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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.
00:01:34Yeah.
00:01:41God bless you!
00:01:45All right, man.
00:01:49Get some too rum, man.
00:01:59That's it, don't push them.
00:02:01You're not alting them.
00:02:03Yes.
00:02:07Get straight up!
00:02:21Get straight up!
00:02:45Really?
00:02:49Really.
00:02:53Well, I shall certainly let Her Majesty know.
00:03:04Time and tide, Mr. Conservator?
00:03:07With or no man, Private Secretary.
00:03:09Good afternoon to you.
00:03:11Good afternoon, sir.
00:03:23What is it now?
00:03:27Lord Altrincham has been struck.
00:03:30Good luck.
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.
00:03:50The incident occurred outside the television studios.
00:03:54And the perpetrator is now on his way to the Bow Street police station where we expect him to be
00:04:00released without charge.
00:04:03Well, how very gratifying.
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06Very.
00:04:08Which television studios?
00:04:10The Independent Television Network studios, ma'am, where Altrincham had just recorded an interview.
00:04:17For what?
00:04:19A programme appropriately called Impact.
00:04:23When will it air?
00:04:25Tonight, ma'am.
00:04:27Nine o'clock.
00:04:47Tell the people.
00:04:48Tell them on television.
00:04:51Questions in the public mind.
00:04:53Answered by people in the public eye.
00:04:56This is Impact.
00:04:57A programme that examines the most important matters of the moment.
00:05:02And which will debate to you at home.
00:05:05Sorry, I'm late.
00:05:05Robin Day puts the question.
00:05:07It's just starting.
00:05:10Tonight, we have a man who, because of press activity in recent days, probably needs no introduction.
00:05:15Lord Altrincham.
00:05:16In the space of just a few days, his inflammatory and deeply personal attacks on the Queen, in a periodical
00:05:22of which he is also publisher,
00:05:23have become the most pressing issue of the day, and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:05:29So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:05:34She's our Head of State, loved, respected and admired throughout the world.
00:05:39So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:06:01We're goons-almed.
00:06:04We're going to be doing something.
00:06:09So, why do you hate us?
00:06:09We're going to be doing something.
00:06:09And we're going to be doing something.
00:06:19It's almost every day.
00:06:19So, let's get to my spirit.
00:07:54Are you seated?
00:07:57Right.
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, you were going to look at that for me, weren't you?
00:08:08There's something 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?
00:08:26Toffee, John.
00:08:27Oh, you must try some, John.
00:08:29I'm afraid I have a thing against toffee.
00:08:34Why didn't I know that?
00:08:36Right.
00:08:37You can't know everything about me.
00:08:42It's not the taste I object to so much.
00:08:45I just have painful memories.
00:08:49As a child.
00:08:51Or sitting in a dentist's chair because of a piece of toffee I ate.
00:08:58Oh.
00:09:01Oh.
00:09:01Oh, Lord.
00:09:03Not again.
00:09:04Fine.
00:09:05Fine.
00:09:06Sir.
00:09:08Uh, sir?
00:09:10Perhaps you don't understand that on your steadfastness and ability to withstand the fatigue of dull, repetitive
00:09:19work, and your great courage in meeting constant, small adversities depend in great measure the
00:09:28happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.
00:09:38The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its
00:09:47average men and women.
00:09:49Um, working men and women?
00:09:57It has a touch more dignity.
00:09:59Yeah.
00:10:06No, I think average is fine.
00:10:22What you might be interested to see this, it's a draft of a speech the Queen's going to give in
00:10:28a week's time.
00:10:29Um, I don't mind telling you I felt a bit uneasy about it.
00:10:49Yeah.
00:10:51Sir, forgive me if I'm interfering beyond my station.
