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00:01You
00:16Everybody set
00:19Yes, hurry up, hurry up
00:22Right
00:24Absolute silence
00:25everywhere
00:30Cue this
00:30Right recording
00:31Ready, Your Royal Highness
00:35Five
00:36Four
00:37Three
00:38Two
00:39One
00:41And
00:46On this
00:48the occasion of my 21st birthday
00:51I welcome the opportunity
00:53to speak to all the peoples
00:55of the British Commonwealth and Empire
00:57wherever they live
00:59whatever race they come from
01:02and whatever language
01:03they speak
01:07As I speak to you today
01:09from Cape Town
01:10I am 6,000 miles
01:12from the country
01:14where I was born
01:17But I am certainly not
01:196,000 miles from home
01:23That is the great privilege
01:24of belonging to our place
01:27in the worldwide Commonwealth
01:30There are homes
01:31ready to welcome us
01:33in every continent
01:34in every continent of the earth
01:36Before I am much elder
01:38I hope I shall come to know
01:39many of them
01:41Although there is none of my father's subjects
01:44from the eldest to the youngest
01:46I do not wish to greet
01:48I am thinking especially today
01:51of all the young men and women
01:52who were born about the same time
01:55as myself
01:55and have grown up like me
01:59in the terrible and glorious years
02:01of the Second World War
02:03Will you
02:04the youth of the British family of nations
02:07let me speak on my birthday
02:09as your representative
02:12Now that we are coming to manhood
02:14and womanhood
02:15it is surely a great joy to us all
02:18to think that we shall be able
02:20to take some of the burden
02:21off the shoulders of our elders
02:24who have fought and worked
02:26and suffered to protect our childhood
02:29To that generation I say
02:31we must not be daunted
02:33by the anxieties and hardships
02:34that the war has left behind
02:36for every nation of our Commonwealth
02:39We know these things are the price
02:42we are cheerfully undertook to pay
02:44for the high honour
02:46of standing alone
02:47seven years ago
02:50in defence of the liberty of the world
02:52If we all go forward together
02:55with an unwavering faith
02:57a high courage
02:58and a quiet heart
03:00we shall be able to make
03:02of this ancient Commonwealth
03:03which we all love so dearly
03:05an even grander thing
03:09more free
03:10more prosperous
03:12more happy
03:14and a more powerful influence
03:16for good
03:17in the world
03:18than it has been
03:19in the greatest days
03:20of our forefathers
03:22Please welcome
03:23Margaret Roberts
03:29To accomplish that
03:31we must give nothing less
03:33than what my father
03:34King George
03:35the first head of the Commonwealth
03:37calls
03:38the whole of ourselves
03:40good evening
03:44there is a motto
03:46which has been born
03:48by many of my ancestors
03:50a noble motto
03:51I serve
03:54I should like to make
03:56that dedication now
03:58it's very simple
04:00I declare before you all
04:02that my whole life
04:05whether it be long
04:06or short
04:08shall be devoted
04:09to your service
04:12and the service
04:13of our great imperial family
04:15to which we all belong
04:18God help me
04:19to make good my vow
04:21and God bless all of you
04:23who are willing to share in it
04:34thank you
04:35thank you
04:36thank you
05:09for the first time
05:10we have to go
05:10and we move
05:10to be
05:11yes
06:42The Seagird was fast stirring.
06:44I looked at her again.
06:46Her fullness pellucid in the lambent sunshine,
06:49seemed as if a fish skin pulled taut.
06:52She gave me one last glancing look,
06:55and then stepped off,
06:56and plunged down into the waxing viridescence
07:00of the Ionian waters below.
07:04Moris Tua,
07:06Nita Mea.
07:09The end.
07:23Golly,
07:24your very own war and peace.
07:26Ulysses, please.
07:31I shall set aside a year of my life.
07:36What?
07:36Just kidding.
07:37I'll have it read by the end of next week.
07:39You're very kind.
07:40And Michael, bravo.
07:42No congratulations till you've read it.
07:44You deserve congratulations
07:46for being able to carry it up the stairs.
07:48Kidding again.
07:51Well,
07:53I look forward
07:55to hearing from you.
