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00:08Good morning, your old highness.
00:10It's 7.30.
00:18Good morning, John.
00:23Oh, my God.
00:28Christ.
00:30Oh.
00:53Oh, my God.
00:59Oh.
01:24Come on, man, click it.
01:25I can't, sir. This needs to be seen by a professional.
01:28Don't be so bloody wet.
01:29It just needs a good, sharp...
01:40Doesn't fill one with confidence.
01:42He comes very highly recommended.
01:44Treats everyone.
01:45Winston Churchill, Duncan Sands, Maud Astor.
01:57I woke up to my head and there it was.
02:00And I sort of cricked it during the course of the night.
02:03Hmm.
02:03It's possible.
02:05You sit up, please, Your Royal Highness.
02:12People come to me with necks, backs, elbows, knees.
02:18Very often it's nothing to do with the symptoms.
02:20The real cause is something else.
02:23Such as?
02:24Oh.
02:26Tension.
02:27Emotional strain.
02:31Unresolved conflict of one form or another.
02:34Oh.
02:35Oh.
02:37Oh.
02:38Oh.
02:39And how does one go about treating those?
02:43Well, first by identifying them, recognizing them, and then by treating not just the physical
02:48symptoms, but changing one's whole lifestyle.
02:52I used to have a fellow look after me in that department.
02:55He made sure there wasn't too much tension in my life.
02:58Mike Parker?
02:59Surely you don't know the old rascal, too.
03:02I do.
03:04What?
03:04Why didn't you say?
03:05What is your name again?
03:07Ward, sir.
03:08Stephen Ward.
03:10You always talked about my getting you out for the weekend.
03:12Where?
03:12I don't know.
03:12Party or two.
03:15I enjoy putting people together.
03:18As a matter of fact, it's going to be rather a fun group this weekend.
03:20If you were agreeable, we might even find time for a quick portrait.
03:23As you can see, I dabble.
03:31Who's this?
03:33Oh.
03:34Christine.
03:35Huh?
03:36She'll be there.
03:37Mandy will, too.
03:40You know, my neck's feeling better already.
04:07No!
04:13No!
04:18Christine Keeler.
04:19Do you know this man?
04:23Captain Eugene Ivanov.
04:26Soviet Naval Attaché.
04:29No comment.
04:32Did you have relations with this man?
04:35John Profumo.
04:36Minister of War.
04:38No comment.
04:43Sean, Harold!
04:48Miss Keeler.
04:50You were at this party hosted by Stephen Ward.
04:53Robert who oh, Harry.
04:53You won't tell.
04:56Who's this man?
05:03Miss Keeler.
05:06George Seكلon, please?
05:10Who was your sister?
05:21loh genre
05:26Thank you for coming, John.
05:28Prime Minister.
05:29Shall we?
05:30After you.
05:31Good trip, darling.
05:33Probably an early start.
05:35What was John Profumo doing here?
05:38I asked him to come see me so he could have a frank conversation man to man.
05:42I'll tell you what worries me, John.
05:44Is that the many insignificant achievements of this government
05:48are being overshadowed by scandal and rumour.
05:54Damn.
05:55Then I shall confirm for you what I told your private secretary
05:58and what I subsequently told the house.
06:01I have nothing to hide, nothing to answer for.
06:04I told him he should think carefully about what he was saying,
06:07that we were friends.
06:08Sure.
06:09He could speak in confidence.
06:11There are fault lines in most marriages
06:15and I could admit to mine.
06:17Come on, Harold.
06:18I didn't come to you on bended knees six years ago
06:21begging to serve in your government
06:22only to make a fool of you.
06:26Do you believe him?
06:29In the course of my life,
06:30I've learned to recognise the face of a liar.
06:33Something in the features is drawn differently.
06:41Something in the eye.
06:46What other option is there?
06:48To distrust those close to me?
06:50Those who profess to love me?
06:51That would be too painful.
