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00:071, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, Evo!
00:16Ready?
00:21Ready.
00:231, 4, 3, 2, 1, Evo!
00:42Prime Minister?
00:48Prime Minister, when you first came to power you told me you hated seeing Britain in decline
00:51and that you were going to get the house in order.
00:53Now, almost three years on, we have inflation at 12%,
00:56unemployment of 3 million, and rioting and civil unrest in several major cities.
01:01It's true.
01:02But there isn't a magical system whereby you can just push a few buttons
01:08and twiddle a few knobs and everything will be all right.
01:11Of course I'd like to reduce interest rates.
01:16Prime Minister, are you all right?
01:18Perfectly, thank you.
01:21But to do that, we first need to get the inflation rate down,
01:24and that means to cut public spending.
01:27I would like to be very much tougher,
01:29but I can't go faster than Parliament or the people will allow me.
01:37I'm so sorry.
01:41So unprofessional.
01:42Me, not at all.
01:43The very idea that the first time a Prime Minister should break down in this room and it be a
01:48woman.
01:49It is by no means the first time a Prime Minister has broken down in here.
01:53Over the years, this room has been part office, part drawing room, part confessional, and part psychologist's couch.
02:00We even have paper hankies.
02:07Or a brandy.
02:10Whiskey.
02:11If you have one.
02:35You have two children, yes?
02:40Yes, twins.
02:42Mark.
02:42Mark and Carol.
02:4328 years old.
02:46And my favourite, Mark.
02:49A very special child.
02:51A kind of son any mother would dream of having.
02:56Has gone missing.
02:59Missing?
03:01He has been competing in the Paris Dakar car rally.
03:07He and his teammates had driven through France, crossed into Algeria, and entered the Sahara Desert.
03:14You don't know where we are, do you?
03:16Yes, I do.
03:17I know exactly.
03:18We're 23 kilometres east, no, west of Brigade.
03:26Brigade.
03:27We're lost.
03:28We're not lost.
03:29I know exactly what I'm doing.
03:35The last sighting was at a checkpoint in a village in Algeria, two days ago.
03:42Since then, nothing.
03:46It's been five days since Mark Thatcher was last sighted with his teammates.
03:50Helicopters have begun to scour the desert terrain in which they went missing.
03:54The Prime Minister said something interesting today about her son.
03:57It was about his sense of direction.
04:00She described him as her favourite child.
04:03Is that interesting?
04:04The way she said it was.
04:06Without equivocation or thought.
04:08Who would do that?
04:09Openly admit to preferring one child to another.
04:11Especially twins.
04:12Any honest parent.
04:13What?
04:14Any honest parent would admit to having a favourite.
04:17Who's our favourite?
04:18My favourite or your favourite?
04:20Is it different?
04:21I'd say so, yes.
04:22Alright, you first.
04:23Who's yours?
04:24Anne.
04:25You said that alarmingly quickly.
04:26Because it didn't require thought.
04:28Philip!
04:28And your favourite is?
04:29I don't know.
04:30Liar.
04:31It's true.
04:32I really don't know.
04:33Your lack of self-knowledge sometimes is breathtaking.
04:36On balance, I'd say that was an asset.
04:38Everyone knows who your favourite is.
04:40Do they?
04:41Yes.
04:43Well, who?
04:44Who?
04:44Go on.
04:47Philip!
04:48You can't just leave.
04:50What, Philip?
04:51Philip!
04:53Anxiety over Mark's abilities aren't new.
04:55Before the race, he was asked if his mother worried about him.
04:58All mothers worry about their boys.
05:00It's hard for them to get past that maternal instinct, isn't it?
05:03They get emotional.
05:04Laura Gibson, no one asks correctly.
05:04Anxiety over Mark's lottery.
05:22Who does he?
05:25fighting in the movie,unya CPU?
05:31No, that's it.
05:34Yu visto.
05:36Let's go over here.
05:47Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
06:06No, no, no, no, no, no.
06:41What are you doing?
06:44This is British Overseas Territory and you have landed illegally.
06:49You and your colleagues must leave immediately and remove the Argentine flag.
06:57You are illegal.
07:00Go to Argentina!
07:03Remove the flag, please.
07:07And board your ship immediately. Go on.
07:14He says we will remove our flag from our own territory.
07:34We are going to have to report this to the Gulf of the Falkland Islands.
