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15:18Just one of those
16:12Jesus Christ
16:13As a large majority
16:43of those things
17:13and we're here at the
17:52Sir, the protocol is as follows.
17:54When you're announced, you bow from the neck.
17:56First time you see the queen, you say your majesty.
17:58After that, it's man.
17:59Runs with hand until you leave.
18:01Then it's your majesty again.
18:02Don't sit until her majesty does.
18:04Don't talk until she does.
18:05Absolutely no physical contact other than taking a hand if and only if she offers it.
18:10No small talk unless she invites it.
18:12And at the end, she'll buzz and I'll come and get you.
18:15Bow from the neck and walk back towards me.
18:29The leader of the opposition, your majesty.
18:33Mr. Wilson.
18:42Your majesty.
18:44The country's spoken.
18:46Your party has won the election.
18:48The duty befalls me as sovereign to ask you to form a government in my name.
18:54Congratulations, Prime Minister.
19:10Well, I suppose I should kick things off with an apology.
19:14Whatever for?
19:15Winning.
19:17I'm aware of your affection for my predecessor, and doubtless you'd have preferred him to have continued in office.
19:22It is my duty not to have preferences.
19:25Well, we all do, though, don't we?
19:27We can't help it.
19:27It's human nature.
19:29And I can see the attraction of someone like Boshalik.
19:32Someone you can chat with about the racing.
19:34Someone well-bred, high-born, who knows how to hold his cutlery as opposed to a ruffian like me.
19:40Hardly.
19:40Still, the country said otherwise.
19:43They'd had enough of the mess those conservatives left us.
19:46And the havoc they wreaked.
19:49Soaring land and house prices.
19:51Race riots.
19:52Sex scandals.
19:53Large-scale unemployment.
19:55Rejection from the EEC.
19:56And an annual trade deficit of 800 million pounds.
20:02Yes, it's an unenviable legacy.
20:06What will you do about the balance of payments?
20:08Will you devalue?
20:09No, ma'am.
20:12A Labour government devalued the pound once before, with little success, and my party cannot risk being seen as the
20:19party of devaluation.
20:22It is also a matter of national pride.
20:25This is still a great country, and the pound is a powerful symbol.
20:33Can't have been an easy one to get used to.
20:36What's that?
20:37Were you being part of that symbol, your face on every coin and banknote?
20:43No.
20:45I remember seeing my father's face on a shilling for the first time.
20:48And thinking how odd it looked.
20:51At the same time realizing I would probably one day have to look at my own face.
20:56But one never knows what destiny has in store for one.
21:00Did you ever imagine you'd be Prime Minister?
21:02Goodness, no.
21:04How could you have done?
21:06Mr. Gateskill was still such a young man.
21:08He was.
21:10No one could possibly have foreseen his death?
21:13No.
21:14So sudden?
21:15Yes.
21:17And unexpected?
21:18Yes.
21:20Still, we make of our destiny what we can.
21:23Indeed.
21:27I'm not sure what I was expecting.
21:29Each of his predecessors, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, even Ellick, each in their own way, was formidable.
21:37Statesman-like.
21:39But Wilson is neither old nor young, tall nor short, loud nor quiet, warm nor cold.
21:48He seems to have come from nowhere and is entirely unremarkable.
21:52Best qualities in a spy.
21:54What did you say?
21:56Aren't those the best qualities in a spy?
21:59Well, it should be forgettable, unremarkable.
22:02Not stand out in a crowd.
22:04We used to say that about Henry, didn't we, dear?
22:06What?
22:07That you would have made the perfect spy.
22:09Because no one could remember having met you.
22:13I'd say that was marginally better than everyone having nightmares having met you.
22:30Of course, we do tease each other.
22:32With Tony, one never knows quite whom one's going to get from one moment to the next.
22:37It's changeable.
22:39It goes from loving to hating.
22:40Mummy, you're not listening.
22:43Of course I am, darling.
22:46Tony doesn't hate you.
22:48I think he may be starting to.
22:50You must try not to let him consume you like this.
22:55Two of you have your trip to America coming up.
22:58Yes.
22:59You'll be with each other round the clock, working together as a team.
23:02Your father and I always found those trips very bonding.
23:08I hope you're right.
23:10It's all right.
23:13All right.
23:16Hello.
23:19Hello.
23:21Hello.
23:23Hello.
23:58Sir?
23:59Margot.
23:59Margot.
24:02How did you know?
24:03Margot.
24:0417 minutes door to door.
24:06I'm claiming that as a land speed record.
24:08Is there any food left?
24:10Have you eaten at all?
24:10Your Majesty.
24:13Your Majesty, a thousand apologies.
24:17Happy birthday, Henry.
24:19Tony, where were you?
24:20Hello.
24:21Hello, darling.
24:24Tony.
24:24Darling, come and sit next to your wife.
24:26Why would I do that?
24:27I see her all the time.
24:29She was just saying she sees your nun of the time.
