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00:00:00You
00:00:46How much further, Luce?
00:00:49Hurry, Lord.
00:01:01Pull over, private.
00:01:06Grab those shovels.
00:01:10Show us, Luce.
00:01:15Spread out.
00:01:49Here.
00:01:53Start digging.
00:02:16We got something.
00:02:23I'm not going to...
00:02:29Ah!
00:02:31Ah!
00:02:34Ah!
00:02:37Come on.
00:03:06Come on.
00:03:43What's he asking for?
00:03:46Freedom in a country of his choice and a generous pension to last the rest of his lifetime.
00:03:55Well, let's see how good it is first.
00:04:03Get it translated.
00:04:04Get it.
00:04:18Get it.
00:04:21Get it.
00:04:24Get it.
00:04:24Get it.
00:04:34Get it.
00:04:37Get it.
00:04:38Get it.
00:04:39All right, I'll talk to you.
00:05:16Don't you knock, sir.
00:06:00I'm going to need to speak to the Prime Minister.
00:06:11I need to see the kid.
00:06:13Don't you knock, sir?
00:06:33The first thing ever.
00:06:35Publication could do grave harm to the national interest.
00:06:39The gravest...
00:06:41What is written here brings the greatest shame upon this family.
00:06:50Our people would rightfully never forgive us.
00:08:54I think moral authority and spiritual guidance should come from someone with a little life
00:08:58experience, not from someone who learnt their trade selling brushes door to door in North Carolina.
00:09:04Well, there's a humility to that, which I like.
00:09:07But are those people crying?
00:09:08Billy Graham has spoken to more than one and a half million people...
00:09:11What's happening to this country?
00:09:12Now he sums up his crusade.
00:09:14The people of Great Britain never cried during the war.
00:09:17Now they're weeping like children.
00:09:19I'm calling for a revival that will cause every man and woman
00:09:23to return to their offices and shops
00:09:25and live out the teachings of Christ in their daily relationships.
00:09:29I'm going to preach a gospel not of despair but of hope.
00:09:33Hope for the individual.
00:09:35Hope for society. Hope for the world.
00:09:39Turning out in droves for an American zealot.
00:09:42He's not a zealot.
00:09:44He's shouting, darling, any zealot shout.
00:09:46But when you close your eyes, close your ears to God's way,
00:09:51you will soon prefer your own ideas to the ideas of God.
00:09:55You come to a stage where your own evil seems to you good
00:10:00and God's good seems to be evil.
00:10:10Happy birthday to you.
00:10:14Happy birthday to you.
00:10:18Happy birthday dear Trooper.
00:10:22Happy birthday to you.
00:10:26Happy birthday to you.
00:10:28Happy birthday to you.
00:10:28Good boy.
00:10:33Good shot.
00:10:34Robert.
00:10:37Well done.
00:10:50Now they are losing.
00:10:53It's me. It's me.
00:10:55No, I don't know.
00:10:58Where's your care?
00:11:12You look very dashing.
00:11:19Alors, qu'est-ce que vous pensez?
00:11:21Magnifique!
00:11:22Parfait!
00:11:23I don't like it.
00:11:42Oh, no, no, no. I cannot go like this.
00:11:45Why not?
00:11:46At least that way I get to be queen once.
00:12:05I'm watching.
00:12:12Oppenance.
00:12:14Second World War rested.
00:12:14Just look.
00:12:15Oh, my God!
00:12:20Here we go.
00:12:21Oh, my God!
00:12:22Okay, let's go…
00:12:22Yeah, let's go.
00:12:24Do you wanna go?
00:12:25What are we going to give?
00:12:29Here we go.
00:12:51Would you like to know what my day consisted of today?
00:12:56Don't tell me.
00:12:57The same as every other day.
00:12:59I rose late.
00:13:00Past eleven.
00:13:01Then inspected the gardens.
00:13:03Then at lunch with people of no consequence.
00:13:06My friends.
00:13:07People of no consequence.
00:13:09I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but life of pleasure really has its limits.
00:13:15Try a life spent living with you.
