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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.
00:01:33Yeah, baby.
00:01:33It's all right huh?
00:01:38Thank you so much.
00:01:53Thank you, sir.
00:01:54You're so alone for everything.
00:01:54Good one, sir.
00:01:55Good one, sir.
00:01:58Good one.
00:01:59Good one, now.
00:01:59Thanks, gentlemen.
00:02:00That's it.
00:02:00Don't push.
00:02:01You're on Altingham.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:44Ready?
00:02:48Ready.
00:02:53Ready.
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 Altingham 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.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios, and the perpetrator is now on his
00:03:57way to the Bow Street police station where we expect him to be released without charge.
00:04:02Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am, where Altingham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:18A 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, probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altingham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in
00:05:21a periodical of which he is also publisher, have 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 Altingham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:04This is the answer, in your mind.
00:06:05She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired through the world.
00:06:12Do you have any questions?
00:06:23Hey, what are you?
00:07:23The ending of doctrinal tests and the introduction of women priests is the only viable solution for saving the Church
00:07:29of England, an institution that is becoming increasingly outdated and irrelevant hour by hour.
00:07:36Who's got a thousand words for me on that?
00:07:38Hello, 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.
00:07:58Oh, my dear.
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.
00:08:11My lashes.
00:08:11And Europe.
00:08:13We need to work out our official stance.
00:08:15Are 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.
00:09:00Oh, 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
00:09:15to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive work
00:09:20and your great courage in meeting
00:09:22constant, small adversities
00:09:25depend in great measure
00:09:28the happiness and prosperity
00:09:30of the community
00:09:31as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course
00:09:40of a nation's history
00:09:41is due in the long run
00:09:44to the soundness of heart
00:09:46of its average men and women.
00:09:53working men and women.
00:09:57Has a touch more dignity.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22What you might be interested to see this.
00:10:25It's a draft of a speech
00:10:27the Queen's going to give
00:10:28in a week's time.
00:10:30I don't mind telling you
00:10:31I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:49Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering
00:10:53beyond my station.
00:11:01Tommy.
00:11:02Arthur.
00:11:04You were about to interfere
00:11:05beyond your station.
00:11:09It's concerning the speech
00:11:11the Queen is due to give next week
00:11:13at the Jagger car factory.
00:11:16What about it?
00:11:17I was just wondering
00:11:19if you were happy with it.
00:11:24Well, obviously I'm happy with it.
00:11:26Or I wouldn't have shown it
00:11:28to Her Majesty
00:11:29for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave.
00:11:33Did the Queen read it?
00:11:34She didn't need to.
00:11:36She merely asked
00:11:37if I was happy.
00:11:39I replied in the affirmative.
00:11:41And that was good enough
00:11:43for Her Majesty.
00:11:46But I can see
00:11:48that the really important question is
00:11:50is it good enough
00:11:52for Colonel Chauterys?
00:11:55You don't think it
00:11:57strikes the wrong tone?
00:12:00In which sense?
00:12:03In its paternalism.
00:12:07May I?
00:12:13I suppose if I
00:12:15had a concern
00:12:18it would be that
00:12:19post-Suez
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:22in this new Britain
00:12:26the tone
00:12:27of the speech
00:12:28is
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:30somewhat what?
00:12:36Old-fashioned.
00:12:39then would leave her
00:12:40open to attack.
00:12:42From whom?
00:12:43The newspapers.
00:12:46People.
00:12:47If I had a shilling
00:12:48for every time
00:12:49someone of a progressive
00:12:50or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly
00:12:53of a popular attack
00:12:54against the Crown
00:12:55I'd be a rich man.
00:12:57The British people
00:12:58adore their sovereign.
00:13:00It is what constitutes
00:13:01indeed defines
00:13:02being British.
00:13:04Now the worst
00:13:05I've ever encountered
00:13:06is apathy
00:13:07where people
00:13:08simply accept
00:13:09the king or queen
00:13:10as they accept
00:13:10the sky above their heads.
00:13:12But it's a long way
00:13:13from apathy
00:13:14to insurrection.
00:13:16Now as regards
00:13:17the newspapers
00:13:18the Crown can count
00:13:19on their support
00:13:20for two reasons.
00:13:21First
00:13:21there is nothing
00:13:22to attack.
00:13:24That's the advantage
00:13:24of a constitutional monarchy.
00:13:26They have no power
00:13:28so there's nothing
00:13:28to complain about.
00:13:29And even if they wanted to
00:13:31they'd always let us know first.
00:13:33The palace would then
00:13:34threaten them
00:13:35with a boycott
00:13:35on the next
00:13:36major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers
00:13:39immediately to back down.
00:13:41Because the very people
00:13:42you fear
00:13:43will hate the queen
00:13:45and the same ones
00:13:46who buy copies
00:13:47in their millions.
00:13:49Why?
00:13:50Because they love her.
00:13:55So I'm
00:13:56worrying unnecessarily.
00:13:58Martin
00:13:59I shall leave
00:14:01the drawing
00:14:01of that
00:14:02inescapable conclusion
00:14:03to you.
