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00:56Mr. Hedeltine says Britain should reach for the levers of power
01:00If only to prevent others pulling them first
01:02One dead in an ulster gun battle between soldiers and terrorists
01:07Policemaker rests over ballot rigging in the transport union
01:11Confusion over plastic cling film after the government's cancer warning
01:15And animals to the slaughter how the RSPCA hopes to stop live animal exports
01:21Michael Hedeltine was speaking to a conference in Hamburg
01:25Mr. Hedeltine is now on his way back to London to be in the Commons this afternoon
01:29There Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to spell out in detail the reasons for his resignation
01:34Is there anything Sir Geoffrey is likely to say this afternoon that could influence
01:38Mr. Hedeltine and whether to throw his hat in the ring
01:40Well Sir Geoffrey is an extremely cautious man
01:43I suspect that his speech will be carefully written
01:46And I just wonder whether it will be sufficiently in code
01:50Not really to damage the Prime Minister
01:52Sir Geoffrey has very deep personal and ideological differences with the Prime Minister
01:57I think he will spell them out
01:59But whether he will spell them out in clear set terms that amount to an assault on her leadership
02:04I think we have to wait and see for that
02:06I remind the House that a resignation statement is heard in silence and without interruption
02:14Sir Geoffrey Howe
02:21Mr. Speaker Sir
02:22I find to my astonishment that a quarter of a century has passed since I last spoke from one of
02:29these back benches
02:31Mr. Speaker I believe that both the Chancellor and the Governor are cricketing enthusiasts
02:36So I hope that there is no monopoly of cricketing metaphors
02:40Increasingly those of us close to the Prime Minister feel like opening batsmen being sent to the crease
02:45Only to find the moment the first balls are bowled
02:48That our bats have been broken before the game
02:51By the team captain
02:59The point Mr. Speaker was perhaps more sharply put by a British businessman
03:05Trading in Brussels and elsewhere
03:07Who wrote to me last week
03:09People throughout Europe, he said
03:12See our Prime Minister's finger wagging
03:15And hear her passionate
03:16No
03:18No
03:19No
03:20Much more clearly than the content of the carefully worded formal texts
03:25It is too easy, he went on
03:27For them to believe that we all share her attitudes
03:30For why else, he asked
03:32Has she been our Prime Minister for so long?
03:38This is, my correspondent concluded, a desperately serious situation for our country
03:43And sadly, Mr. Speaker, I have to agree
03:47The conflict of loyalty
03:50Of loyalty to my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister
03:53And after all, in two decades together
03:57That instinct of loyalty is still very real
04:01And of loyalty to what I perceive to be the true interests of the nation
04:06That conflict of loyalty has become all too great
04:12I no longer believe it possible to resolve that conflict from within this government
04:16That is why I have resigned
04:19In doing so, I have done what I believe to be right for my party and my country
04:24And time has come for others to consider their own response
04:28To the tragic conflict of loyalties
04:30With which I have myself wrestled
04:33For perhaps too long
04:34A little bit
04:49Uh, the Queen?
04:51The drawing room, Your Highness
04:52Right
04:54She has resumed her affair with Major Hewitt
04:57With flagrant disregard
04:59For the agreement we made in our meeting with you
05:02A meeting in which is now clear
05:04She brazenly lied to your face
05:08So, I hope you agree
05:09It leaves me with no option but to start a formal separation
05:12Oh, Charles
05:13I am wretchedly unhappy
05:14And yet there is someone else out there who would make me perfectly happy
05:17Quick, switch on the television
05:18Why?
05:20It's the Ides of March
05:21The Julius Caesar role
05:22How?