00:13:22My motto as Prince of Wales was Ich dien.
00:13:27I serve.
00:13:30Deeply rooted within me is a need to serve my country.
00:13:35I need a job, a purpose.
00:13:39Not this again.
00:13:40Yes, this.
00:13:40Well, where do you intend to find one?
00:13:43I will simply have to go to London to set things in motion.
00:13:48Shall I tell you what else is deeply rooted within your family?
00:13:51Delusion.
00:13:52They won't let you in the country, let alone give you a job.
00:13:55That's not what my lawyer says.
00:13:56You've spoken to George?
00:13:58Why didn't you tell me?
00:13:59Well, I'm telling you now.
00:14:01I still have allies, you know, important allies.
00:14:05Disciples of the truth, advocates of justice who could mobilize opinion.
00:14:12Start a campaign.
00:14:15To have a former king be forgiven.
00:14:30Finally, there's a request, ma'am, from the government for you to open the new airport at Gatwick.
00:14:36They've offered some dates.
00:14:37The third of June was best for us, I think.
00:14:40Yes, all right.
00:14:41And that is it from me.
00:14:43Thank you, Michael.
00:14:47Oh, there was something.
00:14:50Ma'am.
00:14:52If I wished to meet Reverend Graham, do you think that could be arranged?
00:14:58The evangelist, ma'am?
00:15:01Yes.
00:15:04Well, I should need to give it some thought.
00:15:10One might imagine an invitation being extended to preach at All Saints Chapel at Windsor and private lunch to follow
00:15:21up.
00:15:22Fairly.
00:15:23We should have to be careful, though, ma'am, that any invitation to or association with Reverend Graham
00:15:31not be perceived as an endorsement of his crusades, which would not be compatible with your role as the head
00:15:41of the church.
00:15:42I'm sure you'll handle it all perfectly, Michael.
00:15:44You had something.
00:15:47Yes.
00:15:47It's, um, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, has written with a request.
00:15:53Oh.
00:15:54What for?
00:15:56To be allowed to enter the country.
00:15:58Denied.
00:15:59To research a book which he's planning to write.
00:16:02On what subject?
00:16:03How do you truly great king?
00:16:05A guidebook.
00:16:07Hmm.
00:16:08Ha.
00:16:09He didn't say that.
00:16:11I suppose we could let him stay at Kensington Palace.
00:16:13Actually, he's intending to stay with his friend, Major Metcalfe.
00:16:16Fruity?
00:16:17But doesn't he live in Surrey?
00:16:18Sussex, I believe.
00:16:20Oh, that's quite good.
00:16:21Out of public eye.
00:16:22The further the better, if you ask me.
00:16:26So, that is a yes.
00:16:28No.
00:16:28Yes.
00:16:29No.
00:16:30Yes.
00:16:33Yes.
00:16:34Let him come.
00:16:36Ma'am.
00:16:52Good morning.
00:16:53Good morning, sir.
00:16:56Uh, did you finish that paper?
00:16:58Yes, sir.
00:17:00Mr. Sweet.
00:17:01This one for...
00:17:02Good morning, Margaret.
00:17:03Good morning, sir.
00:17:04Mr. Albaire.
00:17:29Take a look at this.
00:17:32It's practically an injunction.
00:17:35Sir.
00:17:38Are you aware of this?
00:17:45I am.
00:17:46As historians, we have a duty to publish the truth.
00:17:50No exceptions.
00:17:52Otherwise, what are we all doing?
00:17:55Protecting Nazis?
00:17:57Protecting something else.
00:17:59My hands are tied.
00:18:01But his are not.
00:18:02That's right.
00:18:04I have access to the U.S. State Department duplicate files.
00:18:07Including this.
00:18:09There's nothing to stop the American government publishing if the British government won't.
00:18:25My dearest darling Peaches, let us hope the rest of the trip is not as miserable as the journey.
00:18:32It was a most disagreeable crossing due to bad weather.
00:18:35The company on the boat was dreadful, too, common and uninteresting people, pestering me to join them for drinks or
00:18:44play cards.
00:18:54I'm coming up with the man on the boat.
