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00:33Votre Majesté.
00:38Donc, c'est toujours le souverain qui commence le repas.
00:45Il ne faut absolument pas que vous entamiez avant qu'il ou elle n'ait pris sa première bouchée.
00:52Oui, ma moussa.
00:54Durant le repas, pendant le premier plat, vous converserez avec la personne située sur votre droite
00:59jusqu'à ce moment.
01:01Time for the vice-proverse, Lilibet.
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03:58Mr. Einstein's changed his mind again.
04:02Oh?
04:03The scientist.
04:05No, I know who he is.
04:07What exactly has he changed his mind about?
04:13That's rather less clear to me,
04:15but everyone's making a tremendous fuss about it.
04:24At the time of my education,
04:26I asked the vice-provost if we shouldn't spend a bit of time
04:30on literature, philosophy, science.
04:35He felt I had enough on my plate as it was.
04:38But don't you think I should have learned about it?
04:43Why?
04:44Well, doesn't one have a duty to know certain things?
04:48You have a great many other virtues.
04:51You can't be expected to know everything.
04:53Well, no, that's the point, Mummy.
04:55I know almost nothing.
04:57You know when to keep your mouth shut.
05:00That's more important than anything.
05:02Then that would have been fine
05:03if I'd gone on to live a normal life.
05:06But now I spend so much time
05:09with politicians and statesmen.
05:12You know, I live in dread
05:13of being left alone with them.
05:15Oh, dear Papa, just the same.
05:19It would be nice to think that one could,
05:22if not hold one's own,
05:24then at least not have to steer the conversation
05:26away to dogs and horses every time.
05:30The Prime Minister's on his way, ma'am.
05:32Well, the one good thing about this one is
05:34you never have to open your mouth at all.
05:35That's true.
05:37Smile politely while he drones on and all.
05:40Your Majesty may or may not be aware,
05:42but this is my retirement year.
05:43Is it really?
05:44How long has it been?
05:4533 years, ma'am, serving four sovereigns.
05:47One can hardly imagine the place without you.
05:49Well, it's kind of a say-so, ma'am,
05:51but we're well prepared for the transition.
05:52The deputy's long been groomed and made ready.
05:55Two deputies, am I right?
05:56Yes, ma'am, a senior and a junior.
05:57An heir and a spare?
05:59Quite.
05:59Well, before we discuss any of that,
06:03I'd like you to know how grateful
06:05we all are to you, your years of service.
06:07Thank you, ma'am.
06:08My father was quite dependent on you.
06:10You know that.
06:11We did our short time together.
06:13I could see how I could be, too.
06:15But you deserve to put your feet up.
06:17And I think I could work quite well with Martin Charteris.
06:20Martin Charteris?
06:22Yes.
06:24I assume you'll give that your blessing.
06:28Martin is the junior deputy, private secretary.
06:31Man, the spare.
06:31Michael Adeen is the senior.
06:34The rightful heir.
06:37Martin and I have worked together before.
06:40I'm aware of that.
06:41I'm sure that Michael would understand
06:42that I had a pre-existing relationship with Martin,
06:44not take it personally.
06:46Martin is a younger man.
06:48It's the more natural fit.
06:51If that is your majesty's wish.
07:14Prime Minister, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting.
07:17Not at all.
07:18Oh, but I see you found company.
07:19Yes.
07:20Honey, Sugar, Pippin, say goodbye.
07:21Thank you for having me.
07:28Shall we make a start?
07:31One item overshadows every other on the agenda this week, ma'am.
07:35The Soviets and their H-bomb.
07:38We now have confirmation that they have been testing
07:40in the Kazakh desert.
07:42It is vital that we act swiftly to secure peace
07:45and vital that we British spearhead the effort.
07:50I have always been the person everyone wants in a room with the Russians
07:55because Stalin would only talk to me.
07:58With him gone, there is a great danger
08:01that Eisenhower will take it upon himself to run the show.
08:06And that would be bad.
08:08Oh, a disaster, ma'am, for all the obvious reasons.
08:14Of course.
08:18Remind me of the obvious reasons.
08:26Russia is a great old empire which demands and deserves respect.
08:33Americans like to wave the big stick and speak with a loud voice.
08:37In the matter of world governors, they are not yet ready.
08:43They need an experienced and elder power to guide them, school them.
08:52Yes, we could all do with some school.
