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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.
00:01:55Oh, sh...
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. Well, 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. In the face.
00:03:39Quite forcefully, I'm told.
00:03:43By whom? Which 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.
00:04:03How very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes. Very.
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.
00:04:56This 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,
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?
00:05:41Thank you very much.
00:07:38Hello, Patricia.
00:07:39Would anyone like some toffee?
00:07:41Bring 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, I can knock something up.
00:08:03Now, a piece on reforming the House of Laws.
00:08:06Dermot, you were going to look at that for me, weren't you?
00:08:08There's something nutty about it.
00:08:10Mmm.
00:08:11Molasses.
00:08:12And 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?
00:08:26Toffee, 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?
00:08:36Right.
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 as sitting in a dentist's chair because 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, sir?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue
00:09:17of dull, repetitive work.
00:09:20And your great courage in meeting constant, small adversities depend in great measure
00:09:28the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average men and women.
00:09:50Um...
00:09:53Working men and women?
00:09:58Has a touch more dignity?
00:10:00Oh.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22I thought you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in a week's time.
00:10:29Um...
00:10:30I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:33I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Pardon.
00:11:04You were about to interfere beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning the speech the Queen is due to give next week.
00:11:13The Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:17I was just wondering if you were happy with it?
00:11:24Well, obviously I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have shown it to Her Majesty for the approval which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:34She didn't need to.
00:11:36She merely asked if I was happy.
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was good enough for Her Majesty.
00:11:45But I can see that the really important question is...
00:11:51Is it good enough for Colonel Chaturis?
00:11:55You don't think it strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:02In its paternalism.
00:12:07May I?
00:12:09I am.
00:12:11You?
00:12:13I suppose if I...
00:12:15...had a concern...
00:12:18...it would be that post-Suez...
00:12:20...in this new climate...
00:12:23...in this new Britain...
00:12:26...the tone of the speech is...
00:12:30...somewhat...
00:12:31Somewhat what?
00:12:35Old-fashioned.
00:12:39Then would leave her open to attack.
00:12:42From whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive or liberal disposition...
00:12:52...had warned needlessly of a popular attack against the Crown...
00:12:55...I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what constitutes, indeed defines, being British.
00:13:04The worst I've ever encountered is apathy...
00:13:07...where people simply accept the king or queen...
00:13:10...as they accept the sky above their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way from apathy to insurrection.
00:13:16Now, as regards the newspapers...
00:13:18...the Crown can count on their support for two reasons.
00:13:21First, there is nothing to attack.
00:13:24That's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power, so there's nothing to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to, they'd always let us know first.
00:13:34The palace would then threaten them with a boycott...
00:13:36...on the next major royal event...
00:13:38...causing the newspapers immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people you fear...
00:13:44...will hate the queen...
00:13:45...and the same ones who buy copies in 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 the drawing of that inescapable conclusion to you.
00:14:22I'm going to take it in a little shorter, ma'am...
00:14:24...and rounder it back.
00:14:26Lovely.
00:14:34And then we're here.
00:14:41So I'm going to take it in a little hopefully.
00:14:52That's where I am.
00:14:53And we're here today.
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 a hair?
00:15:55What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidying, sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins?
00:16:05Apparently it's very anemone.
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 a part of this place?
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, John.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23Elliot.
00:17:24It's very, very, um, spacious.
00:17:27Is this our research and development area?
00:17:29No, no, at all.
00:17:30Yes.
00:17:31May 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 not so 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?
00:17:57No.
00:17:58Hello.
00:17:59Hello.
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
00:18:24and would like 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 leading uneventful, lonely lives.
00:18:44Where dreariness is the enemy.
00:18:48Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:18:58depend 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 of its
00:19:15average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you.
00:19:23And 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.
00:19:42Hello, Doordshire.
00:19:44Evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
00:19:48Evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour.
00:19:57Some 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.
00:20:57One, two, three, four, five years in, Mrs.
00:21:00Oh, my real brother.
00:21:00Oh, my God.
00:21:08geography is a killer.
00:21:09Oh, my God.
00:21:21Oh, my God.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:09Excuse me.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day. He'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.
00:28:51Ironically, 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 Altrium, how do you do?
00:29:33How do you do?
00:29:33Shall we?
00:29:34Yes.
00:29:34This 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.
00:29:40I'm clear we should make start for two 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.
00:30:06Can we tell them how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now, transmission tonight.
00:30:18Yes.
00:30:21Five, four, three.
00:30:25Tonight, we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no
00:30:30introduction, Lord Altrium.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in
00:30:37a periodical of which he is also publisher, have become the most pressing issue of the day and
00:30:42caused 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?
00:31:12Yes, 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
00:31:24politicians who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully says, ebb and flow
00:31:31by 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, in addition to being a diligent,
00:32:06dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances, she 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, or a
00:32:40simple 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, touched 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, you have no choice but to
00:33:11criticise 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.
00:33:38To 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, Britain 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, monarchies were the
00:34:02rule, 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.
