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00:04As his majesty the king has not yet produced a male successor, nor do we at this stage expect one,
00:10the decision has been taken to start preparing you in earnest for the crown.
00:14From this moment on, you will no longer be the heir presumptive, but the heir apparent,
00:19and your life will be quite different.
00:21You will not be able to travel unaccompanied, nor to socialize us freely.
00:27Your father, the king, had little or no time to prepare for the throne.
00:31It was thrust upon him.
00:33We will not be caught out again.
00:36The crown is not just an ornament to be worn.
00:40It is a privilege and a burden which comes with formidable expectations and responsibilities.
01:09I don't think I can do it.
01:11I could.
01:13I know you could.
01:15I'd love every minute to be on every coin, on every banknote, to be the most famous woman in the
01:22world.
01:22But I'd be so very good at it.
01:26Wearing a big crown, giving everyone orders.
01:30Yes.
01:35Then tell them.
01:37Margaret Rose can do it.
01:39Margaret Rose wants to do it.
01:41Margaret Rose was born to do it.
01:45You are.
01:47Then let me speak to them tomorrow.
01:49It would be the best thing for both of us.
01:53All right.
01:57Good.
01:59Oh, my God.
02:42Hey, lady, what are you?
02:47Your Majesty.
02:52Just come to wish you a bon voyage and to thank you.
02:55What for?
02:56We're agreeing to squeeze in so many public engagements.
02:59On what is essentially a private trip.
03:01And for flying this way, commercially.
03:03It's not so bad.
03:05They've cleared out the first-world cabin just for us.
03:07What's the first stop?
03:09New York.
03:09San Francisco.
03:10Then Los Angeles.
03:12Then five days with the Douglases in Arizona.
03:15How lovely.
03:16Then on to New York, where Tony is promoting his book.
03:19You've written a book?
03:20A book of my photographs.
03:22You are clever.
03:24You must make time to really relax, too.
03:26We will.
03:28Be good to one another.
03:30Kind to one another.
03:32Basically.
03:36Says she felt the need to say that.
03:39What?
03:40Be good to one another.
03:41Kind to one another.
03:42Both of you.
03:42Was a little clumsy.
03:47But she means well.
03:49Two of us are complicated.
03:53She and I are complicated.
03:56It's true.
03:58Elder sister, younger sister.
04:01Number one and number two.
04:02Who was number one?
04:04You.
04:06Of course.
04:07A natural number one, whose tragedy it is to have been born number two.
04:12That is my burden.
04:15She knows it, too.
04:19Yes, I think she does.
04:21That's her burden.
04:23Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard this BIC flight to San Francisco.
04:27Please take your seats and relax.
04:29We're now ready for departure, and we'll be taxiing shortly.
04:32We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a very pleasant flight.
05:03Good morning, Mr. Ambassador.
05:06Economically, as you know, Marvin, the United Kingdom is right up against it.
05:09We're seeing a terrifying run on sterling, and our credit from the IMF is about to expire.
05:15Now, the Prime Minister has made several attempts to speak to the President about another bailout.
05:20Rescue package.
05:22But the President refuses to take his call.
05:25President Johnson is a busy man.
05:27Too busy to talk to his oldest ally.
05:30Historically, the holder of this office has the warmest relationship with Downing Street.
05:34Think of Churchill and Roosevelt, or Truman and Antley, McMillan and JFK.
05:40No need to keep mentioning Jack Kennedy like that.
05:43Keep mentioning.
05:44It's just provocative.
05:46Unhelpful.
05:47President Johnson is his own man.
05:51Of course.
05:52I mentioned it only in the context of our leader standing shoulder to shoulder in times of difficulty.
05:58The United Kingdom and the United States.
06:02Historically, it's like a marriage.
06:05Will you talk to him?
06:09No, screw the Brits.
06:10I don't like them.
06:11I never liked them.
06:12They're not looking down at you through their noses.
06:14They're holding their hands out like beggars.
06:15And I don't give a crap about any special relationship.
06:18Harold Wilson wants my help.
06:19You should have thought about that when he refused to support me over Vietnam.
06:22You can't screw a man in the ass and then expect him to buy you flowers.
06:30The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
06:32Your Majesty.
06:33Prime Minister.
06:46I'm sure that it did not escape your attention that President Johnson failed to attend Sir Winston's funeral.
06:52Yes, on account of a cold.
06:54Well, that was the explanation the White House gave, but it persuaded no one.
06:58Now, I fear that the President may have taken against me for what he sees as my failure to support
07:05him over Vietnam.