06:54The photograph?
06:56Which photograph?
06:58At a party.
07:00Hosted by one Stephen Ward.
07:03Society osteopath.
07:05A call girl and a Russian spy in the foreground.
07:08In the background.
07:09A shadow.
07:10A shadow with Profumo's likeness.
07:13If you say so.
07:15I say this reasonable doubt.
07:19Credulous.
07:20Trusting.
07:21Fool.
07:32In my six years as Prime Minister,
07:34I've had to face many grave and baffling difficulties.
07:38This is one such a case.
07:41I would like to make it clear
07:43that I believe John Profumo
07:44is entitled not only to the support,
07:47but also to the sympathetic understanding
07:50and confidence of the House
07:51and of the entire country.
07:55Who's the mystery man, sir?
07:56The mystery of the water!
07:57It was bad enough with just the music and shouting.
08:00At all hours of the day and night.
08:04Yes, well, Margaret's always been high-spirited.
08:06But this building work is unbearable.
08:09Unbearable.
08:10And no sign of it ending.
08:11And now a new roof.
08:13So I gather.
08:14Banging and hammering and drilling.
08:17Sometimes even at the weekends.
08:18And it's not just me that's suffering.
08:21I know it's driven the Gloucesters quite mad.
08:23Everything irritates the Gloucesters.
08:26Ah.
08:27Sir John Weir, Your Majesty.
08:30Don't worry, Aunt Marina.
08:32As head of the family is what I'm here for.
08:34I'll have a word with Margaret.
08:46Your Majesty.
08:47Sir John.
08:49As you know, we took the samples yesterday.
08:51We've had the results back.
08:52I am delighted to confirm that you are expecting.
08:56Oh.
08:58Congratulations.
08:59Now, it's wonderful news, but I must temper it with caution.
09:03Your iron levels are low.
09:04They're very low.
09:05Not dangerous yet, but not far off.
09:08Oh.
09:11Hello.
09:12Now.
09:19I hope you're sitting down.
09:22Philip?
09:27His Royal Highness is away, ma'am.
09:29Where?
09:29At a house party.
09:31The weekend.
09:32The weekend?
09:33It's Wednesday.
09:34You never mentioned anything.
09:37It was all very last minute.
09:42Of course.
09:44Ma'am.
09:52God, God.
10:22THEBEETBzas
10:26Mr. Gillam!
10:27Mr Steve!
10:31Mr Ward!
10:35Mr Norman!
10:37Mr Wharton!
10:40Come on, what is it on?
10:53Thanks for letting us know.
11:03I just heard that Stephen Ward, sorry to interrupt, has been interviewed by police and has confirmed everything.
11:08Introducing Profumo to the cool girls, the Russian spy, everything.
11:11Well, well, well.
11:13I think we can confidently expect Profumo's resignation any minute.
11:16Oh, and the government to fall apart, surely they're after.
11:20You'll have to excuse me, I'm about to get to work.
11:22Alright.
11:24So, is it yes to Paris?
11:26If you must, I must.
11:28Didn't you just get back from an assignment in New York?
11:31I did.
11:33And Tokyo before that?
11:35You don't think some time at home will be good?
11:37It would be if it were a home.
11:39It was a building site.
11:41The Royal Highness has decided to embark upon a major refurbishment of our apartment.
11:47Only I thought I heard a happy rumour that she might be expecting another baby.
11:51You did.
11:52She is.
11:53But in any marriage, it's important to find things that really bind you together.
11:58As a couple.
12:00And yours is?
12:04Absinthe.
12:05Call two.
12:30Why not?
12:43Oh, I hate that. It's really grotesque. I don't know.
12:47Hello.
12:53Yes, thank you very much.
12:56Your Highness. Your Majesty.
13:01Goodness. For what?
13:03A dining table in the same room as the kitchen.
13:05Yes.
13:06I'm not quite sure what to make of that.
