00:07Now, Anne, what's this?
00:09A penguin.
00:10Very good.
00:11And Charles, who do you suppose is surrounded by penguins at the moment?
00:15Daddy.
00:15Yes, that's right.
00:17That's because he's in the Antarctic.
00:18And from there, he goes to the South Shetland Islands,
00:21and then he goes on to the Falkland Islands,
00:24and then goes all the way up here to Ascension Island.
00:28Now, all these are British overseas territories,
00:30and they have to be visited every once in a while,
00:32so they don't feel neglected or forgotten.
00:34They don't get any silly ideas like becoming independent.
00:37Right, you brush your teeth?
00:38Yes.
00:39Good.
00:39Have you said your prayers?
00:40Yes.
00:40Dolly good.
00:41Right.
00:41Night-night.
00:42Night-night, Mummy.
00:45Oh, we might put a picture of the Duke of Edinburgh by the children's bed,
00:49so they recognise him when he gets back.
00:51Five months is a long time at that age.
00:58Oh, what's that?
01:00From his Royal Highness, ma'am.
01:02Footage from the Royal Tour.
01:04How nice.
01:07We might watch that instead of our next film.
01:14Oh, what's that?
01:51Hansen 3-7-4-2
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35:12The British press have fallen into line and been overwhelmingly supportive.
35:17But?
35:18I'm afraid the foreign newspapers have not been so kind.
35:24Yesterday, a story broke in the Baltimore Sun.
35:28Where? Baltimore, Mummy.
35:30Claiming that the capital was awash with rumour
35:33that the Duke of Edinburgh was romantically involved with an unnamed woman
35:37whom he met on a regular basis in the West End apartment of a society photographer,
35:41Baron Nahum.
35:43Nahum is also president of the Thursday Club in Soho,
35:48of which the Duke of Edinburgh is a founder member.
35:51Anyway, that story has rather lit the touch paper.
35:55The British press has caught on, with the Manchester Guardian reporting,
35:59not since the first rumours of a romance between the former King Edward VIII
36:03and Mrs. Ernest Simpson
36:06have Americans gobbled up the London dispatches so avidly.
36:12Go on.
36:13The Sunday Pictorial, on its front page,
36:17reminds its readers that the royal family is loved and envied throughout the world
36:21because it is a family.
36:24Time magazine has a headline,
36:26Too Much Thursday-ing.
36:28It goes on to say,
36:29Not since Wallis Simpson stalked the corridors of Buckingham Palace
36:33have the eyes of the world been turned so beadily
36:36towards those chintz drapes.
36:53I say we fly the Duke of Edinburgh back straight away.
36:57That's one thought, Your Majesty, and it's a good one.
37:01The devil's advocate might argue,
37:03and I'd be interested to hear Michael's thoughts on this,
37:07that the Duke's early return,
37:09obviously stage-managed by the palace,
37:12might appear too much of a concession to the newspapers
37:15and pour even more petrol on the flames.
37:20I would agree.
37:22And we don't want that.
37:26No.
37:33To what, then?
37:43What?
37:49Yes.
37:52The Admiral will like a woe.
37:55His phone.
37:57Tell him he can come.
37:58As a matter of fact,
37:59he suggests that you go to see him, sir.
38:26Thanks, sir.
38:27Thank you, sir.
38:27Thanks, sir.
38:39Admiral.
38:41Could you come in?
38:43Come on.
38:45Buckingham Palace has been in touch
38:47regarding your reunion photo call
38:49with her Majesty the Queen.
38:51With you, not me.
38:53I'm in command of this ship.
38:56I am her husband.
38:58It's been agreed that her Majesty
39:00will fly out to Lisbon a day ahead of schedule.
39:03As I see it, your instructions...
39:05Instructions?
39:06...are to meet her at the airfield.
39:07I've been quite specific
39:08for how the reunion is to be managed.
39:21Thank you, sir.
39:22Thank you, sir.
40:05Hi.
40:11Not that one.
40:12One that's fit for an adult.
40:14Those were the instructions.
40:16For God's sake, it has hearts on it.
40:20And the hat, too.
40:21Yes, sir.
40:22I hate hats.
40:23I believe its value on this occasion is not in its being worn, but in its being removed.
40:28Ah.
40:30In a gesture of chivalry and deference.
40:33Before I enter the aircraft.
40:35Before you reach the stairs of the aircraft.
40:59Michael, you want a hat.
41:01For God's sake.
41:20Please.
41:21Darling.
41:52Oh, yes.
41:54Yes, sir.
41:56Yes, sir.
42:07Yes, sir.
42:14I'm going to stay safe.
42:52Yes, sir.
42:52My wrist.
42:52It's an unprecedented scene here as the photographers from all over the world of...
42:57...the Queen and the Chief of Edinburgh...
42:59...might from the world's eyes...
43:00...onward of the Great New Constellation...
43:02...now the eyes of the world turn towards the royal yacht...
43:05...on which they have sought shelter.
43:09No, Fleur. No, I see.
43:20That was the Palace Press Secretary.
43:25In his view, the steps that we've taken...
43:27The share we've put on.
43:31The steps that we've taken haven't quite done the trick.
43:37The rumours still haven't gone away.
43:49I think we both agree it can't go on like this.
43:59No.
44:15No.
44:15So, I...
44:17...thought we might take this opportunity...
44:20...without children, without...
44:23...distraction...
44:25...to lay our cards on the table.
44:29...and talk frankly, for once...
44:32...about what needs to change...
44:34...to make this marriage work.
44:37All right.
44:38Who goes first?
44:40Stupid question.
