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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.
00:01:33I think.
00:01:36I think I can do it.
00:01:40I think...
00:01:58Come on, Doc. That's it.
00:02:00Don't push him.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really.
00:02:54Well, I shall certainly let Her Majesty know. Thank you.
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 Altrincham has been struck.
00:03:33Dumb, I hope.
00:03:35Better than that, ma'am. In the face. Quite forcefully, I'm told.
00:03:42By whom? Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
00:03:46I'm afraid we don't have those details yet.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios and the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police
00:03:58station where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:02Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes. Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am, where Altrincham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:18A 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.
00:04:56This 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, probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in a periodical
00:05:22of which he is also publisher,
00:05:23have become the most pressing issue of the day, and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:33But, she's our head of state, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:05:48We're going to try one of the things we have to be.
00:06:10But, here's the only way.
00:06:10We are to bring you into the world.
00:06:11So, first of all, let's do its work.
00:07:14It's far too long.
00:07:15People 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.
00:07:36Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:38Hello, Patricia.
00:07:40Would anyone like some toffee?
00:07:41Oh, bring 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,
00:08:02I 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.
00:08:11And Europe.
00:08:13We need to work out our official stance.
00:08:15Are we for or against a single European market?
00:08:21Are 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?
00:08:37You 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 sitting in a dentist's chair
00:08:54because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:08:58Oh.
00:09:01Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:05Sorry.
00:09:07Have I...
00:09:08Sorry?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't.
00:09:11Understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness
00:09:14and ability
00:09:15to withstand
00:09:16the fatigue
00:09:17of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage
00:09:22in meeting
00:09:22constant,
00:09:24small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure
00:09:28the happiness
00:09:29and prosperity
00:09:30of the community
00:09:31as a whole.
00:09:38the upward course
00:09:40of a nation's history
00:09:41is due
00:09:42in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness
00:09:45of heart
00:09:46of its average
00:09:47men and women.
00:09:51Um...
00:09:53working men and women?
00:09:57It has a touch
00:09:58more dignity.
00:09:59Yeah.
00:10:06No, I think average
00:10:07is fine.
00:10:22what you might be interested
00:10:24to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft
00:10:26of a speech
00:10:27the Queen's going to give
00:10:28in a week's time.
00:10:30I don't mind telling you
00:10:31I felt a bit uneasy
00:10:32about it.
00:10:49Sir, forgive me
00:10:52if I'm interfering
00:10:53beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Arthur.
00:11:04You were about
00:11:05to interfere
00:11:05beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning
00:11:10the speech
00:11:11the Queen is due
00:11:12to give next week
00:11:13at the Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:17I was just
00:11:19wondering
00:11:19if you were happy
00:11:20with it.
00:11:24Well, obviously
00:11:25I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have
00:11:27shown it to Her Majesty
00:11:29for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:34She didn't need to.
00:11:36She merely asked
00:11:37if I was happy.
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was
00:11:43good enough
00:11:43for Her Majesty.
00:11:46But I can see
00:11:48that the really
00:11:49important question is
00:11:50is it good enough
00:11:52for Colonel
00:11:53Charteries?
00:11:55You don't think
00:11:57it strikes
00:11:58the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:02In its
00:12:05paternalism.
00:12:07May I?
00:12:12Sir?
00:12:13I suppose
00:12:14if I
00:12:15had a concern
00:12:18it would be
00:12:19it would be
00:12:19that post-Suez
00:12:20in this new
00:12:22climate
00:12:23in this new
00:12:24Britain
00:12:26the tone
00:12:27of the speech
00:12:28is
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:30somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39And would leave
00:12:40her open
00:12:41to attack
00:12:41from whom?
00:12:42the newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling
00:12:48for every time
00:12:49someone of a
00:12:50progressive or
00:12:51liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned
00:12:52needlessly
00:12:53of a popular
00:12:54attack against
00:12:55the crown
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people
00:12:58adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what
00:13:00constitutes
00:13:01indeed defines
00:13:02being British.
00:13:04Now the worst
00:13:05I've ever encountered
00:13:06is apathy
00:13:07where people
00:13:08simply accept
00:13:09the king or queen
00:13:10as they accept
00:13:10the sky above
00:13:11their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long
00:13:13way from apathy
00:13:14to insurrection.
00:13:16Now as regards
00:13:17the newspapers
00:13:18the crown can count
00:13:19on their support
00:13:20for two reasons.
00:13:21First
00:13:21there is nothing
00:13:22to attack.
00:13:24That's the advantage
00:13:24of a constitutional
00:13:25monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing
00:13:28to complain about.
00:13:29And even
00:13:30if they wanted to
00:13:31they'd always let
00:13:32us know first.
00:13:34The palace would
00:13:34then threaten them
00:13:35with a boycott
00:13:36on the next
00:13:36major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately
00:13:40to back down
00:13:40because the very
00:13:42people you fear
00:13:43will hate
00:13:44the queen
00:13:45and the same ones
00:13:46who buy copies
00:13:47in their millions.
