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00:25At John Brown's yard on Clydeside,
00:27the 4,000-ton Royal Yacht is ready for launching by Her Majesty.
00:37Thousands of dock workers, many of whom helped to build the Royal Craft,
00:40give the Queen a warm reception as she walks past them to inspect the yacht.
00:44For many months, there has been speculation about the name of the new yacht,
00:48and there's an air of expectancy as Her Majesty steps forward
00:51to perform the actual launching ceremony.
00:57I am delighted to join you in Clydebank today,
01:01for the launch of this, the latest Royal Yacht.
01:05I hope that this brand-new vessel, like your brand-new Queen,
01:12will prove to be dependable and constant,
01:16capable of weathering any storm.
01:19I now take great pride in naming this ship Britannia.
01:30I wish success to her, and to all who sail in her.
01:36Her Majesty releases the traditional bottle,
01:39not of champagne this time, but of empire wine.
01:50Soon, the Britannia will become a home for the Queen,
01:53the Duke and their children.
02:09Ah, please, Your Majesty.
02:11Ah.
02:13And again.
02:15Ah.
02:17Lovely. Thank you.
02:29Deep breath in.
02:31And out.
02:34And again.
02:44122 over 80.
02:52And if we could just pop the stockings off, Your Majesty.
02:58Still getting the aches on the balls of the feet?
03:02I'm at the risk of sounding like a broken record.
03:05The less time you spend on your feet, the better.
03:08Occupational hazard, I'm afraid.
03:10Now, if I can invite you to come this way.
03:23Nine and a half stone, as opposed to last year's...
03:26Not sure I want to know.
03:27Nine stone.
03:28And the year befores?
03:30Eight and three quarters.
03:32It makes no sense.
03:34In terms of diet and behaviour, I've not changed a thing.
03:37As we get older, weight stays on, and it's harder to shift.
03:40For men, they say a stone a decade.
03:42And for women?
03:44Maybe half a stone.
03:46All right. Half a stone by the end of summer.
03:51Scotland, as always?
03:52Oh, yes. Heavenly Scotland.
03:54Though slightly less heavenly without the cream teas.
03:56Is Balmoral your favourite home, would you say?
04:00Probably my second.
04:05That's a rather personal question.
04:08I do apologise, Mamma.
04:12I don't know what I was thinking.
04:14There is another.
04:16That's even more special to me.
04:22There is another.
04:22This is one.
04:39There is another.
04:41There's an influencer with him.
04:46I have to suggest you today.
04:48You have to suggest you to the people of the rest.
04:48times a day, sir, regarding a poll they've conducted about the monarchy, and it's interesting.
04:53When talking about the Queen, again and again, the same words came up. Irrelevant, old, expensive,
05:00out of touch. Quite distinct from the way people talked about you, sir. Really? Should I cover my
05:07ears? No, on the contrary. They described you as young, energetic, modern, empathetic, and when asked
05:16almost half believe you would make an excellent king and would support an early application by the
05:20Queen in your favour. And the story is running when? Sunday week, sir. When I'll be in Italy with the
05:31family. Well, actually, we think the timing of the holiday is ideal. As you know, a big part of your
05:37appeal as future king is the prospect of the Princess of Wales as Queen. Yes. So we've taken the liberty
05:43of
05:43briefing one or two friendly newspapers that it's a second honeymoon. Right.
06:08That's what they said. Those are the words they used. Second honeymoon.
06:36If you'd find theاء today. If your help is the chmm grub that you'd have thought of and
06:37Patel, to use them, they still heeft them just once again. Unless they're the
06:39So we've killed each other in a new room. And that's what they showed. This means the
06:43never to be the whole to the star of thrift. And that's what it will be. But then through that
06:44maker projet is to be seen as a legend that you haven't heard in this. So we need you guys
06:44to keep in the text. So we've done that. So we don't have to actually
06:44have appreciate your attention that what your concern is taking, at this moment. So we have to get there.
08:34She's in a mission.
08:36You know how it is.
08:37One can never be sure.
09:14I just wanted to say how happy I am that we're doing this.
10:10Give them some of the old magic.
10:11Well, come on then.
10:12Let's blow them away.
10:25No, don't let me!
10:49So the route I propose that we take
10:53is from Naples to Ischia,
10:57where Garibaldi spent some time recuperating
10:59after being injured in the Italian Wars of Independence.
