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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.
03:00Out.
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03:23Out.
03:23Out.
03:23Out.
03:24Out.
03:25Out.
03:26Out.
03:27Out.
05:08You're kicking me out?
05:12Well, no, sir.
05:13I'm thanking you on behalf of the government, on behalf of the armed forces, on behalf of the whole country
05:18for your many years of remarkable service.
05:23You are.
05:24You'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.
06:46If it be not to come, it will be now.
06:48If it be not now, yet it will come.
06:51The readiness is all.
07:09What am I going to do, Barrett?
07:12You'll bounce back, sir.
07:14Before long, you'll have a hundred projects.
07:20Cake, 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.
08:01For old lang syne.
08:04We'll take a cup of kindness yet for old lang syne.
08:15We, too, have brought up out the hills and pulled the daisies by.
08:25We, too, have brought up out the hills and pulled the daisies by.
09:05I'll go home, sir.
09:25I'll go home, sir.
09:49I'll go home, sir.
10:1310 minutes from Newmarket
10:3910 minutes from Newmarket
10:50as good as Newmarket
10:55and you really think he's recovered from his injury
10:58oh I do ma'am
11:00gelded 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
11:10it's too wet and muddy out there
11:13it's been a lot like this
11:15hardly been able to train him at all
11:18well we can't do anything
11:19about the weather
11:23now we come to the most anticipated
11:25race of this year's Royal Ascot meeting
11:27the Queen Alexandra Stakes
11:30this is Britain's longest
11:31flat race where stamina is of the essence
11:33and the favorite is of course
11:35number nine
11:36her majesty's own horse
11:38apprentice
11:39and they're off
11:40with number six
11:41followed by number one
11:43valentine's day with number two
11:45Olympic boy
11:45cleaning right down their necks
11:47they're off the pace now as they make their start
11:58a disappointing start for last year's Yorkshire club champion
12:01and he's still ahead
12:03but behind him apprentice is gaining crowns
12:06he got the challenge from number seven
12:07five even and pulling into four
12:10majesty
12:11majesty darling
12:13chin up
12:15apprentice really has the look of eagles
12:17as they make the turn
12:18and yes apprentice turns up the threshold
12:20Olympic boys
12:21he moves into third place
12:22and in what is a fantastic recovery
12:24from a slow start
12:25apprentice is now level
12:26with number two Olympic boy
12:27as they race uphill
12:28and as they come out of the final turn
12:30panic leads my leg to the half
12:32but apprentice is coming through with a challenge
12:33and now it's the home street
12:35and apprentice is charging down the near side
12:37picking me
12:37nearly
12:38nearly
12:39nearly
12:41no
12:41he hasn't got
12:42no
12:42apprentice is starting to struggle
12:44Paddock is holding on
12:45he's holding his lead
12:46and apprentice is falling behind
12:47as Valentine's Day
12:48falls back in second
12:49Olympic boy
12:50coming up from the rear
12:51and it's a busy finish
12:52but number six
12:53panic
12:54finishes first
12:55and they're close for you
12:56by number two
12:57Olympic boy
12:58and
12:58what are you doing wrong in Portugal?
