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00:00THE END
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00:02I'm going to hang out with the water.
00:21I'll start with the water.
00:23I won't go to the water.
00:24I won't go to the water.
00:26I won't go to the water.
00:36This is the end. They have given you the exodus.
00:41They are the final ones.
00:43But I have no idea. I have no idea. I have no idea.
00:50I have no idea. I have no idea.
00:53I have no idea.
00:54In the past, when we didn't have any money,
00:57we were able to do personal meetings.
01:00I have seen a lot of things.
01:03Then we didn't have a choice.
01:06The end has to close.
01:34And three, two...
01:40Tonight on Meet the Press, we have a very special guest indeed.
01:43His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh,
01:47here in Washington as part of an 18-day tour of Canada and the United States.
01:52Welcome, sir.
01:53Thank you. Delighted to be here.
01:55So many questions to ask, so little time.
01:58But one thing we'd like to clear up right away,
02:00for all of us ignorant Americans who just don't understand,
02:04how come you're not king?
02:07Because when a king of England marries, his wife, whoever she is,
02:11automatically becomes queen, correct?
02:13Yes, correct.
02:14So when the queen married you, what happened?
02:17As a fellow male, I am aggrieved.
02:21Isn't your right to me?
02:23It's monstrously unjust.
02:26And to continue this theme of injustice,
02:29a recent news dispatch from London begins this way.
02:33Queen Elizabeth has not had a pay raise in over 15 years.
02:37True.
02:38The article then goes on about the significant challenge the royal family faces
02:42in surviving on the existing allowance.
02:45Is this creating an awkward situation, sir?
02:49Very. We go into the red, I think, next year.
02:52Which is not bad housekeeping, if you come to think of it.
02:56We've kept the whole thing going on a budget,
02:59which was based on the costs of over 15 years ago,
03:03when the queen acceded to the throne.
03:06So, in order to afford everything?
03:09Well, very considerable corners have had to be cut,
03:12and it is beginning to have its effect.
03:15Now, if nothing happens, we should either have to...
03:19I mean, I don't know.
03:20We may have to move into smaller premises, who knows?
03:26Smaller palaces, or something like that.
03:28I mean, we've already embarked on a general belt tightening,
03:31which has not made life easy.
03:33I mean, for instance, we had a small yacht,
03:36which we have had to sell.
03:38Really?
03:38And I shall probably have to give up public fairly soon,
03:40and things like that.
03:43Thank you all. We'll be back with Peter Brown.
03:45See more questions for our guests.
03:46International call, please. London, England.
03:51019460200.
03:56Hello, Ken.
03:57Ken, it's John Armstrong.
03:59I'm in New York on the Muhammad Ali story,
04:00and I've just seen the Duke of Edinburgh
04:02give an interview on television here.
04:04Give me 600 words and hold the front page.
04:08You won't regret it.
04:28I had intended to start our agenda with the situation in eastern Nigeria.
04:33But given the article in today's Guardian about His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh...
04:38Yes. Perhaps we ought to start with that.
04:40What was the reaction in Cabinet?
04:42Positive on the whole.
04:43In view of the gloomy economic forecast,
04:46might I suggest that the government follows the advice of John Armstrong,
04:49writing in today's Guardian,
04:50and sells off an outdated and redundant piece of state infrastructure,
04:54the royal family.
04:57On the whole?
04:58Well, of course, the usual suspects were jumping up and down.
05:00Ben, Trostman, Castle.
05:03You'd expect that.
05:04Perhaps a whip round and buy the prince a new pony.
05:07In the current economic climate,
05:09with honest working families up and down the country fighting to survive,
05:13I find a plea of poverty from a jumped up freeloader like him
05:17not just inappropriate but downright offensive.
05:21I'm assuming you know what that family cost the British taxpayer each year.
05:25Two and a half million.
05:27Now, when you compare that to the average family...
05:31Oh, I do know that.
05:31£1,607.