07:07And I wondered.
07:11In the past, the royal family has been extremely helpful in keeping this special relationship afloat.
07:22And given the predicament the country finds itself in economically...
07:27You'd like us to roll out the red carpet?
07:29Make a bit of a fuss?
07:33Please.
07:35All right.
07:36I shall consult the three wise men.
07:38See what they have to say.
07:41Thank you, ma'am.
07:44Welcome to San Francisco!
07:46Margaret!
07:46Margaret!
07:47Over here!
07:48Over here!
07:48Right this way!
07:50Thank you, Margaret!
07:50What we have witnessed in Princess Margaret is a more vibrant, modern, and engaging version of her older sister.
07:59Quite right.
08:01To those accustomed to the formality of traditional royal visits, meeting Princess Margaret has been like going from a black
08:08and white film to one in colour.
08:11What about a steak dinner?
08:12Like the one held for Woodrow Wilson in 1918.
08:15Or a weekend at Windsor Castle.
08:17The important thing here, I'm told, is that whatever we offer President Johnson, it must exceed whatever we gave the
08:23Kennedys.
08:23When you're slouch!
08:25Hey, we want you to see the Queen!
08:27You're seeing something better than the Queen.
08:30What do you think is the main difference between Britain and America?
08:33Well, my sister isn't on the backwoods here.
08:35What are you most looking forward to in America?
08:39Liberty.
08:42Liberty.
08:42But when you're crying, you get on for it.
08:47Don't stop your silence.
08:49Be happy again, keep on smiling.
08:53Because when you're smiling, the whole world starts with you.
09:01You're smiling, darling.
09:03What news of Princess Margaret?
09:05After three days in San Francisco, Her Royal Highness has safely arrived in Los Angeles.
09:09Any disasters I should be aware of?
09:11No, on the contrary, the trip seems to have been a great success.
09:15Really?
09:16Yes, rave reviews of all the newspapers.
09:19With even a name having been coined for the multitude of fans and well-wishers who have followed her every
09:24step of the way.
09:25Which is?
09:26Margaretologists.
09:28Margaretologists?
09:30Yes, ma'am.
09:31Fans who have delighted in Her Royal Highness' intelligence and articulacy, her beauty and charm.
09:36With one newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, even going so far as to say...
09:39Yes, all right. Thank you, Martin.
09:40Yes, ma'am.
09:41I'm a queen, not a saint.
09:42That's it. Try not to smile.
10:00I gave it.
10:01Not once, not twice, but three times and you ignored it.
10:04What?
10:05A signal. Our signal that I want you to leave.
10:08I didn't see it.
10:09You know, as well as I, that if you are the guest of honour, you cannot just leave.
10:16In the course of our marriage, I have lost count of the number of times you've walked out as guest
10:20of honour.
10:21Once or twice.
10:22All the bloody time.
10:24When it's dreary.
10:25When it suits you.
10:27When the people are ugly and dull.
10:30These people were musing, attacking, and made me feel good.
10:37No, no, no, no. The alcohol made you feel good.
10:41And blunted your judgment to the sycophancy of the people surrounding you.
10:45Is that right?
10:47Yes, keys.
10:48Well, sadly, it's not blunted my judgment to your mean-spiritedness and jealousy and general pusin-alaminity.
10:59Pusin-alamin...
11:02Small-mindedness.
11:04I don't recognise this.
11:08Come to think of it.
11:10I don't recognise you.
11:13Actually, nor did anyone else.
11:17I mean, if we're honest.
11:22Isn't that the real problem here?
11:26Oh, I'm sorry.
11:29And you are...
11:31Tony who?
11:32Oh, yeah.
11:33The husband guy.
11:35It's not easy, sometimes.
11:38What is not easy?
11:41Being second fiddle to a pygmy princess.
11:46Don't talk to me about being a second fiddle.
11:49I get so little I'm like...
11:53No, it's the price I pay for the sister I have.
11:56But if the opportunity should once arise for me to shine,
12:00I'd appreciate you putting aside the competitive little narcissist that rages within you.
12:09And letting me savour it.
12:19I promise that once we get to New York,
12:24the spotlight will be entirely on you and your book.
12:30I'll take a back seat and be the adoring and supportive number two you want me to be.
12:37And nothing will make me happier.
12:50Now, you can tell me, oh, you want 50,000...
12:53Yeah, 100,000 more boots on the ground are going to resolve this.
12:56But I put 100,000 more men in there.
