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00:02C'est bon, c'est bon. C'est, c'est bon. C'est bon, c'est bon. Lovers say that
00:09in France. C'est bon, c'est bon. When they thrill to romance. C'est bon, c'est bon. It
00:16means that it's so good. Ah, c'est, c'est bon. C'est bon, c'est bon.
00:24So I say it to you, like the French people do, because it's oh so good.
00:34I wonder how many of them are aware of the tension behind the scenes.
00:38Some of these people have paid a thousand pounds for a ticket, dear.
00:45These old lemon-carts are closed, and it's just there.
00:50So I say it to you, like the French people do, because it's just there.
01:00The Queen, we're told, is just faces away.
01:09The Queen, the real star of tonight, steps out onto the red carpet to be greeted by the much-loved
01:16theatrical impresario of Delphont,
01:18president of the entertainment artist Benevolent Fund.
01:21For tonight is the night when the world of show business and royalty come together for a good call.
01:27For you, Annette.
01:28Annette.
01:30It's from the challenge.
01:32It's right, Archel.
01:38And now, the natural laugh.
01:42Who wants to do?
01:46Oh, it's started, has it?
01:57Right then, Catherine, here you are.
02:01Hello. Hello, Nerissa.
02:08Good girl.
02:10Swallowed.
02:12Well done.
02:13Oh, good stuff.
02:18Bedtime.
02:43Oh, good girl.
02:46Oh, good girl.
02:51Oh, good girl.
03:04Oh, good girl.
03:10To the world.
03:13To the world.
03:40To the world.
03:42If you say hide.
03:44You'll hide.
03:46Hide.
03:48If all my love for you.
03:52Would bring you.
03:55I've come tonight with a gift.
03:58Oh. Gossip.
04:00My favorite.
04:02Is it wicked?
04:04Very.
04:06What about someone famous?
04:08Yes.
04:09But I must ask you to keep it a secret.
04:11No. Do be quiet.
04:14I'll be the judge of that when I hear it.
04:16Ma'am.
04:17Devil.
04:18You're not taking this seriously.
04:20How can you tell?
04:23This is a huge secret.
04:25It's virtually a state secret.
04:28I'm...
04:29I'm all ears.
04:32And eyes.
04:34And lips.
04:35All right.
04:37Did you say lips?
04:45Are you feeling naughty?
04:48Yes, I can see that.
04:50Mm-hmm.
04:55Ma'am.
04:56I have greatly enjoyed the last few months.
05:00So have I.
05:00And the closeness that has developed between us.
05:03Not closeness.
05:04Intimacy.
05:05Oh, God.
05:10Please.
05:30There was a time when the men I loved would simply leave me for other women.
05:35And now they're living for the church.
05:37Who?
05:39Derek Jennings.
05:40Dazzle.
05:41Yes.
05:42Dazzle.
05:42What were we doing with him?
05:44Falling slightly in love.
05:47Oh, Margaret.
05:48Mm.
05:49Colin Tennant said we were the two most impossible people.
05:52He knew that we should be kept apart at all costs in the interests of public safety.
05:56Like nitrogen and glycerin.
05:59But he's so handsome.
06:02Yes.
06:04As an unkind word for everyone.
06:06Which I adore.
06:09And touching vulnerability.
06:14And because he has found happiness as elusive as me.
06:20So we discuss all the different kinds of ways that we try to find joy and calm.
06:25A good brisk walk, I say.
06:26Mm.
06:27Yes, that might work for you.
06:29It does every time.
06:30But it might not be enough for the rest of us.
06:34And Dazzle has found the thing that works best for him.
06:40Which is?
06:42The priesthood.
06:43Catholic priesthood.
06:44Yes.
06:45Well, that's the second reason he was never the right man for you.
06:51The first being?
06:54Well, you know.
06:56Friend of Dorothy.
06:59Dazzle.
07:00Famously, yes.
07:02You sure?
07:03But the way he looks at me sometimes.
07:06Hmm.
07:07Describe that.
07:08With great, big, adoring eyes.
