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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.
00:01:36Look at all, I've had a let's do it.
00:01:43That's a big win!
00:01:44You did a lot of money.
00:01:49You did a lot of money.
00:01:54Everything's over here.
00:01:55Everything's over here.
00:01:55Beast is over here.
00:01:56You did a lot of money on this ship.
00:01:57But this ship is over here.
00:01:58I'm hosting a trip.
00:01:58Come on, Axe. That's it.
00:02:01You're on Altingham.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really.
00:02:53Really.
00:02:54Really.
00:02:54There.
00:02:56Well, 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 Altingham 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.
00:03:54And the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station where we expect him to be
00:04:00released without charge.
00:04:02Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am, where Altingham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:18A programme appropriately called Impact.
00:04:23When will it air?
00:04:25Tonight, ma'am.
00:04:27Nine o'clock.
00:04:47Tell the people.
00:04:48Tell them on television.
00:04:51Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:58A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which will debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07It's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight, we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altingham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:05:21in a periodical of which he is also publisher, have 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 Altingham a simple question.
00:05:33But, she's our head of state, loved, respected, and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:05:41Quite often.
00:05:42Yeah.
00:06:11I was so lazy of you.
00:06:11Not sick.
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.
00:14:39guitar solo
00:15:09CHOIR SINGS
00:15:23CHOIR SINGS
00:15:44CHOIR SINGS
00:15:44I 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?
00:15:55What's wrong with it?
00:15:59i thought it was tidying sensible adjectives to stir the loins apparently it's very animoge
00:16:07all the regimental wives are wearing their hair like this now really yes it's certainly very
00:16:12practical and should you ever feel compelled to ride a motorcycle it could almost double as a
00:16:17helmet well i like it i have nothing against it stop it sure provide ample protection against
00:16:31any falling masonry but if enlarging the family and enticing your husband to procreate is the goal
00:16:43it is then you might take a look at jane man's film or reta hayworth
00:17:18sir william bryant welcome your majesty thank you
00:17:21elliot
00:17:24it's very um spacious this is our research and development area
00:17:28no no it's not may i introduce you ma'am to nigel willoughby who sketches all of our prototypes
00:17:35you studied drawing did you very good season and that's a chassis it is indeed a finished mk1
00:17:44your majesty oh no it's lovely with top speeds of over a hundred miles per hour
00:17:51quite the thing i've always been interested in the red leather is it horse or cow
00:18:09i wish first to express to you my very great pleasure at being here today my husband and i have
00:18:20been most profoundly moved by your hospitable welcome and would like you to know how very grateful we
00:18:27are to you all for the work that you do we understand that in the turbulence of this anxious and
00:18:37active
00:18:37world many of you are leading uneventful lonely lives where dreariness is the enemy
00:18:48perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the
00:18:55fatigue of dull repetitive work depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community
00:19:05as a whole the upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of
00:19:14heart
00:19:14of its average men and women may you be proud to remember how much depends on you
00:19:23and that even when your life seems most monotonous what you do is always of real value and importance to
00:19:33your family
00:19:38come on everybody let's have a wonderful time
00:19:41lord lord for now
00:19:46news corny call
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing. Oh, 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. I had nothing else planned.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought. I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being
00:20:56to inspire.
00:20:56I'm a spider.
00:21:33Go.
00:21:39I'll take care of one.
00:21:40I'm good.
00:21:50Go.
00:22:05Let's go.
00:22:22Hello.
00:22:23I trust you at the station.
00:22:24Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Let's say a bit.
00:22:28Bye.
00:22:29Bye.
00:22:32Bye.
00:22:58Good to be back.
00:23:29Good to be back.
00:23:57Good to be back.
00:24:34Good shot, ma'am.
00:24:49Good to be back.
00:24:51Good to be back.
00:24:57Good to be back.
00:25:06Good to be back.
00:25:08Good to be back.
00:25:21Good to be back.
00:25:31Good to be back.
00:25:36Good to be back.
00:25:38Good to be back.
00:25:52Good to be back.
00:25:55Good to be back.
