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00:10To Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his government today is fresh on the pound.
00:20Good afternoon, Mr. King.
00:23Damage had been done by the...
00:24Good afternoon, Mr. King.
00:25Britain's trade gap is a staggering 107 million pounds.
00:30It's the worst figure on record.
00:31The government said that these figures were distorted and meaningless.
00:39Good afternoon, Mr. King.
00:42Good afternoon, Mr. King.
00:45Where is it?
00:47About you.
00:48Tomorrow's front page, sir.
00:50Not strong enough.
00:53It's the strongest headline the Daily Mail has ever written about a Labour leader.
00:56About had guilty conscience. I don't know what it's saying.
01:25It's a sad day when the Daily Mirror, a Labour-supporting newspaper, turns against a Labour leader,
01:29like this.
01:34We've done some thinking and come up with an idea for how to deflect any further criticism.
01:39Yeah, go on.
01:41Lord Mountbatten.
01:45What's he got to do with anything?
01:46I'm sure we all agree that he's a symbol of a bygone era, of privilege and inequality, empire and extravagance.
01:53Not to mention a pompous, bloody arse.
01:55Go on.
01:56As Chief of the Defence Staff, he's refusing to make the defence cuts we need.
02:01Cuts which you promised in your election manifesto.
02:05One might even tolerate it if he weren't so...
02:08vain or crooked or power-mad.
02:12Quite.
02:14What are you proposing?
02:16That we kick him out.
02:20But at least he's busy.
02:22And inside the tent...
02:24You know, people like Mountbatten.
02:26Medallists, for want of a kind of word.
02:28Energetic, well-connected medallists.
02:29It's better that they're inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.
02:33But he belongs to another time, Harold.
02:37Kicking him out makes economic sense and shows we're tough.
02:41And who knows?
02:42It might just buy us some good headlines.
02:47Yes, I could do with some good headlines.
02:52General salute.
02:55Pre-set.
02:58Out.
02:59Out.
03:02Out.
03:10Out.
03:12Out.
03:16Out.
03:17Out.
04:48No, they're increasing fivefold, tenfold.
04:52And the conclusion of the review is that we'd like to make a few changes, one of which is to
04:58your post of Chief of the Defense Staff.
05:08You're kicking me out?
05:12Well, no, sir. I'm thanking you on behalf of the government, on behalf of the armed forces, on behalf of
05:17the whole country for your many years of remarkable service.
05:23You are. You're kicking me out.
05:28Well, there we are.
05:35There we are.
05:37There we are.
06:29It's absurd.
06:33But where one door closes, another opens.
06:41There is special providence in such a fall.
06:45If it be now, it is not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now.
06:48If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
07:09What am I going to do, Barrett?
07:12You'll bounce back, sir. Before long, you'll have a hundred projects.
07:21Cake, sir.
07:31Hit, hit, hooray!
07:34Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
07:45Should old acquaintance be forgot and days of old lang syne.
07:55For old lang syne, my dear, for old lang syne.
08:05We'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lang syne.
08:16We, too, have brought up out the hills and pulled the daisies by.
08:25For old lang syne, my dear, for old lang syne.
08:55Oh, my God.
09:05I'll go home, sir.
09:35With all lang syne, my dear, for old lang syne.
09:48My dear, I will take a cup of down.
09:50I'll reach out to the north side.
09:50At the south side of the hill.
09:51I'll be back in the middle of the hill.
09:52I'll take an hour in the middle of my hill,
09:55For the water!
09:56I'll be back in the middle of the hill,
09:56Yes, of course.
10:09Pens down, you have to see.
10:15Ten minutes from Newmarket.
10:48Thank you, Cecil. How is he?
10:50As good as new again.
10:55And do you really think he's recovered from his injury?
10:58Oh, I do, ma'am. Gelded, fired, well-rusted.
11:02We won't have him breaking down on us again.
11:06Any chance of seeing him on the gallops today?
11:09Oh, no, ma'am. It's too wet and muddy out there.
11:13It's been a lot like this. Hardly been able to train him at all.
11:18Well, we can't do anything about the weather.
11:23Now we come to the most anticipated race of this year's Royal Ascot meeting.
