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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.
02:12Let me speak to them tomorrow.
02:15It's all right.
02:19Good.
02:48To
03:07Oh
03:12Your 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
03:25On what is essentially a private trip
03:27And for flying this way commercially
03:29Oh, 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
03:36Ah, San Francisco, then Los Angeles
03:39Then five days with the Douglases in Arizona
03:42Oh, lovely
03:43Then on to New York
03:44Where Tony is promoting his book
03:47You've written a book?
03:49Ah, a book of my photographs
03:50Oh, you are clever
03:52You must make time to really relax, too
03:55We will
03:56Be good to one another
03:58Kind to one another
04:01Both of you
04:06Sad she felt the need to say that
04:08What?
04:09Be good to one another
04:10Kind to one another
04:11Eight of you
04:13I was a little clumsy
04:17But she means well
04:19Two of us
04:21Are complicated
04:24She and I are complicated
04:27It's true
04:29Elder sister, younger sister
04:32Number one and number two
04:33Who's number one?
04:37You, of course
04:39A natural number one
04:41Whose 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 our battle
04:57Welcome aboard this BAC flight to San Francisco
05:00Please take your seats and relax
05:02We're now ready for departure
05:04And we'll be taxiing shortly
05:06We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a very pleasant flight
05:10Anything ever Hass republic our way to go out there
05:14To be sires today
05:14What did you say?こんにちは
05:24You
05:24are amazing And
05:29ahead of me As a
05:29bit For recipes Here
05:29be
05:32Once already Come
05:33on You
05:34I don't
05:34wait I nee You
05:36have to
05:38wait You have to
07:34It's just provocative.
07:37Unhelpful.
07:38President 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.
07:57Will you talk to him?
08:01No, screw the Brits.
08:03I don't like them.
08:03I never liked them.
08:05They're not looking down at you through their noses.
08:06They're holding their hands out like beggars.
08:08And I don't give a crap about any special relationship.
08:11Harold Wilson wants my help.
08:12He should have thought about that when he refused to support me over Vietnam.
08:15You can't screw a man in the ass and then expect him to buy you flowers.
08:23The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
08:26Your Majesty.
08:27Prime Minister.
08:41I'm sure that it did not escape your attention that President Johnson failed to attend Swinston's funeral.
08:47Yes, on account of a cold.
08:50Well, that was the explanation the White House gave, but it persuaded no one.
08:54Now, I fear that the President may have taken against me for what he sees as my failure to support
09:02him over Vietnam.
09:04And I wondered.
09:09In the past, the Royal Family has been extremely helpful
09:14in keeping this special relationship afloat.
09:20And given the predicament the 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 of her older sister.
10:00Quite right.
10:02To those accustomed to the formality of traditional royal visits,
10:07meeting Princess Margaret has been like going from a black and white film to 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, is that whatever we offer President Johnson,
10:23it must exceed whatever we gave the Kennedys.
10:26When you're shot!
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 between Britain and America?
10:36Well, my sister isn't on the backboards here.
10:39What are you most looking forward to in America?
10:44Liberty.
10:44But when you're crying, you'll get all the way.
10:51So stop your silence.
10:54Be happy again.
10:57Keep on smiling.
10:59Because when you're smiling,
11:02the whole world starts with you.
11:07You're smiling, darling.
11:09What news of Princess Margaret?
11:11Well, after three days in San Francisco,
11:13Her Royal Highness has safely arrived in Los Angeles.
11:16Any disasters I should be aware of?
11:18No, on the contrary, the trip seems to have been a great success.
11:22Really?
11:23Yes, rave reviews, all the newspapers.
11:26With even a name having been coined for the multitude of fans and 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 in Her Royal Highness's intelligence and articulacy,
11:43her beauty and charm.
11:44With one newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle,
11:47even going so far as to say...
11:48It's all right. Thank you, Martin.
11:49Yes, ma'am.
11:50I'm a queen, not a saint.
11:51That's it. Try not to smile.
11:58Can I...
12:10I gave it.
12:12Not once, not twice, but three times, and you ignored it.
12:15What?
12:16That signal.
12:17Our signal that I wanted to leave.
