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00:00:08The Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:11Here, attach the Queen!
00:00:14Queen's Critic!
00:00:17Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:19Come on, Jack.
00:00:21I'll take one of each this morning, please.
00:00:24And a sundae as well.
00:00:27That's right.
00:00:30Queen's Critic is headed again!
00:00:32Here, attach the Queen!
00:00:50No, I shan't have anything.
00:00:53Sorry, dear.
00:01:21I think it's right.
00:01:23Do you?
00:01:24Yeah.
00:01:25Now I think about it, she is a bit priggish.
00:01:35I'll be right back.
00:01:36Sorry.
00:01:45Sorry.
00:01:49I didn't want to go on this way.
00:01:53I'm sorry.
00:01:53You're all right.
00:01:54I've had to go on this way.
00:01:56I'm sorry to get on this way.
00:01:58I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:01:58Come on, Axe. That's it.
00:02:01You're on Altingham.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:45Really?
00:02:48Rarely.
00:02:53Rarely.
00:02:54Rarely.
00:02:55Rarely.
00:02:55Well, I shall certainly find that.
00:02:58and let Her Majesty know.
00:03:04Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
00:03:07Wit or no, my own private secretary.
00:03:09Good afternoon to you.
00:03:11Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altrincham has been struck.
00:03:33Dumb, I hope.
00:03:35Better than that, ma'am.
00:03:37In the face.
00:03:39Quite forcefully, I'm told.
00:03:42By whom?
00:03:44Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
00:03:46I'm afraid we don't have those details yet, ma'am.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios
00:03:54and the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:59where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:02Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am,
00:04:13where Altrincham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:19A programme appropriately called Impact.
00:04:23When will it air?
00:04:25Tonight, ma'am.
00:04:27Nine o'clock.
00:04:47Tell the people.
00:04:48Tell them on television.
00:04:50Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:58A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which to debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07It's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:05:14probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days,
00:05:18his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:05:21in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:05:24have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:05:26and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State.
00:05:36Loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:15I would like to think about this,
00:06:16i'm not sure if I didn't speak to her,
00:06:16but she won't be the most implementations of the world.
00:06:16But I'm not sure if you want to take your time.
00:06:17I'm also sure if we don't take our time.
00:06:17But I'm going to take my time.
00:06:18You should be the most happy as it is,
00:06:19In the space of people.
00:06:19You should be the most happy as it has.
00:06:19I'm going to keep my time...
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00:08:47memories as a child or sitting in a dentist chair because a piece of toffee
00:08:55I ate
00:09:03not again hi I have sir perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness
00:09:14and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work and your great
00:09:21courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the
00:09:28happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole
00:09:38the upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of
00:09:45heart of its average men and women working men and women it has a touch more dignity
00:10:06no I think average is fine
00:10:22which you might be interested to see this it's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in
00:10:28a
00:10:28week's time I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it
00:10:50yes sir forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station
00:11:01Tommy
00:11:02you were about to interfere beyond your station
00:11:09it's concerning the speech the Queen is due to give next week
00:11:13at the Jagger car factory
00:11:15what about it
00:11:16I was just wondering if you were happy with it
00:11:24well obviously I'm happy with it
00:11:26or I wouldn't have shown it to her majesty for the approval which she immediately gave
00:11:32did the Queen read it
00:11:34she didn't need to
00:11:36she merely asked if I was happy I replied in the affirmative
00:11:41and that was good enough
00:11:43for her majesty but I can see that the very important question is
00:11:50is it good enough for Colonel Charteris
00:11:55you don't think it strikes the wrong tone
00:11:59in which sense
00:12:02in its paternalism
00:12:07may I
00:12:11you
00:12:12I suppose if I had a concern
00:12:18it would be the post Suez
00:12:21in this new climate
00:12:23in this new Britain
00:12:26the tone of the speech is somewhat somewhat what
00:12:36old-fashioned
00:12:39then would leave her open to attack from whom the newspapers
00:12:46people if i had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly of a popular attack against the crown i'd be a rich man
00:12:57the british people adore their sovereign it is what constitutes indeed defines being british
00:13:04now the worst i've ever encountered is apathy where people simply accept the king or queen
00:13:10as they accept the sky above their heads but it's a long way from apathy to insurrection
00:13:16now as regards the newspapers the crown can count on their support for two reasons first there is
00:13:22nothing to attack that's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy they have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing to complain about and even if they wanted to they'd always let us know first
00:13:33the palace would then threaten them the boycott on the next major royal event causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately to back down because the very people you fear will hate the queen the same ones who buy
00:13:47copies in their millions why because they love her
00:13:55so so i'm worrying unnecessarily martin i shall leave the drawing of that inescapable conclusion to you
00:14:22i'm going to take it in a little shorter man and rounder it back
00:14:25lovely
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00:18:59depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:19:08The upward course of a nation's history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of
00:19:14heart of its average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems
00:19:25most monotonous. What you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow.