00:26:08Sorry to disturb, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness.
00:26:12Just to say, it might be worth avoiding certain newspapers this morning.
00:26:18Why?
00:26:20What's your sister done now?
00:26:23Nothing to do with Princess Margaret, sir.
00:26:25Uh, it's an article written by Lord Altrincham.
00:26:31Never heard of him.
00:26:32You?
00:26:33Taken originally from his own publication, The National and English Review.
00:26:40Never heard of that, either?
00:26:42Which several newspapers have chosen to run, partially or in full.
00:26:48What kind of article?
00:26:51It's quite a critical article, ma'am.
00:27:01What gives him the right?
00:27:05Tell me, honestly, mummy.
00:27:08Is there any part of you that agrees with him?
00:27:13Certainly not.
00:27:16That's not just your mother saying that.
00:27:20The palace press secretary called me an hour ago to say the vast majority of the country not only disagrees
00:27:25with Altrincham, but is disgusted by him.
00:27:28It's an irrelevant article, written by an irrelevant man for an irrelevant publication.
00:27:34Only picked up because it's August, people are on holiday, government is in recess, there's nothing to write about.
00:27:42Today, 85% of the country is against him, by tomorrow it will be 95%.
00:27:47That man's going to wish he'd never been born.
00:27:53That man's going to wish he'd never been born.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting me
00:28:22to 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.
00:28:35He'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.
00:29:37How long do we have until we start?
00:29:39Well, we'll put them to make up quickly.
00:29:40We should make stuff.
00:29:44Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Let myself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:59He's standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:05Thanks, sir.
00:30:13Have you been told how all this works?
00:30:14Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission tonight.
00:30:17Yes.
00:30:20Five, four, three.
00:30:25Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:30:29probably needs no introduction, Lord Altrium.
00:30:31In 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 day
00:30:42and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:30:45So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrium 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.
00:30:59Then why criticise her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticises art.
00:31:05I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state,
00:31:19transcending the self-serving interests of 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,
00:31:34monarchy 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,
00:31:44it's not doing that.
00:31:45It'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,
00:31:56you'd like the Queen to have the qualities of a wit,
00:32:00you'd like her to be a better orator,
00:32:02a 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
00:32:11and in her appearances,
00:32:12she should be more natural.
00:32:15Her style of speaking is, quite frankly,
00:32:18a 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.
00:32:34But you'd accept that being Queen
00:32:37and head of the Church of England is not an easy job,
00:32:39or a simple one, if you'll forgive me.
00:32:41It'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,
00:32:59or ineffectual,
00:33:01or 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,
00:33:08if the set-up is wrong,
00:33:10you have no choice but to criticise the boss.
00:33:12The Queen?
00:33:13Yes, because only the boss
00:33:15can 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.
00:33:32And 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.
00:33:56I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well
00:33:59to remember that until recently,
00:34:01monarchies were the rule
00:34:02and republics the exception.
00:34:05But today,
00:34:06republics are the rule
00:34:08and monarchies
00:34:10very much the exception.
00:34:14Lord Altringham,
00:34:15I have to terminate the interview.
00:34:16I'm obliged to you
00:34:17for 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.
00:34:36Good day.
00:34:37Good day.
00:34:48Lord Altringham.
00:34:50Yes.
00:34:53You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done.
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.
00:35:12I'm sorry.
00:35:16Oh, be calm.
00:35:18Man, they are red.
00:35:31Your Majesty.
00:35:32Yes, what is it, Michael?
00:35:35There have been some reactions
00:35:37in the newspapers
00:35:38to last night's television interview
00:35:40and to the assault
00:35:42upon Lord Altringham.
00:35:43I'm afraid it's not quite
00:35:45as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:52Well, the man
00:35:53that struck Altringham,
00:35:54it turns out,
00:35:55is a member
00:35:56of the extreme right
00:35:57League of Empire
00:35:59Loyalists,
00:36:00which is a pressure group
00:36:02that campaigns
00:36:03against the dissolution
00:36:05of the Empire
00:36:06and has a clear doctrine
00:36:08of English racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh, dear.