07:43We are going to have to report this to the Gulf of the Falkland Islands.
07:48We are going to have to report this to the Gulf of the Falkland Islands.
08:00Your Majesty.
08:01Marty, I'd like you to arrange for me to see my four children.
08:06Uh, ma'am?
08:07In private. One at a time.
08:09Of course. Um, any particular order?
08:13No, I don't think so.
08:15Important, I think, though, that each is unaware that the others have been summoned too.
08:19Yes, ma'am.
08:28Martin, perhaps a short briefing document ahead of each meeting.
08:31Focusing on each child's hobbies, interests and so forth.
08:35Right.
08:36One would hate to appear uninformed.
08:38Or killed. Or remotely... remote.
08:41Of course, ma'am.
08:52Some encouraging news is that a Swiss driver by the name of Michel Bosi
08:57apparently saw Mark and his co-driver yesterday.
09:00Alive?
09:01Yes, alive.
09:02Lord Carrington and the Foreign Office made urgent requests of the Swiss Embassy to make contact with Bosi to get
09:08more information.
09:10But, uh...
09:12But?
09:13Without success.
09:14Brilliant.
09:15They can't even locate the drivers who aren't lost.
09:18Well, I'd better get over there.
09:22One final thing, Prime Minister.
09:25A small situation developing in the South Atlantic.
09:28The Governor of the Falkland Islands, Rex Hunt, has asked for permission for an ice-breaking vessel, HMS Endurance, to
09:34be sent from Port Stanley to the island of South Georgia to evict a group of Argentine scrap metal workers.
09:41HMS Endurance is currently at Port Stanley and could therefore be manned with a detachment of Royal Marines, who would
09:48easily outnumber the scrap metal workers who were trespassing.
09:58I'll take it to the Foreign Secretary.
10:06Oh, I'll show you that.
10:08You need to give us a clap.
10:10Go ahead.
10:34I know she's busy.
10:36So am I.
10:37Go on, off you go.
10:39Honestly.
10:41There's a nasty, vicious imperiousness and sense of entitlement to some of these people.
10:45I can't help it if roads are closed.
10:46Darling.
10:47So lovely to see you.
10:48Blimey.
10:52Now what's all this?
10:54I had a terrible fright when I heard you wanted lunch.
10:56Adieu.
10:57This isn't bad news, is it?
11:00I'm still getting my civil list money.
11:02Yes.
11:03All £20,000 of it.
11:04Don't say it like that.
11:05Well, it's rather a lot of money if someone's still at school.
11:08Most of it goes on secretarial expenses anyway.
11:11£800 goes on secretarial expenses, I checked.
11:13Which by my reckoning still leaves a small fortune.
11:16All safely tucked away.
11:17Now trust, don't worry.
11:19What's lunch?
11:20Wait, let me guess.
11:22Poached salmon?
11:24Yes.
11:27Brilliant.
11:28I had a vet with my protection officer on the way here that it would be poached salmon.
11:32It's always poached salmon in this place.
11:35I'm amazed we don't all have fins and gills.
11:44So you're head boy now?
11:46Guardian.
11:47I did tell you we'd call it that at Gordonstone.
11:48Of course, sorry.
11:49And what have you learnt about yourself as a consequence?
11:52What?
11:53You know the aphorism, no man knows who he truly is,
11:56until either his life is threatened or he's given power.
11:59I'm afraid it's unleashed the latent policeman in me.
12:02Don't say that.
12:03Why?
12:04Discipline is important.
12:05And I happened to have discovered a taste for enforcing it.
12:08I even had someone sent down last term.
12:11Sent down where?
12:11Home.
12:12For smoking.
12:14Weren't you almost caught for smoking once?
12:16Almost, yes.
12:17But I was clever enough to get away with it.
12:20Isn't that a little unfair?
12:22It's life, Mummy.
12:24Life has dealt you rather a good hand.
12:26Yes.
12:27Not without its challenges either.
12:31I mean, I might have been bullied a bit as normal Eddie Windsor.
12:35But as Prince Edward, third in line to the throne.
12:38Who bullies you?
12:40Pretty much everyone.
12:42How?
12:43You don't want to know.
12:45I do.
12:49All right.
12:51They call me Jaws.
12:52My braces.
12:54They fill plastic spoons with saliva and flick it at the back of my head.
12:59They put super glue on my chair.
