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02:50By the end of this tour, I think we'll be able to make a qualitative assessment about where the finest
02:56women in the world come from.
02:58For now, however, I can tell you the women of New Guinea are sweeter than those of Ceylon and right
03:04up there with those of Malaya!
03:09I have shared these secrets with you in good faith.
03:12The contents must, like all disclosures of the officers on board are married and would kill me if they knew
03:21what I was writing!
03:24Strict, strict non-disclosure policies apply. What happens on tour stays on tour!
03:31But rest assured, I will keep you updated on our forthcoming adventures.
03:38I sense this will be a momentous, ever, ever your fellow member, Mike!
03:47I sense this will be a momentous, ever, ever your fellow member, you know!
03:52I mean you may be a little bit on tour!
03:58I'm feeling nicer.
04:05I mean, you may be a little bit on tour!
04:06I'm feeling better!
04:07I'm really satisfied!
04:08I'm feeling better!
04:09I'm feeling better!
05:41This is a shameful, dishonest, misadventure.
05:56The invasion has been a disaster.
05:59The UN General Assembly is up in arms, as are the Americans.
06:04As a result, our Prime Minister has had no option but to declare an immediate ceasefire and retreat.
06:12Without taking back the Suez Canal?
06:15Quite.
06:16So it's all been for nothing?
06:18No, rather worse than nothing.
06:21Economically, the drain on our currency reserves has been so ruinous that we now face a run on sterling.
06:28The energy situation is just as bad.
06:31Panic buying has been reported at petrol stations, and we expect fuel rationing to become necessary as we move into
06:38winter.
06:41This is no exaggeration to say that this has been the worst week for the country since 1939.
06:47The peace and consensus left by your dear father is gone, and our reputation for decency and integrity in matters
06:56of foreign policy has been shattered.
06:58What is it?
07:01The Duke of Edinburgh is on the telephone, Your Majesty.
07:05Hmm?
07:05Wouldn't that have a first?
07:07From New Guinea, no?
07:09Oh.
07:11Sorry, do excuse me.
07:12And of course.
07:13I'll give her my best.
07:21Hello?
07:22Hello?
07:24Hello?
07:25Hello?
07:25Hello?
07:27Hello?
07:27Can you hear me?
07:28Yes, yes, I can hear you.
07:33I can't hear you.
07:34I can't hear you.
07:35Can you hear me?
07:37Yes.
07:37Yes.
07:38I can hear you.
07:39Um, um, hello?
07:42Elizabeth?
07:45Can you hear me?
07:47Can you hear me?
07:51Philip?
07:55Oh.
08:02Ready for it, sir.
08:04Oh.
08:09Damn, telephone.
08:12Bloody things...
08:13This is why they're bothering you.
08:26At ease, gentlemen?
08:34Well, our adventure is only two weeks old,
08:37and it's already taken us nearly 20,000 miles
08:40as we travel the far corners of the world
08:45in an attempt to repair the reputation of our country
08:49currently being ruined by our politicians.
08:54I would like to thank each and every one of you
08:57for your professionalism and discipline.
09:00You have all been brilliant, all that is,
09:02except for the football team.
09:04Your shoddy, leaky defence and absence
09:08of a natural left-sided player
09:09led to that rather humiliating defeat
09:11by the seamen's club of all bloody people at Port Sweternand.
09:18I should also like to say, if I may, Admiral.
09:22Yes, sir.
09:27It's been wonderful for me, on a personal level,
09:30to be back at sea.
09:32The Royal Navy has always occupied a very special place
09:35in my life and, indeed, in my heart.
09:41There are few greater pleasures in life
09:43than serving on a ship such as this.
09:46That's why it's all so very difficult to leave.
09:49But, leave, I must, and fly to Melbourne
09:53to open the Olympics there,
09:54where I must generally behave myself.
09:57Shake a few hands, cut a few ribbons.
09:59It will be hell, I can assure you.
10:03And I will be counting the minutes
10:05until you come and pick me up again
10:06and we can continue our great adventure.
10:08Now, in the meantime, behave yourselves.
10:12Keep fit.
10:13And don't drink all the bloody beer.
10:20Thank you so much.
10:22Well done, boys.
