00:07Now, Anne, what's this?
00:09A penguin.
00:10Very good.
00:11And Charles, who do you suppose is surrounded by penguins at the moment?
00:15Daddy.
00:15Yes, that's right.
00:17That's because he's in the Antarctic.
00:18And from there, he goes to the South Shetland Islands,
00:21and then he goes on to the Falkland Islands,
00:24and then goes all the way up here to Ascension Island.
00:28Now, all these are British overseas territories,
00:30and they have to be visited every once in a while,
00:32so they don't feel neglected or forgotten.
00:34They don't get any silly ideas like becoming independent.
00:37Right, you brush your teeth?
00:38Yes.
00:39Good.
00:39Have you said your prayers?
00:40Yes.
00:40Dolly good.
00:41Right.
00:41Night-night.
00:42Night-night, Mummy.
00:45Oh, we might put a picture of the Duke of Edinburgh by the children's bed,
00:49so they recognise him when he gets back.
00:51Five months is a long time at that age.
00:58Oh, what's that?
01:00From his Royal Highness, ma'am.
01:02Footage from the Royal Tour.
01:04How nice.
01:07We might watch that instead of our next film.
01:14Oh, what's that?
01:51Hansen 3-7-4-2
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35:38in the West End apartment of a society photographer, Baron Nahum.
35:43Nahum is also president of the Thursday Club in Soho,
35:48of which the Duke of Edinburgh is a founder member.
35:51Anyway, that story has rather lit the touch paper.
35:55The British press has caught on, with the Manchester Guardian reporting,
35:59not since the first rumours of a romance
36:02between the former King Edward VIII and Mrs. Ernest Simpson
36:06have Americans gobbled up the London dispatches so avidly.
36:12Go on.
36:13The Sunday Pictorial on its front page reminds its readers
36:18that the royal family is loved and envied throughout the world
36:21because it is a family.
36:24Time magazine has a headline, Too Much Thursday-ing.
36:27It goes on to say,
36:29Not since Wallis Simpson stalked the corridors of Buckingham Palace
36:33unless have the eyes of the world been turned so beadily
36:36towards those chintz drapes.
36:53I say we fly the Duke of Edinburgh back straight away.
36:57That's one thought, Your Majesty, and it's a good one.
37:00The Devil's Advocate might argue,
37:03and I'd be interested to hear Michael's thoughts on this,
37:07that the Duke's early return,
37:09obviously stage-managed by the palace,
37:12might appear too much of a concession to the newspapers
37:15and pour even more petrol on the flames.
37:20I would agree.
37:22And we don't want that.
37:25No.
37:33So what, then?
37:43What?
37:49Yes?
37:52The Admiral would like a woe, sir.
37:55It's fine.
37:56Tell him he can come.
37:58As a matter of fact,
37:59he suggested you go to see him, sir.
38:30Come on.
38:39Admiral.
38:41Could you come in?
38:43Come on.
38:45Buckingham Palace has been in touch
38:47regarding your reunion photo call
38:49with Her Majesty the Queen.
38:51With you, not me.
38:53I'm in command of this ship.
38:56I am her husband.
38:58It's been agreed that Her Majesty will fly out to Lisbon
39:00a day ahead of schedule.
39:03As I see it, your instructions...
39:04Instructions?
39:06... are to meet her at the airfield.
39:07You've been quite specific
39:08for how the reunion is to be managed.
39:21Thank you, sir.
39:42Thank you, sir.
39:44I am.
39:44I am with you.
39:44I am with you.
40:06Hi.
40:11not that one one that's fit for an adult those were the instructions for god's sake it has hearts
40:17on it and the hat too yes sir i hate hats i believe its value on this occasion is not
40:26in
40:26it's being worn but in it's being removed ah in a gesture of chivalry and deferredness before i
40:33enter the aircraft before you reach the stairs of the aircraft
41:00michael you want a hat
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44:14so I
44:17thought we might take this opportunity
44:20Don
44:20don
44:21don
44:23distraction
44:25to lay our cards on the table
44:29and talk frankly
44:30for once
44:33about what needs to change
44:35to make this marriage work.
44:37All right.
44:38Who goes first?
44:40Stupid question.
44:41I've learned one thing by now,
44:42it's that I go second.
44:45If I am to go first,
44:47that's where I'd start.
44:52You're complaining.
44:53My complaining?
44:54It's incessant.
44:55Whining and whinging like a child.