11:02Am I right?
11:03Yes, sir.
11:04Then on to Capri
11:05to see the ruins of the magnificent Villa Jovis.
11:08Then down the Amalfi Coast,
11:10on to Sicily,
11:11with a final stop in Olbia on Sardinia
11:14for a private view of the Museo Archeologico there.
11:19And were there any other requests?
11:21Some beaches, perhaps.
11:23There will, of course, be beaches along the way.
11:28And watersports.
11:29And noisy watersports.
11:31And shopping.
11:36Shopping?
11:37It's possible some people might like to go shopping one day.
11:40Who?
11:42Show of hands, would anyone apart from Diana
11:45like to go shopping?
11:47And the entire point of being on a beautiful yacht like this
11:51is that you can escape from hordes of people
11:53indulging in retail as recreation.
12:00Me!
12:00I want to go shopping.
12:02Me too.
12:10Then we'll go shopping.
12:21Thanks for sticking up for me.
12:24What's brave?
12:28A special treat you get to choose between a bedtime story or...
12:32Super Mario!
12:33Don't tell your father.
12:36Are you going back upstairs now?
12:39God, no.
12:41Off to read the classics.
12:43An early night.
12:44Love you.
12:45I love you, Mummy.
12:46I love you too, my darlings.
12:48Are you longer called these Italian fries, eh?
12:51What a year was it said?
12:52Are you ready to go to date?
12:54I'm ready to go to date.
13:09Charles and Diana seem to be the happy couple again.
13:13What a blessing that would be.
13:16for everyone.
13:20Who's that?
13:22What was what?
13:23That noise.
13:28There was a mechanical noise.
13:33There it is again.
13:36Right, I'm off.
13:38One last day cutting ribbons in Morecambe,
13:40then feet up for the summer.
13:56As patron of the Church Urban Fund,
13:59I am aware of the vast challenges
14:02faced by this community
14:04and many others across the diocese.
14:07The Milk Marketing Board
14:09is among the most enduring
14:11and resilient of Britain's commercial enterprises.
14:15This state-of-the-art dairy complex
14:19is testament to the continuing vitality
14:23of British others.
14:27It has been a great pleasure
14:28to learn more about intermodal containers,
14:32representing a great 30%
14:34of the European freight market.
14:37It is clear that intermodal containers
14:39our Lancashire's ticket
14:41to a bright future.
15:06How long has the pressure been down on that ground?
15:08Since this morning, sir.
15:22It shouldn't come as a surprise
15:24she's falling apart.
15:25She's a creature of another age.
15:28Effectively, a World War II cruiser
15:30with soft furnishings.
15:32In many ways, she's obsolete.
15:34Don't say that.
15:36What are the options?
15:38Well, trouble with the main engine.
15:40Stubborn boilers out of service.
15:44Sentimentally, I think we'd all prefer to stick with her.
15:47I should say.
15:48But we have to be realistic
15:50about the cost of repairs
15:51when she's so obviously past her best.
15:55Are you seeing the Prime Minister
15:56in Balmoral next week?
15:58Yes.
15:58He's coming with his wife, Dora.
16:01No, that's not right.
16:03Nora.
16:05Norma.
16:06Well, you might want to bring it up with him then.
16:08I'll talk to the Admiral
16:09and come up with some figures.
16:12But it's the first time I've started
16:13to consider the unthinkable.
16:15What's that?
16:17A replacement.
16:20Built in AD 27 by Tiberius.
16:26Exactly.
16:27Wow.
16:27The most magnificent
16:28of world imperial residences here in Capri.
16:34Some people say that Tiberius escaped to Capri
16:37because he could no longer endure
16:38the machinations of his mother's court in Rome.
16:41Not something I could ever understand.
16:44But after a long, successful career
16:47as a general...
16:59Bye, Charles.
17:01We'll miss you while we're having all the fun.
17:07It's an extraordinary
17:09how two people's understanding of fun
17:10could be so wholly different.
17:20When they suggested to us,
17:23Diana and I,
17:24that we should reassure the public
17:27about the strength of our marriage
17:28by coming on a second honeymoon,
17:31I said to them,
17:32you obviously weren't at the first one.
17:35On Britannia, wasn't it?
17:36Yes.
17:37I know the Queen thinks
17:39the royal yacht is perfect in every way,
17:40but as an intimate space for newlyweds,
17:43it's like a floating observation tank.