44:41I've learned one thing by now, it's that I go second.
44:45If I am to go first...
44:47...that's where I'd start.
44:52You're complaining.
44:53My complaining?
44:54It's incessant.
44:55Whining and whinging like a child.
44:57Are you surprised?
44:59The way those god-awful moustaches that run the palace...
45:01...continue to infantilise me.
45:03Perhaps if you weren't behaving like an infant.
45:04You're giving me lists, sending me instructions.
45:06Do this, don't do that.
45:07Wear this, don't wear that.
45:08Say this, don't say that.
45:09Can you imagine anything more humiliating?
45:11Yes.
45:12As a matter of fact, I can.
45:16I've learned more about humiliation in the past few weeks...
45:19...than I hoped I would in a lifetime.
45:28I've never felt more alone than I have in the past five months.
45:33And why do you think that was?
45:36Because of your behaviour.
45:38Because you sent me away.
45:40Yes, and why do you think that was?
45:41I don't know. You tell me.
45:43Because you're lost.
45:45You're lost in your role, and you're lost in yourself.
45:49Christ.
45:51Look.
45:55I realise...
45:56...that this marriage has turned out to be something quite different...
45:59...to what we both imagined.
46:00Understatement.
46:01And that we both find ourselves in a...
46:05...a...
46:05...prison.
46:09...in a situation...
46:12...that is unique.
46:15Our marriage is different to any other in the country, because...
46:18...the exit route, which is open to everyone else...
46:21A divorce?
46:22Yes. A divorce.
46:26It's not an option for us.
46:31Ever.
46:44No.
46:55This...
46:56...this restlessness of yours, it has to be a thing of the past.
47:02It's what I need.
47:05And it's what our family needs.
47:10The monarchy's too fragile.
47:11You keep telling me yourself...
47:13...one more scandal, one more national embarrassment, and it would all be over.
47:25So what would make it easier on you?
47:28To be in.
47:30Not out.
47:35What will it take?
47:36What will it take?
47:40You're asking my price.
47:45I'm asking...
47:48...what it will take.
47:49What will it take?
48:02All right.
48:05To make it work...
48:08...to make it bearable...
48:11I'll need the respect and acknowledgement of the dreaded moustaches.
48:15Please stop calling them that.
48:17I'll stop calling them that when they don't all have one.
48:20An end to their snobbery and prejudice.
48:22No more being sniffed at for being a foreigner with a background nobody understands.
48:25Will you earn their respect with your behaviour?
48:28No.
48:29No.
48:30I will earn their respect with the only thing those creatures understand.
48:34A gesture, a statement, something irrefutable that shuts them up and commands their respect.
48:39Right now, I am currently outranked by my eight-year-old son.
48:42Yes, of course. He's the heir to the throne.
48:54I am his father, Elizabeth.
49:05Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased by letters patterned under the Great Seal of the Realm,
49:12from bearing the date of the 22nd of February, 1957,
49:18to given to Grant,
49:20under His Royal Highness,
49:22the Duke of Edinburgh,
49:24the style and titular dignity
49:27of a Prince
49:29of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
49:32and more than other.
49:36The Duke of Edinburgh
49:38shall henceforth be known
49:40as His Royal Highness,
49:43the Prince Philip,
49:45Duke of Edinburgh.
50:24the Duke of Edinburgh
50:24the Duke of Edinburgh
50:40after Fausti Church.
50:40Because of the Royal Highness,
52:11Quite marvelous, sir. Thank you.
52:14Now to the roll of muffled drums, to thee the greatest soldier comes.
52:19For this is he who give him welcome.
52:22This is he, England's greatest son.
52:26He that gained a hundred fights, nor ever lost an English gun.
52:35Quite magnificent, sir.
52:40Michael, do you have a moment?
52:42Of course.
52:47Get ready for that.
53:01Get ready for that.
53:27Sorry it's a bit gloomy.
53:29A bit.
53:31I don't know if much could have run the house without Eileen.
53:34You could have at least put the fire on.
53:36Oi.
53:37I provided whiskey.
53:39All right, I've burnt some sausages.
53:41Who do you think you are, royalty?
53:46Here you are.
53:58They're our wives and sweethearts.
54:00May they never meet.
54:04What will you do now?
54:06Go back to the Navy?
54:07No.
54:09Going back home.
54:11Navy is home.
54:13I'm either home.
54:14Australia.
54:16Oh.
54:18Can I come?
54:21I thought everything was all sorted in your well.
54:24As sorted as it can be.
54:25When you sell yourself.
54:37She wants more children.
54:40Ouch.
54:41I told her the last thing the world needs is more romance to feed.
54:44She said.
54:46You should think of it as a second act.
54:48Of what?
54:49A Greek tragedy?
54:50Of her life as a mother.
54:54That makes sense from her perspective.
54:56Hmm.
54:58Charles isn't a child to her, is he?
55:00There's also the crown.
55:02A living embodiment of who will replace her.
55:06Supersede her.
55:09Loving a child who through no fault of his own represents your own death can't be easy.
55:13No.
55:15Because she is a little cold with him.
55:20She tries her best.
55:22Might be nice to have a couple of kids today.
55:24Just kids.
55:25Not mortal threats.
55:28Who she can actually love.
55:35It's the airport driver.
55:42What would I do without you?
55:44I'm always at the end of a telephone.
55:46What's it then?
55:48End of an era.
55:54Thank you for that era.
55:58No.
55:59No, Mike.
56:05Sir.
56:07Philip.
56:11Sir.
56:21For you.
56:49Ask to a silent day.
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