08:53To that end, I've asked the Foreign Secretary to go to Washington
08:57to lay plans for a summit meeting between myself and Eisenhower
09:01to start discussing a unified approach
09:04for how to bring the Russians back into the family.
09:07Do you think he's up to it?
09:09Eisenhower.
09:09No, the Foreign Secretary.
09:12Anthony is the finest Foreign Secretary
09:15this country has had for generations.
09:17Yes, but I've heard he's also a very sick man.
09:20I would hate to think that the country wasn't in safe hands,
09:25being led by healthy men.
09:28We are both fine, ma'am.
09:31Are you sure I am?
09:34Early indications are that the bomb they tested
09:36was efficient and fusion-fueled Sloika design,
09:39based on lithium-6-duty and uranium-235
09:42with a yield of 400 kilotons.
09:46Khrushchev claims the weapon is ready for immediate use,
09:49capable of deployment from a bomb
09:51from the world of a bragging world
09:53that were sitting last week.
09:54Can you believe that?
09:55The latest CIA intelligence seems to support you
09:58with the Soviets known to be
10:00ramming up their production
10:01long-range bomber aircraft.
10:03All right, sir.
10:07My bag, please.
10:10Give me my bag.
10:11My bag.
10:31Sir, this really shouldn't be done by a doctor.
10:32Find a vein.
10:34Come on.
10:50Well, we can say with confidence that Joe Forrest's total yield
10:54was in the range of 400 to 500 kilotons.
10:57Now, intelligence sources indicate the Soviets used the layered design,
11:02similar to our own Ivy Mike detonation in 52,
11:07which is consistent with the blast radius.
11:09The British foreign secretary.
11:23That gentleman is not just a sleeping man.
11:26It's a sad metaphor.
11:28The second most powerful man
11:30in what was once the most powerful country on earth.
11:35What's that on his arm?
11:38Looks like blood, sir.
11:41Good God.
11:50Colonel Charters, ma'am.
11:52Your majesty.
11:54You want to see me?
11:56I did.
11:56Do sit down.
12:05Now, as I'm sure you're aware,
12:08Tommy Nessles will be leaving us shortly
12:09to begin his well-deserved retirement.
12:13And his departure will leave something of a gap.
12:18Yes.
12:19And I was wondering whether you might be interested
12:22in filling that gap.
12:25As what, then?
12:26My private secretary.
12:30I'd be delighted, but...
12:32But what?
12:33What about Michael Nadine?
12:35What about him?
12:35He is the natural successor.
12:38I was hoping it might be possible
12:39for me to make my own decision just once.
12:42There are two private secretaries to choose from,
12:46and I happen to prefer the junior.
12:53So, shall we say that's that?
12:56Yes.
12:57I suppose we shall.
12:59Good.
13:03Is there anything I can do in the meantime?
13:06No, no, no.
13:07Thank you, Martin.
13:11Actually, Martin.
13:13A tutor.
13:15No.
13:17I'd like to engage one.
13:19Any particular field?
13:20General education.
13:22I'll come up with some names.
13:25Oh, and Martin, preferably one, you know,
13:28not too stuffy.
13:29Sense of humour.
13:31Understood.
13:37I'm no stranger to pain, Winston.
13:40This has become intolerable.
13:42I must have corrective surgery.
13:45And this corrective surgery?
13:47Must it really be Boston?
13:49That's where the best man is.
13:51The only man.
13:52They're better equipped to deal with gallbladder problems in America
13:57due to the high-fat diets they have here.
14:00Leaving me without you for the summit with Ike.
14:03Can't you delay it?
14:04No, I can't.
14:07Besides, you have already stated your ability
14:10to run the ship without me for some time.
14:13In jest, my dear boy.
14:14When you become mutinous and presumptuous,
14:17you know how much I depend on you.
14:20I do.
14:21I do.
14:24But I'd still like to hear you say it again.
14:27What?
14:29I'd like you to say it again so that...
14:32All the people listening in can hear.
14:35You were saying.
14:38That, uh...
14:42I depend on you, Antony.
14:44What for?
14:47For...
14:48Your judgment.
14:50What?
14:51Your integrity.
14:54And...
14:55Loyalty.
14:56Louder, please.
14:57Yes, all right.
14:59Yes.
14:59I need you there, Antony.
15:00I think we're all agreed.
15:02I need you.
15:03And I need the surgery, Winston.