08:02Taxi?
08:09Buckingham Palace.
08:11It's what it was.
08:30Good work.
08:31Keep it on my desk.
08:32Morning, James.
08:33Morning, sir.
08:35Good evening.
08:35Morning, Michael.
08:37Sarah.
08:37Sorry to ambush you,
08:38but I've got the Today newspaper
08:40asking for confirmation
08:41of an apparently open secret
08:43in Commonwealth government circles
08:44that the Queen is deeply frustrated
08:47by Thatcher's refusal to back sanctions
08:49against the apartheid regime
08:50in South Africa.
08:52A frustration which threatens
08:54to strain her relationship
08:55with the Prime Minister,
08:56who the Queen holds personally responsible,
08:58and they'd like you,
09:00as Palace Press Secretary,
09:01to comment.
09:03You should know better
09:04than to come to me
09:04with nonsense like that, sir.
09:07In the 33 years
09:08she's been on the throne,
09:09the Queen has never once
09:10expressed a point of view
09:11about her Prime Minister's.
09:13Positive or negative?
09:14And never will.
09:15Political impartiality
09:16and support of her Prime Minister
09:18is an article of faith to her.
09:21And we all know
09:22how the Queen is
09:24about her faith.
09:33It's been nearly four decades
09:35since the system
09:36of racial segregation
09:37termed apartheid
09:38became the official policy
09:40of South Africa.
09:41The current violent oppression
09:42of black protesters
09:43by government forces
09:45is creating increased
09:46international outrage.
09:58The situation is getting worse
10:00and worse, ma'am.
10:01Countless instances of brutality
10:03by the South African police
10:04against members of the public.
10:06As you know,
10:06we believe the only way
10:07to stop these atrocities
10:09is through sustained
10:10economic pressure.
10:1248 of the Commonwealth countries
10:13are committed to imposing
10:14a policy of sanctions
10:15on Pretoria
10:16to try and bring down
10:18the apartheid regime.
10:19But, as Her Majesty knows,
10:22in order to implement
10:23those sanctions,
10:24total unanimity
10:25is required
10:26and one country
10:27remains against.
10:29United Kingdom.
10:30Mrs. Thatcher
10:31remains opposed.
10:34I will have an opportunity
10:36to speak to Mrs. Thatcher
10:37about all this
10:37in private
10:38at the fourth coming
10:39Commonwealth Heads of Government
10:40meeting in the Bahamas.
10:43The Commonwealth.
10:45Ridiculous waste of time.
10:48Ridiculous organisation.
10:51Worse.
10:51Morally offensive.
10:54Why we allow
10:55our Queen
10:56to fraternise
10:58with countries
10:59like Uganda,
11:01Malawi,
11:02Nigeria,
11:02Swaziland.
11:06unstable countries.
11:09Unstable
11:10despotisms
11:10with appalling
11:12human rights records
11:14and calling them
11:15family.
11:16Yes.
11:17Anyway,
11:18she's requested
11:19a private audience
11:19on board
11:20the Royal Yacht.
11:21What the palace
11:22is calling
11:23a frank conversation
11:24about the way forward
11:25in South Africa.
11:26Spare me.
11:28I'll give her
11:28a frank conversation
11:30about not wasting
11:32my time.
11:33Oh, excuse the eggs, boys.
11:36Oh.
11:37Right.
11:38Who
11:39wants
11:40Kedgeri?
11:41It's not my best,
11:43I'm afraid.
11:45For the dinner,
11:46this
11:46sunshine
11:47chiffon
11:48to pick out
11:49the yellow
11:49in the flag
11:50of the Commonwealth.
11:52Yummy.
11:52Oh, and a brooch
11:54given to you
11:55by King
11:55Autumnfuo
11:56of Bokawari.
11:57Is that a porcupine?
11:58A symbol
11:59of courage
12:00and strength
12:00in Ashanti culture.
12:02Oh, you might need
12:02some of that.
12:06What's all this?
12:07Choggle.
12:08Oh, of course.
12:09To what do I owe the honour?
12:14I came to tell you
12:15that I've decided
12:16to ask Edward
12:16to be my best man.
12:18Not Charles?
