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00:01You
00:21And how does one describe being Prince of Wales?
00:30I mean, it's hardly a job, still less a vocation, it's simply a predicament.
00:39The previous princes of Wales have been happy to have misspinned their lives in idle dissipation,
00:43but my problem is I can't bear idles or dissipation.
00:49Every day I meet people from all walks of life,
00:53ministers, scientists, entrepreneurs, men and women my age,
00:57who have gone out into the world and made their mark.
01:03It's precisely the thing that I'm not allowed to do.
01:12In any other professional sphere, I'd be at the peak of my powers.
01:17Instead, what am I? I'm just a useless ornament, stuck in a waiting room, gathering dust.
01:33There I go again. Always a little wine with my cheese.
01:38No, it just feels so good to tell it as it is to close friends.
01:42We understand. You're a criminally wasted resource, sir.
01:47Just look at the extraordinary work you do with the Prince's Trust.
01:50Turning young lives around, giving out thousands of grants a year.
01:55Twenty thousand, to be precise.
01:57Our latest initiative is this funding of evening centres up and down the country
02:02where children from crowded and low-income households can come and do their homework.
02:08What a wonderful idea. Doesn't sound like an ornament gathering dust to me.
02:14Thank you, Nancy.
02:15Now, the day's work is still not done, so will you excuse me?
02:21Good night. Good night, sir.
02:23Good night.
02:24Good night.
02:57One, two, three, fast.
02:59COME ON!
03:08Hello?
03:13Andrew.
03:14His daddy.
03:15Your royal highness!
03:20Mummy.
03:26is she um she'll be with you in just a moment i have to wait till she picks up in
03:30the other room
03:34so is everyone uh there together yes all here such a special time of year
03:42and is it just the four of you for christmas or
03:45i believe that's her now sir thank you right i'm playing move up laura you've been cheating again
03:52hello i wish you would answer the phone i never know what to say we're alone now
03:59i'm in the bedroom in bed on top of it lucky old bed
04:07are you still in tesha i am missing you terribly
04:14back soon though my darling are you still making the speech in oxford tomorrow yes
04:21that's the reason i called actually could you bear to quickly listen to it is it very long
04:25only we're a full house no no no short and punchy and a bit controversial which is why i want
04:32your
04:33opinion you always know best when to rein me in all right oh remind me of the subject the teaching
04:41of
04:41english language in schools it is quite astounding to think that in england we have produced one of
04:49the world's most beautiful languages however the rate at which that language is degenerating has become
04:55a cause for concern it's a tragedy for the next generation that in the birthplace of the language of keats
05:02of shelley of shakespeare efforts to preserve that language and uphold the standards of its teaching
05:08are no longer a priority if we look at the way english is used in business in the popular press
05:14or on television programs or indeed in our schools universities and institutions
05:20are you still there
05:50I'm sorry.
05:59I'm sorry.
05:59I'm sorry.
06:03I'm sorry.
06:04I'm sorry.
06:05I'm sorry.
06:05Just call us a name.
06:05Can you hear him please?
06:07Yeah.
06:07No, he's going to hear me.
06:08He's checking the fish.
06:10He's lost in.
06:10The thing's in here.
06:11Sir, sir.
06:13Can you calm down and tell me exactly where you are?
06:15See just how it maverick so great mother tongue has her come.
06:20Everything happens at the end of the day.
06:22And every situation is a win-win.
06:26As Prince of Wales, I won't be thanked saying this, but the rot begins in the very institutions whose duty
06:34it is to preserve our proud linguistic and cultural heritage.
06:39If we want to produce the next generation of great writers, we must use our education system to protect what
06:46is surely our greatest national export.
06:49The English language.
06:51Which, like any language, is so much more than a collection of words.
06:56It's a means of building bridges between people of different backgrounds, cultures, and generations.
07:05What do you think?
07:06Oh, I think it's brilliant.
07:09I mean, you could go further.
07:10Our language is like an endangered species that needs to be protected.
07:14It's a scandal the way we're letting it be slaughtered.
07:17Oh, I quite agree.
07:19I read it to my private secretary, so I might have gone too far.
