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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.
00:01:28I don't know.
00:01:29No, I don't know.
00:01:33It's all right, man.
00:01:35It's all too rough, man.
00:01:38You're all too rough, man.
00:01:53You're always looking at it.
00:01:54Good one, sir.
00:01:57Good one.
00:01:57Good one, now.
00:01:59That's it.
00:02:00That's it.
00:02:01Not alting him?
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really?
00:02:53Well, I shall certainly let Her Majesty know.
00:03:04Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
00:03:07Wait for no man, Private Secretary.
00:03:09Good afternoon to you.
00:03:11Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altingham 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.
00:03:43By whom?
00:03:44Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
00:03:46I'm afraid we don't have those details yet, ma'am.
00:03:49The incident occurred outside the television studios.
00:03:54And the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:58where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:03Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:07Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The independent television network studios, ma'am,
00:04:13where Altingham 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.
00:04:51Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:55This is Impact.
00:04:58A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which will 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 Altingham.
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 Altingham 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?
00:06:26Hello Altingham a simple question...
00:06:59National and English Review, two shillings.
00:07:03National and English Review, two shillings.
00:07:06National and English Review, two shillings.
00:07:10National and English Review, two shillings.
00:07:14It's far too long. People are beginning to notice.
00:07:17And that is why the...
00:07:22And that is why the ending of doctrinal tests
00:07:25and the introduction of women priests
00:07:26is the only viable solution for saving the Church of England.
00:07:30An institution that is becoming increasingly outdated
00:07:33and irrelevant hour by hour.
00:07:35Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:37Hello, Patricia.
00:07:39Would anyone like some toffee?
00:07:41Bring it over here, Patricia darling.
00:07:49Oh, divine.
00:07:51Much like Patricia herself.
00:07:53Come, come, my dear.
00:07:54Be seated.
00:07:58Right.
00:07:59If no-one's keen on the Church story, I can knock something up.
00:08:03Now, a piece on reforming the House of Laws.
00:08:06Dermot.
00:08:07You were going to look at that for me, weren't you?
00:08:08Something nutty about it?
00:08:10Mmm.
00:08:11Molasses.
00:08:12And Europe.
00:08:13We need to work out our official stance.
00:08:15Are we for or against a single European market?
00:08:22Are we in or out?
00:08:25Toffee, John.
00:08:27Oh, you must try some, John.
00:08:29Afraid I have a thing against toffee.
00:08:34Why didn't I know that?
00:08:36Right.
00:08:37You can't know everything about me.
00:08:42It's not the taste I object to so much.
00:08:45I just have painful memories.
00:08:49As a child.
00:08:51Or as sitting in a dentist's chair because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:08:58Oh.
00:09:01Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:05Right.
00:09:07I have a...
00:09:09Perhaps you don't understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand
00:09:16the fatigue of dull, repetitive work.
00:09:20And your great courage in meeting
00:09:22constant, small adversities
00:09:26depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity
00:09:30of the community
00:09:32as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history
00:09:41is due in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average men and women.
00:09:50Um...
00:09:53Working men and women?
00:09:57Has a touch more dignity?
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22I think that you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in a week's time.
00:10:30I don't mind telling you, I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:46It's...
00:10:49Yeah?
00:10:51Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Pardon.
00:11:04You were about to interfere beyond your station.
00:11:09It's...
00:11:10It's concerning the speech the Queen is due to give next week.
00:11:13The Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:17I was just...
00:11:19Wondering 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
00:11:29for the approval which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:34She didn't need to.
00:11:36She merely asked.
00:11:38If I was happy, I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was good enough
00:11:44for Her Majesty.
00:11:45But I can see that the really important question is...
00:11:51Is it good enough for Colonel Chauterys?
00:11:55You don't think it...
00:11:58strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:03In its...
00:12:05paternalism.
00:12:08May I?
00:12:09I am.
00:12:11You?
00:12:12I suppose if I...
00:12:15had a concern...
00:12:18it would be that post-Suez...
00:12:20in this new climate...
00:12:23in this new Britain...
