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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.
00:01:28Poor dog and whosse.
00:01:33Shapiro hasяли...
00:01:35How was it?
00:01:44Hands in front of the ball.
00:01:49I think he'd put a look at it.
00:01:53And we played a range of dollars,
00:01:55point 2-4,
00:01:56mis-t scheme,
00:01:56and we played an affinity.
00:01:57Yeah, no, no!
00:01:57Get a look at That was the awards point.
00:01:57Probably be the expert on their Arms dot com
00:01:58Come on, that. That's it.
00:02:01You're not holding him.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Rarely.
00:02:53Rarely.
00:02:55Well, I shall certainly let Her Majesty 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.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altrincham 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, ma'am.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios.
00:03:54And the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:58where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:03Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:07Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am,
00:04:13where Altrincham 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.
00:04:55This 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,
00:05:14probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days,
00:05:18his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:05:21in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:05:24have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:05:26and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State.
00:05:36Loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:05:48Sees Come 필.
00:05:59Come Pow.
00:05:59Do you mean the scriptures have been Italian?
00:06:11Oh, why do you do that?
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.
00:14:27single of thewięx
00:14:39and hands has more
00:14:43to you.
00:14:44Say Strength and
00:14:52say
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 tidying.
00:16:01Sensible.
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?
00:16:10Yes.
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.
00:16:21I don't know.
00:16:25I 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 William Park.
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23How do you do?
00:17:24How do you do?
00:17:24It's very.
00:17:25It's very, um, spacious.
00:17:27Is this our research and development area?
00:17:29No.
00:17:29No, at all.
00:17:30No.
00:17:31May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes?
00:17:36You studied drawing, did you?
00:17:37No.
00:17:38Very good, teacher.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's a dummy.
00:17:47With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:52Quite a thing.
00:17:52I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:55Yes.
00:17:55Is it horse or cow?
00:17:57Thank you, ma'am.
00:17:58Hello.
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
00:18:25like you 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
00:18:40leading uneventful, 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
00:19:15of its average men and women.
00:19:18You may be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems
00:19:25most monotonous, what 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.
00:19:38Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:39Come on, everybody, and let's have a wonderful time.
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, 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.
00:20:11Well, I'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.
00:20:57I'm sorry about it.
00:21:00No, no.
00:21:09Ok.
00:21:09I'll find a metaphor.
00:21:09I'm sorry.
00:21:09I don't know why she killed her.
00:21:10I don't know why she killed her.
00:21:15Good evening, you can't tell the old girl.
00:21:16So I'm sorry to tell the old girl.
00:21:16Yes, I'm sorry.
00:21:17No, I'm sorry.
00:21:18You can't tell her that it's not right.
00:21:22No, no, I'm sorry.
00:21:25Close the car.
00:28:40You 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.
00:28:51Ironically, 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 Aldrian, how do you do?
00:29:33How do you do? Shall we?
00:29:34Yes, this way. Thank 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.
00:29:40I'm clear we should make start for 10 minutes.
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.
00:29:59He's standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:01He's ready.
00:30:05Let's make a start.
00:30:12Can we tell them how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission tonight.
00:30:17Stand by, sir.
00:30:20Five, four, three.
00:30:25Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no introduction,
00:30:31Lord Altrincham.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:30:37in a periodical of which he is also publisher, have become the most pressing issue of the
00:30:42day and 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 don't.
00:30:58Then 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 is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:12Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:17A symbolic head of state transcending 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.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of 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.
00:31:50You 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.
00:31:59You'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 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 in a dental waiting room recently.
00:32:28I was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was greeted.
00:32:35But you'd accept that being Queen and head of the Church of England is not an easy job,
00:32:39or a simple one.
00:32:40If you'll forgive me, it's arguably a harder job than 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, or ineffectual, or forgettable.
00:33:03And against whom do you lay the main charge?
00:33:05Her courtiers?
00:33:06In the end, if the court is wrong, if the set-up is wrong,
00:33:10you have no choice but to criticise the boss.