00:19:34Well, let's have a wonderful time. Well, let's have a wonderful time. Come on, everybody,
00:19:40let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner?
00:19:44Evening at the Shard. News Corical. Evening at the Shard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing. Oh, you're going home?
00:19:59I don't need to be.
00:20:05I've just heard a ridiculous speech by the Queen, and I want to write an immediate response.
00:20:11Well, I'll find someone else.
00:20:13No, no, it's no trouble. I had nothing else planned.
00:20:26You're welcome.
00:20:29You're welcome.
00:20:30You're welcome.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought. I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the
00:20:54first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:20:57I can't drive with us trochę., looks like a small 한번.
00:21:00You know what my life doesn't deserve to be.
00:21:05Mmm, it doesn't deserve it.
00:21:15I'll never be.
00:21:15See you later, Lucas.
00:21:17I dare a good life to call him.
00:21:24Genius.
00:22:25Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Well, let's say a bit.
00:25:28I see.
00:25:31Right.
00:25:34Well, thank you.
00:26:31Never heard of him.
00:26:32You?
00:26:33Taken originally from his own publication, the National and English Review.
00:26:40Never heard of that either?
00:26:41Which several newspapers have chosen to run partially or in full.
00:26:47What kind of article?
00:26:51What kind of article?
00:26:51It's quite a critical article, ma'am.
00:27:00What gives him the right?
00:27:05Tell me, honestly, mummy.
00:27:08Is there any part of you that agrees with him?
00:27:13Certainly not.
00:27:17It's not just your mother saying that.
00:27:20The palace press secretary called me an hour ago to see the vast majority of the country not only disagrees
00:27:25with altering him, but is disgusted by him.
00:27:28It's an irrelevant article written by an irrelevant man for an irrelevant publication.
00:27:34Only picked up because it's August.
00:27:36People are on holiday.
00:27:38Government is in recess.
00:27:39There's nothing to write about.
00:27:42Today, 85% of the country is against him.
00:27:45By tomorrow, it will be 95%.
00:27:48That man's going to wish he'd never been born.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:10Excuse me.
00:28:11Excuse me.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting me
00:28:22to record an interview this afternoon.
00:28:25Which program?
00:28:27Impact with Robin Day.
00:28:31I wish it weren't Day.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day.
00:28:35He's terrifying.
00:28:36Don't be silly.
00:28:37The fact that it's Day is what makes it valuable.
00:28:41You don't think I'm walking into a trap?
00:28:43You walked into the trap when you wrote the article.
00:28:46Now you're the most unloved individual in Britain.
00:28:51Ironically, Day is the one person who could help you.
00:28:54Why?
00:28:56You've seen how he interviews people.
00:28:58He dismembers them.
00:29:00Tears them to shreds.
00:29:01Yes.
00:29:02But keep your cool under his scrutiny.
00:29:05Make your case politely.
00:29:07Respectfully.
00:29:08Intelligently.
00:29:10It could turn people around.
00:29:23Thank you very much.
00:29:31Lord Altrium.
00:29:32How do you do?
00:29:33How do you do?
00:29:33Shall we?
00:29:34Yes.
00:29:34This way.
00:29:35Thank you for coming.
00:29:36Not at all.
00:29:37How long do we have until we start?
00:29:39Well, we'll put them to make up quickly.
00:29:40And then we should make stuff.
00:29:44Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Let myself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:59He's standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:12Have you been told how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission tonight.
00:30:17Stand by, sir.
00:30:20Five.