00:12:26the tone of the speech is...
00:12:30somewhat...
00:12:31somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39Then would leave her open to attack.
00:12:42From whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive
00:12:50or liberal disposition had warned needlessly
00:12:53of a popular attack against the Crown,
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people adore their sovereign.
00:12:59It is what constitutes...
00:13:01indeed defines being British.
00:13:04Now, the worst I've ever encountered is apathy...
00:13:07where people simply accept the king or queen...
00:13:10as they accept the sky above their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way from apathy to insurrection.
00:13:16Now, as regards the newspapers,
00:13:18the Crown can count on their support for two reasons.
00:13:21First, there is nothing to attack.
00:13:24That's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power, so there's nothing to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to, they'd always let us know first.
00:13:34The palace would then threaten them with a boycott
00:13:35on the next major royal event,
00:13:38causing the newspapers immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people you fear will hate the queen
00:13:45and the same ones who buy copies in their millions.
00:13:49Why?
00:13:50Because they love her.
00:13:55So I'm worrying unnecessarily.
00:13:58Martin,
00:13:59I shall leave the drawing of that inescapable conclusion to you.
00:14:22I'm going to take it in a little shorter, ma'am, and rounder it back.
00:14:26Lovely.
00:14:34Totally.
00:14:46Lovely.
00:14:50Very、 exactly.
00:14:51And I will be watching me,
00:14:55and we let you all record you a passage.
00:15:17I like it very much.
00:15:30Oh.
00:15:44I thought you were hoping for more children from me.
00:15:49I am.
00:15:52Why on earth would you do something like that to your hair?
00:15:55What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidying. Sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins?
00:16:05Apparently it's very anemone.
00:16:07All the regimental wives are wearing their hair like this now.
00:16:10Really?
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:11It's certainly very practical.
00:16:14And should you ever feel compelled to ride a motorcycle, it could almost double as a helmet.
00:16:20Well, I like it.
00:16:24I have nothing against it, Pastor.
00:16:27Stop it.
00:16:28She won't provide ample protection against any falling masonry.
00:16:37But if enlarging the family and enticing your husband to procreate is the goal...
00:16:43It is.
00:16:44Then you might take a look at Jane Mansfield.
00:16:48Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:51Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:53Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23Elliot.
00:17:24It's very, very, um, spacious.
00:17:27Is this our research and development area?
00:17:29No, no at all.
00:17:30No.
00:17:30May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes?
00:17:36You studied drawing, did you?
00:17:38Very good, teacher.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's lovely.
00:17:47With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing, I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Yes.
00:17:55Is it horse or cow?
00:17:58Hello.
00:18:10I wish first to express to you my very great pleasure at being here today.
00:18:18My husband and I have been most profoundly moved by your hospitable welcome and would like
00:18:25you to know how very grateful we are to you all for the work that you do.
00:18:32We understand that in the turbulence of this anxious and active world, many of you are leading uneventful lonely lives,
00:18:43where dreariness is the enemy.
00:18:48Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work depend in
00:19:00great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:19:07The upward course of a nation's history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its
00:19:15average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems most monotonous,
00:19:26what you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow.
00:19:34Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:36Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:39Come on, everybody, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Hello, Doordshire.
00:19:44Evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
00:19:48Evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing.
00:19:57Oh, 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.
00:20:12I'll find someone else.
00:20:13No, no, it's no trouble.
00:20:15I had nothing else planned.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:20:57Never mind...
00:20:57I'll find her in thekk.
00:21:15No worries.
00:21:16Well, that's fun.
00:25:28I see.
00:26:58I've heard of him.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting
00:28:22Inviting me to record an interview this afternoon.
00:28:25Which programme?
00:28:26Impact. With Robin Day.
00:28:31I wish it weren't Day.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day. It'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.
00:28:50Ironically, 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, tears them to shreds.
00:29:01Yes, but keep your cool under his scrutiny.
00:29:05Make your case politely, respectfully, intelligently.
00:29:10It could turn people around.
00:29:23Thank you very much.