00:14:21I'm going to take it
00:14:23in a little shorter
00:14:23man
00:14:24and rounder it back.
00:14:26Lovely.
00:14:48Bye.
00:14:51Bye.
00:14:53Bye.
00:14:55Okay.
00:15:18I like it very much.
00:15:43I thought you were hoping for more children from me.
00:15:49I am.
00:15:52Why on earth would you do something like that to your hair?
00:15:55What'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.
00:16:14And 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, Pastor.
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.
00:16:54Or Rita Hayworth.
00:17:18Sir William Lyons.
00:17:19Welcome, Your Majesty.
00:17:20Thank you, sir.
00:17:21Elliot.
00:17:23Elliot.
00:17:24It's very, um, spacious.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no, it's all not.
00:17:30It is.
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?
00:17:38Very good, sir.
00:17:40And that's a chess thing.
00:17:41Yes, indeed.
00:17:42A finished MK1, Your Majesty.
00:17:45Ah, no, it's lovely.
00:17:47With top speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
00:17:51Quite the thing, I'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
00:18:24and would like you 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,
00:18:39many of you are leading uneventful, lonely lives,
00:18:44where 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
00:18:59depend in great 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,
00:19:13to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you
00:19:23and that even when your life seems most monotonous,
00:19:27what 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, let's have a wonderful time.
00:19:42Lord Orchner.
00:19:44Evening, Richard.
00:19:46News Corical.
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
00:20:08and I want to write an immediate response.
00:20:11I'll find someone else.
00:20:13No, no, it's no trouble.
00:20:15I had nothing else planned.
00:20:45I've had another thought.
00:20:47Super.
00:20:48A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said
00:20:54about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:20:57I'm sorry.
00:21:00If you're not Frank, you will continue to forgive me.
00:21:00I'll talk to another man.
00:21:00Who can you?
00:21:03I'm sorry.
00:21:15I'm sorry.
00:21:17I'm sorry.
00:25:28I see.
00:28:16I asked you to come because I had a phone call an hour ago from a television producer
00:28:21inviting me to 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.
00:28:35It's terrifying.
00:28:36Don't be silly.
00:28:37The fact that it's day is what makes it valuable.
00:28:40You 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, tears them to shreds.
00:29:01Yes, but 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, how 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.
00:29:40And we should make start for 10 minutes.
00:29:43Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Help yourself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:53All good.
00:29:54All good.
00:29:58Be standing by, sir.
00:30:00Be prepared.
00:30:01Be prepared.
00:30:05Let's make a start.
00:30:12Can we tell them how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission tonight.
00:30:17All right.
00:30:17Stand by, sir.
00:30:21Five, four, three.
00:30:25Tonight, we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no introduction,
00:30:31Lord Altrincham.
00:30:32In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in
00:30:37a periodical of which he is also publisher, have 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 don't.
00:30:59Then why criticize her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art.
00:31:05I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:13Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:16A symbolic head of state, transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and
00:31:23self-motivated politicians who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully
00:31:29says, ebb and flow by the moon.
00:31:31But 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.
00:31:42But 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,
00:32:06dutiful and devoted monarch 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.
00:32:29I 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. Her 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.
00:33:32And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:35Yes, let me just say this. To 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. Good day.
00:34:48Lord Altringham, yes?
00:34:52You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done.
00:35:01Well done, sir.
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.
00:35:12I'm sick.
00:35:31Yes, what is it Michael there have been some reactions in the newspapers to last night's television
00:35:40and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham. I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:52Well, the man that struck Altrincham, it turns out, is a member of the extreme right League of Empire Loyalists,
00:36:01which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the Empire
00:36:06and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh dear.
00:36:12And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altrincham on television,
00:36:19that 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 Altrincham'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 he has been
00:36:56receiving,
00:36:58the Prime Minister suggested that he come up a week earlier than planned in order to discuss it all with
00:37:06you in person.
00:37:07Goodness. A 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,
00:37:22because I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altrincham 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.
00:38:01And 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
00:38:16have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years.
00:38:21Egypt.
00:38:22Bulgaria.
00:38:23Italy.
00:38:24Tunisia only last month.
00:38:27Of 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.
00:38:49Altrincham is a fire which needs to be put out.
00:38:55Go at you!
00:39:02Go at you!
00:39:28The palace has offered up a chap called Charteris.
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.
00:40:26Not yet.
00:40:28John!
00:40:28Your tooth!
00:40:29John!
00:40:31Sorry.
00:40:40Hi!
00:40:46You're going to be.
00:40:47How much?
00:40:48Tell me!
00:40:56I don't know.
00:40:57I can sit on that base!
00:40:58Oh thanks, man.
00:41:02I'm coming, sir.
00:41:33Broad or Tringham?
00:41:35Yes.
00:41:36This way, please.
00:42:05Good to know I'm seeing the top man.
00:42:12In one sense.
00:42:20Here we are, Lord Altrincham.
00:42:22Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly.
00:42:27Sir.
00:42:52I see we have something in common.
00:42:57And what would that be?