05:33...per year.
05:34The royal family cost more than four times that per day,
05:38and now they're asking for more.
05:41More!
05:42Come on, Barbara, it's not cheap playing polo.
05:44How dare they?
05:45It was the reaction from the rest of them that concerned me.
05:50The fence-sitters.
05:53Before the article, I would have said there were six hardliners in cabinet
05:57in favour of cutting the civil list,
05:59against 14 whom we might call moderates.
06:03Now the figures are more like 10 to 10.
06:08That's a significant and worrying swing.
06:10And your own position?
06:13Mine, ma'am?
06:14Yes, Prime Minister, yours.
06:16You hold the casting vote.
06:19Well, I've always been an ardent supporter of the monarchy.
06:23As the record shows.
06:25But when it comes to a plea of poverty from the husband of the richest woman in the world,
06:31and an appeal to the British taxpayer for a pay rise at a time like this,
06:36even I find myself...
06:39conflicted.
06:41I mean, what does he want us to do?
06:43Live in a semi-detached?
06:45Travel everywhere on the omnibus?
06:46Yes.
06:47Actually, he did mention travel.
06:49That the Royal Yacht is funded by the Navy,
06:52our aeroplanes by the Air Force,
06:54and that Margaret's recent holiday in America cost the exchequer £30,000,
06:58for which, I'm told, she did two days' actual work.
07:01Margaret's holiday not only secured a multi-million pound bailout,
07:05but she also got rave reviews in every newspaper in the world.
07:08Which is a downside more than Mr Wilson and his economically incompetent socialist chums have achieved.
07:17Leave it with me.
07:20What does that mean?
07:23It means this needs a response.
07:26A robust response.
07:28Philip.
07:29You deserve to be paid properly.
07:32We deserve to be paid properly.
07:35I'm not going to rest until we are.
07:47I'm not going to rest.
08:09There are two Zafiri kelanes, panosidiamandia.
08:15No Zafiri is not the limit.
08:17Even if a part of this is true, it will be...
08:19Don't forget it.
08:51Don't forget it.
09:19No way!
09:51Are you coming into the land?
09:52Giagho!
09:53What's a spiritual spirit?
09:55He's not a spiritual spirit, he's a real brother.
10:00What?
10:01He's a soul of Greece and Chile.
10:04It was born in the Gwynчо.
10:05His father was the Tsar of Russia.
10:08His father was the Vasilisa.
10:10And his father was the heir of the Vasilisa of Anglia.
10:16Let's go.
10:21Do you still have any questions?
10:31Sweetie, are you there?
10:35Can you hear me?
10:40Sweetie?
10:43Sweetie?
10:47Hello, Sweetie.
10:52Hello, Highness?
10:55Hello, Sweetie. Can you hear me? Do pick up.
11:01Hello?
11:06Your Royal Highness.
11:07Hello, Sweetie.
11:09Your Majesty.
11:10Yes.
11:10Is Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh?
11:12Not me, I'm afraid. I'm Darling or Cabbage. Sweetie is someone else.
11:17Ah, you see, it works.
11:20You asked to see me?
11:21Yes.
11:27Yes.
11:28Yes.
11:29I've spoken to Colonel Adeen.
11:31Yes.
11:32And Martin Charteris.
11:33Yes.
11:33And William Hesseltine.
11:35Oh.
11:35A collection of the people you most hate in life.
11:38Hmm.
11:38Well, we all got together.
11:40In a reptile cage.
11:41Yeah.
11:42At a zoo.
11:42No.
11:43It was decided that as part of a new public relations initiative, you're going to be launched.
11:48What?
11:49Well, not like a rocket.
11:51Well, perhaps a bit like a rocket.
11:52Oh.
11:53And to that end, I'd like you to participate alongside the whole family in a landmark film
11:58to be shown on television.
12:00Mm-hmm.
12:01Look, I've told you the story, haven't I?
12:03Look, when I was a baby...
12:06Yes.