11:27The Queen Alexandra Stakes.
11:30This is Britain's longest flat race, where stamina is of the essence.
11:34And the favourite is, of course, number nine.
11:36Her Majesty's own horse, Apprentice.
11:39And they're off.
11:40With number six, Panic's in the early lead.
11:43Followed by number one, Valentine's Day.
11:44With number two, Olympic boy, cleaning right down their necks.
11:47They're off the pace now as they make their start.
11:51Behind the number ten, Ovi Anders, far off the leaders.
11:54But number nine, Apprentice, tails behind in fifth place.
11:58A disappointing start for last year's Yorkshire club champion.
12:02And, and he's still ahead, but behind him, Apprentice is gaining crowns.
12:06He got the challenge from number seven by even and pulling it to four.
12:10Let's see, let's see.
12:12How'd you see?
12:12Dickey, darling.
12:14Chin up, but.
12:16Apprentice really has the look of eagles as they make the turn.
12:18And yes, Apprentice turns up the pressure on the Olympic boys.
12:21He moves into third place.
12:22And in what is a fantastic recovery from a slow start,
12:25Apprentice is now leveled with number two Olympic boys as they raise uphill.
12:29And as they come up in the final turn panically it's mile and a half.
12:32But Apprentice is coming through with the challenge.
12:34And now into the home street.
12:35And Apprentice is charging down for the aside.
12:37Nearly, nearly, nearly.
12:41No, he hasn't got it.
12:42No, Apprentice is starting to struggle.
12:44Paddock is holding on, he's holding his lead,
12:46and Apprentice is falling behind as Valentine's Day
12:48falls back in second.
12:49Olympic boy coming up from India,
12:51and it's a busy finish, but number six,
12:53Paddock finishes first, and there goes
12:56Paul in line, number two, Olympic boy.
12:58What are we doing wrong in Portugal?
13:00He used to be at the top.
13:02Now he barely competes.
13:04It's possible that the system
13:07set up by your late father
13:08is now a little...
13:10Obsolete.
13:12And might need...
13:14Kicking up, throwing on the dust heap.
13:19If you want to keep up with the Aga Khan
13:21of this world, I would suggest
13:23you follow their lead.
13:26And do what?
13:28Travel around the world
13:29and catch up with all the latest developments.
13:31I can't just do that.
13:32Well, in case you haven't noticed,
13:34I have a job to do with you.
13:36It would only be France.
13:38Well, Timbuktu.
13:39There are experienced people
13:41who are able to deputise for you
13:42in your absence.
13:52As you know, this government
13:54is committed to maintaining sterling
13:56at $2.80 to the pound.
13:58But with every economic blow,
14:01the oil embargo,
14:02the balance of payments deficit,
14:04and the Dockers Union strike,
14:06it's proving harder and harder to maintain.
14:23And I'm afraid that now
14:24we have no alternative
14:26but to devalue the pound.
14:29Oh.
14:31And I need hardly say
14:32it is a matter of overwhelming regret
14:36for me personally.
14:39And a humiliation for the government.
14:44It feels like a bad time to say
14:46that I won't be here
14:47for our meeting next week.
14:49Perhaps the next two weeks.
14:51But Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother,
14:53will step in as Councillor of State.
14:54Oh, oh.
14:56A role she's executed many times.
15:07Your Majesty.
15:25Good evening.
15:27A few days ago,
15:28the Cabinet took its unanimous decision
15:31to devalue the pound.
15:33I can now tell you
15:34why we have taken this action,
15:36and more importantly,
15:37what it will mean for you.
15:40From now on,
15:41the pound abroad
15:42will be worth 14% or so less
15:44in terms of other currencies.
15:47Now, this does not mean, of course,
15:49that the pound here in Britain,
15:51in your pocket,
15:51or your purse,
15:52or your bank,
15:53has been devalued.
15:54What it does mean
15:55is that the goods we buy from abroad
15:57will be dearer.
15:59So for many goods,
16:00it will be cheaper to buy British.
16:04Now, this devaluation
16:06has been a hard decision,
16:09and some of its consequences
16:11will be hard for a time.
16:14For three years,
16:15this government has fought,
16:17as it was our duty to fight,
16:19the burden of the deficit
16:20that the previous government
16:22left us with.