17:48Every awkward silence
17:51and stilted conversation
17:53between Bride and Glue
17:54glaringly obvious to each and every one
17:57of the 200 crew.
18:06Did you just say Bride and Glue?
18:10Did I?
18:17The irony is,
18:18I'm the only person
18:19this marriage does make gloomy.
18:21It seems to lift the rest of the world up.
18:26I mean, we're together in public.
18:28I can't deny it is magical.
18:31The perfect team.
18:33Yet in private.
18:39Listen to me.
18:41After everything you've been through
18:42with your girl.
18:47She let me comb her hair last week.
18:50First time since it's grown back.
18:52Do you know it's come back curly?
18:56I found myself slightly ashamed to think
18:58I actually preferred it that way.
19:03It's a dreadful,
19:06wicked disease.
19:08You've all been so wonderfully strong.
19:14Is it important?
19:15The Sunday time, sir?
19:18Oh, yes.
19:20I'll leave you to it.
19:25It's running tomorrow.
19:27I've managed to gain advanced sight of it,
19:29and I think you'll agree
19:30it's pretty punchy.
19:47Good morning, your majesty.
19:49Good morning, Peggy.
19:52Oh, a bit wet
19:53for the arrival of the princess royal.
19:56Oh, she won't mind this.
20:03Good morning, I'm welcome.
20:05All right.
20:08Welcome aboard, your royal highness.
20:24fellows.
20:25Robert, you've got a bit of a problem.
20:33just arrived sir is the queen gone to breakfast on her way sir make sure the sunday times is
20:39removed better still thrown away under no circumstances can the queen or the princess
20:44royal be allowed to see it understood sir
21:02good morning majesty oh this effect
21:12hello darling mommy
21:19sorry ma'am you can't breathe that
21:23why not it's not today sir it's yesterday's but yesterday was saturday and that i think we can
21:30all agree is the sunday times i mean last week's what but this is today's sunday telegraph today's
21:36mail on sunday and the latest racing post oh yes please thank you
22:05yes
22:08i'm sorry to disturb sir
22:12but i thought you should be aware of this
22:22it's outrageous she never stops she never complains she never puts a foot wrong she's utterly
22:28magnificent and they print rubbish like this looks like more rain on the way i shouldn't be surprised
22:35it is the west coast of scotland i suppose you've seen the sunday times oh morning robert good morning
22:43your majesty because i checked apparently it has been delivered
22:48i'll look into it ma'am when you find it i'll be on deck
23:06well to say the article has had an impact would be an understatement it's provoked significant
23:12debate on radio and television with one particular phrase getting most attention
23:16queen victoria's syndrome yes i saw that
23:23an aging monarch too long on the throne whose remoteness from the modern world has led people to grow
23:30tired not just of her but of the monarchy itself
23:36any reaction from the queen my understanding is she hasn't seen it
23:40that they've kept it from her to protect her feelings doesn't that tell you everything
23:51i'd like you to arrange a meeting with the prime minister as soon as we're back
23:57i'll think about suitable pretext
24:06look it's a whale where
24:11oh good spot
24:15no look at the way it's surfacing it's a minky probably smell it before we see it again if we
24:21get any closer
24:21that blue smells of rotten cabbages a stinky minky
24:33oh there she is bladder
24:39there
24:42oh yes
24:44it's like a bulrush out of a pond
24:48with sheer beauty
24:49you say so dear
24:53it's one of the last manned lighthouses in scotland
24:58why don't we pay her a visit really must we come on a bit of exercise is good for the
25:03figure
25:03at our age the weight does not stay off by itself come on
25:07no
25:13work
25:38people wonder why i find lighthouses so inspiring
25:41when you get to a place like this.
25:55New inquiry?
25:57Tim?
25:58No, he's been with us for a while.
26:03What come I never noticed?
26:06Because you're married.
26:09Are you technically?
26:12What's he like?
26:16Reliable, sensible, agreeable.
26:18Hmm.
26:20I think we ought to get back to lighthouses.
26:25Those beacons of light
26:26in an otherwise black and hopeless night
26:30that reassure the lonely mariner
26:32they are not forgotten
26:34and will soon find land and home
26:38and hope.
26:56It appears that there has to be an unfortunate
26:59curtailment to the holiday.
27:01Clash of diaries, I understand.
27:02What?