44:57Are you surprised?
44:59The way those god-awful moustaches
45:00that run the palace
45:01continue to infantilize me.
45:03Perhaps if you weren't behaving
45:03like an infant.
45:04Giving me lists,
45:05sending me instructions,
45:06do this, don't do that,
45:07wear this, don't wear that,
45:08say this, don't say that.
45:09Can you imagine anything
45:10more humiliating?
45:11Yes.
45:12As a matter of fact, I can.
45:16I've learned more about humiliation
45:18in the past few weeks
45:19than I hoped I would in a lifetime.
45:28I've never felt more alone
45:30than I have in the past five months.
45:33And why do you think that was?
45:36Because of your behavior.
45:38Because you sent me away.
45:40Yes, and why do you think that was?
45:41I don't know.
45:42You tell me.
45:43Because you're lost.
45:45You're lost in your role
45:46and you're lost in yourself.
45:48Oh, Christ.
45:54Look, I realize
45:56that this marriage has turned out
45:58to be something quite different
45:59to what we both imagined.
46:00Understatement.
46:01And that we both find ourselves
46:03in a...
46:05Prison.
46:09In a situation
46:11that is unique.
46:15Our marriage is different
46:16to any other in the country
46:17because the exit route
46:19which is open to everyone else...
46:21Divorce?
46:22Yes.
46:23Divorce.
46:26It's not an option for us.
46:31Ever.
46:56This restlessness of yours,
46:57it has to be a thing of the past.
47:02It's what I need.
47:05And it's what our family needs.
47:10The monarchy's too fragile.
47:11You keep telling me yourself
47:13one more scandal,
47:15one more national embarrassment
47:16and it would all be over.
47:25So what would make it easier on you?
47:28To be in,
47:30not out.
47:35What will it take?
47:40You're asking my price.
47:45I'm asking
47:47what it will take.
48:02All right.
48:05To make it work.
48:08To make it bearable.
48:11I'll need the respect
48:12and acknowledgement
48:13of the dreaded moustaches.
48:15Please stop calling them that.
48:17I'll stop calling them that
48:18when they don't all have one.
48:20An end
48:21to their snobbery
48:22and prejudice.
48:22No more being sniffed at
48:23for being a foreigner
48:24with a background.
48:25Nobody understands.
48:26Will you earn their respect
48:27with your behaviour?
48:28No.
48:29No.
48:30I will earn their respect
48:31with the only thing
48:32those creatures understand.
48:34A gesture,
48:35a statement,
48:36something irrefutable
48:36that shuts them up
48:37and commands their respect.
48:39Right now,
48:39I am currently outranked
48:41by my eight-year-old son.
48:42Yes, of course.
48:43He's the heir to the throne.
48:54I am his father, Elizabeth.
49:05Her Majesty the Queen
49:06has been pleased
49:08by letters patent
49:10under the great seal
49:11of the realm
49:12bearing the date
49:14the 22nd of February,
49:161957
49:17to give and to grant
49:20under His Royal Highness
49:22the Duke of Edinburgh
49:23the style
49:25and titular dignity
49:27of a prince
49:29of the United Kingdom
49:31of Great Britain
49:31and more than other.
49:36The Duke of Edinburgh
49:38shall henceforth
49:40be known
49:40as His Royal Highness
49:42the Prince Philip
49:44Duke of Edinburgh.
49:46Looking up for the source
52:38Michael.
52:40Do you have a moment?
52:42Of course.
52:43No.
52:47Get ready for that.
53:42Do you think you are royalty?
53:46Here you are.
54:00they never meet what will you do now go back to the Navy going back home Navy is
54:11home I'm either home Australia can I come I don't want everything was all
54:22sorted you're well as sorted as it can be when you sell yourself
54:37she wants more children I told the last thing the world needs is more romance
54:43to feed she said you should think of it as a second act what a Greek tragedy of her
54:50life as a mother that makes sense from her perspective Charles isn't a child to her is
54:59easy there's also the crown a living embodiment of who will replace her supersede her loving a child
55:10who through no fault of his own represents your own death can't be easy no because she
55:16is a little cold with him she tries her best a couple of kids that are just kids not mortal
55:26threats
55:28who she can actually love
55:35it's the airport driver
55:42what would I do without you I'm always at the end of a telephone
55:46that's it then end of an era
55:54thank you for that era thank you for that era no no Mike thank you sir Philip
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