00:30:21Four.
00:30:22Three.
00:30:25Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:30:29probably needs no introduction, Lord Altrium.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:30:37in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:30:40have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:30:42and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:30:45So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altriumham a simple question.
00:30:50She's our Head of State.
00:30:52Loved, respected and admired around the world.
00:30:54So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:30:57I...
00:30:58I don't.
00:30:59Then why criticize her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art.
00:31:06I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state,
00:31:19transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office,
00:31:27who, as King Lear wonderfully says,
00:31:30ebb and flow by the moon.
00:31:31But when working at its best, monarchy can rise above such matters
00:31:35and unify a society.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation,
00:31:40of national character.
00:31:42But the problem is at the moment, it's not doing that.
00:31:46It's doing very little right as far as you're concerned.
00:31:48No, that's not true.
00:31:50You would like to see Her Majesty endowed with superhuman powers.
00:31:53It's not superhuman to be a little spontaneous.
00:31:55Well, judging from your article, you'd like the Queen to have the qualities of a wit.
00:32:00You'd like her to be a better orator, a TV personality,
00:32:04in addition to being a diligent, dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances,
00:32:12she should be more natural.
00:32:15Her style of speaking is, quite frankly, a pain in the neck.
00:32:20She sounds strangled.
00:32:23I had the misfortune of hearing one of the Queen's speeches
00:32:27in a dental waiting room recently.
00:32:29I was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was greeted.
00:32:34But you'd accept that being Queen and Head of the Church of England
00:32:38is not an easy job, or a simple one, if you'll forgive me.
00:32:41It's arguably a harder job than editing a small periodical.
00:32:46No, I quite agree. Her Majesty is a seemingly impossible task.
00:32:50She has to be ordinary and extraordinary, touched by divinity and yet one of us.
00:32:55But being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland, or ineffectual, or forgettable.
00:33:03And against whom do you lay the main charge? Her courtiers?
00:33:06Well, in the end, if the court is wrong, if the set-up is wrong, you have no choice but
00:33:11to criticise the boss.
00:33:12The Queen? Yes. Because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants.
00:33:18She hires them. She alone can fire them.
00:33:22Now, they may be bad. I believe some of them at the moment are.
00:33:25They're quite dreadful. But it is her responsibility.
00:33:28It's not theirs, in the sense that they're just hired hands.
00:33:32And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:36Let me just say this. To criticise the monarchy, to criticise Her Majesty personally, gives me no satisfaction.
00:33:44But we have to remember that since the Second World War, since Suez, Britain has changed beyond recognition.
00:33:51And yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened.
00:33:57I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until recently, monarchies were the rule
00:34:02and republics the exception.
00:34:13Lord Altringham, I have to terminate the interview. I'm obliged to you for answering my questions.
00:34:19Next week, at the same time, there will be another edition of Impact. Good night.
00:34:25That went very well.
00:34:33Thank you again, Lord Altringham. Good day.
00:34:37Good day.
00:34:44I was using the stereo in real life, and I...
00:34:48Lord Altringham?
00:34:49Yes?
00:34:52You traitor!
00:34:55It's a stick!
00:34:56Well done!
00:34:57It's a stick!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done.
00:35:01Well done, sir.
00:35:03You want some white?
00:35:04Well done.
00:35:05Something stronger?
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:12I'm free.
00:35:16Oh, if you can't.
00:35:18Manly are, a wreck.
00:35:31your majesty yes what is it michael there have been some reactions in the newspapers to last
00:35:39night's television and to the assault upon lord altrincham i'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped
00:35:49why not um well the man that struck altrincham it turns out is a member of the extreme right
00:35:58league of empire loyalists which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution
00:36:05of the empire and has a clear doctrine of english racial supremacy oh dear and it seems that most
00:36:15people have decided having watched altrincham on television that he is eminently reasonable
00:36:25now almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments and there are new polls to support
00:36:33this that is the daily mirror are running at four to one in ordering in favor and even the normally
00:36:42conservative daily mail changed its tune this morning um in addition and this i believe
00:36:52reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone calls he has been receiving
00:36:58the prime minister has suggested that he come up a week earlier than planned
00:37:03in order to discuss it all with you in person goodness a constitutional crisis
00:37:12well i hope you're going to apologize to mr macmillan too no you're not going to deny this hell
00:37:19mess springs from a badly written speech which i gave unquestioningly because i trusted you
00:37:25perhaps lord altrincham is right perhaps i should surround myself with younger more dynamic people with one foot in the
00:37:30real world
00:37:33yes
00:38:01And do you believe it's now a government measure?