07:22I suppose it might be better to leave the audience wanting more.
07:26Yes.
07:28I suppose one has to be aware of it in the room.
07:32Just feel one's way along with it, if you know what I mean.
07:36Mmm.
07:38You're awfully good at feeling your way along.
07:42Stop it.
07:46It's too dangerous.
07:48If we run this, we'd risk being responsible for breaking up a royal marriage.
07:55But, er, I don't want our friend crossing the street and selling it to anyone else, either.
08:03So pay him what he wants.
08:05Keep the tape, put it in the safe, and hope for another day.
08:13Be gone to sleep.
08:15Now I'm here.
08:21Night.
08:22Love you.
08:24Adore you.
08:27Night.
08:29Night.
08:30Night.
08:31Night.
08:41Night.
08:45Night.
10:10You are both resolved on this.
10:14No doubts, no hesitancy.
10:19This is really what you want.
10:47Very well.
11:05With permission, Madam Speaker, I wish to inform the House that Buckingham Palace is at this moment issuing this statement.
11:12It reads as follows.
11:13It is with regret that the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to separate.
11:18Their Royal Highnesses have no plans to divorce, and their constitutional positions are unaffected.
11:24We share the great sorrow which this announcement will cause, and ask the public to join us in praying that
11:33God will bring comfort and strength to the Prince and Princess.
11:37Nonetheless, the decision by the Prince and Princess of Wales to separate has been reached amicably.
11:41They will both continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children, and will continue to carry out full
11:49and separate programs of public engagement.
11:54The Queen and the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, though saddened, understand and sympathize with the difficulties that have
11:59led to this decision.
12:03That is the text of the announcement.
12:09I am sure that I speak for the whole House and millions beyond it in offering our support to both
12:16the Prince and Princess of Wales at this difficult time.
12:19I am sure that I am.
13:12When a vessel is in rough seas,
13:15it's sometimes necessary to alter her course.
13:20That's why we're all here today.
13:23Now, this particular expedition is the brainchild of the Lord Chamberlain.
13:28David, did you want to say a few words?
13:31Thank you, sir.
13:34I think we can all agree the last few years have been particularly challenging for the monarchy.
13:40The fire at Windsor Castle, the failure of several royal marriages,
13:47questions being raised as to the family's value for money, its relevance.
13:52It's all right. No need to go over it all again.
13:57And so, in consultation with Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
14:02we've decided to set up an informal council of war,
14:06a task force to safeguard the monarchy's survival in a rapidly changing world.
14:11And since the idea is to find new directions for a way forward...
14:17Ahead.
14:19Sir?
14:21Ahead, David. Way ahead.
14:27We would call it the Way Ahead Group.
14:31I suppose I should be grateful.
14:34I've been preaching the gospel of change for...
14:38I don't know how long, after 25 years, they finally agree.
14:42And what did they come up with?
14:43Are we ready for this?
14:45Allowing the public into the royal box of the Albert Hall from time to time.
14:48Mm. Radical.
14:50Making the requirement to bow or curtsy to some members of the royal family optional.
14:55Giving the royal air force central band a more enhanced role in the changing of the guard ceremony at the
15:01palace.
15:01And that's progressive because?
15:03They have some women members within their ranks.
15:05Vive la revolution!
15:07Quite.
15:08Meanwhile, nothing on constitutional reform.
15:10Nothing on the monarch being both head of state and supreme governor of the Church of England.
15:15How on earth to square that with a country that's supposed to be a modern democracy?
15:18I told them, you should be thinking of something much more radical.
15:22You talk of cost-cutting measures and reform of the civilists.
15:27I say, why not abolish it altogether?
15:29Have the monarchy fund itself.
15:32You talk about including more women in the pomp and pageantry,
15:35but why not something more far-reaching than that?
15:38Ending the bar on the eldest daughters inheriting the throne?
15:42The problem with the ideas that you've presented today is that they don't reflect a modern Britain.
15:47What it looks like, what it feels like, what its concerns are.
15:51Education, the threat to the environment, better opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
15:55Things I've been campaigning on for years.
15:58I'm afraid I did get rather carried away.
16:01I even dared bring up our great leader to her face.