13:02Gave me a bottle of white wine as a gift which turned out to be...
13:07What?
13:10Urine.
13:13They even went to the trouble of chilling it.
13:16One can't help admiring their ingenuity.
13:23Don't look like that.
13:25Cricket's going well.
13:26Made the first eleven, again.
13:29How about academic work?
13:31A-levels next term.
13:32How's that coming along?
13:33I read your reports.
13:34Don't believe everything you read.
13:36If you need any extra help.
13:37Don't worry.
13:38I've met all the Cambridge admissions people.
13:40They're going to make it happen.
13:42They're no fools.
13:43It's good for them too.
13:44A member of the royal family at Jesus College.
13:48Just wait and see how the applications rocket.
13:51That's not a particularly attractive attitude.
13:53It's true though, isn't it?
13:54Same with the marines.
13:55Same with the city.
13:56Same with any area of life I might fancy.
13:57People will always want me.
13:59And what do you expect me to do about that?
14:01Say no?
14:02There has to be some upside to being who we are.
14:07And some return for what we do for the country.
14:16There's no news tonight of the whereabouts of Mark Thatcher, his fellow driver, Annie Charlotte Verney, and their mechanic.
14:22Reports of sightings today are now being discounted.
14:25This is what the area looks like on the map.
14:27This is what some of the area looks like in actuality.
14:30In addition to the French Air Force planes, there are now two helicopters, three desert trucks, and a glass-bottomed
14:37aeroplane involved in the search for Mark.
14:40That was Daddy.
14:41Just arrived safely in Algiers.
14:45Now, the good news is that, with the help of the race organizers, we have managed to narrow down the
14:51search to a section of the Sahara between Taman Rasset in Algeria and Tessalit in Northern Mali.
14:58The bad news is that still leaves us with a search area approximately 130,000 square miles.
15:08Will you put that into context for me?
15:11Well, that's bigger than the entire United Kingdom.
15:16Not now.
15:18I'm sorry, the Foreign Secretary insisted.
15:21What is it, Charles?
15:22It's the situation in the Falklands.
15:35With HMS Endurance now on its way to South Georgia, carrying a combat unit of Royal Marines, if you recall...
15:41Yes, yes, to evict the scrub metal workers.
15:43The Argentine Junta has responded by sending its own ice patrol ship and two missile-carrying corvettes.
15:50With what justification?
15:52To protect its citizens.
15:53Who are breaking the law by trespassing?
15:56The Foreign Secretary has asked for your support of his proposed solution.
15:59Which is?
16:00To reroute HMS Endurance to avoid what he sees as an unnecessary conflict with Argentina while the situation is resolved
16:07diplomatically.
16:08You mean to do nothing?
16:10Yes.
16:11And trust all will be well.
16:15How will it be well if we do nothing?
16:19How will it possibly end up well if we do nothing?
16:26Our people, far from home, their lives are in danger, Charles.
16:33Our own.
16:34We must do something.
16:46If you'll excuse me.
16:49Will I get back to my son?
16:51Yes, Prime Minister.
17:12Thank you so much for watching.
17:19Then, thank you.
17:31Yes, I'm very comfortable, thank you.
17:38Hello, darling.
17:40Hello.
17:42I haven't got long, I'm afraid.
17:44Yes, they want me.
17:45So straight out?
17:46Yes, I just need to change quickly.
17:48Forecast rain?
17:49Are you sure you want to do this?
17:50Yes, quite sure.
17:52Good afternoon, Ellen.
17:53Good afternoon, ma'am.
17:53How are we?
17:54Very well, thank you.
17:55He's looking very well, isn't he?
17:58Good afternoon.
17:59How are you?
18:02Are you going to hear from me?
18:03Yes.
18:34Is this all right?
18:35It's a bit wet.
18:36It's fine.
18:42Isn't this heaven?
18:43If you say so.
18:44You do.
18:46Tucked away in the country.
18:47Rain and mud and horses and dogs.
18:49Children.
18:50Privacy.
18:51I do envy you.
18:52Well, it's not quite the Eden you imagine.
18:55For a start, there isn't privacy.
18:57They are there.
18:58Wherever I go.
19:00Who?
19:01Journalists.
19:02Photographers who just got it in for me.
19:06Bastards.
19:07Well, if you will keep calling them that.
19:08I told them to nerf off.