13:08It's modern. It's egalitarian.
13:11You're the least egalitarian person that I know.
13:14Well, that's not the nicest way to congratulate me. It is why you're here.
13:18Congratulate you for what?
13:19Mum, I didn't tell you. I'm a...
13:22Are you?
13:23Yes.
13:24Oh, that's lovely.
13:27I do a few weeks after you.
13:29That's wonderful.
13:31But no, that's not why I'm here.
13:36I'm here to ask that on your way to building this great, bright, modern, egalitarian home for your growing family,
13:44you might have a little more consideration for your neighbours.
13:50In terms of what?
13:52I'm assuming noise and general disruption.
13:55Oh, I see.
13:58And who sent you on this ugly little mission?
14:01Marina?
14:01Yes?
14:02She'd do well to remember her place as a low-ranking member of your husband's refugee family.
14:07She's lucky to be here at all.
14:10I rest my case about egalitarian.
14:13And it's not only her.
14:14Oh, is it Ellis?
14:16That's a good tangerous old bet.
14:18And the Kents and the Gloucesters.
14:19Oh, I see.
14:21The whole nasty, jealous circus cooped up in this ridiculous compound.
14:25Furious because we got the largest apartment.
14:27No one's furious about the apartment.
14:29Incandescent.
14:30Positively constipated with fury.
14:33They're furious about the noise.
14:35Because it represents rejuvenation, modernisation and change.
14:39No, because it's inconsiderate, selfish and deafening.
14:47So, how is the baby so far?
14:49It's uncomplicated, surprisingly.
14:52How's yours?
14:55Complicated.
14:57They want me to take it easier this time.
15:00You may politely suggest you do.
15:02Tell Philip to take some of the strain.
15:07How is he?
15:09Fine, why?
15:13Would you like to know a rumour Tony and I heard?
15:16No.
15:17Well, it is just a rumour, but you can't deny.
15:21There is a similarity.
15:23Look.
15:25You see?
15:27That's the Minister of War.
15:28He's just admitted it.
15:30Profumo makes it go fair, but he denied the photograph.
15:34There's something of Philip and E.
15:36You know, the shoulders.
15:42The Prime Minister has asked to see you, ma'am.
15:44As a matter of urgency.
16:10It's the very worst kind of betrayal.
16:14From somebody I never expected capable.
16:18I'm sorry.
16:20This dentist, Mr. Ward, clearly has a lot to answer for.
16:24Osteopath, ma'am.
16:27Oh, well.
16:28He seems to have orchestrated it all.
16:30He may have orchestrated it, but read the newspapers, you'd think it's all my fault.
16:36And for that reason, I think it's only right that I offer you my resignation.
16:42What?
16:43The integrity of your government has been compromised.
16:46As Prime Minister, I must accept responsibility. I can't go on.
16:50Yes, you can, Mr. McMillan.
16:52And you must.
17:00I would urge you to go back and unite your cabinet and my government.
17:05Take charge of this country.
17:07Go back to Downing Street, Prime Minister, and pick up the reins.
17:11The people of this country need stability.
17:16As do I.
17:18More than ever.
17:20Ma'am.
17:24The Duke of Edinburgh and I are expecting again.
17:28Congratulations, ma'am.
17:29The situation is not without its complications.
17:34I will be taking a leave of absence, for several months, in Scotland.
17:39The doctors have made it quite clear that they'd like me to rest.
17:43Completely.
17:44To safeguard the pregnancy.
17:48Which is why I need you to hold the fort for the time being.
17:53The Queen Mother can deputise for ceremonial matters until the child is born.
18:01Of course.
18:09Thank you, Prime Minister.
18:11It would mean a great deal to me.
18:14Personally.
18:40It was wonderful.
18:42If they weren't sending up toffs, they were having a go at government corruption, or the hypocrisy of our bishops.
18:50Having a dig at the British war effort.
