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00:05Ah, please, Your Majesty.
00:06Ah.
00:08And again.
00:10Ah.
00:12Lovely. Thank you.
00:24Deep breath in.
00:25And out.
00:28And again.
00:37122 over 80.
00:44And if we could just pop the stockings off, Your Majesty.
00:50Who?
00:50Still getting the aches on the balls of the feet?
00:53At the risk of sounding like a broken record.
00:56The less time you spend on your feet, the better.
00:59Occupational hazard, I'm afraid.
01:02Now, if I can invite you to come this way.
01:13Nine and a half stone, as opposed to last year's...
01:16Not sure I want to know.
01:17Nine stone.
01:18And the year befores?
01:20Eight and three quarters.
01:22It makes no sense.
01:23In terms of diet and behaviour, I've not changed a thing.
01:26As we get older, weight stays on and it's harder to shift.
01:29For men, they say a stone a decade.
01:31And for women?
01:32Maybe half a stone.
01:35All right.
01:36Half a stone by the end of summer.
01:39Scotland as always?
01:40Oh, yes.
01:41Heavenly Scotland.
01:42Though slightly less heavenly without the cream teas.
01:44Is Balmoral your favourite home, would you say?
01:47Probably my second.
01:52That's a rather personal question.
01:55I do apologise, ma'am.
01:58I don't know what I was thinking.
02:01There is another.
02:03That's even more special to me.
02:30I had a call from the Sunday Times today, sir.
02:33Regarding a poll they've conducted about the monarchy.
02:36And it's interesting.
02:37When talking about the Queen, again and again, the same words came up.
02:41Irrelevant.
02:42Old.
02:43Expensive.
02:43Out of touch.
02:45Quite distinct from the way people talked about you, sir.
02:47Really?
02:48Should I cover my ears?
02:50No, on the contrary.
02:51They described you as young, energetic, modern, empathetic.
02:57And when asked, almost half believe you would make an excellent king
03:00and would support an early application by the Queen in your favour.
03:07And this story is running when?
03:09Sunday week, sir.
03:11And I'll be in Italy with the family.
03:12Well, actually, we think the timing of the holiday is ideal.
03:15As you know, a big part of your appeal as future king
03:19is the prospect of the Princess of Wales as Queen.
03:21Yes.
03:22So we've taken the liberty of briefing one or two friendly newspapers
03:25that it's a second honeymoon.
03:30Right.
03:45That's what they said.
03:47Those are the words they used.
03:50Second honeymoon.
03:52Second honeymoon.
03:54Second honeymoon.
04:24Second honeymoon.
04:24Come on, Perry. Let's go.
04:30How's Gondra?
04:32This is classic Charles.
04:36On the one hand, he says he wants his holiday to be his second honeymoon,
04:39and he invites cousin Norton and wife Penny to join us.
04:42Those two are so much about the high-growth furniture.
04:44Camilla might as well be here herself.
04:46If one were to be charitable for a moment,
04:49they've been through a lot recently with their youngest.
04:51Oh, I know. My goddaughter, Leonora.
04:53What's the latest?
04:55She's in remission.
04:56You know how to this one can never be sure.
05:10Hi.
05:11Hello.
05:11Hi.
05:13How are you doing?
05:15I'm a squush.
05:16I'm a squush.
05:32I just wanted to say how happy I am that we're doing this.
05:35Hello.
05:58I'm a squush.
06:21What do you think, Cheyenne, give them some of the old magic?
06:25Well, come on, then, let's blow them away.
06:57Come on, come on...
07:00So, the route I propose that we take is from Naples to Ischia, where Garibaldi spent some time recuperating after
07:09being injured in the Italian Wars of Independence, am I right?
07:12Yes, sir.
07:13Then on to Capri to see the ruins of the magnificent Villa Jovis, then down the Amalfi Coast, on to
07:20Sicily, with a final stop in Olbia on Sardinia for a private view of the Museo Archaeologico there.
07:27Were there any other requests?
07:29Some beaches, perhaps.
07:31There will, of course, be beaches along the way.
07:36And water sports.
07:37And noisy water sports.
07:38And shopping.
07:43Shopping.
07:44It's possible some people might like to go shopping one day.