00:13:49Why?
00:13:50Because they love her.
00:13:55So I'm
00:13:56worrying unnecessarily.
00:13:58Martin
00:13:59I shall leave
00:14:01the drawing of that
00:14:02inescapable conclusion
00:14:03to you.
00:14:22I'm going to take it
00:14:23in a little
00:14:23shorter, ma'am
00:14:24and rounder
00:14:25at the back.
00:14:26Lovely.
00:14:45Save the praise
00:14:51and
00:14:53say
00:15:18I like it very much.
00:15:43I 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?
00:15:56What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidy and sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins?
00:16:05Apparently it's very animoge.
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 always 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.
00:17:18Sir, will you be fine with your majesty?
00:17:19Welcome, your majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23How do you do?
00:17:24It's very, very, um, spacious.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no, at all.
00:17:30No.
00:17:30Yes.
00:17:31May 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.
00:17:45Oh, no, it's a double.
00:17:46With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing.
00:17:52I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Is it horse or cow?
00:17:57Hello.
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
00:18:41uneventful, lonely lives, where dreariness is the enemy.
00:18:48Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive
00:18:57work depend in great 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
00:19:14heart of its average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems most
00:19:25monotonous, what you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow.
00:19:34Let's have a wonderful time, let's have a wonderful time, come on everybody, let's have a wonderful
00:19:41time.
00:19:42Hello, Doctor.
00:19:44Good evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
00:19:48Good evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour.
00:19:56I need a favour for 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.
00:20:45I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:48A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being
00:20:56to inspire.
00:21:29What's going on?
00:21:34I'm going home and I'm going home with a little bit.
00:21:35I'm going home with a little bit.
00:21:37It's not enough to make it happen.
00:21:38You're going home with a little bit.
00:21:44No Anyway.
00:21:50Come on, man.
00:22:20Come on, man.
00:22:22Hello.
00:22:23I trust you have to see you.
00:22:24Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Well, let's say a bit.
00:22:28Where are you?
00:22:52Good to be back.
00:23:23Good to be back.
00:23:32Good to be back.
00:23:42Good to be back.
00:25:28I see.
00:25:28I see.
00:25:31Right.
00:25:35Well, thank you.
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00:30:57i i don't then why criticize her like this that's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art
00:31:05i'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is britain's greatest
00:31:10invention do you indeed yes i do i believe that monarchy provides clarity a symbolic head of state
00:31:18transcending 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 ebb and flow by the moon
00:31:32but when working at its best monarchy can rise above such matters and unify a society can set
00:31:38the tone and become the embodiment of the nation of national character but the problem is at the
00:31:43moment it's it's not doing that it's doing very little right as far as you're concerned no that's
00:31:49not true you would like to see her majesty endowed with superhuman powers it's not superhuman
00:31:54to be a little spontaneous judging from your article you'd like the queen to have the qualities
00:31:58of a of a wit you'd like her to be a a better orator a tv personality in addition to
00:32:04being a
00:32:05diligent dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother all i'm suggesting is that in her public speeches
00:32:11and in her appearances she should be more uh natural her style of speaking is quite frankly a pain in
00:32:19the
00:32:19neck she sounds strangled i had the misfortune of hearing one of the queen's speeches in a dental
00:32:27waiting room recently i was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was
00:32:33greeted but you'd accept that being queen and head of the church of england is not an easy job or
00:32:40a
00:32:40simple one if you'll forgive me it's uh it's arguably a harder job than editing a small periodical
00:32:46no i know i quite agree her majesty is a a seemingly impossible task she has to be ordinary and
00:32:52extraordinary touched by divinity and yet one of us but being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland or
00:33:00ineffectual or forgettable and against whom do you lay the main charge her courtiers well in the end if
00:33:07the court is wrong if the setup is wrong you have no choice but to criticize the boss the queen
00:33:13yes because
00:33:14only the boss can get rid of the bad servants she hires them she alone can fire them now they
00:33:22may
00:33:22be bad i believe some of them at the moment are they're quite dreadful but it is her responsibility
00:33:28it's not theirs in the sense that they're just hired hands and so the personal attack on the monarch
00:33:35continues let let me just say this to criticize the monarchy to criticize her majesty personally
00:33:42gives me no satisfaction but we have to remember that since the second world war since sewage
00:33:49britain has changed beyond recognition and yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though
00:33:55nothing has happened i believe it would serve the queen and her courtiers well to remember that until
00:34:00recently monarchies were the rule and republics the exception but today republics are the rule and
00:34:09monarchies very much the exception lord altering them i have to terminate the interview i'm obliged to
00:34:17you for answering my questions next week at the same time there will be another edition of impact
00:34:22good night that went very well thank you again lord altering thank you good day
00:34:42thank you very much thank you thank you for the thank you
00:35:06all things in this area in real life i uh
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:10Well done.
