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00:19On this, the occasion of my 21st birthday, I welcome the opportunity to speak to all
00:27the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race
00:33they come from, and whatever language they speak.
00:39As I speak to you today from Cape Town, I am 6,000 miles from the country where I was
00:45born, but I am certainly not 6,000 miles from home.
00:54That is the great privilege of belonging to our place in the worldwide Commonwealth.
01:00There are homes ready to welcome us in every continent of the earth.
01:06Before I am much elder, I hope I shall come to know many of them.
01:11Although there is none of my father's subjects, from the eldest to the youngest, I do not wish
01:16to greet.
01:17I am thinking especially today of all the young men and women who are born about the same
01:22time as myself, and have grown up like me in the terrible and glorious years of the Second
01:30World War.
01:31Will you, the youth of the British Family of Nations, let me speak on my birthday as your
01:37representative?
01:39Now that we are coming to manhood and womanhood, it is surely a great joy to us all to think
01:45that we shall be able to take some of the burden off the shoulders of our elders who have fought
01:51and worked and suffered to protect our childhood.
01:55To that generation, I say we must not be daunted by the anxieties and hardships the war has left
02:01behind for every nation of our Commonwealth.
02:04We know these things are the price which Shafi undertook to pay for the high honour of standing
02:11alone seven years ago in defence of the liberty of the world.
02:16If we all go forward together with an unwavering faith, a high courage and a quiet heart, we
02:24shall be able to make of this ancient Commonwealth which we all love so dearly an even grander
02:30thing.
02:31More free, more prosperous, more happy and a more powerful influence for good in the world
02:40than it has been in the greatest days of our forefathers.
02:44Please welcome Margaret Roberts.
02:50To accomplish that, we must give nothing less than what my father, King George, the first
02:57head of the Commonwealth, calls the whole of ourselves.
03:01Good evening.
03:04There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors.
03:10A noble motto.
03:12I serve.
03:14I should like to make that dedication an hour.
03:17It's very simple.
03:19Smile?
03:19I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted
03:28to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
03:36God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share in
03:42it.
03:42God bless you.
04:09It was the Vubfass of Eurydice.
04:12I was Aristeus driving along towards the third.
04:17Malachi.
04:19Malachi.
04:20Twice she called me by the name.
04:22Twice she beckoned me with her outstretched back.
04:26I stood in darkness, she in light.
04:29And yet here I was, the Diurno, and she the crepuscular, with such a mugatory distinction
04:36can pretend.
04:39The aurora was breaking.
04:41The island Seagird was fast stirring.
04:45I looked at her again.
04:46Her darkness, pellucid in the lambent sunshine, seemed as if a fish skin pulled taut.
04:52She gave me one last glancing look, and then stepped off and plunged down into the waxing
04:58viridescence of the Ionian waters below.
05:03Morstua, Rita Mayer.
05:07The end.
05:20Golly, your very own warrants.
05:24Ulysses, please.
05:28I shall set aside a year of my life.
05:32What?
05:33Just kidding.
05:34I'll have it read by the end of next week.
05:36You're very kind.
05:36And Michael, bravo.
05:38Uh-uh.
05:39No congratulations till you've read it.
05:40You deserve congratulations for being able to carry it up the stairs.
05:44Kidding again.
05:48Well, I look forward to hearing from you.
05:56Yeah, taxi.
06:03Buckingham Palace.
06:05It's quite lost.
06:23Good work.
06:24Keep it on my desk.
06:25Good morning, James.
06:26Good morning, sir.
06:26Good morning, Michael.
06:29Sorry to ambush you, but I've got the Today newspaper asking for confirmation of an apparently
06:34open secret in Commonwealth government circles that the Queen is deeply frustrated by Thatcher's
06:39refusal to back sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
06:43A frustration which threatens to strain her relationship with the Prime Minister, who the Queen holds personally responsible, and they'd
06:50like you, as Palace Press Secretary, to comment.