16:23But now is not the time
16:25to triple blame.
16:27Now is our chance
16:27to break free
16:28from that straitjacket,
16:30to seize this opportunity
16:32with both hands.
16:34This is a proud nation.
16:36We're out on our own now.
16:40Now,
16:41we must choose
16:42to put Britain first.
17:06tonight,
17:07we veterans
17:09of the Burma campaign
17:10are gathered here
17:12to renew old comradeships
17:14and to remember
17:15fallen brothers
17:16at Yang Gang Yong
17:18and Rangoon.
17:21We remember
17:22how it was fought,
17:23the old way,
17:25the honorable way,
17:27body to body,
17:29bayonet to bayonet.
17:32And that swift,
17:33exhilarating sweep of victory
17:35that carried us
17:36over the Irrawaddy
17:37and in Mandalay.
17:40And there we met
17:41the Japanese army.
17:43And we tore it apart.
17:49Yes, gentlemen,
17:50we military men
17:51will always have
17:52our past glories
17:53to look back on.
17:56But what of this
17:57new generation,
17:59these young men
18:00and women
18:00for whom some of the best
18:02of us gave our lives.
18:04Decline,
18:06irrelevance,
18:07and the devaluation
18:09of pounds sterling,
18:11that is the sunless future
18:13that faces them.
18:15For them,
18:16the white heat
18:17of revolution
18:18is not a forging heat.
18:20It is a melting heat.
18:23It melts the silver
18:24of our battle on us
18:26and reduces to cinders
18:28the very foundation
18:29of our economy,
18:30our currency.
18:32Yeah.
18:33Yeah.
18:34Yeah.
18:35Yeah.
18:35So,
18:37if the only glories
18:39available to this nation
18:40are its past glories,
18:44then let us cherish them now.
18:46Yeah.
18:47Yeah.
18:50Come you back,
18:51you British soldier.
18:53Come you back.
18:57Who will join me?
18:59Yes, sir.
19:01Ship me somewhere
19:03east of Suez,
19:04where the best
19:06is like the worst,
19:08where there are
19:09no ten commandments,
19:11and a man
19:12can raise a thirst.
19:14For the temple bells
19:16are calling,
19:17and it's there
19:18that I would be
19:19by the old
19:21Moemine Pagoda,
19:22looking lazy
19:24at the sea.
19:26On the road
19:27to Mandalay,
19:29where the old
19:30fit in the way,
19:33with us sick
19:34beneath the orange,
19:36when we went
19:38to Mandalay.
19:40On the road
19:42to Mandalay,
19:44where the flying
19:45fit in the way,
19:47and the dawn
19:48comes up like thunder,
19:50and out of China
19:52goes today.
20:24Not my matter.
20:25Excuse me.
20:26Cecil King.
20:28I hope to talk to you, sir, to express my sympathy at the way you've been treated by the government.
20:33A shameful piece of political grandstanding and opportunism.
20:37You're very kind.
20:39Well, this country needs great men more than ever to restore confidence, inspire us, and perhaps even lead us out
20:46of the mire.
20:48It must have been made very clear to me that my leadership days are over.
20:52My colleagues and I don't believe that, sir, not for a minute.
20:57As a matter of fact, we'd be delighted if you'd agree to have lunch with us at Threadneedle Street one
21:02day.
21:03Bank of England?
21:04We've been working on a proposal which we'd very much like to put to you.
21:13So.
21:13Bank of England?
21:35Bank of England?
21:38Bank of England?
21:39Bank of England?
21:41Bank of England?
21:41Bank of England?
21:42Bank of England?
21:42Bank of England?
21:43Bank of England?
21:44In the world of farming, it's you who are the king.
21:47You are very gentle, Madame, and very indulgent.
21:50I hope that you will be flattered.
21:53Here, here, here.
21:54Hello.
21:55Let's go.
21:57Hello.
22:01Of course, it was a man like a singe who came out of the bidangard,
22:05the magnificent spayer.
22:07Oh, it was Grampsile, a white settler.
22:10Oh, that's right.
22:11You've had a tremendous success with it.
22:13Yes, I'm a wonderful sprinter.