24:31Because he's always working, travelling or water skiing.
24:36It's my new passion, ma'am.
24:37Your Majesty, there's a telephone...
24:38On the label, son.
24:40Oh, it's lovely, though.
24:41Actually, there's a ghastly little pond.
24:43I think it's fine.
24:44We owe you.
24:45I think it's fine.
24:46You're singing.
24:47What do you know?
24:47You don't have to wind it down.
24:49Oh, the general...
24:50Oh, my God.
24:51Oh, my God.
24:53Charming Elizabeth.
24:54Thank you so much.
24:56It's really charming.
24:58It's a great job.
24:59Happy birthday to you.
25:01Oh, my word.
25:02Happy birthday to you.
25:05Happy birthday, dear Henry.
25:10Happy birthday to you.
25:14Oh, that's enough.
25:16Shh, shh, shh.
25:18Winston is dead.
25:41Fire!
25:45We'll see you next time.
26:37Sir, the CIA's director of counterintelligence on the phone.
26:42I'll call him back.
26:44He called on Juliet, sir.
26:47Heads of states from around the world are arriving,
26:51crowding in to this great mother church of the Commonwealth.
27:19Jim?
27:21Martin.
27:22A man by the name of Michael Strait has surrendered himself to us at the DOJ.
27:28He claims to be a sleeper agent working for the Russians.
27:31He says he has information that will uncover a senior KGB mole at the top of the British establishment.
27:58Where is he now?
27:58Washington, we can have him flown into you by tomorrow.
28:04We are assembled here as representing the people of this land
28:09to join in prayer on the occasion of the burial of a great man
28:14who has rendered memorable service to his country and to the cause of freedom.
28:24We shall think of him with thanksgiving
28:26that he was raised up in our days of desperate need
28:31to be a leader and inspirer of the nation
28:35for its dauntless resolution and untowling vigilance.
28:41My name is Michael Strait.
28:43And since all men are subject to temptation and error,
28:49we pray that we, together with him,
28:53may be numbered among those whose sins are forgiven
28:58and have a place in the kingdom of heaven.
29:02I attended Cambridge University,
29:06and it was during this time that I was first approached
29:10by members of the Communist Party.
29:23Right.
29:31Right.
29:31Right.
29:33I'll confirm with her majesty and come back to you straight away.
29:46Director-General of MI5, Mr. Furnival Jones, your majesty.
29:55Your majesty, thank you for seeing me.
30:06It gives me no pleasure to tell you that we have been approached by a former Russian agent
30:11who has identified a mole at the top of the British establishment.
30:16So it's true.
30:18Ma'am?
30:19I'd heard the rumours.
30:21Initially, I dismissed them.
30:22But spending time with him personally, in close proximity,
30:26one had become more and more suspicious.
30:29Indeed.
30:30And that he should have been able to carry on for so long,
30:34undetected,
30:35is a subject of enormous embarrassment to all of us.
30:39This obviously needs to be handled very delicately.
30:42That's what I've come to talk to you about,
30:44to see if we might find a way to contain it.
30:48What?
30:50We can't do that.
30:52Have a Russian spy in Downing Street?
30:56Oh, those rumours.
30:58You were talking about Harold Wilson.
31:00Yes.
31:02I'm so sorry, ma'am.
31:03Yes, it's widely accepted that repeated attempts were made by the KGB
31:07to recruit Wilson when he was younger, working on trade missions.
31:11He travelled to Russia a great deal in those years.
31:14But the evidence for the Russians having succeeded is so weak.
31:18We discounted it some time ago.
31:21And the poisoning of Gateskill?
31:23Gateskill wasn't poisoned.
31:25He died of lupus.
31:26The fact is, even if the Russians had poisoned Gateskill,
31:30the most likely beneficiary would have been George Brown,
31:33not Harold Wilson.
31:34Wilson was not favourite to take over the leadership at the time.
31:38We don't have a Russian spy in Downing Street?
31:41No.
31:44But it seems...
31:46we do have one in Buckingham Palace.
31:53We look at a painting and immediately want to know it,
31:57understand it.
31:59But can anything ever be fully understood?
32:05Take our bearded trickster here.
32:07A Venetian card sharp originally ascribed to Titian until new evidence came to light proving the painting is actually by
32:15Lorenzo Lotto.
32:16As time passes, as time passes, so we learn.
32:21Truths are revealed.
32:24In the late Renaissance, painting after painting, masterpiece after masterpiece, seem full of hidden intentions, multiple meanings.
32:36Anibale Caracci's allegory of truth and time, painted in 1584 or 1585.
32:41This winged figure here rescues a young woman, his daughter, from the darkness.
32:50He is time, she is truth.
32:54And this figure below, trampled by truth, is deceit.
33:01Karachi's message is clear.
33:06Be patient.
33:07The truth will out.
33:09I'm afraid I can now confirm that the surveyor of the Queen's pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt, was the fourth man
33:16in the Cambridge spy ring.