12:06We had to flee Greece.
12:07Yes, in a lemon crate.
12:08An orange crate.
12:09And that was because the people had taken against us as the Royal Family.
12:14You know, from that moment on, we were displaced.
12:17In exile.
12:18I was, I was without a proper home, without a family.
12:21And I, I don't want that for us.
12:25You know, I, I want people to like us, to feel that they know us.
12:28I know you value your privacy, but I think there's a lot about you that they would like,
12:33if they, if they got a chance.
12:35The fact that you're, you know, generally, you're good value for money.
12:38Like a pair of long-lasting boots?
12:41Is there anything one loves more in life than a pair of long-lasting boots?
12:47It all sounds hideous.
12:49Yes.
12:50I thought that's what you'd say.
12:52What if you and the other reptiles insist?
12:55I'm afraid we do.
13:11A film?
13:13Yes.
13:14It's a, it's a documentary film.
13:18Tony, do you want to?
13:19Oh, it means, um, no acting.
13:22No artifacts.
13:23Just the real thing.
13:25Like one of those wildlife films.
13:27Oh, I like this.
13:28Hmm.
13:29Yes, except this time, we are the endangered species.
13:33Yes, exactly.
13:34We will follow all of us in our daily lives to prove to everyone out there what we in here
13:38already know.
13:43What's that?
13:44Well, how hard we all were.
13:46What good value we represent.
13:48How much we deserve the taxpayers' money.
13:51So we'll all have to get used to cameras being here all the time.
13:54Not all the time.
13:54They'll follow us on and off over the course of the next few months.
13:57So, all of you, on best behavior.
14:07It's jolly powerful, that night, isn't it?
14:09Back it up, would you guarantee?
14:10I'm sorry, ma'am.
14:11Yes, thank you.
14:12Oh my gosh, I just want to see him here.
14:14Oh!
14:19Oh!
14:21Oh!
14:22Oh!
14:23Oh!
14:25Oh!
14:30You must all seem very, very glamorous.
14:32You know, British Olympic team for lunch, the American president for dinner.
14:36It's a lot of, a lot of work, a lot of preparation and a lot of expense.
14:40I mean, in terms of what it actually achieves, I like to think that it, we are, worth every penny.
15:04I was half expecting cameras here to greet me.
15:07Lights. Microphones.
15:09Oh, you've heard?
15:09Yes.
15:10I'm afraid my husband is quite taken by the idea of this documentary.
15:14And while I might not understand television, I do understand marriage.
15:17And when it is important to let someone shine.
15:20Now, we have a lot to catch up on, not least a military coup in Athens.
15:23Yes.
15:24Where, I believe, your mother-in-law is still living.
15:27According to the Foreign Office, it's possible she's in some danger.
15:57Yes, sir.
15:57Is that the most recent shot list?
16:02Carry on.
16:03Yes, sir.
16:08Hello, you.
16:10I spoke to the Prime Minister today.
16:12As you know, Athens is in the throes of a military coup.
16:16Yes?
16:17The Foreign Office view is that we should send a plane to bring your mother to England to live here
16:22with us.
16:22Here?
16:23Yes.
16:24Here.
16:24I'm sure you'll agree there's room at the inn.
16:26When?
16:27As soon as possible, to Moria.
16:28We can't do that.
16:29Why not?
16:30In case you hadn't noticed, we have cameras crawling all over the place.
16:33As it happens, I had noticed.
16:34Well, we can't afford to have my mother jeopardize this film.
16:38You know what she's like.
16:39A little eccentric, yes.
16:40More than that, she's not of our world, nor, frankly, suited to it.
16:44She's been in institutions most of her adult life.
16:48She's not well.
16:51And with this film, appearances are vital.
16:53We need to be careful, very careful.
16:55The answer is no.
16:56Okay, everyone, if we can hurry up, she's ready now.
16:59Ready?
17:00Ready.
17:01All right, are you ready?