19:10Once.
19:11And can you blame me?
19:14They're so mean to me all the time.
19:17I'm pretty low-key, as you know.
19:18I don't want praise or attention or thanks.
19:23But I'm only human.
19:24Sometimes even a pit pony needs a pat on the head.
19:27I hear the feeling.
19:27It's not easy.
19:29Working in the heat and squalor of a third world country.
19:32Doing real work for real charities.
19:35But do I get as much as a mention in any newspaper?
19:38Or a thank you do I heck.
19:41And yet all she has to do is put on a frock.
19:44And she's all over all the front pages.
19:46And everyone's falling over in shock at how wonderful she is.
19:48Who?
19:50Her.
19:52Diana.
19:53The only other young female in the family, yes.
19:56Against whom I am now always compared.
19:59Lovely her, dumpy me.
20:01Smiling her, grumpy me.
20:02Charming her, awful me.
20:05And the constant questions about my marriage all the time.
20:08About Mark.
20:11Yes, how is Mark?
20:12That's it, exactly like that.
20:13How is Mark?
20:14Mark's fine.
20:16I'm fine.
20:17The children are fine.
20:18Well, I'm happy to hear that.
20:22Only there has been talk.
20:24I thought you didn't listen to talk.
20:26And a meeting recently with Commander Trestrail.
20:29Who?
20:30Head of the Royal Protection Branch.
20:33He felt compelled to mention rumours about a Sergeant Cross and the two of you.
20:39Being intimate.
20:40And in light of these rumours, Scotland Yard has recommended his transfer back to desk duties in Croydon.
20:58Don't do that to me.
21:04You can't.
21:04You can't.
21:05He is the one thing that makes me happy.
21:07You have so much to make you happy.
21:08Then how come none of it does?
21:12It will again if you're patient.
21:15Is that it?
21:17Is that the advice?
21:17Stick it out, grin and bear it.
21:19Persevere.
21:21Well, these things usually pass if you have the patience to wait.
21:26I used to enjoy my reputation as the difficult one.
21:30I used to relish scaring people a bit because I could control it.
21:38But recently, I'm the one who's scared.
21:47Because it started to feel more like it controls me.
21:50And it's changed.
21:51It's not just feeling angry.
21:53But a kind of recklessness.
22:00Or I just want to smash it all up.
22:06It will pass too.
22:12Is that it?
22:14It's doing nothing your solution to everything.
22:25Just go home.
22:27Yes.
22:28Sorry, I must keep you.
22:29I need to have things to do.
22:30You'll find your way back.
22:31Yes.
22:31You'll find yours.
22:35What?
22:47I didn't really want you.
22:48Don't worry.
22:48I won't fall on the ground?
22:48You're not bad.
22:48You're not good.
22:50Thanks, sir.
22:50You're not.
22:52I didn't care.
22:55I didn't care.
22:55You're not.
22:56You're not bad.
23:00I didn't care.
23:03The End
23:32The End
23:41The End
24:13The End
24:20He must be feeling rather foolish
24:23Tired and hungry is what I'd imagine he's feeling
24:25Still, the Prime Minister will be relieved to be reunited with her favourite child
24:30Have you worked out who yours is yet?
24:37He clearly wanted to find a more direct route across the desert
24:40But this was, after all, his first Seth Raleigh, and he lacked experience
24:44I was never worried for my life
24:47The others were getting a bit existential
24:49Of course they were, darling, they're French
24:52Quite
24:53Now, I remained pretty relaxed and treated our time in the desert as a holiday
24:57Even had time to read my book
24:58Oh, that's nice, darling
25:00What's this?
25:01It's your favourite, Toad in the Hole
25:03Oh, yes, I can see that, Mummy, but honestly, where's the gravy?
25:07Oh, I am sorry
25:09Anyway, when we were eventually found
25:11All the hoopla game was a bit of a shock
25:14I've no idea we were celebrities
25:15On the front cover of the world's papers
25:17Oh, we're celebrities
25:19I'm not sure that's the word I'd have used
25:21It was all nonsense, really
25:24Prime Minister's son lost in the desert
25:26Because we weren't lost
25:27I mean, I knew where we were
25:29It's just that no one else did
25:30That was the problem
25:31Truth is, you lot lost us
25:33But you were, of course
25:34Oh, Carol
25:35About 30 miles, of course
25:36Carol, it's not quite that simple
25:37The whole point is, you make your own route
25:38Well, Mark, the driver didn't seem too happy
25:40When she was rushed to hospital with heat soak
25:42Well, Carol, she was being overdramatic
25:44Of course she was, she's a woman
25:47Can you pass the worm, darling?