00:11:01to me
00:11:02you were about to interfere beyond your station
00:11:09but it's concerning the speech the queen is due to give next week
00:11:13the jagger car factory what about it i was just wondering if you were happy with it
00:11:24well obviously i'm happy with it or i wouldn't have shown it to her majesty for the approval
00:11:30which she immediately gave did the queen read it she didn't need to she merely asked if i was happy
00:11:39i replied in the affirmative and that was good enough for her majesty but i can see that the
00:11:48really important question is is it good enough for colonel charteris
00:11:56you don't think it strikes the wrong tone
00:11:59in which sense
00:12:03in its paternalism
00:12:08may i
00:12:13i i i suppose if i had a concern
00:12:18it would be that post-sues
00:12:20in this new climate
00:12:23in this new britain
00:12:26the tone of the speech is
00:12:30somewhat
00:12:30somewhat what
00:12:36old-fashioned
00:12:39then would leave her open to attack
00:12:41from whom
00:12:42the newspapers
00:12:46people
00:12:47if i had a shilling for every time someone of a progressive or liberal disposition
00:12:52had warned needlessly of a popular attack against the crown
00:12:55i'd be a rich man
00:12:57the british people adore their sovereign it is what constitutes indeed defines being british
00:13:03now the worst i've ever encountered is apathy where people simply accept the king or queen as
00:13:10they accept the sky above their heads but it's a long way from apathy to insurrection
00:13:16now as regards the newspapers the crown can count on their support for two reasons
00:13:21first there is nothing to attack that's the advantage of a constitutional monarchy
00:13:26they have no power so there's nothing to complain about
00:13:29and even if they wanted to they'd always let us know first
00:13:33the palace would then threaten them with a boycott on the next major royal event
00:13:37causing the newspapers immediately to back down
00:13:40because the very people you fear will hate the queen
00:13:45the same ones who buy copies in their millions
00:13:49why because they love her
00:13:55so i'm worrying unnecessarily martin
00:13:59i shall leave the drawing of that inescapable conclusion to you
00:14:22i'm going to take it in a little shorter man and rounder it back
00:14:25lovely
00:14:27lovely
00:14:27the
00:14:32so i'm going to take it in a little more
00:14:34thank you
00:14:37and
00:14:39the
00:14:39so i'm going to talk for now
00:14:44that may
00:14:46save the
00:14:48rest
00:14:51and
00:15:18I like it very much.
00:15:44I 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.
00:16:24I have nothing against it, Pastor.
00:16:27Stop it.
00:16:28She won't 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.
00:17:18It's very nice to see you.
00:17:20I can't get you.
00:17:21I can't get you.
00:17:22I can't get you.
00:17:22How do you do?
00:17:24It's very, very spacious.
00:17:27This is our research and development area.
00:17:29No, no, at all.
00:17:30May I introduce you, ma'am, to Nigel Willoughby,
00:17:33who sketches all of our prototypes?
00:17:36You studied drawing, did you?
00:17:38Very good, sir.
00:17:40And that's a chassis?
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.
00:17:52I've always been interested in the red leather.
00:17:54Yes.
00:17:55Is it horse or cow?
00:17:58Hello.
00:18:10I wish first to express to you
00:18:13my very great pleasure at being here today.
00:18:18My husband and I have been most profoundly moved
00:18:21by your hospitable welcome
00:18:24and would like you to know how very grateful we are
00:18:27to 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
00:18:58depend 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, to the soundness of heart of its
00:19:15average men and women.
00:19:18May you be proud to remember how much depends on you, and that even when your life seems most monotonous,
00:19:27what 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.
00:20:05I've just heard a ridiculous speech by the Queen, and I want to write an immediate response.
00:20:12I'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.
00:20:49A rather heretical thought.
00:20:51I got the idea from something Walter Badgett said about the first duty of royalty being to inspire.
00:21:29to be in on her, her, for real disposition, triumphed tale, Kemper Hall, and arriv",
00:21:31What was the claim?
00:21:31Is that the refuge of oscarland?
00:21:39Like to us.
00:21:40No, no, it's not alone.
00:21:44What's it?
00:21:48Into God's sleep.
00:22:17Come on, man.
00:22:19Come on, man.
00:22:22Hello.
00:22:23I trust you have to see you.
00:22:25Yes, very lovely.
00:22:26Good to be back.
00:22:27Well, let's see if it happens, okay?
00:22:29How are you?
00:22:53Good to be back.
00:23:05Good to be back.
00:23:09Good to be back.
00:25:28I see.
00:25:31Right.
00:25:34Well, thank you.
00:26:08Sorry to disturb, Your Majesty, Your Highness.