12:20No.
12:21Oh, that will
12:21raise some eyebrows.
12:22Good.
12:23And him see
12:24what it feels like
12:24to be sidelined
12:25in a slimmed down
12:28role
12:29since I gather
12:30that's what he now
12:30thinks the future
12:31of the monarchy
12:32should be.
12:33You,
12:34him and his own
12:35precious bloodline
12:37to hell with the rest of us.
12:39Insecure,
12:40jealous fool.
12:41What's he jealous of?
12:43Me.
12:44Always has been.
12:45Oh, Andrew.
12:46Of me and you.
12:48Of our...
12:50Of our closeness.
12:53Of the fact
12:54that I fought
12:55in a real war.
12:56Won real medals.
12:58Of the fact
12:59that I'm happier in love.
13:00More popular.
13:03And...
13:03Like other second sons
13:05I could mention.
13:05So obviously
13:06be better at it
13:07than him.
13:08At what?
13:10Being the heir.
13:13I just want
13:13to see you all happy.
13:15There are two families
13:16I care about.
13:17My own family
13:18and the Commonwealth
13:18family of nations.
13:20Keeping them all together
13:21is my life's work.
13:22Now I must get on.
13:24Mummy.
13:29For the state breakfast.
13:31A dress of the painless
13:32blue and gold
13:33were carried.
13:34Sarah!
13:34You do very well
13:35with the diamond necklace
13:36given to you
13:37by the people
13:38of South Africa
13:39on your 21st birthday.
13:43Excuse me,
13:43one minute.
13:44How do you disease?
13:45How do you know?
13:46Why?
13:46Let's go.
14:30Those of you who know me,
14:32will be aware
14:33that the Commonwealth
14:35of Nations
14:35is a second family to me,
14:38as it was to my late father,
14:41King George VI.
14:43There are always tensions
14:45between nations.
14:46Global peace is fragile.
14:49But I believe this union
14:51offers us all
14:53something rare
14:54and valuable.
14:56the capacity
14:58to celebrate
14:59difference,
15:00to value,
15:03compromise
15:03over conflict,
15:05and to find a way
15:07to heal divisions
15:08in the interests
15:10of peace
15:10and goodwill.
15:32Hey!
15:46The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
15:53Your Majesty.
15:54It was kind of you to come.
15:55I won't keep you long.
15:57I was hoping we could briefly discuss South Africa.
16:00Mum.
16:02It is my fervent hope that Britain will join the other countries of the Commonwealth
16:06and impose sanctions on an apartheid regime that has no place in the modern world.
16:10Let us be quite clear about this.
16:14Nothing useful can be achieved by sanctions.
16:17Really?
16:18It was my understanding they would devastate the South African government.
16:21Well, they would devastate us too.
16:23Trade between our two countries is worth three billion pounds a year.
16:27I thought we might look at it from the South African point of view.
16:30I am, ma'am.
16:31South Africa is already a disinvestment economy.
16:35But black South Africans want sanctions, so shouldn't we listen to them?
16:39Well, black South Africans don't want to inherit a wasteland.
16:42They will if they feel it is their wasteland.
16:45President Kaunda of Zambia would confirm as much.
16:47It is not the business of a British Prime Minister to consult with unelected dictators.
16:53But it is a sovereign's duty when they are part of the Commonwealth.
17:06I recognize that for your family, the transition of this nation from empire to comparative supplicancy on the world stage
17:15must have come as a greater shock than to the rest of us.
17:19But I would argue that the Commonwealth is not the way to fill that gap.
17:25There are ways of Britain being great again, and that is through a revitalized economy, not through association with unreliable
17:35tribal leaders in eccentric costumes.
17:38But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister?
17:40A tribal leader in eccentric costumes.
17:43Certainly not.
17:45You are head of an evolved constitutional monarchy that stretches back to William the Conquerites, not comparing like with like.
17:54Ah, now that's where we differ.
17:55You see, I consider myself to be exactly like them.
17:58To me, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi are all great sovereign nations with great histories.
18:04I am aware you probably don't share that view.
18:07To you, the Commonwealth is something of a distraction, a waste of time.
18:13But in many ways, I have given my life to it.