18:53At one point, they even turned on the Queen.
18:56The Queen?
18:57It was really very funny.
19:01I would also very much infuse about our forthcoming trip to Indra and Pekasov.
19:07Prince Philip tells me he is very much looking forward to taking me out the Khyber Pass.
19:16Then they came on to you.
19:19What are you most afraid of?
19:22The arrival of the newspapers in the morning.
19:29There's no use in me trying to replicate it. I'll never do it justice.
19:33Was it cruel?
19:35Not cruel, no.
19:37Were people laughing?
19:39Yes.
19:41Did Boothby laugh?
19:43Who said anything about Boothby?
19:45I'm assuming it's who you were there with. Did he laugh?
19:50Yes.
19:56Did you?
19:58Yes.
20:00You should go.
20:01See what's happening to your bloody country.
20:22John, have you packed the swimming shorts?
20:24Yes, sir. All packed.
20:25Good man.
20:29Hello.
20:30Oh, hello.
20:35How nice.
20:37You're coming too?
20:39Coming?
20:39Er, no.
20:40I'm going.
20:42Where?
20:43St. Moritz.
20:46How mysterious.
20:52You?
20:53Balmoral.
20:57Separate countries.
21:00How apposite.
21:03Appropriate.
21:04What does that mean?
21:05Appropriate.
21:06Suitable.
21:07Pitting.
21:08Apt.
21:09I know what apposite means.
21:12What are you trying to say?
21:16Don't worry about that.
21:18You just enjoy the mountains here.
21:21Have you been.
21:43Yes.
22:15We have come from the very depths of lechery and depravity in this case, prostitution, promiscuity, perversion.
22:28The trouble and strife, the fork and knife, not just a fight, but they turtle gather.
22:36Know what I mean?
22:38What is this loose, despicable world of Stephen Ward and his associates?
22:47To look at their behavior, it seems the values we once held dear, decency, respect, trust, are a thing of
22:57the past.
22:59In my position as Prime Minister of this great country, I am frequently visited by many great men, and often
23:09ask me about what I am most afraid.
23:11My answer, events, dear boy, events.
23:20Autumn.
23:22The arrival of the newspapers in the morning.
23:24A civilized society is no longer civilized.
23:28The ruling class has given up on its responsibilities and no longer sets the right example.
23:34It has sunk instead to a shrunken version of itself.
23:40Do my eyes deceive me?
23:43Is that really who I think it is?
23:46Staring back at me.
23:53I've come to the theater tonight, because I've heard that some cheeky young statuists are making a living doing impressions
24:00of me.
24:02Which is handy, because I'm told I leave a terrible impression wherever I go.
24:11To them, I say, shame on you.
24:15Shame on all of you.
24:17Men like Ward deserve none of our pity.
24:20They are deserving only of our contempt.
24:25The time has finally come to cut out the moral rot at the heart of British society.
24:33You will not convict the defendant just because he was at the center of all this depravity, but because he
24:39was the orchestrator of it.
24:43He, in no doubt, is a thoroughly filthy fellow.
24:49It is therefore in the highest public interest that you do your duty and return a verdict of guilty on
24:58this indictment.
25:01Court adjourned until 9 a.m. tomorrow.
25:26Court adjourned until 9 a.m.
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26:37Court adjourned until 9 a.m.
27:15Let's go.
27:19Yes, Michael.
27:22Oh, do sit down.
27:24Thank you, ma'am.
27:32Well, we've made it perfectly clear to all that inquire that you're taking an extended period of rest.
27:39But sometimes people insist the British Horse Society, for example, is still struggling with the approval of their...
27:45Oh, yeah. Charitable status.
27:48They thought your intervention might speed things up a bit.
27:52Yes, just leave me the paperwork, Michael.
27:56And there are one or two urgent royal warrants that require your assent.
28:03Yes, is that it?
28:05I'm afraid not, ma'am.
28:07One more thing.
