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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.
00:01:32You got some shots.
00:01:36You got some shots of the Queen.
00:01:38I just retourned.
00:01:40You got some shots, mate.
00:01:53I don't know who you are!
00:01:54You got some shots.
00:01:56You got some shots on the medicines, man.
00:01:57You got some shots on the medicines.
00:01:58Come on, Axe. That's it.
00:02:00That's it. Don't push.
00:02:01You're not holding him?
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really.
00:02:53Really.
00:02:54Really.
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.
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 Altrincham 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.
00:04:57A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which will debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07It's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in a periodical
00:05:22of which he is also publisher,
00:05:23have become the most pressing issue of the day, and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:00And I hope to see you.
00:06:00How's the end?
00:06:15And I'll see you soon.
00:06:15What is he doing?
00:06:22And I'll see you soon.
00:07:23That is why the ending of doctrinal tests and the introduction of women priests is the only viable solution for
00:07:28saving the Church of England, an institution that is becoming increasingly outdated and irrelevant hour by hour.
00:07:35Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:37Hello, Patricia.
00:07:39Would 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.
00:07:58Oh, my dear.
00:07:59If no one's keen on the Church story, I can knock something up.
00:08:03Now, a piece on reforming the House of Laws.
00:08:06Dermot.
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 because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:09:00Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:05Bye.
00:09:07Have a...
00:09:08Sarah?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness and ability
00:09:15to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage in meeting
00:09:22constant, small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure
00:09:28the happiness and 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 in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average men and women.
00:09:53working men and women.
00:09:57Has a touch more dignity.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22What you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of 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 about it.
00:10:49Yeah?
00:10:51Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Arthur.
00:11:04You were about to interfere
00:11:05beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning the speech
00:11:11the Queen is due to give next week
00:11:13at the Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:17I was just
00:11:19wondering if you were happy with it.
00:11:24Well, obviously I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have shown it
00:11:28to 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 good enough
00:11:43for Her Majesty.
00:11:46But I can see
00:11:48that the really important question
00:11:50is
00:11:50is it good enough
00:11:52for Colonel Charteris?
00:11:55You don't think it
00:11:57strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:02In its
00:12:04paternalism.
00:12:07May I?
00:12:11Sir?
00:12:12Well, I suppose if I
00:12:15had a concern
00:12:18it would be that post-Suez
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:22in this new Britain
00:12:26the tone
00:12:27of the speech
00:12:28is
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:30somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39then would leave her
00:12:40open to attack
00:12:41from whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling
00:12:48for every time
00:12:49someone of a progressive
00:12:50or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly
00:12:53of a popular attack
00:12:54against the crown
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people
00:12:58adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what constitutes
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 their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way
00:13:13from 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,
00:13:22there is nothing
00:13:22to attack.
00:13:23That's the advantage
00:13:24of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing
00:13:28to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to
00:13:31they'd always let us know first.
00:13:34The palace would then
00:13:34threaten them
00:13:35with a boycott
00:13:35on the next
00:13:36major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people
00:13:42you fear
00:13:43will hate the 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 worrying unnecessarily?
00:13:58Martin.
00:13:59I shall leave
00:14:01the drawing of that
00:14:02inescapable conclusion
00:14:03to you.
00:14:21I'm going to take it
00:14:23in a little shorter,
00:14:24man,
00:14:24and round her at the back.
00:14:25Lovely.
00:14:55CHOIR SINGS
00:15:17I 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?
00:15:55What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidy and sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins?
00:16:05Apparently it's very out of mode.
00:16:07All the regimental wives are wearing their hair like this now.
00:16:10Really?
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:11It's certainly very practical.
00:16:14And should you ever feel compelled to ride a motorcycle, it could almost double as a helmet.
00:16:20Well, I like it.
00:16:24I have nothing against it, Pastor.
00:16:27Stop it.
00:16:28She won't provide ample protection against any falling masonry.
00:16:37But if enlarging the family and enticing your husband to procreate is the goal...
00:16:43It is.
00:16:44Then you might take a look at Jane Mansfield.
