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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.
00:01:28All right, man.
00:01:35Yeah!
00:01:46All right, man.
00:01:48All right, man!
00:01:50I think she's a guest.
00:01:59That's it.
00:02:01Go on, Altsingham.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:21Go on, Altsingham, come on!
00:02:45Really?
00:02:49Really.
00:02:53Well, I shall certainly let her manage to 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.
00:03:18Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altsingham 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.
00:03:42By whom?
00:03:44Which 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.
00:04:03Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am, where Altsingham 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.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:57A 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 Altsingham.
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 Altsingham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:05:53Despite that, when you first began to act, all
00:07:54Are you seated?
00:07:57Right.
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, you were going to look at that for me, weren't you?
00:08:08There's something nutty about it.
00:08:10Mmm.
00:08:11My lashes.
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?
00:08:26Toffee, John.
00:08:27Oh, you must try some, John.
00:08:29I'm afraid 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 sitting in a dentist's chair because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:08:58Oh.
00:09:01Oh.
00:09:01Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:04Fine.
00:09:05Fine.
00:09:06Sir.
00:09:08Uh, sir?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive
00:09:19work, and your great courage in meeting constant, small adversities depend in great measure the
00:09:28happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its
00:09:47average men and women.
00:09:49Um, working men and women?
00:09:57It has a touch more dignity.
00:09:59Yeah.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22What you might be interested to see this, it's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in
00:10:28a week's time.
00:10:29Um, I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:35Yes.
00:10:48Yeah?
00:10:51Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01to me
00:11:02you were about to interfere beyond your station
00:11:09but it's concerning the speech the queen is due to give next week
00:11:13the jagger car factory what about it i was just wondering if you were happy with it
00:11:24well obviously i'm happy with it or i wouldn't have shown it to her majesty for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave did the queen read it she didn't need to she merely asked if i was happy
00:11:39i replied in the affirmative and that was good enough for her majesty but i can see that the
00:11:48really important question is is it good enough for colonel charteris
00:11:56you don't think it strikes the wrong tone
00:11:59in which sense
00:12:03in its paternalism
00:12:08may i
00:12:13i i i suppose if i had a concern
00:12:18it would be that post-sues
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:23in this new britain
00:12:26the tone of the speech is
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:30somewhat what
00:12:36old-fashioned
00:12:39then would leave her open to attack
00:12:41from whom
00:12:42the newspapers
00:12:46people
00:12:47if i had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly of a popular attack against the crown
00:12:55i'd be a rich man
00:12:57the british people adore their sovereign it is what constitutes indeed defines being british
00:13:03now the worst i've ever encountered is apathy where people simply accept the king or queen as
00:13:10they accept the sky above their heads but it's a long way from apathy to insurrection
00:13:16now as regards the newspapers the crown can count on their support for two reasons
00:13:21first there is nothing to attack that'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
00:13:33the palace would then threaten them with a boycott on the next major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers immediately to back down
00:13:40because the very people you fear will hate the queen
00:13:45the same ones who buy copies in their millions
00:13:49why because they love her
00:13:55so i'm worrying unnecessarily martin
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 man and rounder it back
00:14:25lovely
00:14:27lovely
00:14:33are you
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00:15:14CHOIR SINGS
00:15:15Thank you. I 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?
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:22How do you do?
00:17:24It's very, very spacious.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no at all.
00:17:30May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes.
00:17:36You started drawing, did you?
00:17:38Very good, sir.
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?
00:17:57Thank you, ma'am.
00:17:58Hello.
00:18:01Hello.
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 you to know how
00:18:26very 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.
00:18:48Perhaps 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,
00:19:27what 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.
00:19:42Lord Orchner.
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.
00:20:45I'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 to inspire.
00:20:57Clip durante the required.
00:20:59That's what he seemed to say.
00:21:00I'm sorry.
00:21:16It's my ц stand up.
00:21:26Well, I don't know.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting
00:28:22You're inviting me to record an interview this afternoon.
00:28:25Which program?
00:28:27Impact 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.
00:29:53All good?
00:29:54All good.
00:29:55All good.
00:29:55All good.
00:29:58Be standing by, sir.
00:30:00I'm just prepared.
00:30:01I'm ready, I'm ready.
00:30:04Okay, I'm ready.
00:30:05Let me start.
