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00:16As His Majesty the King has not yet produced a male successor, nor do we at this stage expect one,
00:23the decision has been taken to start preparing you in earnest for the crown.
00:27From this moment on, you will no longer be the heir presumptive, but the heir apparent, and your life will
00:33be quite different.
00:35You will not be able to travel unaccompanied, nor to socialize as freely.
00:41Your father, the king, had little or no time to prepare for the throne, which was thrust upon him.
00:48We will not be caught out again.
00:51The crown is not just an ornament to be worn.
00:55It is a privilege.
00:57And a burden, which comes with formidable expectations and responsibilities.
01:26I don't think I can do it.
01:29I could.
01:31I know you could.
01:33I'd love every minute to be on every coin, on every banknote, to be the most famous woman in the
01:41world.
01:42I'd be so very good at it.
01:45Wearing a big crown, giving everyone orders.
01:50Yes.
01:55Then tell them.
01:57Margaret Rose can do it.
01:59Margaret Rose wants to do it.
02:02Margaret Rose was born to do it.
02:05You were.
02:08Then let me speak to them tomorrow.
02:10It would be the best thing for both of us.
02:14All right.
02:19Good.
02:28Good thing.
02:39Great thing.
03:07I love you.
03:13Your Majesty.
03:18Just come to wish you a bon voyage, and to thank you.
03:21What for?
03:23For agreeing to squeeze in so many public engagements on what is essentially a private trip.
03:27And for flying this way, commercially.
03:30Well, it's not so bad.
03:31They've cleared out the first-class cabin just for us.
03:35What's the first stop? New York?
03:37Uh, San Francisco, then Los Angeles.
03:39Then five days with the Douglases in Arizona.
03:43How lovely.
03:44Then on to New York, where Tony is promoting his book.
03:48You've written a book?
03:49Uh, a book of my photographs.
03:50Oh, you are clever.
03:52You must make time to really relax, too.
03:55We will be good to one another.
03:58Kind to one another.
04:01Basically.
04:06Said she felt the need to say that.
04:08What?
04:09Be good to one another.
04:11Kind to one another.
04:12Basically.
04:13I was a little clumsy.
04:17But she means well.
04:19Two of us are complicated.
04:24She and I are complicated.
04:27It's true.
04:30Elder sister, younger sister.
04:32Number one and number two.
04:34Who's number one?
04:36You.
04:37Of course.
04:39A natural number one, whose tragedy it is to have been born number two.
04:45That is my button.
04:48She knows it, too.
04:51Yes, I think she does.
04:54That's her button.
04:56Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard this BOAC flight to San Francisco.
05:00Please take your seats and relax.
05:02We're now ready for departure, and we'll be taxiing shortly.
05:06We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a very pleasant flight.
05:38To get to back.
06:05Stay posted.
06:06Stay posted.
06:06Stay with us.
07:06I speak to the president about another bailout. Rescue package. But the president refuses to take his call.
07:13President Johnson is a busy man.
07:16Too busy to talk to his oldest ally. Historically, the holder of this office has the warmest relationship with Downing
07:23Street.
07:24Think of Churchill and Roosevelt, or Truman and Antley, McMillan and JFK.
07:29No need to keep mentioning Jack Kennedy like that.
07:33Keep mentioning?
07:34It's just provocative.
07:37Unhelpful. President Johnson is his own man.
07:41Of course.
07:43I mentioned it only in the context of our leader standing shoulder to shoulder in times of difficulty.
07:49The United Kingdom and the United States.
07:54Historically, it's like a marriage.
07:58Will you talk to him?
08:01No, screw the Brits. I don't like them. I never liked them.
08:05They're not looking down at you through their noses. They're holding their hands out like beggars. And I don't give
08:08a crap about any special relationship.
08:11Harold Wilson wants my help. He should have thought about that when he refused to support me over Vietnam. You
08:15can't screw a man in the ass and then expect him to buy you flowers.
08:25I don't know.
08:28I don't know.
08:46at Swinston's funeral?
08:48Yes, on account of a cold.