16:05God.
16:06We all saw the unfortunate poll recently about Queen Victoria Syndrome
16:11and how many people find the crown remote and out of touch.
16:16You claim to want to refresh the monarchy.
16:19Well, what I'm proposing is precisely that.
16:21A new welfare monarchy that's less about mystery and magic and divine right,
16:29and more about our practical role in today's society.
16:33That was a different Charles today.
16:37Separation from Diana has liberated him, energised him.
16:42And what if being informed and in touch is what people want from their sovereign?
16:49Having controversial opinions and agitating politically is not what people want from their sovereign.
16:59I just think while we're setting up committees or task forces hoping to find ways forward,
17:07it might be useful to acknowledge that the solution we are looking for could be right under our noses.
17:41hey, lord.
17:43yes.
17:48Yep.
17:54Yep.
17:59Right.
18:20What's that?
18:24What's that?
18:44The recording was made by an amateur radio enthusiast.
18:48Having correctly identified your voices, he then sold it to the Daily Mirror.
18:54At the time, the newspaper decided not to go ahead with it
18:57because of the potential damage it might do to the royal marriage.
19:01But now that you and the Princess of Wales have officially separated,
19:04the newspaper feels at liberty to publish.
19:08And I think we must brace ourselves for the transcripts
19:12to be published in the UK in the coming days.
19:18How can they get away with this?
19:22It's a private conversation.
19:25Private matter between two adults.
19:27No one else's business.
19:29Unfortunately, sir, while the intentional interception of private phone calls is illegal,
19:34the amateur radio operator in this case claims to have stumbled upon the conversation by chance,
19:40which could be difficult to disapprove.
19:43Don't you remember the conversation?
19:47Have we discovered what was actually said?
19:51No details yet, but we're told it was intimate.
19:58Very intimate.
20:04What do you think?
20:05I think it's brilliant.
20:08I think you could go further.
20:11Our language is like an endangered species.
20:13It needs to be protected.
20:15It's a scandal the way we're letting it be slaughtered.
20:18Oh, I quite agree.
20:19I really might cry with the secretary.
20:21He thinks I might have gone too far.
20:24I suppose it might be better to leave the audience wanting more.
20:30Yes.
20:32I suppose one has to be aware of it in the room.
20:35Just feel one's way along with it.
20:38If you know what I mean.
20:42You're awfully good at feeling your way along.
20:44Stop it.
20:50Oh, God, I want to feel my way along you.
20:54All over you.
20:55Up and down you.
20:57In and out.
20:58Particularly in and out.
21:00Oh, that's just what I need at the moment.
21:03Is it?
21:05I know it would revive me.
21:08But I can't bear a Sunday night without you.
21:12God.
21:13It's like that program Start the Week.
21:16I can't start the week without you.
21:19I fill up your tank.
21:20Yes, you do.
21:22So you can cope.
21:23Then I'm all right.
21:26What about me?
21:30The trouble is I need you several times a week.
21:33So do I.
21:35I need you all the week.
21:38I need you all the time.
21:41Oh, darling, I just want you now.
21:45Do you?
21:47So do I.
21:48Desperately. Desperately.
21:50God, I wish I could just...
21:53...live inside your trousers or something so much easier.
21:57What are you going to turn into? A pair of knickers?
22:00Oh, God forbid. A Tampax is just my luck.
22:05A complete idiot.
22:08What a wonderful idea.
22:10My luck to get chucked down the lavatrians.
22:13Keep on going on and on forever.
22:15Swirling around on top, never going down.
22:17Oh, darling.
22:19Till the next one comes through.
22:21Perhaps you could just come back as a box.
22:24What sort of box?
22:26A box of Tampax.
22:28You could just keep going.
22:30That's true.
22:36Have you gone to sleep?
22:38No, I'm here.
22:41Will you ring me when you wake up?
22:44Fine night, my darling. I do love you.
22:48Love you, too.
22:52Don't want to say goodbye.
22:54Neither do I.
22:58But you must get some sleep.
23:03Bye, darling.
23:06Bye.
23:07Bye.
23:08Bye.
23:10Press the button.
23:12Going to press the tit.
