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01:30Everyone at the post office is delighted with a new profile, ma'am,
01:34which they feel to be an elegant reflection of Her Majesty's transition from young woman to...
01:40Old Bette?
01:43A mother of four and settled sovereign.
01:46Hmm.
01:47The postmaster general himself commented that the two images, the young and the slightly older queen, are almost identical.
01:57Postmaster Bevins is very kind.
02:00He's also a bare-faced liar.
02:02Just the timiest changes in the hair...
02:06A great many changes.
02:07But there we are.
02:09Age is rarely kind to anyone.
02:11Nothing one can do about it.
02:13One just has to get on with it.
02:32The postmaster of West is the majority.
02:34The women are voting votes for labor and for the liberals, seeing you up to the state.
02:38The women are voting votes for labor and for the liberals.
02:41It adds quite a revival.
02:43In 1950 election, the people in charge of Congress, Congress's great figures were already ill.
02:49The French's career, the office will dry.
02:51The French's career, the office will dry.
02:53The French's career, the French's career, the office will dry.
03:05Oh, no.
03:07What?
03:08Winston's had another stroke.
03:10Poor old thing.
03:11I'll go and see him today.
03:15You do know, if that man wins today, he'll want us out.
03:19Who?
03:20Wilson.
03:21Half his cabinet would be made up of rabid anti-monarchists.
03:25They'd want our heads on spikes.
03:28Vive la revolution.
03:29Except I doubt they speak French in Halifax.
03:34Huddersfield, where he's from.
03:38I even heard a rumor that he's a KGB spy.
03:42Mr. Wilson?
03:43That's ridiculous.
03:44His predecessor, Hugh Gateskill, was poisoned by the Russians so that their man might take over.
03:51Who did you hear that from?
03:52A friend of mine at the lunch club.
03:53He had a whole theory about Wilson being turned while on a trade mission to Russia.
03:58He said he even had a KGB coat in it.
04:01Holding.
04:02Well, if you know it, and your chum knows it,
04:06obviously MI5 will know it.
04:07And they must have come to the conclusion
04:08that Mr. Wilson was fine, or they would have done something about it.
04:12Unless they never expected him to get this far.
04:15No one did.
04:15The scientific techniques in Soviet industry can see clearly that only the state should have this level of control.
04:38Good morning, Your Royal Highness.
04:49Sir, a reminder that lunch is at one at the Miracle.
04:52Sir, I'm not coming.
04:57John, off you trot.
04:59Sir.
05:06Good morning, Your Royal Highness.
05:09Who are you?
05:11I'm New.
05:13I'm assuming New is not your name.
05:17No.
05:18So, when I ask you...
05:20Violet, ma'am.
05:27Where's the other one?
05:29The...
05:29The fat one?
05:31She left, ma'am.
05:34Nervous exhaustion.
05:41Yes?
05:42Morning, ma'am.
05:43Lord Snowden sends his apologies.
05:45What?
05:45He's heading out to take photographs.
05:47What?
05:48Of election day.
05:49No.
05:50He will try and join you for coffee.
05:51No!
05:54From the jack to the king
05:58From loneliness to a wedding ring
06:02I played an ace and I won a queen
06:06Turn your knees
06:07And walked away with a heart
06:12From a jack to a king
06:14Open the door!
06:16With no regret I stacked the cards last night
06:20And they aimed a cleaner hand just right
06:27For just a little while
06:30I thought that I might lose the game
06:36Then just in time I saw
06:39The twinkle in your eyes
06:46Your Majesty.
06:47Your Royal Highness.
06:49Sir Anthony, what's all this?
06:51Preparations for the forthcoming exhibition
06:53at the Guildhall Gallery, ma'am.
06:55Of our paintings?
06:56Portraiture in early modern Europe.
06:57I believe you kindly agreed to say a few words.
07:00Did I?
07:01That was a mistake.
07:02Probably.
07:03Who's that by?
07:05Annibale Carracci.
07:06Never heard of him.
07:08This one?
07:09Artemisia Gentileschi.
07:10Never heard of him either.
07:12Her?
07:12Sir?
07:13I'm afraid we're not great connoisseurs of art in this family.
07:16No, we're country people really.
07:18Savages.
07:19I wouldn't say that.
