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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.
00:01:32You're sick.
00:01:33All right?
00:01:35Good morning.
00:01:36Okay, Dave.
00:01:41Good morning, Dave.
00:01:42Thank you, Dave.
00:01:47Good morning.
00:01:47Thank you, Dave.
00:01:50Good morning, Dave.
00:01:53Good morning, Dave.
00:01:54A witness to the Queen!
00:01:56Good morning, Dave.
00:01:58All right, Dave.
00:01:58Come on, Axe. That's it.
00:02:01You're on Altingham.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Really?
00:02:48Really.
00:02:53Really.
00:02:55Well, I shall certainly let Her Majesty know.
00:03:04Time and tide, Mr. Conservator.
00:03:07Wait for no man, Private Secretary.
00:03:09Good afternoon to you.
00:03:11Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:24What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altrincham has been struck.
00:03:33Dumb, I hope.
00:03:35Better than that, ma'am.
00:03:37In the face.
00:03:39Quite forcefully, I'm told.
00:03:42By whom?
00:03:44Which gallant and chivalrous individual?
00:03:46I'm afraid we don't have those details yet, ma'am.
00:03:49The incident occurred outside the television studios
00:03:54and the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station
00:03:59where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:03How very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:07Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network Studios, ma'am,
00:04:13where Altrincham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:19A programme appropriately called Impact.
00:04:23When will it air?
00:04:25Tonight, ma'am.
00:04:27Nine o'clock.
00:04:47Tell the people.
00:04:48Tell them on television.
00:04:51Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:57A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which will debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07It's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:05:14probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:17In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:05:21in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:05:24have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:05:26and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our head of state.
00:05:36Loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:13To be continued.
00:06:14To be continued.
00:07:22And that is why the ending of doctrinal tests and the introduction of women priests is the only viable solution
00:07:28for saving the Church of England, an institution that is becoming increasingly outdated and irrelevant hour by hour. Who's got
00:07:36a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:37Hello, Patricia.
00:07:40Would 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.
00:07:58Right.
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?
00:08:10Mmm.
00:08:11Molasses.
00:08:11And Europe, we need to work out our official stance. Are 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.
00:09:00Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:05Bye.
00:09:07Have a...
00:09:08Sarah?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand
00:09:12that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage in meeting constant, small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average men and women.
00:09:50Um...
00:09:53Working men and women?
00:09:57Has a touch more dignity?
00:10:05Uh...
00:10:05No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22I thought you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in a week's time.
00:10:30I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:49Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Arthur.
00:11:04You were about to interfere beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning the speech the Queen is due to give next week.
00:11:14The Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:16I was just wondering if you were happy with it?
00:11:24Well, obviously I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have shown it to Her Majesty for the approval which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:35She didn't need to.
00:11:36She merely asked if I was happy.
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was good enough for Her Majesty.
00:11:46But I can see that the really important question is,
00:11:51is it good enough for Colonel Chattery's?
00:11:56You don't think it strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:03In its paternalism.
00:12:08May I?
00:12:13I suppose if I had a concern,
00:12:18it would be that post-Suez,
00:12:20in this new climate,
00:12:23in this new Britain,
00:12:26the tone of the speech is
00:12:30somewhat,
00:12:31somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39Then would leave her open to attack.
00:12:42From whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling for every time
00:12:49someone of a progressive or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly of a popular attack
00:12:54against the Crown,
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what constitutes,
00:13:01indeed defines,
00:13:03being British.
00:13:04Now, the worst I've ever encountered
00:13:06is apathy,
00:13:07where people simply accept the King or Queen
00:13:10as they accept the sky above their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way from apathy to insurrection.
00:13:16Now, as regards the newspapers,
00:13:18the Crown can count on their support
00:13:20for two reasons.
00:13:21First, there is nothing to attack.
00:13:23That's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power,
00:13:28so there's nothing to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to,
00:13:31they'd always let us know first.
00:13:34The palace would then threaten them
00:13:35with a boycott on the next major royal event,
00:13:38causing the newspapers immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people you fear
00:13:43will hate the Queen
00:13:45and the same ones who buy copies in their millions.
00:13:49Why?
00:13:51Because they love her.
00:13:55So I'm worrying unnecessarily.
00:13:58Martin,
00:13:59I shall leave the drawing of that
00:14:02inescapable conclusion to you.
00:14:22I'm going to take it in a little shorter, ma'am,
00:14:24and rounder it back.