23:14Darling, I wish you were pressing mine.
23:16Oh, God.
23:18So do I.
23:20Harder and harder.
23:22Oh, darling.
23:27Night.
23:30Night.
23:31Love you.
23:33I adore you.
23:37Night.
23:38Night.
24:14There's uproar in Britain over the publication of the so-called Camillagate tapes.
24:18The phone call allegedly between Prince Charles and a close female friend was taped three years ago.
24:23He will not come back from this. The tapes are filthy.
24:26It's raised doubts over whether the Prince of Wales could ever be king.
24:30Yet another royal scandal making headlines.
24:32Yet another bitter blow to a monarchy and crisis.
24:36Sally Hinkman, NBC News, London.
24:44Here, I bought you some weapons-grade entirely chemical cold medication.
24:52I know you're probably taking some sort of root or herb.
24:57Garlic, ginger, and elderberry.
24:59Hmm.
25:00Well, I thought I'd bring you something that actually works.
25:06Poor you.
25:11It's an assassination.
25:15Complete decimation of my character and everything I've worked so hard for.
25:22It's no secret, I think, over the years you've brought a great many of your problems upon yourself.
25:29But no one deserves this.
25:38It's the hypocrisy that gets me.
25:41It's as if none of these journalists have ever spoken to a lover over the phone.
25:44They've said embarrassing things.
25:47It was all a bit embarrassing, wasn't it?
25:50Hmm.
25:51It was a little gynecological in my taste.
25:57Well.
25:58I've also taken my head out of my hands and my fingers out of my throat.
26:02God.
26:03It was a surprising residue left.
26:07Of being touched by...
26:10Two teenagers of a certain age being...
26:13So gloriously human and...
26:17Entirely in love.
26:23For that alone you deserve some credit.
26:27In this family especially.
26:30You are sweet.
26:32Hmm.
26:34I doubt our dear Papa will see it that way.
26:45All right.
26:49I'll speak to you tomorrow.
26:52Whatever.
26:58If I weren't so ashamed I might confess of admiration of the sheer scale of your achievement.
27:04In one fell swoop you've succeeded in alienating the church over your moral fitness.
27:10The politicians over your conduct unbecoming.
27:13The House of Commons is in uproar.
27:15They're saying we've pressed the self-destruct button.
27:22Among your many entirely unjustified military honours...
27:27Is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Wales.
27:31I wonder if you might remind us of their motto.
27:39In English.
27:43Better death than dishonour.
27:45What's that? Speak up!
27:45Better death than dishonour.
27:49A sentiment on which you would do well to reflect.
28:01Are you still here?
28:20It's so painful.
28:23And so public.
28:26So unnecessary too.
28:29Everyone in HQ is frightened, my dear father included.
28:33they don't know how the world has changed everyone's just blaming everyone else
28:38that's no excuse for gratuitous sadistic exhibitionism sounds like playground bullying
28:46the way the sycophants all nodded grateful that his invective wasn't directed at them for once
28:56it leaves me no choice but
29:03to protect yourself to look after yourself
29:14yes
29:23historians will not be able to pinpoint a moment when the breakaway happened because nothing
29:27official has happened but a change is happening i ask if you look around you what do you see
29:32not old stuffy courtiers but young professional men and women of today the way ahead group or the
29:40lagging behind group as i like to call them was set up to prepare the monarchy for the coming millennium
29:45but it seems to me they hold some confusion as to which millennium we're actually in i think as a
29:51guiding principle if we're interested in saving the monarchy we should do the exact opposite of what
29:55the way head group recommends i think we all agree and polls certainly show that the monarchy is in
30:00a rut a dangerous run it's vital that people are given a reason to believe in and be excited about
30:06the future and if one asks oneself what the future of the monarchy is and the answer is
30:10it's you sir but right now the problem is no one knows you they don't know who you really are
30:16or what you think or feel i quite agree well what should we do about that well one thought that
30:24we
30:25had was that um perhaps a mature progressive open television special would be a way to go where the
30:33prince of wales is finally given the opportunity to freely air his voice alongside an expansive and
30:39wide-ranging interview we could grant cameras unprecedented access to a future king at work
30:46an intimate and authoritative profile of an enlightened thoughtful forward-thinking man who
30:53has been prince of wales for a quarter of a century and a chance for him to lay out his
30:58vision for a
30:58modern monarchy a modern britain who are you thinking of as the interviewer well there are a number of
31:06candidates but the the name we're most excited about is is jonathan dimbleby
31:12he's serious he's forthright he's independent-minded
31:19people will know that it's not puffery or chocolate box royalism with dimbleby
31:25there is an element of risk
31:29he's bound to ask about the marriage at some point
31:33but in our view there's there's a far greater prospect of reward
31:44that's what i'm going to say
31:46i'm going to say
31:47it's just you're set ready to go
31:49good right this is it thank you
31:53you're johnny
31:55how are you sir
31:56where do you want me
31:58what does he care
32:09Your Royal Highness, it's fair to say that in recent years the royal family has been
32:15plagued by a certain amount of adversity.