15:05It's my life that's at stake now.
15:08I'm sorry.
15:10I'm sorry.
15:40My minister...
15:42My minister...
15:50And I said that she was going in the wrong path
15:55She might at least say she's sorry
15:58But she didn't say nothing at all
16:22Professor Hogg, Your Majesty.
16:24Who?
16:25Colonel Chartres said you were expecting him.
16:28Oh, yes.
16:36Your Majesty.
16:39Professor Hogg.
16:42During the course of my new daily life, I had to spend a great deal of time alone with statesmen.
16:48Men like yourself, of exceptional intellect, who have risen to the very top of their profession by virtue of their
16:54intelligence and their ability.
17:02There are frequently times when I am discussing agendas of the day with these people.
17:09That I find myself, uh, on the back foot.
17:18At something of a disadvantage.
17:21Because I, um, I can't keep up.
17:26Or I don't know what lies behind something.
17:29And that's no way to live.
17:30To be uninformed and entirely at someone else's mercy.
17:35Quite.
17:36Which is why I was hoping that you might help me hold my own some more.
17:41Feel less of a disadvantage.
17:43Fill in, uh, fill in some of the gaps.
17:47Perhaps Her Majesty would give me an idea of roughly how far she got.
17:52When?
17:53With her education.
17:56In what sense?
17:57Um, which exams she might have taken and passed.
18:01That I might better know at what level to pitch our tutorials.
18:07Um, the higher school certificate, for example.
18:15All right.
18:16The school certificate, then.
18:22No.
18:23Any privately tutored equivalents thereof, perhaps?
18:27Oh, shh.
18:31I see.
18:42Her Majesty the Queen, ma'am.
18:45This is a surprise.
18:48To what do I owe the pleasure?
18:51I came because I wanted to ask you a question about my education.
18:56What about?
18:59The fact that I didn't receive one.
19:02You did.
19:04Sewing needlework and saying poems with crawfee.
19:07That is not an education.
19:09Darling, you also spent years one-on-one with the vice-prov of Sweden College.
19:14Being drilled in matters of the Constitution.
19:16It is far more than your sister ever got.
19:20Mummy, I'm talking about a normal education.
19:22In normal subjects.
19:24You received an entirely appropriate education for a woman of your background.
19:27Which has entirely failed to prepare me for the life I lead now.
19:30We taught you how to be a lady.
19:32A princess.
19:33What do you want?
19:33A degree?
19:34No one wants a blue stocking or a college lecturer or a sovereign.
19:38They want a queen.
19:39It's a queen who is hopelessly ill-equipped to deal with the people that she has to meet.
19:50What has this to do with me?
19:53How could you have let me down like this?
19:57Is this a criticism of my motherhood?
20:02Is it because I would have thought you'd think twice before throwing stones on that school?
20:08What's that supposed to mean?
20:09I hardly see you blazing a trail in that department.
20:13That's not fair.
20:14Besides, I thought we were past the age now where we take cheap shots at our parents.
20:19I educated you as your father and I saw fit.
20:21Why didn't we push harder?
20:24No one advised that we should.
20:25That includes the vice-prophet.
20:29Oh, don't force something that doesn't come naturally, dear.
20:33That's what I've learned.
20:39We all have to accept our limitations in life.
21:04That's it there.
21:05The Grace and Favour flat log into the Queen's private secretary.
21:09Our new home.
21:10How much of the ground floor is it?
21:12All of it.
21:14Including the room stretch into the bag.
21:19The girls will be happy here.
21:22No, we must go.
21:24I don't want anyone to see us.
21:25Why?
21:26Well, it's just indiscreet.
21:28They haven't got the job yet.
21:30What about that tree?
21:32It's blocking all the light.
21:34I dare say one could ask to have it trimmed back.
21:36Will you ask?
21:38I don't see the rush, but...
21:40Yes, I can ask.
21:42Discreetly.
21:49Good God!
21:50A stroke.
21:52Bobbity, that's all a minor stroke.
21:54But I'm on the mend, bouncing back.
21:57Well, you don't look very bouncy to me.
21:58Who knows?
21:59No one.
22:00And no one can know.
22:02Especially the Queen.
22:03What?
22:04I have promised her that the country will always have a healthy man in charge.
22:09You know me, Bobbity.
22:11I am a man of my work.
22:13But you can't just hide it from her.