08:50Well, that was the explanation the White House gave,
08:52but it persuaded no-one.
08:54Now, I fear that the President may have taken against me
08:59for what he sees as my failure to support him over Vietnam.
09:04And I wondered...
09:09In the past,
09:11the royal family has been extremely helpful
09:14in keeping this special relationship afloat.
09:20And given the predicament
09:22the country finds itself in economically...
09:25You'd like us to roll out the red carpet?
09:27Make a bit of a fuss?
09:32Please.
09:34All right.
09:35I shall consult the three wise men,
09:37see what they have to say.
09:40Thank you, ma'am.
09:51What we have witnessed in Princess Margaret
09:54is a more vibrant, modern, and engaging version
09:58of her older sister.
10:00Quite right.
10:03To those accustomed to the formality
10:05of traditional royal visits,
10:07meeting Princess Margaret
10:08has been like going from a black-and-white film
10:10to one in colour.
10:12What about a state dinner?
10:14Like the one held for Woodrow Wilson in 1918.
10:17Or a weekend at Windsor Castle.
10:19The important thing here, I'm told,
10:21is that whatever we offer President Johnson,
10:23it must exceed whatever we gave the Kennedys.
10:28Hey, we wanted to see the Queen!
10:31You're seeing something better than the Queen.
10:33What do you think is the main difference
10:34between Britain and America?
10:36Well, my sister isn't on the backboard here.
10:39What are you most looking forward to in America?
10:44Liberty.
10:44But when you're crying
10:48You get all the way
10:51So stop your silence
10:53Be happy again
10:56Keep on smiling
10:58Cause when you're smiling
11:01The whole world starts with you
11:06You're smiling, darling.
11:09What news of Princess Margaret?
11:11Well, after three days in San Francisco
11:13Her Royal Highness
11:14has safely arrived in Los Angeles.
11:16Any disasters I should be aware of?
11:18No, on the contrary
11:19the trip seems to have been a great success.
11:22Really?
11:23Yes, rave reviews
11:24all the newspapers
11:26With even a name having been coined
11:28for the multitude of fans
11:29and well-wishers
11:30who have followed her every step of the way.
11:33Which is?
11:34Margaretologists.
11:36Margaretologists?
11:38Yes, ma'am.
11:39Fans who have delighted
11:40in Her Royal Highness' intelligence
11:42and articulacy
11:43her beauty and charm
11:44with one newspaper
11:45the San Francisco Chronicle
11:47even going so far as to
11:48Yes, all right.
11:48Thank you, Martin.
11:49Yes, ma'am.
11:50I'm a queen, not a saint.
11:51That's it.
11:52Try not to smile.
12:10I gave it.
12:12Not once, not twice,
12:13but three times
12:14and you ignored it.
12:15What?
12:16The signal.
12:17Our signal
12:18that I wanted to leave.
12:19I didn't see it.
12:21You know, as well as I,
12:22that if you are
12:23the guest of honour
12:24you cannot just leave.
12:28In the course of our marriage
12:29I have lost count
12:30of the number of times
12:31you've walked out
12:31as guest of honour.
12:33Once or twice.
12:35All the bloody time.
12:36When it's dreary.
12:37When it suits you.
12:39When the people
12:41are ugly and dull.
12:43these people
12:44were musing
12:46and attractive
12:48and
12:49they made me feel good.
12:51No, no, no, no.
12:51The alcohol
12:52made you feel good
12:55and
12:55blunted your judgment
12:57to the sycophancy
12:58of the people
12:58surrounding you.
13:00Is that right?
13:01Yes.
13:02Keys.
13:03Well,
13:03sadly
13:04it's not blunted
13:05my judgment
13:06to your
13:07mean-spiritedness
13:10and
13:10jealousy
13:11and
13:11general
13:13pucinellaminite
13:14pucinellaminite
13:16small-mindedness.
13:20I don't recognise this.
13:23Hmm.
13:25Come to think of it.
13:26I don't recognise you.
13:29Actually,
13:32nor did anyone else.
13:34I mean,
13:35if we're honest.
13:39Isn't that the real
13:40problem here?
