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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
04:55you
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.
07:09The end.
07:23Golly.
07:24Your very own war and peace.
07:26Ulysses, please.
07:29Uh, I shall set aside a year of my life.
07:35Uh, what?
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.
08:02Taxi.
08:09Buckingham Palace, please.
08:11Let 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.
08:52Uh, a frustration which threatens to strain her relationship with the Prime Minister, who
08:57the Queen holds personally responsible, and they'd like you, as Palace Press Secretary,
09:01to 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.
09:13Positive or negative?
09:14And 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.
10:05As you know, we believe the only way to stop these atrocities is through sustained economic
10:10pressure.
10:1248 of the Commonwealth countries are committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on Pretoria
10:16to 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.
10:30Mrs. Thatcher remains opposed.
10:34I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Thatcher about all this in private.
10:38At the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the Bahamas.
10:43The Commonwealth, ridiculous waste of time, ridiculous organization, worse, morally offensive.
10:54Why we allow our Queen to fraternize with countries like Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland.
11:07Unstable countries, unstable 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 for what the palace is
11:23calling 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.
11:33Oh, excuse me, boys.
11:36Oh.
11:37Right.
11:38Who wants Kedgeri?
11:41It's not my best, I'm afraid.
11:44For 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 Fuoa-Pokawari.
11:57Is that a porcupine?
11:58A symbol of courage and strength in Ashanti culture.
12:02Oh, he might need some of that.
12:06What's all this?
12:07Choggle.
12:08Oh, of course.
12:09To what do I owe the honor?
12:14I came to tell you that I've decided to ask Edward to be my best man.
12:18Not Charles?
12:20No.
12:21Oh, 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 and his own precious bloodline to hell with the rest of us.
12:39Insecure, jealous fool.
12:41What'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.
13:03And...
13:03Like 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.
13:30A 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
13:39twenty-first birthday.
13:42That's all.
13:43She's fine with it.
13:44I don't disease.
13:45Don't you dare.
13:46Right.
13:46Let's go.
13:47Well a book again knows me go so soon.
13:56Thank you for what I just wanted to know.
13:57No one's gone.
13:59Yeah, yeah.
14:00I did something you did.
14:01Yeah!
14:09What?!
14:30those of you who know me will be aware that the commonwealth of nations
14:35is a second family to me as it was to my late father king george the sixth there are always
14:44tensions between nations global peace is fragile but i believe this union offers us all something
14:54rare and valuable the capacity to celebrate difference to value compromise over conflict
15:05and to find a way to heal divisions in the interests of peace and goodwill
15:14thank you
15:52it was kind of you to come i won't keep you long um i was hoping we could briefly discuss
15:59south africa
16:00ma'am it is my fervent hope that britain will join the other countries of the commonwealth and impose
16:06sanctions on an apartheid regime that has no place in the modern world let us be quite clear about this
16:13nothing useful can be achieved by sanctions really it was my understanding they would devastate the
16:20south african government well they would devastate us too trade between our two countries is worth
16:25three billion pounds a year i thought we might look at it from the south african point of view
16:29i am ma'am south africa is already a disinvestment economy but black south africans want sanctions
16:38so shouldn't we listen to them black south africans don't want to inherit a wasteland they will if they
16:43feel it is their wasteland president caunda of zambia would confirm as much it is not the business of
16:49a british prime minister to consult with unelected dictators but it is a sovereign's duty when they
16:55are part of the commonwealth yes the commonwealth yes the commonwealth
17:05i recognize that for your family the transition of this nation from empire to comparative supplicancy
17:14on the world stage must have come as a greater shock than to the rest of us but i would
17:20argue
17:21that the commonwealth is not the way to fill that gap there are ways of britain being great again
17:28and that is through a revitalized economy not through association with unreliable tribal leaders
17:36in eccentric costumes but isn't that all i am prime minister a tribal leader in eccentric costumes
17:43certainly not your head of an evolved constitutional monarchy that stretches back to william the
17:50conquerites not comparing like with life ah now that's where we differ you see i consider myself to
17:57be exactly like them to me ghana zambia malawi are all great sovereign nations with great histories
18:04i am aware you probably don't share that view to you the commonwealth is something of a
18:10distraction a waste of time but in many ways i have given my life to it it was the pledge
18:17i made
18:1840 years ago on the wireless to our great imperial family i remember listening to it as a student at
18:27oxford but we cannot let the values of the past distract us from the realities of the present
18:35particularly where britain's economic interest are concerned 48 countries of the commonwealth are now
18:43preparing 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
19:13chogham fooled nobody within an hour south africa came up with the indian prime minister making his
19:18position crystal clear how was it i'm meeting with the queen it was a little testy although i must say
19:27i do like the boat yacht it isn't a yacht it's a great big ship and when the sovereign sails
19:35in it
19:35historically it's called a yacht i don't be a know-all it's unbecoming
19:41and why was it frosty i didn't say frosty i said testy although i wish it had been frosty it's
19:47far too
19:48hot here because my fellow heads of government are now coming up with a statement condemning the
19:56south african government they want me to sign i've told them they won't accept anything with the word
20:00sanctioned and they've started getting their niggers in a twist insisting they won't accept anything less
20:10so now we need to come up with a word that works for everyone well good luck with that thank
20:19you dt
20:29no no no no no
20:39she rejected any mention of proposals
20:46i'm determined to win this battle sonny i don't often get into a fight but when i do i want
20:51to win
20:51you will ma'am remember you are not alone it is 48 against one we are going back with another
20:59word
21:03no no no no
21:06no
21:10sorry
21:14a no to measures
21:15yes so we are going back with actions
21:18and should that fail
21:20we still have controls
21:21yes i'm beginning to see this is all about control
21:26No.