12:19I didn't see it.
12:21You know, as well as I,
12:22that if you are the guest of honour,
12:25you cannot just leave.
12:28In the course of our marriage,
12:29I have lost count of the number of times
12:31you've walked out as 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 are ugly and dull.
12:43These people were musing.
12:46They're attractive.
12:48And they made me feel good.
12:51No, no, no, no.
12:51The alcohol made you feel good.
12:54And blunted your judgment to the sycophancy
12:58of the people surrounding you.
12:59Is that right?
13:01Yes.
13:02Keys.
13:03Well, sadly,
13:04it's not blunted my judgment
13:06to your mean-spiritedness
13:10and jealousy
13:11and general pusenalaminity.
13:15Pusenalamin...
13:17Small-mindedness.
13:20I don't recognise this.
13:24Hm.
13:25Come to think of it.
13:26I don't recognise you.
13:30Actually...
13:31...nor did anyone else.
13:34I mean,
13:35if we're honest.
13:39Isn't that the real problem here?
13:41Hm?
13:44Oh, I'm sorry.
13:47And you are...
13:49Tony who?
13:50Oh, yeah.
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 a second fiddle.
14:08I get so little,
14:09limelight.
14:12No, it's the price I pay
14:14for the sister I have.
14:16But if the opportunity
14:17should 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 a back seat
14:54and be the adoring
14:55and supportive
14:56number two
14:57you want me to be.
15:01and nothing
15:01will make me happier.
15:15Now, you can tell me
15:16all you want
15:1650,000.
15:18Hell, 100,000 more
15:19boots on the ground
15:19are gonna resolve this.
15:21But I put
15:22100,000 more men
15:23in there,
15:23who's to say
15:24that Ho Chi Minh
15:24isn't gonna put
15:25100,000 more?
15:26A man can't fight
15:28if he can't see
15:29daylight at the end
15:30of the road.
15:31I want to see
15:32solutions, gentlemen,
15:33solutions,
15:34not more numbers.
15:37By God,
15:38I will not be
15:39the first American
15:39president to lose
15:40a goddamn war.
15:44That'll be all
15:45in the third time.
15:58What is this?
16:00A peace offering
16:01from the Brits.
16:03Open to secure
16:03the bailout.
16:06The weekend shooting
16:08at Balmoral?
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 gotten 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
17:13and 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
17:28Hearing 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?
17:57Yes.
17:58Probably not
17:58what Downing 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.
18:47Oh, well, that's something.
19:01Tony.
19:02Tony.
19:03Brace yourselves.
19:05Come along, darling.
19:11Your royal.
19:13Your royal heinous.
19:13No blinking.
19:14No kissing.
19:15Jabs.
19:17This is exhausting.
19:22Oh, I look hideous.
19:25No.
19:29Ghastly.
19:30You look a bit tired.
19:33A bit coldy.
19:35It's only to be expected
19:37after your heroics.
19:41You ate it every minute,
19:43didn't you?
19:44Maybe.
19:46That's irrelevant.
19:49The newspapers didn't.
19:52Page after page
19:54about how extraordinary you are.
19:57What an asset to the crown.
19:59How underused you are.
20:00What a secret weapon.
20:01How deserving you are
20:02of the spotlight.
20:03Your elder sister
20:04eclipsed and outshone.
20:06Darling.
20:07And now,
20:09you must sleep.
20:10What will you do?
20:12Be a good guest
20:13and sing for our supper.
20:16So rest.
20:17I will.
20:18And get well for New York.
20:35Mr. President,
20:36I just got off the phone
20:37with our ambassador
20:38in London.
20:38We just got off the phone
20:39with the prime minister.
20:40Just got off the phone
20:41with the queen.
20:42Don't tell me
20:42everybody's pissed.
20:44The general view
20:45seems to be
20:46that if you have a quarrel
20:48with the prime minister,
20:49that's one thing.
20:50But no one gets
20:51to insult the crown, sir.
20:52It's like treason
20:54or something.
20:55How have I insulted
20:56the crown?
20:57By not accepting
20:58the queen's invitation, sir.
20:59Well,
21:01I didn't refuse.
21:03Just have him reply.