10:23Well done, Peter.
10:24Good stuff.
10:25Thank you, sir.
10:26Well done.
10:27Well done.
10:28Well done.
10:29You're a...
10:30There you go.
10:30Yeah.
10:36So depressing, this sewer's business.
10:39Well, can't read about it, then.
10:41I can't help myself.
10:43What were they thinking?
10:44Should we take a look at the schedule?
10:46Will I tune you up?
10:47Probably not, no.
10:49I've been stripping things out wherever I can,
10:51but I'm afraid it's still pretty hectic.
10:53We start with a uranium mine visit
10:55in the Northern Territory.
10:56You see.
10:57Agricultural parades in Sydney,
10:59then overdo a British Empire
11:00service league conference in Canberra,
11:02and finally garden parties in the government house.
11:05Joy.
11:06But I've come up with a nice little stock speech
11:08which you can memorize like a minor bird
11:10and deliver each step of the way.
11:15Australia.
11:16In the name itself,
11:18conjures up such romantic images
11:19of progress, ambition, possibility.
11:28It is said that the mark of any great nation
11:30is the journey it has endured
11:32on its path to glory.
11:37What a journey Australia must take.
11:46from those early European explorers
11:48who landed at your shores
11:49who have endured great hardship and crisis.
11:52Less independently minded nations
11:54would have faltered,
11:55sought support from the parent nation.
11:57once so integral to their governance,
12:00but Australia forged onwards.
12:04Like it's rugged and at times
12:08unforgiving land state,
12:10Australia showed true strength,
12:13true metal.
12:18You have admirably developed
12:21every branch of your life
12:22and culture.
12:26and just 200 years have grown into a unique,
12:30an individual civilization
12:32which I'm sure will rank among the greatest
12:35that the world has seen.
12:47the name's Helen King.
12:5029 years old,
12:51writes for The Age,
12:52one of the most prominent newspapers here.
12:54She's asked to meet you.
12:57That's me, sir.
12:59What for?
13:00An interview.
13:02I only thought we decided
13:03no interviews.
13:04We did, but in her case
13:05I find myself moved
13:06to make an exception.
13:08You saw the way she was looking at me?
13:09Yes.
13:10You don't think I'm being delusional.
13:13Gentleman's radar on all that.
13:15No.
13:16Not to mention the way
13:17she's followed us
13:17every step of the tour.
13:18No, I think we can safely assume
13:21this one's a friend,
13:22not an enemy.
13:25No, I think we can safely.
13:32The car carrying His Royal Highness,
13:35the Duke of Edinburgh,
13:36makes his way out
13:38onto the splendid red track here
13:39on the pleasant afternoon in Melbourne.
13:43The crowds are excited
13:44that they get their first glimpse of the Duke,
13:47who is reported to be greatly enjoying
13:49his time here in Australia.
13:51And now,
13:59I declare open the Olympic Games of Melbourne,
14:05celebrating the 16th Olympiad
14:08of the modern era.
14:15He looks happy.
14:18Once.
14:20The Duke smiles
14:21with thunderous applause
14:23and thousands of cheers
14:25from the excited spectators
14:27reverberate around the crowded space.
14:29You can thank me for that.
14:31It's my idea.
14:32I always knew it was a good idea
14:33to let him shine,
14:35alone.
14:36What a magnificent moment.
14:39Yes, thank you, Marie.
14:47In ancient Greece,
14:49the beginning of the Games
14:50was heralded by the homing
14:51of the Pigeons.
14:53And so too today.
15:13Mrs. Parker,
15:14Mrs. Parker,
15:14this way, please.
15:15Mrs. Parker,
15:19how can I help?
15:20I'd like to separate
15:21from my husband.
15:23Better still, divorce.
15:26Do you mind me asking
15:27on what grounds?
15:28The fact I never see him.
15:31Absence
15:32isn't a legal
15:33ground for divorce.
15:37Neglect?
15:38Nor that, I'm afraid.
15:40We're going to need
15:40one of the big three.
15:41Adultery,
15:42unreasonable behavior,
15:43or insanity.
15:44I'm quite sure
15:45there has been adultery.
15:47We will need evidence.
15:50That won't be easy
15:52because of his job.