22:16Are these your stud books?
22:17Indeed, ma'am.
22:18And I think you will find some very familiar names in there.
22:22Yes, I will.
22:24If I'm not mistaken, this one.
22:27Oh, gosh, yes.
22:28My grandfather's one of his favorites.
22:32What would you say, six months?
22:33Yes, I'd say so.
22:35Nice temperament, warm-blooded, not too skittish.
22:38Indeed.
22:39Look at her hocks.
22:40Yes.
22:41Oh, yes.
22:42Very well proportioned.
22:43Excellent line to the bend.
22:44Yes.
22:46Come here.
22:55Which is extraordinary.
22:57Not just their facilities, their entire attitude of breeding,
23:01but the fact they keep their foels and their yearlings so close.
23:04Merci.
23:05While we send ours off to greys in Ireland.
23:09Tell me honestly, is it over?
23:12Have we slipped too far behind?
23:14Not yet, ma'am.
23:15But if you want to keep up, you do need to act decisively now.
23:20It'd mean rethinking the operation from top to toe, changing the personnel, changing the approach.
23:26Yes.
23:27And currently there is a drain of the best British racehorses to America.
23:31You have to ask yourself, why?
23:35You don't think I should go there too?
23:37Well, obviously from a racing perspective, it would be ideal.
23:40Just for a day or two.
23:42But, er, won't you be needed at home?
23:46Well, they've always got mummy.
23:48Me being away is good for her.
23:50She hates feeling old and superannuated and surplus to requirements.
23:54I'm sure she's relishing being the big chief again.
24:12Thank you, sir.
24:16Mr. King.
24:20The Great Britain of our childhood is dying before us.
24:25The country is bankrupt, our national security is in tatters, our allies are in despair.
24:31And on our current trajectory by 1970, we will be a vassal state.
24:37A pariah.
24:39I don't know about you, sir, but I'd sooner die than stand idly by and watch this happen.
24:45And to that end, my associates and I have come up with a plan to put the country back on
24:51track.
24:52Which is?
24:55Replacing the prime minister and installing a new emergency government.
25:01What?
25:02And in his place, we would need to install an inspirational figurehead.
25:07Someone who could unite the nation, command its respect.
25:11Someone who had stepped into a national leadership role before.
25:15Now, there are some obvious candidates, but frankly, none would be as good as you, sir.
25:19No, no, no. This is quite unthinkable.
25:22At this point, I should close my ears.
25:28Despite my own very profound reservations regarding our prime minister, what you're talking about is effectively a coup.
25:34And I can have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
25:38In peacetime, it's true. An intervention like this would be unconstitutional.
25:44But we believe this is no longer peacetime.
25:48And the circumstances are unprecedented and quite exceptional.
25:55Gerald.
25:58In order to hijack control of the economy, Wilson and his socialist colleagues have devised a plan.
26:05Plan Brutus, which would strip the Bank of England of all its powers, freeze the sterling balances of foreign governments,
26:13and enforce crash cuts in defence spending.
26:18Bankers cannot be allowed to run the show.
26:20The Bank of England has known about gold pouring out of the country since Monday and has done nothing to
26:26stop it.
26:27What is our response?
26:28The imposition of exchange controls, the crash cuts in defence expenditure, and the compulsory acquisition of all privately held overseas
26:37securities.
26:38Sure of hands.
26:43It is an effective declaration of war.
26:47On freedom, democracy and capitalism.
26:51We must act now.
26:54Not just to save Britain, but the world.
26:57We are proposing a radical revolution led by bankers, businessmen and the armed forces.
27:03Professionals who can save us from amateurism, incompetence and Russian infiltration.
27:09And as our interim leader, we can think of no one better than you, sir.
27:27This is all very interesting.
27:33May I suggest that we meet again?
27:38In 48 hours.
27:42Sorry.
27:55Ok, let's go.
28:07I'll go.
28:09We'll be back.
28:10Is the reality of what a devalued power...
28:30Welcome to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, you imagine.
28:33Thank you, Mr. Hancock.
28:34Please, call me Bull.
28:36Sorry we don't have better weather for you.
28:37It's quite all right. We like a good war tree.