21:06Well, now,
21:06don't you do this, Marvin.
21:09You're my chief of staff.
21:10You're supposed
21:10to have my back.
21:12Don't you get suckered
21:13into this.
21:13You know,
21:13they got this whole thing
21:15going on over there.
21:16Head of state,
21:17prime minister,
21:18Buckingham Palace
21:19down in the street
21:20is like a double leg,
21:21like tag team wrestling.
21:22One of them
21:23gets in trouble,
21:24the other jumps in
21:24to bail him out.
21:26Wilson screws me
21:27over Vietnam
21:27and she jumps in
21:29to make it all good
21:30with some bursts.
21:31You bullshit.
21:32We don't have that here.
21:35Oh, sir.
21:38Buck stops with me.
21:41Who the hell
21:41am I supposed to call
21:42if I want to issue
21:43an invitation
21:44to get me out of trouble?
21:45Well,
21:46you call me, sir,
21:47your oldest friend.
21:48I come up
21:49with a sensible plan
21:50to get us all
21:51out of trouble.
21:52All right.
21:53Come up with a plan.
21:54Well, sir,
21:55I just did.
21:57This is the plan
21:58right here.
22:00Who in God's name
22:01is there?
22:04They came to land
22:06at Oakland Airport
22:06and here,
22:07as in San Francisco,
22:09crowds met and cheered
22:10them everywhere they went.
22:12The princess was radiant,
22:14obviously enjoying herself.
22:15It wasn't long
22:16before her sparkle
22:17cast an informal atmosphere
22:19over the occasion.
22:20The American people
22:21and their press
22:22have warmed to the couple,
22:24enchanted by the natural
22:25display of charm
22:26and friendliness.
22:28Prime Minister for you,
22:29ma'am.
22:30The princess and my heart
22:32said it was urgent.
22:35Prime Minister?
22:37Just to say,
22:38we've finally had
22:40a response
22:41from the Americans, ma'am.
22:43They've come back
22:45with an invitation
22:46of their own
22:47to dinner
22:49at the White House.
22:50For me?
22:51No, for Princess Margaret.
22:54Oh, that's cunning.
22:55Yes.
22:56That way,
22:57President Johnson
22:58can't be accused
22:59of snubbing my offer.
23:00No.
23:02It also sidesteps
23:03the all-important issue
23:04of the bailout.
23:06Indeed.
23:07But we think
23:09not all is lost
23:10that Princess Margaret
23:11should accept the invitation,
23:12go to the White House
23:14and use the occasion
23:16to win over
23:17hearts and minds
23:18to the British cause.
23:21It would be
23:22a political engagement
23:24of the utmost delicacy.
23:26for which you want
23:27to send
23:28Princess Margaret.
23:29Yes, well,
23:30that had been
23:30my reaction.
23:32But her trip to America
23:33has been
23:34a 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
23:57is so dire
23:57there's really nothing to lose.
24:00He doesn't know my sister.
24:01eager to meet the British
24:02in the United States.
24:04Ma'am.
24:10No.
24:15The Royal Highness?
24:17No.
24:18Telephone for you?
24:19No.
24:20It's the Queen.
24:36Hello, you.
24:38Hello, you.
24:40Sorry to disturb.
24:41I know you're on holiday,
24:42so you don't want to hear this.
24:44What?
24:44We've had an invitation
24:46from the White House
24:47for you to go to Washington
24:49and have dinner
24:50with the President
24:51and the First Lady.
24:52And we'd like you to attend.
24:54When?
24:55This Wednesday.
24:57Ah.
24:57Can't.
24:59Why not?
25:02I'm going to be in New York.
25:05At Teddy's book launch.
25:08Perhaps I should make it clear.
25:10There is rather a lot riding on it
25:12and everyone is keen,
25:14very keen,
25:15for you to go.
25:16Perhaps I should make it clear
25:17that nothing is going to stop me
25:20from supporting my husband.
25:21Just like you asked me to.
25:23Margaret!
26:04Dear Margaret,
26:06as a wife,
26:07I understand your desire
26:08to support Tony.