05:23When I say Julia Caesar
05:25I'm sorry, we're in the middle of an important conversation
05:27Shh
05:27Her style of government
05:28He says her nightmare image of Europe
05:31Risks the future of the nation
05:33Can Sir Geoffrey's peroration
05:36Where he said the time has come for others to consider their response
05:39Be read in any other way
05:41Than a clear invitation to open a contest for the leadership
05:44That is one of the implications
05:45Some people would go further than that
05:47They would say that he's urging people to vote
05:49Yes, Mrs. Thatcher is facing the most serious threat to her 11 years in power
05:54To Geoffrey Howe, Mrs. Thatcher's longest-serving colleague throughout her years in power
05:59Turned on her in the Commons today
06:01And accused her of risking the nation's future
06:04In the polls
06:05He was explaining for the first time
06:07Why he resigned as deputy prime minister
06:09Deserting her over her refusal to keep in step with the European Union
06:11MPs had expected a coded diplomatic speech
06:14Instead, years of resentment and frustration
06:16Were compressed into a picture of Mrs. Thatcher
06:19And her attitude to Europe
06:21He called on conservative MPs
06:23To consider what he described as their conflict of loyalties
06:26They now delivered a stinging indictment of Thatcher in the House of Commons
06:29With the bitterness on the prime minister's side
06:31And they hoped there would be some reaction in her favour
06:34It's now down to conservative members of Parliament
06:36The prime minister's market plan to face as a challenge that could cost her her job
06:39MPs, ministers and peers are still trying to assess
06:42What one described as an incitement to mutiny
06:45And another said was an act of treachery
07:09To tell her, who is
07:12And they believed she is
07:12And the higher
07:22Mark
15:12First item on the agenda is Her Royal Highness's forthcoming solo visit to New York.
15:19Looking at the itinerary, our concern would be that it seems to be challenging several appointments
15:28each day.
15:28It's just four days, Edward, in multiple locations.
15:33We all know the toll a schedule of engagements can take.
15:36And I'm sure no one here would wish to see the Princess of Wales overstretched.
15:42Certainly not at a risk to her own health.
15:44The Princess of Wales' health is exemplary.
15:47Mental health.
15:50Not to mention the amount of time she'd be separated from her children and the distress that might cause her.
15:56The Princess of Wales is well aware of what's required of her and is very much looking forward to the
16:01trip.
16:20I have only one question.
16:26Will you support me?
16:29Of course.
16:30You will always have my unconditional support.
16:34I am with you.
16:35You can always count on me.
16:39The problem is the numbers are against you.
16:43And your inability to unite the party behind you.
16:46Over Europe.
16:47Over the economy.
16:48Over taxation.
16:49Perhaps if your methods were less confrontational.
16:52And if you'd consulted with Cabinet rather than ruling by decree.
16:56Your rejection of core conservative values.
16:59Of moderation.
17:01Compassion.
17:01And your total disregard for the center ground.
17:04Leaves you vulnerable.
17:06Exposed.
17:07Isolated.
17:09I shall always defend you Margaret.
17:12Always.
17:14But.
17:15As your friend.
17:17As an ally.
17:18I think I speak of the majority when I say.
17:21The time might have come for some new blood.
17:26And that it would be in everyone's best interests.
17:29If you were to.
17:31Stand down.
17:48Bastards.
17:52Bloody lot of them.
17:54Murderers.
18:04So.
18:05Is that it?
18:07Is that the end?
18:10No.
18:12I still have one card to play.
18:16Britain will send more troops to the Gulf.
18:18The defense secretary Tom King has said Britain will...
18:21President Bush called to tell me he thought it barbaric.
18:25Chancellor Cole said it was inhumane.
18:29Nicole Gorbachev reminded me that ten years ago it was Britain holding democratic elections.
18:36Whilst Russia staged cabinet coups.
18:39Now it's the other way around.
18:41What they all agree on is that getting rid of me is an act of national self harm.
18:49Which is why I've come to you ma'am.
18:51That together we may act in the national self interest.
18:56How might I help?
18:57By dissolving parliament.
19:01What?
19:03We are on the brink of war.
19:06What kind of signal does that give to our enemies?
19:10To sit down if we were to change leadership now.
