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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.
00:01:34Yes, that's good.
00:01:36I think I'm too rough, man.
00:01:36I think it's alright.
00:01:58Come on, Alex.
00:02:00That's it.
00:02:00Don't push me.
00:02:01Don't alter him.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up.
00:02:09Get straight up.
00:02:10No.
00:02:12No!
00:02:18There's no need for it.
00:02:19No!
00:02:45really
00:02:48really
00:02:51really
00:02:55well I shall certainly let her majesty know
00:02:59thank you
00:03:04time and tide Mr. conservator
00:03:06wait for no man private secretary
00:03:09afternoon to you
00:03:10good afternoon sir
00:03:24what is it now
00:03:27Lord Altrincham
00:03:28has been struck
00:03:33dumb I hope
00:03:34better than that ma'am
00:03:36in the face
00:03:38quite forcefully
00:03:40I'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
00:03:50the incident occurred outside
00:03:52the television studios
00:03:53and the perpetrator
00:03:55is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:58where we expect him
00:04:00to be released without charge
00:04:02well how very gratifying
00:04:05yes
00:04:06very
00:04:07which television studios
00:04:09the independent television network studios ma'am
00:04:13where Altrincham had just recorded an interview
00:04:16for what
00:04:18a program
00:04:20appropriately called
00:04:22impact
00:04:23when will it air
00:04:24tonight ma'am
00:04:26nine o'clock
00:04:47tell the people
00:04:48tell them on television
00:04:50questions in the public mind
00:04:52answered by people
00:04:54in the public eye
00:04:55this is
00:04:57impact
00:04:57the program that examines
00:04:59the most important matters
00:05:01of the moment
00:05:01and which
00:05:03to you at home
00:05:04sorry I'm late
00:05:05Robin Day
00:05:07he's just starting
00:05:10tonight we have a man
00:05:11who because of press activity
00:05:12in recent days
00:05:13probably needs no introduction
00:05:15Lord Altrincham
00:05:16in the space of just a few days
00:05:18his inflammatory
00:05:19and deeply personal attacks
00:05:21on the Queen
00:05:21in a periodical
00:05:22of which he is also publisher
00:05:23have become the most pressing issue
00:05:25of the day
00:05:26and caused something
00:05:27of a constitutional crisis
00:05:29so
00:05:29I'd like to begin by
00:05:31asking Lord Altrincham
00:05:32a simple question
00:05:34she's our head of state
00:05:35loved, respected
00:05:37and admired
00:05:38throughout the world
00:05:39so
00:05:39why do you hate us
00:05:41so very much?
00:06:05or
00:06:34no
00:06:35we'll see you even
00:07:05Two shillings. National and English with you.
00:07:10National and English with you. Two shillings.
00:07:14It's far too long. People are beginning to notice.
00:07:17And that is why the...
00:07:22And that is why the ending of doctrinal tests
00:07:25and the introduction of women priests
00:07:26is the only viable solution for saving the Church of England,
00:07:30an institution that is becoming increasingly outdated and irrelevant
00:07:34hour by hour.
00:07:35Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:38Hello, Patricia.
00:07:39Would anyone like some toffee?
00:07:41Oh, bring 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.
00:07:58All right.
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.
00:08:07You were going to look at that for me, weren't you?
00:08:08Something nutty about it.
00:08:10Mm.
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?
00:08:25Toffee, 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?
00:08:37You 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 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.
00:09:07I have...
00:09:08Sir?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness and ability
00:09:15to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage in meeting
00:09:22constant, small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure
00:09:28the happiness and prosperity
00:09:30of the community
00:09:31as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course
00:09:40of a nation's history
00:09:41is due
00:09:42in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average
00:09:47men and women.
00:09:53working men and women
00:09:57has a touch more
00:09:58dignity.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22What you might be interested
00:10:24to see this
00:10:25it's a draft
00:10:26of a speech
00:10:27the Queen's going to give
00:10:28in a week's time.
00:10:30I don't mind telling you
00:10:31I felt a bit uneasy
00:10:32about it.
00:10:49Sir, forgive me
00:10:52if I'm interfering
00:10:53beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Oh, dear.