00:18:56What's the matter?
00:19:01What does it mean?
00:19:03What does it mean?
00:19:08I don't want to do with the people?
00:19:11I don't want to do with the people who have a seizure.
00:19:15...somewhere in Sussex.
00:19:21Ruzi.
00:19:22Your Royal Highness.
00:19:23How are you?
00:19:24Very well.
00:19:26Your Royal Highness.
00:19:26Baba, dear.
00:19:27But George excelled, as ever, and revealed the work he had already done.
00:19:32Of course, the true purpose of the visit can't be known to anybody.
00:19:36Should anyone get wind of any job hunting by His Royal Highness,
00:19:39it might be seen as a violation of the agreement made after the application.
00:19:44And His Royal Highness might find himself not only being asked to leave the country,
00:19:48but also without a pension.
00:19:51So, this trip must be perceived first and foremost as a literary one.
00:19:57I trust you came prepared.
00:19:58I brought quill and ink.
00:20:02All that notwithstanding, I've started a campaign
00:20:07gathering friends and supporters,
00:20:10and the only indications are most encouraging.
00:20:11Walter Monckton has agreed to host a dinner.
00:20:14And we've had yeses from Lord Salisbury, Lord Beaverbrook,
00:20:18Lord Dudley, the American ambassador,
00:20:20and the Foreign Secretary, Selwyn Lloyd.
00:20:23Oh, Cecil Beaton and Noel Coward have agreed to hold a little supper party for you.
00:20:28Oh, dear Cecil.
00:20:31And his inedible food.
00:20:34Thank you very much.
00:20:34Just a small hand.
00:20:59Do we really have to do this?
00:21:01Indulge me.
00:21:03I'm interested.
00:21:06Can you just make up an excuse and say I'm off sinning somewhere?
00:21:10No.
00:21:15Lanky bugger, isn't he?
00:21:17I think he's rather handsome.
00:21:19Door-to-door salesman in a hideous, shiny suit.
00:21:23Where's his box?
00:21:24What box?
00:21:25The one containing his brushes.
00:21:27Oh, no, look.
00:21:28Come on.
00:21:29I'll be late.
00:21:30Hairbrushes.
00:21:31Floorbrushes.
00:21:32Toothbrushes.
00:21:33Do shut up.
00:21:34As I was thinking about what to preach about today,
00:21:38I considered various topics which speak to me personally,
00:21:41but I thought that I would start with a simple question.
00:21:47What is a Christian?
00:21:48The Bible tells us, Colossians 1.27 says,
00:21:53that a Christian is a person in whom Christ dwells.
00:21:59It's Christ in you.
00:22:01The hope of glory.
00:22:02It means that you have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:22:08That encounter has taken place.
00:22:10You have received Christ as Savior.
00:22:15And that is what a Christian is.
00:22:26I enjoyed that very much.
00:22:29You do speak with such wonderful clarity and certainty.
00:22:32I find it very reassuring.
00:22:35And it's not only me.
00:22:37The rest of the country, too, I imagine.
00:22:40Yes.
00:22:41We've been surprised ourselves at the turnout.
00:22:44Really?
00:22:45Mm-hmm.
00:22:46Well, you shouldn't be.
00:22:47In an increasingly complex world, we all need certainty.
00:22:51And you provide it.
00:22:52Well, that's not me.
00:22:54Scriptures provide.
00:22:56Yes, but you illuminate them so well.
00:23:01The great joy that I felt today was that of being a simple congregant,
00:23:06God being taught, being led.
00:23:09You see, as head of the Anglican Church, in terms of rank,
00:23:12even the great archbishops of York and Canterbury are below me.
00:23:18Above me there is only God.
00:23:20Well, that must be lonely sometimes.
00:23:22Yes, it is.
00:23:26Which is why it's lovely, as Queen, to be able to just disappear and be...
00:23:34a simple Christian.
00:23:37Yes.
00:23:40Above all things, I do think of myself as just a simple Christian.
00:23:47It's the values of Christian living that root me, guide me, define me.
00:24:00Have you always been such a good speaker?