07:21But I just did say that.
07:23You disagreeing with me.
07:25I've always said both the Queen and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, have a very good eye.
07:29Would.
07:30Between them.
07:31One each.
07:35Right, darling.
07:36I'm off.
07:39Eyes lift.
07:46Good luck with me, sir.
07:53If I am to say a few words, I wonder if you might give me another of your wonderful tutorials.
07:57With pleasure.
07:58Your predecessor had very little patience with me.
08:00Whereas you've always been kind enough to make me feel, if not scholarly, then not stupid, which I appreciate.
08:07So to that end, what would you say constitutes early modern?
08:10The end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
08:14Roughly late 15th century to late 18th century.
08:17And what era are we in now, do you suppose?
08:18The frighteningly modern?
08:20I think that all depends on the result of the general election today.
08:22Oh, yes.
08:23Have you voted?
08:29I always had you down as a man of the left.
08:31Perhaps once.
08:32Not anymore.
08:33Who's this?
08:34Rembrandt.
08:34An old man in military costume.
08:37Wonderfully enigmatic character.
08:40Speaking of enigmas, what do we make of Mr. Wilson?
08:43One's heard the rumours, of course.
08:44Rumours, ma'am?
08:45Yes, whilst on a trade mission to Moscow, KGB got in.
08:48Nonsense, I know.
08:50I wouldn't dismiss them so quickly.
08:54For a young socialist to visit Russia in those days.
08:57With an impressionable mind.
08:59It's not unthinkable he might have been turned to more radical ideas.
09:04But Mr. Wilson is an older man now.
09:07And I'm sure a wiser one.
09:11Harold Wilson's life changed dramatically.
09:14From being a prominent opposition politician,
09:16Harold Wilson became the opposition politician.
09:18A potential prime minister and a servant of the crown.
09:30The Conservatives can afford to lose something in the region of 40...
09:32Sir, the Queen.
09:37Dear Winston.
09:38Your Majesty.
09:39Don't move.
09:41How are you?
09:42Oh, gripped.
09:44Now, it's a proper nail-biter.
09:49You think Mr. Wilson has a chance?
09:50I'm afraid I do.
09:52And that we must face the cold wind of socialism blowing through this land once more.
10:00I probably shouldn't tell you this.
10:03When I was prime minister, a young Mr. Wilson came to me asking my permission to go to Russia.
10:13On behalf of the...
10:17Board of Trade?
10:19Yes.
10:19Board of Trade.
10:21One of the first Western politicians to go behind the Iron Curtain.
10:26I remember thinking then, we'd better keep an eye on that one.
10:34I can't imagine what that would be like.
10:37Having a prime minister one didn't trust.
10:40When one thinks what it was like with you.
10:44I was a terrible bully.
10:47You were my guardian angel.
10:50The roof over my head.
10:52The spine in my back.
10:55The iron in my heart.
10:59You were the compass that steered and directed me.
11:04Not just me, all of us.
11:06Where would Great Britain be without its greatest Britain?
11:10I was a good eye on the island.
11:13I was a lord.
11:17I was a good father.
11:21I was a good father.
11:24I was a good father.
11:47God bless you, Winston.
12:02After the generations of conservatives, in which we've seen recessions that scandal national
12:08in the night, I need you around.
12:10Come on.
12:49Just one of those things, just one of those crazy things, one of those bells, no metal
13:04Just one of those things, it was just one of those things, one of those fabulous flights, a trip to
13:19the moon, just one of those things, another game for later there, and overall we've seen the three and a
13:29half percent swing from the conservatives so far tonight.
13:31When we started facing the top, the hams and hams and the fact that the leader party's been able to
13:38secure the confidence of a large majority of votes, is symptomatic, not only...
13:47...so good-bye dear and amen.