28:39Bull Hancock.
28:40Pleasure to be here.
28:41Your shopping basket will hold less for the same money.
28:45A lot of imported footsteps will cast more.
28:47And several to find for off the team.
28:51Excellent.
28:52On Monday, after the announcement, the stock exchange was empty.
28:55There was no training.
28:57Outside in Tron Morton Street, brokers and jobbers crowned together
29:00to try and sort out what the...
29:05Morning, boy.
29:06Morning, sir.
29:07Morning, Miss Hancock.
29:08They're testing for minerals.
29:11Sulfur, calcium.
29:12Correct nutrition is vital, ma'am.
29:14When it comes to the bone strength and bone formation
29:17in the folds were raised.
29:18Yes, sir.
29:19Tommy's one of the best.
29:21Thanks, sir.
29:21Does Tommy ever come to England?
29:22Oh, no, no, no.
29:24Oh.
29:25Paris worked up to find that France was on the brink of civil war.
29:29With the rebel generals in Algeria sent paratroopers,
29:32defense measures were quickly put into operation.
29:38All the airports were closed to flights in and out.
29:41Nobody in the capital knew the rebels' intentions, but frantic bomb outranges here and elsewhere
29:46showed that pro-rebel sympathizers were on the power.
29:50They struck in the garden in the old way of Winterblast and at the Osterman station.
29:56These are veterinary students we've invited to spend time here at the farm.
30:00They learned reproductive management, neonatal and foal management, herd health management.
30:06What we're aiming for is better integration between our practices here at the stud
30:10and the clinical research being conducted in the wider world.
30:17Remind me of the year, Porche.
30:181967.
30:19Why?
30:20Because having seen what I've just seen, one might think it 2067.
30:25In terms of technology and their management of the pasture,
30:28and their willingness to embrace new ideas,
30:30the Americans aren't just on a different level, they're on a different planet.
30:34And their racing manager, wasn't he impressive?
30:37When you think about Cecil by comparison.
30:38Yes, he is getting on now.
30:41150?
30:42Well, not quite that, but certainly 80.
30:4540-year-old Cecil.
30:46The Van Hur of Newmarket.
30:49But he had such success with your father.
30:51And grandfather.
30:52You know he was wounded at the Somme.
30:54Yes.
30:55So, probably time for someone a little bit younger.
30:58The question is, who is there?
31:01What about Gordon Richards?
31:04He's with the wine stocks, they've never let him go.
31:07All with David McCall.
31:09Mm.
31:11He's good.
31:13But can you honestly see him fitting in?
31:16No.
31:16Try that.
31:17Oh.
31:29Would you ever consider it?
31:33Me?
31:33Why not?
31:35You're brilliant.
31:36And you know the family inside out.
31:39I'm honoured.
31:41But I'm also very ambitious.
31:45I could never accept unless I felt sure we had every chance of success at the highest level.
31:51And in terms of our research, there's still one thing that we really need to see.
31:56What?
31:56They're training facilities.
31:59If we're going to gain the edge, there's still a lot to learn from the Americans.
32:04Unfortunately, how much longer is that going to take?
32:08Well...
32:12Yes, please.
32:41Jasper.
32:42Jasper.
32:43In the past decade alone, there have, by my reckoning, been 73 coups in 46 different countries around the world.
32:52And the success of some of these might encourage us.
32:58In Ghana, two years ago, President Nkrumah was ousted with just 500 men.
33:02And in 1961, in South Korea, Major General Park Chung-hee seized power with 3,500 men.
33:13And in 1964, in Gabon, just 150 men were able to arrest President Nkrumah and thus gain control over the
33:23levers of state power.
33:25And, of course, it was with just one legion that Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
33:31And perhaps we would not seek to follow his fate.
33:37And what all successful insurgencies have in common are five key elements.
33:45Control of the media, control of the economy, and the capture of administrative targets, for which you need the fourth
33:53element, the loyalty of the military.
33:56Now, in Ghana and Gabon, this can be achieved with a handful of battalions.
34:01But here, in the United Kingdom, we would need to secure Parliament, Whitehall, the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet
34:12Office.
34:13The Prime Minister would be arrested, of course, along with other politicians still loyal.