25:48That's brilliant
25:50Anyway, no sooner are we found
25:51Then Dad tells me off
25:53What?
25:54Why did you do that?
25:56I just thought he could have shown
25:57A bit more gratitude to the rescue team
25:59Why?
26:01It was their job, wasn't it?
26:03And gratitude for what?
26:04They had to wait a whole week
26:06The entire search and rescue operation
26:08Was a complete farce
26:09What do you expect from Bedouins?
26:13Will you excuse me?
26:14I need a top-up
26:15Would you like some salt, darling?
26:17No, I think it's right
26:17I think it's fine
26:24You have to admit
26:26It's intolerable
26:27It's mothers and sons
26:28That's all it did
26:31Well, thank God
26:32They were fathers and daughters, then
26:37Aren't you going to go?
26:38Well, why should I go?
26:40Then come for me
26:42You and me, dear
26:43We're the support act
26:45In this show
26:54Sorry to interrupt, comments
26:59Our latest intelligence
27:01From Buenos Aires
27:02Suggests that
27:02Faced with the desperate situation
27:05Domestically
27:05The fear is
27:06The military junta
27:07Might consider an attack
27:08On the Falklands
27:09A risk worth taking
27:11That it will play well
27:12With the Argentine people
27:14Tell the foreign secretary
27:15To come and see me
27:16He's in Brussels
27:19Then the chief of the defense staff
27:20He's in New Zealand
27:23Then the defense secretary
27:26He's in the United States
27:29When we are about to be attacked
27:32I fail to understand
27:34The lack of urgency
27:35From everyone
27:36Tell the foreign secretary
27:38And the chief of the defense staff
27:39And the defense secretary
27:40I want them in my office
27:42By this time tomorrow
27:44Prime Minister
27:57Navy 479
27:58Confirming low-level flight pass
27:59To the east
28:00Not above 500 feet
28:01On the London QNH
28:041013
28:06That would make a bit of an entrance
28:08You don't think arriving by helicopter
28:10Is enough of an entrance?
28:19So the idea is to meet there
28:20Is it?
28:21For lunch
28:24Out by four-ish
28:45I said leave it with me
28:46It was both fun
29:16Out by four-ish
29:17Prince Andrew, Your Majesty.
29:19Your Majesty.
29:28Mummy.
29:28How did you get away with that?
29:30Well, the chopper.
29:31I told them the truth.
29:32Not that I'd been summoned on a matter of national importance
29:34by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
29:36It's a mother and son lunch.
29:38Hardly a matter of national importance.
29:40You're the Queen, and I'm second in line to the throne.
29:42We as much as break wind is a matter of national importance.
29:44Oh, stop it.
29:45It's true.
29:47And as it happens, there are one or two things I'd like to discuss with you.
29:51The first is my title.
29:53What title?
29:54The one you bestow upon me when I get married.
29:56Oh.
29:57I hadn't given you a moment's thought.
29:59I had no idea you were even thinking of getting married.
30:02I'm not.
30:03Well, not seriously.
30:05Although, this latest one, it's quite something.
30:08Oh, yes.
30:09A young, racy, American actress.
30:11Yes.
30:12I'm not sure which of those words makes my heart sink most.
30:14I mustn't believe what you read.
30:15Well, I have nothing else to go on.
30:17So you haven't brought her to meet me.
30:18And it's unlikely I'd know her from her oeuvre.
30:21Really?
30:22You're not familiar with the awakening of Emily?
30:25No, should I be?
30:26I'm not sure it's your cup of tea.
30:28And not because it's blue.
30:29Oh, Andrew.
30:29Although it's really not blue at all.
30:31It's set in the 1920s.
30:33It follows an impressionable nubile, 17-year-old girl who...
30:3817?
30:39I'm not sure I want to know more.
30:40Don't be such a prude mummy.
30:41The story is that she returns home from a finishing school in Switzerland to her mother's country house in the
30:46English countryside.
30:46You know they used Wilton.
30:48What, the Herbert's house?
30:49Yes, that's where they filmed it.