00:24:03I was actually a shy child.
00:24:05No.
00:24:06Mm-hmm.
00:24:07Speaking as a shy child myself, I have to say that I find that very hard to believe.
00:24:12No, ma'am. It's true.
00:24:15The first time I ever spoke in public, I was 12 years old.
00:24:19at school.
00:24:21The school principal told my mother, he thought I was a natural.
00:24:25That, of all things, I had a gift.
00:24:30I hope I came to her.
00:24:32That's all right.
00:24:35Oh, my God.
00:24:41Mr.
00:24:42Michael, where you won't go beyond me?
00:24:42You could just find a place for you?
00:24:45No, that's all.
00:25:29I have no objection to his being.
00:25:32The word crusades troubles me.
00:25:38If the Reverend Graham is the crusader, the implication is that we're heathen.
00:25:44I'm sure I go wrong.
00:25:46Mr. Wheeler-Bennett, sir.
00:25:50Excuse me.
00:25:55Prime Minister, thank you for seeing me.
00:25:57You didn't give me much choice.
00:25:59Matter of the greatest urgency.
00:26:03Your team of troublesome historians.
00:26:05Committed historians.
00:26:08Principled historians.
00:26:10Is that the file in question?
00:26:13Yes.
00:26:15Let's make a start.
00:26:22Ah, there you are.
00:26:23Plot as all.
00:26:25Your Royal Highness.
00:26:25Your Royal Highness.
00:26:26Are the curtains drawn as treason abound?
00:26:30George, thank you so much.
00:26:32Sir.
00:26:32Sir.
00:26:34Dear Bob.
00:26:34Hello, sir.
00:26:35I'm very well.
00:26:36Thank you, sir.
00:26:37We all know why we're here tonight.
00:26:41To see if we can help our dear friend, His Royal Highness, in his quest to find a final act
00:26:51to this sad drama.
00:26:53And to turn it into a great history play.
00:26:55He seeks a job.
00:26:57A purpose.
00:27:00Well, that's why I'm here.
00:27:01To ask you all my Council of War, my Brains Trust, politicians, artists, and philosophers.
00:27:11Something in the military, perhaps?
00:27:12Well, why not?
00:27:13I was made a Major General attached to the British military mission in France at the beginning of the war,
00:27:19in a liaising role between us and the French, and I much enjoyed it.
00:27:23Or a position within the Board of Trade.
00:27:25Well, what kind of position?
00:27:27Helping promote Britain's economic interests abroad.
00:27:32Yes.
00:27:33The right man in the right position could contribute so much to Britain's economy.
00:27:38Helping boost our much-needed dollar reserves.
00:27:41A man with charm, contacts, influence, and the magic of being a former king.
00:27:49Doesn't it all feel a little grubby, Walter?
00:27:52All those grasping international businessmen, the whiff of profit and self-interest.
00:27:58Now, I like the direction we were heading earlier, the idea of a liaison post.
00:28:02Then what about the diplomatic service?
00:28:04Oh, I like that idea.
00:28:06Don't the Americans have these unofficial roving ambassadors nowadays?
00:28:12Yes, they're two in London at the moment.
00:28:16Oh, well, something like that would be ideal.
00:28:18Well, I think we have...
00:28:19My dearest darling Peaches, what a wait is off my mind.
00:28:26Moncton really did come up with the goods, and his friends really do seem to want to help me.
00:28:32Now, all I must do is wait, while they discreetly make representations on my behalf.
00:28:39I would say wait and pray, but all taste for prayer has left me as I survey the madness involving
00:28:47the American evangelist here.
00:28:49What has happened to the people of this country, turning like lemmings to this crusading showman from Charlotte for their
00:28:58inspiration?
00:29:00Rumour reached me that Shirley Temple even invited the fool to preach at Windsor Chapel.
00:29:06Can you imagine the banality of those exchanges?
00:29:10The smugness, self-congratulation, and hypocrisy.
00:29:15What a grotesque occasion that must have been.
00:29:19Oh, now bed calls, and for once, as my head hits the pillow without yours beside me,
00:29:25I can truthfully say, all is well.