13:54Here's hoping we meet now and then
13:59It was great fun
14:03But it was just one of those things
14:17Thank you
14:22Yes, it's a Labour gain
14:24The Labour Party will form the next government
14:27People will be waking up tomorrow in a new Britain
14:30A Britain whose destiny lies firmly in the hands of Mr. Wilson
14:33We now go over to Transford House
14:35Where Labour staff and supporters are gathered
14:37To hear their celebration
14:38We now go over to Transford House
14:43We need to shake and live and die
14:47Compostations in the city
14:51We'll be the way that I can win
15:11Sir, the protocol is as follows
15:13When you're announced, you bow from the neck
15:14First time you see the Queen, you say, Your Majesty
15:16After that, it's man
15:17Runs with hand
15:18Until you leave
15:19Then it's Your Majesty again
15:20Don't sit until Her Majesty does
15:22Don't talk until she does
15:23Absolutely no physical contact
15:25Other than taking a hand
15:26If and only if she offers it
15:28No small talk
15:29Unless she invites it
15:30At the end, she'll buzz
15:31And I'll come and get you
15:32Bow from the neck
15:33And walk back towards me
15:45The Leader of the Opposition, Your Majesty
15:48Mr. Wilson
15:51Thank you
15:58Your Majesty
16:00The country's spoken
16:01Your party's won the election
16:03The duty befalls me as Sovereign
16:05To ask you to form a government
16:06In my name
16:08Congratulations, Prime Minister
16:23Well, I suppose I should
16:25Kick things off with an apology
16:27Whatever for?
16:28Winning
16:30I'm aware of your affection
16:31For my predecessor
16:32And doubtless you'd have preferred him
16:33To have continued in office
16:35It is my duty
16:36Not to have preferences
16:37Well, we all do though, don't we?
16:39We can't help it
16:39It's human nature
16:41And I can see the attraction
16:42Of someone like
16:43Bosh Alec
16:43Someone you can chat with
16:44About the racing
16:45Someone
16:46Well-bred
16:47Highborn
16:47Who knows how to hold
16:48His cutlery
16:48As opposed to a ruffian
16:49Like me
16:51Hardly
16:51Still
16:52The country's said otherwise
16:54They'd had enough
16:55Of the mess
16:55Those conservatives left us
16:57And the havoc
16:58They wreaked
16:59Soiling land
17:00And house prices
17:01Race riots
17:02Sex scandals
17:03Large-scale unemployment
17:04Rejection from the EEC
17:06And an annual trade deficit
17:08Of 800 million pounds
17:11Yes, it's an unenviable legacy
17:15What will you do about the balance of payments?
17:17Will you devalue?
17:18No, ma'am
17:21A Labour government devalued the pound once before
17:23With little success
17:24And my party
17:25Cannot risk being seen
17:26As the party of devaluation
17:30It is also
17:31A matter of national pride
17:33This is still a great country
17:34And the pound
17:36Is a powerful symbol
17:40Can't have been an easy one
17:41To get used to
17:43What's that?
17:44You being part of that symbol
17:46Your face on every coin
17:48And banknote
17:49No
17:51I remember seeing my father's face
17:53On a shilling for the first time
17:54And thinking how odd it looked
17:57At the same time
17:58Realising I would probably
17:59One day have to look at my own face
18:02But one never knows
18:03What destiny has in store for one
18:05Did you ever imagine
18:06You'd be Prime Minister?
18:07Goodness, no
18:09How could you have done?
18:10Mr Gateskill was still
18:12Such a young man
18:12He was
18:14No one could possibly
18:15Have foreseen his death
18:17No
18:18So sudden
18:19Yes
18:20And unexpected
18:22Yes
18:24Still we make of our destiny
18:25What we can
18:27Indeed
18:30I'm not sure what I was expecting
18:32Each of his predecessors
18:34Churchill, Eden, Macmillan
18:36Even Ellick
18:36Each in their own way
18:38Was formidable
18:39Statesman-like
18:40But Wilson
18:42Is neither old nor young
18:44Tall nor short
18:45Loud nor quiet
18:47Warm nor cold
18:49He seems to have come from nowhere
18:51And is entirely unremarkable
18:53Best qualities in a spy
18:56What did you say?
18:57Aren't those the best qualities in a spy?
19:00Well, it should be forgettable
19:02Unremarkable
19:02Not stand out in a crowd
19:04We used to say that about Henry
19:05Didn't we, dear?
19:06What?