00:14:25Lovely.
00:14:29Lovely.
00:14:29good.
00:14:38Thank you so much.
00:15:18I like it very much.
00:15:43I thought you were hoping for more children from me.
00:15:50I am.
00:15:52Why on earth would you do something like that to your hair?
00:15:56What's wrong with it?
00:15:59I thought it was tidy and sensible.
00:16:02Adjectives to stir the loins?
00:16:05Apparently it's very animoge.
00:16:07All the regimental wives are wearing their hair like this now.
00:16:10Really?
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:11It's certainly very practical.
00:16:13And should you ever feel compelled to ride a motorcycle, it could almost double as a helmet.
00:16:20Well, I like it.
00:16:25I have nothing against it.
00:16:27Stop it.
00:16:28I'm sure it would provide ample protection against any falling masonry.
00:16:37But if enlarging the family and enticing your husband to procreate is the goal...
00:16:43It is.
00:16:44Then you might take a look at Jane Mansfield.
00:16:48Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:51Or Rita Hayworth.
00:16:55Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:18Sir William Lyons.
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23Elliot.
00:17:24Elliot.
00:17:24It's very, um, spacious.
00:17:26It's very, um, spacious.
00:17:27It's very nice.
00:17:27It's very nice.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no, it's not.
00:17:30Yes.
00:17:31May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby, who sketches all of our prototypes.
00:17:36You used any drawing, did you?
00:17:37No, nothing.
00:17:38Very good, see you.
00:17:40And that's a chess thing.
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, yes.
00:17:46Lovely.
00:17:47With top speeds of over a hundred miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing.
00:17:52I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Yes.
00:17:55Is it horse or cow?
00:17:57No.
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.
00:19:40Let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Hello, George.
00:19:44Good evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Chronicle.
00:19:48Evening, Richard.
00:19:55Ah, I need a favour, some typing.
00:19:57Oh, you're going home.
00:19:59I don't need to be.
00:20:04I'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.
00:20:14It's no trouble.
00:20:15I had nothing else planned.
00:20:46I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:21:10There, I am whose son.
00:21:27There she is.
00:21:34I am a living.
00:21:34It's old, no, no.
00:21:35I'm wearing a mask.
00:21:37This is my mask.
00:21:38I'm wearing a mask.
00:21:50Come on, man.
00:22:22Hello.
00:22:23I trust you have to see the idea of your manuscript.
00:22:25Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Well, let's say a bit.
00:22:29Where are you in?
00:22:41Good to be back.
00:22:42Good to be back.
00:22:53Good to be back.
00:22:59Good to be back.
00:23:00Good to be.
00:23:24You know, you're not good.
00:23:25Look more.
00:24:25Ow!
00:24:35Shot, ma'am.
00:24:36Shot, ma'am.
00:24:49Shot, ma'am.
00:24:52Squishile!
00:24:57National and English with you!
00:24:59Thank you, thank you very much.
00:25:01Thank you very much.
00:25:02Thank you, thank you.
00:25:04Thank you, thank you.
00:25:05Thank you, thank you.
00:25:27I see.
00:25:31Right.
00:25:35Well, thank you.
00:26:08Sorry to disturb your majesty, your royal highness.
00:26:12Just to say, it might be worth avoiding certain newspapers this morning.
00:26:18Why?
00:26:20What's your sister done now?
00:26:23Nothing to do with Princess Margaret, sir.
00:26:26It's an article written by Lord Altringham.
00:26:31Never heard of him.
00:26:32You?
00:26:33Taken originally from his own publication, the National and English Review.
00:26:40Never heard of that either.
00:26:42Which several newspapers have chosen to run.
00:26:45Partially.
00:26:46Or in full.
00:26:48What kind of article?
00:26:50It's quite a critical article, ma'am.
00:27:00What gives him the right?
00:27:05Tell me honestly, mummy.
00:27:08Is there any part of you that agrees with him?
00:27:13Certainly not.
00:27:17That's not just your mother saying that.
00:27:20The palace press secretary called me an hour ago to say the vast majority of the country not only disagrees
00:27:25with Altringham, but is disgusted by him.
00:27:28It's an irrelevant article written by an irrelevant man for an irrelevant publication.
00:27:34Only picked up because it's August.
00:27:36People are on holiday.
00:27:38Government is in recess.
00:27:39There's nothing to write about.
00:27:42Today, 85% of the country is against him.
00:27:45By tomorrow, it will be 95%.