00:16:48Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:51Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:18Sir, will you be fine?
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:22How do you do?
00:17:24It's very, very spacious.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no at all.
00:17:30May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes.
00:17:36You started drawing, did you?
00:17:38Very good, sir.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's lovely.
00:17:47With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing, I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Yes.
00:17:55Is it horse or cow?
00:17:57Thank you, ma'am.
00:17:58Hello.
00:18:01Hello.
00:18:10I wish first to express to you my very great pleasure at being here today.
00:18:18My husband and I have been most profoundly moved by your hospitable welcome and would like you to know how
00:18:26very grateful we are to you all for the work that you do.
00:18:32We understand that in the turbulence of this anxious and active world, many of you are leading uneventful, lonely lives.
00:18:48Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work depend in
00:19:00great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:19:07The upward course of a nation's history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its
00:19:15average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems most monotonous,
00:19:27what you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow.
00:19:34Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:36Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:39Come on, everybody, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner.
00:19:44Evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
00:19:48Evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing.
00:19:57Oh, you're going home.
00:19:59I don't need to be.
00:20:05I've just heard a ridiculous speech by the Queen, and I want to write an immediate response.
00:20:12I'll find someone else.
00:20:13No, no, it's no trouble.
00:20:15I had nothing else planned.
00:20:45I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:48A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:21:25I'll be here.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:09Excuse me.
00:28:10Excuse me.
00:28:13Excuse me.
00:28:17I 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 impact with Robin Day I wish it weren't day we all wish it weren't
00:28:34day he's terrifying don't be silly the fact that it's day is what makes it
00:28:40valuable you don't think I'm walking into a trap you walked into the trap
00:28:44when you wrote the article now you're the most unloved individual in Britain
00:28:50ironically day is the one person who could help you why you've seen how he
00:28:57interviews people he dismembers them tears them to shreds yes but keep your cool
00:29:03under his scrutiny make your case politely respectfully intelligently it could turn
00:29:11people around
00:29:23thank you very much
00:29:31Lord Aldrian how do you do how do you do shall we yes this way thank you for coming
00:29:43just here if you will all right
00:29:48let myself to water thank you shouldn't be too long
00:30:13we tell how all this works recording now transmission tonight
00:30:25tonight we have a man who because of press activity in recent days probably needs no
00:30:30introduction Lord altering in the space of just a few days his inflammatory and deeply
00:30:35personal attacks on the Queen in a periodical of which he is also publisher
00:30:39have become the most pressing issue of the day and caused something of a
00:30:43constitutional crisis so I'd like to begin by asking Lord altering him a simple
00:30:49question she's our head of state loved respected and admired around the world
00:30:54so why do you hate her so very much I I don't then why criticize her like this
00:31:01but that's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art I'm a passionate
00:31:07monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention
00:31:11yes I do I believe that monarchy provides clarity a symbolic head of state transcending the self-serving
00:31:21interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians who go in and out of office who as
00:31:28King Lear wonderfully says ebb and flow by the moon but when working at its best monarchy can rise above
00:31:35such
00:31:35matters and unify a society you can set the tone and become the embodiment of the
00:31:40nation of national character but the problem is at the moment it's it's not
00:31:45doing that it's doing very little right as far as you're concerned no that's not
00:31:49true you would like to see her majesty endowed with superhuman powers it's not
00:31:54superhuman to be a little spontaneous judging from your article you'd like the
00:31:57Queen to have the qualities of a of a wit you'd like her to be a a better orator a
00:32:02TV
00:32:03personality in addition to being a diligent dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother all
00:32:09I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances she should be more natural her
00:32:16style of speaking is quite frankly a pain in the neck she sounds strangled I had the misfortune of hearing