00:38:03I do, ma'am. Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me. Concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries have overthrown their
00:38:17monarchies and become republics in recent years. Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia, only
00:38:25last month. Of course, we're not at that point. Not at a red light. We're not even at
00:38:32an amber. But we'd hate it to become amber. And so it is my view, the government's view,
00:38:41that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible.
00:38:44And do what? The obvious thing. Altering them is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you! Go at you! Go at you! Go at you!
00:39:28The palace has offered up a chap called Charteress. To meet. I looked him up. He used to
00:39:37be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, there you are. Before the king died. When she was princess.
00:39:48And now? He's assistant private secretary. So, not quite a pawn, but certainly not a bishop
00:39:58or knight either. Go.
00:40:00Go. Go in order to be fobbed off. Go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together.
00:40:06If they wanted to work together, they would have sent someone higher up.
00:40:09Go.
00:40:11All right.
00:40:13And take a list of suggestions. Recommendations. Don't go empty handed.
00:40:26Not yet. John! Your tooth! John! Sorry.
00:41:01I'm sorry.
00:41:02Come on, sir.
00:41:03Hold up!
00:41:07Oh, my God.
00:41:09Oh, my God.
00:41:10Oh, my God.
00:41:10Oh, my God.
00:41:11Oh, my God.
00:41:34Lord Ortringham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:11In one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Ortringham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what would that be?
00:43:05Your Majesty.
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
00:43:15Oh, which you attended to, I gather.
00:43:19Yes.
00:43:20Going on to become an officer of the guards at both St. James's Palace and Windsor Castle.
00:43:27Doesn't quite fit the profile of a revolutionary.
00:43:31It's the assumption everyone has made.
00:43:33Because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the temple down.
00:43:38On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives.
00:43:42Well, those of us in the temple are very much looking forward to hearing what it is we must do
00:43:47in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:55Is my voice all right?
00:43:58You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much of pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:06Good.
00:44:10So, what is it that you'd have me change?
00:44:13It's not so much what I'd have you change.
00:44:16Just an acknowledgement that it has changed.
00:44:20What?
00:44:22Everything.
00:44:25And to prepare yourself for the fact we now live in a time where people like me...
00:44:32Can say exactly what they think?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:35In any way they want?
00:44:37Yes.
00:44:38And remind me, why is that exactly?
00:44:44Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:48And what is left without deference?
00:44:52Anarchy?
00:44:54Equality.
00:44:55How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?
00:44:58You can.
00:44:59But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage
00:45:04to return fire on their own people.
00:45:07But you have managed to think of how this monarch might do something to her advantage.
00:45:13I have.
00:45:14And that same monarch is sitting before, forgive me, a failed politician and an unrecognized journalist,
00:45:25and taking his advice on how to do her job.
00:45:30The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49You've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations.
00:45:57Recommendations.
00:45:58Recommendations of things to change.
00:46:00But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six.
00:46:07Six.
00:46:09Three things to start and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:16Very well.
00:46:18Ah, yes.
00:46:20Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign,
00:46:29and women who are not of that class are not presented to the sovereign,
00:46:32and somehow not acceptable,
00:46:35this is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation,
00:46:39s-s-certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
00:46:49Ah.
00:46:52Allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles.
00:46:58Why?
00:47:00The sovereign is head of the Church of England,
00:47:02and the church does not recognize divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:16Ah.
00:47:18I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here.
00:47:22The old school.
00:47:24Stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, with their heads buried in the sand.
00:47:30They're stopping the palace evolve in keeping with the rest of the world.
00:47:33Those ostriches provide an indispensable function of monarchy.
00:47:39The preservation of tradition.
00:47:44You asked for my recommendations, ma'am.
00:47:48I'm respectfully passing them on.
00:47:54What would you have me start?
00:47:58Open up, ma'am.
00:48:01Know the drawbridge.