27:03Yes, Prince of Wales is due to give a lecture
27:05at the university.
27:06Shut up.
27:07There won't be any sharks.
27:08Don't be carried away.
27:10What's this about us going home?
27:13It turns out there's a...
27:15a diary conflict
27:17through no fault of mine
27:18and I have to get back.
27:20You're supposed to be here for two weeks.
27:21Yes, I know.
27:22Don't ever.
27:23The plans change.
27:25I have a commitment at Oxford University.
27:27It isn't the university.
27:30It's a summer school for tourists.
27:31It's not essential.
27:32It is to me.
27:36This is our holiday.
27:39It's a rare opportunity for us to be together
27:41with the boys as a family.
27:42And I know you struggle with that sort of thing
27:44which is why I agreed to you
27:45bringing your friends along to entertain you.
27:48And I even agreed to do the photo call today
27:50requested by your people
27:51so the lie could be paraded to the world's media
27:53about what an adoring husband you are on one condition.
27:55What's that?
27:56That you actually are one.
28:33What's that?
28:41What are they supposed to do?
28:43What else?
28:44What else?
28:44What else?
28:44What else?
28:45I like it.
28:46I like it.
28:48I'll fort...
28:48I can't do that.
28:49I'll try it again.
28:50I can't do it.
28:52It's a good move.
28:56I love you, I love you, I love you.
29:42I love you, I love you.
29:53I think there's a case for saying it's the most difficult economic recession since the war, and it has struck
29:59right across the economy. It's certainly been a very difficult year.
30:06The Prime Minister, Your Royal Highness.
30:11Prime Minister.
30:14Your Royal Highness.
30:15So kind of you should come.
30:44Sir.
30:46Did you have a copy of my book?
30:46I did.
30:48I don't suppose you found time to flick through it.
30:50Knowing we were meeting today, I made a point of it.
30:53Reading it, I'm sure you thought, what an old fogey.
30:58How stuck in the past he is with his loathing of modernism and change.
31:04Not at all.
31:05Why?
31:07I, you'd have been right to.
31:09I am fixated by the past, by tradition, preserving it, conserving it.
31:17But none of us is exclusively one thing.
31:19Human beings are too interesting for that.
31:22You yourself are full of fascinating contradictions.
31:25Sir?
31:26Coming from Brixton, a multicultural, working class part of London, one might have expected
31:31you either to have concealed your past in order to fit in with the Tories, or to have
31:36a more socialist viewpoint and become a rising star in the Labour Party.
31:40I have never felt that because of my background, I should not be a Conservative.
31:45Precisely.
31:46You not only refuse to deny your contradictions, you don't see them as contradictions.
31:52I don't.
31:53Which makes you a far more interesting, more complex, more impressive person.
32:02And I hope that the same can be said of me.
32:09Which brings me to the second reason for our meeting.
32:12You saw the, uh, the recent poll and Sunday Times article about the Queen.
32:20I did.
32:22Queen Victoria's Syndrome.
32:27What were your conclusions?
32:31It's just a poll, sir.
32:34True.
32:36Not a reassuring one.
32:38Polls come and go.
32:40Dangerous to ignore them.
32:42Equally dangerous to be guided by them.
32:55There must have been many polls around the time of Mrs. Thatcher's departure.
33:03I'm sure many people wanted the Iron Lady to go on forever, but what makes the Conservative
33:08Party the successful electoral force that it is?
33:11It's instinct for renewal and its willingness to make way for someone younger.
33:19For almost 60 years, my great-great-grandfather, Edward VII, was kept waiting in the wings.
33:29It was said that Queen Victoria had no confidence in him, thought him dangerous, free-thinking.
33:37He longed to be given responsibilities, but his mother refused, even forbade him from seeing state papers.
33:49And yet, when his time came, he proved his doubters wrong, and his dynamism, his intellect, his popular appeal made
33:57his reign a triumph.
34:00What are you saying, sir?
34:03I'm saying, what a pity it was, what a waste, that his voice, his presence, his vision, wasn't incorporated earlier.
34:16It would have been so good for everybody.
34:30You're coming to Balmoral, to the Ghillies Ball?
34:34Yes. Very much looking forward to it.
34:39Well, then you'll have an opportunity to, uh, judge for yourself whether this institution that we all care about so
34:49deeply is in safe hands.