00:11:04You were about to interfere
00:11:05beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning the speech
00:11:11the Queen is due
00:11:12to give next week
00:11:13at the Jaguar car factory.
00:11:15What about it?
00:11:17I was just
00:11:19wondering if you were
00:11:20happy with it.
00:11:24Well, obviously
00:11:25I'm happy with it
00:11:26or I wouldn't have shown it
00:11:28to Her Majesty
00:11:29for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:35She didn't need to.
00:11:36She immediately asked
00:11:37if I was happy
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative
00:11:41and that was good enough
00:11:43for Her Majesty
00:11:45but I can see
00:11:48that the really important
00:11:49question is
00:11:50is it good enough
00:11:52for Colonel Chatteris?
00:11:56You don't think it
00:11:57strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:03In its paternalism
00:12:08may I?
00:12:11You?
00:12:13I suppose if I
00:12:15had a concern
00:12:18it would be that
00:12:19post-Suez
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:22in this new Britain
00:12:26the tone
00:12:27of the speech
00:12:28is
00:12:29somewhat
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:31what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned
00:12:39then would leave her
00:12:40open to attack
00:12:41from whom?
00:12:43The newspapers
00:12:46people
00:12:47if I had a shilling
00:12:48for every time
00:12:49someone of a progressive
00:12:50or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly
00:12:53of a popular attack
00:12:54against the crown
00:12:55I'd be a rich man
00:12:57the British people
00:12:58adore their sovereign
00:12:59which is what constitutes
00:13:01indeed defines
00:13:02being British
00:13:04now the worst
00:13:05I've ever encountered
00:13:06is apathy
00:13:07where people
00:13:08simply accept
00:13:09the king or queen
00:13:10as they accept
00:13:10the sky above their heads
00:13:12but it's a long way
00:13:13from apathy
00:13:14to insurrection
00:13:16now as regards
00:13:17the newspapers
00:13:18the crown can count
00:13:19on their support
00:13:20for two reasons
00:13:21first
00:13:21there is nothing
00:13:22to attack
00:13:23that's the advantage
00:13:24of a constitutional monarchy
00:13:26they have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing
00:13:28to complain about
00:13:29and even if they wanted to
00:13:31they'd always let us
00:13:32know first
00:13:33the palace would then
00:13:34threaten them
00:13:35the boycott
00:13:35on the next
00:13:36major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately to back down
00:13:40because the very people
00:13:42you fear
00:13:43will hate the queen
00:13:45and the same ones
00:13:46who buy copies
00:13:47in 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
00:14:01of that inescapable conclusion
00:14:03to you
00:14:22I'm going to take it
00:14:23in a little shorter man
00:14:24and rounder it back
00:14:26lovely
00:14:45sing of the praise
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 your hair?
00:15:56What'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 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 Man's film.
00:16:48Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:51Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:18Sir William Park.
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23How do you do?
00:17:24It's very, very, um, spacious.
00:17:27This is 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 studied drawing, did you?
00:17:38Very good, teacher.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's a double.
00:17:47With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:52Quite a 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
00:18:25you 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,
00:18:43where 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.
00:19:39Come on, everybody, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner?
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.
00:20:11I'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.
00:20:57A.
00:20:59A
00:21:00A
00:21:00A
00:21:25A
00:28:17I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer inviting me
00:28:22to record an interview this afternoon.