07:12I think you're fine.
07:13That's because you're a royal princess.
07:14And he's a raging snob.
07:17Am I that stupid?
07:20Or desperate?
07:22I don't like the sound of that cough.
07:24That's fine.
07:25And you've been struggling with your chest for a while.
07:27I should have realised when I kept suggesting going to the opera.
07:39Oh.
07:47Oh.
07:49Oh.
07:56Oh.
08:17I think we'll switch this off, shall we?
08:21Yes.
08:22Princess Margaret.
08:24Princess Margaret will be fine.
08:27Princess Margaret is in good hands.
08:30All right, Catherine.
08:31John.
08:32Come on.
08:32Why don't I say that?
08:33Don't be difficult now.
08:35Come on.
08:36Come on.
08:36Right.
08:37Come on. It's bedside.
08:38Dolly needs to go to bed now.
08:40It isn't she?
08:43All together.
08:45We're all together.
08:46There she is.
08:48It's bedside.
08:49It's bedside, Catherine.
08:50You're this one.
08:54This one.
08:56This one.
08:57This one.
08:58This one.
08:58This one.
08:59This one.
09:00This one.
09:00This one.
09:03This one.
09:17This one.
09:17This one.
09:19This one.
09:21This one.
09:22This one.
09:22This one.
09:22This one.
09:23This one.
09:23This one.
09:25This one.
09:28This one.
09:29Happy birthday to you.
09:32Happy birthday to you.
09:36Happy birthday to everyone.
09:42Happy birthday to you.
09:46Happy birthday to you.
09:48Happy birthday to you.
09:56Children-wise, we seem to do things in twos in this family.
10:00I can honestly say I never wanted four.
10:03A brace would have been quite enough for me.
10:06But the boss put her foot down after a tough negotiation
10:09on the yacht in Lisbon in a storm.
10:13Do you remember? Yes, I do.
10:16Along came another two.
10:19The B team.
10:20It's the second eleven.
10:22Who have been very special.
10:24Not that the first lot aren't special,
10:26but they were expected, I suppose.
10:28Duty.
10:30Whereas the second lot came out of...
10:33I was going to say pleasure, but that's really not the right word.
10:37Judging by Anne's face.
10:39That's the word I'm looking for.
10:41Joy?
10:42Exactly.
10:43Joy.
10:45They were conceived in reconciliation,
10:49and they have bound us all together
10:51and brought great joy.
10:53So, please, raise your glasses.
10:58Are you sure?
11:00Oh, Margot.
11:02Are you serious? Yeah.
11:03Many, many happy returns to, um...
11:07I'm sorry, what's your name again?
11:10The runt of the litter.
11:12Dear Edward.
11:13Happy birthday.
11:15Happy birthday.
11:16The big piece?
11:17Yeah.
11:18I wouldn't have all of that.
11:19Come off it.
11:20I'll chop it up in two.
11:23Seeing as it's your sister's birthday,
11:25you get the extra big piece.
11:38I remember the day that one was christened.
11:45And there's a photograph of us both with our babies.
11:47Yes.
11:48You were holding yours as if it were a bomb.
11:53You're looking terribly glum having just had another huge row with Tony.
11:58He was never the right man for you.
12:01Well, I've come to the view that there is no right man for me.
12:04You don't say that.
12:05No, it's true.
12:06Love is a tender kiss for most people.
12:09For me, she saves her sharpest axe.
12:13Well, I am ready for a new chapter.
12:17Without men.
12:20Without cigarettes.
12:23Without...
12:30I'm finally ready to focus on the one thing.
12:34That won't let me down.
12:36What's that?
12:37Us.
12:38My position as a royal.
12:41My duty.
12:43So, I come on bended knee with a familiar request.
12:50Give me as much responsibility as you can.
12:55As many jobs, as much work.
12:57If your sister needs to stay afloat,
13:02it's a sense of meaning.
13:04Do you?
13:06Yeah.
13:08Yeah.
13:09Oh.
13:11Yeah, thanks.