13:01he used to be at the top
13:02now he barely competes
13:04it's
13:05it's
13:05possible that the system
13:07set up by your late father
13:08is
13:09now
13:09a little
13:10obsolete
13:12and
13:12might need
13:14kicking out
13:15throwing on the dust heap
13:19if you want to
13:20keep up with the Aga Khan
13:21of this world
13:22I would suggest
13:23you
13:24follow 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
13:32in case you haven't noticed
13:34I have a job to do
13:35would only be France
13:37not
13:38Timbuktu
13:38there are experienced people
13:41who are able to
13:41deputise for you
13:42in your absence
13:52as you know
13:53this government is committed
13:55to maintaining
13:56sterling at $2.80 to the pound
13:58but with every economic blow
14:00the oil embargo
14:02the balance of payments deficit
14:03and the Dockers Union strike
14:06it's proving harder and harder to maintain
14:23and I'm afraid that now we 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 for 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
14:55oh
14:56a role she's executed many times
15:07your majesty
15:25good evening
15:26a 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
15:50in your pocket or your purse
15:52or your bank has 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
16:01to buy British
16:05this devaluation has been a hard decision
16:08and some of its consequences
16:11will be hard for a time
16:14for three years this government has fought
16:17as it was our duty to fight
16:19the burden of the deficit that the previous government left us with
16:23but now is not the time to triple blame
16:26now is our chance to break free from that straitjacket
16:30seize this opportunity with both hands
16:34this is a proud nation
16:36we are out on our own
16:38now
16:40we must choose
16:42to put Britain first
16:45ought to shine
16:45to be happy
17:08to find a decision
17:08we veterans of the Burma campaign
17:10are gathered here to renew old comradeships
17:14and to remember fallen brothers
17:16at Yang Gang Yong and Rangoon.
17:21Do you remember how it was fought?
17:23The old way, the honorable way,
17:27body to body, bayonet to bayonet.
17:32And that swift, exhilarating sweep of victory
17:35that carried us over the Irrawaddy and in Mandalay.
17:40And there we met the Japanese army.
17:43And we tore it apart.
17:49Yes, gentlemen, we military men
17:51will always have our past glories to look back on.
17:56But what of this new generation?
17:59These young men and women
18:00for whom some of the best of us gave our lives.
18:06Decline, irrelevance,
18:07and the devaluation of pound sterling.
18:11That is the sunless future that faces them.
18:15For them, the white heat of revolution
18:18is not a forging heat.
18:21It is a melting heat.
18:23It melts the silver of our battle honors
18:26and reduces to cinders
18:28the very foundation of our economy,
18:30our currency.
18:32Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:36So, if the only glories available to this nation
18:40are its past glories,
18:44then let us cherish them now.
18:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:50Come you back, you British soldier.
18:53Come you back.
18:57Who will join me?
19:01Ship me somewhere east of Suez
19:04where the best is like the worst,
19:08where there are no Ten Commandments
19:10and a man can raise a thirst.
19:14For the temple bells are calling
19:16and it's there that I would be
19:19by the old Moomine Pagoda
19:22looking lazy at the sea.
19:26On the road to Mandalay
19:29where the old Fertile
19:32with us sick beneath the orange
19:36when we went to Mandalay
19:38on the road to Mandalay
19:44where the flying face is red
19:47and the dawn comes up like thunder
19:50out of China across the bay.
19:54like the result of the way
20:23where the third is like the
20:24not my matter
20:25excuse me
20:26Cecil King
20:27I hope to talk to you sir
20:29to express my sympathy
20:31at the way you've been treated
20:32by the government
20:33a shameful piece
20:34of political grandstanding
20:36and opportunism
20:37you're very kind
20:39well this country needs
20:40great men more than ever
20:42to restore confidence
20:43inspire us
20:44and perhaps even
20:45lead us out of the mire
20:48as we made very clear to me
20:50that my leadership days are over
20:52my colleagues and I
20:54don't believe that
20:55sir
20:55not for a minute
20:57as a matter of fact
20:58we'd be delighted
20:59if you'd agree to have lunch
21:00with us at Threadneedle Street
21:02one day
21:02Bank of England
21:04we've been working on a proposal
21:06which we'd very much
21:07like to put to you
21:13sir
21:34thank you
21:36thank you
21:40monsieur ed mais il n'y a aucun besoin d'ĆŖtre formalitĆ© dans le monde de l'Ć©levage c'est
21:45vous qui ĆŖtes le roi vous ĆŖtes trĆØs gentil madame et bien indulgente je soupƧonne que
