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