22:15I mean, you're head of the government, which runs the country in her name.
22:20Besides, don't you think she'll smell a rat when no one turns up at her private audience?
22:23The palace has been told that I have a cold.
22:27A cold?
22:29Doc, you have my permission to extend that to the flu.
22:34Sir.
22:34But no more.
22:36And what about the meeting with Eisenhower in Washington?
22:38Alas, since I have been refused permission to fly, I am left with no option.
22:45To persuade it?
22:47Are you mad?
22:48The Russian situation could not be more delicately poised, nor more needing of my influence.
22:56No.
22:58We have to get Eisenhower here.
23:01So you see, Tommy, there's no other way.
23:04Well, how about the 12th of July?
23:06I doubt it.
23:07All right.
23:08The 13th.
23:10I doubt that as well.
23:11The 14th, then.
23:13I can put it to a Bobbity, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
23:16Well, I'll leave it to your powers of the Sweden.
23:18Bye.
23:49Sorry to disturb you, ma'am.
23:51But I've just had Lord Salisbury on the phone with an unusual request.
23:58President Eisenhower is due to meet the Prime Minister in Washington for a summit next week.
24:03But Mr. Churchill's developed a cold, a nasty cold, and Lord Moran, his doctor, has forbidden him to fly.
24:08Now, the feeling is the meeting is of the utmost importance, so Downing Street was wondering whether we might be
24:13able to help.
24:14Help how?
24:16By inviting the President here.
24:19Where?
24:19Here, ma'am, to Buckingham Palace, to a state banquet next week.
24:23The feeling is that by that time, Winston should have made sufficient recovery.
24:29Well, I was planning on going to Sandringham.
24:33I'm afraid it would mean postponing that by a few days.
24:43We can extend an invitation through our ambassador in Washington.
24:46Is that a green light, ma'am?
24:48Yes.
24:49Then, if you'll excuse me, I'd better get cracking.
24:55Do you have a moment, Tommy?
24:56I need to speak to you on an urgent matter.
24:57I don't.
24:58I'm afraid I have a state banquet to arrange so we could possibly wait until later.
25:02I think when you hear it, you'll share my sense of alarm.
25:04It seems that Martin Charteris is to replace you as Her Majesty's private secretary, not me.
25:09What?
25:10Says who?
25:11Says Margaret Colville, Jock Colville's wife, who plays bridge with Alice Jameson, lady-in-waiting, who, as you may know,
25:18plays tennis with Mary Charteris.
25:20Why on earth would I know that?
25:22Anyway, so confident are they of the appointment that Mary has even gone...
25:26Don't tell me.
25:27So far as to speak to the palace head gardener about trimming the tree outside my window.
25:32Yes.
25:34Ask Martin to come and see me, would you?
25:36That is, if he and his lady-wife are not too busy measuring carpets and curtains for what is still
25:41my home.
25:47Right.
25:48It's a green light.
25:49Jump to it.
25:50Sir?
25:50Come in.
25:52Thanks, sir.
26:16Thanks, sir.
26:17Bye-bye.
26:19Oh, my God.
26:20Oh, my God.
26:54Oh, my God.
27:00Martin, you've worked at the palace now for, what, three years?
27:04Might have thought that long enough for you to know the ropes,
27:07understand the rules, the way things are done.
27:10I think I do.
27:14Manifestly not.
27:37Professor Hall, your majesty.
27:42Your majesty.
27:43Professor.
27:49I know you were going to prepare some tutorials of a more general nature,
27:53but it seems I'm going to need some more specific knowledge first.
27:58On which subject?
28:00President Eisenhower.
28:02He'll be coming here in a matter of days,
28:04and I'll be expected to sit next to him and make conversation with him.
28:09So I need to know all about him and what interests him.
28:13The military-industrial complex, ma'am.
28:17What?
28:17And its threat to democratic government is what most concerns him.
28:25Something lighter, perhaps?
28:27Golf?
28:28Oh.
28:30Anything else?
28:31Oil painting.
28:33Oh.
28:33I'm told he paints landscapes.
28:36Oh, don't they all?
28:40Would your majesty give me 24 hours to do some research and come back to you?
28:45Yes, of course.
28:49He was baptised, wasn't he?
28:52Just six months ago.
28:55Yes, I think I read about that.
28:57A Presbyterian.
28:59Hmm.