13:41Hmm?
13:44Oh,
13:45I'm sorry.
13:46And you are
13:48Tony who?
13:50Oh,
13:51yeah,
13:52the husband guy.
13:54It's not easy
13:55sometimes.
13:57What is not easy?
14:00Being second fiddle
14:01to a pygmy princess.
14:04Don't talk to me
14:06about being
14:06a second fiddle.
14:08I get so little
14:09I'm like...
14:12No,
14:13it's the price I pay
14:14for the sister I have.
14:16But if
14:17the opportunity
14:18should once arise
14:19for me to shine,
14:21I'd appreciate
14:22you putting aside
14:24the competitive
14:25little narcissist
14:26that rages within you
14:30and letting me
14:32savour it.
14:41I promise
14:43that once we get
14:44to New York,
14:47the spotlight
14:48will be entirely
14:49on you
14:50and your book.
14:52I'll take
14:53a back seat
14:54and be the
14:55adoring
14:55and supportive
14:56number two
14:57you want me
14:59to be.
15:00And nothing
15:01will make me
15:02happier.
15:15Now, you can tell me
15:16you want 50,000,
15:18100,000 more boots
15:19on the ground
15:19are going to resolve
15:20this.
15:21But I put 100,000
15:22more men in there,
15:23who's to say that
15:24Ho Chi Minh
15:24isn't going to put
15:25100,000 more?
15:26a man can't fight
15:28if he can't see
15:29daylight at the
15:30end of the road.
15:31I want to see
15:32solutions, gentlemen,
15:33solutions,
15:34not more numbers.
15:37By God,
15:38I will not be the
15:39first American
15:39president to lose
15:40a goddamn war.
15:44That'll be all
15:45in the service, man.
15:58What is this?
16:00A peace offering
16:01from the Brits.
16:03Open to secure
16:03the bailout.
16:06A weekend
16:07shooting at
16:08Balmoral?
16:09Yes, sir.
16:11That's as good
16:11as it gets.
16:12Even Kennedy
16:13never got that.
16:15Really?
16:16He got a banquet,
16:17Naval Guard of Honor,
16:19but never a weekend
16:19shooting in Scotland.
16:22No one has got that.
16:26Hmm.
16:32Still,
16:34that's a long flight.
16:37Followed by a long drive.
16:40Stay in some
16:41creepy haunted castle.
16:43The weather's terrible.
16:47And it would involve
16:49making small talk
16:50to fancy people.
16:52Then when you go
16:53shooting,
16:54there's rules,
16:55things you do
16:56and don't do,
16:58which would involve
16:59researching,
17:00learning,
17:02cutting my nails.
17:04And I'd still
17:05get it all wrong.
17:07And then everybody
17:08would laugh at me
17:09and they'd say
17:09how I wouldn't know
17:10Jack Kennedy
17:11who would know
17:11exactly which knife
17:12and fork to use
17:14and which bird
17:14to shoot.
17:17So my position
17:18has not changed.
17:19Hmm.
17:21It is still
17:21no thank you,
17:23your majesty.
17:25Tomorrow,
17:26there's a reception
17:26given by the Council
17:27of Engineering
17:28Engineering Institutions
17:28at the Science Museum.
17:30Followed by an audience
17:31with His Excellency
17:33Gudmundur Gudmundsson,
17:35the new ambassador
17:36from the Republic of Iceland.
17:37Thank you, Michael.
17:38And where are we
17:39with President Johnson?
17:41Ah,
17:42we went back
17:43offering weekend shooting
17:44in Balmoral.
17:46Did we?
17:46Lucky LBJ.
17:48We don't get enough
17:49of those ourselves.
17:50And?
17:50No response, ma'am.
17:52What?
17:53Nothing.
17:53Complete silence.
17:55That's a first?
17:56Yes.
17:58Probably not what
17:59Downing Street
17:59was hoping for.
18:00Is everyone panicking?
18:01Slightly.
18:03What about
18:03Princess Margaret?
18:04I was safely
18:05arrived in Arizona, ma'am.
18:06Oh, well, that's something.