35:02And now to my questions about our built heritage and rural planning regulations.
35:29Well, then you'll have an opportunity to, uh, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
35:52come on.
35:55Hello, darling.
35:56Well, then, every discipline is here.
35:59Hello, you.
36:00Hello, you.
36:05Have you been for a nice walk?
36:07We have, and I haven't strangled her yet, which is a miracle.
36:10Hello, darling.
36:11Hi, mummy.
36:13We had a lovely morning.
36:15We read the newspapers.
36:17No, we didn't.
36:17Then we went on a long walk to discuss it all.
36:20Don't you look pretty?
36:21Doesn't she look pretty, mummy?
36:36You asked to see me, ma'am.
36:38I did.
36:40Why is everyone being odd?
36:43Ma'am?
36:43Well, it started on the Royal Yacht.
36:46What started, ma'am?
36:48People being odd with me.
36:52You're being odd now.
36:54Am I?
36:57What's going on?
37:01An unkind, silly, inaccurate article in the Sunday Times.
37:07Not worth thinking about.
37:09Don't you think I ought to be the judge of that?
37:13Do you still have a copy?
37:17Ma'am.
37:32Come on, Luton.
37:34Come on.
37:35Heelton.
37:36Heelton.
37:40Heelton.
37:51Come on, Luton.
37:52Come on.
37:53Hold on.
37:54Let's go.
37:56Let's go.
37:57Come on, Luton.
38:17Hold on.
38:22Good.
38:23Come on.
38:24Come on.
38:26Come on.
38:27Come on.
38:35Come on.
38:37I don't know.
39:21The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
39:23Prime Minister.
39:24Your Majesty.
39:26Tea.
39:28Did you come by train?
39:30Aeroplane, then car.
39:32Of course.
39:33You're a busy man.
39:34Every minute counts.
39:36But I'm a great believer in coming by sea.
39:38Instead of three hours door to door,
39:41it can take as long as two weeks on the Royal Yacht.
39:45Wonderful way to decompress.
39:48And, as my great-great-grandmother,
39:51who started the Western Isles tour, said,
39:53let time slow down
39:55so that one breathes freedom and peace,
39:58making one forget the world
40:00and its sad turmoil.
40:09I am aware the comparison between Queen Victoria and me
40:12has been made recently in the newspapers
40:14and intended as criticism.
40:17What people fail to understand is
40:19I see any similarity with Queen Victoria as a compliment.
40:22Attributes people use to describe her.
40:26Constancy, stability, calm, duty.
40:30I would be proud to have described me.
40:34And speaking of the Royal Yacht,
40:37it has now become clear that a small refit,
40:39teeny-tiny little refreshment and refurbishment
40:42is required to keep her in tip-top shape.
40:45I am aware the costs for its maintenance
40:48are borne by the government, not by the palace.
40:50And so here I am, coming to you, Prime Minister,
40:55on bended knee for the sign-off.
40:57But I'm hoping that will be a formality.
41:05I'm just mindful that before she left office,
41:08Mrs Thatcher bequeathed the palace
41:10an extremely generous civil list settlement.
41:14A deal that leaves the Royal Family
41:16richer than ever before.
41:19Given that this deal was designed
41:21precisely to forestall any awkward public debate
41:25on Royal spending,
41:26I feel bound to at least raise the question
41:28of whether there's a way
41:30you might consider bearing the cost yourselves.
41:35It's just with the Royal Yacht
41:37being perceived as something of a luxury,
41:39there is a danger the palace
41:40could be seen to be asking for too much.
41:43But she isn't a luxury.
41:45Isn't she?
41:45Prime Minister,
41:47there has always been a Royal Yacht
41:50going all the way back to King Charles II.
41:52She is a central and indispensable part
41:54of the way the Crown serves the nation.
41:57And the revenue she has generated doing so
41:59is incalculable.
42:00But we're in the midst of a global recession.
42:02Each penny of public spending
42:04is closely scrutinized.
42:08I worry that the government spending public money
42:10on the refurbishment of a yacht
42:14might backfire
42:17on us both.
42:26When I came to the throne,
42:29all my palaces were inherited.
42:32Windsor,
42:33Balmoral,
42:34Sandringham.
42:34They all bear the stamp
42:37of my predecessors.
42:38Only Britannia
42:39have I truly been able
42:41to make my own.