28:08A little delicate.
28:12The man at the centre of the Profumo scandal...
28:15Stephen Ward?
28:16Right.
28:18He's taken his own life.
28:21Goodness.
28:23At his practice at home, the police found certain items, among them a portrait, a hand-drawn portrait, done by
28:33Mr. Ward himself.
28:35Of?
28:37Of?
28:39His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, ma'am.
28:45What?
28:48Um...
28:50It seems they knew one another.
28:51The police also have witnesses who saw His Royal Highness arriving at Ward's house on several occasions, ma'am.
29:08And we were at a loss for how to link them.
29:13But then it became clear that they were both members of that same lunch club.
29:28And now there is some concern as to whether there are any other portraits, not to mention all the studies
29:36of the portrait, and that they may fall into the wrong hands.
29:45I see.
29:49We'll manage the situation, of course, ma'am.
29:53Fight it off.
29:54Hold back any prayers.
29:57But I just thought you should be aware of...
30:00Yes, thank you, Michael.
30:02Thank you, ma'am.
30:11Thank you, ma'am.
31:28Resignation?
31:30Yes, ma'am.
31:32Sent in the mistaken belief that his life was in immediate danger.
31:37A subsequent biopsy revealed the tumour to be benign.
31:42But the Prime Minister has had a difficult few months.
31:44With one thing or another.
31:48The impression I get is...
31:52That he's lost the appetite somewhat.
31:58What for?
32:02Go on.
32:03Go on.
32:38Your Majesty, Prime Minister, ma'am, shall we?
32:48How are you, Prime Minister?
32:51All the better, if you're no longer being one.
32:56I hope you haven't come to dissuade me.
32:59The situation is quite hopeless.
33:01That's not my understanding.
33:03The doctors told me that the tumour was benign.
33:06It was the size of an orange.
33:09While that causes inconvenience and discomfort, that largely...
33:14I still require a long period of convalescence.
33:17Not being a fit state.
33:20Rather take the arduous duties as peer.
33:24I'm afraid my decision to resign is final.
33:29That's very disappointing.
33:32Especially after our conversation.
33:34As to who should succeed me, the Sovereign you have the prerogative to consult.
33:39But there's only one man, in my opinion.
33:41The Earl of Hume.
33:43Alec?
33:44Oh, yes, we're all very fond of him.
33:46She's the right man.
33:48Decade younger than me.
33:49Steel painted as wood.
33:51The old governing class at its best.
33:54I would call Alec to the palace right away, ma'am.
33:57No sense dragging things out.
34:01Is that an order, Mr. Macmillan?
34:04It would be my advice.
34:12Do you know, I've been Queen barely ten years.
34:18And in that time, I've had three Prime Ministers.
34:23All of them ambitious men.
34:27Clever men.
34:29Brilliant men.
34:32Not one has lasted the course.
34:35They've either been too old, too ill, or too weak.
34:42A confederacy of elected quitters.
35:19Get out of the bloody way, you moron.
35:21Hellen.
35:22Get out of the way.
35:47Tenny.
35:48Dear boy.
35:51What are you doing here?
35:53I could ask you the same question in reverse.
35:56What were you not doing here?
36:03In case you hadn't noticed,
36:05your wife has just appointed a close family chum as Prime Minister
36:07on the advice of a man who had no right to give that advice
36:10since he was no longer in office.
36:15It's blown up in her face somewhat.
36:19We came to see if she was all right.
36:23But she's already left.
36:26Bolted back to the safety of Scotland.
36:31Tony.
36:40So where were you, you mysterious fellow?
36:43Samoritz at one point, I heard.
36:45Yes.
36:47That was a bit careless.
36:50Just use me next time.
36:52I'd always cover for you, you know?
36:54Boys on and all that.
36:55Come on.
36:57Come on.
36:58I'm coming.
37:00Fuck.
37:02Fuck.
37:09Fuck.