07:47Who?
07:49Show of hands, would anyone apart from Diana like to go shopping?
07:53And the entire point of being on a beautiful yacht like this is that you can escape from hordes of
07:59people indulging in retail as recreation.
08:05Me!
08:06I want to go shopping.
08:07Me too.
08:14Then we'll go shopping.
08:25Thanks for sticking up for me.
08:28That's brave.
08:31A special treat you get to choose between a bedtime story or...
08:35Super Mario!
08:36Don't tell your father.
08:39Are you going back upstairs now?
08:41God, no.
08:43Off to the classics.
08:44Thanks.
08:45Good early night.
08:46Love you.
08:47I love you, Mummy.
08:48I love you too, my darlings.
08:49I love you too, my darlings.
09:10Charles and Diana seem to be the happy couple again.
09:13What a blessing that would be.
09:16For everyone.
09:19Who's that?
09:21What was what?
09:22That noise.
09:26There was a mechanical noise.
09:32There it is again.
09:34Right.
09:34I'm off.
09:36One last day cutting ribbons in Morecambe.
09:38Then feet up for the summer.
09:52As patron of the Church Urban Fund, I am aware of the vast challenges faced by this community
10:00and many others across the diocese and many others across the diocese.
10:03The milk marketing board is among the most enduring and resilient of Britain's commercial enterprises.
10:10This state-of-the-art dairy complex is testament to the continuing vitality of British others.
10:21It has been a great pleasure to learn more about intermodal containers, representing a great 30% of the European
10:29freight market.
10:30It is clear that intermodal containers are Lancashire's ticket to a bright future.
10:57How long has the pressure been down on that ground?
10:59Since this morning, sir.
11:12It shouldn't come as a surprise she's falling apart.
11:15She's a creature of another age.
11:18Effectively a World War II cruiser with soft furnishings.
11:22In many ways, she's obsolete.
11:24Don't say that.
11:25What are the options?
11:27Well, trouble with the main engine.
11:29Stubborn boilers out of service.
11:32Sentimentally, I think we'd all prefer to stick with her.
11:35I should say.
11:36But we have to be realistic about the cost of repairs when she's so obviously past her best.
11:43Are you seeing the Prime Minister in Balmoral next week?
11:45Yes.
11:46He's coming with his wife, Dora.
11:49No, that's not right.
11:50Nora.
11:52Norma.
11:53Well, you might want to bring it up with him then.
11:55I'll talk to the Admiral and come up with some figures.
11:58But it's the first time I've started to consider the unthinkable.
12:02What's that?
12:03A replacement.
12:06Built in AD 27.
12:09By Tiberius.
12:12The most magnificent of world imperial residences here in Capri.
12:19Some people say that Tiberius escaped to Capri because he could no longer endure the machinations
12:24of his mother's court in Rome.
12:25Not something I could ever understand.
12:28But after a long, successful career as a general...
12:43Bye, Charles.
12:44We'll miss you while we're having all the fun.
12:50It's an extraordinary how two people's understanding of fun could be so wholly different.
13:02When they suggested to us, Dinah and I, that we should reassure the public about the strength
13:08of our marriage by coming on a second honeymoon, I said to them, you obviously weren't at the
13:13first one.
13:15On Britannia, wasn't it?
13:16Yes.
13:17I know the Queen thinks the Royal Yacht is perfect in every way, but it's an intimate
13:22space for newlyweds.
13:23It's like a floating observation tank.
13:28Every awkward silence and stilted conversation between Bride and Gloom glaringly obvious to
13:35each and every one of the 200 crew.
13:44Did you just say Bride and Gloom?
13:48Did I?
13:54The irony is, I'm the only person this marriage does make gloomy.
13:58It seems to lift the rest of the world up.
14:03Then we're together in public.
14:05I can't deny it is magical.
14:07The perfect team is in private.
14:15Listen to me.
14:16After everything you've been through with your girl.
14:22She let me comb her hair last week.
14:25First time since it's grown back.
14:28Do you know it's come back curly?
14:30I found myself slightly ashamed to think I actually preferred it that way.
14:37It's a dreadful, wicked disease.
14:42You've all been so wonderfully strong.
14:47Is it important?