30:50Oh, that's a lovely house.
30:51Your grandpa used to go shooting there.
30:53Anyway, there she meets several twisted and perverted older predators who seduce the vulnerable, helpless young Emily as we follow
31:03her induction into sensual pleasures.
31:06Yes, you're right. It doesn't sound blue at all.
31:08Are you sure it was even legal?
31:10Who cares?
31:12It might come as a shock to you to know that I care.
31:14The point is, it's art.
31:16Which means it's perfectly appropriate for a future duchess of...
31:19York.
31:23York?
31:23Yes, York. The idea just came to me.
31:25It's the dukedom that traditionally goes to the second eldest and has long military associations.
31:30As in the grand old duke of?
31:32Exactly.
31:33They didn't, the previous two dukes of York also both become king?
31:37Yes, due to the unexpected death or abdication of their elder brothers.
31:40But in your case, not only would Charles have to die, he'd probably have to murder any sons he might
31:44have.
31:44Duke of York has history in that department too, Richard III.
31:47Oh, yes. You are clever.
31:53This salmon is delicious.
31:56Isn't it?
31:57Speaking of military associations, there is something else I wanted to discuss with you.
32:01When you're part of a frontline unit, as I am, you keep a pretty close eye on what's going on.
32:08And the talk is that this Falklands thing isn't going to go away.
32:13Now, I would never ask you to divulge what goes on in your private audiences with your prime ministers.
32:17And I'd never tell.
32:18I just wanted to let you know that if the situation were to escalate, I'd insist on going.
32:23And I'd want your assurance that the crown would not stand between me and frontline service.
32:26I wouldn't dream of it.
32:29Good.
32:30We never shirk action in this family, ever.
32:32We're no different to anyone else.
32:33That's what I spend my life telling everyone.
32:56Ma'am, I've had a call from the Prince of Wales's private secretary, who wondered if, instead of seeing His
33:01Royal Highness tomorrow in London,
33:03I'd like to visit His Newhouse Highgrove in Gloucestershire.
33:05Would that work, time-wise?
33:07Yes, out of pinch. We could still get you back to London by evening.
33:10All right, why not?
33:17There has been a dramatic escalation in naval radio traffic.
33:22GCHQ has also detected unusual flight activity.
33:25It does now appear a major Argentine deployment is on its way to the Falkland Islands with, one can only
33:30assume, the intention of invading.
33:32Then we must defend them.
33:35Robustly.
33:36I feel obliged to mention, Prime Minister, that diplomatic channels are still open.
33:41With respect, the time for diplomacy passed the moment they planted an Argentine flag on British territory.
33:46I quite agree.
33:47I think we can get a task force together to defend the islands within 48 hours.
33:50That's absurd.
33:51Why?
33:52It's 8,000 miles away. It would take any naval vessel three weeks to get there.
33:56And by that time, the Falkland Islands will be Argentine.
33:58Then I say we retake them.
34:00It's impossible.
34:01Is it impossible, Admiral? Do you think we could?
34:05I do, Prime Minister.
34:06Then we must.
34:08But the cost alone.
34:09Sending 30,000 military personnel to the South Atlantic on the back of a recession where output is still no
34:15and unemployment breathtakingly high.
34:18We must consider public opinion.
34:20This government, this administration is currently...
34:25Go on, Jeffrey.
34:27Say it.
34:29Unloved.
34:30Unpopular.
34:32We will never survive an unnecessary and unaffordable war.
34:36And I say we will not survive not going to war.
34:44Admiral, will you please join me in the flat upstairs to discuss this further?
34:49Say in half an hour and ask the Chiefs of Staff to join us.
35:06Oh, good, you're here.
35:08I need your help.
35:10We must prepare dinner for the Chiefs of Staff.
35:19I want to talk to you.
35:20Darling, not now.
35:23Why is Mark so obviously your favourite?
35:26What?
35:27You have twin children.
35:28And you clearly prefer one over the other.
35:31Carol, that's not true.
35:33It is indisputably and painfully true.
35:38And what I want to say to you is...
35:41Is it just because you had a difficult relationship with your mother...
35:43Darling, I really don't have time for this.
35:45You cannot let it affect your relationship with all women.
35:49Most of all, your own daughter.
35:50Darling, you do pick your moment.
35:52I am busy.
35:54In a few minutes, I have the Chiefs of Staff come in.
