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00:13I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:16I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:23I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country,
00:39and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow air!
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control?
01:59Well, I remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading.
02:03And keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My God.
02:42Oh.
02:43Oh.
02:44Oh.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shall we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16OK.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:11In the end?
04:33We will be never.
04:33I don't care.
04:34He wants you to die every day, he's í•˜ê² ìŠµë‹ˆë‹¤.
04:40facil,"
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:54Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:09Sir.
06:11God bless me.
06:13May I suggest you call that?
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23I thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:37Thanks.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
06:56Come on, boys.
07:11Come on.
07:13Come on.
07:13Right there, please.
07:23If her majesty could lean forward
07:29Deep breath in
07:35And out
07:38Yes, little stuffy, ma'am
07:40It might help to open the window a crack
07:42Not while they're rehearsing
07:43Hmm
07:44What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral
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12:09forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:15How you lost the election escapes me.
12:21Escapes us all.
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service
12:28if I helped to usher him out of the door and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you come to me with a master plan
12:39that involves me crucifying the Tories
12:41for their failure to deal with a fog
12:44which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:50At present, I can see stars.
13:32CHOIR SINGS
13:53Good night.
14:08Miss Scott thank you for your conscientiousness but it's late you're
14:13home you're no good to be tired good evening to you
14:19but you're here good night sir
14:33evening Pat
14:57you haven't moved I suppose it's still a no to what coming out you mean going to
15:08the lamb flag with you sitting at the bar twinkling our ankles at every
15:12unremarkable young man in the room then letting those men buy us enough drinks
15:17for us to bring them home only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us
15:22again no thanks goodness and what will you be doing in the meantime spend time in
15:31the company of someone remarkable
15:42hear this young men and women everywhere and proclaim it far and wide the earth is yours and
15:51the fullness thereof be kind but be fierce you are needed now more than ever before
15:59take up the mantle of change for this is your time
16:05so
16:18so
16:35good morning time is 8 o'clock on the 6th december and here is the news
16:40london has been brought to a halt by dense fog which has descended overnight
16:46long queues are formed on main roads and the reports of motorists abandoning their
16:51vehicles and continuing on foot london airport is expected to be closed
16:58good god the meteorological office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone
17:04over london is to blame smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level which
17:09is aggravating the fog windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time
17:18be careful out there it's a real pea super
17:31ah is the car ready i'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive man
17:38it's what 200 yards
17:41it's been judged too hazardous man
17:47i have an appointment to see my grandmother
17:51i intend to keep that appointment
17:54if it's too hazardous to drive
17:57then there's only one thing to be done
18:38i saw that
18:40might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't
18:45and the queen is here your majesty
18:47could you be more specific
18:49ma'am
18:51which queen
18:52queen elizabeth ma'am
18:54which one there are two
18:56the young one
18:58oh the queen
19:00i thought you was all queens they gave me a sheet
19:04we are
19:05i was the queen so long as my husband the king was alive but since he died i'm no longer
19:11the queen i'm simply queen mary
19:13my late son's widow was also the queen but upon the death of her husband she became queen elizabeth the
19:21queen mother
19:21her daughter queen elizabeth is now queen so she is
19:27the queen
19:28the queen
19:29the queen
19:31nurses and nuns have the same problem
19:34we're all called sister
19:36so you are
19:38well she's outside
19:40the queen
19:42then let her in
19:44sister
19:57bad time
19:58not at all
20:01how are you
20:03i'm always happy to see you
20:05and my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing name it
20:10not to ask me how i am
20:12it's all anyone ever does forget death by lung disease it's death by bad conversation
20:18all right i promise
20:21but if you are feeling up to it
20:22there was something i wanted to talk to you about
20:26fire away
20:37i was listening to the wireless this morning
20:41where they described this fog as an act of god
20:46now in your letter that you sent me
20:50you said
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above everything else
21:01because the calling comes from the highest source from god himself
21:07yes
21:10do you really believe that
21:14monarchy is god's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth
21:19to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards
21:22an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives
21:28monarchy
21:29is a calling
21:30from god
21:32that is why you're crowned in an abbey not a government building
21:36why you're anointed not appointed
21:38it's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head
21:41not a minister or public servant