14:48The Sunday time, sir?
14:51Oh, yes.
14:52I'll leave you to it.
14:57It's running tomorrow.
14:59I've managed to gain advance sight of it, and I think you'll agree it's pretty punchy.
15:17Good morning, your majesty.
15:20Good morning, Peggy.
15:22Oh, a bit wet for the arrival of the Princess Royal.
15:26Oh, she won't mind this.
15:33Good morning, Admiral.
15:34Royal Highness.
15:37Welcome aboard, your Royal Highness.
15:52Fellas?
15:53Robert, you've got a bit of a problem.
15:59Have the newspapers been delivered?
16:01Just arrived, sir.
16:02Has the Queen gone to breakfast?
16:03On our way, sir.
16:04Make sure the Sunday Times is removed.
16:06Better still, thrown away.
16:08Under no circumstances can the Queen or the Princess Royal be allowed to see it.
16:12Understood.
16:12Sir.
16:15Five and four.
16:17Right, sir.
16:17Sir.
16:18Sir.
16:20Sir.
16:20Sir.
16:20Sir.
16:21Sir.
16:22Sir.
16:23Sir.
16:27Good morning, majesty.
16:30You're a disinfect.
16:33Move!
16:36Hello, darling.
16:38Mummy.
16:43Sorry, ma'am.
16:44You can't breathe that.
16:47Why not?
16:48It's not today's.
16:49It's yesterday's.
16:50But yesterday was Saturday, and that, I think.
16:53I think we can all agree, is the Sunday Times.
16:55I mean last week's.
16:56What?
16:56But this is today's Sunday Telegraph, today's Mail on Sunday, and the latest Racing Post.
17:00Oh, yes, please.
17:28I'm sorry to disturb, sir.
17:31I'm sorry to disturb, sir.
17:32But I thought you should be aware of this.
17:41It's outrageous.
17:43She never stops, she never complains, she never puts a foot wrong.
17:47She's utterly magnificent, and they print rubbish like this.
17:50Looks like more rain on the way.
17:52I shouldn't be surprised.
17:54It is the west coast of Scotland.
17:56I don't suppose you've seen the Sunday Times.
17:58Oh, good morning, Robert.
18:00Good morning, Your Majesty.
18:02Because I checked.
18:02Apparently it has been delivered.
18:05I'll look into it, ma'am.
18:07When you find it, I'll be on deck.
18:22Well, to say the article has had an impact would be an understatement.
18:26This provoked significant debate on radio and television, with one particular phrase getting
18:30most attention.
18:31Queen Victoria is in dread.
18:34Yes, I saw that.
18:38An ageing monarch, too long on the throne, whose remoteness from the modern world has led people
18:43to grow tired not just of her, but of the monarchy itself.
18:49Any reaction from the Queen?
18:52My understanding is she hasn't seen it.
18:54That they've kept it from her to protect her feelings.
18:57Yes, doesn't that tell you everything?
19:04I'd like you to arrange a meeting with the Prime Minister as soon as we're back.
19:09We'll think of her suitable pretext.
19:17Look!
19:18It's a whale!
19:19Where?
19:22Oh, good spot!
19:25Come back!
19:25No!
19:27Look at the way it's surfacing.
19:28It's a minky.
19:29Probably smell it before we see it again if we get any closer.
19:33Their blow smells of rotten cabbages.
19:35A stinky minky.
19:42Oh!
19:43There she is!
19:45Ladder!
19:48There.
19:51Oh, yes!
19:53Like a bulrush out of a pond.
19:56Don't you see a beauty?
19:58You say so, dear.
20:01It's one of the last manned lighthouses in Scotland.
20:05Why don't we pay her a visit?
20:07Really?
20:07Must we?
20:08Come on.
20:09A bit of exercise is good for the figure.
20:11At our age, the weight does not stay off by itself.
20:13Come on.
20:14No.
20:15You, I don't know, isn't it?
20:16Yes.
20:42Those who don't come now, are you Pako?
20:44This is so inspiring when you get to a place like this.
20:58New inquiry?
21:00Tim? No, he's been with us for a while.
21:05How come I never noticed?
21:09Because you're married.
21:11Are you technically?