19:14It would make us look hopelessly weak and divided.
19:18I agree it's not ideal.
19:20Have you consulted cabinet on this matter?
19:23I have not ma'am.
19:25Surely that would be the normal course of action.
19:27With all due respect the decision to dissolve parliament is in the gift of the prime minister alone.
19:36It is entirely within my power to do this if I see fit.
19:40You are correct.
19:42Technically it is within your power to request this.
19:46But we must all ask ourselves when to exercise those things that are within our power and when not to.
19:53Your first instinct as a person I think is often to act.
19:57To exercise power.
19:59That is what people want in a leader.
20:01To show conviction and strength.
20:05To lead.
20:08I am merely asking the question.
20:11Whether it is correct to exercise a power simply because it is yours to use.
20:17Power is nothing without authority.
20:21And at this moment your cabinet is against you.
20:25Your party is against you.
20:27And if the polls are to be believed, if you were to call a general election today, you would not
20:32win.
20:33Which suggests the country is against you.
20:38Perhaps the time has come for you to try doing nothing for once.
20:44The difference is you have power in doing nothing.
20:53I will have nothing.
20:57You will have your dignity.
21:00There is no dignity in the wilderness.
21:03Then might I suggest you don't think of it as that.
21:06Think of it as an opportunity to pursue other passions.
21:11I have other loves.
21:14My husband.
21:16My children.
21:17My children.
21:18But this job is my only true passion.
21:25And to have it taken from me.
21:29Stolen from me so cruelly.
21:34What hurts the most is that we had come so far.
21:41And now to have the opportunity to finish the job snatched away at the very last.
22:09I'm in hell.
22:11And he just hates me.
22:14And wants me to fail.
22:16He tells everyone I'm mad.
22:21They treat me like I'm mad.
22:23And I'm starting to feel mad.
22:26Why did I agree to this trip?
22:29I'm going to fall flat on my face.
22:58Please keep my body so I can go and start with the rest of my life.
23:01I've never been厲害.
23:04Throw your fans off me.
23:06Throw your fans off me.
23:07Take them over here please.
23:09Take them over here please.
23:11You're here.
23:12You're here.
23:13Oh my God.
23:22Oh my God.
26:40We established the Pediatric AIDS Unit two years ago to deal with the rising problem
26:47of infants suffering with the disease.
26:58Hello.
27:02Many of the children have been abandoned or have parents who are addicts or sick of the virus.
27:08They desperately need foster parents, but people are too afraid to take them.
27:12Why?
27:14Because of the stigma, the fear of the disease.
27:35We want the princess to a hug in New York, Harlem neighborhood today.
27:39A triumphant end to a trip which has seen the princess flying solo for the first time,
27:43hitting new heights without her husband, Prince Charles.
27:47We love her.
27:48She's beautiful.
27:50She's warm.
27:51She's perfect.
27:51They don't want her there.
27:52We would love to have her here.
27:54The way she hugged that boy in the hospital really broke my heart.
27:58Prince Charles is a lucky man.
28:00You know what I'm saying?
28:01Princess Di, thank you for bringing love and vitality to the Lower East Side.
28:06You know, it's how to make people feel good.
28:08And that is a God-given talent.
28:10Alright?
28:26If you care about me as much as you say you do, sir,
28:28you will let go of these ideas of breaking it off for Diana.
28:32Why?
28:35Don't you want us to be free to live our life in the open?
28:40I do.
28:45But I want to be humiliated and attacked even less.
28:49That's what'll happen if you put me in a popularity contest against her.
28:53I will lose.
28:55I'm an old woman.
28:56I'm a married woman.
28:58Nowhere near as pretty.
28:59Nowhere near as radiant.
29:03Someone who looks like me has no place in a fairy tale.
29:06That's all people want.
29:07There's a fairy tale.
29:08If they knew the truth about our feelings for one another,
29:11they'd have their fairy tale.