06:53You should know better than to come to me with nonsense like that, sir.
06:57In the 33 years she's been on the throne, the Queen has never once expressed a point of view about
07:01her Prime Ministers, positive or negative, and never will.
07:05Political impartiality and support of her Prime Minister is an article of faith to her.
07:10And we all know how the Queen is about her faith.
07:21It's been nearly four decades since the system of racial segregation termed apartheid became the official policy of South Africa.
07:29The current violent oppression of black protesters by government forces is creating increased international outrage.
07:44The situation is getting worse and worse more. Countless instances of brutality by the South African police against members of
07:51the public.
07:51As you know, we believe the only way to stop these atrocities is through sustained economic pressure.
07:57Forty-eight of the Commonwealth countries are committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on Pretoria to try and bring
08:02down the apartheid regime.
08:03But, as Her Majesty knows, in order to implement those sanctions, total unanimity is required and one country remains against.
08:13United Kingdom.
08:14Mrs. Thatcher remains opposed.
08:18I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Thatcher about all this in private, at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads
08:23of Government meeting in the Bahamas.
08:26The Commonwealth.
08:28The Commonwealth.
08:28Ridiculous waste of time.
08:30Ridiculous organization.
08:33Worse.
08:34Morally offensive.
08:36Why we allow our Queen to fraternize with countries like Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland.
08:48Unstable countries.
08:50Unstable despotisms with appalling human rights records.
08:54And calling them family.
08:56Yes.
08:57Anyway, she's requested a private audience on board the Royal Yacht.
09:01What the palace is calling a frank conversation about the way forward in South Africa.
09:06Spare me.
09:07I'll give her a frank conversation about not wasting my time.
09:13Oh, excuse the eggs, boys.
09:16Right.
09:17Who wants Kedgeri?
09:20It's not my best, I'm afraid.
09:23For the dinner, Miss Sunshine Chiffon, pick out the yellow in the flag of the Commonwealth.
09:30Oh, and a brooch, given to you by King Autumn Fuo or Pocoware.
09:35Is that a porcupine?
09:36A symbol of courage and strength in Ashanti culture.
09:39Oh, you might need some of that.
09:43What's all this?
09:44Choggle.
09:45Oh, of course.
09:46To what do I owe the honor?
09:50I came to tell you that I've decided to ask Edward to be my best man.
09:54Not Charles?
09:55No.
09:56Oh, that will raise some eyebrows.
09:57Good.
09:59And him see what it feels like to be sidelined in a slimmed down row.
10:04Since I gather that's what he now thinks the future of the monarchy should be.
10:08You.
10:09Him in his own precious bloodline to hell with the rest of us.
10:13Insecure, jealous fool.
10:15What's he jealous of?
10:17Me.
10:18Always has been.
10:19Oh, Andrew.
10:20Me and you.
10:22Of our...
10:24Of our closeness.
10:27Of the fact that I've fought in a real war.
10:29On real medals.
10:31Of the fact that I'm happier in love.
10:33More popular.
10:35And...
10:36Like other second sons I could mention.
10:38So obviously be better at it than him.
10:40At what?
10:42Being the heir.
10:44I just want to see you all happy.
10:46There are two families I care about.
10:48My own family and the Commonwealth Family of Nations.
10:51Keeping them all together is my life's work.
10:53Now I must get on.
10:55Mummy.
10:59For the state breakfast.
11:01The dress of the painless blue and gold brocade.
11:04Sarah!
11:05You do very well with the diamond necklace given to you by the people of South Africa on your 21st
11:09birthday.
11:12I told you.
11:12She's fine with it.
11:13No disease.
11:14No.
11:14Keep going.
11:15Right.
11:16Let's go.
11:24I just...
11:27I just...
11:28I just...
11:39I just...
11:56Those of you who know me will be aware that the Commonwealth of Nations is a second family to me.
12:04As it was to my late father, King George VI.
12:07There are always tensions between nations.
12:11Global peace is fragile.