21:51vous me flottez par la vallƩe annoncez bonjour alors si toi ce malin comme un singe qui est
22:04un grand style white settler oh that's right with a tremendous success yes i'm a big wonderful
22:14sprinter these are stud books indeed ma'am and i think you will find some very familiar names
22:22yes i guess i will if i'm not mistaken this one oh gosh yes my grandfather's one of his favorites
22:32what would you say six months hmm yes i say so nice temperament warm-blooded not too skittish
22:38indeed look at her hocks oh yes very well fortunately excellent line to the back yes
22:54it was extraordinary not just their facilities their entire attitude to breeding but the fact
23:01they keep their fails and their yearlings so close messy while we send ours off to graze in ireland
23:09tell me honestly is it over have we slipped too far behind not yet ma'am but if you want
23:17to keep
23:17up you uh you do need to act decisively now it'd mean rethinking operation from top to toe changing
23:24the personnel changing the approach yes and currently there is a drain of the best british
23:30racehorses to america you have to ask yourself why you don't think i should go there too well
23:37obviously from a racing perspective it would be ideal just for a day or two but uh won't you be
23:44needed at home well they've always got mummy me being away is good for her she hates feeling old
23:51and superannuated and surplus to requirements i'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 the country is bankrupt our national
24:27security is in tatters our allies are in despair and on our current trajectory by 1970 we will be
24:35a vassal state a pariah i don't know about you sir but i'd sooner die than stand idly by and
24:44watch this
24:44happen and to that end my associates and i have come up with a plan to put the country back
24:50on track
24:52which is
24:55replacing the prime minister and installing a new emergency government what and in his place we
25:04would need to install an inspirational figurehead someone who could unite the nation command its respect
25:10someone who had stepped into a national leadership role before now there are some obvious candidates
25:17but frankly none would be as good as you sir no 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
25:33effectively a coup and i can have nothing whatsoever to do with it in peacetime it's true an intervention
25:41like this would be unconstitutional but we believe this is no longer peacetime and the circumstances are
25:51unprecedented and quite exceptional
25:57in 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
26:12foreign governments and enforce crash cuts in defense spending bankers 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
26:26nothing to stop it what is our response the imposition of exchange controls the crash cuts in defense
26:32expenditure and the compulsory acquisition of all privately held overseas securities show of hands
26:43it is an effective declaration of war on freedom democracy and capitalism
26:51we must act now not just to save britain but the world we are proposing a radical revolution led by
27:00bankers businessmen and the armed forces professionals who can save us from amateurism incompetence and russian
27:07infiltration and as our interim leader we can think of no one better than you sir
27:27this is all very interesting
27:34may i suggest that we meet again
27:38in 48 hours
27:51with the pound down and the rest later i suppose that sums it up
27:55evaluation of a gigantic loan that we all have to pay back britain now finds itself looking at a
28:01complete reversal of government policy after three years of devaluation and denials
28:08outside 10 downing feet for testers gathered there's a reality of one of devalued powers
28:29that's what we're doing
28:37it's not a good thing
28:39you're not going to be able to do it
28:42you're not going to be able to do it
28:43you're not going to be able to do it
28:43For the same money, a lot of imported footsteps will cast more.
28:47Iran settles the fire for off the feet.
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 to try and sort out what the drop is.
29:05Morning, boys.
29:06Morning, sir. Morning, Ms. Pancock.
29:08They're testing for minerals. Sulfur, calcium.
29:12Correct nutrition is vital, ma'am.
29:14When it comes to the bone strength, the bone formation in the folds were raised.
29:18Yes, sir.
29:19Tommy's one of the best.
29:21Thank you, sir.
29:21Does Tommy ever come to England?
29:22Oh, no, no, no.
29:24Oh.
29:25Paris worked up to find the transfers on the brink of civil war.
29:29With the rebel generals in Algeria sent paratroopers, defense 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.
29:44But plastic bomb outranges here and elsewhere showed that pro-rebel sympathizers were on the power.
29:50They struck in the garden of the old red wind-to-dress and at the Osterman station.