00:36:12And it seems
00:36:14that most people
00:36:15have decided,
00:36:16having watched
00:36:17Altringham on television,
00:36:19that he is
00:36:21eminently reasonable.
00:36:24Now,
00:36:25almost half the country
00:36:27appears to agree
00:36:29with his sentiments
00:36:30and there are new polls
00:36:32to support this.
00:36:34Letters and the Daily Mirror
00:36:35are running at four to one
00:36:37in Altringham's favour.
00:36:39And even the
00:36:41normally conservative
00:36:42Daily Mail
00:36:45changed its tune
00:36:46this morning.
00:36:49In addition,
00:36:50and this, I believe,
00:36:52reflects on his
00:36:53growing concern
00:36:54at some of the telephone calls
00:36:56that he has been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister
00:36:59suggested
00:37:00that he'd come up
00:37:02a week earlier
00:37:02than planned
00:37:03in order to discuss
00:37:05it all
00:37:05with you
00:37:06in person.
00:37:08Goodness.
00:37:09A constitutional
00:37:10crisis.
00:37:12Well, I hope
00:37:13you're going to apologise
00:37:14to Mr Macmillan, too.
00:37:16No.
00:37:17You're not going to deny
00:37:18that this hell
00:37:19mess springs
00:37:19from a badly written speech
00:37:20which I gave
00:37:21unquestioningly
00:37:22because I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altring
00:37:26was right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should
00:37:27surround myself
00:37:28with younger,
00:37:29more dynamic people
00:37:30with one foot
00:37:30in the real world.
00:37:34Come on.
00:38:01And do you believe it's now a government measure?
00:38:03I do, ma'am. Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me, concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries
00:38:16have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:22Egypt, 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?
00:38:45The obvious thing. Altering them is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you. Go at you.
00:39:16Go at you.
00:39:19Go at you.
00:39:28The palace has offered up a chap called Charteris to meet.
00:39:35I looked him up.
00:39:36He used to be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, there you are.
00:39:42Before the king died.
00:39:45When she was princess.
00:39:48And now?
00:39:50He's assistant private secretary.
00:39:54So, not quite a pawn, but certainly not a bishop or knight either.
00:39:59Go.
00:40:01Go in order to be fobbed off.
00:40:03Go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together.
00:40:06Wanting to work together, they would have sent someone higher up.
00:40:09Go.
00:40:11All right.
00:40:13And take a list of suggestions.
00:40:16Recommendations.
00:40:18Don't go empty-handed.
00:40:26Not yet.
00:40:28John.
00:40:28Your tooth.
00:40:29John.
00:40:31Sorry.
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:03Sorry.
00:41:03I'm coming, sir.
00:41:03I'm coming, sir.
00:41:04I'm coming, sir.
00:41:08I'm coming.
00:41:11Shut your mouth.
00:41:12It's fine, sir.
00:41:15You are coming.
00:41:22Shut your mouth.
00:41:24I'm coming.
00:41:24Shut your mouth.
00:41:25Hit me.
00:41:30You are coming, sir.
00:41:33Watch out füsts.
00:41:33Broad Ortingham?
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 Ortingham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what would that be?
00:43:05Your Majesty.
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
00:43:15Oh.
00:43:16Which you attended to, I gather.
00:43:19Yes.
00:43:20Going on to become an officer of the guards at both St. James's Palace and Windsor Castle.
00:43:27Doesn't quite fit the profile of a revolutionary.
00:43:31It's the assumption everyone has made.
00:43:33But because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the temple down.
00:43:38On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives.
00:43:42Well, those of us in the temple are very much looking forward to hearing what it is we must
00:43:47do in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:55Is my voice all right?
00:43:58You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:09So.
00:44:11What is it that you'd have me change?
00:44:13It'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.
00:44:25And to prepare yourself for the fact we now live in a time where people like me...
00:44:32Can say exactly what they think?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:35In any way they want?
00:44:37Yes.
00:44:38And remind me, why is that exactly?