00:30:12Can you tell them how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission 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,
00:30:33his 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
00:31:10is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:13I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state,
00:31:19transcending the self-serving interests
00:31:21of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office,
00:31:27who, 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
00:31:35and unify a society.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation,
00:31:40of 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.
00:31:49You 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 wit.
00:32:00You'd like her to be a better orator, a TV personality,
00:32:04in addition to being a diligent, dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances,
00:32:12she should be more, er, 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
00:32:27in a dental waiting room recently.
00:32:29I was horrified by the indifference and inertia
00:32:32with which the speech was greeted.
00:32:35But you'd accept that being Queen and Head of the Church of England
00:32:38is not an easy job, or a simple one.
00:32:40If you'll forgive me, it's arguably a harder job
00:32:43than editing a small periodical.
00:32:46No, I quite agree.
00:32:47Her Majesty is a seemingly impossible task.
00:32:50She has to be ordinary and extraordinary,
00:32:53touched by divinity and yet one of us.
00:32:55But being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland,
00:32:59or ineffectual, or forgettable.
00:33:03And against whom do you lay the main charge?
00:33:05Her courtiers?
00:33:06Well, in the end, if the court is wrong,
00:33:08if the set-up is wrong,
00:33:10you have no choice but to criticise the boss.
00:33:12The Queen?
00:33:14Yes, because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants.
00:33:18She hires them.
00:33:19She alone can fire them.
00:33:22Now, they may be bad.
00:33:23I believe some of them at the moment are.
00:33:25They're quite dreadful.
00:33:26But it is her responsibility.
00:33:29It's not theirs.
00:33:30In the sense that they're just hired hands.
00:33:33And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:36Let me just say this.
00:33:38To criticise the monarchy,
00:33:40to criticise Her Majesty personally,
00:33:42gives me no satisfaction.
00:33:44But we have to remember that since the Second World War,
00:33:47since Suez,
00:33:49Britain has changed beyond recognition.
00:33:51And yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines
00:33:54as though nothing has happened.
00:33:56Now, I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well
00:33:59to remember that until recently,
00:34:01monarchies were the rule.
00:34:03And republics the exception.
00:34:04But today, republics are the rule.
00:34:09And monarchies, very much the exception.
00:34:14Lord Altringham, I have to terminate the interview.
00:34:16I'm obliged to you for answering my questions.
00:34:19Next week at the same time,
00:34:20there will be another edition of Impact.
00:34:23Good night.
00:34:25That went very well.
00:34:34Thank you again, Lord Altringham.
00:34:35Good afternoon, thank you.
00:34:36Good day.
00:34:37Good day.
00:34:45I was using this carrier in real life, and I...
00:34:48Oh, don't, Fingham!
00:34:50Yes?
00:34:51Oh...
00:34:52You traitor!
00:34:53Jack!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:02Well done, Jack.
00:35:03Now some white?
00:35:04Well done.
00:35:05Something stronger.
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:12I'm sick.
00:35:15Well done.
00:35:16I hope you can't.
00:35:18Man, they are red.
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 interview and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham.
00:35:43I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:51Well, the man that struck Altrincham, it turns out, is 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 and has a clear doctrine of English
00:36:09racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh dear.
00:36:13And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altrincham on the 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 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 at some of the telephone calls that he has
00:36:56been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister suggested that he'd come up a week earlier than planned in order to discuss it all with
00:37:06you in person.
00:37:08Goodness. A constitutional crisis.
00:37:12What?
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 Altrincham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the real world.
00:37:34No two minutes.
00:37:40No one or two minutes later.
00:37:45No one!
00:37:49You're not.
00:37:49They aren't doing anything.
00:37:49In the real world too Rich.
00:37:49But not just nowadays.
00:37:50Give her a minute, ordinary people, fifty shades, let's walk back, old.
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
00:39:29palace has offered up a chap called charteris to meet I looked him up he used to be her principal
00:39:38private secretary oh there you are before the king died when she was princess and now he's assistant
00:39:51private secretary so not quite a pawn but certainly not a bishop or knight either go go in order to
00:40:02be
00:40:02fobbed off go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together to work together they would have
00:40:07sent someone higher up go all right and take a list of suggestions recommendations don't go empty-handed
00:40:26not yet John your tooth John sorry
00:40:36you
00:40:37choose me
00:40:46you
00:40:50you
00:41:01I'm coming, sir.