17:04Uh, the editor's down.
17:05Come on.
17:06We're ready.
17:07Hurry up.
17:07Of course she should come.
17:09She's 82.
17:10And if being mother to the Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law to the Queen, isn't qualification enough.
17:14The fact that she's grandmother to our future king is.
17:17Bring her over.
17:18Put her in a room next to Princess Anne.
17:20She can keep an eye on her.
17:21Yes, ma'am.
17:34She can keep an eye on her.
17:34She can keep an eye on her.
17:54She can keep an eye on her.
18:00Of course she's honest.
18:04Rich.
18:07I'm so happy.
18:08Of course she'll be on court.
18:09Yes, stamps.
18:09Plus, plus the TV.
18:39I was alive to die.
18:40So I was alive.
18:44I've got everything that's...
18:45...and I've got everything that's...
18:46...like that's just enough for you.
18:48I was alive.
18:51I was alive.
18:55I was alive.
18:57I was alive.
18:58I was alive.
19:01I've got everything I load to you.
19:05I can't keep you alive.
19:06I think he's alive.
19:09I can't stop myself.
19:18Thank you, dear.
19:28Your Royal Highness.
19:33Please, this way.
19:55Your Majesty.
19:57We're so happy to have you here with us, safe and sound.
20:00You're very kind.
20:02Too kind.
20:10Bobbikins?
20:11I'm afraid your dear son is indisposed at the moment.
20:15We're in the middle of having a film made.
20:18What?
20:19It doesn't matter.
20:21He'll come and visit you soon.
20:22You must be tired.
20:23We'll find someone to take you to your room.
20:25Thank you, thank you.
20:36Bobbikins.
20:38Yes.
20:40Yes.
21:07Your room, your Royal Highness.
21:10Oh, it's lovely.
21:18Royal Highness, just to say that Princess Alice has arrived.
21:24Thank you, Martin.
21:46Oh, my God.
21:50Oh, my God.
22:01Oh, my God.
22:03Oh, my God.
22:09Oh, my God.
22:27Oh, my God.
22:28Oh, my God.
22:30Oh, my God.
22:32Oh, my God.
22:34Oh, my God.
22:36Oh, my God.
22:37Oh, my God.
22:39Oh, my God.
22:39Oh, my God.
22:39Oh, my God.
22:39I don't know.
23:11Sir, they're ready for you.
23:24Shh, shh, shh.
23:26They're rolling, dear.
23:28We are being filmed watching television.
23:31The people might watch us watching television
23:35on their own television sets at home.
23:38This really is plumbing new depths of banality.
23:49What do we do now?
23:54Do you expect us to say something?
23:57Yes.
23:58What?
23:59Could someone prepare something?
24:00I think the general idea is it be unscripted,
24:03to reflect a normal evening.
24:05This is nothing like a normal evening.
24:07It was a normal evening.
24:09We'd all be on our own, in sad isolation, in individual palaces.
24:14It wouldn't be crowded like this.
24:16This is like some kind of nightmare Christmas.
24:19Rex Malick sees a future home where children could be virtually educated by computer,
24:23where every home will have its own terminal plugged into a central brain.
24:27Perhaps, Your Majesty's, Your Royal Highnesses, perhaps you might comment on what's on the television.
24:32Let it be easier.
24:34If there was something remotely amusing, to what?
24:37I agree, this is deathly.
24:39Things might improve with a drink.
24:40Everything improves with a drink.
24:42Not everything.
24:43Oh.
24:43Don't be such a prick.
24:44Colin.
24:46And cut.
24:48Oh, thank God for that.
24:51Oh.
25:06Hello?
25:12Hello?
25:13Hello?
25:31Hello?
25:32Hello, dear?
25:33Do you mind?
25:36No.
25:36No, no.
25:37Not at all.
25:38There wasn't a light to be had anywhere in the palace.
25:43Who's that?
25:44The Duke of Edinburgh's mother, Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark.