29:54Not with any serious debate.
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 and the clinical research being conducted
30:12in the wider world.
30:16Remind me of the year, Porche.
30:181967.
30:19Why?
30:20Because having seen what I've just seen, one might think it 2067.
30:24In terms of technology and their management of the past, Chuck, and 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.
30:39Yes, he is getting on with that.
30:40Hmm, 150.
30:42Well, not quite that, but certainly 80.
30:4550-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?
31:03He's with the wine stocks.
31:05They've never let him go.
31:07Or David McCall.
31:09Hmm.
31:11He's good.
31:13Can you honestly see him fitting in?
31:16No.
31:16Try that.
31:17Oh.
31:29Would you ever consider it?
31:33Me?
31:33Why not?
31:34You're brilliant.
31:36And you know the family inside out.
31:39I'm honored.
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?
31:57They're training facilities.
31:59If we're going to gain the edge, there's still a lot to learn from the Americans.
32:04Portie, how much longer is that going to take?
32:06Well.
32:12You're right.
32:13Yes, please.
32:13If I first thought you'd be able to see him, he'd be able to turn back on.
32:41Gentlemen, in the past decade alone,
32:45there have, by my reckoning, been 73 coups in 46 different countries around the world.
32:53And the success of some of these might encourage us.
32:57In Ghana, two years ago, President Nkrumah was ousted with just 500 men.
33:03And 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
33:23leavers 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, a six-semper tyrannous gentleman.
33:38Now, 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,
33:51for which you need the fourth element, 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,
34:05we would need to secure Parliament,
34:09Whitehall,
34:10Ministry of Defence,
34:12and the Cabinet Office.
34:13Prime Minister will be arrested, of course, along with other politicians still loyal.
34:19We would have to shut down the airports, air traffic control, same with the train stations.
34:24Curfews will 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.
34:36And 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.
35:03But in a highly evolved democracy, such as ours,
35:08their authority is sacrosanct.
35:12Which is why, gentlemen,
35:15a coup d'etat in the United Kingdom
35:18doesn't stand a chance.
35:28Unless...
35:34Unless we have the support of the one person not yet mentioned.
35:39Do you see the temperament?
35:42Yeah, we like that.
35:42The Crown has at its disposal
35:45unique constitutional powers,
35:48which 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,
36:03which gives the sovereign power, in certain circumstances,
36:06to declare a state of emergency by proclamation.
36:10Meaning, our Queen could dissolve Parliament
36:13and appoint a new government
36:15and a Prime Minister as well.
36:18She's also a Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
36:22They swear allegiance to her
36:23and 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,
36:51I am in an ideal position to ask.
37:04Not hungry?
37:05No.
37:10Somehow, today has managed to be
37:12one of the most enjoyable days of my life.
37:15And at the same time,
37:16one of the most depressing.
37:22Telephone call for you, ma'am?
37:23Lord Manbatten?
37:24I'll call him back.
37:33If I tell you something,
37:35do 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,
37:46breeding horses,
37:47racing 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,
38:04and then I,
38:04had to do a job we were never meant to do.
38:08Well, you've managed to make it look like
38:10the other thing is the only thing
38:12you were ever meant to do.
38:16Well, you're kind.
38:18But it isn't.
38:34And on days like today,
38:37in places like this,
38:39in 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?
39:07I just sniffed.
39:08Slightly.
39:09I should have to grovel now.
39:10No, it's all right.
39:11He'll understand.
39:13I'm so sorry,
39:14Your Majesty.
39:15Yes, all right.
39:15I'm coming.
39:16Honestly,
39:17only Dickie.
39:25Yes, thank you, Master.
39:26I'll talk to you.
39:54You are persistent.
39:55Is it really so important?
39:59Yes, Your Majesty.
40:01Prime Minister.