12:58Who's to say that Ho Chi Minh isn't going to put 100,000 more?
13:01A man can't fight if he can't see daylight at the end of the road.
13:05I want to see solutions, gentlemen. Solutions. Not more numbers.
13:11By God, I will not be the first American president to lose a goddamn war.
13:17That'll be all.
13:30What is this?
13:33A peace offering from the Brits.
13:35Open to secure the bailout.
13:39Weekend shooting at Balmoral?
13:41Yes, sir. That's as good as it gets.
13:44Even Kennedy never got that.
13:46Really?
13:47He got a banquet, Naval Guard of Honor, but never a weekend shooting in Scotland.
13:52No one has gotten that.
13:57Hmm.
13:58Hmm.
14:03Still, that's a long flight.
14:06Followed by a long drive.
14:09Stay in some creepy haunted castle.
14:12The weather's terrible.
14:16And it would involve making small talk to fancy people.
14:21Then when you go shooting, there's rules.
14:24Things you do and don't do.
14:26Which would involve researching, learning, cutting my nails.
14:32And I'd still get it all wrong.
14:34And then everybody'd laugh at me and they'd say how I wouldn't know Jack Kennedy who would know exactly which
14:39knife and fork to use and which bird to shoot.
14:43So my position has not changed.
14:46Hmm.
14:47It is still no thank you, Your Majesty.
14:51Tomorrow there's a reception given by the Council of Engineering Institutions at the Science Museum.
14:56Followed by an audience with His Excellency Gudmundur Gudmundsson, the new ambassador from the Republic of Iceland.
15:03Thank you, Michael.
15:04And where are we with President Johnson?
15:06Ah, we went back offering weekend shooting at Balmoral.
15:10Did we?
15:11Lucky LBJ.
15:12We don't get enough of those ourselves.
15:14And?
15:14No response, ma'am.
15:16What?
15:17Nothing.
15:17Complete silence.
15:19That's a first?
15:20Yes.
15:21Probably not what Downing Street was hoping for.
15:24Is everyone panicking?
15:25Slightly.
15:26What about Princess Margaret?
15:27I was safely arrived in Arizona, ma'am.
15:29Oh, well, that's something.
15:30At the Douglas family ranch?
15:32Yes.
15:33I've never been.
15:34What do we know about it?
15:35They say it's quite something.
15:35A beautiful 19th century country house set under the Santa Rita Mountains in miles and miles of wide-open desert.
15:50What do we know about it?
15:53Today we're there.
15:54What do we know about it?
15:55Oh, I'm sorry.
15:56What do we know about it?
15:57What?
15:59I'm sorry.
16:07What do we know about this story?
16:21Tony, brace yourselves, come on darling, your royal highness, no blinking, no kissing,
16:40I look hideous, ghastly, you look a bit tired, a bit coldy, it's only to be expected after your heroics,
16:56you hated every minute, didn't you, maybe, that's irrelevant, the newspapers didn't,
17:07page after page about how extraordinary you are, what an asset to the crown, how underused you are,
17:14what a secret weapon, how deserving you are of the spotlight, your elder sister eclipsed and
17:19outshot, darling, and now, you must sleep, what will you do, be a good guest and sing for our supper,
17:30so rest, I will, and get well for New York,
17:47Mr. President, I just got off the phone with our ambassador in London, we just got off the
17:51phone with the prime minister, just got off the phone with the queen, don't tell me everybody's
17:54pissed, the general view seems to be that if you have a quarrel with the prime minister,
18:00that's one thing, but no one gets to insult the crown, sir, it's like, uh, treason or something,
18:05how have I insulted the crown? By not accepting the queen's invitation, sir,
18:10what, I didn't refuse, just have him reply, well now, don't you do this, Marvin,
18:18you're my chief of staff, you're supposed to have my back, don't you get suckered into this,
18:22you know, they got this whole thing going on over there, head of state, prime minister,
18:27Buckingham Palace, Downing Street is like a double leg, like tag team wrestling, one of them gets
18:32in trouble, the other jumps in to bail them out, Wilson screws me over Vietnam, she jumps in to
18:37make it all good with some bursts, you bullshit, we don't have that here, don't you, Buck stops with
18:46me, who the hell am I supposed to call, I want to issue an invitation to get me out of
18:51trouble,
18:52well, you call me, sir, your oldest friend, I come up with a sensible plan to get us all out
18:57of
18:57trouble, all right, come up with a plan, well, sir, I just did, this is the plan, right here,
19:06who in God's name is that?