13:12No, no.
13:16Ridiculous.
13:16I can't believe it.
13:48Hello, you.
13:54And hello, him.
13:56Your Royal Highness.
13:57We're not interrupting, are we?
13:58No, not at all.
14:00Renee is coming at noon.
14:02Oh, a new bow?
14:03No, a new hairdresser.
14:06Another friend of Dorothy's.
14:08Ah.
14:09Other than that, nothing.
14:11No.
14:13The day stretches before me like a great yawning void.
14:26So, what do you want?
14:29It can't be good news, or you wouldn't have wrought Lurch.
14:35Ma'am, we've come to talk to you about the 1937 Regency Act,
14:40which created a list of senior royals
14:43who could be called on to deputise for the monarch on formal occasions.
14:47Yes, I know all about that.
14:49I've been stepping in for half a year.
14:51Yeah.
14:53But there is a specific number of those senior royals, just six.
15:00How long?
15:01Well, the recent 21st birthday of Prince Edward means that he is now of age.
15:07And as a child of the sovereigns, well, he ranks higher than you in the line of succession.
15:16And you will therefore be required to relinquish your role as Councillor of State.
15:27Don't take that away from me. It's all I've got.
15:29Oh, Margaret.
15:30It makes no sense.
15:32I have the maturity. I have the wisdom.
15:34Not to mention the experience.
15:36Edward's a boy. He's an immature, useless boy.
15:40Yes, that may be, but we all have to play by the rules.
15:44You will have time to concentrate on your convalescence.
15:47Would you leave us, please?
15:50Leave us.
16:11I don't want more time. Don't you see?
16:18Time. It scares me. It fills me with dread.
16:25I want...
16:28I want something to fill it with.
16:31Will you still have your interests?
16:33Oh, please!
16:35And your friends?
16:36Friends?
16:38The ones worth knowing, they're fed up with me.
16:41Your charities?
16:42Charities? They don't want me either.
16:44No, not now. We have the Princess of Wales.
16:49She's younger. She's nicer.
16:51Prettier.
16:52No. Nobody wants this.
16:54Oh, Margot.
16:56I asked you for just one thing.
16:59To give me work.
17:01A purpose. Dignity.
17:03Yes.
17:03And if it were up to me, I would have given it all to you.
17:07The whole show.
17:08Gladly.
17:09From day one.
17:10But it's not.
17:12So we have to live with it.
17:13No.
17:14I will have to live with it.
17:15Not you.
17:16I will.
17:18I will.
17:18I will.
17:33ORGAN PLAYS
17:59ORGAN PLAYS
18:19ORGAN PLAYS
18:20ORGAN PLAYS
18:24ORGAN PLAYS
18:46ORGAN PLAYS
18:51Now, it turns out my objection from Marcus is, of course, a terrible stigma on the Board
18:56of Directors.
18:57What Board of Directors, I hear you extensively ask.
19:00Because the Undislimited Company needs a Board of Directors to run it.
19:04Have you ever heard anything so absurd?
19:06It's always interesting.
19:46You're awkwardly breaking your Secure Heart, all that is still about.
20:16Welcome.
20:18Oh, hi, Lesbeth.
20:31Ma'am?
20:50Ta-da!
20:52All dry.
20:55Lunch.
21:06What a wonderful spot.
21:09You should have seen it in this heyday.
21:12It's rather sad now. It's neglected.
21:15Gone to see it.
21:17Look at these heliconias.
21:22Is that a silk codpin tree?
21:24Hm?
21:25Yes.
21:27The challenge for any gardener is the pruning.
21:31You need very nimble seats.
21:35What day?
21:39The garden or the neglect?
21:43Sadly.
21:44Both.
22:05Diana's pregnant again.
22:10Congratulations.
22:16Which one might imagine would lift this spirit.
22:19Instead, an even deeper gloom seems to have descended on both of us.
22:24We hardly see one another anymore.
22:26And when we do, we quarrel more than ever.
22:31It's so depressing.
22:34Corrosive.