21:43which means
21:45which means
21:45that you are answerable to god in your duty
21:49not the public
21:52i'm not sure that my husband would agree with that
21:55he would argue that in any
21:57equitable modern society
21:59that
22:00church and state should be separated
22:03that if god has servants they're priests not kings
22:07that he would also say that he
22:09watched his own family destroyed
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody
22:13indefensible and unreasonable ideas
22:15yes
22:16but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that goes back what
22:2290 years
22:24what would he know of
22:25alfred the great
22:26the rod of equity and mercy
22:28edward the confessor
22:30william the conqueror
22:31henry the eighth
22:33it's the church of england dear
22:34not the church of denmark or greece
22:41next question
22:44it's chaos out there
22:47trains disrupted
22:48air services cancelled
22:49a richmond bridge this morning
22:52visibility was officially measured at one yard
22:54that's a record low incidentally
22:58our trojan friend in downing street has been speaking to his friends at the met office
23:03they say this is just the beginning
23:06they expect it to get worse
23:08i know you would have me call a vote of no confidence
23:12and will doubtless call me over cautious for not doing so
23:15but the prime minister needs to be given a chance
23:21even if it's only to hang himself
23:23let's see how the old fool responds
23:27out
23:28here
23:29here
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:26Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah!
24:51You made it!
24:52Bravo!
24:52I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no.
24:54You did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning and the business gets done and the country is governed.
25:19But what's my personal contribution?
25:24Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:31What?
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age you were a published writer and a cavalry officer posted to India
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:50You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:53So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
26:06The earth is yours and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:28You were 24.
26:34All energy and hope.
26:36And passion and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:46You found something you liked in that young male?
26:52I did.
26:57I did.
27:22Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning, with emergency services struggling
27:36to cope, and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
28:01Yes, no.
28:05Yes.
28:05Yes.
28:05Yes.
28:08Yes.
28:24Yes.
28:25Yes.
28:31Yes.
28:35Yes.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
28:57where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire
29:03from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain
29:07and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
29:12a point that I will be making in person
29:14to the Commonwealth heads
29:16when I host them for the weekend at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information that you have?
29:27About the weather?
29:29It's fog, ma'am.
29:31It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report
29:40is included in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter
29:51and there are only so many things
29:54that I, as Prime Minister,
29:55am prepared to inflict on your subjects
29:57as a reward for winning a world war
29:59and prevailing over fascism, evil and tyranny.
30:04Letting them freeze is not one of them.
30:08You do not seem unduly concerned.
30:10I'm not.
30:11You do know that my late father wrote
30:13many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern
30:19about the inner city power stations
30:20that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic
30:30with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy
30:35with the leader articles
30:36in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood,
30:40wanting my head.
30:42People have to be angry at someone,
30:45but as leader,
30:48one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal
30:56to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because my husband's mood
31:05is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this,
31:11he can't fly.
31:14Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough qualified pilots
31:26to take him where he needs to go?
31:27No, he wants to fly himself.
31:30It's a boyhood dream.
31:31It's what he's always wanted.
31:33Why was government not consulted?
31:35Because it's a private matter.
31:36And I am in favor.
31:38Nothing you or his royal highness do
31:40is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England
31:44risking his life needlessly
31:46is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail
31:50my husband's personal freedoms any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where
31:58one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line
32:02falls to cabinet, ma'am,
32:03not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa
32:06would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is 8 o'clock on the 8th of December
32:41and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog
32:45which has already caused
32:46two days of chaos across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity stations
32:52in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions
32:55of poisonous sulfur dioxide
32:56from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told
32:59that it is unlikely
33:00they will be able to make
33:01any significant change
33:02to the air quality.
33:04The government is expected
33:05to make a statement
33:06later today.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Let's get you up.
33:25Shoes.
33:34Off we go.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
33:57I can't breathe.
34:14I can't breathe.
34:16Watch down, ladies.
34:18Watch down.
