculous.
22:14What we need here
22:15is not useless politicians,
22:16sorry, Sonny,
22:17but a writer.
22:19Where might we find one?
22:26Sunshine.
22:27Respect.
22:29Cultural.
22:31Measurements.
22:33Postcards.
22:35Current.
22:37Desperate.
22:38Experience.
22:39$7.
22:41$9.
22:42$9.
22:44$9.
22:44$9.
22:45$9.
22:47$9.
22:49$9.
22:50$9.
22:50$9.
22:51$9.
22:52$9.
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.
23:21And congratulations.
23:23Have we won?
23:25Oh, yes.
23:26It is a victory for the Commonwealth, a victory for humanity, and most of all, a victory for you.
23:30When put in the ring with her queen, the Iron Lady melted.
23:55Well played, Margaret.
23:56A 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 compromise.
24:06There's a reason the top job is always alluded to, Geoffrey.
24:11The absence of the killer instinct.
24:16That our families are once more united among the common consensus.
24:22But, ladies and gentlemen, first, Prime Minister Margaret Hatcher.
24:27Prime Minister.
24:28Yes?
24:28You have been forced to make significant concessions.
24:31You signed a document prepared by 48 countries who were in conflict with you.
24:38I did.
24:40I did.
24:40But the question is, did one person move to the 48, or did 48 move to one?
24:49Yes, 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.
25:17Before walking off.
25:19Really?
25:30Ready?
25:31Here we go.
25:32Please?
25:33We're ready.
25:34Good position.
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, uh, no offers yet.
26:30Oh, well, not yet.
26:32But, but, regardless of whether we get this one published, what is undeniable is that you write vividly, catchily, dare
26:41I say it, even commercially.
26:45Well, it's not a dirty word.
26:47Well, it's not a dirty word, Michael.
26:47You could really tell a story.
26:49I am wondering.
26:51I am wondering, have you ever considered a political thriller?
27:19Have you ever heard that to try?
27:20Was that very grubby of me?
27:22Not grubby.
27:27Not grubby, just quietly heartbreaking.
27:34With violence escalating in South Africa, tensions between the United Kingdom and other nations of the Commonwealth are at breaking
27:42point.
27:42This is Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions.
27:45Good meeting?
27:49Great.
27:50Hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know they are now running a front page
27:55story about the increasingly sour relations between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, following the recent crisis at the Commonwealth Heads
28:03of 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 pre-emptive statement.
28:35What kind of statement?
28:36One of support.
28:39Even, dare I say, personal affection for the Prime Minister.
28:45About the job she's doing.
28:47Something that would kill the gossip stone dead.
28:50But what if I'm not happy with the job she's been doing?
28:54What if on this occasion I'd be happy for 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.
29:06But each of us has our line in the 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?
29:25Well, if that really were your intention.
29:32And for the record, ma'am, I must say, I think that would be 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.
29:59Somewhere that also had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this.
30:06Where they understood the rules of the game.
30:08Right. Well, can I leave that with you, then, Michael? You are the expert.
30:13Ma'am. Ma'am.
30:23It's reckless.
30:25It's reckless, Martin. And irresponsible. I'm as surprised as you are.
30:30It goes against my professional advice.
30:33And I want my objection noted.
30:37Noted?
30:38Noted. Noted, Martin.
30:40It's noted.
30:44It's noted.
30:49It's noted.
30:59Simon Freeman of the Sunday Times is on the line. He's run three times.
31:05Following up on rumours about a deep and irreconcilable rift between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.
31:13All right. Put him through.
31:28He's going through.
31:30He's going through.
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, first edition.
32:50Hello, Michael.
32:52Hello.
32:52I don't know.
33:40I don't know.
33:52An alleged dispute over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of sanctions against apartheid in South Africa.
33:59Nice.
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...
34:33...because 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 when talking about dogs and horses...
34:48She's shown that she's also an astute political infighter...
34:53...who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street 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.
35:29Buckingham Palace has continued to deny accusations published in the Sunday Times...
35:33...regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing Street.
35:36Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship between sovereign and first minister...
35:42...was in danger of being blown apart.
35:44The Prime Minister's here.
35:47The Prime Minister's here.
36:14UNTERTABLE STUBBE
36:14Third masqueradenote
36:19the
36:20charter centre The
36:20Prime Minister's here. Those
36:35rappelling of the Deepish and
36:35the McGovern
37:11Your Majesty.
37:12Prime Minister.
37:20Before coming today, I checked with the Cabinet Secretary, and it turns out that in the seven years I have
37:28been Prime Minister, we 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, I'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, should we not make a star from the business of the week, only I am mindful of
38:36the time.
38:38This is the business, ma'am.
38:41The only business.
38:43I think we have enough respect for one another personally to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions.
38:51Woman to woman.
38:53We are the same age, after all.
38:56Really?
38:56Just six months between us.
38:59Oh?
38:59And who is the senior?
39:02I am.