19:07That you would have made the perfect spy
19:09Because no one could remember
19:10Having met you
19:13I'd say that was
19:14Marginally better than
19:15Everyone having nightmares
19:16Having met you
19:28Of course we do tease each other
19:30With Tony
19:31One never knows quite who
19:32One's going to get
19:34From one moment to the next
19:35It's changeable
19:36Goes from loving
19:37To hating
19:38Mummy
19:38You're not listening
19:40Of course I am, darling
19:43Tony doesn't hate you
19:45I think he may be starting to
19:46You must try
19:48Not to let him
19:49Consume you
19:50Like this
19:52Two of you
19:52Have your trip
19:53To America coming up
19:54Yes
19:55We'll be with each other
19:56Round the clock
19:56Working together
19:57As a team
19:58Your father and I
19:59Always found those trips
20:00Very bonding
20:04You're right
20:05You're right
20:06You're right
20:08You're right
20:11You're right
20:12You're right
20:14You're right
20:16You're right
20:16You're right
20:22You're right
20:23I love you
20:23I love you
20:24I love you
20:24I love you
20:26I love you
20:27I love you
20:27I love you
20:27I love you
20:27I love you
20:29I love you
20:50Sir?
20:50Margo.
20:51Margo.
20:53How did you know?
20:55Margo.
20:5617 minutes, door to door.
20:57I'm claiming that as a land speed record.
21:00Is there any food left?
21:01After having you eaten it all.
21:01Your Majesty.
21:04Your Majesty, a thousand apologies.
21:08Happy birthday, Henry.
21:09Tony, where were you?
21:11Hello.
21:12Hello, darling.
21:14Tony, darling, come and sit next to your wife.
21:16Why would I do that?
21:17I see her all the time.
21:18She was just saying she sees your nun at the time.
21:21Because he's always working, traveling, or water skiing.
21:25It's my new passion, ma'am.
21:26Your Majesty, there's a telephone call.
21:28I'm a lady in Sonny Hill.
21:29Oh, it's lovely, then.
21:30Actually, there's a ghastly little poem.
21:31Pat, I think it's fine.
21:33The A.
21:33I saw a secret.
21:34I did some while you're singing.
21:35What do you know?
21:36You have to wind it up.
21:37Oh, the general answer.
21:38Oh.
21:41Charming.
21:42Thank you so much.
21:43That's all.
21:44It's a really good job.
21:45That's fine.
21:45Happy birthday to you.
21:48My word.
21:49Happy birthday to you.
21:52Happy birthday, dear Henry.
21:57Happy birthday to you.
22:00Hurrah!
22:01No, no.
22:02Shh, shh, shh.
22:04Winston is dead.
22:25Ha!
22:26Ah!
22:28Oh, God.
23:18Sir, the CIA's director of counterintelligence on the phone.
23:22I'll call him back.
23:23He called on Juliet, sir.
23:27Heads of states from around the world are arriving, crowding in to this great mother church of the Commonwealth.
23:56Jim?
23:58Martin.
23:59A man by the name of Michael Strait has surrendered himself to us at the DOJ.
24:04He claims to be a sleeper agent working for the Russians.
24:07He says he has information that will uncover a senior KGB mole at the top of the British establishment.
24:32Where is he now?
24:33Washington.
24:34We can have him flown in to you by tomorrow.
24:37We are assembled here as representing the people of this land to join in prayer on the occasion of the
24:46burial of a great man who has rendered memorable service to his country and to the cause of freedom.
24:56We shall think of him with thanksgiving that he was raised up in our days of desperate need.
25:03To be a leader and inspirer of the nation for its dauntless resolution and untiring vigilance.
25:12My name is Michael Strait.
25:14And since all men are subject to temptation and error, we pray that we, together with him, may be numbered
25:24among those whose sins are forgiven and have a place in the kingdom of heaven.
25:31I attended Cambridge University, and it was during this time that I was first approached by the members of the
25:41Communist Party.
25:51Right.
25:58Right.
26:00I'll confirm with you, Your Majesty, and come back to you straight away.
26:12Director General of MI5, Mr. Furnival Jones, Your Majesty.
26:21Your Majesty, thank you for seeing me.
26:31It gives me no pleasure to tell you that we have been approached by a former Russian agent who has
26:36identified a mole at the top of the British establishment.
26:40So it's true.
26:42Ma'am?
26:43I'd heard the rumours.
26:45Initially, I dismissed them.
26:46But spending time with him personally, in close proximity, one had become more and more suspicious.
26:52Indeed.