12:14But I believe this union offers us all something rare and valuable.
12:21The capacity to celebrate difference.
12:24To value compromise over conflict.
12:29And to find a way to heal divisions in the interests of peace and goodwill.
12:35To be so close to the risades of peace and goodwill.
12:51Hey!
12:52Hey!
12:53Hey!
12:54Hey!
13:07The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
13:13Your Majesty.
13:14It was kind of you to come. I won't keep you long.
13:17I was hoping we could briefly discuss South Africa.
13:20Ma'am.
13:21It is my fervent hope that Britain will join the other countries of the Commonwealth
13:25and impose sanctions on an apartheid regime that has no place in the modern world.
13:29Let us be quite clear about this.
13:32Nothing useful can be achieved by sanctions.
13:35Really?
13:36It was my understanding they would devastate the South African government.
13:39Well, they would devastate us too.
13:41Trade between our two countries is worth three billion pounds a year.
13:45I thought we might look at it from the South African point of view.
13:47I am, Ma'am.
13:49South Africa is already a disinvestment economy.
13:52But black South Africans want sanctions, so shouldn't we listen to them?
13:55Well, black South Africans don't want to inherit a wasteland.
13:59They will if they feel it is their wasteland.
14:01President Kaunda of Zambia would confirm as much.
14:03It is not the business of a British Prime Minister to consult with unelected dictators.
14:08But it is a sovereign's duty when they are part of the Commonwealth.
14:14Yes, the Commonwealth.
14:17Yes, the Commonwealth.
14:20I recognise that for your family, the transition of this nation from empire to comparative supplicancy
14:28on the world stage must have come as a greater shock than to the rest of us.
14:33But I would argue that the Commonwealth is not the way to fill that gap.
14:39There are ways of Britain being great again.
14:41And that is through a revitalised economy.
14:44Not through association with unreliable tribal leaders in eccentric costumes.
14:50But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister?
14:52A tribal leader in eccentric costumes.
14:55Certainly not.
14:57You are head of an evolved constitutional monarchy that stretches back to William the Conquerites.
15:02It's not comparing like with like.
15:05Ah, now that's where we differ.
15:06You see, I consider myself to be exactly like them.
15:09To me, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi are all great sovereign nations with great histories.
15:14I am aware you probably don't share that view.
15:17To you, the Commonwealth is something of a distraction.
15:21A waste of time.
15:22But in many ways, I have given my life to it.
15:26It was the pledge I made, 40 years ago.
15:29On the wireless.
15:29To our great imperial family.
15:32I remember listening to it as a student at Oxford.
15:36But we cannot let the values of the past distract us from the realities of the present.
15:43Particularly where Britain's economic interests are concerned.
15:4748 countries of the Commonwealth are now preparing a statement condemning the South African regime
15:52and recommending tougher sanctions.
15:54What they, what I would like you to do, is sign that statement.
16:01If I didn't know better, that sounded very much like a directive.
16:08Think of it as a question.
16:13The jolly atmosphere at the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Nassau, nicknamed the Chogham,
16:18fooled nobody.
16:19Within an hour, South Africa came up with the Indian Prime Minister making his position crystal clear.
16:24How was it?
16:26I'm meeting with the Queen.
16:28It was a little testy.
16:30Although I must say, I do like the boat.
16:33Yacht.
16:34It isn't a yacht.
16:36It's a great big ship.
16:37And when the Sovereign sails in it, historically, it's called a yacht.
16:41I don't be a know-all.
16:42It's unbecoming.
16:44And why was it frosty?
16:46I didn't say frosty.
16:47I said testy.
16:48Although I wish it had been a frosty.
16:50It's far too hot here.
16:52Because my fellow heads of government are now coming up with a statement condemning the South African government.
16:59They want me to sign it.
17:00I've told them I won't accept anything with the word sanction.
17:04They've started...
17:05Getting their niggers in a twist?
17:08Insisting they won't accept anything less.