00:48:03Let people get to know you.
00:48:05I don't wish to be known.
00:48:09Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:11Become more transparent.
00:48:14Accessible.
00:48:18And finally.
00:48:19Oh, finally.
00:48:20Spend time with normal people.
00:48:23Not just courtiers or the great and the good.
00:48:26But real people.
00:48:27Average people.
00:48:29Working people.
00:48:32Open the doors.
00:48:34Make it more inclusive and egalitarian.
00:48:40Let normal people get to know you too.
00:48:56Would you mind stepping out into the corridor for a moment?
00:48:58No.
00:48:59Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:35You were going read.
00:49:36You said people would mention catalytic information.
00:49:36No surprisestocks.
00:49:45What the matter is that way?
00:49:51your man?
00:49:57I have to wear your saddle when I said you stall.
00:50:02Orange, please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:23Vanished into thin air.
00:50:26Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went on to tell me that no one can ever know that I met the Queen,
00:50:33and that should I ever claim that I did, the palace would robustly deny it.
00:50:38They will, however, concede that I had an appointment with Her Majesty's Assistant Private Secretary,
00:50:44and that concessions might be made to one or two of my recommendations.
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Well, let's get these lights in, quickly.
00:51:02Eat with that camera.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the cake.
00:51:20I feel like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It was memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way, please, ma'am.
00:52:14Let's have a seat.
00:52:15Everyone on standby?
00:52:16This is a prompt from here.
00:52:36Matt.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:33Twenty-five years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible for many of you to see
00:53:47me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television, as they are at this moment,
00:53:57and that is how I think of you all now.
00:53:59I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and
00:54:07direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor
00:54:18to the kings and queens of history.
00:54:20Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, but who never really touches your
00:54:28personal lives.
00:54:30But now, at least for a few minutes, I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed
00:54:49at which things are changing all around us.
00:54:57I would like to read a few lines from Pilgrim's Progress.
00:55:09And though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do repent me of all the trouble
00:55:17I have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to
00:55:29him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles,
00:55:41who now will be my rewarder.
00:55:51I hope that 1958 may bring you God's blessings and all the things that you long for.
00:56:01And so I wish you all, young and old, wherever you may be, all the fun and enjoyment and peace
00:56:10of a very happy Christmas.
00:56:15And we're off air.
00:56:32And we're off air.
00:56:38And we're off air.
00:56:43And we're off air.
00:56:50And we're off air.
00:56:58And we're off air.
00:57:04And we're off air.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15Hi, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes.
00:57:23Tony, you're the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm.
00:57:28Does he have a name?
00:57:29The stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabom.
00:57:32No, that's not quite right.
00:57:33Um.
00:57:34I don't know.
00:57:35Vidal Baboon.
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:37Vidal Baboon.
00:57:38Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon, I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser
00:57:52for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony.
00:57:55But he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering him.
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:02It's rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Good one.
00:58:16There it is.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:31I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones, a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur, a bus driver, a bank clerk, and a woman policeman.
00:58:54All to open things up.
00:58:56Yes.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59Democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:06The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away, bit by bit, piece by piece.
00:59:14Our authority.
00:59:17Our absoluteism.
00:59:19Our divine rights.
00:59:30Our divine rights.
00:59:34And sacrifices and concessions in order to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us, then the merchants, now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss about curtsies, protocol, and precedent.
00:59:44It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour as we go from ruling to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13I told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses, so if you get
01:00:18a dud, don't worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at work.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:50What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hamlet.
01:00:53Lovely time.
01:00:53Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56Absolutely.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58Well, can't you tell him the truth, huh?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:03Sergeant Ethel Denmark.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you with me.
01:01:07Oh, here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:09We'll help you with the
01:01:10business class.
01:01:11Fluxo.
01:01:14Okay, we'll help you with Sailor.
01:01:14Oh well, no.
01:01:18How volunteer.
01:01:24It goes for fase trial.
01:01:25There we go about,ugs.
01:01:27Oh God...
01:01:27People help you glow when you glow in it.
01:01:28We're coming to the Dame for L Millennium.
01:01:29Ooh that will do it.
01:01:38You'll look for the money.
01:01:38We can fly away.
01:01:38But of course too fast.
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