22:35Oh.
22:38And it's left me with no option but to start seeing someone.
22:42Yes, I think we all know about that.
22:44No, not Camilla.
22:46I meant...
22:47...a professional.
22:50A therapist to help with the moods.
22:52A head shrinker.
22:55But, Margaret, you can't call them that.
22:58Has it helped?
23:00Well, it hasn't made things worse.
23:01Hmm.
23:02Not much of an endorsement.
23:05The reason I bring it up is...
23:07I promised Anne that I would urge you to try seeing someone too.
23:12Are you both ganging up on me?
23:14We both care.
23:17Why not try when you're back in London?
23:19Anne thinks she's found someone good.
23:29It's outrageous that I, in HRH, should travel to see her.
23:34I gather it's part of the process that the patient accepts that they are a patient.
23:42Apparently the healing cannot start until the grandiosity is diminished.
23:47What grandiosity?
23:48I'm so far down the royal pecking order these days, I'm virtually untouchable.
23:54Here we are.
24:07I had therapy once before, in the early days of my marriage to Lord Snowden.
24:14The problem we face is I'm...
24:16Well, I'm so opposed to all of this, I find it so pathetic.
24:20Violets, everything I was brought up to believe.
24:22What were you brought up to believe?
24:24Self-pity won't get you very far.
24:28Just got to get on with it.
24:31Well, that's a very common attitude.
24:33It's also quite an old-fashioned attitude.
24:36Did you just call me common?
24:38And old?
24:41Because that would not be a good way to start.
24:48So, what made you want to try again?
24:51Ma'am.
24:52Ma'am?
25:07Because...
25:09Well, I'm ashamed to say I've been feeling...
25:13a little low...
25:17for a while now.
25:21And...
25:22this current slump...
25:25seems to have resisted every...
25:28attempt I've...
25:30made to muscle through.
25:34Are you aware of anyone else in your immediate family struggling with mental health issues?
25:46What?
25:46Prince of Wales.
25:47He has his ups and downs.
25:49But I wouldn't say that's a condition.
25:51That's just marriage.
25:54The Duke of Gloucester.
25:56My uncle.
25:58He got low.
25:59From time to time.
26:01I only ask because I am aware, through professional colleagues, of...
26:06the sisters.
26:09Sisters?
26:12What sisters?
26:15That's when she told me...
26:16about our cousins.
26:18Our first cousins.
26:19Catherine and Larissa.
26:20Bose Lyon.
26:22Third and fifth daughters.
26:24Mummy's favourite elder brother.
26:25Uncle Jock.
26:26Being locked up in the Earlswood Institution.
26:30The mental defectives, if you please.
26:32In Redhill.
26:32Yes, I remember hearing about Catherine and Larissa.
26:35And they're...
26:36terrible problems.
26:38But they're long dead.
26:41It's my understanding they're both very much alive.
26:45But we can check.
26:47What are you doing?
26:48That's my button.
26:52Oh, here we are.
26:53It works.
26:57Let me do that.
26:58I'll do that now.
26:59I'm fine.
27:03Thanks.
27:07Here we are.
27:08Oh, heavy.
27:15Catch, don't you dare.
27:16Not funny.
27:18Go carefully.
27:22Yes.
27:24Oh, thank you.
27:30Oh, yes.
27:31Look, here it is.
27:33Narissa, deceased, 1940.
27:36Catherine, deceased, 1961.
27:38There it is in black and white.
27:39Both died long ago.
27:41Oh, strange.
27:50Not here.
27:57Who was it?
27:59Mr. Jennings, ma'am.
28:01Dazzle.
28:03What did he want?
28:04To let you know that he was going to be in London next week for a few days.
28:07Just in case you had any time.
28:12No.
28:26Dazzle, you're not praying, are you?
28:28I am.
28:30When was the last time you drove a car?
28:33I tried all the time.
28:34Well, maybe not this particular model.
28:37Anyway, you're a fine one to talk.
28:39You can't drive at all.
28:41You say I recognize my limitations.