25:48Oh.
26:05Find a truth to her, then...
26:09Well...
26:09for God's sake, somebody stop that.
26:11Then we will...
26:12Then we will...
26:13Then we will...
26:14Dammit!
26:16Do you have a...
26:17That's correct.
26:19Tell us about the office of the police.
26:21Yes, yes, it's called...
26:23The...
26:24The...
26:24... Sisterhood of Most America...
26:27...and it's ten-half-hours.
26:29That's correct.
26:31And what you're...
26:33... about...
26:33...about...
26:33...the...
26:34...the...
26:34And...
26:57It's a nightmare.
26:58We have to get her out of here somewhere.
27:00No one will see her.
27:01What?
27:02We are in the middle of filming a documentary
27:03which is critical.
27:04As a public relations exercise.
27:06Now on this occasion the filmmakers agreed to give up the footage.
27:08Next time they might not be so kind.
27:10Her presence at the palace threatens to derail the entire thing.
27:14Why are you so angry with her?
27:16I'm not angry.
27:17Yes you are.
27:17You're furious.
27:19Have you even been to see her yet?
27:20Since she arrived?
27:23You haven't.
27:24Let me give you some advice.
27:27Stop patronising me.
27:28Stop interfering.
27:29Stop meddling.
27:30Just stop.
27:31You know nothing.
27:32I know that she's your mother.
27:39Technically yes.
27:40What is that supposed to mean?
27:42It means she gave birth to me.
27:46She was never a mother.
27:48Phillip.
27:52Phillip!
28:10Rosa came running to me in the middle of the night and said, we have to get more buckets.
28:14We have to get more buckets.
28:15It was like listening to an orchestra, isn't it?
28:18It was really quite funny.
28:22Except of course we were all soaking wet and jolly-
28:26Ah, two of you.
28:30Your Majesty.
28:33Yaya's been telling me the most incredible stories about her life.
28:36Has she?
28:37I just came to make sure you had everything you need.
28:39Please.
28:40Oh yes.
28:41I have more than everything.
28:42But her convent doesn't.
28:44Darling, sure.
28:45It needs two hundred pounds for the roof.
28:47Really?
28:48It's true.
28:49And three hundred pounds for new medicine.
28:52And beds.
28:53So we're busy writing to patrons and benefactors asking for money.
28:56The palace writing paper.
28:59We think it could help.
29:01And if there's anything here we might consider selling.
29:04Such as?
29:06A painting.
29:08A painting.
29:11Oh, a clock.
29:13There are so many clocks everywhere.
29:15You wouldn't miss one or two, surely?
29:18It's not quite so simple.
29:20Some of them aren't ours to sell.
29:23But maybe your darling son will be good enough to make a donation.
29:27Oh.
29:29Bubbikins.
29:32Yes, Bubbikins.
29:34In the meantime, we'll get you some more cigarettes.
29:36And I promise we'll have a big jumble sale of all the palace valuables on our return.
29:43Please.
29:48What?
29:54Morning, Bridget.
29:55Morning, John.
29:56Excited to watch tonight?
29:58I couldn't be more excited.
29:59Yes, of course.
30:00I think so.
30:02Good morning, Bridget.
30:04Good morning.
30:12Good morning.
30:14It turns on.
30:20Buckingham captains.
30:21Known around the world is the home of Queen Elizabeth II.
30:25Until now, an impenetrable fortress.
30:27In a workings hidden from view.
30:30That is all about to change.
30:32We have been granted a rare peek behind the curtains to the home of the most important family in Britain.
30:38As the day begins, the Queen gets to work.
30:40Oh, no, my hair looks frightful.
30:42How many pounds do they say?
30:43The camera ads don't.
30:44You wouldn't necessarily think it.
30:46But by many of her subjects, the Queen has an office job.
30:49And with five departments to manage, she relies heavily on her private secretaries.
30:54And these are the recommendations for the...