18:16It was the pledge I made 40 years ago.
18:19On the wireless, to our great imperial family, I remember listening to it as a student at Oxford.
18:27But we cannot let the values of the past distract us from the realities of the present,
18:35particularly where Britain's economic interests are concerned.
18:4048 countries of the Commonwealth are now preparing a statement condemning the South African regime and recommending tougher sanctions.
18:47What they, what I would like you to do, is sign that statement.
18:54If I didn't know better, that sounded very much like a directive.
19:02Think of it as a question.
19:08The jolly atmosphere at the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Nassau, nicknamed the Chogam, fooled nobody.
19:14Within an hour, South Africa came up, with the Indian Prime Minister making his position crystal clear.
19:20How was it?
19:21I'm meeting with the Queen.
19:23It was a little testy.
19:26Although I must say, I do like the boat.
19:29Yacht.
19:30It isn't a yacht.
19:32It's a great big ship.
19:33And when the Sovereign sails in it, historically, it's called a yacht.
19:37I don't be a know-all.
19:38It's unbecoming.
19:41And why was it frosty?
19:43I didn't say frosty.
19:44I said testy.
19:45Although I wish it had been frosty.
19:47It's far too hot here.
19:49Because my fellow heads of government are now coming up with a statement condemning the South African government they want
19:57me to sign.
19:58I've told them they won't accept anything with the word sanction.
20:01And they've started...
20:03Getting their knickers in a twist.
20:07Insisting they won't accept anything less.
20:11So, now we need to come up with a word that works for everyone.
20:16Well, good luck with that.
20:18Thank you, DT.
20:29Oh, no, no, no, no.
20:39She rejected any mention of proposals.
20:46I'm determined to win this battle, Sonny.
20:48I don't often get into a fight.
20:50But when I do, I want to win.
20:52You will, ma'am.
20:53Remember, you are not alone.
20:55It is 48 against 1.
20:57We are going back with another word.
21:01Merit.
21:03No, no, no.
21:06No.
21:11Sorry.
21:14A no to measures.
21:15Yes.
21:16So, we are going back with actions.
21:19And should that fail?
21:20We still have controls.
21:22Yes, I'm beginning to see this is all about control.
21:27No.
21:28No.
21:32No.
21:33No.
21:33No.
21:50I must be out of the mind.
21:54No.
21:55No.
21:55No.
21:57No.
21:58Definitely not.
22:00No.
22:03Dick.
22:14What we need here is not useless politicians, sorry, Sonny, but a writer.
22:19There might we find one.
22:20No.
22:21I don't think we need to.
22:25I don't think we need to.
22:27I don't think we need to.
22:29No.
22:30...measurements, poses, curves, gestures, experiences, thoughts.
23:04Yes, I think we can work with that.
23:09Signals!
23:10Yes, she agreed to signals.
23:13And among the signals she agreed to are actually several of the sanctions she would never have contemplated had they
23:18been called sanctions.
23:20Oh, thank you, Michael. And congratulations.
23:23Have we won?
23:24Oh, yes. It is a victory for the Commonwealth, a victory for humanity, and most of all, a victory for
23:30you.
23:30When put in the ring with her queen, the Iron Lady melted.
23:55Well played, Margaret. A victory for common sense.
23:58Whatever are you talking about?
24:00I'm sure the other heads of government will appreciate your willingness to seek compromise.
24:06There's a reason the top job has always alluded to, Geoffrey.
24:12The absence of the killer instinct.
24:16That our families are once more united along the common consensus.
24:22Uh, but ladies and gentlemen, first, Prime Minister Margaret Hatcher.
24:27Prime Minister.
24:28Yes?
24:28You have been forced to make significant concessions.
24:31Not that I noticed.
24:33You signed a document prepared by 48 countries who were in conflict with you.
24:38I did.
24:40But the question is, did one person move to the 48, or did 48 move to one?
24:50Yes, I agreed to signals.
24:53But as you know, with one simple turn, a signal can soon point in an entirely different direction.
25:04Oh.
25:07Christy.
25:11Are you giving up this thing right now?
25:15That's what she said?
25:16Yes, ma'am.