29:01Did they dunk him, do you think?
29:03Dunk?
29:05Full immersion?
29:07In some river?
29:08If I were a gambling man, I'd say yes.
29:12Are you?
29:15Occasionally.
29:15The Derby man and the Grand National.
29:18Oh, how did you get on this year?
29:20At the National, rather well.
29:22I had only missed on an each-way band.
29:25Oh, well done you.
29:26You won by 20 links.
29:27I share your admiration for Mr. O'Brien
29:29and everything he's doing at Bailey Doyle Stables.
29:32Who?
29:33The trainer.
29:35That's not why you backed him.
29:38Oh, I just like the name.
29:42I see.
29:44Back in 24 hours.
30:01I'm so sorry to hear that in these past days
30:03you've not been in your usual good health.
30:06Oh, isn't that nice?
30:07And that your tireless exertions on behalf of this country
30:11have resulted in this temporary inconvenience.
30:14Temporary inconvenience.
30:18How much does she know exactly?
30:21Because from the tone of this...
30:24Winston.
30:27She thinks it's a cold.
30:29A cold?
30:30Yes, a cold.
30:31If she knew the truth, she would bid me stand down.
30:34Good.
30:34A replacement would have to be found.
30:36The wrong replacement.
30:37Because the right man...
30:39Antony!
30:40...is himself incapacitated.
30:42Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
30:45Do you mean to tell me that at the moment
30:47this country is without a fit leader
30:49or a deputy leader?
30:51Shh, shh, shh.
30:51It's too loud.
30:53But...
30:53Come.
30:56Good news, sir.
30:57It's a yes from Eisenhower.
31:00You were right.
31:01An invitation from the palace has proved impossible
31:02for the Americans to refuse.
31:04They've changed its schedule and are going to make it work.
31:06Oh, that's wonderful news!
31:08Don't get out of bed.
31:10Wonderful!
31:10No, don't get out of bed, darling.
31:12Don't get out of bed.
31:13If I comes here, I can be leader against...
31:16That's what really matters.
31:18You're getting me and I can get in the same room for the year.
31:20Do you get back to me?
31:21I'm a good one when building our real and lost in peace.
31:24Why don't you admit the truth that you have been fighting for your life
31:28and tell the Queen?
31:30I'm a good one when building our real and lost in peace.
31:38Why don't you admit the truth that you have been fighting for your life and tell the Queen?
32:07How serious is it this time?
32:09It's impossible to know.
32:14I fear we do now have to put off the Americans.
32:17Yes, of course.
32:18And tell the Queen.
32:20No.
32:21No, we're in too deep now for that.
32:24Weiss and Harrison coming.
32:26Blame it on him, not on Winston.
32:28The Queen must never know how much we've kept from her.
32:44Blame it on him.
33:07I'm sorry to disturb you, ma'am.
33:11I've been asked by Downing Street to inform you first that President Eisenhower is no longer able to leave the
33:18United States, owing to a political crisis at home.
33:23Well, that's a relief.
33:27And that the Prime Minister still hasn't shaken off his cold and will not be attending today's private audience.
33:32Really? Goodness. It's a second consecutive private audience that he's missed. It's most of them like him.
33:40Yes, isn't it?
33:42Are you all right, Martin?
33:46Your Majesty, I've had the opportunity to think about your very kind offer to become your private secretary.
33:54And I'm afraid I must decline.
33:59Why?
34:03In this instance, I really do believe you'll be better served by Michael.
34:09No, you don't.
34:12Ma'am?
34:13You don't think that. Nor could you ever think that.
34:17For the very good reason that it's not true.
34:21Have you been spoken to by Tommy Lassells?
34:23Ma'am?
34:24You have. And what did he have to say?
34:30That I should have refused the offer in the room.
34:34That I obviously have no respect or understanding for palace tradition and protocol.
34:39And that it must be Michael Ledeen.
34:45Did he now?
34:49Could you excuse me for a moment, Martin?
35:01Could you excuse me for a moment, Martin?
35:02Okay.
35:04Good-bye.
35:06You're gone.
35:08You're gone.
35:10Good-bye.
35:12Good-bye.
35:18Good-bye.
35:27Good-bye.
35:29way of saying this, I would prefer Martin.
35:31And that is your right, ma'am.
35:33Yes. And I rather thought so, too.
35:36But it would be
35:37a mistake.
35:38And why is that?