18:07At the Douglas Family Ranch?
18:09Yes.
18:10I've never been.
18:11What do we know about it?
18:12They say it's quite something.
18:13A beautiful
18:1419th century country house
18:15set under the
18:16Santa Rita Mountains
18:17in miles and miles
18:18of wide-open desert.
18:26I've never been.
18:54My family is
18:56hungry and
19:02Tony, brace yourselves, come along darling, your royal, your royal heinous, no blinking,
19:14no kissing, jobs, oh I look hideous, no,
19:29ghastly, you look a bit tired, a bit coldy, it's only to be expected after your heroics,
19:41you hated every minute, didn't you, maybe, that's irrelevant, the newspapers didn't,
19:52page after page about how extraordinary you are, what an asset to the crown, how underused
19:59you are, what a secret weapon, how deserving you are of the spotlight, your elder sister
20:04eclipsed and outshone, darling, and now you must sleep, what will you do, be a good guest
20:13and sing for our supper, so rest, I will, and get well for New York,
20:35Mr. President, I just got off the phone with our ambassador in London, just got off the
20:39phone with the prime minister, just got off the phone with the queen, don't tell me everybody's
20:43pissed, the general view seems to be that if you have a quarrel with the prime minister,
20:49that's one thing, but no one gets to insult the crown, sir, it's like treason or something,
20:55how have I insulted the crown, by not accepting the queen's invitation, sir, well, I didn't
21:01refuse, just have him reply, well, now, don't you do this, Mormon, you're my chief of staff,
21:10you're supposed to have my back, don't you get suckered into this, you know, they got this
21:14whole thing going on over there, head of state, prime minister, Buckingham palace, downing
21:20street is like a double act, like tag team wrestling, one of them gets in trouble, the other jumps in
21:24to bail them out, Wilson screws me over Vietnam, and she jumps in to make it all good with some
21:30bursts, you bullshit, we don't have that here, don't you, Buck stops with me, who the hell am I supposed
21:42to call, if I want to issue an invitation to get me out of trouble, well, you call me, sir,
21:47your oldest
21:48friend, I come up with a sensible plan to get us all out of trouble, all right, come up with
21:53a plan,
21:54well, sir, I just did, this is the plan, right here, who in God's name is that?
22:04They came to land at Oakland airport, and here, as in San Francisco, crowds met and cheered
22:10them everywhere they went, the princess was radiant, obviously enjoying herself, it wasn't
22:16long before her sparkle cast an informal atmosphere over the occasion, the American people and their
22:22press have warmed to the couple, enchanted by the natural display of charm and friendliness.
22:27Prime Minister for you, ma'am, said it was urgent.
22:35Prime Minister?
22:37Just to say, we've finally had a response from the Americans, ma'am.
22:43They've come back with an invitation of their own, to dinner at the White House.
22:50For me?
22:51No, for Princess Margaret.
22:54Oh, that's cunning.
22:56Yes.
22:56That way, President Johnson can't be accused of snubbing my offer.
23:00No.
23:02It also sidesteps the all-important issue of the bailout.
23:06Indeed.
23:07But we think not all is lost that Princess Margaret should accept the invitation, go to the White
23:13House, and use the occasion to win over hearts and minds to the British cause.
23:21It would be a political engagement of the utmost delicacy.
23:26For which you want to send Princess Margaret?
23:29Yes, well, that had been my reaction.
23:32But her trip to America has been a terrific success.
23:36So I get her.
23:39So will you ask her.
23:44If those are my instructions.
23:48Please.
23:54Well, well.
23:55I suppose the situation is so dire, there's really nothing to lose.
24:00He doesn't know my sister.
24:04Ma'am.
24:10Mo.
24:15Your Royal Highness.
24:17Mo.
24:17No.
24:18Telephone for you.
24:19No.
24:20It's the Queen.
24:35Hello, you.
24:38Hello, you.
24:40Sorry to disturb.
24:41I know you're on holiday, so you don't want to hear this.
24:44What?
24:44We've had an invitation from the White House for you to go to Washington and have dinner with
24:50the President and the First Lady.