00:27:48That man's going to wish he'd never been born.
00:28:06Excuse me.
00:28:08Excuse me.
00:28:09Excuse me.
00:28:10Excuse me.
00:28:11Excuse me.
00:28:16I 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?
00:28:27Impact with Robin Day.
00:28:31I wish it weren't Day.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day.
00:28:35He's terrifying.
00:28:36Don't be silly.
00:28:37The fact that it's Day is what makes it valuable.
00:28:41You don't think I'm walking into a trap?
00:28:43You walked into the trap when you wrote the article.
00:28:46Now you're the most unloved individual in Britain.
00:28:51Ironically, Day is the one person who could help you.
00:28:54Why?
00:28:56You've seen how he interviews people.
00:28:58He dismembers them.
00:29:00Tears them to shreds.
00:29:01Yes.
00:29:02But keep your cool under his scrutiny.
00:29:05Make your case politely, respectfully, intelligently.
00:29:10It could turn people around.
00:29:23Thank you very much.
00:29:31Lord Aldrian.
00:29:32How do you do?
00:29:33How do you do?
00:29:33Shall we?
00:29:34Yes.
00:29:34This way.
00:29:35Thank you for coming.
00:29:36Not at all.
00:29:37How long do we have until we start?
00:29:39Well, we'll put them to make up quickly.
00:29:43Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Let myself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:51All right.
00:29:58Or...
00:29:59Be standing by, sir.
00:30:00And he's prepared.
00:30:01Good.
00:30:01And he's ready.
00:30:05And he's ready.
00:30:06And he's ready.
00:30:17Let's made a start.
00:30:21Five, four, three.
00:30:25Tonight we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days,
00:30:29probably needs no introduction, Lord Altrincham.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen,
00:30:37in a periodical of which he is also publisher,
00:30:40have become the most pressing issue of the day
00:30:42and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:30:45So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:30:50She's our head of state, loved, respected and admired around the world.
00:30:54So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:30:57I... I don't.
00:30:59Then why criticise her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticises art.
00:31:06I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:13I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state, transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully says, ebb and flow by the moon.
00:31:32But when working at its best, monarchy can rise above such matters and unify a society.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of national character.
00:31:41But the problem is, at the moment, it's not doing that.
00:31:46It's doing very little right, as far as you're concerned.
00:31:48No, that's not true.
00:31:50You would like to see Her Majesty endowed with superhuman powers.
00:31:53It's not superhuman to be a little spontaneous.
00:31:55Judging from your article, you'd like the Queen to have the qualities of a wit.
00:31:59You'd like her to be a better orator, a TV personality, in addition to being a diligent, dutiful and devoted
00:32:07monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances, she should be more natural.
00:32:15Her style of speaking is, quite frankly, a pain in the neck.
00:32:20She sounds strangled.
00:32:23I had the misfortune of hearing one of the Queen's speeches in a dental waiting room recently.
00:32:28I was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was greeted.
00:32:34But you'd accept that being Queen and Head of the Church of England is not an easy job, or a
00:32:40simple one.
00:32:40If you'll forgive me, it's arguably a harder job than editing a small periodical.
00:32:46No, I quite agree.
00:32:47Her Majesty is a seemingly impossible task.
00:32:50She has to be ordinary and extraordinary, touched by divinity and yet one of us.
00:32:55But being ordinary doesn't have to mean bland, or ineffectual, or forgettable.
00:33:03And against whom do you lay the main charge? Her courtiers?
00:33:06In the end, if the court is wrong, if the set-up is wrong, you have no choice but to
00:33:11criticise the boss.
00:33:12The Queen?
00:33:13Yes, because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants.
00:33:18She hires them. She alone can fire them.
00:33:22Now, they may be bad. I believe some of them at the moment are.
00:33:25They're quite dreadful.
00:33:26But it is her responsibility.
00:33:29It's not theirs, in the sense that they're just hired hands.
00:33:33And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:36Let me just say this.
00:33:38To criticise the monarchy, to criticise Her Majesty personally, gives me no satisfaction.
00:33:44But we have to remember that since the Second World War, since Suez, Britain has changed beyond recognition.
00:33:51And yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened.
00:33:56Now, I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well to remember that until recently, monarchies were the
00:34:02rule, and republics the exception.
00:34:04But today, republics are the rule, and monarchies very much the exception.
00:34:14Lord Altringham, I have to terminate the interview. I'm obliged to you for answering my questions.