21:28No.
21:31No.
21:33No.
21:46No.
21:48Oh, darling.
21:51They must be out of the mind.
21:54No.
21:55No.
21:58Definitely not.
22:00No.
22:04Ridiculous.
22:14What we need here is not useless politicians, sorry, Sunny, but a writer.
22:19Where might we find one?
22:48No.
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.
23:19Oh, 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.
23:57Victory for common sense.
23:58Whatever are you talking about?
24:00Anyway.
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 is 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?
24:50Yes, 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.
25:53One.
25:56Female.
25:58Four, two.
26:00One.
26:01Four, two, one.
26:01Two.
26:02One.
26:06Two.
26:09Two.
26:15One.
26:18One.
26:20Two.
26:23One.
26:23very encouraging. Right, but no offers yet. Oh, not yet. But regardless of whether we get this
26:36one published, what is undeniable is that you write vividly, catchily, dare I say it, even
26:43commercially. Oh, it's not a dirty word, Michael. You could really tell a story. I am wondering,
26:50have you ever considered a political thriller? What? The inner workings of Whitehall, Westminster,
26:57the palace. No one could write it better than you. No. No, if this magnum opus doesn't work,
27:03I'll call it a day. You could expose it all under an assumed name. I could. But sadly,
27:11I'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? Not grubby. Just quietly heartbreaking.
27:34With violence escalating in South Africa, tensions between the United Kingdom and other nations of
27:40the Commonwealth are at breaking point. Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions is being blamed.
27:47Good meeting? Great. Thank you. Hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know
27:54they are now running a front page story about the increasingly sour relations between Buckingham
27:58Palace and Downing Street, following the recent crisis at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
28:05What is it with these people? And that relations between the two women are in danger of completely
28:11breaking down. Well, 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 realize this warrants
28:27further scrutiny. So I think the time might have come for Your Majesty to make some kind of
28:33preemptive statement. What kind of statement? One of support. Even, dare I say, personal affection for the
28:43Prime Minister. About 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? What if on this occasion I'd be happy
28:55for people to know the
28:56displeasure was actually real? That I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion.
29:01You know how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility to remain silent. But each of us has our line in
29:07the sand.
29:09And if it were to become public knowledge that there had been an unprecedented rift
29:13between Sovereign and Prime Minister, would that really be so bad?
29:26Well, if that really were your intention...
29:32And for the record, ma'am, I must say, I think that would be a misjudgment. And risk doing serious
29:39and irreparable harm to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
29:50Then today would not be the newspaper I would go to. I'd go somewhere with more heft. Somewhere that also
30:00had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this. Where 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.
30:27I'm as surprised as you are.
30:30It goes against my professional advice.
30:33And...
30:34I 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.
31:02He's run three times.
31:05Following up on rumours about a deep and irreconcilable rift
31:09between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.
31:14All right.
31:15Put him through.
31:28It's 1.54, sir.
31:30Oh, strange.
32:03Evening, Prime Minister.
32:04Evening, Bernard.
32:05I've just had a phone call from the Sunday Times
32:07letting us know that there will be a difficult piece
32:09in the paper tomorrow.
32:11About what?
32:12The fault lines that have developed in the relationship
32:14between Sovereign and Prime Minister.
32:16What?
32:28Sunday Times first edition!
32:36Sunday Times first edition!
32:43Sunday Times first edition!