26:09You know that it was
26:10my honest hope
26:11that on this trip
26:12you would both find
26:13the opportunity
26:14to be more courteous,
26:16more encouraging
26:17to each other.
26:18But for now,
26:19such considerations
26:20must be put aside.
26:23I have asked you this once
26:24as a sister
26:25and now I must command it
26:28as your Queen.
26:31Your Royal Highness,
26:33Sir,
26:33thank you so much
26:34for agreeing to this.
26:37the most recent list of people
26:39attending the dinner
26:40with some brief biographies
26:41of those expected
26:42to sit close to you.
26:43What I'm asking you to do
26:45amounts to much more
26:47than simply attending a dinner.
26:53currently there are matters pertaining
26:56to this country's future prosperity
26:58that require a concerted effort
27:00on our part.
27:02We must heal the divisions
27:04that are emerging
27:05between Britain
27:06and its American cousins.
27:08You've often lamented
27:09that you have nothing to do,
27:12but you are a wasted resource.
27:13Well, the task
27:15you are embarking on today
27:16could not be more crucial.
27:19Britain currently
27:20has a deficit
27:21of 800 million pounds.
27:24What we need
27:25is a bailout
27:26of at least
27:271,000 million.
27:32Only the Americans
27:33can give it to us.
27:38I know
27:39you like to do things
27:40your own way,
27:42but this is a diplomatic mission
27:44of the highest sensitivity,
27:46and I would urge you
27:48for once
27:49to play things
27:50by the book.
27:54What happens if I fail?
27:56We don't get the bailout.
27:59Then we break our promises
28:01to the IMF,
28:03exhaust the credit
28:04facilities available to us,
28:06face a run on sterling,
28:08and the government
28:09would be left with
28:09no option
28:10but to devalue the pound.
28:12And that's bad?
28:14Devaluation.
28:15It's worse than bad.
28:17It would relegate sterling
28:18to the second division
28:19of the world's currencies
28:20and Britain to the third division
28:22of the world's economies.
28:24It would mean
28:25international humiliation,
28:27political ignominy,
28:28and
28:31financial ruin.
28:39Minus?
28:41President Johnson.
28:43President Johnson.
28:47That turns forward to it.
29:03though,
29:06thank you for there to know
29:06about it.
29:08Let's do it.
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?
29:34I...
29:36I 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.
29:51I met him once, Kennedy.
29:54I was left distinctly underwhelmed.
30:01Margaret.
30:02I'm sorry, did I say something wrong?
30:05I do know these days one's not allowed to think.
30:09Anything other than what a great statesman Kennedy was.
30:13Say nothing, Lyndon.
30:15Of course he'll say nothing. He was his loyal deputy.
30:18But I think I can understand better than most.
30:21The frustrations and resentments that can build up from 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, I've spent my whole life as vice-queen.
30:43Except that came out wrong. I 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.
30:54What?
30:54President Johnson agreed.
30:56Thoroughly, enthusiastically, unreservedly.
30:59He said, um, if I remember rightly, Jack Kennedy...
31:05Or to kill his own mother just to take the skin off her ass to make a drum to beat
31:09his own praises.
31:15He said, yes.
31:16He said, yes.
31:19Right?
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, are a little off-colour.
31:39Hmm.
31:40I don't know.
31:40Well, go on then.
31:43Oh, right.
31:45Um...
31:46Well, the first one went a little...
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, she 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?
32:33Princess Margaret won the evening with this one.
32:37There was a young lady from Dallas...
32:40Who used a dynamite stick as a phallus.
32:43Oh!
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.
33:08Then, apparently, there was dancing.
33:34Followed by singing.
33:36Anything you can be.
33:38I can be.
33:39Greater.
33:40Sooner.
33:40Or later.
33:41Or 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.
33:50She finally staggered home at four in the morning.
33:53Newly Anglophile President Johnson having agreed to the bailout.
33:57A 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 I'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 every day of the week.
34:33But it 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 faster.
34:45I can say anything faster than you.
34:48No, you can't.
34:49Yes, I can.
34:49No, you can't.
34:50No, you can't.
34:50No, you can't.
34:51No, you can't.
34:51No, you can't.
34:52No, you can't.