37:16Fuck.
37:18Fuck.
37:44I don't know.
37:54I don't know.
38:22I don't know.
38:25I don't know.
38:28Good boy.
38:43Here you are.
38:45The idea was to be alone.
38:49Hello to you, too.
38:52Fine.
38:54If you want me.
39:00I'll be in the main house.
39:01Fine.
39:04Fine.
39:15Fine.
39:19Fine.
39:21Fine.
39:22Fine.
39:22Fine.
39:35Fine.
39:37Fine.
39:40Fine.
39:40Fine.
39:41Fine.
39:41Fine.
39:41I don't know.
40:12I don't know.
40:48I don't know.
40:51Hello?
40:55Hello?
41:11Hello?
41:27I don't know.
41:41It's possible that among all those problems and all those things that are driving you mad there are some of
41:45us who are there for you no matter what. Come what may.
41:53If only.
41:54What's that supposed to mean?
41:56It means exactly that. If only.
42:10Don't punish me with silence. If you have a charge to make, come on, be a grown-up. Make it.
42:17All right.
42:22Stephen Ward.
42:25Who?
42:27Who?
42:30The osteopath.
42:34Dreadful man. What about him?
42:40In the aftermath of his suicide, while searching his home, detectives found a portrait painted by him of you.
42:54I have no explanation for that.
42:56There were more. They had to be tracked down and reacquired at great expense.
43:04Can you imagine what would have happened if the newspapers had got hold of them first?
43:09It must have been done from photographs, not private sittings.
43:12But you don't deny knowing him?
43:14He treated my neck. It's what osteopaths do.
43:17And procure women.
43:19Not for me. I met him a couple of times as a patient.
43:22He talked the most ludicrous nonsense about tension and emotions.
43:27So I went to an old navy fellow instead who slapped me about a bit and sorted it out straight
43:32away.
43:33So he never invited you to stay for the weekend?
43:37He may have.
43:39I certainly never went.
43:41And the mystery man in the newspapers?
43:45That isn't you.
43:46Don't be ridiculous.
43:47I am not being ridiculous.
43:51You are a mystery man to me.
43:54Half the time I don't know where you are or what you're doing.
43:57All you need to do is ask.
43:59Look.
44:02I'm strong.
44:03You know that.
44:08And I can cope with the truth.
44:11I just demand to know the truth.
44:13It's when people don't tell me the truth that I can't bear it.
44:21Your recent trip to Switzerland, which you claimed was in aid of...
44:25Dolphins?
44:26Do you really expect anyone to believe that?
44:31Switzerland's landlocked and San Maritz is a winter playground for millionaires and harlows.
44:35Switzerland also happens to be the headquarters for the World Wildlife Fund, of which I am patron.
44:40But I can see that this is a question of appearance versus reality.
44:44No.
44:44Because some things can only be perceived one way because they only have one meaning.
44:48Such as?
44:52Such as?
44:53You guys.
44:55Oh, yes.
44:56As.
45:05As.
47:43If sometimes, in order to let off steam, in order to stay in, you need to do what you need
47:56to do.
48:00I can look the other way.
48:02Because I know you can look the other way.
48:03You've raised looking the other way into an art form.
48:07I'm saying I don't want you to.
48:11You can look this way.
48:39I'm yours.
48:40I'm yours.
48:42In.
48:44And not because you've given me a title.
48:46Not because we've come to an agreement.
48:54Not because I want to be.
49:02Because I love you.
49:04I don't know.
49:07I don't know.
49:11I don't know.
49:21I don't know.
49:22I don't know.
49:32So...
49:53Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
50:08Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
50:51In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, this earth of majesty,
50:59this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature for herself,
51:14against infection and the hand of war, and towards me, everyone, and this is wonderful,
51:24and...
51:30Take the photo.
51:48This happy breed of men, this little world, this blessed plot, this earth,
51:53this realm, this England.