00:34:19Next week, at the same time, there will be another edition of Impact.
00:34:23Good night.
00:34:25That went very well.
00:34:34Thank you again, Lord Altringham.
00:34:35Good afternoon, thank you.
00:34:36Good day.
00:34:48Lord Altringham?
00:34:50Yes?
00:34:52You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done.
00:35:03Now some white?
00:35:04Well done.
00:35:05Something stronger.
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:11Well done.
00:35:12I'm sick.
00:35:15Oh, be calm.
00:35:17Really?
00:35:18Manly, I'm a wreck.
00:35:31Your Majesty.
00:35:32Yes, what is it, Michael?
00:35:35There have been some reactions in the newspapers to last night's television interview and to the assault upon Lord Altringham.
00:35:43Now, I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:51Well, the man that struck Altringham, it turns out, is a member of the extreme right League of Empire Loyalists,
00:36:00which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the Empire and has a clear doctrine of English
00:36:09racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh, dear.
00:36:13And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altringham on the television, that he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25Now, almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments, and there are new polls to support this.
00:36:34Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altringham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this, I believe, reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone calls that he has
00:36:56been receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister has suggested that he'd come up a week earlier than planned in order to discuss it all
00:37:05with you in person.
00:37:08Goodness.
00:37:09A constitutional crisis.
00:37:12Well, I hope you're going to apologise to Mr Macmillan, too.
00:37:16No.
00:37:17You're not going to deny that this hell mess springs from a badly written speech which I gave unquestioningly because
00:37:22I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altringham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the real world.
00:37:34Come here.
00:37:36Come here.
00:38:01And you believe it's now a government measure?
00:38:04I do, ma'am.
00:38:06Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me.
00:38:10Concerned.
00:38:12Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries
00:38:16who have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:22Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia only last month.
00:38:26Of course, we're not at that point.
00:38:29Not at a red light.
00:38:31We're not even at an amber.
00:38:34But we'd hate it to become amber.
00:38:38And so it is my view, the government's view, that it would be wise to contain this as soon as
00:38:44possible.
00:38:44And do what?
00:38:46The obvious thing.
00:38:49Altringham is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you.
00:39:02Go at you.
00:39:18I've got you!
00:39:28I've got you!
00:39:32To meet.
00:39:34I looked him up.
00:39:36He used to be her principal private secretary.
00:39:40Well, there you are.
00:39:42Before the king died.
00:39:45When she was princess.
00:39:48And now?
00:39:50He's assistant private secretary.
00:39:54So, not quite a pawn, but certainly not a bishop or knight either.
00:39:59Go.
00:40:01Go in order to be fobbed off.
00:40:03Go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together.
00:40:06If they wanted to work together, they would have sent someone higher up.
00:40:09Go.
00:40:11All right.
00:40:13And take a list of suggestions.
00:40:16Recommendations.
00:40:18Don't go empty-handed.
00:40:27Not yet.
00:40:28John!
00:40:28Your tooth!
00:40:29John!
00:40:31I'm sorry.
00:40:33John!
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:32Lord Ortingham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:41:37This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:11In one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Ortingham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:28Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what would that be?
00:43:04Your Majesty.
00:43:10I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst.
00:43:15Oh.
00:43:16Which you attended to, I gather.
00:43:19Yes.
00:43:20Going on to become an officer of the guards at both St. James's Palace and Windsor Castle.
00:43:27Doesn't quite fit the profile of a revolutionary.
00:43:31It's the assumption everyone has made.
00:43:33Because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the temple down.
00:43:38On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives.
00:43:42Well, those of us in the temple are very much looking forward to hearing what it is we must do
00:43:47in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:55Is my voice all right?
00:43:58You can understand me?
00:44:01Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much a pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:11So, what is it that you'd have me change?
00:44:13It's not so much what I'd have you change.
00:44:16Just an acknowledgement that it has changed.
00:44:20What?
00:44:22Everything.
00:44:25And to prepare yourself for the fact we now live in a time where people like me...
00:44:32Can say exactly what they think?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:35In any way they want?
00:44:37Yes.
00:44:38And remind me, why is that exactly?
00:44:44Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:48And what is left without deference?
00:44:52Anarchy?
00:44:54Equality.
00:44:55How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?
00:44:58You can.
00:44:59But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage to return
00:45:05fire on their own people.
00:45:07But you have managed to think of how this monarch might do something to her advantage.
00:45:13I have.