00:29:31Lord Altrium, how do you do?
00:29:33How do you do?
00:29:33Shall we?
00:29:34Yes, this way.
00:29:35Thank you for coming.
00:29:36Not at all. How long do we have until we start?
00:29:39Well, we'll put them to make up quickly.
00:29:43Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Let myself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:51OK.
00:29:53All good.
00:29:54All good?
00:29:55All good.
00:29:59He's standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:01He's ready.
00:30:05Let's make a start.
00:30:13We can tell them how all this works.
00:30:15Recording now, transmission tonight.
00:30:17All right?
00:30:18Yes.
00:30:215, 4, 3...
00:30:25Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:30:29probably needs no introduction, Lord Altrincham.
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 Altrincham a simple question.
00:30:50She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired around the world,
00:30:54so why do you hate her so very much?
00:30:57I... I don't.
00:30:59Then why criticise her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticises art.
00:31:06I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:12Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully says,
00:31:30ebb and flow by the moon.
00:31:32But when working at its best, monarchy can rise above such matters and unify a society.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of 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.
00:31:55Judging from your article, you'd like the Queen to have the qualities of a... of a wit.
00:31:59You'd like her to be a better orator, a TV personality, in addition to being a diligent, dutiful and devoted
00:32:07monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances, she should be more, uh, 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 in 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 is not an easy job, or a
00:32:40simple one, if you'll forgive me.
00:32:41It's, uh, it'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.
00:33:02And 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?
00:33:13Yes. Because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants.
00:33:18She hires them. She alone can fire them.
00:33:21Now, they may be bad. I believe some of them at the moment are. They're quite dreadful.
00:33:26But it is her responsibility. It'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.
00:33:56Now, I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until recently, monarchies were the
00:34:02rule, and republics the exception.
00:34:04But today, republics are the rule, and monarchies very much the exception.
00:34:14Lord 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.
00:34:34Thank you again, Lord Altringham.
00:34:35Good afternoon. Thank you.
00:34:36Good day.
00:34:45I was using this carrier in real life, and I, er...
00:34:48Lord Altringham.
00:34:50Yes.
00:34:52You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:02Well done.
00:35:03Last and white?
00:35:04Well done.
00:35:05Something stronger.
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:14Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:16Be calm.
00:35:18Man of the hour, really.
00:35:21Man of the hour, really.
00:35:31Your Majesty.
00:35:32Yes, what is it, Michael?
00:35:35There have been some reactions in the newspapers to last night's television interviews.
00:35:40And to the assault upon Lord Altringham, and I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:51Um, well, the man that struck Altringham, it turns out, is a member of the extreme right League of Empire
00:35:59Loyalists,
00:36:00which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the empire, and has a clear doctrine of English
00:36:09racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh dear.
00:36:11And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altringham 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 this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altringham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:48Um, in addition, and this I believe reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone calls that he
00:36:56has been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister suggested that he come up a week earlier than planned in order to discuss it all with
00:37:06you in person.
00:37:08Goodness.
00:37:09A constitutional crisis.
00:37:13Well, I hope you're going to apologise to Mr Macmillan too.
00:37:16No.
00:37:17You're not going to deny that this hell mess springs from a badly written speech which I gave unquestioningly because
00:37:22I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altringham is right. Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the
00:37:30real world.
00:37:33Keep going.
00:37:36Keep going.
00:37:39Keep going.
00:37:51Keep going.