26:53And that he should have been able to carry on for so long, undetected, is a subject of enormous embarrassment
26:59to all of us.
27:01This obviously needs to be handled very delicately.
27:04That's what I've come to talk to you about, to see if we might find a way to contain it.
27:09What?
27:11We can't do that.
27:13Have a Russian spy in Downing Street.
27:17Oh, those rumours.
27:19You were talking about Harold Wilson.
27:21Yes.
27:22I'm so sorry, ma'am.
27:24Yes, it's widely accepted that repeated attempts were made by the KGB to recruit Wilson when he was younger, working
27:30on trade missions.
27:31He travelled to Russia a great deal in those years.
27:34But the evidence for the Russians having succeeded is so weak.
27:37We discounted it some time ago.
27:40And the poisoning of Gateskill?
27:42Gateskill wasn't poisoned.
27:44He died of lupus.
27:45The fact is, even if the Russians had poisoned Gateskill, the most likely beneficiary would have been George Brown, not
27:51Harold Wilson.
27:52Wilson was not favourite to take over the leadership at the time.
27:56We don't have a Russian spy in Downing Street?
27:59No.
28:01But it seems we do have one in Buckingham Palace.
28:09We look at a painting and immediately want to know it, understand it.
28:16But can anything ever be fully understood?
28:21Take our bearded trickster here.
28:24A Venetian card sharp originally ascribed to Titian,
28:27until new evidence came to light proving the painting is actually by Lorenzo Lotto.
28:32As time passes, so we learn.
28:36Truths are revealed.
28:38In the late Renaissance, painting after painting, masterpiece after masterpiece,
28:43seem full of hidden intentions, multiple meanings.
28:49Annibale Caracci's Allegory of Truth and Time, painted in 1584 or 1585.
28:55This winged figure here rescues a young woman, his daughter, from the darkness.
29:03He is time, she is truth.
29:06And this figure below, trampled by truth, is deceit.
29:12Caracci's message is clear.
29:17Be patient.
29:19The truth will out.
29:20I'm afraid I can now confirm that the surveyor of the Queen's pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt,
29:26was the fourth man in the Cambridge spy ring.
29:28The message encoded in the painting is repeated in reality.
29:33As with the Lotto, time passed and the painting was restored to reveal deceit is two-faced.
29:40She has a second monstrous visage.
29:43And that alongside conducting a distinguished career as an art historian and member of the royal household,
29:49he spent 15 years as an active KGB mole and passed almost 2,000 documents of sensitive military secrets to
29:58the Kremlin.
29:58Truth may lie beneath the surface, buried, forgotten.
30:04But time has a way of uncovering it.
30:08One thinks of the Merchant of Venice.
30:11Truth will come to light.
30:13Murder cannot be hid long.
30:17A man's son may.
30:19But at the length, truth will out.
30:40We had initially hoped the information was false.
30:42We get these sorts of claims all the time.
30:44But we subsequently detained and interviewed Blunt and...
30:52I'm sad to say he has confessed.
30:56In full.
31:05What's the next step?
31:07Well, as a traitor to his country, he should, of course, stand trial.
31:11Be put in prison.
31:12The key thrown away, quite frankly.
31:14Unless it was felt that exposure of Blunt's treachery could cause even more damage.
31:21What, then? Keeping it silent?
31:24How?
31:25Apparently it could have a catastrophic effect on the reputation of our intelligence services.
31:29The fact that he had gone undetected for so long, which could, in turn, seriously affect our relationship with the
31:35Americans.
31:35We're on our last reserves of goodwill with them as it is.
31:39One more operational failure and our credibility would be completely shot.
31:43What are they suggesting?
31:44That we turn a blind eye and allow a traitor, an enemy of this country, to remain free with his
31:52career and reputation intact?
31:54Just a spare MI5's blushes.
31:59The man should be shot.
32:00I agree.
32:02But instead I have to get up and pay tribute to him at this exhibition.
32:06How am I supposed to get through my speech?
32:08I might choke on my words.
32:23We stand here tonight, surrounded by some of the royal collection's greatest treasures,
32:29to admire the genius of Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt and Helbig.
32:34But that we are able to make sense of it all, appreciate it, understand it.