32:20Do you think, with all these setbacks to your family and to you personally, that the monarchy
32:26can still survive?
32:30Well, more than that, I hope it can flourish.
32:35But to do so, it needs to adapt.
32:38It's no secret that I'm open to the idea of reform.
32:42I think that we're at a make or break time for the monarchy and we need to be radical.
32:48But of course, there's only so much that I can do as Prince of Wales.
32:53As king, you will also find yourself at the head of an established church.
32:57In the past, you have shown an interest in other faiths.
33:00How does that sit with a future role as supreme governor of the Church of England, defender
33:06of the faith?
33:08Well, of course, I prefer to think of myself not as a defender of just one faith, the Church
33:13of England, but as a defender of faith in general.
33:18Why should the Church of England have a monopoly on the crown?
33:22What about the Jews and Catholics and Sikhs and Muslims and Hindus?
33:26Are they not its subjects as well?
33:28There is, of course, one question above all that burns in the public's mind and that relates
33:34to your marriage to the Princess of Wales.
33:37One of the most serious allegations concerning your marriage is that you were repeatedly unfaithful,
33:43and that your close association with Camilla Parker Bowles was a deciding factor in its
33:49collapse.
33:50How do you answer that?
33:55Mrs. Parker Bowles is a dear friend of mine, a wonderful friend that I'm jolly lucky to have.
34:04And even within a marriage, one must still nurture outside friendships.
34:10And Mrs. Parker Bowles is just one of a number of friends that I've been close to over the
34:18years.
34:20When you married your wife, you made a pledge before God to uphold your wedding vows.
34:27Did you at least try to be faithful from the start?
34:30Of course.
34:31And were you?
34:32Yes.
34:38Until...
34:45Until it became obvious that the marriage couldn't be saved, both of us having done our best.
34:59At which point I tried to do my duty.
35:07But there was, uh... there was nothing to be done.
35:15So, yes, uh...
35:20Old friendships were rekindled.
35:26You've been very forthright in your response, very honest.
35:30Is it your hope that this issue will now go away?
35:36Well, I'd certainly prefer it.
35:40It typically stems, I think, from when we in the monarchy set ourselves up as a sort of ideal, as
35:49husbands, or as wives, or as parents.
35:54And very often the truth is very far from that.
35:57The question people have to ask themselves is what do they want in their leaders?
36:03Do they want someone who errs, but who learns from their mistakes, who grows, who...
36:09Who recognizes the need for change, who has a vision, or someone who is content to continue making the same
36:19mistakes and to keep things as they are?
36:25Really, I think that's the clear choice that, uh, that people are faced with.
36:32This desire for progression extends to many aspects of your work as Prince of Wales.
36:43Prince Charles bared his soul to the nation last night in a television documentary designed to showcase his work as
36:49Prince of Wales.
36:50And he appeared to have no regrets as he greeted onlookers today during his first public appearance since the programme
36:57aired.
37:00His aides were letting it be known they'd been delighted with the response to his controversial television profile.
37:06Palace officials said they'd been deluged with calls of support.
37:10The programme contained a number of intimate revelations, including the Prince's close friendship with Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles.
37:18The admission divided viewers between those who felt it was a refreshing attempt to clear the air,
37:23and those who felt the Prince had made an error of judgment.