00:41:03Sorry.
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.
00:42:58And 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.
00:43:24James'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
00:43:47do in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:54Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:11So, 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?
00:44:43Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:48And what is left without deference?
00:44:52Anarchy?
00:44:54Equality.
00:44:55Equality.
00:44:56How 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
00:45:05to return fire 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.
00:45:22And an unrecognised 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, I'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
00:45:59things to change.
00:46:00But 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.
00:46:25The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign, and women
00:46:29who 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.
00:46:45Next.
00:46:49Uh, allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles.
00:46:58Why?
00:47:00Why?
00:47:01The sovereign is head of the Church of England, and the church does not recognize divorced
00:47:04persons.
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, stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, with their heads buried in the sand, they're stopping the palace evolve in
00:47:32keeping with the rest of the world.
00:47:34Those 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.
00:48:08Televise 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?
00:48:58Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:19Your Majesty.
00:49:21What's the matter, sir?
00:49:21You have to come in.
00:49:34Okay, sir.
00:49:35You have to go with yourасс.
00:49:37You can't have to go with your military.
00:49:38move your flesh.
00:49:45You have to go with your wife.
00:49:46You'll have to go with your intelligence.
00:50:02Orange, lintz.
00:50:18when i went back into the room she was gone
00:50:24vanished into thin air do sit down charteress then went home to tell me that no one can ever
00:50:31know that i met the queen and that should i ever claim that i did the palace would robustly deny
00:50:36it
00:50:38they will however concede that i had an appointment with her majesty's assistant
00:50:42private secretary and 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
00:51:01this one next
00:51:07well done now let's have the rest of the pig
00:51:20like an actress
00:51:23common little showgirl
00:51:25don't be silly
00:51:28in what way am i different
00:51:31memorizing lines and remembering angles
00:51:34wearing makeup
00:51:36the queen of the united kingdom for one thing
00:51:39yes who's memorizing lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup
00:51:54your majesty
00:51:56right
00:51:59where do you want me this way please ma'am
00:52:03the girl
00:52:12thank you
00:52:14so
00:52:15I'm going to stand by.
00:52:16I'm going to drop in here.
00:52:37Matt.
00:53:21Five, four, three.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:40Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible
00:53:45for many of you to see me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television,
00:53:55as they are at this moment,
00:53:57and that is how I think of you all now.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium
00:54:03will make my Christmas message more personal and direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you,
00:54:17a successor to the kings and queens of history,
00:54:21someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films,
00:54:26but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:54:30But now, at least, for a few minutes,
00:54:34I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today
00:54:46is just another example of the speed at 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,
00:55:14yet now I do repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage,
00:55:26and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me
00:55:37to be a witness for me
00:55:39that 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
00:55:56and all the things that you long for.
00:56:01And so I wish you all, young and old,
00:56:05wherever you may be,
00:56:07all the fun and enjoyment and peace
00:56:10of a very happy Christmas.
00:56:15and we're off air.
00:56:31Congratulations.
00:56:41Congratulations.
00:57:13Oh, hello.
00:57:15Why?
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:21And the hair?
00:57:22Very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes.
00:57:23Tony, the top person, of course.
00:57:25The only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm.
00:57:28Does he have a name?
00:57:29The 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?
00:57:38Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43And 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 old, Fringham?
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?
00:58:22It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:31I believe that is...
00:58:34Harriet the Hammer Jones.
00:58:37A boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur,
00:58:45a bus driver,
00:58:47a bank clerk,
00:58:50and a woman policeman.
00:58:54All to open things up.
00:58:56Yes.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59Democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:05The 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?
00:59:54Doing nothing at all.
00:59:59Mary Annette.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13They told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses,
01:00:17so if you get a dud, don't worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Very nice.
01:00:48Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello there. Thank you. What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hammond.
01:00:53Lovely tie. I play so much fun at you.
01:00:55You play so much fun at me.
01:00:56You look amazing.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58Well, can't you tell him the truth, huh?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. James.
01:01:03Sergeant Ethel Denry.
01:01:04Hello there.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you with me.
01:01:07Oh, here they come. Dog dogs.
01:01:32Now let's play the next gosto of God.
01:01:32You play.
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