15:55Mike works
15:56for the Duke of Edinburgh.
15:57In what capacity?
15:59His private secretary.
16:01Oh, I see.
16:03He's also his closest friend.
16:05They're virtually inseparable.
16:09Are you really sure
16:10about this?
16:11A divorce
16:11can leave a woman
16:13quite isolated.
16:15Maybe things will get better
16:17if you stick it out.
16:20I tend to think
16:21that's always the best way
16:22for everyone.
16:25Grass is rarely greener.
16:29I will come back
16:30when I have evidence.
16:32Thanks.
16:34Thanks.
16:45You're taking
16:46the pethidin?
16:46Yes.
16:47And the pentobarbitone?
16:48Yes, I'm taking
16:49the pentobarbitone,
16:51but it doesn't work.
16:53I need something stronger.
16:55There is nothing stronger.
16:59The fact is,
17:00in terms of pharmacology,
17:02we've gone as far as we can.
17:11I have the greatest sympathy
17:12for your condition,
17:14Prime Minister,
17:15and I fully understand
17:16the need for rest.
17:19But given the challenges
17:21that are now facing
17:21this country,
17:23you don't feel
17:24that you have a responsibility
17:25to execute your duties
17:27just a little longer?
17:28I asked the physician
17:29the same question, ma'am,
17:31but he insisted.
17:34He felt that I was
17:36at the very limit
17:37of human endurance.
17:42But the country
17:44will be in safe hands.
17:46Mr. Butler will take charge
17:48in my absence.
17:50Mr. Head will oversee
17:52the withdrawal
17:53of our troops from Egypt.
17:55And Mr. Macmillan
17:56will oversee the...
18:00economic situation.
18:01Economic crisis.
18:05How long do you imagine
18:06you'll be away?
18:07Not long, ma'am.
18:10A few weeks.
18:12Well,
18:13I suppose one can always
18:15reach you at short notice.
18:17It's a point I always make
18:18to my private secretaries.
18:20Yes, I'm away,
18:22but Windsor
18:23radios just around the corner.
18:25And Norfolk, too.
18:27County Durham,
18:29isn't it?
18:30Your family home?
18:34Jamaica, ma'am.
18:36Your family home?
18:38Where the doctor
18:40felt I should be going.
18:41He specified Jamaica.
18:43He specified sunshine,
18:45tropical sunshine.
18:46He said
18:47he felt my life
18:48might depend on it.
18:53What would he prescribe
18:54for the rest of us?
18:56Do you imagine?
19:01Prime Minister.
19:03Your Majesty.
19:04.
19:09.
19:23.
19:38excuse me excuse me you work in there don't you at the thursday club as a waitress
19:47who's asking my name is eileen do you have a minute what can i do for you
19:54i'd like you to tell me what goes on inside you're a reporter or something no no nothing
20:01like that just a wife of one of the members and mother to his children you may know him
20:08his name is mike there are so many gentlemen mike parker you do know him don't you mike
20:19would have made sure of that you're just his type look one day you will be married too and
20:26i sincerely hope that you make a good choice but if you don't and you meet a man who makes
20:32you unhappy then as a woman i would wish for you to be able to leave that man easily painlessly
20:40so if there is anything you can tell me that might make my leaving easier i'm sorry mrs parker
20:46but i know nothing of your husband here is my address and um and my number
20:53just if anything should occur
20:59you
21:01i
21:21Oh, no, no, no.
21:35Martin, do you have a minute, Michael?
21:38I think it's important.
21:40Coming.
21:44I'm going to ask you to go through it again.
21:47Yes, the provenance of this room is quite arcane.
21:51Your sister?
21:52Sister-in-law.
21:53Had lunch with her aunt, who had just spent the weekend at...
21:58Chumley Castle.
21:58At which one of the other guests was the bridge partner...
22:03Tennis.
22:05...of the solicitor visited by Eileen Parker.
22:11I think that's it.
22:13That's half Britain already.
22:15And all of these people now know Mrs. Parker is seeking a divorce.
22:23Yes.
22:25It's unfortunate.
22:26It'll be hard to contain.
22:31What are Mrs. Parker's grievances?
22:39Neglect, unreasonable behavior, and infidelity.