00:43:05Your 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
00:43:47do in order to survive.
00:43:50Shall we begin?
00:43:52Shall we begin?
00:43:54Is my voice all right?
00:43:57You can understand me?
00:44:00Yes.
00:44:02Not too strangled?
00:44:03Not too much of pain in the neck?
00:44:06No.
00:44:07Good.
00:44:10So, what is it that you'd have me change?
00:44:13It's not so much what I'd have you change, just 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
00:45:04to return fire 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
00:45:23journalist.
00:45:25And taking his advice on how to do her job.
00:45:30The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty.
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49I've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations.
00:45:58Recommendations of things to change.
00:46:00But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations.
00:46:03to, 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,
00:46:29and women who are not of that class are not presented to the Sovereign,
00:46:32and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:35This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation,
00:46:40certainly after the war.
00:46:46Next.
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,
00:47:02and the Church does not recognise divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind.
00:47:08Discriminatory.
00:47:09Quite possibly unlawful.
00:47:14Next.
00:47:17Uh, 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,
00:48:26but real people.
00:48:27Average people.
00:48:30Working 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?
00:48:59No.
00:49:00Not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:20Your Majesty.
00:49:35What's the matter, sir?
00:49:35What's the matter, sir?
00:50:02Orange.
00:50:04Please.
00:50:18When I went back into the room,
00:50:21she was gone.
00:50:23Vanished.
00:50:24Into 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.
00:50:33And 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?
00:50:53May I ask which ones?
00:51:00Let's get these lights in.
00:51:01Quickly.
00:51:02Eat with that camera.
00:51:03Better.
00:51:05This one next.
00:51:07Well done.
00:51:07Now let's have the rest of the table.
00:51:12Let's get that.
00:51:25Let's get that.
00:51:28In what way am I different?
00:51:31Memorising lines
00:51:32and remembering angles
00:51:34and wearing makeup.
00:51:36The Queen of the United Kingdom for one thing.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40Who's memorising lines
00:51:41and remembering angles
00:51:42and wearing makeup.
00:51:53Your Majesty.
00:51:56Right.
00:51:59Where do you want me?
00:52:01This way.
00:52:01This way.
00:52:01Please, ma'am.
00:52:09We've got a little bit of a touch.
00:52:12We're getting the light.
00:52:13The room is going to be in here.
00:52:14We're going to the room.
00:52:15Please, everyone stand by.
00:52:16We're going to the room from here.
00:52:36Matt.
00:52:48Matt.
00:53:215, 4, 3.
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 for many of you to see
00:53:47me in your homes on Christmas Day.
00:53:51My own family often gather round to watch the television, as they are at this moment, and
00:53:58that is how I think of you all now.
00:54:00I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and
00:54:07direct.
00:54:10It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor
00:54:18to the kings and queens of history, someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and
00:54:25films, but who never really touches your personal lives.
00:54:30But now at least, for a few minutes, I welcome you into the peace of my own home.
00:54:42That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed
00:54:49at 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, yet now I do repent me of all the trouble
00:55:17I have been at to arrive where I am.
00:55:20My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill
00:55:29to him that can get it.
00:55:32My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that 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 and all the things that you long for.
00:56:01And so I wish you all, young and old, wherever you may be, all the fun and enjoyment and peace
00:56:10of a very happy Christmas.
00:56:15And we're off air.
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00:56:44And we're off air.
00:57:13Oh, hello.
00:57:15Oh, hello.
00:57:15My, my.
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:20Oh, thank you.
00:57:21And the hair?
00:57:22Very unregimental.
00:57:23Oh, yes.
00:57:23Tony, near the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist could be trusted.
00:57:27Hmm.
00:57:28Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabomb.
00:57:32No, that's not quite right.
00:57:35Um...
00:57:36Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:37Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about hair as a geometric art form.
00:57:41It looks jolly pretty.
00:57:43And if you happen to have a number for this baboon, I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way, that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony, but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering him?
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03Just rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Look at one.
00:58:16There it is.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:30I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones, a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur, a 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.
00:59:03And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer as it slips away, bit by bit, piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority, our absolutism, our divine rights.
00:59:29The history of the monarchy in this country is a one-way street of humiliation, sacrifices and concessions in order
00:59:36to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us, then the merchants, now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss about curtsies, protocol and precedent.
00:59:44It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour as we go from ruling to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Marionettes.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:08Gloves on.
01:00:13I told the master of the household to rotate the guests between courses, so if you get a dud, don't
01:00:18worry, it'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:29We did, look.
01:00:42Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Hey?
01:00:44Oh, yeah, that was a job?
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hallelujah.
01:00:50What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatter-up.
01:00:53Lovely tie.
01:00:53I play so much around you.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You look amazing.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What are you telling me?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Kidders.
01:01:02No, no.
01:01:02Sergeant Ethel Denbrough.
01:01:04Hello, ma'am.
01:01:05It's such a pleasure to have you here.
01:01:07Oh, ma'am.
01:01:07Here they come.
01:01:08Dog dogs.
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