33:18The message encoded in the painting is repeated in reality.
33:23As with the Lotto, time passed and the painting was restored to reveal deceit is two-faced.
33:30She has a second monstrous visage.
33:33And that alongside conducting a distinguished career as an art historian and member of the royal household, he spent 15
33:42years as an active KGB mole and passed almost 2,000 documents of sensitive military secrets to the Kremlin.
33:51Truth may lie beneath the surface, buried, forgotten, but time has a way of uncovering it.
34:00One thinks of the Merchant of Venice.
34:04Truth will come to light.
34:07Murder cannot be hid long.
34:10A man's son may.
34:12But at the length, truth will out.
34:35We had initially hoped the information was false.
34:38We get these sorts of claims all the time, but we subsequently detained and interviewed Blunt, and I'm sad to
34:49say he has confessed in full.
35:02What's the next step?
35:04Well, as a traitor to his country, he should have caused down trial.
35:08Be put in prison, and the key thrown away, quite frankly.
35:12Unless it was felt that exposure of Blunt's treachery could cause even more damage.
35:19What, then keeping it silent?
35:22How?
35:23Apparently it could have a catastrophic effect on the reputation of our intelligence services.
35:28The fact that he had gone undetected for so long, which could, in turn, seriously affect our relationship with the
35:35Americans.
35:35We're on our last reserves of goodwill with them as it is.
35:39One more operational failure, and our credibility would be completely shot.
35:43What are they suggesting, that we turn a blind eye and allow a traitor, an enemy of this country, to
35:51remain free, with his career and reputation intact, just to spare MI5's blushes?
36:00The man should be shot.
36:02I agree.
36:03But instead, I have to get up and pay tribute to him at this exhibition.
36:08How am I supposed to get through my speech?
36:11My joke or my words?
36:13What was it?
36:22What was it?
36:27We stand here tonight, surrounded by some of the Royal Collection's greatest treasures,
36:33to admire the genius of Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt, and Halbach,
36:38but we are able to make sense of it all appreciate it understand it speaks to the
36:45genius of another man whose exceptional scholarship and vision have brought us
36:51together today sir Anthony Blount
36:59it is he who has curated this exhibition and given meaning to mystery and
37:05revealed what really does lie beneath the surface I for one had never thought of art
37:12history in that way as the art of investigation solving riddles finding
37:18clues unlocking secrets it's been quite an education I particularly enjoyed the
37:27portrait which turned out to have another person lurking beneath the surface have I
37:35described that correctly sir Anthony or am I stumbling around in the dark as
37:39usual not another person ma'am the same person it was not uncommon in the early
37:46modern period for an artist to finish a portrait and the patron would take a
37:50look and ask for a more flattering version of themselves and the artist would
37:55paint another version over it so not two different people two different versions
38:02of the same person which might as well be two different people the idealized version of
38:09themselves they want to be seen and the less desirable person they rarely are hidden away
38:16there's even a word for it pelimpsest that generally applies to manuscripts ma'am
38:22pentimento for paintings pentimento well I think I speak for everyone here when I say none of us will be
38:31able to
38:31trust or look at anything in the same way ever again
39:09I'm so glad you can it gives me the chance to apologize in person what for there's no need to
39:17understand all you need to know is that I misjudged you terribly and I'd like to take this opportunity
39:22to say sorry are you an art man art yes art paintings well actually no no I'm an economist statistician
39:40at heart I'm happiest with numbers
39:44you can trust numbers they're honest there's no mystery or deception or allegory you know where you stand
39:57what you see is what you get I prefer things that way I quite agree
40:15excuse me
40:16excuse me
40:39the very least you could do is quietly crawl away not force us to live with you under the same
40:47roof
40:49doing the the right thing the decent thing the the honorable thing you know the faintest idea what that
40:57was well I am going to be watching you on one wrong step you treacherous snake and I will expose
41:09you and have you thrown in jail
41:12I would think long and hard before I did that sir you would do well to reflect on your own
41:20position
41:22what are you talking about you may remember at the height of the profumo sex scandal there was
41:32talk of a member of the royal family being involved no one knew who but it was rumored to be
41:38a senior
41:39member of the royal family very senior when the osteopath at the center of the scandal Stephen Ward
41:49took his own life there was speculation that a number of portraits of that senior member of
41:56the royal family had been found in his apartment naturally a great many people were keen to get
42:02their hands on those portraits mercifully someone respected and well connected in the art world
42:10was able to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands
42:14I never saw Stephen Ward in any capacity other than as an osteopath if he made drawings
42:21of me he would have done so from photographs we all tell ourselves all sorts of things to make sense
42:28of
42:28the past so much so that our fabrications if we tell them to ourselves often enough become the truth
42:38in our minds and everyone else's and believe you me I'm happy for your truth to be the truth
42:47it would be better for everyone imagine how awful it would be for example if those pictures saw the
42:55light of day now a storm it would create and for what it's the past
43:31would you excuse me of course yeah
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