17:11So, now we need to come up with a word that works for everyone.
17:17Well, good luck with that.
17:18Thank you, DT.
17:29No, no, no, no.
17:39She rejected any mention of proposals.
17:44I'm determined to win this battle, Sonny.
17:47I don't often get into a fight.
17:48But when I do, I want to win.
17:50You will, ma'am.
17:51Remember, you are not alone.
17:53It is 48 against 1.
17:54We are going back with another word.
17:59Merit.
18:00No, no, no, no.
18:03No.
18:06I'm sorry.
18:10A no to measures.
18:11Yes.
18:12So we are going back with actions.
18:15And should that fail?
18:16We still have controls.
18:18Yes.
18:18I'm beginning to see this is all about control.
18:22No.
18:23No, no.
18:27No, no.
18:44They must be out of their minds.
18:47No, no.
18:50It's definitely not.
18:53No.
18:56Dick.
19:06What we need here is not useless politicians, sorry, Sonny, but a writer.
19:10Where might we find one?
19:22No.
19:27No.
19:29Signals.
19:52Yes, I think we can work with that.
19:57Signals?
19:58Yes.
19:58She agreed to signals.
20:00And among the signals she agreed to are actually several of the sanctions she would never have contemplated had they
20:05been called sanctions.
20:06Oh, thank you, Michael.
20:08And congratulations.
20:10Have we won?
20:11Oh, yes.
20:12It is a victory for the Commonwealth, a victory for humanity, and most of all a victory for you.
20:16When put in the ring with her queen, the Iron Lady melted.
20:39Well played, Margaret.
20:41A victory for common sense.
20:42Whatever are you talking about?
20:44I'm sure the other heads of government will appreciate your willingness to seek compromise.
20:50There's a reason the top job is always alluded to, Geoffrey.
20:55The absence of the killer instinct.
20:58That our families are once more united along the common consensus.
21:04But ladies and gentlemen, first, Prime Minister Margaret Hatcher.
21:08Prime Minister.
21:10Yes.
21:10You have been forced to make significant concessions.
21:13Not that I noticed.
21:15You signed a document prepared by 48 countries who were in conflict with you.
21:20I did.
21:20But the question is, did one person move to the 48, or did 48 move to one?
21:30Yes, I agreed to signals.
21:33But as you know, with one simple turn, a signal can soon point in an entirely different direction.
21:53That's what she said?
21:54Yes, ma'am.
21:55But we're walking off.
21:57Really?
22:07Ready?
22:08Here we go.
22:09Please.
22:10We're ready.
22:11Position.
22:13Perfect.
22:15Look at me.
22:17Three, two, one.
22:20Two, two.
22:29And a空 one.
22:31One, two, one.
22:33I don't see I can plant too.
22:45One, two.
22:46One, one, two, one.
22:47The first thing is to× paradise into your...
22:47Off.
22:53Everyone's reading.
22:54Some early reactions have come in so far.
22:56Very encouraging.
22:59Right, but no offers yet.
23:03Oh, not yet.
23:05But regardless of whether we get this one published,
23:09what is undeniable is that you write vividly,
23:12catchily, dare I say it, even commercially.
23:17Well, it's not a dirty word, Michael.
23:19You could really tell a story.
23:21I'm wondering, have you ever considered a political thriller?
23:24What?
23:25The inner workings of Whitehall Westminster, the palace.
23:28No one could write it better than you.
23:31No.
23:31No, if this magnum opus doesn't work, I'll call it a day.
23:35You could expose it all under an assumed name.
23:38I could.
23:40But sadly, I'm old-fashioned
23:42and would never betray those confidences
23:44or the people I'm proud to serve.
23:47Had to try.
23:49Was that very grubby of me?
23:52Not grubby.
23:56Just quietly heartbreaking.
24:02With violence escalating in South Africa,
24:05tensions between the United Kingdom
24:07and other nations of the Commonwealth
24:08are at breaking point.