25:17Before walking off.
25:19Really?
25:30Ready?
25:31Here we go.
25:32Please.
25:33We're ready.
25:34Position.
25:36Perfect.
25:38Look at me.
25:40Three, two, one.
26:20Everyone's reading.
26:21Some early reactions have come in, and so far, very encouraging.
26:26Right, but no offers yet.
26:30Oh, well, not yet.
26:32But, regardless of whether we get this one published, what is undeniable is that you write
26:39vividly, catchily, dare I say it, even commercially.
26:45Well, it's not a dirty word, Michael.
26:47You could really tell a story.
26:49I am wondering, have you ever considered a political thriller?
26:53What?
26:54The inner workings of Whitehall Westminster, the palace.
26:57No one could write it better than you.
27:00No.
27:01No, if this magnum opus doesn't work, I'll call it a day.
27:05You could expose it all under an assumed name.
27:07Hmm.
27:08I could.
27:10But, sadly, I'm old-fashioned, and would never betray those confidences, or the people
27:16I'm proud to serve.
27:18Had to try.
27:20Was that very grubby of me?
27:24Not grubby.
27:28Just quietly heart-breaking.
27:34With violence escalating in South Africa, tensions between the United Kingdom and other
27:40nations of the Commonwealth are at breaking point.
27:43Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions is being blamed at the latter of the Commonwealth.
27:48Good meeting?
27:49Great.
27:50Hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know they are now running a front-page
27:55story about the increasingly sour relations between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street,
28:00following the recent crisis at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
28:05What is it with these people?
28:07And that relations between the two women are in danger of completely breaking down.
28:14Well, the good news is it's today, as so can expect it, to have little impact.
28:20The bad news is it won't be long before bigger, more influential newspapers realise this warrants further scrutiny.
28:28So I think the time might have come for Your Majesty to make some kind of pre-emptive statement.
28:34What kind of statement?
28:37One of support.
28:38Even, dare I say, personal affection for the Prime Minister.
28:45About the job she's doing.
28:47Something that would kill gossip stone dead.
28:50But what if I'm not happy with the job she's been doing?
28:54What if on this occasion I'd be happy for people to know the displeasure was actually real?
28:58That I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion.
29:01You know how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility to remain silent.
29:06But each of us has our line in the sand.
29:09And if it were to become public knowledge that there had been an unprecedented rift between Sovereign and Prime Minister,
29:14would that really be so bad?
29:26Well, if that really were your intention, and for the record, ma'am, I must say, I think that would
29:36be a misjudgment.
29:38And risk doing serious and irreparable harm to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
29:50Then today would not be the newspaper I would go to.
29:56I'd go somewhere with more heft.
29:59Somewhere that also had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this.
30:07where they understood the rules of the game.
30:09Right. Well, can I leave that with you, then, Michael? You are the expert.
30:12Ma'am. Ma'am.
30:23It's reckless.
30:25It's reckless, Martin. And irresponsible. I'm as surprised as you are.
30:29It goes against my professional advice. And I want my objection noted.
30:37Noted?
30:38Noted, Martin. It's noted.
30:43It's noted.
31:08It's noted.
31:14All right.
31:16Put him through.
31:18Yeah.
31:28It's unfair.
31:30Let's move up.
31:46Here we go.
32:03Evening, Prime Minister.
32:04Evening, Bernard.
32:05I've just had a phone call from the Sunday Times
32:07letting us know that there will be a difficult piece in the paper tomorrow.
32:11About what?
32:12The fault lines that have developed in the relationship
32:14between Sovereign and Prime Minister.
32:16What?
32:28Sunday Times, first edition!
32:36Sunday Times, first edition!
32:43Sunday Times, first edition!
32:50Further?
32:51Michael?
32:52I don't know.
32:56All right.
32:57No.
33:19Go!
33:31A constitutional crisis was on the verge of erupting this morning
33:35as the Sunday Times published details of a sensational rift
33:39between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
33:41This story, which is likely to have a serious impact
33:44on what have traditionally been cordial relations
33:47between the sovereign and her prime ministers,
33:49cites the cause of the rift as an alleged dispute
33:53over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of sanctions
33:56against apartheid in South Africa.