00:28:25which program impact with Robin day I wish it weren't day we all wish it weren't day
00:28:35he's terrifying don't be silly the fact that it's day is what makes it valuable
00:28:40you don't think I'm walking into a trap you walked into the trap when you wrote
00:28:45the article now you're the most unloved individual in Britain ironically a day
00:28:51is the one person who could help you why you've seen how he interviews people he
00:28:59dismembers them tears them to shreds yes but keep your cool under his scrutiny make
00:29:05your case politely respectfully intelligently it could turn people around
00:29:23thank you very much
00:29:31how do you do how do you do shall we yes this way thank you for coming
00:29:43just here if you will right let myself to water thank you shouldn't be too long
00:30:13we told how all this works recording now transmission tonight yes
00:30:25tonight we have a man who because of press activity in recent days probably needs no
00:30:30introduction Lord Altrincham in the space of just a few days his inflammatory and deeply personal
00:30:36attacks on the Queen in a periodical of which he is also publisher have become the most pressing
00:30:41issue of the day and caused something of a constitutional crisis so I'd like to begin
00:30:46by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question she's our head of state loved respected and admired around
00:30:54the world so why do you hate her so very much I don't then why criticize her like this
00:31:02that's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art I'm a passionate monarchist who believes
00:31:08constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention
00:31:11yes I do I believe that monarchy provides clarity a symbolic head of state transcending the self-serving
00:31:21interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians who go in and out of office who as
00:31:28King Lear wonderfully says ebb and flow by the moon but when working at its best monarchy can rise
00:31:34above such matters and unify a society you can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation
00:31:40of national character but the problem is at the moment it's it's not doing that it's doing very
00:31:46little right as far as you're concerned no that's not true you would like to see her majesty endowed
00:31:51with superhuman powers it's not superhuman to be a little spontaneous judging from your article you'd
00:31:57like the Queen to have the qualities of a of a wit you'd like her to be a a better
00:32:02orator a TV
00:32:03personality in addition to being a diligent dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother all I'm suggesting
00:32:09is that in her public speeches and in her appearances she should be more natural her style of speaking is
00:32:17quite frankly a pain in the neck she sounds strangled I had the misfortune of hearing one of the
00:32:26Queen speeches in a dental waiting room recently I was horrified by the indifference and inertia
00:32:32with which the speech was greeted but you'd accept that being Queen and head of the Church of England
00:32:38is not an easy job or a simple one if you'll forgive me it's uh it's arguably a harder job
00:32:43than editing a
00:32:45small periodical no I know I quite agree her majesty is a seemingly impossible task she has to be ordinary
00:32:51and extraordinary touched by divinity and yet one of us but being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland
00:32:59or ineffectual or forgettable and against whom do you lay the main charge her courtiers well in the
00:33:07end if the court is wrong if the setup is wrong you have no choice but to criticize the boss
00:33:12the Queen yes
00:33:14because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants she hires them she alone can fire them
00:33:21now they may be bad I believe some of them at the moment are they're quite dreadful but it is
00:33:27her
00:33:28responsibility it's not theirs in the sense that they're just hired hands and so the personal attack
00:33:34on the monarch continues let me just say this to criticize the monarchy to criticize her majesty
00:33:41personally gives me no satisfaction but we have to remember that since the Second World War since Suez
00:33:48Britain has changed beyond recognition and yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though
00:33:55nothing has happened I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until
00:34:00recently monarchies were the rule and republics the exception but today republics are the rule and
00:34:09monarchies very much the exception
00:34:13Lord Altringham I have to terminate the interview I'm obliged to you for answering my questions
00:34:18next week at the same time there will be another edition of impact good night
00:34:25that went very well
00:34:34thank you again Lord Altringham thank you good day
00:34:36good day
00:34:41thank you
00:34:42thank you
00:34:44I was using the stereo in real life I uh
00:34:48Lord Altringham
00:34:49yes
00:34:50oh
00:34:52you traitor
00:34:59congratulations
00:35:00well done
00:35:02well done
00:35:03glass of white
00:35:04well done
00:35:05something stronger
00:35:06what about a brandy
00:35:07why not
00:35:08well done
00:35:10well done
00:35:12well done
00:35:15well done
00:35:16well done
00:35:16well be calm
00:35:17well done
00:35:18oh be calm
00:35:18man of the hour really
00:35:20hell
00:35:31your majesty yes what is it Michael there have been some reactions in the newspapers to last
00:35:39night's television and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham I'm afraid it's not quite as we hoped
00:35:49why not well the man that struck Altrincham it turns out is a member of the extreme right
00:35:57League of Empire loyalists which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution
00:36:05of the Empire and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy dear and it seems
00:36:14that most people have decided having watched Altrincham on television that he is eminently
00:36:22reasonable now almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments and there are new
00:36:32polls to support this that is the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in ordering the favor
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
00:36:56he has been receiving the Prime Minister has suggested that he come up a week earlier than
00:37:03planned in order to discuss it all with you in person goodness a constitutional crisis well I hope
00:37:13you're going to apologize to mr. Macmillan too no you're not going to deny this hell mess springs from
00:37:20a badly written speech which I gave unquestioningly because I trusted you perhaps Lord Altrincham is