00:33:12The Queen?
00:33:13Yes, 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, in the sense that they're just hired hands.
00:33:32And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:36Let me just say this.
00:33:37To criticise the monarchy, to criticise Her Majesty, personally, gives me no satisfaction.
00:33:44But we have to remember that since the Second World War, since Suez,
00:33:49Britain has changed beyond recognition.
00:33:51And yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened.
00:33:56Now, I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until recently,
00:34:01monarchies were the rule, and republics the exception.
00:34:04But today, republics are the rule, and 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, there 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.
00:34:48Lord Altringham?
00:34:50Yes?
00:34:52You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done, sir.
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.
00:35:11Well done.
00:35:12Well done.
00:35:13Well done.
00:35:14Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:16Well done.
00:35:18Well done.
00:35:19Good day.
00:35:19Good day our wrath.
00:35:20Good day our wrath.
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 interviews and to the assault upon Lord Altringham.
00:35:43and I'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
00:36:03against the dissolution of the empire
00:36:06and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy.
00:36:11Oh, dear.
00:36:13And it seems that most people have decided,
00:36:16having watched Altrincham on television,
00:36:20that he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25Now, almost half the country
00:36:28appears to agree with his sentiments,
00:36:30and there are new polls to support this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at 4 to 1 in Altrincham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail
00:36:45changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this, I believe,
00:36:52reflects on his growing concern
00:36:54at some of the telephone calls he has been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister suggested that he'd 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, 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
00:37:19springs from a badly written speech
00:37:20which I gave unquestioningly
00:37:22because I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altrincham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself
00:37:28with younger, more dynamic people
00:37:30with one foot in the real world.
00:37:34Come on.
00:37:36Come on.
00:37:36Come on.
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
00:38:08have been calling me, concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding
00:38:14a great many other countries have overthrown their monarchies
00:38:18and become republics in recent years.
00:38:22Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia only last month.
00:38:26Of 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,
00:38:41that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible.
00:38:44And do what?
00:38:46The obvious thing.
00:38:49Altering them is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:39:02I've got you!
00:39:18I've got you!
00:39:29I've got you!
00:39:30And you need to be a captain called Charteress
00:39:32to meet.
00:39:34I looked him up.
00:39:36Used to be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, there you are!
00:39:42Before the king died.
00:39:45when she was princess and now he's assistant private secretary so not quite a pawn but
00:39:57certainly not a bishop or knight either go go in order to be fobbed off go in the spirit of
00:40:04openness and wanting to work together wanted to work together they would have sent someone higher
00:40:08up go all right and take a list of suggestions recommendations don't go empty-handed
00:40:26not yet john your tooth john sorry
00:41:01i'm coming sir
00:41:07so
00:41:11so
00:41:12so
00:41:12so
00:41:12so
00:41:12so
00:41:13so
00:41:13so
00:41:13so
00:41:13so
00:41:13so
00:41:33broad orteringham
00:41:34yes
00:41:35this way please
00:42:05good to know i'm seeing the top man
00:42:12in one sense
00:42:20here we are lord orteringham colonel charteris will be with you shortly
00:42:26thank you sir
00:42:28thank you sir
00:42:52i see we have something in common
00:42:56i see we have something in common
00:42:58and what would that be
00:43:05your majesty
00:43:10i i i i i i i was referring to the photos of eton and sandhurst
00:43:15oh
00:43:16which you attended to i gather
00:43:18yes
00:43:20going on to become an officer of the guards at both
00:43:22st 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
00:43:33because 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
00:43:55is my voice all right
00:43:58you can understand me
00:44:01yes
00:44:02not too strangled
00:44:03not too much a pain in the neck
00:44:06no
00:44:07good
00:44:09so
00:44:11what is it that you'd have me change
00:44:14it's not so much what i'd have you change
00:44:16just an acknowledgement that it has changed
00:44:20what
00:44:22everything
00:44:24and to prepare yourself for the fact
00:44:27we now live in a time where
00:44:31people 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
00:44:40why is that
00:44:41exactly
00:44:44because the age of deference is over
00:44:48and what is left
00:44:49without 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
00:45:04to return fire on their own people
00:45:07but you have managed to think of
00:45:10how this monarch might do something to her advantage
00:45:12i have
00:45:14and that same monarch is sitting before
00:45:17forgive me
00:45:19a failed politician
00:45:22and 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
00:45:33can you see
00:45:48i've got a list
00:45:51i do
00:45:53as you might know from my article i made a series of observations
00:45:58recommendations of things to change but
00:46:00for the purposes of this meeting i chose to limit those recommendations to
00:46:05um
00:46:05six
00:46:07six
00:46:09three things to start
00:46:10and three things to stop
00:46:12well
00:46:14let's start with the stops
00:46:16very well
00:46:18ah
00:46:20putting an end
00:46:21to the debutante's ball
00:46:24the idea that only
00:46:26young 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
00:46:32and 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
00:46:46next
00:46:49uh
00:46:52allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles
00:46:58why?