24:52And we'd like you to attend.
24:54When?
24:55This Wednesday.
24:57Ah.
24:57Can't.
24:59Why not?
25:00What?
25:02I'm going to be in New York.
25:05Tony's book launch.
25:08Perhaps I should make it clear.
25:10There is rather a lot riding on it.
25:12And everyone is keen, very keen, for you to go.
25:16Perhaps I should make it clear that nothing is going to stop me from supporting my husband.
25:21Just like you asked me to.
25:23Margaret!
25:25Margaret!
25:27Me is going to go.
25:40It's too cold.
25:40It's too cold.
25:42I'm gonna have to go.
25:42Oh, my God.
25:42I'm out of the way.
25:42Oh, God.
25:43I'm out of the way.
25:53Wait what happened to him.
25:54You're gonna meet me.
26:04Dear Margaret,
26:06As a wife, I understand your desire to support Tony.
26:09You know that it was my honest hope
26:11that on this trip you would both find the opportunity
26:14to be more courteous, more encouraging to each other.
26:18But for now, such considerations must be put aside.
26:23I have asked you this once as a sister.
26:26And now I must command it as your queen.
26:31Your Royal Highness, sir, thank you so much for agreeing to this.
26:37The most recent list of people attending the dinner,
26:40with some brief biographies of those expected to sit close to you.
26:43What I'm asking you to do amounts to much more
26:47than simply attending a dinner.
26:53Currently, there are matters pertaining to this country's future prosperity
26:58that require a concerted effort on our part.
27:02We must heal the divisions that are emerging
27:05between Britain and its American cousins.
27:08You've often lamented that you have nothing to do,
27:12that you are a wasted resource.
27:14Well, the task you are embarking on today
27:16could not be more crucial.
27:19Britain currently has a deficit of 800 million pounds.
27:24What we need is a bailout of at least 1,000 million.
27:32Only the Americans can give it to us.
27:38I know you like to do things your own way.
27:42But this is a diplomatic mission of the highest sensitivity.
27:46And I would urge you, for once,
27:49to play things by the book.
27:54What happens if I fail?
27:56We don't get the bailout.
27:59Then we break our promises to the IMF,
28:03exhaust the credit facilities available to us,
28:06face a run on Sterling,
28:07and the government would be left with no option
28:10but to devalue the pound.
28:12And that's bad.
28:15Devaluation is worse than bad.
28:17It would relegate Sterling to the second division
28:19of the world's currencies
28:20and bring them to the third division
28:22of the world's economies.
28:24It would mean international humiliation,
28:27political ignominy, and...
28:31financial ruin.
28:39You're a minus?
28:42President Johnson.
28:57Thank you very much.
29:21Good morning, Prime Minister.
29:22Yeah, good morning.
29:25I've had an opportunity now to speak to our ambassador in Washington
29:30about the White House dinner last night.
29:32And?
29:35I don't know where to begin.
29:40It seemed that the first course had barely been served
29:43before Princess Margaret made remarks about the late President Kennedy
29:47that were less than discreet.
29:50I met him once, Kennedy.
29:54I was left distinctly underwhelmed.
30:01Margaret.
30:02I'm sorry.
30:04Did I say something wrong?
30:05I do know these days one's not allowed to think anything other
30:10than what a great statesman Kennedy was.
30:13Say nothing, Lyndon.
30:15Of course you'll say nothing.
30:16He was his loyal deputy.
30:18But I think I can understand better than most
30:21the frustrations and resentments that can build up
30:25from a life that's a number two.
30:28The support act.
30:31Even of someone you adore.
30:36You spent three years as Vice President.
30:39I've spent my whole life as Vice Queen.
30:43Except that came out wrong.
30:45I didn't mean I'm a Vice Queen.
30:48Is there a strategy in place to deal with the fallout?
30:51Oh, no, there's no fallout.
30:53What?
30:54President Johnson agreed.
30:56Thoroughly.
30:57Enthusiastically.
30:58Unreservedly.
30:59He said, um, if I remember rightly,
31:04Jack Kennedy...