22:46Just a wife's suspicions, nothing concrete.
22:49But I believe specific mention was made of a lunch club where Lieutenant Commander Parker and the Duke of Edinburgh...
22:55Don't tell me.
22:56Frequent guests.
22:59Actually, founder members.
23:03Keep an eye on this for me, would you, Martin?
23:06A close eye.
23:07You're having problems, please, Jane.
23:09Here it is.
23:21Madam.
23:22Madam.
23:45Thank you very much.
23:52Well, um, just bear with me while I put my things down and set up.
23:57Please.
24:08I'm just going to put a microphone right here.
24:11Can I help?
24:13No, it's fine.
24:18Right.
24:19I think that's it.
24:21Right, well, I'll, uh, I'll leave you two to it then.
24:24Thank you, Michael.
24:25Please.
24:32Where do you want?
24:34Well, we can't really start without passing comment on the situation in Egypt and the international response.
24:40Why?
24:43Huge demonstrations on the streets of London.
24:46Eden caving in to international pressure and calling a ceasefire.
24:49You don't think it's a pretty significant moment for your country?
24:52Perhaps, but I'm not going to pass comment on that.
24:55Why not?
24:56It's not my job.
24:57It's not what members of the royal family do.
25:00But you must have thoughts about it.
25:02Of course.
25:03It's not a vegetable.
25:04But my thoughts on issues like that remain a private matter.
25:11One can't help wondering where it leaves Britain's place in the world.
25:15Oh, I'm sure Britain will be fine.
25:17No, the view from over here is that Britain has been publicly humiliated.
25:21Oh.
25:21No.
25:22As someone with surprisingly progressive views, that must concern you.
25:27I have progressive views.
25:29You don't think that you do?
25:31Televising the coronation?
25:34Advocating modernization?
25:35That's just common sense.
25:36If you're a progressive, one prepared to make changes.
25:40Well, let's just say that I learned very early on that it's wise not to take things for granted.
25:44Yes.
25:45You're referring to your family.
25:47How they had to leave Greece in the revolution.
25:50Your grandfather was shot.
25:51Your father fled to avoid being shot.
25:54Yes, correct.
25:58Well, you see, there's so much that people don't really know about you.
26:05I can assure you it's all been rather embellished.
26:08The truth is really quite dull.
26:11Dull?
26:12How you personally fled Corfu in an orange crate.
26:15And then in childhood, in exile, always on the move.
26:18Exile is too strong a word.
26:20Too emotional.
26:21Just how it was for everyone.
26:22You just got on with it.
26:26But it can't have been easy.
26:30Was the trauma of being in exile what brought on your mother's illness, do you think?
26:40What illness?
26:42Well, the information I have is that she suffered a breakdown.
26:53Things weren't easy for her.
26:57But she got on with it.
26:58But she was taken away, wasn't she?
27:00To an institution.
27:02And then your father promptly abandoned the family, ran off with his mistress?
27:06I don't know what you've been reading or who you've been speaking to, but both my mother and my father
27:10played very active roles in all their children's lives.
27:13So it isn't true that you didn't see your father for the last six years of his life?
27:16I think if we're to remain friends, we really should move on.
27:20All right.
27:23May I ask you about your education?
27:26Sir.
27:33Sir.
27:36What about it?
27:37That was pretty unusual, too.
27:39I went to boarding school in Britain.
27:40I knew what was unusual about that.
27:42For a while, but then you were taken out of there and sent to school in Germany.
27:46Because my sisters live there.
27:47Your Nazi sisters.
27:49Oh, Christ.
27:50One of whom was married to a close personal friend of Hitler's.
27:52I was at school in Germany for less than a year before I returned to the United Kingdom.
27:57What point are you trying to make here?
27:59I think it's pretty clear which side I was on.
28:01My record in the war speaks for itself.
28:02I'm simply saying that your background is so much more interesting and complex than people might imagine.
28:07Do they imagine anything?
28:08I think people are curious.
28:12There is this striking, handsome man, walking beside the most famous woman in the world.
28:19Who is he?
28:22Well, I hate to disappoint.
28:27But he really is just a normal man.