00:26:12Just to say, it might be worth avoiding certain newspapers this morning.
00:26:18Why?
00:26:20What's your sister done now?
00:26:23Nothing to do with Princess Margaret, sir.
00:26:26It's an article written by Lord Altrincham.
00:26:31Never heard of him.
00:26:32You?
00:26:33Taken originally from his own publication, the National and English Review.
00:26:39Never heard of that either.
00:26:42Which several newspapers have chosen to run, partially or in full.
00:26:48What kind of article?
00:26:51It's quite a critical article, ma'am.
00:27:00What gives him the right?
00:27:05Tell me, honestly, mummy.
00:27:08Is there any part of you that agrees with him?
00:27:13Certainly not.
00:27:16And it's not just your mother saying that.
00:27:20The palace press secretary called me an hour ago to say the vast majority of the country
00:27:24not only disagrees with Altrincham, but is disgusted by him.
00:27:28It's an irrelevant article, written by an irrelevant man for an irrelevant publication.
00:27:34Only picked up because it's August, people are on holiday, government is in recess, there's nothing to write about.
00:27:42Today, 85% of the country is against him.
00:27:45By tomorrow, it will be 95%.
00:27:47That man's going to wish he'd never been born.
00:27:52Try to! Try to!
00:27:54Help us!
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?
00:28:26Impact.
00:28:28With Robin Day.
00:28:31I wish it weren't Day.
00:28:33We all wish it weren't Day.
00:28:35He's terrifying.
00:28:36Don't be silly.
00:28:37The fact that it's Day is what makes it valuable.
00:28:41You don't think I'm walking into a trap?
00:28:43You walked into the trap when you wrote the article.
00:28:46Now you're the most unloved individual in Britain.
00:28:50Ironically, Day is the one person who could help you.
00:28:54Why?
00:28:56You've seen how he interviews people.
00:28:58He dismembers them.
00:29:00Tears them to shreds.
00:29:02Yes.
00:29:02But keep your cool under his scrutiny.
00:29:05Make your case politely.
00:29:07Respectfully.
00:29:08Intelligently.
00:29:10It could turn people around.
00:29:22Thank you very much.
00:29:24Thank you very much.
00:29:43Just here, if you will.
00:29:45All right.
00:29:48Let myself to water.
00:29:50Shouldn't be too long.
00:29:53All good.
00:29:58He's standing by, sir.
00:30:00He's prepared.
00:30:05Let's make a start.
00:30:13Can we tell them how all this works?
00:30:15Recording now.
00:30:16Transmission tonight.
00:30:18Yes.
00:30:20Five, 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
00:30:42day and caused something of a constitutional crisis.
00:30:45So, I'd like to begin by asking Lord Altrincham a simple question.
00:30:50She's our head of state, loved, respected, and admired around the world.
00:30:54So, why do you hate her so very much?
00:30:57I, I don't.
00:30:59Then why criticize her like this?
00:31:02That's like asking an art critic why he criticizes art.
00:31:06I'm a passionate monarchist who believes constitutional monarchy is Britain's greatest invention.
00:31:11Do you, indeed?
00:31:12Yes, I do.
00:31:14I believe that monarchy provides clarity.
00:31:17A symbolic head of state transcending the self-serving interests of the egocentric and self-motivated politicians
00:31:24who go in and out of office, who, as King Lear wonderfully says, ebb and flow by the moon.
00:31:32But when working at its best, monarchy can rise above such matters and unify a society.
00:31:37It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of national character.
00:31:42But the problem is, at the moment, it's, 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, you 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, of a wit.
00:31:59You'd like her to be a, uh, a better orator, a TV personality,
00:32:04in addition to being a diligent, dutiful and devoted monarch and a mother.
00:32:08All I'm suggesting is that in her public speeches and in her appearances,
00:32:12she should be more, uh, natural.
00:32:15Her style of speaking is, quite frankly, a, a pain in the neck.
00:32:20She sounds strangled.
00:32:23I had the misfortune of hearing one of the Queen's speeches in a dental waiting room recently.
00:32:28I was horrified by the indifference and inertia with which the speech was greeted.