31:05Or to kill his own mother
31:06just to take the skin off her ass
31:08to make a drum to beat his own praises.
31:18Right?
31:20I see.
31:23This then led to a drinking contest.
31:26What?
31:27Last man standing is the winner.
31:29Challenge accepted.
31:30Which in turn led to a limerick contest.
31:33Limericks?
31:33Yes, ma'am.
31:35Some of them, I'm afraid to say,
31:37a little off-color.
31:39Hmm.
31:40Well, go on then.
31:43Oh, right.
31:46Well, the first one went a little bit.
31:51There was a young woman from Delaware...
31:54Who liked to make love.
31:58Liked to make love.
31:59Delaware.
32:00Delaware.
32:01In her underwear.
32:02A terrible prude.
32:03She would never go nude.
32:05And her bum hips and tits,
32:07she would never bear.
32:13What else?
32:14The president countered with,
32:16there was a young man from Wisconsin
32:18who was blessed with an enormously large...
32:21Johnson?
32:25Where's the rest of it?
32:26I believe everyone thought that was long enough.
32:30As it were.
32:32Any more?
32:34Princess Margaret won the evening with this one.
32:37There was a young lady from Dallas
32:39who used a dynamite stick as a phallus.
32:44They found her...
32:48You've made it this far.
32:52They found her vagina in North Carolina...
32:55And her arsehole in Buckingham Palace.
33:01Bravo.
33:09Then, apparently, there was dancing.
33:34Followed by singing.
33:36Anything you can be, I can be.
33:39Greater, sooner, or later.
33:41I'm greater than you.
33:43Yes, I am.
33:44No, you're not.
33:45Yes, I am.
33:46No, you're not.
33:47Yes, I am.
33:48Yes, I am.
33:49Yes, I am.
33:50She finally snagged at home at four in the morning.
33:53Newly anglophile President Johnson
33:55having agreed to the bailout.
33:57The special relationship more special than ever.
34:00Without being caught?
34:02Yeah.
34:02That's what I thought, you crook.
34:04And all because Margaret was all the things
34:07I'd specifically begged her not to be.
34:09All the things I could never be.
34:12Instinctive, spontaneous, dazzling.
34:16Yes, I am.
34:19You're all those things, too.
34:20No, I'm not.
34:22I'm predictable, dependable, reliable.
34:26Well, of those two, I would pick dependability
34:29every day of the week.
34:33It would be nice to be dazzling on occasion, too.
34:37You are dazzling.
34:39You're a dazzling cabbage.
34:42Anything you can say, I can say.
34:44Faster.
34:45I can say anything.
34:47Faster than you.
34:48No, you can't.
34:49Yes, I can.
34:49No, you can't.
34:50Yes, I can.
34:50No, you can't.
34:51No, you can't.
34:52No, you can't.
34:52No, you can't.
34:53No, you can't.
35:15Prime Minister.
35:17Well played, Your Royal Highness.
35:20Very well played.
35:22Thank you, sir.
35:23Shall we?
35:24No, you can't.
36:11Hail the conquering heroine.
36:13Ah, yes.
36:15Let the abuse begin.
36:17Now, you must know by now,
36:19any triumph from this family is met with a healthy dose of...
36:21Envy?
36:21Spite.
36:22Good-natured teasing to keep one's feet on the ground.
36:26Everyone's very grateful.
36:27The Prime Minister said he was going to write to you personally.
36:30Oh, better than that.
36:31He met me at the airport.
36:34Ah.
36:35And now we're all racking our brains as to what to give you to show our appreciation.
36:41How would you feel about the Order of Merit?
36:44Or the Victorian chain?
36:47You can keep your gongs and your bongs for all the men to whom it matters so much.
36:52But I'd be lying if I didn't admit to having done a little thinking in view of how well it
36:57all went.
36:59About us doing it more often.
37:03Doing what?
37:05Sharing duties.
37:08But we didn't share duties.
37:09You just went to a dinner party.
37:12In your place.
37:14And represented crown and country with, I think we can agree, favorable results.