21:14What's he like?
21:16Reliable.
21:18Sensible, agreeable.
21:20Hmm.
21:22I think we ought to get back to lighthouses.
21:26Those beacons of light.
21:28In an otherwise black and hopeless night.
21:31That reassure the lonely Mariner they are not forgotten.
21:35And will soon find land and home.
21:38And hope.
21:55It appears there has to be an unfortunate curtailment to the holiday.
21:59Clash of diaries, I understand.
22:01What?
22:02It depends on where else is due to give a lecture at Oxford University.
22:05There won't be any shots.
22:08What's this about us going home?
22:11It turns out there's a diary conflict through no fault of mine and I have to get back.
22:17You're supposed to be here for two weeks.
22:18Yes, we know.
22:20The plans change.
22:22I have a commitment at Oxford University.
22:24It isn't the university.
22:26It's a summer school for tourists.
22:28It's not essential.
22:29It is to me.
22:32This is our holiday.
22:35It's a rare opportunity for us to be together with the boys as a family.
22:38And I know you struggle with that sort of thing.
22:40Which is why I agreed to be bringing your friends along to entertain you.
22:43And I even agreed to do the photo call today.
22:45Requested by your people so the lie could be paraded to the world's media
22:48about what an adoring husband you are on one condition.
22:50What's that?
22:50That you actually are one!
22:54What kind of food?
22:55What kind of food?
22:56That you're all around.
22:57I think that.
22:59What kind of people is that I think we're all around?
23:00I've fallen to you.
23:31All right, if you want to give up it up, let's go!
24:17All right, let's go!
24:38I think there's a case for saying it's the most difficult economic recession since the war, and it has struck
24:44right across the economy. It's certainly been a very difficult year.
24:51Be Prime Minister, Your Royal Highness.
24:56Prime Minister.
24:58Your Royal Highness.
24:59So kindly you should come.
25:00Sir.
25:04Before we begin, I wonder, did your office let anyone at Buckingham Palace know that we were meeting?
25:09I don't believe so, sir.
25:11Probably for the best.
25:19There are two reasons I asked if I could see you today. The first, conserving our built heritage. I wonder,
25:27did you receive the copy of my book?
25:28I did.
25:30I don't suppose you found time to flick through it.
25:32Knowing we were meeting today, I made a point of it.
25:35Reading it, I'm sure you thought, what an old fogey. How stuck in the past he is with his loathing
25:42of modernism and change.
25:44Not at all.
25:46Why?
25:48You'd have been right to. I am fixated by the past. By tradition. Preserving it. Conserving it. But none of
25:57us is exclusively one thing. Human beings are too interesting for that. You yourself are full of fascinating contradictions.
26:04Sir?
26:05Coming from Brixton, a multicultural working class part of London, one might have expected you either to have concealed your
26:12past in order to fit in with the Tories or to have a more socialist viewpoint and become a rising
26:17star in the Labour Party.
26:18I have never felt that because of my background I should not be a Conservative.
26:23Precisely. You not only refuse to deny your contradictions, you don't see them as contradictions.
26:29I don't.
26:30Which makes you a far more interesting, more complex, more impressive person.
26:38And I hope that the same can be said of me.
26:45Which brings me to the second reason for our meeting.
26:48You saw the, uh, the recent poll and Sunday Times article about the Queen.
26:55I did.
26:57Queen Victoria's Syndrome.
27:02What were your...
27:04...conclusions?
27:05It's just a poll, sir.
27:07True.
27:10Not a reassuring one.
27:12Polls come and go.
27:14Dangerous to ignore them.
27:15Equally dangerous to be guided by them.
27:27There must have been many polls around the time of Mrs. Thatcher's departure.
27:34I'm sure many people wanted the Iron Lady to go on forever, but what makes the Conservative Party the successful
27:40electoral force that it is?
27:42Its instinct for renewal and its willingness to make way for someone younger.
27:50For almost 60 years, my great-great-grandfather, Edward VII, was kept waiting in the wings.
27:59It was said that Queen Victoria had no confidence in him, thought him dangerous, free-thinking.
28:06He longed to be given responsibilities, but his mother refused.
28:12Even forbade him from seeing state papers.