40:05Ma'am,
40:06I have reason to believe
40:08there is currently
40:09a full-blown plot
40:10developing against me
40:11and the democratically elected
40:14Labour government
40:15that governs in your name
40:16being led by a senior member
40:19of your family.
40:21Who?
40:25Lord Mountbatten
40:26and that he,
40:28in cahoots with Cecil King,
40:30the chairman of the Mirror Group newspapers,
40:32has been attempting
40:33to overthrow this government.
40:38Now, I feel compelled
40:39to remind Your Majesty
40:41that tolerance of the royal family
40:43is hanging by a thread
40:44as it is.
40:47Now, throughout my time in office,
40:50I have done my level best
40:51to protect you.
40:54But if members
40:55of the royal family
40:56were to interfere
40:58with the political business
40:59of the day,
41:00I would be left
41:01with no option
41:01but to side
41:02with the Republican elements
41:05of my cabinet,
41:06which I have successfully
41:07controlled until now
41:12and take steps.
41:16Leave it with me,
41:18Prime Minister.
41:19Your Majesty.
41:47Prime Minister.
42:15Drink up, Portie.
42:17We're getting home.
42:18We're getting home.
42:57Lord Mountbatten, Your Majesty.
43:10Your 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 to meet and listen to people who are horrified
44:07by what's happening to the country.
44:10A horror I hope you share.
44:12Perhaps.
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 Prime Minister.
44:40I am protecting the Prime Minister.
44:41I am protecting democracy.
44:44But if the man at the heart of that democracy threatens to destroy it, are we supposed to just
44:49stand 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, if indeed that is what
45:01they decide to do.
45:21I am sure you find it near impossible to do nothing.
45:25And 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 than leading unconstitutional coups.
46:09Can you believe in your mother?
46:09What is that, always?
46:12That would be a very good choice.
46:14I am so happy.
46:14All right.
46:20I think we'd go to Evelyn and see you guys.
46:21I'm going to go to Evelyn and see you.
46:22And you're going to be the same thing as you do.
46:34I don't know.
47:10Nice of you to find the time.
47:12These days, I've nothing 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.
47:54When it dawned on me that I was no longer a participant, rather a spectator.
48:01I've discovered that for myself, then 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?
48:34Yes, I did.
48:36Yes, I did.
48:38Oh, 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, because the situation this country is facing is anything but amusing.
48:56Oh, who 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.
49:32Part 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.
49:55And to see it like this breaks my heart.
50:05Oh, goodorn.
50:25But to see it like glass breaks.
50:34You must sleep, sister.
50:49Princess Alice, of nowhere at all.
51:11You must sleep, sister.
51:15Thank you for your attention.
51:16I know.
51:31We need help.
52:17You.
52:20Don't sound so surprised.
52:21I am. It's been so long.
52:27So 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 Porchy?
52:43Yes.
52:46Was that fun?
52:49We went on racing business.
52:51It was a fact-finding expedition.
52:54Right.
52:56If you have something to say, say it now.
52:58Otherwise, if you don't mind, I'm busy.
53:00I've heard you've appointed him as your racing manager.
53:03I have.
53:03Which means he'll be around all the time.
53:05Yes, with any luck.
53:07Good for you.
53:08Good for all of us.
53:17Good for you.
53:21Good for you.
53:26Good for you.
53:49I heard about Dickie.
53:52A coup.
53:53Yes, can you believe it?
53:57It must be hard getting old.
54:05Yes.
54:19I'll be up in a minute.
54:22Oh, will you?
54:23Yes, I thought so.
54:26Unless you'd rather I wasn't.
54:29I'll see you in a minute.
54:43I'll see you in a minute.
55:30I'll see you in a minute.
56:01I'll see you in a minute.
56:14I'll see you in a minute.
56:42I'll see you in a minute.
57:15I'll see you in a minute.
57:17I'll see you in a minute.
57:18I'll see you in a minute.
57:19I'll see you in a minute.
57:20I'll see you in a minute.
57:20I'll see you in a minute.
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