00:38:01and you believe it's now a government measure I do ambassadors from all around the world
00:38:08have been calling me concerned her majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries
00:38:16have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years
00:38:22Egypt Bulgaria Italy Tunisia only last month of course we're not at that point not at a red light
00:38:31we're not even at an amber but we'd hate it to become amber
00:38:38and so it is my view the government's view that it would be wise to contain this as soon as
00:38:44possible
00:38:44and do what the obvious thing altering them is a fire which needs to be put out
00:38:55go at you
00:39:02go at you
00:39:19go at you
00:39:29palace is offered up a chap called Charteress
00:39:33to meet
00:39:35I looked him up
00:39:36he used to be her principal private secretary
00:39:40oh there you are
00:39:42before the king died
00:39:45when she was princess
00:39:48and now
00:39:50he's assistant private secretary
00:39:54so not quite a pawn but certainly not a bishop or knight either
00:39:59go
00:40:01go in order to be fobbed off
00:40:03go 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
00:40:09go
00:40:11all right
00:40:13and take a list of suggestions
00:40:16recommendations
00:40:18don't go empty handed
00:40:26not yet
00:40:27john
00:40:28your tooth
00:40:29john
00:40:30sorry
00:40:32go in the face
00:40:44i think i took pretty much away
00:41:02was
00:41:02definitely not going to happen
00:41:02that happened
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Broad or Tringham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man, in one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Altrincham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:58What would that be?
00:43:05Your Majesty.
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
00:43:15Oh.
00:43:16Which 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?
00:43:54Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:01Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
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.
00:45:00But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage to return
00:45:05fire 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.
00:45:58Recommendations of things to change.
00:45:59But 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.
00:46:17Very 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 and somehow not acceptable,
00:46:35this is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation,
00:46:40certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
00:46:49Uh, allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles.
00:46:58Why?
00:47:00The Sovereign is head of the Church of England, and the Church does not recognise divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:17Uh, I 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.
00:48:12Become more transparent.
00:48:14Accessible.
00:48:17And finally...
00:48:19Spend time with normal people.
00:48:23Not just courtiers or the great and the good, but 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?
00:48:59No, not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:34Your Majesty.
00:49:45Who matters?
00:50:00And it's a fine Ora.
00:50:03Please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room,
00:50:20She was gone.
00:50:24Vanished 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,
00:50:32and 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?
00:51:00Let'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 pig.
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 make-up.
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 make-up.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way, please, Mum.
00:52:09There's a sign.
00:52:14I'll check for you.
00:52:15Everyone on standby.
00:52:16This is a song from here.
00:52:36Matt.
00:52:48Matt.
00:53:215, 4, 3.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:40Today is another landmark.
00:53:43Because television has made it possible for many of you to see me in your homes on Christmas
00:53:49Day.
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, someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and
00:54:25films, but who never really touches your personal 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.
00:55:20I would like to read a few lines from Pilgrim's Progress.
00:55:22That shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him 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,
00:55:42who 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.
00:56:14And we're off air.
00:56:27And we're off air.
00:56:30Congratulations.
00:57:13Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, hello.
00:57:15My, 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, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb.
00:57:32No, that's not quite right.
00:57:35Um...
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:37Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about 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 for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03Just 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?
00:58:30I 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.
00:59:00Democratise us.
00:59:03And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away, bit by bit, piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority, our absolutism, our divine rights.
00:59:30The history of the monarchy in this country is a one-way street of humiliation.
00:59:34Sacrifices 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.
01:00:08Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13I told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses, so if you get a dud, don't
01:00:18worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:29I can't.
01:00:31I can't.
01:00:33I can't.
01:00:34I can't.
01:00:35I can't.
01:00:36I can't.
01:00:37I can't.
01:00:43I can't.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Ah, yes, that was a good job.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello there.
01:00:50Thank you all for coming.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hamlet.
01:00:53Oh, I played so much round to you.
01:00:55Thank you so much round.
01:00:56You look absolutely right.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What are you telling the truth, huh?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:01Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denrack.
01:01:04Hello, hello there.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you with us.
01:01:07Oh, here he comes.
01:01:08Go, go, go.幾
01:01:09darn good. Here
01:01:09you see. Oh,
01:01:12here he comes. Another important
01:01:20time. This time
01:01:24is coming. This time
01:01:25is coming. Here we
01:01:26miss you. Sort of
01:01:30fun. This time's
01:01:33coming up we'll see h минakh acid. You won't
01:01:35make me. Heлатrack
01:01:35fact that we'd be azed to use today. So it scuted
01:01:36them too already. Which is your double
01:01:36hint.
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