32:50First edition!
32:51First edition, Michael,
32:52First edition!
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33:14一のり!
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 on what have traditionally been cordial
33:47relations between the sovereign and her prime ministers, cites the cause of the rift as
33:52an alleged dispute over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of sanctions against
33:57apartheid in South Africa.
33:59Nice.
34:00A position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval, marking a distinct
34:05break with the monarch's long-held practice of never-passing comment on political affairs.
34:10So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report, as the
34:15palace 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, has been dragged into a messy row
34:32over South Africa because 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 when talking about dogs and horses...
34:49She's shown that she's also an astute political infighter who 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 regarding the
35:34rift between the Queen and Downing Street.
35:36Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship between sovereign and first minister
35:42was in danger of being blown apart.
35:44Prime Minister's here.
36:40Prime Minister of Law
37:12Prime Minister.
37:20Before coming today, I checked with the Cabinet Secretary,
37:25and it turns out that in the seven years I have been Prime Minister,
37:29we have had 164 audiences,
37:32always the model of 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,
38:00I've always advised my Prime Ministers against reading the newspapers.
38:03I don't, ma'am.
38:05You misunderstand, misquote and misrepresent.
38:08Then 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,
38:33should we not make a star from the business of the week,
38:35only I am mindful of the time.
38:38This is the business, ma'am.
38:41The only business.
38:44I think we have enough respect for one another personally
38:47to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions.
38:51Woman to woman.
38:53We are the same age after all.
38:56Really?
38:57Just six months between us.
38:59Oh?
38:59And who is the senior?
39:02I am.
39:04Now.
39:11Uncaring,
39:13confrontational,
39:14and 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
39:25irretrievable damage
39:26to the country's social fabric.
39:35My responsibility
39:37for the time I have in office
39:40is to put sentimentality to one side
39:43and look after these countries' interests
39:46with the perspective of a cold balance sheet.
39:50And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness
39:53and compassion for those less fortunate than us...
39:56Do you?
39:56Really?
39:57Let us not forget
39:59that of the two of us,
40:02I am the one from a small street
40:05in an irrelevant town
40:08with a father who could not bequeath me a title
40:11or a commonwealth,
40:13but only grit, good sense, and determination.
40:16And I don't want people's pity
40:19or charity or compassion.
40:22Nothing would insult me more.
40:24Therefore, my goal
40:26is to change this country
40:29from being dependent to self-reliant,
40:33and I think in that I am succeeding.
40:36I have had to learn many difficult lessons as sovereigns.
40:38Britons are learning to look after number one,
40:42to get ahead,
40:43and only then,
40:45if they choose,
40:47to look after their neighbour.
40:50Of those?
40:50No one would remember the good Samaritan
40:54if he only had good intentions.
40:57You see,
41:00he had money as well.
41:03Perhaps the hardest
41:04is that I am obliged
41:06to support my prime ministers
41:07on any position they take,
41:09even yours,
41:11regarding sanctions against South Africa.
41:16My question is,
41:18given the lack of impact it has
41:19on your day-to-day political fortunes,
41:21yet how important it is to me,
41:24could you not have supported me just once?
41:28My fellow Commonwealth leaders,
41:30many of whom I consider to be friends,
41:33now feel that I have betrayed them
41:35on an issue most important to them.
41:38Well, they need only read the Sunday Times.
41:41It will give them no doubt
41:43as to your position.
41:53Oh, look, our time is up.
41:55How it flies.
41:59You must be very much looking forward
42:01to the wedding tomorrow,
42:03Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
42:05Yes, we are.
42:07They seem like a good match.
42:09Yes, we think so.
42:10My own son, Mark,
42:12recently announced
42:14that he would be getting married.
42:15Your favourite,
42:16the explorer.
42:17Not an explorer, ma'am.
42:19That was just the once.
42:21He's a businessman now,
42:23in the Middle East, mostly,
42:25and South Africa.
42:28Of course.
42:31Your Majesty.
42:45Listen to me carefully.
42:46There is no story here.
42:48There's not a shred of truth to these rumours.
42:50The Queen continues to have an extremely cordial
42:52and productive working relationship
42:53with the Prime Minister.
42:55Sunday Times maintains
42:56that the story came from a highly placed source
42:58within the palace,
42:59and that's the line we're running with.
43:01And we will deny it,
43:02and you will look like fools.
43:03Bear me the indignation.
43:04I understand you have to say it,
43:06but we both know that it's true.
43:08And your continual denial
43:09is making you lot look like fools.
43:15Hello?
43:16Can I take your details?