00:32:25one of the Queen's speeches in a dental waiting room recently I was horrified by the indifference and
00:32:32inertia with which the speech was greeted but you'd accept that being queen and head of the church
00:32:38of England is not an easy job or a simple one if you'll forgive me it's uh it's arguably a
00:32:43harder
00:32:43job than editing a small periodical no I know I quite agree her majesty is a seemingly impossible task
00:32:50she has to be ordinary and extraordinary touched by divinity and yet one of us but being ordinary
00:32:57doesn't have to mean bland or ineffectual or forgettable and against whom do you lay the main
00:33:05charge her courtiers well in the end if the court is wrong if the setup is wrong you have no
00:33:11choice but
00:33:11to criticize the boss the queen yes because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants she hires
00:33:19them she alone can fire them now they may be bad I believe some of them at the moment are
00:33:25they're
00:33:26quite dreadful but it is her responsibility it's not theirs in the sense that they're just hired hands
00:33:32and so the personal attack on the monarch continues let me just say this to criticize the monarchy
00:33:39to criticize her majesty personally gives me no satisfaction but we have to remember that since
00:33:46the second world war since Suez Britain has changed beyond recognition and yet the monarchy continues
00:33:53its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened I believe it would serve the queen and her courtiers
00:33:59well to remember that until recently monarchies were the rule and republics the exception but today
00:34:06republics are the rule and monarchies very much the exception
00:34:13lord alteringham I have to terminate the interview I'm obliged to you for answering my questions
00:34:19next week at the same time there will be another edition of impact good night that went very well
00:34:33thank you again lord alteringham thank you good day
00:34:41thank you
00:34:45we're using the stereo in real life
00:34:48lord alteringham yes
00:34:50oh
00:34:51you
00:34:53well done
00:35:00well done
00:35:02well done
00:35:03glass of white
00:35:05something stronger
00:35:06what about a brandy
00:35:07why not
00:35:08well done
00:35:31Yes, what is it Michael there have been some reactions in the newspapers to last night's
00:35:39television and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham? I'm afraid it's not quite as we hoped why not well the
00:35:53man
00:35:53that struck Altrincham it turns out is a member of the extreme right League of Empire loyalists
00:36:00which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the Empire and has a clear
00:36:07doctrine of English racial supremacy oh dear and it seems that most people have decided having
00:36:17watched Altrincham on television that he is eminently reasonable now almost half the country appears to
00:36:29agree with his sentiments and there are new polls to support this that is the Daily Mirror are running
00:36:35at four to one in Altrincham's favour and even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune
00:36:46this morning in addition and this I believe reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone
00:36:55calls that he has been receiving the Prime Minister has suggested that he come up a week earlier than
00:37:03planned in order to discuss it all with you in person goodness the constitutional crisis
00:37:12well I hope you're going to apologize to Mr McMillan too no you're not going to deny this hell mess
00:37:19springs from a badly written speech which I gave unquestioningly because I trusted you
00:37:25perhaps Lord Altrincham is right perhaps I should surround myself with younger more dynamic people
00:37:30with one foot in the real world
00:37:34come out
00:38:01and you believe it's now a government measure
00:38:04i 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 have overthrown their monarchies and
00:38:18become republics in recent years egypt bulgaria italy tunisia only last month of course we're not at that point
00:38:29not at a red light we're not even at an amber but we'd hate it to become amber
00:38:38and so it is my view the government's view that it would be wise to contain this as soon as
00:38:44possible
00:38:44and do what the obvious thing altering them is a fire which needs to be put out
00:38:55and there are no restrictions if you want to talk to me
00:38:56go at you
00:38:56go at you
00:39:18go at you
00:39:28The palace has offered up a chap called Charteris to meet.
00:39:34I 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.
00:40:06If they wanted 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.
00:41:01I'm coming, sir.
00:41:03Sorry.
00:41:03I'm coming, sir.
00:41:04I'm coming, sir.
00:41:06I'm coming, sir.
00:41:08I'm coming, sir.
00:41:10I'm coming, sir.
00:41:12I'm coming, sir.
00:41:17I'm coming, sir.
00:41:17I'm coming, sir.
00:41:18I'm coming, sir.
00:41:18I'm coming, sir.
00:41:18I'm coming, sir.
00:41:18I'm coming, sir.
00:41:19I'm coming, sir.
00:41:24I'm coming, sir.
00:41:26I'm coming, sir.
00:41:28I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Broad or Tringham?