24:10Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions
24:12is being blamed for the last...
24:14Good meeting?
24:16Great.
24:17Hate to dampen the mood,
24:19but the Today newspaper has let us know
24:20they are now running a front-page story
24:22about the increasingly sour relations
24:24between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street
24:26following the recent crisis
24:28at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
24:31What is it with these people?
24:33And that relations between the two women
24:35are in danger of completely breaking down.
24:39Well, the good news is
24:40it's today, as so can expect it,
24:43to have little impact.
24:45The bad news is
24:46it won't be long
24:47before bigger, more influential newspapers
24:49realise this warrants further scrutiny.
24:52So I think the time might have come
24:55for Your Majesty
24:55to make some kind of pre-emptive statement.
24:58What kind of statement?
25:00One of support.
25:02Even, dare I say,
25:04personal affection for the Prime Minister.
25:08About the job she's doing.
25:10Something that would kill the gossip stone dead.
25:13But what if I'm not happy
25:14with the job she's been doing?
25:16What if on this occasion
25:17I'd be happy for people to know
25:18the displeasure was actually real?
25:20That I am personally concerned
25:21about her lack of compassion.
25:23You know how seriously
25:24I take my constitutional responsibility
25:26to remain silent,
25:27but each of us has our line in the sand.
25:30And if it were to become public knowledge
25:31that there had been an unprecedented rift
25:33between Sovereign and Prime Minister,
25:35would that really be so bad?
25:44What if that really were your intention?
25:52And for the record, ma'am,
25:53I must say
25:54I think that would be a misjudgment
25:56and risk doing serious
25:58and irreparable harm
25:59to the relationship
26:00between Buckingham Palace
26:01and Downing Street.
26:08then today
26:10would not be the newspaper
26:11I would go to.
26:14I'd go somewhere with more heft,
26:16somewhere that also had
26:18a clear sense
26:19of the unprecedented nature of this,
26:23where they understood
26:24the rules of the game.
26:25Right.
26:25Well, can I leave that with you then, Michael?
26:27You are the expert.
26:29Ma'am.
26:29Ma'am.
26:38It's reckless.
26:40It's reckless, Martin.
26:42And irresponsible.
26:42I'm as surprised as you are.
26:45It goes against my professional advice.
26:47And I want my objection noted.
26:51Noted?
26:52Noted, Martin.
26:54It's noted.
26:58It's noted.
27:12Simon Freeman at the Sunday Times
27:14is on the line.
27:14He's run three times.
27:17Following up on rumors
27:18about a deep and irreconcilable rift
27:21between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.
27:26All right.
27:27Put him through.
27:38It's 54, sir.
27:41It's a change.
27:45It's a change.
28:10Good evening, Prime Minister.
28:12Good evening, Bernard.
28:13I've just had a phone call
28:14from the Sunday Times
28:15letting us know
28:16that there will be a difficult piece
28:17in the paper tomorrow.
28:18About what?
28:19The fault lines that have developed
28:21in the relationship
28:21between Sovereign and Prime Minister.
28:23What?
28:34Son of the time's first edition.
28:41Son of the time's first edition.
28:44Son of the time's first edition.
28:48Son of the time's first edition.
28:55Hello?
28:56Michael?
29:32A constitutional crisis was on the verge of erupting this morning as the Sunday Times published details of a sensational
29:39rift between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
29:42This story, which is likely to have a serious impact on what have traditionally been cordial relations between the sovereign
29:48and her prime ministers,
29:49cites the cause of the rift as an alleged dispute over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of
29:56sanctions against apartheid in South Africa.
29:59A position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval, marking a distinct break with the monarch's long-held
30:06practice of never-passing comment on political affairs.
30:09So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report.
30:13The palace spokesman declining to comment on an article entitled...
30:17The African Queen, at odds with number 10.
30:20It has been an eventful week for Buckingham Palace.