39:04Ma'am.
39:11Uncaring.
39:13Confrontational and 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 irretrievable damage to the country's social fabric.
39:35My responsibility for the time I have in office
39:40is to put sentimentality to one side and look after these countries' interests with the perspective of a cold balance
39:49sheet.
39:50And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness and compassion for those less fortunate than us...
39:56Do you?
39:56Really?
39:57Let us not forget that of the two of us, I am the one from a small street in an
40:06irrelevant town
40:08with a father who could not bequeath me a title or a commonwealth,
40:13but only grit, good sense and determination.
40:16And I don't want people's pity or charity or compassion.
40:22Nothing would insult me more.
40:24My goal is to change this country from being dependent to self-reliant and I think in that I am
40:35succeeding.
40:35I have had to learn many difficult lessons as sovereigns.
40:38Britons are learning to look after number one, to get ahead,
40:43and only then, if they choose to look after their neighbour.
40:50Of those...
40:50No one would remember the good Samaritan if he only had good intentions.
40:58You see, he had money as well.
41:03Perhaps the hardest is that I am obliged to support my Prime Ministers on any position they take,
41:09even yours, regarding sanctions against South Africa.
41:16My question is, given the lack of impact it has on your day-to-day political fortunes,
41:21yet how important it is to me, could you not have supported me just once?
41:28My fellow Commonwealth leaders, many of whom I consider to be friends,
41:33now feel that I have betrayed them on an issue most important to them.
41:38Well, they need only read the Sunday Times.
41:41It will give them no doubt as to your position.
41:53Oh, look, our time is up.
41:55How it flies.
41:59You must be very much looking forward to the wedding tomorrow,
42:03Prince 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, recently announced that he would be getting married.
42:15Your favourite?
42:16The Explorer?
42:17Not 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 to these rumours.
42:50The Queen continues to have an extremely cordial
42:52and productive working relationship with the Prime Minister.
42:55Sunday Times maintains that the story came from a highly placed source
42:58within the palace.
42:59And that's the line we're running with.
43:01And we will deny it and you will look like fools.
43:03Prepare me the indignation.
43:04I understand you have to say it, but we both know that it's true.
43:08And your continual denial is making you lot look like fools.
43:15Hello?
43:16Can I take your details?
43:20What's all this?
43:22Don't tell me the groom's having last-minute doubts.
43:24No.
43:25Andrew's asked us all to come together because he wants someone to explain why...
43:28God'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.
43:37Instead, thanks to the Queen's inexplicable lapse of judgment,
43:42the newspapers are full not of Sarah and me,
43:45but of mummy's rift with the Prime Minister.
43:50Ah, yes.
43:51Sunday Times.
43:52You have to admit she has made a god-awful mess of it.
43:54What was she thinking?
43:55She did what she spent her life telling me I cannot do.
43:59She opened her mouth and expressed an opinion.
44:03And is being slaughtered for it.
44:06Bloody thoughtless of her, if you ask me.
44:08Oh, come on.
44:08You can hardly blame the newspapers for wanting to write about something other than the wedding of a fringe member
44:12of the family who'll never be king.
44:15Ouch.
44:16Well, it's true, isn't it?
44:18The fourth in line now, and by the time William's had children, his children have had children.
44:25Fringe.
44:29Joe.
44:38You really just say that?
44:40Or my wedding day?
44:42That was impressively cunty.
44:55It would be hard to imagine there'd be anything that could knock a royal wedding into second place on the
45:00news.
45:01But the continuing escalation of the row between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher threatens to overshadow the nuptials.
45:08The Queen has made a very serious error of judgment.
45:12And this Sunday Times article has lit a touch paper to what could very quickly become a major constitutional crisis.
45:19What the palace was hoping to achieve by this is hard to say.
45:23But the fact is they've stirred up a hornet's nest and so far seem to lack the wind to avoid
45:29getting stung.
45:30This story...
45:31If I might interrupt, ma'am.
45:32...serious impact.
45:35One unfortunate consequence of our denial of the story is that the editor of the Sunday Times has now come
45:41out all guns blazing.
45:43And whilst we could continue to deny it, my own view is that it's no longer to our advantage.
45:50And I think we're now going to have to give them something.
45:54What?
45:54A culprit.
45:57To deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP.
46:02We need to let them have a name.
46:16Morton.
46:17Michael.
46:20Uh, this escalating situation between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
46:27You can't say I didn't warn you.
46:30I think you know how seriously the Queen takes her responsibility and how much she values the close relationship between
46:37the two houses.
46:37Of course.
46:39And to see it compromise like this as a consequence of your actions...
46:51What?
46:53Fact is that the steps you took were completely unprofessional.
46:57Martin, stop it.
46:59Impugning the integrity of the palace and of the Queen herself.
47:02We know one another too well.
47:04This is madness.
47:08I hope we can rely on you...
47:11...to do the right thing.
47:27Of course.
47:52Michael.
47:54Michael.
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