37:27There was no comment from Kensington Palace, but the Princess of Wales upstaged her husband by attending the Serpentine Gallery's
37:35annual summer party this evening,
37:37putting on a defiant display in what many are already calling her revenge dress.
37:50The Prince and Princess remain focused on their public roles, but there is little doubt that the War of the
37:58Waleses has entered a new and more volatile phase.
38:05The Prince said that a District of Wales comes it seems good to be known as the Prince.
38:12Camilla, a Traunée workforce將 стала a cult of continual evidence.
38:23danach in which the Prince's Republic has NOTUPED UNFORTUNATE will be thrown by the sum of its 21sts and later
38:27research,
38:28the Prince's Labour Project calls the Prince's campaign to possesses'interested muito cohesion.
38:48Reaction to the interview is divided
38:51between those that feel the prince has shown himself unfit to be king
38:55and should have had the good grace to stay silent
38:58and those that have been pleasantly surprised by what they saw and heard.
39:10Interestingly, it was his desire to be defender of faith in general
39:15to Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Sikhs, Hindus,
39:21rather than defender of the faith that has won most favor.
39:26His words having undeniably connected with whole constituencies
39:31that are traditionally left unreached by the monarchs.
39:35It is not a monarch's role to campaign or chase constituencies like a politician
39:39because the crown itself is a unifying symbol.
39:42It binds together a kingdom of four nations
39:46and a worldwide multiracial commonwealth, symbolically.
39:52Charles is frustrated
39:54because the crown has many of the functions of an inanimate object.
39:59He prefers to be animate.
40:01But there's a danger in that.
40:04One can end up undoing more than doing.
40:11Is he not eating?
40:33no you don't have an appetite i'm so surprised you do why it's delicious
40:43what's all this i hear about a book
40:47the idea is to do a book following on from the interview taking some of the points further why
40:56because a lot of the really important things i wanted to say about education and environment
41:00and architecture got drowned out by all the hoo-ha about adultery also people are interested
41:09maybe you're not as interested as you think maybe more interested than you think
41:15my post bag is anything to go by
41:26in the 18th century it was considered perfectly normal for the prince of wales to set up shop
41:30at leicester house to generate fresh ideas shadow monarchy lessons a rival court but this is not
41:38the 18th century and creating rival courts is not what we do in this family we close ranks behind
41:47the sovereign not to criticize her
41:51we're all after the same thing ann
42:00are you sure you won't have some of this asparagus it's fresh from the garden
42:22good night
42:23good night
42:35good night
43:01good night
43:04for years i've doubted charles
43:05The opposite. He might be as mad as everyone thinks, but he's not as weak as everyone thinks.
43:15Charles I saw today was strong, confident, mature.
43:23Not only does he have what it takes for the job, in some ways he's already begun.
43:28What do you mean?
43:30For the past year, possibly more.
43:34Charles has been slowly but surely setting up his own court at St. James's.
43:40His own Camelot. His own advisors. His own modern, progressive agenda.
43:51He knows one day he will be King Charles III.
43:55And if we want to know what that will look and feel like,
44:00well, he's starting to show us.
44:17The whole point of the Prince's Trust is to equip young people like you with the skills and the confidence
44:25to fulfill your dreams and ambitions.
44:30Now you may think that someone of my age and background wouldn't understand young people in your communities,
44:36and the unfair judgment of society that you sometimes face.
44:42Well, as it happens, I do understand a little bit about what it is to be criticized and judged.
44:51And I also know that those judgments are mostly not true.
44:57That people out there have no idea who I really am.
45:02How about you?
45:04I'm sure that each of you has something within you.
45:10An unacknowledged greatness.
45:13A talent that deserves to be recognized.
45:18And that's what the Prince's Trust is all about.
45:21To give you the confidence to believe in your ideas.
45:25And the money to bring them to fruition.
45:29I want to reach those that have been overlooked, rejected.
45:35To make sure that you've been given a chance.
45:40Because it's only when we risk reaching too far
45:44that we find out how far it's possible to go.
48:03And peep the technique.
49:51You're welcome.
49:54You
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