37:24Isn't it possible that we've stumbled upon something here?
37:27You have far too much to do.
37:30Far too much pressure.
37:32Far too much responsibility.
37:34And I, too little.
37:36Having no role.
37:38Having nothing to do.
37:40Is soul-destroying.
37:45All I'm asking is if you were prepared to share a little more.
37:52For Bazaar sakes.
38:03Let me think about it.
38:05I'll see what I can do.
38:12Don't tell me you softened.
38:13I did.
38:14And with good reason.
38:17Margaret does suffer more than anyone else by not having a more meaningful role.
38:21She suffers in health and happiness.
38:24She's overlooked.
38:26And in terms of ability and character and intelligence and flair, she does not deserve to be overlooked.
38:33So why shouldn't we consider expanding the role?
38:36Sharing the job a bit more?
38:38There are two answers to that question.
38:41Neither makes for pretty listening.
38:46Yes, the system is unequal.
38:49Unjust and cruel.
38:51And primogeniture divides and destroys families.
38:55The system stinks.
38:55But in its cruelty and injustice, it reflects something else, which is harsh and brutal, which no one is suggesting
39:04we rearrange.
39:06Life.
39:09We all desire equality, but here's the thing.
39:14We were not born equal.
39:18And what's the second?
39:20Do you remember I told you once I got drunk with that god-awful monster Tommy Lassells?
39:26Well, that night, he shared with me his theory about the House of Windsor.
39:32I've never repeated to anyone since.
39:35Go on.
39:40He asked me to imagine a mythological creature.
39:44A rice-addler.
39:46A polycephalus.
39:48A two-headed eagle.
39:49For the purposes of this conversation, I want you to think of it as representing us.
39:55This family.
39:58Your family.
40:00And there have always been the dazzling Windsors and the dull ones.
40:04Your father.
40:06A saint.
40:07But dull.
40:09Sorry.
40:11Your grandfather, too.
40:13George V?
40:14Deadly dull.
40:15Well, at the height of the Great War, when the Tsar and the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria were
40:22dazzling the world, where was he?
40:25He was sticking stamps in his album.
40:27His wife.
40:28Queen Mary?
40:29Wonderful.
40:29Ditchwater.
40:31And so it goes, through George V to Queen Victoria and back.
40:35An uninterrupted line of stolid, turgid drearings.
40:40Culminating in me.
40:41Yes, but alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain, runs another.
40:52The dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic and the dangerous.
40:59And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII.
41:04For every George V, you get a Prince Eddie.
41:07For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII.
41:12For every Lilibet, you get a Margaret.
41:17And she may have had a success in Washington.
41:20But let's not delude ourselves that serious diplomacy can be achieved through drinking and dancing.
41:26Let Margaret have the glory.
41:28But let's not rewrite the constitutional rule book because she got lucky once.
41:33And where does that leave my relationship with her?
41:35Unchanged.
41:37You're the Queen.
41:39And she's your dangerous baby sister.
41:45She's outside.
41:46She knows we're talking about her.
41:48Then let's join her.
41:50That feverish mind of hers needs no encouragement.
42:20I can't understand.
42:32What you are suggesting is unthinkable.
42:35The order of succession to the throne is determined by the Act of Settlement of 1701,
42:40not the wild and irresponsible whims of young princesses.
42:45The principle of undisturbed hereditary descent is a pillar of stability and perpetuity for the nation.
42:52Princess Elizabeth's destiny is to accede to the throne. Yours is to serve and support.
42:58I would urge you to accept your position in life and to dismiss, forthwith, any childish notions about rewriting the
43:07rulebook so that it might better suit your character.
43:11We all have a role to play. Princess Elizabeth's will be center stage and yours, ma'am, will be from
43:18the wings.
43:27Jean, Jean.
43:32Jean, Jean, Jean.
43:34Jean, Jean, Jean, Jean.
43:44Is this a great place?
43:44All right.
44:21All right.
44:52All right.
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46:41All right.
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47:32All right.
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47:36All right.
47:37All right.
47:38All right.
47:38All right.
47:39All right.
47:39All right.
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