00:29:29Today was a day worth living.
00:29:32Your loving husband, David.
00:29:40Good morning, sir.
00:29:42Right to bed?
00:29:43Ready for your hour, sir.
00:29:49I received a visit yesterday afternoon from John Wheeler Bennet,
00:29:54the senior historian in charge of publishing the German war files,
00:29:59who informed me that this government was now left with no choice but to publish certain material
00:30:06which both my predecessor, Winston Churchill, and yours, your late father, tried to suppress.
00:30:13What material?
00:30:15The Marburg files, ma'am.
00:30:17What material?
00:30:46The Marburg files, ma'am.
00:30:58This was always going to come back to haunt us.
00:31:06Shortly after the war ended, some British troops...
00:31:13American.
00:31:17American troops arrested a German soldier as he was retreating from Trefurt, near Eisenhower, in central Germany.
00:31:30I don't remember the soldier's name.
00:31:33Bernard von Loesch.
00:31:37Turns out this soldier was Hitler's personal translator.
00:31:44The assistant to Hitler's personal translator man, Hitler's personal translator, was Dr. Schmidt, Dr. Paul Schmidt.
00:31:51All right, you tell the story, Michael.
00:31:53Please.
00:31:56Thank you, ma'am.
00:32:02When his officers were being evacuated, Dr. Schmidt asked his assistant, von Loesch, to dispose of all the top secret
00:32:17papers which he had placed in archives.
00:32:21And von Loesch duly burned, the vast majority.
00:32:29But he secretly kept the most valuable material, hoping to use it to negotiate his freedom and to escape trial.
00:33:05Among the papers which von Loesch kept back, there was one file...
00:33:09pertaining to Anglo-German relations, in particular the relationship of Nazi High Command with His Royal Highness, the Duke of
00:33:18Windsor.
00:33:21I think it's fair to say the reality exceeded even our worst fears.
00:33:28We did everything we could to contain this.
00:33:30That's your lot?
00:33:31Unaware that a copy had been sent to the Americans.
00:33:39Who are now insisting that this volume of Marburg files... be published.
00:33:47And this is the man you inexplicably let back into the country?
00:33:57I hope you have a strong stomach.
00:34:26I hope you will be able to make your hands.
00:34:29I don't know.
00:35:15Your Royal Highness, Parent Secretary, please.
00:35:22You have loyal and persistent friends, son.
00:35:26Oh, thank you.
00:35:31Following their representations and having given the matter careful thought, it looks
00:35:39like we now have several options.
00:35:42Peace.
00:35:43The first option I'd like to look at would be the role of ambassador to France.
00:35:59To a happy and purposeful future.
00:36:04His Royal Highness.
00:36:07His Royal Highness.
00:36:21His Royal Highness.
00:36:34My dearest darling one, I met with the foreign secretary today,
00:36:38who has managed to find three posts where I could do something of value and importance.
00:36:44I am so happy.
00:36:46These posts would offer me the chance to serve my country and make a difference.
00:36:52As to the green light, as far as government is concerned, it's a go.
00:36:58Only one obstacle remains, to get the blessing of the crown,
00:37:04which involves a brief trip back to that miserable mausoleum, Buckingham Palace.
00:37:15Counting down the minutes until I am back in your arms again,
00:37:19your loving husband,
00:37:23David.
00:37:50The Duke of Windsor, your majesty.
00:38:00Your majesty.
00:38:06Ah, yes.
00:38:08Your first time back.
00:38:09In this room, yes.
00:38:12That colour was me, French grey.
00:38:21So, talk to me of the pleasure.
00:38:23I assume it's about this new book that you're writing.
00:38:27Oh, actually, I've come here today on another matter.
00:38:30A job.
00:38:33That while I'm clearly no longer a young man,
00:38:36I'm also not yet an old one,
00:38:38and might be able to usefully serve the crown.
00:38:43You had a chance to serve this country.
00:38:46The greatest chance.
00:38:49You gave it up.
00:38:51Well, I gave it up because of the way my wife was treated,
00:38:54not because I no longer wish to serve this country.