00:37:26right perhaps I should surround myself with younger more dynamic people with one foot in the real world
00:38:01and you believe it's now a government measure I do
00:38:06ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me concerned her majesty will hardly need
00:38:14reminding a great many other countries have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent
00:38:20years Egypt Bulgaria Italy Tunisia only last month of 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 and so it is my view the
00:38:40government's
00:38:41view that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible and do what the obvious thing
00:38:49altering them is a fire which needs to be put out
00:39:28the palace is offered up a chap called charteris to meet I looked him up he used to be her
00:39:37principal
00:39:38private secretary well there you are before the king died when she was princess
00:39:47princess and now he's assistant private secretary
00:39:54so not quite a pawn but certainly not a bishop or knight either go
00:40:01go in order to be fobbed off go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together
00:40:06wanted to work together they would have sent someone higher up go
00:40:11go all right and take a list of suggestions recommendations don't go empty-handed
00:40:26not yet john your tooth john sorry
00:40:31sorry
00:40:32oh
00:40:33oh
00:40:34oh
00:40:38oh
00:40:46oh
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Lord Ortringham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man, in one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Ortringham.
00:42:22Colonel 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 that because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying
00:43:36to 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
00:43:47do in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:55Is my voice all right?
00:43:58You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a 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, just 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
00:45:04to return fire 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,
00:45:25and taking his advice on how to do her job.
00:45:30The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49You'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
00:45:59to 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.
00:46:20Next.
00:46:21Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign, and women
00:46:29who are not of that class are not presented to the sovereign, and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:35This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation,
00:46:40certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
00:46:49Uh, allow 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 recognize divorced
00:47:04persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory, quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:17Uh, I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here.
00:47:23The old school.
00:47:24Stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, with 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?
00:47:58Open 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.
00:48:08Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:11Become more transparent.
00:48:14Accessible.
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?
00:48:58No.
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.
00:49:34Emeraldes the chopper…
00:49:42Coldати.
00:49:45What's the matters then?
00:50:02Orange, please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room,
00:50:21she was gone.
00:50:24Vanished into thin air.
00:50:26Do sit down.
00:50:28Charteress then went on to tell me
00:50:30that no one can ever know that I met the Queen,
00:50:33and that should I ever claim that I did,
00:50:35the palace would robustly deny it.
00:50:38They will, however, concede that I had an appointment
00:50:41with Her Majesty's Assistant, Private Secretary,
00:50:44and that concessions might be made to one or two
00:50:48of my recommendations.
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Let's get these lights in, quickly.
00:51:02Leave me with that camera.
00:51:03Right here.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the cake.
00:51:20I feel like an actress, a common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorizing lines and remembering angles,
00:51:34wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40Who's memorizing lines and remembering angles
00:51:42and wearing makeup.
00:51:54Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:00This way, please, ma'am.
00:52:12I'm going to check the aid.
00:52:14I'll check the aid.
00:52:15Everyone stand by.
00:52:16This is a good one.
00:52:23This is a good one.
00:52:30Here.
00:52:34Here.
00:52:36Matt.
00:52:50Matt.
00:52:55Matt.
00:52:59Matt.
00:53:27Happy 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
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.
00:54:01I 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.
00:54:31But 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
00:54:49at 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,
00:55:41who now
00:55:43will 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.
00:56:30Congratulations.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, my, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
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 Cabón, but no, that's not quite right.
00:57:36Vidal 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.
00:57:43And 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?
00:58:22It 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.
00:58:59To democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:05The 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.
00:59:30The 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.
00:59:44It'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.
01:00:10I 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.
01:00:46Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:50Thank you for coming.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatter-in-Pin.
01:00:53I play so much fun with you.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You look absolutely...
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What can't you tell him, please?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denbride.
01:01:05Such a pleasure to have you here.
01:01:07Oh, here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
01:01:09Oh, here they come.
01:01:39Oh, here they come.
01:01:52No question.
01:01:53Oh, here they come.
01:02:08Oh, here they come.
01:02:09Okay, all right.
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