19:10They came to land at Oakland Airport, and here, as in San Francisco, crowds met and cheered
19:15them everywhere they went, the princess was radiant, obviously enjoying herself, it wasn't
19:20long before her sparkle cast an informal atmosphere over the occasion, the American people and
19:26their press have warmed to the couple, enchanted by the natural display of charm and friendliness.
19:32Prime Minister for you, ma'am, but it was urgent.
19:39Prime Minister?
19:40Just to say, we've finally had a response from the Americans, ma'am, they've come back
19:47with an invitation of their own, to dinner at the White House.
19:52For me?
19:53No, for Princess Margaret.
19:55Oh, that's cunning.
19:57Yes.
19:58That way, President Johnson can't be accused of snubbing my offer.
20:01No.
20:03It also sidesteps the all-important issue of the bailout.
20:07Indeed.
20:08But we think not all is lost, that Princess Margaret should accept the invitation, go to
20:13the White House, and use the occasion to win over hearts and minds to the British cause.
20:21It would be a political engagement of the utmost delicacy.
20:26For which you want to send Princess Margaret?
20:28Yes, well, that had been my reaction.
20:31But her trip to America has been a terrific success.
20:35So I get her.
20:38So will you ask her.
20:42If those are my instructions.
20:46Please.
20:51Well, well.
20:52I suppose the situation is so dire, there's really nothing to lose.
20:56He doesn't know my sister.
21:01Ma'am.
21:06Mo.
21:10The Royal Highness?
21:12No.
21:13Telephone for you.
21:14No.
21:16It's the Queen.
21:30Hello, you.
21:32Hello, you.
21:33Sorry to disturb.
21:35I know you're on holidays.
21:36You don't want to hear this.
21:38What?
21:38We've had an invitation from the White House for you to go to Washington and have dinner
21:43with the President and the First Lady.
21:45And we'd like you to attend.
21:47When?
21:48This Wednesday.
21:49Ah, can't.
21:52Why not?
21:54I'm going to be in New York.
21:57At Teddy's book launch.
22:00Perhaps I should make it clear.
22:02There is rather a lot riding on it.
22:04And everyone is keen, very keen, for you to go.
22:07Perhaps I should make it clear that nothing is going to stop me from supporting my husband.
22:12Just like you asked me to.
22:14Margaret!
22:16Margaret!
22:17No.
22:32Oh.
22:36Oh.
22:51Dear Margaret,
22:53As a wife, I understand your desire to support Tony.
22:56You know that it was my honest hope
22:58that on this trip you would both find the opportunity
23:01to be more courteous, more encouraging to each other.
23:05But for now such considerations must be put aside.
23:09I have asked you this once as a sister
23:11and now I must command it as your queen.
23:17Your Royal Highness, Sir, thank you so much for agreeing to this.
23:22The most recent list of people attending the dinner
23:25with some brief biographies of those expected to sit close to you.
23:28What I'm asking you to do
23:30amounts to much more than simply attending a dinner.
23:37Currently, there are matters pertaining to this country's future prosperity
23:41that require a concerted effort on our part.
23:45We must heal the divisions that are emerging
23:48between Britain and its American cousins.
23:51You've often lamented that you have nothing to do,
23:54that you are a wasted resource.
23:56Well, the task you are embarking on today
23:58could not be more crucial.
24:00Britain currently has a deficit of 800 million pounds.
24:06What we need is a bailout of at least 1,000 million.
24:13Only the Americans can give it to us.
24:19I know you like to do things your own way.
24:22But this is a diplomatic mission of the highest sensitivity.
24:26And I would urge you, for once,
24:29to play things by the book.
24:34What happens if I fail?
24:36We don't get the bailout.
24:38Then we break our promises to the IMF,
24:42exhaust the credit facilities available to us,
24:44face a run on sterling,
24:46and the government would be left with no option but to devalue the pound.
24:50And that's bad?
24:52Devaluation?
24:53It's worse than bad.
24:55It would relegate sterling to the second division of the world's currencies
24:58and Britain to the third division of the world's economies.
25:02It would mean international humiliation,
25:04political ignominy,
25:05and financial ruin.
25:16Minus?
25:18President Johnson.
25:19Minus?
25:23Minus?
25:25Minus?
25:33Minus?
25:36Minus?
25:37Minus?
25:40Minus?
25:41Minus?
25:42Minus?
25:43Minus?
25:44Minus?
25:45Minus?
25:45Minus?
25:46Minus?
25:47Minus?
25:48Minus?
25:48Minus?