35:41Please.
35:52There's a way of doing things here.
35:55An order developed
35:57over time, generations.
36:00And
36:02individuality
36:03in the House of Windsor,
36:05any departure from that way of doing
36:07things is not to be encouraged.
36:09It results in catastrophes like the
36:11abdication.
36:13Abdicating the throne and choosing my private secretary
36:15is hardly comparing like with like.
36:17I disagree.
36:19I served your uncle, as you know.
36:21And it's in the small things
36:23that the rot starts.
36:26Do the wrong thing once,
36:27it's easier to do it again.
36:28Do the individualistic thing once.
36:31It is easy to do it again.
36:33In the case of your uncle,
36:35it started with wanting to use Buckingham Palace simply as the office and York House as his home.
36:41Then he stopped attending church.
36:43He decided he wanted to sell Sandringham.
36:46He dismissed courtiers who'd served under his father in favor of younger, sycophantic supplicants.
36:52Of course, no one saw the abdication coming then, but the ego, the willfulness, the individualism, the rot that set
37:01in.
37:01Martin and I have an understanding.
37:05I don't deny it.
37:07It would make me feel as if I had
37:10an ally.
37:12Friend, almost.
37:14And what can sometimes feel like a very...
37:32Well, the next in line, and the senior of my two deputies, and the natural heir, is Michael.
37:42Your man.
37:43The right man.
37:49But, as always, the final say is with you, ma'am.
37:54The right man.
38:42I just had the palace on the phone requesting a private audience this afternoon.
38:46Seems the queen wants to see you, sir.
38:49Me.
39:07So what's all this about, Patrick?
39:08Hello, sir.
39:09Why don't you give me a clue?
39:15Mr. Colville, your majesty.
39:22You asked to see me, your majesty?
39:24Yes, Jock.
39:25You were my private secretary for two years before Martin Charteris.
39:29I was.
39:31And it was my impression that we always had a good understanding and were able to speak openly with one
39:37another.
39:38Yes, of course.
39:40Trust one another.
39:42Speak plainly when matters of real importance came up.
39:45And before her majesty says anything else, let me just say how sorry I am.
39:50It's been agony.
39:52I tried to stop them.
39:54I told them my opinion.
39:56They were so insistent we keep it from you.
39:59After the second one, I really was of a mind to let you know the truth.
40:02Second what?
40:04Stroke, ma'am.
40:06But they insisted again everyone keep it quiet.
40:09Say nothing.
40:13I see.
40:17And who was it that was doing the insisting?
40:21Lord Salisbury, ma'am.
40:23And the Prime Minister himself.
40:26On the rare occasions he was conscious.
40:32I see.
40:34That is what you asked me here to discuss.
40:38No.
40:40I asked you here to discuss whether I should take Michael A. Dean for my private secretary, rather than Martin
40:46Charteris.
40:50But what you've just told me is far more important.
40:59No.
41:00Yes.
41:01The slippery old so-and-sos.
41:03It's rather worse than slippery, wouldn't you say?
41:06Somewhat unconstitutional.
41:08What are you going to do?
41:10Nothing.
41:11Of course.
41:12That's my job.
41:14Do nothing and stay silent at all times.
41:17Is it?
41:18From memory.
41:19And forgive me, ma'am.
41:20It's a while since I read Batchett.
41:22But in circumstances such as these, is it not also your duty to act?
41:28I doubt it.
41:29I'd have to check.
41:30I think you know precisely.
41:35Yes, it is.
41:38But I can't just summon the brightest, most formidable men in the country and give them a dressing down like
41:43children.
41:45Why?
41:45You are in the right, they in the wrong.
41:49Yes, but they're far more intelligent than I am.
41:51In any confrontation, they'd out-debate me, out-think me, and out-maneuver me.
41:56This isn't about education or intelligence.
41:59This is about integrity and principle.
42:02Ma'am, you say you don't have what it takes to do battle with these people.
42:06You do.
42:07You were drilled for years in the finer points of our Constitution.
42:10You know it better than me, better than all of us.
42:13You have the only education that matters.
42:17So what would you have me do?
42:19Summon them and give them a good dressing down like children.
42:24Why would they stand for that?
42:26Because they're English, male, and upper class.
42:29A good dressing down from Nanny is what they most want and like.
42:38Unconventional to the end, Professor.
42:45Thank you, Professor.