28:17And yet, when his time came, he proved his doubters wrong, and his dynamism, his intellect, his popular appeal made
28:25his reign a triumph.
28:28What are you saying, sir?
28:30I'm saying what a pity it was.
28:33What a waste that his voice, his presence, his vision wasn't incorporated earlier.
28:42It would have been so good for everybody.
28:56You're coming to Balmoral, to the Gillies Ball?
28:59Yes. Very much looking forward to it.
29:04Well, then you'll have an opportunity to, er, judge for yourself whether this institution that we all care about so
29:13deeply...
29:17...is in safe hands.
29:25Now to my questions about our built heritage and rural planning regulations.
30:04...is there.
30:07Hello, darling.
30:07Welcome to Balmoral.
30:08...is there.
30:09Come down, love.
30:10Come here.
30:10...I'm so...
30:11...is there.
30:14Hello, darling.
30:15Well, the never displeased me.
30:18Hello, you.
30:19Hello, you.
30:23Have you been for a nice walk?
30:25We haven't.
30:26I haven't strangled her yet, which is a miracle.
30:28Well, don't go on.
30:31We had a lovely morning.
30:33We read the newspapers.
30:34No, we didn't.
30:35Then we went on a long walk to discuss it all.
30:37Don't you look pretty?
30:38Doesn't she look pretty, Mummy?
30:52You asked to see me, ma'am.
30:53I did.
30:56Why is everyone being odd?
30:58Ma'am?
31:00It started on the Royal Yacht.
31:02What started, ma'am?
31:03People being odd with me.
31:07You're being odd now.
31:09Am I?
31:11What's going on?
31:16An unkind, silly, inaccurate article in the Sunday Times.
31:20Not worth thinking about.
31:23Don't you think I ought to be in charge of that?
31:27Do you still have a copy?
31:30Ma'am.
31:31No.
31:42No.
31:44No.
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32:00No.
32:00Hold on. Let's go.
32:30Good job.
33:24the prime minister your majesty prime minister your majesty tea thank you
33:32did you come by train airplane then car of course for a busy man every minute counts
33:38but i'm a great believer in coming by sea instead of three hours door to door it can take as
33:44long
33:45as two weeks on the royal yacht wonderful way to decompress and as my great-great-grandmother
33:52who started the western isles tour said let time slow down so that one breathes freedom and peace
33:59making one forget the world and its sad turmoil
34:08i am aware the comparison between queen victoria and me has been made recently in the newspapers
34:14and intended as criticism what people fail to understand is i see any similarity with queen
34:20victoria as a compliment attributes people use to describe her constancy stability calm duty i would
34:29be proud to have described me and speaking of the royal yacht it has now become clear that a small
34:37refit teeny tiny little refreshment and refurbishment is required to keep her in tip-top shape
34:43i am aware the costs for its maintenance are borne by the government not by the palace and
34:48so here i am coming to you prime minister on bended knee for the sign off but i'm hoping that
34:55would be a
34:56formality
35:01i'm just mindful that before she left office mrs thatcher bequeathed the palace an extremely generous
35:07civil list settlement a deal that leaves the royal family richer than ever before
35:14given that this deal was designed precisely to forestall any awkward public debate on royal spending
35:20i feel bound to at least raise the question of whether there's a way you might consider bearing
35:26the cost yourselves
35:29it's just with the royal yacht being perceived as something of a luxury there is a danger the palace
35:34could be seen to be asking for too much but she isn't a luxury isn't she prime minister
35:40there has always been a royal yacht going all the way back to king charles ii
35:44she is a central and indispensable part of the way the crown serves the nation and the revenue
35:50she has generated doing so is incalculable but we're in the midst of a global recession
35:54each penny of public spending is closely scrutinized
35:59i worry that the government spending public money on the refurbishment of a lot of a yacht
36:05might backfire
36:07on us both
36:16when i came to the throne
36:19all my palaces were inherited winsor balmoral sandringham they all bear the stamp of my predecessors
36:27only britannia have i truly been able to make my own perhaps for that reason the connection
36:34between me and the yacht is very much deeper than a mode of transport or even a home from the
36:41design of
36:41the hull the smallest piece of china she is a floating seagoing expression of me
36:54i hope we can agree that as sovereign i have made very few requests let alone demands a return the
37:00service i have given this country
37:03perhaps the reason i've held back is in the hope that when i actually do
37:06people don't just take it seriously they do as i ask without question
37:13so i would like this government's reassurance your reassurance that the costs for the refurbishments
37:18will be met and for you to inform me as soon as the arrangements are in place
37:26i understand
37:32now the ghillie's ball tonight i have to ask are you a dancer
37:38trying to turn the ukraine into an independent european country
37:42they want to break away from moscow to turn their back on the leadership of gorbachev and yeltsin
37:58to be aimed at the west in a bid to earn hard currency the other soviet republics
38:36they want to pay attention to the level of our prospects for the reason why i'm grateful for the reason
38:47why the
39:04I'll try to stay in the Queen.