28:44Well, I'd have been happier for the chauffeur to drive us, but then...
28:47What are you doing?
28:49Well, then we wouldn't have been alone.
28:51Why is it so important that we're alone?
29:16What if someone asks me who I am?
29:18They won't.
29:19You're a priest.
29:19But I'm not.
29:20Not yet.
29:21Still just a seminarian.
29:22They don't know that.
29:24You still look suitably clerical and beyond suspicion.
29:28Feels wrong, ma'am.
29:30Deceitful.
29:31You can always confess later.
29:33Now go.
29:50Let's go.
29:53Here we go.
29:55I'm just waiting.
29:55Come back to us.
30:41They are alive, ma'am.
30:42You saw them?
30:43I did.
30:47How were they?
30:52They are like children, ma'am.
30:55But they know who you are.
30:58And they know who your sister is.
31:02They have pictures of the whole family,
31:05which they know is their family.
31:12Love that one, don't you?
31:14Oh, yes.
31:15Keeps it in pride of place, she does.
31:20Oh.
31:27Shall I get your cousins to say hello?
31:29Did you say cousins?
31:33Hello.
31:33Hello.
31:34And there are more.
31:38More what?
31:41More relatives.
31:43Cousins of theirs, equally afflicted.
31:47Six years later.
31:48That's it.
31:48Sit down.
31:50So, girl, all family together.
31:53All family together.
31:56Okay.
31:57Let's have a seat.
32:23Oh, you're done, you're done, you're done.
32:26We saw you're just in time for lunch.
32:29Not hungry.
32:31We're starving. We've all been for long walks this morning.
32:35Well, you and I are about to go for another.
32:38You don't mind if I steal her away, do you?
32:41No, not at all.
32:49Five. Five, Mummy.
32:52Five members of our close family locked up and neglected.
32:55What do you expect us to do?
32:57Behave like human beings.
32:58Don't be so naive. We had no choice.
33:02They're your nieces.
33:05Daughters of your favourite brother.
33:06They were unwell.
33:08Aunt Vanella was overwhelmed.
33:10And then the way things suddenly changed for all of us.
33:13None of us could have foreseen it.
33:14It was it.
33:16Well, the abdication, of course...
33:17Well, not everything that is wrong with this family
33:19can be explained away by the abdication.
33:22Well, the abdication did change everything.
33:25You were too young to understand everything.
33:35It's complicated.
33:37No, it's not.
33:38It's wicked.
33:39And it's cold-hearted.
33:40It's cruel.
33:42It's entirely in keeping with the ruthlessness
33:45I myself have experienced in this family.
33:49If you're not verse in line,
33:52if you're an individual character with individual needs,
33:56and God forbid, an irregular temperament,
33:59if you don't fit the perfect mould
34:02and silent, dutiful supplication,
34:07then you'll be spat out,
34:08or you'll be hidden away,
34:09or worse, declared dead.
34:13Darwin had nothing on you lot.
34:16Shame on all of you.
34:18Margaret.
34:18No!
34:20Margaret!
34:21Margaret!
34:28Margaret!
34:46If I try to explain, will you at least listen?
35:03The fact is, the moment that man, your perfidious uncle, abdicated the throne, it really did
35:14change everything overnight.
35:17I went from being the wife of the Duke of York, leading a relatively normal life, to being
35:24queen and wife of a king emperor.
35:30At the same time, my family, the Bowes-Lyons, went from being minor Scottish aristocrats
35:38to having a direct bloodline to the crown, resulting in the children of my brother.
35:48Catherine and Nerissa.
35:50And their first cousins.
35:52Edonia.
35:54Etheldrida.
35:56And Rosemary.
35:59Yes.
36:01Paying a terrible price.
36:06Why?
36:08Because their illness, their imbecility...
36:13Don't use those words.
36:15Their professionally diagnosed idiocy and imbecility would make people question the integrity
36:23of the bloodline.
36:25What?
36:27Can you imagine the headlines, if it were to get out?
36:30What people would say?