29:12No.
29:14To be the protagonist of a fairy tale, you must first be wronged.
29:18A victim.
29:21If we were to become public, we would make her.
29:25In the narrative laws of fairy tales versus reality, a fairy tale always prevails.
29:32She will always defeat me in the court of public opinion.
29:36What is all this, my darling?
29:39What's got into you today?
29:44It's reality, sir.
29:48She's the princess of Wales.
29:51It's a future queen.
29:52The mother to a future king.
29:56And I'm just...
29:57My one true love.
30:04A mistress.
30:06A mistress to the Prince of Wales.
30:08Just like my great-grandmother Alice Keppel was the mistress to the Prince of Wales.
30:13Your great-great-grandfather.
30:14And he loved her till the end.
30:26Leave this with me.
30:34Number 10 is a house and a home, as well as an office.
30:37And as Margaret Thatcher left it after so long, there was applause to be heard,
30:41and I've told a tear or two shed among the unseen staff.
30:44Mrs. Thatcher's own voice had an emotional edge to it.
30:47Ladies and gentlemen, we are leaving Downing Street for the last time.
30:54After eleven and a half wonderful years.
30:59It was the end of an era dominated by this woman whose name has become a political byword.
31:05Eleven years of Thatcherism.
31:07She recovered quickly for one last wave.
31:11But then the Iron Lady's composure almost broke.
31:14Watch her face as she reaches her car.
31:24Friends say that she is deeply shocked by the seeming injustice of it all.
31:28Three election victories and a clear though insufficient majority in the first ballot.
31:32Rewarded as she sees it with the sack.
31:35It's a matter of course, I believe so.
31:38Martin, could you ask the Prime, could you ask Mrs. Thatcher to come and see me?
31:42I'd open it.
31:46How they do not seek the Prime, who is the King?
31:55Mr. thatch.
32:05Will not be able to talk to you about the same days.
32:06Who is the King of Don�?
32:08I've been waiting for the last few years.
32:0925 years old and I was surrounded by stuffy rather patronizing gray-haired men everywhere telling me
32:17what to do and I wanted to say the way you dealt with all your stuffy rather patronizing gray-haired
32:27men throughout your time in office and saw them all off well they've had their revenge now I was
32:36shocked by the way in which you were forced to leave office and I wanted to offer my sympathy
32:43not just as Queen to Prime Minister but woman to woman throughout the time we worked together
32:52people tended to focus on our many differences which was lazy and misleading I think and overlooked
33:02the many things we actually do have in common our generation our Christianity our work ethic our
33:11sense of duty but above all our devotion to this country that we both love so with that in mind
33:37the order of merit is not awarded by some faceless committee it comes at the personal discretion of
33:45the sovereign and is in recognition of exceptionally meritorious service it is limited to just 24
33:54recipients no matter their background you could be the daughter of a Duke or a greengrocer
34:05what matters is your accomplishments and nobody can deny that this is a very different country now to the one
34:16inherited by our first woman prime minister now it's normally handed over in the box
34:29but if you would allow me
34:46congratulations
35:15congratulations
35:16goodbye
35:28goodbye
36:13It's kind of you to come.
36:15Why would you say that?
36:16Well, I think even my sternest critics would concede that my first solo trip has not been
36:20a disaster, that I didn't fall totally flat on my face, so I can only imagine, hope, that
36:26you've come here to apologize, to eat your words, and congratulate me.
36:35Your capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me.
36:41We're all glad you're back where you belong without too much damage having been done.
36:45You have two sons that need you.
36:47Our sons have easily survived me being away four days.
36:50I'm not sure one can say the same for the rest of us.
36:55The exquisite selfishness of your motives, and the calculated vulgarity of the antics, knowing
37:07full well the headlines they would get.
37:10Antics.
37:11Grandstanding, like that.
37:14You think we couldn't do that to theatrically hug the wretched and the dispossessed and cover
37:19ourselves in glory all over the front pages?