42:48I'm afraid I urgently need something from Winsor Castle.
42:51At least I think it's at Winsor.
42:53It might be at Sandringham.
42:54Or Bermoral.
42:56Or it might be here.
42:58Now.
43:30I am at Sandringham.
44:23Lord Salisbury, please.
44:26If you wouldn't mind, Prime Minister.
45:04It has come to my attention that for a period of time last week, my Prime Minister was incapacitated.
45:13And the Foreign Secretary too.
45:16And that you colluded in keeping that information from me.
45:22No, it is not my job to govern, but it is my job to ensure proper governance.
45:31But how can I do that if my ministers lie and plot and hide the truth from me?
45:37You have prevented me from doing my duty.
45:41You have hampered and bamboozled the proper functioning of the Crown.
45:47How could you?
45:51My own late father valued you greatly.
45:54He believed the phrase, history teaches never, Truster Cecil.
45:58Deeply unfair.
46:02Perhaps not.
46:17You may go.
46:38Prime Minister.
46:43Prime Minister.
46:46Prime Minister.
46:47Prime Minister.
47:02Prime Minister.
47:14I am just a young woman
47:15starting out in public service
47:18and I would never
47:19presume to give a man
47:22so much my senior
47:23and who has given this country so much
47:26a lecture
47:30however
47:33you were at my coronation
47:35I was
47:37and you therefore heard for yourself
47:39as I took the solemn oath
47:41to govern the people
47:43of my realms
47:45according to their respective laws
47:47and customs
47:50now one of those customs
47:53is that their elected prime minister
47:55should be of reasonably sound body
47:57and mind
47:59not an outrageous expectation
48:01one would have thought
48:02no
48:04but it seems that you have
48:06not
48:06been of sound body and mind
48:09these past weeks
48:11and that you
48:13chose to withhold
48:15that information from me
48:19a decision
48:21which feels like a betrayal
48:22not just of the covenant of trust
48:24between us
48:25and the institutions
48:26that we both represent
48:28but of our own personal relationship
48:31and the procedures
48:46you
48:47you
48:47you
48:47you
48:47you
49:05In 1867, Walter Badgett wrote,
49:09There are two elements of the Constitution. The efficient and the dignified. The monarch is the dignified and the government,
49:22the efficient. These two institutions only work when they support each other, when they trust one another.
49:37Your actions, your breaking of that trust, was irresponsible. And it might have had serious ramifications for the security of
49:49this country.
49:56Is your health better now?
49:58It is.
49:59Good.
49:59But is it sufficiently better? Fit for office better?
50:06I would ask you to consider your response in light of the respect that my rank and my office deserve.
50:15Not that which my age and gender might suggest.
50:22I look at you now and I realize that the time is fast approaching for me to step down. Not
50:32because I'm unwell or unfit for office, but because you are ready.
50:42And therefore I have discharged my duty to your father. With your blessing and your forgiveness, I shall continue to
50:56serve as the leader of your majesty's government.
51:04Your majesty's government.
51:36How do you do as well?
51:41Hello?
51:52Hello?
51:53Hello?
51:54Where have you been?
51:56Oh, Charity Cricket Bash for the National Playing Fields Association.
52:01Spend some time at the airfield.
52:02Doing some roles.
52:04No cabinet approval. Don't tell anyone.
52:06What are you dressed for?
52:08Haven't you heard? We have a state banquet this evening.
52:11Haven't you heard?
52:13It's been cancelled.
52:15Why doesn't anybody tell me anything?
52:18Well, perhaps if you were here more.
52:19I've read two books on Eisenhower, especially.
52:21Well, have you really?
52:22No.
52:25You look nice.
52:27Do I?
52:28Something's different.
52:30What?
52:31I don't know.
52:33I advise you to choose your next words very carefully.
52:36Taller, somehow.
52:38Or is it just that I've shrunk?
52:40There's nothing shrunken about you, dearest.
52:42Where are you going?
52:44I've got an appointment with my new private secretary.
52:46Oh.
52:47Tell him to bugger off.
52:48I can't do that.
52:52And do what instead?
52:56Two options.
52:58Either I get some silt so I can reach the heights of my new tall woman.
53:04Or?
53:11Or...
53:14She could get on her knees.
53:30Major Dean, Her Majesty requests that your appointment might wait.
53:35I see.
53:37Until tomorrow.
53:39Right.
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