42:43Perhaps for that reason,
42:45the connection between me
42:46and the yacht
42:47is very much deeper
42:48than a mode of transport
42:49or even a home.
42:52From the design of the hull,
42:54the smallest piece of China,
42:56she is a floating,
42:57seagoing expression
42:59of me.
43:07I hope we can agree
43:08that as sovereign,
43:09I have made very few requests,
43:11let alone demands,
43:12in return of the service
43:13I have given this country.
43:16Perhaps the reason I have held back
43:18is in the hope
43:19that when I actually do,
43:20people don't just take it seriously.
43:23They do as I ask,
43:24without question.
43:27so I would like
43:28this government's reassurance,
43:30your reassurance,
43:31that the costs
43:32for the refurbishments
43:33will be met
43:34and for you to inform me
43:35as soon as the arrangements
43:36are in place.
43:41I understand.
43:47Now,
43:48the ghillie's ball tonight.
43:50I have to ask,
43:52are you a dancer?
43:55Trying to turn the Ukraine
43:56into an independent
43:57European country.
43:59They want to break away
44:00from Moscow
44:01to turn their back
44:02on the leadership
44:03of Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
44:16To be aimed at the West
44:17in a bid to earn hard currency.
44:19The other Soviet republics
44:21have...
44:48When you see them,
44:51the U.S.
45:27Your Majesty, the Queen.
45:43Will you do me the honour, Prime Minister?
45:45The honour would be mine, Your Majesty.
45:51Will you do me the honour, Prime Minister?
45:53All right, I'll invite you.
45:55I'll invite you.
45:56The main thing for him is massive.
45:59Here we go.
46:02The main thing for him is massive.
46:27You must understand.
46:29An economic inconvenience, but I would argue a minor one next to the yacht's enduring role as a national symbol
46:37and
46:37her importance to the Queen personally
46:42Boys say good night to mr. Major
46:59I
47:09Some local history for you if you're interested, of course
47:13Queen Victoria held the first gillies ball in 1852 and there's been one every year since
47:21It began as a thank you to
47:25The gamekeepers and other servants and has since developed into something of a saturnalia if you know your classics
47:36But the rules are turned upside down for a day masters serving slaves and all disciplinary measures suspended for the
47:45night
47:57I
47:58Was just telling the Prime Minister that these things can get quite giddy
48:02Not that I ever witness any of it. I'm afraid the real fun only starts when I go to bed
48:06Can I count on you for a full report in the morning?
48:09You can your majesty
48:11Good night. Can you slip away?
48:14Our majesty the Queen
48:34Prime Minister I understand you um you had an audience of the Queen today. I
48:40Know I shouldn't ask but I
48:43Just hope it plays well with the public
48:46sir
48:48the
48:49The refit to Britannia that is what she asked you for sir
48:57Sometimes these old things are too costly to keep repairing
49:05I'll leave you with that thought
49:09Should we call it a night?
49:10I can't not yet. You dance with me before I scream
49:17I'm so jealous you get to jump on a plane and escape out of here tomorrow back to normality
49:22No, I'm stuck here for another two weeks
49:25You just had a lovely family holiday. You and the Prince of Wales look so happy
49:31You can judge the health of the family by the state of the marriages within it
49:35And look
49:37Anna mark
49:39Look at Andrew and Sarah
49:42Charles and me
49:45I don't give any of us more than six months
49:50And what happens then when the family falls apart I
49:55Say the institution falls apart and then
50:03She's willing to thank the country for coming back right now
50:04Your presentation and here is this morning
50:07Yes
50:09Yes
50:18Yes
50:18Yes
50:19Yes
50:19Yes
50:20Yes
50:20Yes
50:23Yes
50:23Yes
50:23Yes
50:23Yes
50:26Yes
50:32What's the matter?
50:39When you imagine the problems you might be confronted with this Prime Minister,
50:43you imagine tricky sessions at PMQs, the economy in free fall, going to war.
50:52You never imagine this.
50:57The House of Windsor should be binding the nation together,
51:03setting an example of idealized family life.
51:07Instead, the senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch.
51:15The junior royals, feckless, entitled, and lost.
51:24And the Prince of Wales, impatient for a bigger role in public life,
51:28fails to appreciate that his one great asset is his wife.
51:34It's a situation that cannot help but affect the stability of the country.
51:41And what makes it worse is it feels it's all about to erupt.
51:48On my watch.
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