33:59Nice.
34:00A position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval,
34:04marking a distinct break with the monarch's long-held practice
34:07of never-passing comment on political affairs.
34:11So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report,
34:15with the palace spokesman declining to comment on an article entitled...
34:19The African Queen, at odds with number 10.
34:22It has been an eventful week for Buckingham Palace.
34:25Queen Elizabeth II, a well-intentioned, apolitical figurehead,
34:30has been dragged into a messy row over South Africa
34:33because of the stubbornness and insensitivity...
34:36Of her prime minister.
34:39Far from being a straightforward, uncomplicated countrywoman...
34:43A late middle-aged grandmother who is most at ease
34:47when talking about dogs and horses...
34:49She's shown that she's also an astute political infighter
34:53who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street...
34:56When provoked.
35:02Really?
35:03That's what it says.
35:08I'm feeling something for the very first time.
35:12Something which I never imagined feeling.
35:15What is that?
35:18Impatience for our next audience.
35:28Buckingham Palace has continued to deny accusations published in the Sunday Times
35:33regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing Street.
35:36Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship
35:40between sovereign and first minister was in danger of being blown apart.
35:44Prime Minister's here.
35:51Prime Minister's here.
36:18Prime Minister's here.
36:19Prime Minister's here.
37:22I checked with the Cabinet Secretary and it turns out that in the seven years I have been Prime Minister,
37:29we have had 164 audiences, always the model of cordiality, productivity and mutual respect.
37:37So it is perhaps not unreasonable to expect an isolated hiccup.
37:43What hiccup?
37:44I was under the impression that Her Majesty never expressed her political views in public.
37:52I don't.
37:53That there was an unbreakable code of silence between Sovereign and First Minister.
37:58If you're referring to the Sunday Times, I've always advised my Prime Ministers against reading the newspapers.
38:03I don't, ma'am.
38:05If you misunderstand, misquote and misrepresent, then everybody gets into a fluster.
38:09But my press secretary does.
38:11And he has working relationships with all of the editors.
38:14And the editor in this case assured him that the sources were unimpeachable.
38:19Close to the Queen.
38:23Well, I'm sure a clarification will soon be forthcoming.
38:32In the meantime, should we not make a start from the business of the week, only I am mindful of
38:36the time.
38:38This is the business, ma'am.
38:41The only business.
38:43I think we have enough respect for one another personally to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions.
38:51Woman to woman.
38:53We are the same age after all.
38:56Really?
38:56Just six months between us.
38:59Oh?
38:59And who is the senior?
39:02I am, ma'am.
39:13Uncaring, confrontational, and socially divisive.
39:16That's how these sources so close to the Queen describe me.
39:20Prime Minister.
39:20That I lack compassion.
39:22And that my government has done irretrievable damage to the country's social fabric.
39:35My responsibility for the time I have in office is to put sentimentality to one side and look after these
39:45countries' interests with the perspective of a cold balance sheet.
39:50And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness and compassion for those less fortunate than us...
39:56Do you? Really?
39:57Let us not forget that of the two of us, I am the one from a small street in an
40:06irrelevant town with a father who could not bequeath me a title or a commonwealth, but only grit, good sense
40:15and determination.
40:16And I don't want people's pity or charity or compassion.
40:22Nothing would insult me more.
40:25My goal is to change this country from being dependent to self-reliant.
40:33And I think in that I am succeeding.
40:36I have had to learn many difficult lessons as sovereigns.
40:38Britons are learning to look after number one, to get ahead, and only then, if they choose, to look after
40:49their neighbour.
40:50Of those?
40:50No one would remember the good Samaritan if he only had good intentions.
40:58You see, he had money as well.
41:03Perhaps the hardest is that I am obliged to support my prime ministers on any position they take, even yours,
41:11regarding sanctions against South Africa.
41:16My question is, given the lack of impact it has on your day-to-day political fortunes, yet how important
41:23it is to me, could you not have supported me just once?
41:27My fellow commonwealth leaders, many of whom I consider to be friends, now feel that I have betrayed them on
41:36an issue most important to them.
41:38Well, they need only read the Sunday Times.