25:54Good morning, farmers.
25:55Yeah, good morning.
25:58I've had an opportunity now to speak to our ambassador in Washington
26:02about the White House dinner last night.
26:04And?
26:07I... I don't know where to begin.
26:12It seemed that the first course had barely been served
26:15before Princess Margaret made remarks about the late President Kennedy.
26:18That were... less than discreet.
26:21I met him once, Kennedy.
26:25I was left distinctly... underwhelmed.
26:31Margaret.
26:32I'm sorry. Did I say something wrong?
26:35I do know these days one's not allowed to think anything other
26:39than what a great statesman Kennedy was.
26:42Say nothing, Lyndon.
26:44Of course you'll say nothing.
26:45He was his loyal deputy.
26:46But I think I can understand, better than most,
26:50the frustrations and resentments that can build up
26:53from a life that's number two.
26:56A support act.
26:58Even if someone you adore.
27:03You spent three years as Vice President.
27:07I've spent my whole life as Vice Queen.
27:10Except that came out wrong.
27:12I didn't mean I'm a...
27:13Vice Queen.
27:15Is there a strategy in place to deal with the fallout?
27:17Oh, no, there's no fallout.
27:20What?
27:20President Johnson agreed.
27:22Thoroughly.
27:23Enthusiastically.
27:24Unreservedly.
27:25He said, um...
27:27If I remember rightly.
27:29Jack Kennedy...
27:30Would have killed his own mother
27:32just to take the skin off her ass
27:33to make a drum to beat his own praises.
27:43Right?
27:44I see.
27:47This then led to a drinking contest.
27:50What?
27:51Last man standing is the winner.
27:52Challenge accepted.
27:53Which in turn led to a limerick contest.
27:56Limericks?
27:57Yes, ma'am.
27:58Some of them, I'm afraid to say,
28:00a little off-color.
28:02Hmm.
28:03Well, go on then.
28:05Oh, right.
28:08Um...
28:08Well, the first one went a little...
28:13There was a young woman from Delaware...
28:15Who liked to make love.
28:19Liked to make love.
28:21Delaware.
28:21Delaware.
28:22In her underwear.
28:23A terrible prude.
28:24She would never go nude.
28:26And her bum hips and tits
28:28she would never bear.
28:33What else?
28:34The president countered with,
28:36there was a young man from Wisconsin
28:38who was blessed with an enormously large...
28:41Johnson?
28:44Where's the rest of it?
28:45I believe everyone thought that was long enough.
28:49As it were.
28:51Any more?
28:52Princess Margaret won the evening with this one.
28:55There was a young lady from Dallas
28:58who used a dynamite stick as a phallus.
29:01Oh!
29:02They found her...
29:06You've made it this far.
29:10They found her vagina in North Carolina...
29:12and her arsehole in Buckingham Palace.
29:18Bravo.
29:25Then, apparently, there was dancing.
29:49Followed by singing.
29:50Anything you can be, I can be, greater, sooner or later, I'm greater than you.
29:57Yes, I am.
29:58Yes, I am.
29:58No, you're not.
29:59Yes, I am.
30:00No, you're not.
30:00Yes, I am.
30:01Yes, I am.
30:03She finally stuck at home at four in the morning, newly anglophile President Johnson having agreed
30:08to the bailout, a special relationship more special than ever.
30:12Without being caught?
30:14Yeah!
30:15That's what I thought, you crook.
30:16And all because Margaret was all the things I'd specifically begged her not to be.
30:20All the things I could never be.
30:24Instinctive, spontaneous, dazzling.
30:29Oh, you're all those things, too.
30:31No, I'm not.
30:33I'm predictable, dependable, reliable.
30:36Well, of those two, I would pick dependability every day of the week.
30:43But it would be nice to be dazzling on occasion, too.
30:46You are dazzling.
30:47Mm.
30:49You're a dazzling cabbage.
30:51Anything you can say, I can say.
30:53Faster.
30:54I can say anything.
30:56Faster than you.
30:57No, you can't.
30:57Yes, I can.
30:58No, you can't.
31:00No, you can't.
31:00No, you can't.
31:18No, you can't.
31:20Prime Minister.
31:24Well played, Your Royal Highness.
31:26Very well played.
31:28Thank you, sir.
31:30Shall we?
32:14Hail the conquering heroine.
32:16Ah, yes.
32:17Let the abuse begin.
32:19Now, you must know by now.
32:21Any triumph from this family is better than healthy doses.
32:23Envy?
32:24Spite?
32:24Good natured teasing.