30:23Queen Elizabeth II, a well-intentioned apolitical figurehead, has been dragged into a messy row over South Africa because of
30:31the stubbornness and insensitivity...
30:33Of her prime minister.
30:36Far from being a straightforward, uncomplicated countrywoman...
30:40A late middle-aged grandmother who is most at ease when talking about dogs and horses...
30:45She's shown that she's also an astute political infighter who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street...
30:51When provoked.
30:57The
30:58That's what it says.
31:02I'm feeling something for the very first time, something which I never imagined feeling.
31:09What is that?
31:12Impatience for our next audience.
31:21Buckingham Palace has continued to deny accusations published in the Sunday Times
31:26regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing Street.
31:29Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship between Sovereign and First Minister
31:34was in danger of being blown apart.
31:36Prime Minister's here.
31:55Prime Minister's here.
32:25Prime Minister's here.
32:44Prime Minister's here.
32:56Your Majesty.
32:58Prime Minister.
33:05Before coming today, I checked with the Cabinet Secretary, and it turns out that in the seven
33:11years I have been Prime Minister, we have had 164 audiences, always the model of cordiality,
33:18productivity and mutual respect. So it is perhaps not unreasonable to expect an isolated hiccup.
33:26What hiccup?
33:27I was under the impression that Her Majesty never expressed her political views in public.
33:34I don't.
33:35That there was an unbreakable code of silence between Sovereign and First Minister.
33:40If you're referring to the Sunday Times, I've always advised my Prime Ministers against reading the newspapers.
33:45I don't, ma'am.
33:46If you misunderstand, misquote and misrepresent, then everybody gets into a fluster.
33:50But my Press Secretary does.
33:52But my Press Secretary does.
33:53And he has working relationships with all of the editors, and the editor in this case assured him that the
33:58sources were unimpeachable.
34:02Well, I'm sure a clarification will soon be forthcoming.
34:11In the meantime, should we not make a star from the Business of the Week, only I am mindful of
34:15the time.
34:17This is the business, ma'am. The only business. I think we have enough respect for one another personally to
34:25ask ourselves some of the bigger questions.
34:29Woman to woman. We are the same age after all.
34:33Really?
34:34Just six months between us.
34:36Oh? And who is the senior?
34:39I am, ma'am.
34:49Uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive.
34:52That's how these sources so close to the Queen describe me.
34:56Prime Minister.
34:56That I lack compassion.
34:57And that my government has done irretrievable damage to the country's social fabric.
35:10My responsibility for the time I have in office is to put sentimentality to one side and look after these
35:19countries' interests with the perspective of a cold balance sheet.
35:23And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness and compassion for those less fortunate than us…
35:29Do you? Really?
35:30Let us not forget that, of the two of us, I am the one from a small street in an
35:39irrelevant town, with a father who could not bequeath me a title or a commonwealth, but only grit, good sense
35:47and determination.
35:48And I don't want people's pity or charity or compassion. Nothing would insult me more.
35:56My goal is to change this country from being dependent to self-reliant. And I think in that I am
36:05succeeding.
36:06I have had to learn many difficult lessons as sovereigns.
36:08Britons are learning to look after number one, to get ahead, and only then, if they choose to look after
36:18their neighbour.
36:19Of those…
36:19No one would remember the good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. You see, he had money as well.
36:31Perhaps the hardest is that I am obliged to support my Prime Ministers on any position they take, even yours,
36:38regarding sanctions against South Africa.
36:43My question is, given the lack of impact it has on your day-to-day political fortunes, yet how important
36:49it is to me, could you not have supported me just once?
36:54My fellow Commonwealth leaders, many of whom I consider to be friends, now feel that I have betrayed them on
37:01an issue most important to them.
37:03Well, they need only read the Sunday Times. It will give them no doubt as to your position.
37:17Oh, look what time is up. How it flies.
37:23You must be very much looking forward to the wedding tomorrow, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
37:28Yes, we are.
37:30They seem like a good match.
37:32Yes, we think so.