37:21I doubt it.
37:22You barely find it in yourselves to hug your own.
37:25I hug who I want to.
37:27I hug who I love.
37:30Particularly when they are affected by the selfishness of others and need cheering up.
37:34Who are you referring to?
37:35Camilla.
37:36Why would I care about her?
37:39Because I care about her!
37:42Morning, noon, and night I care about her!
37:46And you hurt her!
37:52And if you hurt her, you hurt me.
38:02Camilla is who I want.
38:04That is where my loyalties lie.
38:06That is who my priority is.
38:08Not the mother of your children.
38:10Don't bring the boys into this.
38:11All right.
38:12Not the woman you married!
38:13I refuse to be blamed any longer for this grotesque misalliance!
38:18I wash my hands of it!
38:33If you have a complaint
38:36about
38:39not being loved
38:43or appreciated in this marriage.
38:47I suggest you take it up with the people who arranged it.
39:07Let me take the booze!
39:08Sit for real!
39:09I'm sorry!
39:10I can't take the booze!
39:10And go out!
39:10Thanks!
39:11Thanks!
39:43I really can't stay, but baby it's cold outside, I've got to go away, but baby it's cold outside, this
39:52evening has been so often, I'll hold your hands, they're just like ours, my mother will start to worry, and
40:05father will be able to listen to the fireplace, so really I'd better
40:10you're scared, well maybe just a little drink more, put some records on while I fall, but baby it's bad
40:20out there, say what's in this drink, no cabs to be had out there, I wish I knew how, to
40:28break the spell, I'll take your hat, your hair looks like, I ought to save no more,
40:36Mind you found a little piece, I'm gonna say that I've tried, that's the sense of hurting my pride, baby
40:44it's cold outside, this is fun, I'm gonna die, what's in this drink, baby it's cold outside,
40:58Welcome back to you, welcome back to you, how lucky that you've got, it's cold outside, look out that window,
41:07at that star, my sister will be suspicious, my brother will be there at the door, my maiden aunt's mind
41:18is precious, well maybe just a scissor at more,
41:23Please do my mother, and dad told you, she starts with the patch back, she actually sounds funnier than the
41:30egg, but there you are,
41:33Mama,
41:37well I'm sure no one told you, but I made a request through my office, for us to find a
41:43moment to speak together, in private,
41:46well they hope you're not wanting to talk here,
41:49No, not here, or now, the dogs need feeding, dogs, yes, the dogs, if you don't mind, we'll have to
41:55find another time,
42:05you're hungry, are you all hungry,
42:09who's going to tell me about their day, have you had a lovely day, have you had fun,
42:20what are you doing here,
42:21I hope you don't mind,
42:24I thought we might find a moment alone,
42:27honestly both of you,
42:28both of us,
42:29you and your wife embushing me everywhere I go,
42:32with anxious looks in your eyes, wanting to talk,
42:34I do want to talk mommy,
42:37we need to talk,
42:39fine let's talk,
42:41might I request, we do it like privy counsellors,
42:43on our feet, to keep it brief,
42:53it's the marriage,
42:54yes, I had a horrible idea, we were going in this direction,
42:56I have done my best,
42:59my very best, and I am suffering,
43:02no, you are not suffering,
43:04we're all suffering, having to put up with this,
43:07let me make something clear,
43:08when people look at you and Diana,
43:10they see two privileged young people,
43:12who through good fortune,
43:13have ended up with everything one could dream of in life,
43:16no one, not a single breathing living soul anywhere,
43:18sees cause for suffering,
43:19they would if they knew,
43:20knew what,
43:22they know that you betray your wife,
43:24and make no attempt to hide it,
43:26they know that thanks to you,
43:27she has psychological problems,
43:29and eats or doesn't eat,
43:30or whatever it is she does or doesn't do,
43:32they know that you are a spoilt,
43:33immature man,
43:34endlessly complaining,
43:35unnecessarily,
43:36married to a spoilt, immature woman,
43:38endlessly complaining,
43:38unnecessarily,
43:40and we are all heartily sick of it,
43:42all anyone wants is for the pair of you to pull yourselves together,
43:45stop making spectacles of yourselves,
43:47and make this marriage,
43:48and your enormously privileged positions in life work,
43:51and if I want to separate,
43:52you will not separate,
43:54or divorce,
43:54or let the side down in any way,
43:56and if one day you expect to be king,
43:58I do,
43:58then might I suggest,
44:00you start to behave like one,
44:03two,
44:04four,
44:04three,
44:07three,
44:21two,
44:22three,
44:26three,
44:27five,
44:28one,
44:28two,
44:30four,
44:30five,
44:31What is that?