00:32:35But you'd accept that being Queen and head of the Church of England is not an easy job,
00:32:39or a simple one.
00:32:40If you'll forgive me, it's, uh, it's arguably a harder job than editing a, a small periodical.
00:32:46No, no, I quite agree.
00:32:47Her Majesty is a, a, 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?
00:33:05Her courtiers?
00:33:06Well, in the end, if the court is wrong, if the setup is wrong,
00:33:10you have no choice but to criticize the boss.
00:33:12The Queen?
00:33:13Yes.
00:33:14Because only the boss can get rid of the bad servants.
00:33:18She hires them.
00:33:19She alone can fire them.
00:33:22Now, they may be bad.
00:33:23I 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.
00:33:30In the sense that they're just hired hands.
00:33:32And so the personal attack on the monarch continues.
00:33:36Let, let me just say this.
00:33:38To criticize the monarchy, to criticize Her Majesty personally, gives me no satisfaction.
00:33:44But we have to remember that since the Second World War, since Suez,
00:33:49Britain has changed beyond recognition.
00:33:51And yet the monarchy continues its pre-war routines as though nothing has happened.
00:33:56I believe it would serve the Queen and her courtiers well
00:33:59to remember that until recently, monarchies were the rule and republics the exception.
00:34:05But today, republics are the rule and monarchies very much the exception.
00:34:14Lord Altringham, I have to terminate the interview.
00:34:16I'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.
00:34:33Thank you again, Lord Altringham.
00:34:36Good day.
00:34:37Good day.
00:34:45I'm in real life.
00:34:48Lord Altringham.
00:34:49Yes.
00:34:52You traitor!
00:35:00Congratulations.
00:35:01Well done.
00:35:01Well done.
00:35:03Now some white?
00:35:04Well done.
00:35:05Something stronger.
00:35:06What about a brandy?
00:35:08Why not?
00:35:09Well done.
00:35:11Well done.
00:35:12I'm sorry.
00:35:14Well done.
00:35:16Oh, man, they are red.
00:35:31Your Majesty.
00:35:32Yes, what is it, Michael?
00:35:35There have been some reactions in the newspapers to last night's television interview and to the assault upon Lord Altringham.
00:35:43And I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped.
00:35:49Why not?
00:35:51Well, the man that struck Altringham, it turns out, is a member of the extreme right League of Empire Loyalists,
00:36:00which is a pressure group that campaigns against the dissolution of the empire and has a clear doctrine of English
00:36:09racial supremacy.
00:36:10Oh, dear.
00:36:13And it seems that most people have decided, having watched Altringham on the television, that he is eminently reasonable.
00:36:25Now, almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments, and there are new polls to support this.
00:36:34Letters of the Daily Mirror are running at four to one in Altringham's favour.
00:36:39And even the normally conservative Daily Mail changed its tune this morning.
00:36:49In addition, and this, I believe, reflects on his growing concern at some of the telephone calls 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.
00:37:08Oh, my goodness.
00:37:10A constitutional crisis.
00:37:13Well, I hope you're going to apologise to Mr Macmillan, too.
00:37:16No.
00:37:17You're not going to deny that this hell mess springs from a badly written speech, which I gave unquestioningly, because
00:37:22I trusted you.
00:37:25Perhaps Lord Altringham is right.
00:37:27Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people with one foot in the real world.
00:37:33Come on.
00:37:36Come on.
00:37:38Come on.
00:38:01and you believe it's now a government measure I do ambassadors from all around
00:38:08the world have been calling me concerned her majesty will hardly need reminding a great
00:38:15many other countries have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years
00:38:22Egypt Bulgaria Italy Tunisia only last month of course we're not at that point not at a red light
00:38:31we're not even at an amber but we'd hate it to become amber and so it is my view the
00:38:40government's
00:38:41view that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible and do what the obvious thing
00:38:49altering them is a fire which needs to be put out
00:39:02I've got you
00:39:17I've got you
00:39:29palace is offered up a chap called charteris to meet I looked him up he used to be her principal
00:39:38private secretary well there you are before the king died when she was princess and now
00:39:50he's assistant private secretary so not quite a pawn but certainly not a bishop or knight either
00:39:59go go in order to be fobbed off go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together wanted
00:40:06to
00:40:06work together they would have sent someone higher up go all right and take a list of suggestions
00:40:15recommendations recommendations don't go empty-handed
00:40:26not yet John your tooth
00:40:30don't go empty-handed
00:40:34don't go empty-handed
00:40:42don't go empty-handed
00:40:43don't go empty-handed
00:40:44don't go empty-handed
00:40:44don't go empty-handed
00:40:44don't go empty-handed
00:40:45don't go empty-handed
00:40:48don't go empty-handed
00:40:49don't go empty-handed
00:40:53don't go empty-handed
00:40:58don't go empty-handed
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, in 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, which 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 that because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the
00:43:36temple down.