37:33My own son, Mark, recently announced that he would be getting married.
37:38Your favourite? The explorer?
37:40Not an explorer, ma'am. That was just the once. He's a businessman now. In the Middle East, mostly. And
37:48South Africa.
37:50Of course.
37:53Your Majesty.
38:05Listen to me carefully. There is no story here. There's not a shred of truth to these rumours.
38:10The Queen continues to have an extremely cordial and productive working relationship with the Prime Minister.
38:15Sunday Times maintains that the story came from a highly placed source within the palace. And that's the line we're
38:19running with.
38:20And we will deny it and you will look like fools.
38:22Prepare me the indignation. I understand you have to say it, but we both know that it's true. And your
38:27continual denial is making you lot look like fools.
38:33Hello? Can I take your details?
38:38And what's all this? Don't tell me the groom's having last minute doubts.
38:42No. Andrew's asked us all to come together because he wants someone to explain why...
38:46God's name is going on with our mother.
38:49The wedding of the Duke of York should be a landmark event, at home and abroad.
38:53Instead, thanks to the Queen's inexplicable lapse of judgement, the newspapers are full, not of Sarah and me.
39:01The mummy's rifted with the Prime Minister.
39:05Ah yes. The Sunday Times.
39:08You have to admit she has made a god awful mess of it.
39:10What was she thinking?
39:10She did what she spent her life telling me I cannot do.
39:14She opened her mouth and expressed an opinion.
39:18And is being slaughtered for it.
39:21Bloody thoughtless of her, if you ask me.
39:22Come on, you can hardly blame the newspapers for wanting to write about something other than the wedding of a
39:26fringe member of the family who will never be king.
39:29Ouch!
39:30Well, it's true, isn't it?
39:32Fourth in line now, and by the time William's had children, his children have had children.
39:38Fringe.
39:42Shall we?
39:49Did you really just say that?
39:52On my wedding day?
39:54That was impressively cunty.
40:06It would be hard to imagine there would be anything that could knock a royal wedding into second place on
40:10the news.
40:12But a continuing escalation of the row between the Queen and Mrs Thatcher threatens to overshadow the nuptials.
40:18The Queen has made a very serious error of judgment.
40:21And this Sunday Times article has lit a touch paper to what could very quickly become a major constitutional crisis.
40:28What the palace was hoping to achieve by this is hard to say.
40:31But the fact is they've stirred up a hornet's nest and so far seem to lack the wind to avoid
40:37getting stung.
40:38If I might interrupt, ma'am.
40:40That's a serious impact.
40:43One unfortunate consequence of our denial of the story is that the editor of the Sunday Times has now come
40:49out all guns blazing.
40:50And whilst we could continue to deny it, my own view is that it's no longer to our advantage.
40:56And I think we're now going to have to give them something.
41:00What?
41:01A culprit.
41:03To deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP.
41:08We need to let them have a name.
41:21Morton. Michael.
41:27This escalating situation between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
41:31You can't say I didn't warn you.
41:34I think you know how seriously the Queen takes her responsibility and how much she values the close relationship between
41:40the two houses.
41:41Of course.
41:43And to see it compromised like this, as a consequence of your actions.
41:53What?
41:55The fact is that the steps you took were completely unprofessional.
41:59Martin, stop it.
42:01Impugning the integrity of the palace and of the Queen herself.
42:03We know one another too well.
42:06This is madness.
42:09I hope we can rely on you to do the right thing.
42:26Of course.
42:39Michael.
42:39...
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42:49Michael.
43:56There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors.
44:01A noble motto.
44:03Aye, sir.
44:05I should like to make that dedication now.
44:07It's very simple.
44:09I declare before you all that my whole life,
44:14whether it be long or short,
44:16shall be devoted to your service
44:19and the service of our great imperial family
44:22to which we all belong.
44:26God help me to make good my vow.
44:28And God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.
44:32One and one.
44:34One and one.
44:35One and one.
44:37Two or three.