34:23Go, go.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:27Hold on.
34:30Hold on.
34:30I'll be there.
34:32Stay safe.
34:37I can't breathe.
34:39Bye-bye.
34:41You all right, ladies?
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:55The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
35:03An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culprits for what?
35:14It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the Prime Minister finds time for levity.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several and injuring a great many more.
35:36In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08No, it's an act of God, Bobbity.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:24The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:36Mail.
36:37Mail.
36:38Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbity?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you alone?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full.
37:12Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the war.
37:19What do you need?
37:20More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:29People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57Yes.
37:58Yes.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get out of the way.
38:03Get out of the way.
38:38How much longer are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A vote of no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:22Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:39Yes.
39:41Care to share it?
39:43No.
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement.
39:52One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes, for example.
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:11No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:41Look, Philip, I know that...
40:47Lord Mountbatten, your majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, that.
41:00Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
41:09So.
41:12Go, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:33Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:39Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:43I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:25And then, Churchill, and...
42:28And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
42:45As queen, you have the right to be consulted.
42:54The right to encourage, the right to warn.
42:59Also, to appoint a new Prime Minister in the event of incapacity.
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:15Well, then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested in only one thing.
43:50Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning,
43:58when there should have only been one thing on the agenda,
44:00the unfolding national emergency,
44:04all our Prime Minister wanted to discuss
44:08was your husband's new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22I want to go to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me, Your Majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you
44:49and how closely you work together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our Prime Minister,
44:59a man who's led the country through many crises,
45:02is no longer leading us at all.
45:06Representations have been made to me
45:09through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede and bid and stand down,
45:18make way for a younger man.
45:22Which brings me to my question.
45:26What are my responsibilities as Head of State?
45:33What should I do when it's in the national interest?
45:37How far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if Her Majesty is aware,
45:45but shortly before your father died,
45:48the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eaton, came,
45:51begging His Late Majesty to intervene,
45:54if not on an official level,
45:56then on a personal one,
45:58as a friend,
46:00to bid the Prime Minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:05Well,
46:07His Majesty was, like his father before him,
46:09a stickler for convention and tradition
46:11and would never have done anything
46:13that violated the Constitution
46:15or overstepped the mark.
46:20Then I have my answer.
46:21But
46:22that was His Majesty,
46:24not your Majesty.
46:26And I do read the newspapers
46:28and I do listen to the wireless.
46:30And the situation we're in today
46:31is quite different
46:33than the one we were in
46:34when Mr. Eaton came to see your father.
46:39Different situation,
46:41different sovereign.
46:53Wait for me here.
47:07Wait for me here.
47:22We'll get you seen as soon as we go.
47:44We'll get you seen as soon as possible.
48:03A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:31Sir.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:04O'Reilly.
49:05KEN'S FAMILY.
49:15KEN'S FAMILY.
49:20KEN'S FAMILY.
49:52Just come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:13Not me.
50:27I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest
50:35days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:45And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
50:55But I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital
51:09staff, more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes
51:18of air pollution to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:36The Prime Minister was alone amongst senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond
51:42to the crisis in person, and was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through
51:48the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50And the headline reads, true leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:31The Prime Minister's here.
52:46The Prime Minister's here.
52:48The Prime Minister's here.
53:20CHOIR SINGS
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:43Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me now.
53:51I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter, which I felt I needed to discuss with you, in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:18My position?
54:20Yes, your position as Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:51To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58Oh, I know.
54:58I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted.
55:05And she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched a tack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because it disarmed me.
55:23And made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58And the government had continued to flounder.
56:01The people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power.
56:07And the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing is no job at all.
56:22To do nothing is the hardest job of all.
56:26And it will take every ounce of energy that you have.
56:30To be impartial is not natural, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you say or agree or smile.
56:53Or think or feel or breathe or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22Sir, go on.
57:23How long would it take me to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a farce learner.
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed, you've still got a right up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons.
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
58:03Edinburgh?
58:03They made me duke there, so I should probably show up from time to time, unless you have more pressing
58:08engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18Aria fittingly.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:44We'll see you next time.
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