34:19We would have to shut down the airports, air traffic control.
34:22Same with the train stations.
34:24Curfews would be put in place, martial law declared.
34:28And I haven't even mentioned the police.
34:32It would take tens of thousands of unquestioningly loyal servicemen.
34:37And even in my heyday, I could never command that.
34:41Which brings me to the fifth element.
34:45Legitimacy.
34:47Now, our government draws its strength from long-established institutions that support it.
34:53The courts.
34:55Body of common law.
34:56The Constitution.
34:59For any action against the state to succeed, you'd have to overthrow these as well.
35:04But in a highly evolved democracy such as ours, their authority is sacrosanct.
35:12Which is why, gentlemen, a coup d'etat in the United Kingdom doesn't stand a chance.
35:29Unless...
35:33Unless...
35:34Unless...
35:34Unless we have the support of the one person not yet mentioned.
35:39Do you see the temper?
35:42The Crown has at its disposal unique constitutional powers, which could still make something like this possible.
35:52In 1834, William IV used them to dismiss his government in the face of opposition from the House.
35:58And in 1920, the Emergency Powers Act was passed, which gives the sovereign power, in certain circumstances, to declare a
36:07state of emergency by proclamation.
36:10Meaning, our queen could dissolve parliament, and appoint a new government, and a prime minister as well.
36:18She's also a commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
36:21They swear allegiance to her, and not to parliament.
36:25So, could count on their support to see it through.
36:31She is our Caesar.
36:39And you think she might entertain this idea?
36:42The circumstances are certainly compelling.
36:45I've made a list here of exactly how compelling.
36:49And as her second cousin, I am in an ideal position to ask.
37:03Not hungry?
37:05No.
37:10Somehow, today has managed to be one of the most enjoyable days of my life.
37:15And at the same time, one of the most depressing.
37:22Telephone call for you, ma'am? Lord Manbatten?
37:24I'll call him back.
37:33If I tell you something, do you promise it will stay between us?
37:36Of course.
37:40This is how I'd like to spend all my time.
37:45Owning horses, breeding horses, racing horses.
37:48It's what makes me truly happy.
37:53And I actually think it's what I was born to do.
37:55Until the other thing came along.
37:58That someone else was born to do.
38:00That they elected not to do.
38:02Which meant that first my father, and then I, had to do a job we were never meant to do.
38:08Well, you've managed to make it look like the other thing is the only thing you were ever meant to
38:13do.
38:16You're kind.
38:18But it isn't.
38:34And on days like today, in places like this, in company like this,
38:43you get a glimpse of what it all might have been like.
38:48The unlived life.
38:52And how much happier it might have made me.
39:02Not now!
39:07Who did? I just sniffed.
39:08Slightly.
39:09I shall have to grovel now.
39:10No, it's all right. He'll understand.
39:13I'm so sorry, Your Majesty.
39:15Yes, all right. I'm coming.
39:16Honestly, only Dickie.
39:25Yes, thank you, Martin. I'll talk to you.
39:47Your Majesty.
39:54You are persistent. Is it really so important?
39:59Yes, Your Majesty.
40:01Prime Minister.
40:05Ma'am, I have reason to believe there is currently a full-blown plot developing against me
40:11and the democratically elected Labour government that governs in your name,
40:17being led by a senior member of your family.
40:21Who?
40:24Lord Mountbatten.
40:26And that he, in cahoots with Cecil King, the chairman of the Mirror Group newspapers,
40:32has been attempting to overthrow this government.
40:38Now, I feel compelled to remind, Your Majesty,
40:41that tolerance of the royal family is hanging by a thread as it is.
40:47Now, throughout my time in office,
40:50I have done my level best to protect you.
40:54But if members of the royal family were to interfere with the political business of the day,
41:00I would be left with no option but to side with the Republican elements of my cabinet,
41:06which I have successfully controlled until now,
41:12and take steps.
41:16Leave it with me, Prime Minister.
41:19Your Majesty.
41:22Yeah.
41:42MyŠøŠ½Š¾Š¹.
41:47Your Majesty.
42:15Drink up, Portie.
42:17We're getting home.
42:19We're getting home.