28:30In what from the outside probably looks like rather a strange life, but from the inside really is no different
28:37to anyone else's.
28:41I don't think there's anything about you that's like anyone else.
28:46From a young age you were effectively orphaned.
28:49Your favorite sister Cecile, also a Nazi, died in a plane crash.
28:53Gee, I really think we should move on now.
28:54What kind of impact does that have on a man?
28:57That's the kind of trauma that will doubtless ever bearing on how your own children and the future king of
29:02England abroad are.
29:04It's enough.
29:08I think people have a right to know about their leaders, don't you?
29:12Especially ones that can't be thrown out with free and fair elections.
29:20Just don't ever let my vanity get the better of me again.
29:34Let's get sorry Fashcu.
29:47It's okay here.
29:48Please, I'll thank you if they have one second.
29:52I'mSiLA!
29:53Watching this, when taking a solo of more you are not free andising those dead of your government innocents!
29:53I don't know.
30:27Kensington 8953, hello?
30:34We met a few times in various locations.
30:49Afterwards, he'd tell me about his job, the company he keeps.
30:59You didn't mention a wife or children.
31:08I'm so sorry.
31:13If you are really sorry, I want to make my life easier.
31:21Of course.
31:24We will need you to make an official statement and give evidence in court.
31:29I can't do that. I would lose my job, my reputation.
31:31I'm afraid that's what the law requires.
31:33No.
31:37No.
31:39So you telephoned me and agreed to come here today for what, precisely?
31:44To put colour into my nightmares?
31:47I'm sorry.
31:55My sources now tell me that Mrs. Parker has gone as far as bringing a waitress from a Thursday lunch
32:00club to see her divorce line.
32:02I gather the waitress has not provided hard evidence on this occasion, just hearsay.
32:08They were obviously getting close.
32:09This cannot be allowed to go one single step further, Martin.
32:14No.
32:14If Mrs. Parker succeeds in getting her divorce, the newspapers would make the not unreasonable assumption that anything that Lieutenant
32:24Commander Parker has done, the Duke of Edinburgh has done too.
32:28We do not want words like infidelity and divorce swirling around.
32:34No.
32:35Whether there is any truth in the allegations or not, it would shatter the integrity of royal marriage and jeopardize
32:42the entire monarchy.
32:47Any ideas?
32:50Stand easy. Stand easy.
32:52Right, our grown-up duties are done.
32:55The Olympics are officially up and running, which means, gentlemen, we can now get on with the important business at
33:00hand, our tour!
33:05We have nine weeks between now and our arrival home.
33:09In that time, we will be visiting the remotest parts of the Commonwealth.
33:11But I'm delighted to say that during that time, we will be without reporters.
33:18We will be without photographers.
33:22We will be out of the world's eyes!
33:26And with that in mind, I think Michael's got a suggestion.
33:31Right, gentlemen.
33:31Yes, I'd like to propose something a little unusual.
33:34Something I'm fairly sure none of us has ever participated in before.
33:38A beard-growing competition!
33:42Now, special dispensation has been given to the dozen or so.
33:46Men already have been.
33:48It's a shave of the moth.
33:49And they're lacked as judges for the rest of our efforts, all right?
33:53Yeah!
33:54And pits!
33:56And pits!
33:58And pits!
34:00And pits!
34:00And pits!
34:00And pits!
34:01And pits!
34:01And pits!
34:13There's something you've not seen before!
34:15You can't see it now, Bill.
34:43Right, in their infinite wisdom the powers that be have decided they would like you to
34:47make a Christmas speech.
34:49What?
34:50To who? The men on board?
34:52No, to the half a billion people that make up the Commonwealth of Nations.
34:57In the Lord Chamberlain's office, they'd like you to make a companion Christmas speech to the Queens.
35:01A thousand words, preferably uplifting in tone and Christian in sentiment,
35:06with as many references as possible to the importance of family and the sanctity of marriage.
35:12What if I don't want to?
35:14Well, I'm afraid no provisions appear to have been made for your having an opinion about that,
35:18or indeed anything else.
35:21Because of seniority, your speech will come second at the usual time, 3pm.
35:28However, on Christmas morning, the Duke of Edinburgh is expected to be in Graham Land,
35:34which is in the Antarctic Peninsula, which is ten hours behind us.