00:43:38On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives.
00:43:42Well, those of us in the temple are very much looking forward to hearing what it is we must do
00:43:47in order to survive.
00:43:49Shall we begin?
00:44:16Shall we begin?
00:44:31Yes.
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:36Yes.
00:44:38Yes.
00:44:39Yes.
00:44:40And why is that exactly?
00:44:44Because the age of deference is over.
00:44:46And what is left without deference? Anarchy?
00:44:53Equality.
00:44:55How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?
00:44:58You can.
00:45:00But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked to a monarch's advantage to return
00:45:05fire on their own people.
00:45:07But you have managed to think of how this monarch might do something to her advantage.
00:45:13I have.
00:45:14And that same monarch is sitting before, forgive me, a failed politician and an unrecognized journalist.
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! I've got a list.
00:45:51I do.
00:45:53As you might know from my article, I made a series of observations, recommendations of things to change.
00:46:00But for the purposes of this meeting, I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six.
00:46:07Six?
00:46:09Three things to start and three things to stop.
00:46:13Well, let's start with the stops.
00:46:17Very well.
00:46:18Ah, yes.
00:46:20Putting an end to the debutante's ball.
00:46:24The idea that only young women of a certain class are presented to the Sovereign,
00:46:29and women who are not of that class are not presented to the Sovereign and somehow not acceptable.
00:46:35This is the sort of iniquity that should have died out with our grandparents' generation, certainly after the war.
00:46:45Next.
00:46:49Uh, allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles.
00:46:58Why?
00:47:00The Sovereign is head of the Church of England, and the Church does not recognize divorced persons.
00:47:05It's unkind, discriminatory, quite 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, stuck in the past.
00:47:26Ostriches, with their heads buried in the sand.
00:47:30They're stopping the palace evolve in keeping with the rest of the world.
00:47:33Those ostriches provide an indispensable function of monarchy.
00:47:39The preservation of tradition.
00:47:44You asked for my recommendations, ma'am.
00:47:48I'm respectfully passing them on.
00:47:54What would you have me start?
00:47:58Open up, ma'am.
00:48:01Know the drawbridge.
00:48:03Let people get to know you.
00:48:05I don't wish to be known.
00:48:09Televise the Christmas speech.
00:48:12Become more transparent.
00:48:14Accessible.
00:48:18And finally.
00:48:19Oh, finally.
00:48:20Spend time with normal people.
00:48:23Not just courtiers or the great and the good, but real people.
00:48:27Average people.
00:48:29Working people.
00:48:31Open 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, not at all.
00:49:08And would you ask my private secretary to come in?
00:49:12Of course.
00:49:19Your Majesty.
00:49:35General Choppers.
00:49:44No Max.
00:50:01Orange.
00:50:03Lens.
00:50:18When I went back into the room
00:50:20She was gone
00:50:23Vanished
00:50:24Into thin air
00:50:25Do sit down
00:50:28Charteress then went home
00:50:29To tell me that no one can ever know
00:50:31That 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
00:50:41With her majesty's assistant private secretary
00:50:44And that concessions might be made
00:50:46To one or two
00:50:48Of my recommendations
00:50:51May I ask which ones
00:51:00Let's get these lights in quickly
00:51:01Please with that camera
00:51:03This one next
00:51:07Well done
00:51:07Now let's have the rest of the pig
00:51:20You're like an actress
00:51:23Common little showgirl
00:51:25Don't be silly
00:51:28In what way am I different
00:51:31Memorising lines
00:51:32And remembering angles
00:51:34And wearing makeup
00:51:36Well you're the Queen of the United Kingdom
00:51:38For one thing
00:51:39Yes
00:51:39Who's memorising lines
00:51:41And remembering angles
00:51:42And wearing makeup
00:51:54Your majesty
00:51:56Right
00:51:59Where do you want me
00:52:00This way
00:52:01Please ma'am
00:52:14Check 3
00:52:15Everyone stand bare
00:52:36Matt.