36:31The hereditary principle already hangs by such a precarious threat.
36:38Throw in mental illness.
36:41And it's over.
36:44The idea that one family alone has the automatic birthright to the crown is already so hard
36:52to justify the gene pool of that family had better have 100% purity.
37:04There have been enough examples on the Windsor side alone to worry people.
37:10King George III, Prince John, your uncle.
37:14all?
37:15If you add the Bose-Lion illnesses to that, the danger is It becomes... untenable.
37:41it's all a family disease isn't it when they they tell you you can't marry
37:50and they strip away your official role when they side with your husband
37:55as your marriage falls apart and now this this final insult
38:05that every diminishment every rotten misfortune is written written in my blood
38:27so without tiptoeing to protect me or dressing things up tell me the truth
38:37as well as being born second am i destined to be mad too
38:46no ma'am
38:50when i heard you'd made the appointment to come today
38:54i did a little research
38:57now the genetic fault responsible for your cousin's condition
39:02seems to have descended from their common maternal grandfather charles trefusis 21st baron clinton
39:11this suggests that the recessive gene responsible for their condition
39:15lies with the clinton family
39:17so how did it get to the bose lion family
39:21through your aunt vanilla
39:24born clinton
39:25who married john bose lion
39:29uncle jock
39:30what your cousins suffer from is a severe developmental disorder
39:34whatever issues you may or may not be facing that's not the same thing at all
39:39it hasn't somehow passed
39:41to my mother
39:42queen elizabeth
39:43no
39:45then
39:47if they didn't threaten the integrity of the royal family
39:50the girls need never have been hidden away
39:55and what my family did was unforgivable
40:17anyway she prescribed medication psychotherapy and increased exercise
40:27i'll be suggesting giving up alcohol soon
40:30giving up alcohol
40:32you could always just convert and come over to rome
40:37dazzle
40:37the only thing that's worked for me lifted my spirits
40:41before i became catholic i attended church
40:44after i converted i found a faith
40:46the difference is night and day
40:48oh now you're being evangelical
40:49i feel evangelical it's not just the beauty
40:51it's the rigor of the catholic church
40:54it demands complete submission
40:56which strong willful characters like mine
40:59and i would suggest yours ma'am
41:01need
41:02hmm
41:03one cannot fully receive god
41:05until one has submitted to something larger
41:08and the moment i did
41:10don't tell me
41:11the lights went on
41:12you found happiness
41:14more than happiness
41:18ecstasy
41:19and the gloom we talked about so many times
41:24the emptiness
41:26has gone
41:32how nice
41:33so come over
41:37i would
41:38but
41:38in case you hadn't noticed dazzle
41:40i've already submitted to something larger
41:44the royal family of the united kingdom
41:46if i became catholic
41:49it would be a national scandal
41:52there'd be talk of betrayal
41:53second reformation
41:55no they'd make me give up my title and
41:58kick me out
41:59that'd be so bad
42:01to free yourself once and for all
42:04to find happiness
42:07why would i
42:08the title
42:09my seniority
42:11the proximity to the crown
42:13is my happiness
42:14it's who i am
42:15i don't expect you to understand
42:17no i don't understand
42:18you've just discovered
42:20terrible things about your family
42:22a system that ignored five members of its own
42:24to protect itself
42:25will that same system protect you
42:27no
42:28it doesn't protect anything except the centre
42:31those away from the centre
42:33but i am in the centre
42:34i am in the very centre
42:36i am the queen's sister
42:38daughter to a king emperor
42:41and i will always be in the centre
42:47now go dazzle
42:51back to your ecstatic new family
42:53and i will struggle on in mine
43:00and i think it would be better if we
43:03don't see
43:03one another again
43:13and
43:16should you ever
43:18find a moment
43:22perhaps you will pray for me
43:25i will
43:33your royal highness
43:34you have to pray for me
44:00you have to pray for me
44:04I got a feeling like I'm falling
44:08And you're losing my heart
44:54I got a feeling like I'm falling
45:04I got a feeling like I'm falling