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 Altrincham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:27Sir.
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.
00:43:16Which 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.
00:43:33That 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 do
00:43:47in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:54Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:01Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:10So, what 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.
00:44:24And 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 to return
00:45:05fire 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...
00:45:17Forgive me.
00:45:20A 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.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49You've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations.
00:45:57Recommendations.
00:45:58Recommendations of things to change.
00:46:00But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six.
00:46:07Six.
00:46:09Three things to start.
00:46:11And three things to stop.
00:46:12Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:16Very 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, and women
00:46:29who are not of that class are not presented to the Sovereign, and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:35This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation, certainly 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, and 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?
00:47:58Open up, ma'am.
00:48:01Know the drawbridge.
00:48:03Let people get to know you.
00:48:05I don't wish to be known.
00:48:09Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:12Become more transparent.
00:48:15Accessible.
00:48:18And finally.
00:48:19Oh, finally.
00:48:20Spend time with normal people.
00:48:23Not just courtiers or the great and the good, but real people.
00:48:27Average people.
00:48:29Average people.
00:48:30Working people.
00:48:32Open the doors.
00:48:34Make it more inclusive and egalitarian.
00:48:40Let normal people get to know you too.
00:48:56Would you mind stepping out into the corridor for a moment?
00:48:59No.
00:49:00Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:19Your Majesty.
00:49:35General Choppers.
00:49:36General Choppers.
00:49:47General Choppers.
00:50:03General Choppers.
00:50:18When I went back into the room
00:50:20She was gone
00:50:23Vanished
00:50:24Into thin air
00:50:25Do sit down
00:50:28Charteress then went home
00:50:29To tell me that no one can ever know
00:50:31That I met the queen
00:50:32And that should I ever claim that I did
00:50:35The palace would robustly deny it
00:50:38They will however concede
00:50:40That I had an appointment
00:50:41With her majesty's assistant private secretary
00:50:44And that concessions might be made
00:50:46To one or two
00:50:48Of my recommendations
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Let's get these lights in
00:51:01Quickly
00:51:01Please with that camera
00:51:03This one next
00:51:07Well done
00:51:07Now let's have the rest of the cake
00:51:20You're like an actress
00:51:23Common little showgirl
00:51:25Don't be silly
00:51:28In what way am I different
00:51:31Memorising lines
00:51:32And remembering angles
00:51:34And wearing makeup
00:51:36You're the queen of the united kingdom
00:51:38For one thing
00:51:39Yes
00:51:39Who's memorising lines
00:51:41And remembering angles
00:51:42And wearing makeup
00:51:54Your majesty
00:51:55Your majesty
00:51:56Right
00:51:59Where do you want me
00:52:00This way
00:52:01Please ma'am
00:52:02ifier
00:52:09Yes
00:52:10How did you know
00:52:10Is that what I did
00:52:13Thank you
00:52:14I'm going to check
00:52:15To everyone
00:52:15Quelluk
00:52:36Matt.
00:52:46Matt.
00:53:215, 4, 3.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3225 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, and
00:53:58that is how I think of you all now.
00:53:59I 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, a successor
00:54:18to the kings and queens of history.
00:54:20Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, but who never really touches your
00:54:28personal 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.
00:55:09And 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,
00:55:42who now will be my rewarder.
00:56:00And 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.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, my, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes, Tony, you're the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:28Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabom, but no, that's not quite right.
00:57:33But, um, Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:37Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon, I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering them?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Look at 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.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59Democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away.
00:59:11Bit by bit.
00:59:12Piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority.
00:59:17Our absolutism.
00:59:19Our divine rights.
00:59:30The 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.
00:59:59Mary Annette.
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 work.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:46Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:50Thank you for coming.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatter-in-Pin.
01:00:53I play so much fun with you.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You look absolutely...
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What can't you tell him, please?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denbride.
01:01:05It's such a pleasure to have you here.
01:01:07Oh, here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:09Oh, here they come.
01:01:39Dog dogs.
01:01:40Oh, here they come.
01:01:57Oh, here they come.
01:01:59Oh, here they come.
01:02:00Oh, here they come.
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