00:53:215, 4, 3.
00:53:28Happy Christmas.
00:53:3325 years ago, my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
00:53:41Today 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, my sword I give to him that shall succeed me in
00:55:24my pilgrimage,
00:55:26and my courage and skill to 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.
00:56:41And we're off air.
00:56:44And we're off air.
00:56:50And we're off air.
00:56:59And we're off air.
00:57:14Oh, hello.
00:57:15How am I?
00:57:17You look pretty.
00:57:19Like the dress.
00:57:21And the hair, very unregimental.
00:57:23Yes, Tony, you're the top person, of course.
00:57:25Only stylist who could be trusted.
00:57:28Does he have a name, this stylist?
00:57:31I want to say Victor Cabom, but no, that's not quite right.
00:57:33But, um, Vidal Baboon?
00:57:36Vidal Baboon.
00:57:37Yes, I think.
00:57:38Well, anyway, I talk endlessly about the 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,
00:57:45I might pass it on to my wife.
00:57:48Is that appropriate, by the way,
00:57:49that a red-blooded man should know the correct hairdresser for a woman?
00:57:53There's almost nothing that's appropriate about Tony,
00:57:55but he's made it his mission in life to improve me.
00:58:00Your very own little altering him.
00:58:02Yes.
00:58:03It's rather better in bed, I suspect.
00:58:09Oh, dear God.
00:58:10Good one.
00:58:16There it is.
00:58:18Thank you very much.
00:58:21Who do you suppose that is?
00:58:23It could be Mr. David Smith, a car dealer.
00:58:29And that?
00:58:31I believe that is Harriet the Hammer Jones,
00:58:36a boxer from the old Kent Road.
00:58:42Rounding up the numbers, we have a local restaurateur,
00:58:46a 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.
00:58:59To democratise us.
00:59:03And so it goes.
00:59:05The stings and bites we suffer
00:59:08as it slips away.
00:59:11Bit by bit.
00:59:12Piece by piece.
00:59:15Our authority.
00:59:17Our absolutism.
00:59:19Our divine rights.
00:59:29The history of the monarchy in this country
00:59:32is a one-way street of humiliation,
00:59:34sacrifices and concessions in order to survive.
00:59:37First the barons came for us,
00:59:39then the merchants, now the journalists.
00:59:41Small wonder we make such a fuss
00:59:42about curtsies, protocol, and precedent.
00:59:45It's all we have left.
00:59:46The last scraps of armour
00:59:48as we go from ruling to reigning to...
00:59:53To what?
00:59:54To being nothing at all.
00:59:59Mary Annette.
01:00:07Right.
01:00:09Gloves on.
01:00:10Right.
01:00:13I told the master of the household
01:00:15to rotate the guests between courses,
01:00:17so if you get a dud, don't worry.
01:00:19It'll be 15 minutes at worst.
01:00:30That's my heart's power.
01:00:43Mr. and Mrs. David Smith.
01:00:44Ah, here we go.
01:00:46Hello.
01:00:47Very nice.
01:00:48Mr. and Mrs. Patel.
01:00:49Hello.
01:00:50What a couple.
01:00:52Mr. Harry the Hatter-in-Style.
01:00:53Hi, thank you so much for having me.
01:00:55Thank you so much for having me.
01:00:56You're looking absent.
01:00:57Mr. Martin Jones.
01:00:58What can't you tell him?
01:01:00Hello, Mrs. Patel.
01:01:03Sergeant Ethel Denry.
01:01:04Hi, hello there.
01:01:05It's such a pleasure to have you.
01:01:07Here he comes.
01:01:08Don't go.
01:01:33Don't go.
01:01:34Don't go.
01:01:35Don't go.
01:01:49Don't go.
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