00:39:00Anyway, one or two ideas came up.
00:39:05For jobs, which would require the blessing both of government and crown.
00:39:10Of course, before coming here and bothering you,
00:39:12I made sure the support would be given by government,
00:39:16and I've been assured of that support.
00:39:19Support for what jobs?
00:39:20Well, three possibilities came up.
00:39:23The first is the ambassadorship to France.
00:39:26The PM and Foreign Secretary aren't keen on the incumbent,
00:39:30that wouldn't jeb.
00:39:31And the second option?
00:39:33Oh, as a special liaison to the Board of Trade.
00:39:39The third?
00:39:41As a High Commissioner working with the Commonwealth Relations Office
00:39:46to protect and promote British interests throughout the world.
00:39:49This would suit me, I think,
00:39:51as it specializes in the practical side of diplomatic work.
00:39:56Entertaining.
00:40:01Well, I'm sure that you do all three jobs very well indeed.
00:40:09But in light of what I've recently learned about...
00:40:13About what?
00:40:15About events that took place while you were in Lisbon during the war.
00:40:20From whom?
00:40:22From state papers.
00:40:23Which state papers?
00:40:25German state papers.
00:40:28Which American historians supported by the French and the British
00:40:34are now threatening to publish.
00:40:37And what exactly is in these papers?
00:40:41Letters.
00:40:43And telegrams.
00:40:45Communications detailing your relationship with Nazi High Command.
00:40:50Why, that's utter nonsense.
00:40:53In one telegram from 1940,
00:40:56it states that you were considering publicly going against the government
00:41:00and pledging your support for peace with Germany,
00:41:03thereby breaking with my father, the king.
00:41:05In another, it says that in return for your support,
00:41:08the German government offered you a home in Spain
00:41:11where you could wait out the rest of the war in peace and safety
00:41:15while your countrymen gave their lives.
00:41:17I went to the Bahamas as the British government instructed.
00:41:21Yes, you were instructed to go to the Bahamas
00:41:23because of your views.
00:41:27In these papers,
00:41:29you're quoted as saying that the Fuhrer's desire for peace
00:41:32was in complete agreement with your own point of view.
00:41:45You were too young to remember.
00:41:48I, alas, not.
00:41:52Hitler and his henchmen were once our friends.
00:41:56As king,
00:41:57I was committed to the idea,
00:42:00passionately committed,
00:42:02that England and Germany should never be enemies again
00:42:05after the horrors of the Great War.
00:42:08People forget.
00:42:09There was no indication
00:42:10of who Hitler would become.
00:42:14You could argue that
00:42:15we were the ones that made a monster of him
00:42:18by refusing to be his allies.
00:42:20This is the point.
00:42:22People make stands,
00:42:24they grandstands,
00:42:25pat themselves on the back
00:42:27for their great virtue.
00:42:28And what is the consequence?
00:42:30Another grotesque war,
00:42:32millions more dead,
00:42:34when peace was all that mattered to me.
00:42:39In that spirit,
00:42:42I am asking you to make peace with me today.
00:42:49Elizabeth, the British are a sensible people.
00:42:51They will never believe these claims against me.
00:42:55They will dismiss these papers for what they are.
00:43:01Baseless rumors and
00:43:03German propaganda.
00:43:05People say about this.
00:43:22They will never.
00:43:25Everything all right?
00:43:30Can I ask your opinion?
00:43:31of course what about forgiveness what have i done now no not you uncle david
00:43:46i think it's time that he'd be forgiven are you mad you can't forgive that man
00:43:50why not what he did to this country those were different times
00:43:56he's explained all that to me i bet he did philip
00:44:03forgiveness is very important to me it's not often i say this so perhaps if i do
00:44:10you will take it seriously
00:44:18ask ask tommy lassells to come and see you
00:44:22what and tell him of your proposed course of action
00:44:26i can't keep summoning him like that why not
00:44:30well he's retired for one thing i'd go and see him
00:44:33in an unofficial capacity for sherry or tea
00:44:37or human blood whatever that monster drinks
00:44:40and ask him about your uncle he was his private secretary while he was king
00:44:45he knows everything there is to know
00:44:48what stands for
00:44:48and that makes this one
00:44:50and that's not too much
00:44:55oh
00:45:27Your Majesty.