42:57Lord Mountbatten, Your Majesty.
43:09Your Majesty.
43:17You asked to see me.
43:19I did.
43:21Well, great minds think alike.
43:23As it happens, I was planning to drop by myself.
43:28On a matter of great importance.
43:41I'm getting a feeling that I've not had since Dieppe.
43:46That I'm walking into a trap.
43:51I'd like to think you had that sinking feeling on another occasion recently.
43:55When going to see your friends at the Bank of England.
43:59Is it even true?
44:02Yes, I did go to lunch at the Bank of England.
44:05To meet and listen to people who are horrified by what's happening to the country.
44:10A horror I hope you share.
44:13Perhaps.
44:14But conspiring with them is not the solution.
44:17It is the beginning of a solution.
44:21Why are you doing this?
44:22Why would you protect a man like Wilson?
44:33I am protecting the Prime Minister.
44:37I am protecting the Constitution.
44:40I am protecting democracy.
44:45But if the man of the heart of that democracy threatens to destroy it,
44:48are we supposed to just stand by and do nothing?
44:51Yes.
44:52Doing nothing is exactly what we do.
44:54And bide our time.
44:56And wait for the people that voted him in to vote him out again.
44:59If indeed that is what they decide to do.
45:21I am sure you find it near impossible to do nothing.
45:24And to not have the role and the responsibilities you have always had.
45:29You were born to be busy.
45:30And to lead.
45:32But you still have a huge role to play in this family.
45:37A father figure to my husband.
45:40An uncle and a guide to me.
45:43A king to make in Charles.
45:45Not to mention a brother to your sister.
45:49When was the last time you even visited her?
45:52Cheered her up?
46:00That would be a greater service to the Crown
46:02than leading unconstitutional coups.
47:14Nothing but time.
47:16And too little time.
47:30The four of us.
47:32What?
47:33The four of us.
47:37Look at us now.
47:40Only two left.
47:42You're left.
47:44Not me.
47:45I'm on the way out.
47:47Nonsense.
47:49There came a moment around the time I turned 70 when it dawned on me that I was no longer
47:57a participant, rather a spectator.
48:02I've discovered that for myself.
48:04Then it's just a matter of waiting and not getting in the way.
48:20Now, I hear you have been getting in the way.
48:24I told you that.
48:25There are no secrets in this place.
48:29Did you get a dressing down from our doughty queen?
48:35Yes, I did.
48:38Well, what's so funny?
48:40Well, that's funny.
48:42The little girl admonishing the grand old admiral of the fleet.
48:47Well, I'm glad it amuses you.
48:49Because the situation this country is facing is anything but amusing.
48:57Oh.
48:58Who cares?
49:00Honestly.
49:04One of the few joys of being as old as we both are is that it's not our problem.
49:12Not really our country, either.
49:15What are you talking about?
49:16Of course it's our country.
49:18We Battenbergs have no country.
49:23Our family might have kings and queens in its ranks, but we're mongrels, too.
49:31Part German, part Greek, part nowhere at all.
49:38Well, this is my country.
49:43Gave me a home, gave me a name.
49:47And in return, I've given it my life.
49:55To see it like this breaks my heart.
50:33You must sleep.
50:38Sister.
50:49Princess Alice.
50:51Of nowhere at all.
50:54Stop my child.
50:56Take me alone.
50:562nd day.
50:562nd day.
51:152nd day.
51:162nd day.
51:182nd day.
51:232nd day.
52:20Don't sound so surprised.
52:21I am. It's been so long.
52:28So how was France, America?
52:32Educational.
52:35The trip was supposed to be a week. You were gone almost a month.
52:38Yes.
52:41With Portchey?
52:43Yes.
52:46Was that fun?
52:49we went on racing business it was a fact-finding expedition right if you have something to say
52:57say it now otherwise if you don't mind i'm busy i've heard you've appointed him as your
53:02racing manager i have which means he'll be around all the time yes with any luck good for you good
53:38for all of us
53:49i heard about dickie a coup yes can you believe it
53:57it must be hard getting old
54:19i'll be up in a minute oh will you yes i thought so unless you'd rather i wasn't
54:29i'll see you in a minute
54:42so
54:49so
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