30:58These men manage all the Queen's engagements and responsibilities, and nothing goes on in the palace without their knowledge.
31:05As the day goes on, it brings with it more royal duties.
31:08I hereby list the following...
31:09First of all, a meeting of the Privy Council.
31:12Now, you might be wondering why no one is sitting down.
31:15Well, no one quite knows the answer.
31:18But it certainly helps to keep things brief.
31:20I wonder what's more dull.
31:22Having to sit through one of those meetings or having to watch it on television.
31:25But it's not only the Queen who has royal duties.
31:28Queen Mother, too, carries out many public engagements.
31:31Well, I captured your best side, at least.
31:33And it's a great face.
31:34Shh.
31:36Oh, look, Mummy.
31:37It's your big close-up.
31:39I'm ready.
31:40Mr. DeMille.
31:43One of Her Majesty's favourite pastimes is overseeing operations at the 150-acre stud at Sandringham.
31:50But even then, royal duties never let up.
31:55Nor does the endless round of functions and receptions.
31:59There's always some kind of occasion to prepare for, and whatever the function, the quality of food and service must
32:05be second to none.
32:08These events may seem indulgent, but they are of national importance.
32:12As is the formality.
32:14Ambassadors must be treated exactly the same to avoid the impression that one is favoured over another.
32:19It's with a great honour, Your Majesty.
32:21I find it very interesting, Ambassador.
32:23World problems are so complex, aren't they?
32:25Of course, it's not all dinners and duty.
32:27Although the Queen and Prince Philip are often separated from their children, the holidays are a time for families, and
32:34they make sure to take them regularly and often.
32:36Night, John.
32:37Night, Solomon.
32:39A favourite destination is Balmoral Castle, the Queen's private residence in the highlands of Scotland.
32:46Last night, the nation tuned in as one to watch a documentary that would restore the royal family to their
32:53rightful place at the heart of the nation's affections.
32:56Sadly, that was not what they got.
33:00It's hard to imagine what they were thinking.
33:03Agreeing to open the doors to television cameras.
33:06That, stripped of all ceremony and mystery, we would marvel at how normal they were.
33:12How remarkably like us.
33:15That, watching them travel from castle to castle, palace to palace, in yachts and aeroplanes, we pay for.
33:22Stocking on land their own.
33:25Fishing on rivers their own.
33:27And cooking barbecues in forests their own.
33:29We would reflect on how tirelessly they toiled, what good value for money they represent, and be moved to increase
33:37the amount of money we pay them.
33:39Proud of John.
33:40Don't be shy.
33:41Come on.
33:41Let's all hear it.
33:42Come on, John.
33:46Let's hear it.
33:47Come on.
33:47That the strongest piece of armour in the monarchy's arsenal is its sense of mystery, from which derives its air
33:54of majesty.
33:55Yeah.
33:57The only thing awe-inspiring about this slot is the size of their over-inflated sense of self-entitlement.
34:06And their ability to practice a line in small talk that would have life support patients reaching for the off
34:11switch.
34:34Wonderful viewing figures.
34:36The highest for a factual documentary ever.
34:42And some lovely reviews in the newspapers this morning.
34:46They were brutal.
34:47None that I read.
34:57I like to think I understand television as well as anyone in the country.
35:02I owe my political life to it.
35:06And that's because I've learned over time how to do it, how to make it work for me.
35:12Perhaps the royal family is not best suited to it.
35:17Television is good for normal people.
35:19But that was the whole point.
35:21To show everyone that behind palace gates we are perfectly normal people.
35:24No, ma'am.
35:25You are not normal.
35:26Aren't we?
35:27We wake up in the morning, go to bed at night, we work, get tired, get colds, we have uncles
35:34that embarrass us.
35:36Christmas is to endure.
35:37We are perfectly normal.
35:38But people don't consider you to be.
35:42And if I may say it, this is where it gets a little complicated.
35:48They don't want you to be normal.
35:51Well, what do they want?