00:47:00the sovereign is head of the church of england
00:47:02and the church does not recognize divorced persons
00:47:05it's unkind
00:47:08discriminatory
00:47:09quite possibly unlawful
00:47:14next
00:47:16uh...
00:47:18i would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here
00:47:22the old school
00:47:24stuck in the past
00:47:26ostriches
00:47:27with their heads buried in the sand
00:47:29uh...
00:47:30they're stopping the palace evolve in keeping with the rest of the world
00:47:33those ostriches
00:47:35provide an indispensable function of monarchy
00:47:39the preservation of tradition
00:47:44you asked for my recommendations ma'am
00:47:47i'm respectfully passing them on
00:47:54what would you have me start?
00:47:57open up
00:47:58ma'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
00:48:26but real people
00:48:27average people
00:48:29working people
00:48:32open the doors
00:48:34make it more inclusive and egalitarian
00:48:39let normal people get to know you too
00:48:56would you mind stepping out into the corridor for a moment?
00:48:59no... not at all
00:49:08and would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12of course
00:49:20your majesty
00:49:35I'm going to do my best
00:49:36with all of this
00:49:43general
00:49:43what matters then?
00:49:46what matters then?
00:49:49it's all
00:49:57what matters then?
00:49:59what matters then?
00:50:02Orange, please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:23Vanished into thin air.
00:50:26Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went on 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.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the table.
00:51:20I feel like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40Who's memorising 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, please, ma'am.
00:52:14Check, please.
00:52:36Matt.
00:52:46Matt.
00:53:24Matt.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today is another landmark.
00:53:44Because television has made it possible for many of you to see me 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.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium will 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, but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:54:31But 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 at
00:54:50which 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 him
00:55:29that 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,
00:55:41who 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.
00:57:14Hello.
00:57:14My, my. You look pretty, like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes, Tony, near the top person, of course.
00:57:25The only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm. Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb. No, that's not quite right.
00:57:35Um... Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:37Yes, I think. Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about hair
00:57:40as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty. Thank you.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon,
00:57:45I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man
00:57:51should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony,
00:57:55but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering them?
00:58:02Yes. Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God. Good one.
00:58:16There it is. Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:30I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones,
00:58:36a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur,
00:58:46a bus driver, a bank clerk, and a woman policeman.
00:58:54It's all to open things up.
00:58:56Yes.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:59:00Democratise us.
00:59:03And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away, bit by bit, piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority, our absolutism, our 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.
00:59:41It's only a small 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.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10I 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.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Oh, give me that.
01:00:45Come on.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello there.
01:00:50What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hammond.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You're looking absent.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58Well, can't you tell him true, huh?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. David Smith.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denbride.
01:01:04Oh, hello there.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you.
01:01:07Oh, here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:09No.
01:01:10No.
01:01:11No.
01:01:11No.
01:01:12No.
01:01:13No.
01:01:14No.
01:01:15No.
01:01:15No.
01:01:29No.
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