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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.
00:01:28I'm sure I've got an extra kit!
00:01:33It's alright, man?
00:01:35It's alright, man.
00:01:35It's alright, man.
00:01:35You got some too rough, man.
00:01:38It's alright.
00:01:40You got some too rough, man.
00:01:52You have to move longer than the将.
00:01:55Good one, good one, good one.
00:01:58Come on, that.
00:01:59Ladies, gentlemen.
00:02:00That's it.
00:02:00Don't push him.
00:02:01Don't push him.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:25No, please.
00:02:44Really?
00:02:49Really.
00:02:53Well, 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, ma'am.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios
00:03:53and the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:59where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:03Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:07Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:09The 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...
00:05:10Tonight 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, his 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?
00:05:53To be continued...
00:05:56To be continued...
00:06:00To be continued...
00:06:24To be continued...
00:06:26To be continued...
00:07:00To be continued...
00:07:00Yes, Sir.
00:07:01Ignorant Laid at the end...
00:07:01komt to zero shit...
00:07:06Ooo evening, Press proper .
00:07:08Oh come on.
00:07:13You've only been this for far too long,
00:07:15people are beginning to notice and that is why the and that is why the ending of
00:07:24doctrinal tests and the introduction of women priests is the only viable
00:07:27solution for saving the Church of England an institution that is becoming
00:07:31increasingly outdated and irrelevant hour by hour who's got a thousand words
00:07:37for me on that hello Patricia would anyone like some toffee
00:07:41bring it over here oh divine much like Tricia herself come come idea be seated
00:07:59right if no one's keen on the church story I can knock something up now a piece on
00:08:04reforming the house of laws Dermot you were going to look at that for me
00:08:08weren't you something nutty about it mmm molasses and Europe we need to work out
00:08:14our official stance are we for or against a single European market are we in or out
00:08:26toffee John oh you must try some John I'm afraid I have a thing against toffee I didn't
00:08:35I know that you can't know everything about me it's not the taste I object to so
00:08:44much I just have painful memories as a child or sitting in a dentist chair
00:08:54because a piece of toffee I ate
00:08:55oh Lord lost again hi I hope sir perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand
00:09:16the fatigue of dull repetitive work and your great courage in meeting constant
00:09:23important small adversities depend in great measure the 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 of its
00:09:47average men and women
00:09:53um working 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 it's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in
00:10:28a week's time I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it
00:10:49yeah
00:10:51sir forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station
00:11:01to me
00:11:02you were about to interfere beyond your station
00:11:09but it's concerning the speech the queen is due to give next week
00:11:13the jagger car factory what about it i was just wondering if you were happy with it
00:11:24well obviously i'm happy with it or i wouldn't have shown it to her majesty for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave did the queen read it she didn't need to she merely asked if i was happy
00:11:39i replied in the affirmative and that was good enough for her majesty but i can see that the
00:11:48really important question is is it good enough for colonel charteris
00:11:56you don't think it strikes the wrong tone in which sense
00:12:03in its paternalism may i
00:12:13i suppose if i had a concern
00:12:18it would be that post-sues in this new climate
00:12:23in this new britain
00:12:26the tone of the speech is
00:12:30somewhat somewhat what
00:12:36old-fashioned
00:12:39then would leave her open to attack from whom the newspapers
00:12:46people
00:12:47if i had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly of a popular attack against the crown i'd be a rich man
00:12:57the british people adore their sovereign it is what constitutes indeed defines being british
00:13:04now the worst i've ever encountered is apathy where people simply accept the king or queen as they accept the
00:13:10sky above their heads
00:13:12but it's a long way from apathy to insurrection
00:13:16now as regards the newspapers the crown can count on their support for two reasons
00:13:21first there is nothing to attack that's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy
00:13:27they have no power so there's nothing to complain about
00:13:30and even if they wanted to they'd always let us know first
00:13:33the palace would then threaten them with the boycott on the next major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers immediately to back down
00:13:40because the very people you fear will hate the queen
00:13:45the 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 man and rounder it back
00:14:26lovely
00:14:27the
00:14:29the
00:14:58CHOIR SINGS
00:15:17I like it very much.
00:15:30Oh.
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?
00:15:56What'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 animoge.
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 always 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.
00:18:10I 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,
00:18:43where 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 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,
00:19:26what 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.
00:19:38Well, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:39Come on, everybody.
00:19:40Let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner.
00:19:44Good evening, 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.
00:20:26You're welcome.
00:20:29You're welcome.
00:20:30You're welcome.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:20:57lots of balloons everywhere.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:10Excuse me.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting
00:28:22You're inviting me to record an interview this afternoon.
00:28:25Which program?
00:28:27Impact with Robin Day.
00:28:31I wish it weren't Day.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day. It'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.
00:28:50Ironically, 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, this way.