35:56Then give me one of those minutes.
36:01You disregard me.
36:04You overlook me.
36:06And you favour Mark.
36:09Because he's stronger.
36:12Like my father was stronger.
36:17Yes, you are right.
36:20I did struggle with my mother, but it had nothing to do with her sex.
36:25It had to do with her weakness.
36:29I could not bear how she was prepared to just be a housewife.
36:36Because her husband treated her as such.
36:39That is not true.
36:41Your grandfather, my father, was wonderful with women.
36:45Wonderful.
36:46He encouraged me.
36:48He taught me.
36:50He made me who I am.
36:52He was determined my ambition be limitless.
36:56And he tried with your grandmother.
37:00But there is a limit to what one can do
37:04if people are themselves limited.
37:17No, I'm very sorry.
37:19I can't believe I have faith in my father.
37:23And I'm sorry.
37:24I'm sorry.
37:28I want to feel free.
37:29I've got faith in my father.
37:38Please feel free.
37:41I've got faith in my father.
37:52May God choose my lifetime.
38:02I know you're not feeling well, but I would remind you, she's not just your mother-in-law,
38:07she's also your queen. Diana! Diana!
38:19Diana! All right, all right.
38:33Honesty, it's pathetic.
38:35If Gabriel will please come for me, and Vance will please think for me.
38:40All right. What shall I think of?
38:43Think of a beautiful water princess wearing a tiny silver crown.
38:47Oh, yes.
39:16Hank.
39:17Oh, this is love.
39:20So glad you could join this.
39:22Just you?
39:23Yes. Diana's in bed. I'm afraid she's not having an easy time of it.
39:27Oh, poor thing. I was lucky. Pregnancy didn't seem to affect me.
39:31Yes, but you're two very different women. Shall we start outside?
39:35Yes. All right. Thank you.
39:41How many people do you have here?
39:43It might look like a lot, but effectively starting from scratch.
39:46I think that was the attraction. Tabula rasa. A clean slate.
39:50Yes, I know what tabula rasa means. Gosh, listen to that.
39:55No insects. No birdsong.
39:57It's terrible. Dreadful, morbid silence.
40:01There's nowhere for the insects to go.
40:03So I was thinking of a wild garden there.
40:05A wall garden here.
40:08A kitchen garden there.
40:09A sundial garden there.
40:11It's always important when embarking on a project like this
40:14to have purity of purpose.
40:16A single, controlling idea at the heart of it all.
40:19So what's yours?
40:20That eventually the house, the land and the gardens
40:23should reflect who I really am and what I'm all about.
40:27So the big idea is you?
40:31So everything will be done organically.
40:33No chemicals or pesticides.
40:36There'll be no straight lines.
40:38No manicuring. Nothing too neat or uniform.
40:41A certain wild unconventionality about it.
40:44Is that you too?
40:46Well, there's anyone of any interest, isn't it?
40:49Who'd obey rules? Who'd be conventional?
40:52Don't you hate it when guarders impose straight lines everywhere?
40:56Nature abhors a straight line after all.
40:59That pool looks like it's going to have straight lines.
41:02Yes, but that's a pool.
41:04And is that going to be a turn this court?
41:05It doesn't look particularly organic either.
41:07Mummy.
41:08Sorry. No, it's lovely.
41:10I'm glad you like it.
41:11I really think I could be happy here.
41:13It's brought something out in me.
41:16My own little Shangri-La.
41:19Xenadu.
41:22And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills.
41:26I blossomed many an incense-bearing tree.
41:29And here were forests ancient as the hills,
41:33enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
41:36Oh, you're all mysterious coming on.
41:38It's flowering already.
41:39Now, if we're going to have lunch,
41:40we should probably make a start,
41:41because they want me back in London by six.
41:43Of course.
41:47But the truth is, I don't know what's wrong with her.
41:51She grew up in the country.
41:52I thought she'd love it here.
41:54I asked her to oversee the interior decoration.
41:57That seemed to distract her for a few weeks.
41:59And she started withdrawing again.
42:02Locking herself in her room,
42:03watching endless hours of television.
42:08She's so intellectually incurious.
42:11I tried giving her tutorials on Shakespeare and poetry.
42:15Expand her horizons.
42:17And we've had some wonderful guests.
42:19Laurence van der Poste.