32:39It speaks to the genius of another man, whose exceptional scholarship and vision have brought us together today.
32:47Sir Anthony Blount.
32:54It is he who has curated this exhibition and given meaning to mystery,
32:59and revealed what really does lie beneath the surface.
33:03I, for one, had never thought of art history in that way,
33:07as the art of investigation,
33:09solving riddles,
33:11finding clues,
33:13unlocking secrets.
33:14It's been quite an education.
33:17I particularly enjoyed the portrait which turned out
33:20to have another person lurking beneath the surface.
33:26Have I described that correctly, Sir Anthony?
33:28Or am I stumbling around in the dark, as usual?
33:31Not another person, ma'am.
33:33The same person.
33:35It was not uncommon in the early modern period for an artist to finish a portrait,
33:39and the patron would take a look and ask for a more flattering version of themselves,
33:44and the artist would paint another version over it.
33:48So not two different people?
33:50Two different versions of the same person.
33:54Which might as well be two different people.
33:57The idealised version of themselves they want to be seen,
34:00and the less desirable person they rarely are,
34:03hidden away.
34:05There's even a word for it.
34:06Pelimpsest.
34:07That generally applies to manuscripts, ma'am.
34:10Pentimento for paintings.
34:12Pentimento.
34:14Well, I think I speak for everyone here
34:16when I say none of us will be able to trust
34:19or look at anything in the same way ever again.
34:22Aplausos.
34:30Aplausos.
34:33Aplausos.
34:36Aplausos.
34:45Aplausos.
34:47Aplausos.
34:50Hi, Minister.
34:54I'm so glad you came.
34:55It gives me the chance to apologise in person.
34:59What for?
35:00There's no need to understand.
35:02All you need to know is that I misjudged you terribly,
35:05and I'd like to take this opportunity to say sorry.
35:12Are you an art man?
35:14Art?
35:15Yes, art.
35:16Paintings.
35:17Well, actually, no.
35:18No.
35:19I'm an economist.
35:21A statistician at heart.
35:23I'm happiest with numbers.
35:26You can trust numbers.
35:28They're honest.
35:30There's no mystery or deception or allegory.
35:35You know where you stand.
35:38What you see is what you get.
35:42I prefer things that way.
35:43Do my best to compensate for your...
35:45I quite agree.
35:47Do my best to compensate for your...
35:48I quite agree.
35:49Yes, I'm sorry.
35:51I'm sorry.
35:51I was all right to say, sir.
35:55Excuse me a moment.
36:17And the very least you could do is quietly crawl away or force us to live with you under the
36:25same roof.
36:26doing the right thing,
36:29the decent thing, the honourable thing.
36:32You know, the faintest idea what that was.
36:36Well, I am going to be watching you
36:38on one wrong step, you treacherous snake.
36:44And I will expose you and have you thrown in jail.
36:47I would think long and hard before I did that, sir.
36:52Now, you would do well to reflect on your own position.
36:56What are you talking about?
37:01You may remember at the height of the Profumo sex scandal,
37:05there was talk of a member of the royal family being involved.
37:08No one knew who.
37:10But it was rumoured to be a senior member of the royal family.
37:15Very senior.
37:18When the osteopath at the centre of the scandal,
37:21Stephen Ward, took his own life,
37:24there was speculation that a number of portraits
37:27of that senior member of the royal family
37:28had been found in his apartment.
37:31Naturally, a great many people were keen
37:33to get their hands on those portraits.
37:36Mercifully, someone respected and well-connected
37:40in the art world
37:41was able to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands.
37:45I never saw Stephen Ward in any capacity
37:47other than as an osteopath.
37:50If he made drawings of me,
37:51he would have done so from photographs.
37:54We all tell ourselves
37:56all sorts of things to make sense of the past.
38:00So much so that our fabrications,
38:02if we tell them to ourselves often enough,
38:05become the truth
38:07in our minds and everyone else's.
38:10And believe you me,
38:11I'm happy for your truth to be the truth.
38:15It would be better for everyone.
38:18Imagine how awful it would be,
38:20for example,
38:21if those pictures saw the light of day now,
38:25a storm it would create.
38:27And for what?
38:31It's the past.
38:57Would you excuse me?
38:58Of course.
38:59Yeah, thanks.
39:00Thanks.