44:31OK.
44:40Right there, right there.
44:41Ned.
44:44No.
44:46Next.
44:49What is he said?
44:50Whoa!
44:56What do we do?
44:57No!
44:58Yes, please.
44:59Sit for you, Ned.
45:00Who's his friend?
45:00No, no.
45:00What is it?
45:15Come.
45:19Hello.
45:21Oh.
45:22Oh, please.
45:24I, er, came to see if you were all right.
45:28Oh, please.
45:30Oh, please.
45:32Do you know, I...
45:33I don't think I've ever seen inside this room.
45:40We can be a rough bunch in this family.
45:44And I'm sure, on occasion,
45:47to a sensitive creature like you,
45:49it must feel like...
45:52Well, let me ask.
45:54What does it feel like?
45:57A cold, frozen tundra.
46:01Right.
46:03Like that, then?
46:05An icy, dark, loveless cave.
46:13With no light.
46:15No hope.
46:17Anywhere.
46:18Not even the faintest crack.
46:21I see.
46:25He will come around.
46:28He will.
46:30Eventually.
46:32When he realises that...
46:34He can never have the other one.
46:43Would it help you to realise...
46:45We all think he's quite mad.
46:48That might have reassured me once.
46:50But I worry we're past that point now.
46:53Sir.
46:57And if he...
46:58If this family...
47:00Can't give me the love and security that I feel I deserve...
47:03Then I believe I have no option...
47:05But to break away.
47:07Officially.
47:08And find it myself.
47:09I wouldn't do that if I...
47:10Why not?
47:11Let's just say...
47:12I can't see it ending well for you.
47:16I hope that isn't a threat, sir.
47:19Not now.
47:20Out!
47:33Although we are both outsiders who married in...
47:37You and I are quite different.
47:41Yes.
47:43I can see that now.
47:49You're right to call me an outsider.
47:53I was an outsider the day that I met the...
47:57The thirteen-year-old princess who would one day become my wife.
48:03And after all these years...
48:07I still am.
48:10We all are.
48:13Everyone...
48:15In this system...
48:17Is a lost...
48:19Lonely...
48:20Irrelevant...
48:22Outsider.
48:23Apart from the one person...
48:26The only person...
48:29That matters.
48:33She's the oxygen we all breathe.
48:36The essence of all our duty.
48:41Your problem, if I may say...
48:44Is you seem to be confused about who that person is.
48:54Come.
48:57Um...
48:57Um...
48:58Just to say...
48:59Your Royal Highnesses...
49:00The photographer is ready.
49:08We'll be right now.
49:09The soldier is ready.
49:13Let's go.
49:17Please, let's...
49:18Put your food...
49:31The officer will be seated.
49:32The soldier will be seated.
49:32Please, let's go.
50:15Everyone, we're going to do the photographs.
50:32Yes.
50:33The merriest of Christmas smiles.
50:36Yes.
50:37Three, two, one.
50:40Did anyone blink?
50:41Yes.
50:46Yes.
50:48Yes.
51:00Yes.
51:06Yes.
51:06Yes.
51:11Yes.
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51:45Yes.
51:55Yes.
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