00:45:28Tommy, it's terribly inconvenient.
00:45:34Ah, you're mid-battle.
00:45:37Yes, ma'am.
00:45:40Now, don't say anything.
00:45:43It's those uniforms.
00:45:46It's 19th century.
00:45:47Yes.
00:45:48And that standard is Duke of Wellington.
00:45:51Very good, ma'am.
00:45:53So is Waterloo.
00:45:55Salamanca.
00:45:56Ah.
00:45:59Oh.
00:46:00These?
00:46:01Troops of Sir Edward Pakenham's 3rd Infantry Division.
00:46:05Very lovely.
00:46:06Did you have them made?
00:46:08A gift, ma'am.
00:46:09From your grandfather when I was in his service.
00:46:13Hmm.
00:46:15Shall we, ma'am?
00:46:16Yes.
00:46:25I'm proposing to let the Duke of Windsor back into public life, and as an example of a Christian in
00:46:33a Christian country, to forgive.
00:46:39Your Majesty, that would, in my view, be a mistake.
00:46:48Why?
00:46:51Before you make your decision, ma'am, I believe you should be in full possession of the facts.
00:46:56I've read the Marburg files.
00:46:58So have I.
00:47:00I said full possession.
00:47:04You mean there's more?
00:47:05Yes, ma'am.
00:47:09The Duke of Windsor made his loyalties clear as soon as he became king.
00:47:14Surrounded himself with a new breed of courtier.
00:47:18Men such as Karl, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, a renowned Nazi.
00:47:23He also shared classified allied documents with the Duchess of Windsor, who was herself, we believe, sharing a bed, forgive
00:47:32me, ma'am, with the German ambassador, Herr Ribbentrop.
00:47:54It became so bad that the government had to stop putting secret and sensitive papers in his red box.
00:48:00But we needn't have worried.
00:48:02Because then we had the application.
00:48:09Having promised to retire from public life, we now know that he had no such intention.
00:48:15Why else would the pair of them decide to visit Hitler in Germany?
00:48:29The Fuhrer had labelled the trip an unofficial state visit.
00:48:32So it is unsurprising that it was on that same trip, at the home of Herr Hess, that the plan
00:48:40was hatched.
00:48:43A plan to reinstate the Duke of Windsor as king of England.
00:48:50Effectively betraying and dethroning your dear late father.
00:48:54In return, the German forces being given free reign across Europe.
00:49:00German troops were even promised to quell a colonial rebellion, if necessary.
00:49:07And there were visits to SS training schools and early versions of the concentration camps.
00:49:13Now, of course, the full horrors were yet to come.
00:49:16Well, nonetheless, he visited.
00:49:27Shall I continue, ma'am?
00:49:34When a German aircraft crashed in Belgium, carrying Hitler's entire military plan for the invasion of France,
00:49:41the Duke wasted no time in letting his Nazi friends know that Allied forces had indeed recovered this priceless information,
00:49:50which gave Germany time to change its plans.
00:49:54And in less than a month, Paris fell to German occupation.
00:50:00But perhaps worst of all, the Duke told the German government that resolve in the United Kingdom
00:50:07in the face of the German aerial bombardment was weakening.
00:50:11And that continued bombing, that is, the continued slaughter of his fellow countrymen and former subjects,
00:50:18would, I quote, soon make Britain ready for peace.
00:50:51The problems of the world can be summed up in one three-letter word, S-I-N.
00:50:59Sin.
00:51:01From Psalm 58, the wicked are estranged from the womb.
00:51:06They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
00:51:10God looks deep down inside.
00:51:14God sees how you really are down inside.
00:51:18Now, you may be out with legion teeth.
00:51:21We're fighting, coaching, a church member, a good standing in the community.
00:51:25But it's your heart, heart of God.
00:51:34I've had a chance to think about your request to serve your country.