35:52Tell me.
35:53It's all any of us want to know.
35:55What do you want from us?
35:56Well, the truth is, we don't know what we want.
36:00Other than we want you to be ideal.
36:05An ideal.
36:06No human being is ideal.
36:09Only God is ideal.
36:12Which is why I'd favour the royal family being kept out of sight.
36:16Out of mind.
36:17For our own survival and sanity.
36:20But the thing is, we can't be hidden away.
36:22We have to be in full view all the time.
36:25So what's the answer?
36:28The best we've come up with so far is ritual and mystery.
36:32Because it keeps us hidden while still in plain sight.
36:35The smoke and the mirrors.
36:38The mystery and the protocol.
36:40It's not there to keep us apart.
36:42It is there to keep us alive.
37:06You ran?
37:07Yes.
37:09Sit down.
37:23Well, it seems the documentary not only failed to achieve what I'd hoped for,
37:27it has somehow achieved the opposite.
37:29Instead of writing about all good value for money we represent,
37:34commentators are united in their mockery of our woodenness, our stupidity, vanity, extravagance.
37:43Well, I did warn...
37:44Do not say you warned me.
37:45I did.
37:46It was always a daft idea.
37:47It was always going to backfire.
37:48Is it really necessary for you to speak your mind quite so mercilessly at every opportunity...
37:52Where do you think I get that from?
38:04So, what are you going to do?
38:10Actually, I was hoping we might talk about what you're going to do.
38:14I would like to offer you to the Manchester Guardian as the subject of a major in-depth profile.
38:21Why them?
38:22Why not the Daily Telegraph or the Daily Mail or someone we could expect to be a little bit friendly?
38:26Because, in the light of all this criticism, an endorsement from our most vocal critics would represent more of a
38:34turnaround.
38:34If we can get an endorsement...
38:36You're the most thrifty, feet-on-the-ground, low-profile, unpretentious royal we've got.
38:41If anyone can salvage this, you can.
39:07John, I've just had a phone call from the Palace Press Secretary.
39:11Oh, let me guess.
39:11Demanding an apology.
39:12Calling my criticism on patriotic treasonous.
39:15No, to offer us an interview with Princess Anne.
39:17What?
39:18Little Miss Dumpy and Grumpy?
39:19Yes, and most bizarrely of all, they've specifically requested you as the writer.
39:25Oh, they're really half-gone mad.
39:32North Central Goat, yes, sir.
39:33Right, you are.
39:39John Armstrong, from The Guardian, to see Anne.
39:43Who?
39:45Princess Anne, for the interview?
39:47Yes, sir. Right this way.
39:57Wait here, please, sir.
40:21Now I help.
40:21What?
40:27There.
40:59Mr. Armstrong, did you not receive the message?
41:02Her Royal Highness Princess Anne is, is, um, is unwell, with a heavy cold, and is indisposed.
41:11No, they didn't tell me.
41:12I'm so sorry, I'll see you out.
41:14Who's that?
41:14Um, who?
41:16The nun?
41:17That's, uh, that's Princess Alice.
41:20Who?
41:22Mother of His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh.
41:26Oh, do you think she talked to me?
41:27Uh, no, certainly not.
41:28Uh, so, if you don't mind.
41:30I can ask her myself.
41:32Uh, no, that really wouldn't be appropriate.
41:33Please, Mr. Armstrong.
41:35Hello, I'm John Armstrong.
41:36I'm writing an article about the Royal Family for The Guardian.
41:39Can I ask you some questions?
41:40What?
41:41I'm John Armstrong from The Guardian.
41:43Could we have an interview?
41:44Yes, of course.
41:46She said, yes.
41:58So, my dear, how can I help you?
42:01Well, I think the people in this country would be very interested to get to know the Queen's mother-in
42:07-law.
42:08Really?
42:08Oh, yes.
42:10So, we should start from the very beginning.
42:13Well, I'm ancient.