00:44:44Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:48And what is left without deference?
00:44:52Anarchy?
00:44:54Equality.
00:44:55How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?
00:44:58You can.
00:44:59But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage
00:45:04to 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 and an unrecognized journalist,
00:45:25and taking his advice on how to do her job.
00:45:28Well, the situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, your majesty.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49I'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.
00:46:00But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations.
00:46:03to, um, six.
00:46:07Six.
00:46:09Three things to start and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:17Very well.
00:46:18Ah, yes.
00:46:20Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign,
00:46:29and women who are not of that class are not presented to the sovereign,
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, allow 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 recognise divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:17Uh, I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here.
00:47:22The old school.
00:47:24Stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches with their heads buried in the sand.
00:47:30They're stopping the palace evolve in keeping with the rest of the world.
00:47:33Those ostriches provide an indispensable function of monarchy.
00:47:39The preservation of tradition.
00:47:44You asked for my recommendations, ma'am.
00:47:48I'm respectfully passing them on.
00:47:54What would you have me start?
00:47:57Open up, ma'am.
00:48:01Know 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.
00:49:00Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:35General, stop this.
00:49:45Commanders.
00:49:48Commanders.
00:49:49Commanders.
00:49:49Commanders.
00:49:56Commanders.
00:50:02Orange.
00:50:03Please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room,
00:50:20she 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
00:50:31that I met the Queen.
00:50:33And that should I ever claim that I did,
00:50:35the palace would robustly deny it.
00:50:38They will, however, concede that I had an appointment
00:50:41with Her Majesty's assistant private secretary,
00:50:44and that concessions might be made to one or two
00:50:48of my recommendations.
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Well, let'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,
00:51:34wearing make-up.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40Who's memorising lines and remembering angles
00:51:42and wearing make-up.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way.
00:52:01This way, please, Mum.
00:52:35What's that?
00:52:37Matt.
00:52:40Matt?
00:52:42Matt.
00:52:43Matt.
00:53:21Five, four, three.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible for many of you to see
00:53:47me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television, as they are at this moment,
00:53:57and that is how I think of you all now.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and
00:54:07direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor
00:54:18to the kings and queens of history, someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and
00:54:25films, but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:54:30But now, at least, for a few minutes, I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed
00:54:49at which things are changing all around us.
00:54:57I would like to read a few lines from Pilgrim's Progress.
00:55:09And though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do repent me of all the trouble
00:55:17I have 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
00:55:29to him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles,
00:55:41who 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.
00:56:30Congratulations.
00:56:42Thank you very much.
00:57:07Thank you very much.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, my, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes.
00:57:23Tony, near the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:28Does he have a name, a stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb. No, that's not quite right.
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:37Yes, I think. Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair as 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, I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering him?
00:58:02Yes. Just 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?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:31I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones, a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur, a bus driver, a bank clerk, and a woman policeman.
00:58:54All to open things up.
00:58:56Yes, bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59Democratise us.
00:59:02And 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.
00:59:17Our absolutism.
00:59:19Our divine rights.
00:59:29The history of the monarchy in this country is a one-way street of humiliation.
00:59:34Sacrifices and concessions in order to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us, then the merchants, now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss about curtsies, protocol and precedent.
00:59:45It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour as we go from ruling to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10I told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses, so if you get a dud, don't
01:00:18worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Oh, give me that.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Sister and Mrs Patel.
01:00:49Hallelujah.
01:00:50Thank you all for coming.
01:00:52Mr Harry the Hatter.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53I play so much around you.
01:00:55Thank you so much for coming.
01:00:56You look amazing.
01:00:57Mr Martin Jones.
01:00:58What are you telling me?
01:01:00Hello Mrs Patel.
01:01:02Hello Mrs Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denbrough.
01:01:04Oh hello there.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you.
01:01:07Oh here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:15Yeah.
01:01:36You turn Robinson Hotel.
01:01:39The어 schönmonton Hotel.
01:01:42Peloanie Hotel.
01:01:43Peloanie Hotel.
01:01:44Oh hey.
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