43:20What's all this?
43:22Don't tell me the groom's having last-minute doubts.
43:24No.
43:25Andrew's asked us all to come together
43:26because he wants someone to explain why...
43:28God's name is going on with our mother.
43:31The wedding of the Duke of York
43:33should be a landmark event
43:35at home and abroad.
43:37Instead,
43:38thanks to the Queen's
43:40inexplicable
43:40lapse of judgment,
43:42the newspapers are full
43:43not of
43:43Sarah and me,
43:46but of
43:46Mummy's
43:46rifted with the Prime Minister.
43:50Ah, yes.
43:51The Sunday Times.
43:52You have to admit
43:53she has made a god-awful mess of it.
43:54What was she thinking?
43:55She did what she spent her life
43:57telling me
43:57I cannot do.
43:59She opened her mouth
44:00and expressed an opinion.
44:03And is being
44:04slaughtered for it.
44:06Bloody
44:06thoughtless of her,
44:07if you ask me.
44:08Oh, come on.
44:08You can hardly blame the newspapers
44:10for anything to write about
44:11something other than
44:11the wedding of a fringe member
44:12of the family
44:13who'll never be king.
44:15Ouch.
44:16Well, it's true, isn't it?
44:19Fourth in line now,
44:20and by the time
44:21Williams had children,
44:22his children have had children.
44:25Fringe.
44:29Joe.
44:38Did you really just say that?
44:40On my wedding day?
44:42That was impressively cunty.
44:55It would be hard to imagine
44:56there'd be anything
44:57that could knock
44:58a royal wedding
44:59into second place
45:00on the news.
45:01But the continuing escalation
45:03of the row
45:04between the Queen
45:05and Mrs. Thatcher
45:05threatens to overshadow
45:07the nuptials.
45:08The Queen has made
45:09a very serious error
45:10of judgment.
45:12And this Sunday Times article
45:13has lit a touch paper
45:14to what could very quickly
45:16become a major
45:16constitutional crisis.
45:19What the palace
45:20was hoping to achieve
45:21by this is hard to say.
45:23But the fact is
45:24they've stirred up
45:24a hornet's nest
45:25and so far
45:27seem to lack the wit
45:28to avoid getting stung.
45:30This story...
45:31If I might interrupt, ma'am.
45:32...had a serious impact.
45:35One unfortunate consequence
45:37of our denial of the story
45:38is that the editor
45:40of the Sunday Times
45:41has now come out
45:42all guns blazing
45:42and whilst we could
45:44continue to deny it,
45:46my own view
45:47is that it's no longer
45:48to our advantage.
45:50And I think we're
45:51now going to have
45:52to give them something.
45:54What?
45:55A culprit.
45:57To deflect blame
45:59from you
45:59and to put these flames
46:00out ASAP.
46:02We need to let them
46:03have a name.
46:16Martin.
46:17Michael.
46:20Uh, this escalating
46:24situation between
46:25Buckingham Palace
46:26and Downing Street.
46:27You can't say
46:28I didn't warn you.
46:30I think you know
46:32how seriously
46:32the Queen takes
46:33her responsibility
46:34and how much
46:34she values
46:35the close relationship
46:36between the two houses.
46:37Of course.
46:39And to see it
46:42a compromise
46:43like this
46:45as a consequence
46:47of your actions...
46:51What?
46:53The fact is
46:54that the steps
46:55you took
46:55were completely
46:56unprofessional.
46:57Martin, stop it.
46:59Impugning the integrity
47:00of the palace
47:01and of the Queen herself.
47:02We know one another
47:03too well.
47:05This is madness.
47:08I hope we can rely on you
47:11to do the right thing.
47:26of course.
47:51Michael.
47:53Oh.
48:23Oh.
49:03There is a motto which has been born by many of my ancestors, a noble motto I serve.
49:13I should like to make that dedication now.
49:16It's very simple.
49:18I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted
49:27to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
49:35God help me to make good my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share in
49:42it.
49:48God bless you.
49:50God bless you.
49:50God bless you.
50:01God bless you.
50:03God bless you.
50:17God bless you.
50:20God bless you.
50:26God bless you.
50:26God bless you.
50:48God bless you.
50:49God bless you.
51:09God bless you.
51:12God bless you.
51:29I am as a dishwasher, but when me take a stop, me no turn clock watcha.
51:36England is a bitch.
51:38There's no escape in it.
51:42England is a bitch.
51:46Nobody try to hide from it.
51:49When them go, they look weird to pack it.
51:52First them rabbit with them big tax racket.
52:10England is a bitch.
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