00:51:40I was keen to help you, and weighing it all up, the amount of time that has passed,
00:51:49and my affection for you, personally, all spoke in its favour.
00:51:56But?
00:52:00But, on balance?
00:52:04I think not.
00:52:08And I'm sure you don't need reminding
00:52:10that under the terms of the agreement reached after the abdication,
00:52:13you are permitted to return to the United Kingdom
00:52:15only at the pleasure and invitation of the Sovereign.
00:52:20Yes?
00:52:22I find myself unable to grant that permission.
00:52:29And who's fed you this poison?
00:52:32Your mother?
00:52:34No.
00:52:37Tommy Lassell's?
00:52:38I came to my own mind.
00:52:40Well, you have no mind of your own.
00:52:42That's why everyone's so thrilled with you.
00:52:45The last royal to have a mind of his own was me,
00:52:47and that's why they threw me out.
00:52:48Fine.
00:52:50I will go.
00:52:53But let me ask you this.
00:52:56Who has done more damage to the monarchy,
00:52:59me with my willfulness,
00:53:01or you lot with your inhumanity?
00:53:08We all closed our eyes,
00:53:11our ears,
00:53:12to what was being said about you.
00:53:15We dismissed it
00:53:16as fabrications,
00:53:18as cruel chatter,
00:53:20in light of your decision to give up the throne.
00:53:22But when the truth finally came out,
00:53:25the truth,
00:53:29it makes a mockery of even the central tenets of Christianity.
00:53:33There is no possibility of my forgiving you.
00:53:36No, the question is,
00:53:38how on earth can you forgive yourself?
00:53:57is this my advice?
00:53:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:54:00I won't do it.
00:54:01Let me knock you out of your door.
00:54:01I don't do it.
00:54:01But I don't do it.
00:54:01I don't do it.
00:54:02I don't do it.
00:54:03I don't do it.
00:54:07I don't do it.
00:54:27Good morning, sir.
00:54:29Morning.
00:54:29Morning.
00:54:30Morning, sir.
00:54:32Morning, sir.
00:54:33Morning.
00:54:39You have to go ahead to publish.
00:54:42Thank you, sir.
00:55:26Reverend Graham, your majesty.
00:55:29Your majesty.
00:55:33You're very kind to find time for me again.
00:55:39Oh, do sit down.
00:55:50Reverend Graham, I asked you here today because there's something that I'd very much like to
00:55:59hear your views on.
00:56:01Ma'am?
00:56:04Forgiveness.
00:56:08Are there any circumstances, do you feel, where one can be a good Christian and yet not forgive?
00:56:21Christian teaching is very clear on this.
00:56:23No one is beneath forgiveness.
00:56:27Dying on the cross, Jesus himself asked the Lord to forgive those that killed him.
00:56:33Yes.
00:56:37But we must remember his words.
00:56:41They know not what they do.
00:56:45That forgiveness, it was conditional.
00:56:49True.
00:56:50But he still forgave.
00:56:52If God himself forgives us all, who are we to reject the example of God?
00:56:58Mere mortals.
00:57:01We are all mortals.
00:57:02That is our fate.
00:57:04But we need not be unchristian ones.
00:57:16The solution for being unable to forgive.
00:57:20One asks for forgiveness oneself, humbly and sincerely.
00:57:28And one prays for those that one cannot forgive.
00:57:58And one prays for forgiveness, humbly and sincerely.
00:58:01That is not to forgive.
00:59:31We've all agreed to put aside our historical differences to celebrate the one good thing that we all have in
00:59:35common.
00:59:36Which is?
01:00:05It's you.
01:00:08Not to mention successfully banishing Satan from entering the Garden of Eden.
01:00:14That's Christ's business in anyone's books.
01:00:17So it's a gold star from Jesus.
01:00:20No.
01:00:23And a gold star from me.
01:00:27What are you doing?
01:00:30No.
01:00:31Yes.
01:00:31No.
01:00:32Oh, yes, darling.
01:00:33Come on.
01:00:34No!
01:00:35No.
01:00:35No.
01:00:50No.
01:01:00Ah, that's nice.
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