39:18Will you do me the honour, Prime Minister?
39:21The honour would be mine, Your Majesty.
39:51But you have to understand, it's not just upsetting to reduce the Royal Yacht to a cost-benefit equation.
39:58It's offensive.
39:59Oh, yes, I know, repairs are an economic inconvenience,
40:03but I would argue a minor one next to the yacht's enduring role as a national symbol
40:08and for importance to the Queen, personally.
40:13Boys, say goodnight to Mr. Major.
40:15Goodnight. Goodnight, sir. Goodnight.
40:38Some local history for you, if you're interested.
40:41Of course.
40:42Queen Victoria held the first Gillies Ball in 1852, and there's been one every year since.
40:49I see.
40:49It began as a thank you to the gamekeepers and other servants, and has since developed into something of Saturnalia,
41:00if you know your classics.
41:04But the rules are turned upside down for a day.
41:06Masters serving slaves, and all disciplinary measures suspended for the night.
41:23I was just telling the Prime Minister that these things can get quite giddy.
41:27Not that I ever witness any of it. I'm afraid the real fun only starts when I go to bed.
41:32Can I count on you for a full report in the morning?
41:33You can, Your Majesty.
41:35Goodnight.
41:36Can you slip away?
41:38Our Majesty the Queen!
41:57Prime Minister, I understand you, um, you had an audience with the Queen today.
42:02I know I shouldn't ask, but, uh, I just hope it plays well with the public.
42:08Sir?
42:10The, uh, the refit to Britannia. That is what she asked you for.
42:15Sir?
42:18Sometimes these old things are too costly to keep repairing.
42:26I'll leave you with that thought.
42:29Shall we call it a night?
42:30I can't, not yet.
42:32Will you dance with me before I scream?
42:37I'm so jealous you get to jump on a plane and escape out of here tomorrow, back to normality.
42:41No, I'm stuck here for another two weeks.
42:44You just had a lovely family holiday.
42:46You and the Prince of Wales look so happy.
42:50You can judge the health of a family by the state of the marriages within it.
42:54And look.
42:56Anne and Mark.
42:57Look at Andrew and Sarah.
43:00Charles and me.
43:03I don't give any of us more than six months.
43:08And what happens then when the family falls apart?
43:11I say the institution falls apart.
43:14And then...
43:17Peace!
43:20The presentation and characters is what happens.
43:23That's how I'm not doing this.
43:25I'm not doing this.
43:30I'm not doing this.
43:31Don't be stuffing me!
43:35What do you mean?
43:36Right!
43:37I'm not doing this.
43:46What's the matter?
43:53When you imagine the problems you might be confronted with this Prime Minister,
43:56you imagine tricky sessions at PMQs, the economy in free fall,
44:02going to war.
44:05You never imagine this.
44:09The House of Windsor should be binding the nation together,
44:15setting an example of idealized family life.
44:18Instead, the senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch.
44:26The junior royals, feckless, entitled, and lost.
44:34And the Prince of Wales, impatient for a bigger role in public life,
44:38fails to appreciate that his one great asset is his wife.
44:44It's a situation that cannot help but affect the stability of the country.
44:50And what makes it worse is it feels it's all about to erupt.
44:56On my watch.
45:21On my watch.
45:23On my watch.
45:28On my watch.
45:30Coin with.
45:30On my watch.
45:31On my watch.
45:31On mine.