35:37So he'll have to get up at the crack of dawn to make his speech.
35:40May I ask why he's making a speech?
35:44Um?
35:45Well, it's not usual, is it?
35:48No, it, it is extraordinary.
35:51Um, I think the feeling was that with Your Majesty and His Royal Highness,
35:56having not been seen in public together so long,
36:01being at least heard together...
36:04No, I see. It might reassure people that all is still well.
36:07I wouldn't go that far, ma'am.
36:09Well, I would.
36:10And I think it's a good idea.
36:13Thank you, Michael.
36:20May I just ask,
36:23just out of curiosity,
36:26what's the longest amount of time that you and Lady Adeen have been separated?
36:32Er...
36:33Three weeks, I think.
36:35I see.
36:36And would you say that you thrive or suffer from the separation?
36:41Er...
36:42Er...
36:42We don't much care for it, ma'am.
36:44Helen, in particular,
36:46believes that little good comes from a couple being apart,
36:50but a husband and wife belong together.
36:57Yes, of course.
37:01Ma'am.
37:01Oh!
37:05Oh, come on!
37:06Oh, come on!
37:09Oh...
37:13You're the one who's hoping to be?
37:16Oh!
37:24Oh, come on!
37:26Oh, come on!
37:31Oh, come on!
37:48Yes, sir.
37:52What's up?
37:52Australian Naval Patrol boat.
37:54It's Yama'o's Warren has put out a distress call.
37:56They picked up a fishing boat out of power and it's drifted for days.
37:59Only one man left alive and he nearly drowned trying to fix the hull.
38:02He suffered a broken ribcage and his lung made me punctured.
38:05And the warreen doesn't have a doctor on board.
38:07The man is dying.
38:08Are we the nearest ship?
38:09There's a French freighter three miles further out.
38:12We are the nearest ship.
38:14Set your course.
38:16Bring her about.
38:18Coming about, 9 to 3.
38:41He's coming up.
38:42He didn't get him.
38:44We're gonna stop.
38:45We're gonna stop.
38:49We're gonna stop.
38:50We're gonna stop.
38:51We're gonna stop.
38:57We're gonna stop.
39:05We fished him out of the water floating near his boat.
39:08The rest of his crew must have drowned.
39:10There's no log on board, so we don't know who he is or where he's from.
39:13It doesn't matter who he is or where he's from.
39:15He was the captain of the ship.
39:18That's where it counts.
39:20He's one of us.
39:25You know, it's out of the questions.
39:27Why?
39:28We have a strict schedule, as part of an official term.
39:31And to take the man back to wherever he came from would be to turn back in entirely the wrong
39:35direction.
39:36It'd take days, maybe a whole week, off our important schedule.
39:40We can make that time up.
39:41The man's fortunate enough, we saved his life.
39:44We'll simply drop him off at the next destination and that'll be there.
39:47He will be needlessly separated from his home.
39:50Find himself in a strange country with foreign language, away from his family.
39:55Not my concern.
39:57Another vessel with less important duties might find time for such sentimental charity.
40:02We've done our important duties and are on the way home.
40:06We're effectively a glorified pleasure cruiser with an abundance of fuel and time to spare.
40:12Sir, my decision as flag officer is no.
40:15And my decision as admiral of the fleet is that we do.
40:26There is only one person in command of the vessel.
40:34It's the flag officer.
40:36If you'd recall your naval training, you'd remember.
40:41I do recall my naval training as it happens.
40:44Manning command posts on destroyers during the war.
40:47The same war which I believe you spent on shore duty.
40:51I have never abused my privileges and I don't intend to start now, but this is the Royal Yacht.
40:56I am on it representing the crown and I say, turn it around and take this man home.
41:01Let me know.
41:07Let's go.
41:08Let's go.
41:15Let's go.
41:17Let's go.
41:27Let's go.
41:30continent and covering many thousands of miles, I'm happy to report that we saved
41:36our greatest adventure for last. As the Royal Yacht Britannia turned naval
41:42rescue and we fished a shipwrecked mariner under the water. Our brilliant
41:47surgeons operated on him. Then we went out of our way to return him to his home,
41:52his family and his people.