00:29:35Thank you for coming.
00:29:36Not at all. How long do we have until we start?
00:29:39Well, we'll put them to make up quickly.
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.
00:29:55All good.
00:29:59You're standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:01Good.
00:30:01Stand ready.
00:30:05Let's make you start.
00:30:13Can you tell him 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,
00:30:29probably needs no introduction, Lord Altrincham.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:30:37in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:30:40have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:30:42and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:30:45So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham 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.
00:31:06I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:13I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state, transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully says, ebb and flow by 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.
00:31:41But 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, dutiful and devoted
00:32:07monarch 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.
00:32:34But 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? Her 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. She alone can fire them.
00:33:22Now, they may be bad. I 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.
00:33:33And 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. I'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.
00:35:12I'm sick.
00:35:15Oh, be calm.
00:35:17Really?
00:35:18Manly, I'm a wreck.
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.
00:35:43Now, I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:51Well, the man that struck Altringham, 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 doctrine of English
00:36:09racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh, dear.
00:36:13And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altringham on the television, that he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25Now, almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments, and there are new polls to support this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altringham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this, I believe, reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone calls that he has
00:36:56been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister has suggested that he'd come up a week earlier than planned in order to discuss it all
00:37:05with 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 springs from a badly written speech which I gave unquestioningly because
00:37:22I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altringham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the real world.
00:37:34Come here.
00:37:36Come here.
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 have been calling me.
00:38:10Concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries
00:38:16who have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:22Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia only last month.
00:38:26Of course, we're not at that point.
00:38:29Not at a red light.
00:38:31We're not even at an amber.
00:38:34But 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?
00:38:46The obvious thing.
00:38:49Altringham is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you!
00:39:02Go at you!
00:39:15Go at you!
00:39:19Go at you!
00:39:28The palace has offered up a chap called Charteris to meet.
00:39:35I 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.
00:40:06Wanting 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.
00:40:37Sorry.
00:41:01I'm coming, sir.
00:41:03Sorry.
00:41:03minute.
00:41:06Yes,
00:41:06I'm coming, sir.
00:41:08But now I'm coming.
00:41:09Bye, če, če, če.
00:41:17Name is a mouth.
00:41:20Remove, I'll be by lies.
00:41:22Close to the devil's INSTITUTE.
00:41:22And be on the right hand you.
00:41:22Bye.
00:41:22And be on his agenda.
00:41:23Okay, sorry.
00:41:23Now I'm coming...
00:41:23Bye.
00:41:23I'm coming back, go.
00:41:24Be on my way, though.
00:41:24Go on your list of Saul.
00:41:25But now I'm coming back.
00:41:27I said that'sски, I'm coming.
00:41:33Which is a good one- opini.
00:41:33Broad Ortingham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:11In one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Ortingham. Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have... something in common.
00:42:58And 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.
00:43:33Because 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?
00:43:52Shall we begin?
00:43:54Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much of 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.
00:44:25And 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, forgive me, a failed politician and an unrecognized journalist, and 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, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Oh, I've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations, recommendations 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, and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:17Very 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,
00:46:29and women who are not of that class are not presented to the sovereign, and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:34This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation, certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
00:46:49Ah.
00:46:52Allow 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.
00:47:06It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:16Ah.
00:47:18I 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.
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 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?
00:47:57Open 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.
00:48:29Working 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?
00:48:59Not 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, stop this.
00:49:38Commissioner, stop it.
00:49:41Commissioner, stop it.
00:49:45Commence.
00:49:47Commissioner.
00:49:51Average people.
00:50:02Orange, please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room, she was gone.
00:50:24Vanished into thin air.
00:50:25Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went on to tell me that no one can ever know that I met the Queen,
00:50:33and 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.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the pig.
00:51:20You're like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines and remembering angles and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It was 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, please, ma'am.
00:52:03This way, please, ma'am.
00:52:07Your Majesty.
00:52:10Right.
00:52:11This way, please, ma'am.
00:52:12This way, please, ma'am.
00:53:21Five, four, three.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:32Twenty-five 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,
00:53:57and that is how I think of you all now.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and
00:54:07direct.
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, someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and
00:54:25films, 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
00:54:49in which 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
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.
00:55:51I 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.
00:56:31Congratulations.
00:56:42Thank you very much.
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.
00:57:27Hmm.
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.
00:57:35Vidal 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.
00:57:43If 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.
00:58:00You're very own little old, Fringham.
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Look at that.
00:58:16There it is.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:22It 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, bit by bit, piece 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.
01:00:08Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13They told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses,
01:00:17so if you get a dud, don't worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Oh, yes, that was a good problem.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello.
01:00:50Thank you for coming.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Havard.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53I play so much fun with 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.
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. James.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denmark.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you.
01:01:07Oh, here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
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