42:15We could be here a long time.
42:17And I have all the time in the world.
42:22Well.
42:22Well, I was born in Windsor Castle.
42:28Queen Victoria herself was present at my birth.
42:31Was she?
42:33Everyone thought I was a slow child.
42:36Slow?
42:37In which sense?
42:38Walking?
42:39No, dear.
42:44Slow in here.
42:47Right.
42:49I was born deaf.
42:52Oh, I'm sorry.
42:54What otherwise perfectly normal?
42:56Well, I should say.
42:58But obviously others didn't, because then I was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
43:05And sent to an asylum.
43:09A mental asylum?
43:11Yes.
43:14I was treated by Sigmund Freud.
43:23He was not a kind man.
43:32Go on.
43:35I was there for just over two years.
43:38Mm-hmm.
43:39And I managed to escape.
43:44And I went back to acid.
43:46I was there for just over three years.
43:48Come on.
43:57Oh, God.
43:58Oh, God.
43:59Oh, God.
44:04Oh, God.
44:09Oh, God.
44:11Oh, God.
44:11Oh, God.
44:12Oh, God.
44:13Oh, God.
44:14Oh, God.
44:14Oh, God.
44:18I don't know.
44:59I don't know.
45:16I don't know.
45:18I don't know.
45:19I don't know.
45:34I don't know.
45:56I don't know.
46:05For Princess Alice is that rarest of creatures, a member of a royal family that has suffered more than the
46:12rest of us, worked harder than the rest of us, and created more good than the rest of us.
46:21Congenitally deaf, she was consistently misunderstood, marginalized, and underestimated.
46:28Doctors inflicted untold horrors on her, X-raying her wound to bring on menopause and reduce her libido, and electroshock
46:43treatment to treat her hysteria.
46:45But instead of business, Princess Alice dedicated her life to charity work, public service, and campaigning for social justice, often
46:54at great personal risk.
46:59It's a love letter.
46:59Well, it goes on and on.
47:04It's a love letter.
47:14I owe you an apology.
47:18I owe you an apology.
47:35We both know.
47:36We both know it's the other way around.
47:38At least your sisters had something of their mother.
47:44When we were forced to leave Greece, I couldn't cope.
47:53I needed care.
47:57I needed help.
47:59That wasn't help that they gave you.
48:02It was torture.
48:04They tried their best.
48:06No.
48:07The treatment they gave you was barbaric, and your courage in rising above it was remarkable.
48:14I didn't do it alone.
48:18I couldn't have.
48:21I had help every step of the way.
48:29Now, Bubbikins, you mentioned faithlessness.
48:33How is your faith?
48:35Dormant.
48:37What?
48:39Dormant.
48:42That's not good.
48:53Let this be your mother's gift to her child.
49:01And one piece of advice.
49:08Find yourself a faith.
49:13It helps.
49:15No.
49:18No, it just helps.
49:24It's everything.
49:37Oh, it looks like it's clearing up.
49:41What do you say?
49:42A walk?
49:53Sir, we'll move lunch with Lord Nelly Casey to the 12th, meaning there's enough time for
49:58the presentation of the Queen's colour to the Central Flying School at RAF Little Rissington
50:02on the 9th.
50:03Well done.
50:04Thank you, Michael.
50:05Is that everything?
50:08There is one more thing, ma'am.
50:10The Royal Family documentary has had a great deal of interest from overseas broadcasters.
50:15The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS
50:19and the United States.
50:20No.
50:21Ma'am?
50:22I don't think so.
50:24Right.
50:26I gather the BBC plans to repeat it in three weeks' time.
50:30I don't think that either.
50:32As a matter of fact, I think it bears to that documentary were never seen again anywhere
50:36by anyone.
50:41Can I leave that with you?
50:44Yes, ma'am.
50:45I don't think so, no.
50:47Yes, ma'am.
50:48No.
50:51No, I'm not.
50:52No, ma'am.
50:52Let's go.