42:33And what people, what family, what home.
43:10Should you Thursday Club members ever grow tired of your colourless and empty lives in London,
43:17I suggest immediate relocation to the discreet island nations nestled around Tonga.
43:24Surely the closest one can come to heaven on earth.
43:30Never have we received such a welcome or eaten so well.
43:37Never have I experienced such a willingness to set oneself free and enjoy.
43:45And nowhere on earth, and we have by this point travelled across almost every inch,
43:53have we encountered such beautiful women.
44:13These really have been the most remarkable few days.
44:19And it is with the greatest reluctance that after three days here we tear ourselves away.
44:25Each of us, not a little bit, but a great deal, in love.
44:46That is your husband's handwriting, isn't it?
44:53But you said you needed evidence.
44:59That's not a royal tour, that one.
45:01It's a five-month stag night.
45:04Whores in every port.
45:13Good luck.
45:13Good luck.
46:01Happy Christmas.
46:03Happy Christmas.
46:04Hello.
46:05Lovely.
46:06Go on.
46:07It's cute.
46:08Come on.
46:09All right.
46:19It's lovely.
46:26That's pretty nice.
46:34Written it yes?
46:37No.
46:39I'm waiting for inspiration to strike.
46:44Might I suggest some gung-ho platitudes about Christmas in the Commonwealth?
46:49That's what they want me to say. I mean what I want to say.
46:56Right.
47:04Have you got it yet?
47:08Where exactly is Philip?
47:10Graham-land, last I heard.
47:13Where's that?
47:18Dickie, where's Graham-land?
47:20No, Antarctica.
47:21Is that north or south?
47:24It's north.
47:25No, don't be silly, Mummy. It's south. Does anyone actually know?
47:28Yes, because the Arctic is north,
47:31and so Antarctica is non-north, isn't it, Dickie?
47:35What's non-north?
47:36Yes.
47:37Come.
47:40It's time.
47:41Good.
47:42Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses.
47:44Oh, come on to me, children.
47:45And now, a Christmas announce from His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh.
47:52Good morning.
47:54This is Britannia.
47:56I'm speaking to you from the edge of the South Pacific.
47:5959 degrees south and 60 degrees west.
48:02You'll have to turn the globe upside down to find this place.
48:05Indeed, a few of us aboard the Royal Yacht feel a little upside down,
48:09having never been this far from home.
48:13The remoteness of the location presents one with a precious opportunity to think.
48:18About one's own life.
48:21One's own way of living.
48:24We've travelled the world now and seen all manner of tribes, societies and cultures.
48:31We've had endless debates about which places are the best systems of government or justice
48:35or the most interesting religions.
48:38And we've been amazed and impressed by so much of what we've seen.
48:44Naturally, it has led us to examine our own lives and the way we live.
48:50The things we take for granted.
48:51Is that really Philip? Some sort of Philip impersonator?
48:56Why?
48:57It sounds so odd. So different.
49:05And here I am, almost 10,000 miles from London.
49:09Surrounded by empty water.
49:14It's a fine life on board a ship.
49:17But it can be a solitary one.
49:22We are meant together.
49:27But we each stand alone.
49:50We can ask to tell you that they're ready for you.
49:55I've been asked to tell you that they're ready for you.
49:59Last-minute changes.
50:02Something like that.
50:03May I help?
50:05No.
50:27We are ready for you, ma'am.
50:31Yes.
50:38Happy Christmas.
50:39Happy Christmas.
50:41Happy Christmas.
50:44The people of Britain and the Commonwealth will now listen to the voice of Her Majesty the Queen.
50:58Once again, messages of Christmas greeting
51:01have been exchanged around the world,
51:05carried upon the invisible wings of 20th century science.
51:11And of all those many messages from all corners of the Commonwealth,
51:17none has given us greater pleasure.
51:20Than hearing those of my husband
51:24from the remote and lonely spaces of Antarctica.
51:31To him I say,
51:33from all the members of your family gathered here today,
51:39our very best wishes go to you on board Britannia.
51:46A very large, united family is waiting for you here.
51:57And will always be waiting for you, wherever you are.
52:17I would like to express my gratitude to those men and women of the Commonwealth,
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