00:35:12Well done, darling.
00:35:13I'm sorry.
00:35:15Well done.
00:35:16Oh, be calm.
00:35:17Oh, man, they are a wreck.
00:35:31Your Majesty.
00:35:32Yes, what is it, Michael?
00:35:35There have been some reactions in the newspapers
00:35:38to last night's television interview
00:35:40and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham.
00:35:43I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:52Well, the man that struck Altrincham, it turns out,
00:35:55is a member of the extreme right League of Empire Loyalists,
00:36:00which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the Empire
00:36:06and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh, dear.
00:36:11And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altrincham on television,
00:36:19that he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25And now almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments.
00:36:31And there are new polls to support this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altrincham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this I believe reflects on his growing concern
00:36:54at some of the telephone calls that he has been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister suggested that he come up a week earlier than planned
00:37:03in order to discuss it all with you in person.
00:37:08Goodness.
00:37:09A constitutional crisis.
00:37:12Well...
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
00:37:20which I gave unquestioningly because I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altrincham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people
00:37:30with one foot in the real world.
00:37:34Come here.
00:38:01And you believe it's now a government measure?
00:38:04I do, ma'am.
00:38:06Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me.
00:38:10Concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries
00:38:16have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:21Egypt.
00:38:22Bulgaria.
00:38:23Italy.
00:38:24Tunisia.
00:38:25Only last month.
00:38:26Of course, we're not at that point.
00:38:29Not at a red light.
00:38:31We're not even at an amber.
00:38:34But we'd hate it to become amber.
00:38:38And so it is my view, the government's view,
00:38:41that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible.
00:38:44And do what?
00:38:46The obvious thing.
00:38:49Altrincham is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you!
00:39:02Go at you!
00:39:29Palace has offered up a chap called Charteris.
00:39:33To meet.
00:39:34I looked him up.
00:39:36He used to be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, 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.
00:40:00Go.
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.
00:40:11Alright.
00:40:13And take a list of suggestions.
00:40:16Recommendations.
00:40:18Don't go empty handed.
00:40:24Don't go empty handed.
00:40:26Not yet.
00:40:28John!
00:40:29Your tooth!
00:40:29John!
00:40:31Sorry.
00:40:46He's locked.
00:40:47I tried to make it to the club.
00:40:53Poor man.
00:40:56You horny.
00:40:56You didn't have that.
00:40:57I killed him.
00:40:59I killed him.
00:41:01You didn't eat me.
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Lord Ortringham?
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 Ortringham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what 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.
00:43:33But because 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?
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:02Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much of 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, just 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.
00:44:59But 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, recommendations 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.
00:46:12Well, 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, certainly 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 recognize 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.
00:47:23The 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?
00:47:57Open up, ma'am.
00:48:00Know 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.
00:48:18And finally.
00:48:19Oh, finally.
00:48:20Spend 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?
00:48:59Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:19Your Majesty.
00:49:35General Choppers.
00:49:44Who matters?
00:50:02Orange.
00:50:04Lins.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:24Vanished into thin air.
00:50:26Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went home to tell me that no one can ever know that I met the Queen.
00:50:33And 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.
00:51:03Go ahead.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the pig.
00:51:20You're like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31memorizing lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It was memorizing lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way.
00:52:01Please, ma'am.
00:52:11End of course.
00:52:13To do this, he'd come out.
00:52:16OK, Sir.
00:52:17So good to have your thoughts back in front and проход.
00:52:22So sorry, sir.
00:52:29Uh-huh, sir.
00:52:31Well done, señal.
00:52:36Matt.
00:53:27Happy Christmas.
00:53:33Twenty-five years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible for many of you to see
00:53:47me in your homes on Christmas Day.
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.
00:54:20Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, but who never really touches your
00:54:28personal 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
00:54:49of which things are changing all around us.
00:54:57I would like to read a few lines from Pilgrim's Progress.
00:55:09And though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do repent me of all the trouble I
00:55:17have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to
00:55:29him 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.
00:56:15And we're off air.
00:56:31Congratulations.
00:56:42Thank you so much.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, my, 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, Tony, you're the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:28Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Gabon, but no, that's not quite right.
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:37Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43If 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 them?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03It's 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?
00:58:22It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:31I 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, bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59To democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:06The stings and bites we suffer.
00:59:08As it slips away.
00:59:11Bit by bit.
00:59:12Piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority.
00:59:17Our absolutism.
00:59:19Our divine rights.
00:59:29The 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.
00:59:45It'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.
00:59:59Mary Annette.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves 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 work.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Oh, give me that much.
01:00:45Oh, hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49I didn't hear that.
01:00:50What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatterman.
01:00:53Oh, I play so much around you.
01:00:55Thank you so much around you.
01:00:56You look absolutely...
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58Oh, I'm telling you, Patricia.
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Lewis.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denmark.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you here.
01:01:07Here they come.
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