42:20Eric Anderson, the headmaster of Eton.
42:23But she shows no interest.
42:25Just talks endlessly about missing London.
42:28Perhaps that's what she likes.
42:29Perhaps this part of the world doesn't suit her.
42:32When you chose Gloucestershire, I must say, I did wonder why.
42:35Well, it's so convenient.
42:36The RAF airfield nearby.
42:39Proximity to Cornwall.
42:40And Anne's just a stone throwaway.
42:42Not just Anne.
42:46Only a fifteen minute drive, I heard.
42:50Camilla and I just hunt together these days, that's all.
42:54And talk on the telephone.
42:56How often?
42:57As often as is necessary.
43:01More often when I need cheering up.
43:05When you need cheering up.
43:08You've just bought your dream house.
43:10Your Xenadu.
43:12That you and an army of sycophants are turning into the living embodiment of your soul.
43:15And your young beautiful wife, struggling with pregnancy, has locked herself in a room upstairs and is refusing to come
43:21out.
43:24You know how I hate interfering.
43:26It's not for me to tell a grown man what to do.
43:29But in your position, I might be inclined to worry less about my own happiness and pay a little more
43:33attention to the wellbeing of the mother of my future child.
43:36I'll change my world.
43:54I'm a mother of my child.
43:57It's not for me to come out.
45:22Oh, hello you.
45:23Hello you.
45:24You got the message?
45:25SOS?
45:26999.
45:27We dropped everything.
45:31What's the matter, darling?
45:33Drink.
45:35Is that a question or an order?
45:37More of a cry for help, I think.
45:43Coming right up.
45:44Come on.
46:15Was the open door an invitation?
46:18Not that sort of invitation.
46:20I was hoping we might talk.
46:32Our children.
46:34Oh.
46:35Have you reached a conclusion?
46:38After all the little confidential lunches, one by one?
46:43Oh, you find out?
46:44They all rang me.
46:47Utterly perplexed.
46:48Wondering what on earth you were up to.
46:51The conclusion I've come to is that it's our children that are lost, not the Prime Minister's.
46:56Each in their own deserts.
46:59Anne's not lost.
47:00Her marriage is.
47:02All right.
47:04Edward's not lost.
47:05I disagree.
47:06He seems entirely lost.
47:08And bullied.
47:09And vengeful.
47:10I'll concede that Charles is lost.
47:13But he always has been.
47:18That's for Andrew.
47:20Your favourite.
47:27I was shocked.
47:30If he doesn't change.
47:39What does that say about Elsa's parents?
47:46I spoke to Mummy about it.
47:48Oh.
47:48The Oracle.
47:51What did she say?
47:53Well, she said that I must not blame myself.
47:54I'm already mother to the nation.
47:57Well, she's right.
47:59But it was me that wanted Andrew and Edward.
48:01You didn't want any more.
48:04I wanted two more to prove to myself that I had it in me.
48:07And to make up for my failings.
48:12Especially with Charles.
48:16You're a man.
48:17You wouldn't understand.
48:18But I remember insisting that I would never let the nannies do it.
48:23What?
48:26Bath time.
48:30But when it came to it.
48:35I sat in a chair in the background.
48:40Because I didn't know how to...
48:45How to what?
48:50Hold him.
48:51Touch him.
49:03Look at me.
49:05Look at me.
49:09You must stop this nonsense.
49:11You are a perfectly good mother.
49:14And the children are adults now.
49:16It's their responsibility to sort themselves out.
49:18If they sort themselves out.
49:19Well, they will.
49:21Eventually.
49:23And...
49:25In the meantime,
49:26it is your job to...
49:28Stick around.
49:29Stay alive.
49:30And keep breathing.
49:33Precisely.
49:36For all our sex.
49:53It's the best.
50:00It's the best.
51:02To get her ready, Portsmouth, Pompey of tradition, had turned out in force for loved ones of
51:07these men.
51:09At last, she was clear away, into the haze of the Soviet.
51:13Half an hour later, it was the turn of Hermes, the older generation of carrier, but perhaps
51:17looking more menacing with her hardware displayed for all to see.
51:21The people said goodbye, a small boy saluted.
51:24Godspeed, they shouted.
51:27And then, more softly, come back safely.
51:33Godspeed.
51:36Godspeed.
51:38Godspeed.
51:41Godspeed.
51:42Godspeed.