32:25To keep one's feet on the ground.
32:27Everyone's very grateful.
32:29The Prime Minister said he was going to write to you personally.
32:31Ah, better than that.
32:33He met me at the airport.
32:35Ah.
32:36And now we're all racking our brains as to what to give you to show our appreciation.
32:41How would you feel about the order of merit?
32:44Or the Victorian chain?
32:47You can keep your gongs and your bongs for all the men to whom it matters so much.
32:52But I'd be lying if I didn't admit to having done a little thinking in view of how well it
32:56all went.
32:58About us doing it more often.
33:02Doing what?
33:04Sharing duties.
33:06But we didn't share duties, you just went to a dinner party.
33:10In your place.
33:12And represented crown and country with, I think we can agree, favorable results.
33:21Isn't it possible that we've stumbled upon something here?
33:25You have far too much to do.
33:27Far too much pressure.
33:29Far too much responsibility.
33:30And I, too little.
33:32Having no role.
33:34Having nothing to do.
33:36Is...
33:37Soul-destroying.
33:41All I'm asking is if you were prepared to share a little more.
33:47For Besar's sakes.
33:57Let me think about it.
33:59I'll see what I can do.
34:05Don't tell me you softened.
34:07I did.
34:08And with good reason.
34:10Margaret does suffer more than anyone else by not having a more meaningful role.
34:14Suffers in health and happiness.
34:17She's overlooked.
34:19And in terms of ability and character and intelligence and flair, she does not deserve to be overlooked.
34:25So why shouldn't we consider expending the role?
34:28Sharing the job a bit more?
34:30There are two answers to that question.
34:33Neither makes for pretty listening.
34:37Yes.
34:38The system is unequal.
34:40Unjust and cruel.
34:42The primogeniture divides and destroys families.
34:45The system stinks.
34:46But, in its cruelty and injustice, it reflects something else which is harsh and brutal.
34:53Which no one is suggesting we rearrange.
34:55Life.
34:58We all desire equality.
35:01Here's the thing.
35:03We were not born equal.
35:06And what's the second?
35:09Do you remember I told you once I got drunk with that god-awful monster Tommy Lassells?
35:14Well, that night, he shared with me his theory about the House of Windsor.
35:20I've never repeated to anyone since.
35:23Go on.
35:27He asked me to imagine a mythological creature.
35:31A rice-addler.
35:33A polycephalus.
35:35A two-headed eagle.
35:37For the purposes of this conversation, I want you to think of it as representing us.
35:41This family.
35:44Your family.
35:46There have always been the dazzling Windsors and the dull ones.
35:50Your father.
35:51A saint.
35:52But dull.
35:54Sorry.
35:56Your grandfather too.
35:58George V.
35:59Deadly dull.
36:01At the height of the Great War, when the Tsar and the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria were dazzling
36:07the world, where was he?
36:09He was sticking stamps in his album.
36:11His wife.
36:12Queen Mary, wonderful.
36:13Ditchwater.
36:14And so it goes, through George V to Queen Victoria and back.
36:18An uninterrupted line of stolid, turgid dreary.
36:22Culminating in me.
36:23Yes, but, alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain, runs another.
36:34The dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic, and the dangerous.
36:40And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII.
36:45For every George V, you get a Prince Eddie.
36:48For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII.
36:52For every Lilibet, you get a Margaret.
36:57And she may have had a success in Washington.
37:00But let's not delude ourselves that serious diplomacy can be achieved through drinking and dancing.
37:05Let Margaret have the glory.
37:07But let's not rewrite the constitutional rule book because she got lucky once.
37:12And where does that leave my relationship with her?
37:14Unchanged.
37:16You're the Queen.
37:18And she is your dangerous baby sister.
37:23She's outside. She knows we're talking about her.
37:26Then let's join her.
37:28That feverish mind of hers needs no encouragement.
38:07What you are suggesting is unthinkable.
38:09The order of succession to the throne is determined by the act of settlement of 1701,
38:14not the wild and irresponsible whims of young princesses.
38:18The principle of undisturbed hereditary descent is a pillar of stability and perpetuity for the nation.
38:26Princess Elizabeth's destiny is to accede to the throne.
38:28Yours is to serve and support.
38:31I would urge you to accept your position in life.
38:35And to dismiss, forthwith, any childish notions about rewriting the rule book so that it might better suit your character.
38:43We all have a role to play.
38:46Princess Elizabeth's will be center stage and yours, ma'am, will be from the wings.
38:50Please.
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