41:41It will give them no doubt as to your position.
41:53Oh, look, our time is up.
41:55How it flies.
41:59You must be very much looking forward to the wedding tomorrow, of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
42:05Yes, we are.
42:07They seem like a good match.
42:09Yes, we think so.
42:10My own son, Mark, recently announced that he would be getting married.
42:15Your favourite, the explorer.
42:17Not an explorer, ma'am.
42:19That was just the once.
42:21He's a businessman now, in the Middle East, mostly.
42:25And South Africa.
42:27Of course.
42:31Your Majesty.
42:44Listen to me carefully.
42:46There is no story here.
42:48There's not a shred of truth to these rumours.
42:50The Queen continues to have an extremely cordial and productive working relationship with the Prime Minister.
42:54Sunday Times maintains that the story came from a highly placed source within the palace.
42:59And that's the line we're running with.
43:01And we will deny it and you will look like fools.
43:03Bear me the indignation.
43:04I understand you have to say it, but we both know that it's true.
43:08And your continual denial is making you lot look like fools.
43:15Hello?
43:16Can I take your details?
43:20What's all this?
43:22Don't tell me the groom's having last-minute doubts.
43:24No.
43:25Andrew's asked us all to come together because he wants someone to explain why...
43:28God's name is going on with our mother.
43:32The wedding of the Duke of York should be a landmark event, at home and abroad.
43:36Instead, thanks to the Queen's inexplicable lapse of judgment, the newspapers are full, not of Sarah and me, but of
43:46mummy's rift with the Prime Minister.
43:50Ah, yes.
43:51Sunday Times.
43:52You have to admit she has made a gore awful mess of it.
43:54What was she thinking?
43:55She did what she spent her life telling me I cannot do.
43:59She opened her mouth and expressed an opinion.
44:03And is being slaughtered for it.
44:06Bloody thoughtless of her, if you ask me.
44:08Oh, come on.
44:08You can hardly blame the newspapers wanting to write about something other than the wedding of a fringe member of
44:13the family who'll never be king.
44:15Ouch.
44:16Well, it's true, isn't it?
44:19Fourth in line now, and by the time William's had children, his children have had children.
44:25Fringe.
44:29Jo.
44:54It would be hard to imagine there'd be anything that could knock her royal wedding into second place on the
45:00news.
45:01But the continuing escalation of the row between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher threatens to overshadow the nuptials.
45:08The Queen has made a very serious error of judgment.
45:12And this Sunday Times article has lit a touch paper to what could very quickly become a major constitutional crisis.
45:19What the palace was hoping to achieve by this is hard to say.
45:23But the fact is they've stirred up a hornet's nest and so far seem to lack the wind to avoid
45:29getting stung.
45:30This story...
45:31If I might interrupt, ma'am.
45:32...has had a serious impact.
45:35One unfortunate consequence of our denial of the story is that the editor of the Sunday Times has now come
45:41out all guns blazing.
45:43And whilst we could continue to deny it, my own view is that it's no longer to our advantage.
45:50And I think we're now going to have to give them something.
45:53What?
45:55A culprit.
45:57To deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP.
46:02We need to let them have a name.
46:16Martin.
46:17Michael.
46:23This escalating situation between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
46:27You can't say I didn't warn you.
46:30I think you know how seriously the Queen takes her responsibility and how much she values the close relationship between
46:37the two houses.
46:37Of course.
46:39And to see it compromise like this, as a consequence of your actions.
46:51What?
46:53The fact is that the steps you took were completely unprofessional.
46:58Martin, stop it.
46:59Impugning the integrity of the palace and of the Queen herself.
47:02We know one another too well.
47:04This is madness.
47:08I hope we can rely on you to do the right thing.
47:27Of course.
47:52Michael.
47:53I will.
48:24I will.
49:03There is a motto which has been born by many of my ancestors, a noble motto.
49:11Aye, sir.
49:13I should like to make that dedication now.
49:15It's very simple.
49:18I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted
49:27to your service, and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
49:35God help me to make good my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share in
49:42it.
49:42I will.
49:45I will.
49:59I will.
50:01I will.
50:01I will.
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