00:45:14And that same monarch is sitting before, forgive me, a failed politician and an unrecognized journalist, and taking his advice
00:45:27on how to do her job.
00:45:30The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Ah, I've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations, recommendations of things to change.
00:45:59But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six.
00:46:07Six.
00:46:09Three things to start, and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:17Very well.
00:46:18Ah, yes.
00:46:20Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the Sovereign, and women who are not
00:46:30of 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, certainly after the war.
00:46:45Next.
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 persons.
00:47:06It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:16Uh, I would recommend getting rid of an entire generation of court here.
00:47:22The old school.
00:47:24Stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, 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.
00:48:09Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:12Become 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?
00:48:58Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:35The Secretary of House.
00:49:35General, the sharpness.
00:49:45What the matter is that?
00:49:50I don't care if you haven't done that.
00:49:51I'm sorry.
00:49:51And I'm sorry?
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,
00:50:32and that should I ever claim that I did,
00:50:35the palace would robustly deny it.
00:50:38They will, however, concede
00:50:40that I had an appointment with Her Majesty's Assistant,
00:50:43Private Secretary,
00:50:44and that concessions might be made
00:50:46to one or two of my recommendations.
00:50:51May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Let's get these lights in, quickly.
00:51:02With that camera.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:08Now let's have the rest of the pig.
00:51:20I feel like an actress.
00:51:23A common little showgirl.
00:51:25Don't be silly.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines and remembering angles
00:51:34and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom, for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It was memorising lines
00:51:41and 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.
00:52:10Let's go.
00:52:14Let's go.
00:52:15Let's go.
00:52:15Mr. Sternberg, we're going to drop it in here.
00:52:37Matt?
00:53:21Five, four, three.
00:53:28Happy 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
00:53:45for many of you to see me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television,
00:53:55as they are at this moment,
00:53:57and that is how I think of you all now.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium
00:54:03will make my Christmas message more personal and direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you,
00:54:17a successor to the kings and queens of history,
00:54:21someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films,
00:54:25but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:54:30But now, at least, for a few minutes,
00:54:34I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today
00:54:47is just another example of the speed at 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,
00:55:14yet now I do repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage,
00:55:26and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me
00:55:37to be a witness for me
00:55:39that I have fought his battles,
00:55:42who now will be my rewarder.
00:55:51I hope that 1958 may bring you God's blessings
00:55:56and all the things that you long for.
00:56:01And so I wish you all, young and old,
00:56:05wherever you may be,
00:56:07all the fun and enjoyment and peace
00:56:10of a very happy Christmas.
00:56:15And we're off air.
00:56:28And we're off air.
00:56:31Congratulations.
00:57:13Oh, hello.
00:57:17You look pretty, like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes, Tony, the top person, of course.
00:57:25The only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm. Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb. No, that's not quite right.
00:57:35Um...
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:38Yes, I think. Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the hair.
00:57:40It's a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty. Thank you.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon,
00:57:45I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way,
00:57:50that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony,
00:57:55but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering him?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03It's rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Good 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,
00:58:37a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur,
00:58:45a bus driver, a bank clerk, and a woman policeman.
00:58:54All to open things up.
00:58:56Yes.
00:58:57Bring us more in line with the real world.
00:58:59Democratise us.
00:59:02And so it goes.
00:59:05As stings and bites we suffer.
00:59:08As it slips away.
00:59:11Bit by bit.
00:59:12Piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority.
00:59:17Our absolutism.
00:59:20Our divine rights.
00:59:30The history of the monarchy in this country
00:59:32is a one-way street of humiliation.
00:59:34Sacrifices and concessions in order to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us,
00:59:39then the merchants,
00:59:40now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss about curtsies,
00:59:43protocol and precedent.
00:59:45It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour as we go from ruling
00:59:50to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10I told the master of the household
01:00:15to rotate the guests between courses,
01:00:17so if you get a dud, don't worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at work.
01:00:20No.
01:00:29No.
01:00:42I told I was...
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith...
01:00:44Don't worry.
01:00:46Hello, thank you. Very nice.
01:00:48Sister and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hallelujah.
01:00:50Thank you. What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hammond.
01:00:53Oh, I play so much around 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?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:01Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denmark.
01:01:04Oh, hello there.
01:01:05It's such a pleasure to have you here.
01:01:07Oh, here they come. Dog dogs.
01:01:16Hey!
01:01:31See ya later.
01:01:31Bye.
01:01:34Bye.
01:01:37Bye.
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