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.
00:35:17Well done.
00:35:19You are rich.
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 interview, 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!
00:39:30A room called Charteress.
00:39:32To 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, recommendations.
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.
00:41:03We're coming, sir.
00:41:05What?
00:41:05I'm coming.
00:41:06Come on, see.
00:41:10.
00:41:16Yeah.
00:41:34O'Doringham.
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:11in one sense here we are Lord Altingham Colonel Charteris will be with you
00:42:23shortly thank you sir
00:42:52I see we have something in common
00:42:57and what would that be your majesty
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst
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
00:44:10so
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
00:44:45is 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
00:45:00struggle 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
00:45:09how this monarch
00:45:10might do something to her advantage
00:45:13I 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
00:45:27on how to do her job
00:45:30the situation is as baffling to me as it is to you
00:45:32your majesty
00:45:48ah
00:45:49you've got a list
00:45:51I do
00:45:52as you might know from my article
00:45:55I made a series of observations
00:45:58recommendations of things to change
00:45:59but
00:46:00for the purposes of this meeting
00:46:02I chose to limit those recommendations to
00:46:04um
00:46:05six
00:46:07six
00:46:09three things to start
00:46:10and three things to stop
00:46:13well
00:46:14let's start with the stops
00:46:16very well
00:46:18ah
00:46:19yes
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
00:46:27are presented to the sovereign
00:46:29and women who are not of that class
00:46:30are not presented to the sovereign
00:46:32and somehow not acceptable
00:46:35this is the
00:46:36sort of iniquity that should have died out
00:46:37with our grandparents' generation
00:46:40certainly after the war
00:46:46next
00:46:49uh
00:46:52allow
00:46:53divorced people
00:46:54to 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
00:47:13next
00:47:14uh
00:47:18I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here
00:47:22ma'am
00:47:23the old school
00:47:24stuck in the past
00:47:27ostriches
00:47:27with 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
00:47:35those ostriches
00:47:36provide 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
00:47:58open up
00:47:58ma'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
00:48:11become more transparent
00:48:13accessible
00:48:18and finally
00:48:19oh finally
00:48:20spend time with normal people
00:48:22not just courtiers
00:48:25or the great and the good
00:48:26but real people
00:48:27average people
00:48:29working people
00:48:31open the doors
00:48:33make it more inclusive
00:48:36and egalitarian
00:48:40let normal people
00:48:41get to know you too
00:48:56would you mind stepping out into the corridor for a moment
00:48:59no
00:48:59not at all
00:49:08and would you ask my private secretary to come in
00:49:12of course
00:49:20your majesty
00:49:34general shoppers
00:49:44commanders
00:50:01Orange.
00:50:03Lins.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:24Vanished 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,
00:50:32and 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. Now let's have the rest of the pig.
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?
00:51:30Memorising 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.
00:52:01This way.
00:52:01Please, Mum.
00:52:14Check, please.
00:52:15Everyone standby.
00:52:16This is a lot from here.
00:52:19Yes.
00:52:20Yes.
00:52:20Yes.
00:52:22Yes.
00:52:22Yes.
00:52:23Yes.
00:52:24Yes.
00:52:25Yes.
00:52:25Yes.
00:52:26Yes.
00:52:27Yes.
00:52:28Yes.
00:52:29Yes.
00:52:38Madeleine.
00:52:39Yes.
00:52:44It's very hot.
00:52:46Yes.
00:52:47It's veryändig.
00:52:48Yes.
00:52:48It's veryjenigen.
00:52:49Heals.
00:52:49Yes.
00:52:49It's very salty.
00:52:49Yes.
00:52:51Guys.
00:52:51Yes.
00:52:52Yes.
00:52:52Yes.
00:53:22Five, four, three.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:40Today is another landmark, because television has made it possible for many of you to see me in your homes
00:53:48on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television, as they are at this moment, and that is how
00:53:58I 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 to the kings
00:54:18and queens of history.
00:54:20Someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films, 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 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,
00:55:42who 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.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:20.
00:56:31.
00:56:31.
00:56:31Right. .
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15How am I?
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 Cabomb.
00:57:32No, that's not quite right.
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:38Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about 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
00:57:52a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life
00:57:57to 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.
00:59:06The 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.
00:59:29The 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.
00:59:59Mary Annette.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13I 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.
01:00:44Oh, give me that.
01:00:45Oh, hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:50Thank you, Walter Cuthbert.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatter-in-law.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53I play so much fun, don't you?
01:00:55Thank you so much fun.
01:00:56You look absolutely right.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What's up?
01:00:59Tell him truth, huh?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:01Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denry.
01:01:05It's such a pleasure to have you with us.
01:01:07Here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:09And he goes, don'tio.
01:01:09Good.
01:01:20Cheers.
01:01:22Cheers.
01:01:24Cheers.
01:01:26Cheers.
01:01:26Cheers.
01:01:27Cheers.
01:01:32Cheers.
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