34:52No, you can't.
35:01No, you can't.
35:01No, you can't.
35:02No.
35:15The Prime Minister.
35:17well played your royal highness very well played thank you sir shall we
36:10hail the conquering heroine ah yes let the abuse
36:16begin now you must know by now any child from this family is met with a healthy dose of envy
36:21spite good-natured teasing to keep one's feet on the ground everyone's very grateful the prime
36:28minister said he was going to write to you personally oh better than that he met me at the
36:32airport ah and 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 you can keep your gongs and your bongs for all the men to whom it matters
36:51so much but i'd be lying if i didn't admit to having done a little thinking in view of how
36:57well it all went about us doing it more often doing what sharing duties
37:08but we didn't share duties you just went to a dinner party in your place and represented crown and
37:16country 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 far too much pressure far too much responsibility and i too little
37:35having no role having nothing to do is soul destroying
37:45all i'm asking is if you were prepared to share a little more
37:52for bezar sakes
38:02let me think about it
38:11don't tell me you softened i did and with good reason
38:17margaret does suffer more than anyone else by not having a more meaningful role
38:21suffers in health and happiness
38:24she's overlooked
38:26and in terms of ability and character
38:28and intelligence and flair she does not deserve to be overlooked
38:32so why shouldn't we consider expanding the role
38:36sharing the job a bit more
38:37there are two answers to that question
38:41neither makes for pretty listening
38:46yes the system is unequal
38:48unjust and cruel
38:52primogeniture divides and destroys families
38:54the system stinks
38:56but in its cruelty and injustice it reflects something else which is harsh and brutal
39:03which no one is suggesting we rearrange life
39:09we all desire equality here's the thing
39:14we were not born equal
39:17and what's the second
39:20do you remember i told you once i got drunk with that
39:22god awful monster tommy lassells
39:26well that night he shared with me his theory
39:29about 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 saddler
39:46a polycephalus
39:48a two-headed eagle
39:49for the purposes of this conversation
39:52i 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
40:05a saint
40:06but dull
40:09sorry
40:10your grandfather too
40:12George the fifth
40:14deadly dull
40:16at the height of the great war when the
40:19the czar and the kaiser and the emperor of austria were dazzling the world where was he
40:25he was sticking stamps in his album
40:27his wife
40:28queen mary wonderful
40:29ditch water
40:30and so it goes through george the fifth to queen victoria and back an uninterrupted line of stolid turgid drearings
40:40culminating in me
40:41yes
40:41but
40:44alongside that
40:45dull
40:46dutiful
40:47reliable
40:47heroic strain
40:48runs another
40:52the dazzling
40:53the brilliant
40:54the individualistic
40:55and
40:57dangerous
40:59and so
41:00for every victoria
41:01you get
41:02an edward the seventh
41:03for every george the fifth
41:05you get a prince eddie
41:07for every george the sixth
41:08you get
41:09an edward the eighth
41:12for every lilybette
41:15you get a margaret
41:17and she may have had a success in washington
41:20but let's not delude ourselves
41:22that serious diplomacy can be achieved through drinking and dancing
41:25let margaret have the glory
41:27but let's not rewrite the constitutional rule book
41:31because 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 she knows we're talking about her
41:47then let's join her
41:50that feverish mind of hers needs no encouragement
41:53I love
41:53then much
41:53you gotta give his life
41:53and
41:55you
41:56can
41:57and
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.
42:53Princess Elizabeth's destiny is to accede to the throne.
42:56Yours is to serve and support.
42:58I would urge you to accept your position in life
43:02and to dismiss, forthwith, any childish notions about rewriting the rulebook so that it might better suit your character.
43:11We all have a role to play.
43:14Princess Elizabeth's will be center stage and yours, ma'am, will be from the wings.
43:43Margaret.
43:44All right.
44:21All right.
44:51All right.
45:36All right.
46:10All right.
46:28All right.
46:39All right.
46:41All right.
47:21All right.
47:24All right.
47:26All right.
47:28All right.
47:28All right.
47:32All right.
47:32All right.
47:36All right.
47:37All right.
47:38All right.
47:38All right.
47:39All right.
47:39All right.
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