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- Fuel on.
- Fuel on.

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Chocks are in position. Switches are off.

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You sure about this, sir?

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When I got married, my in-laws made me
marshal of the Royal Air Force,

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as a result, I'm the most senior airman in
the country and I can't bloody well fly.

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- Yes, I'm sure.
- Right-o, sir.

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- Ready, sir?
- Ready!

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Here we go. Whoa!

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Okay.

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Blimey!

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Christ!

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- All right there, sir?
- Yes, yes, fine.

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- Now it's your turn. You have control.
- I have control.

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Now remember what I told you,
keep your eye on the altimeter

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and the compass heading
and keep the stick level.

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That's very good.
That's balanced.

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Stick to the left,
then to the right.

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- And level. Good.
- Noisy, isn't it?

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How's this, sir?

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My God.

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- Isn't it wonderful?
- Heaven.

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You fought in
the Battle of Britain, didn't you?

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I did, sir.
Two-five-seven squadron.

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- Flying what? Spitfires?
- Hurricanes, mostly, sir.

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- Any kills?
- One or two.

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Shouldn't we get her started now?
The ground seems terribly close.

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No, it's too low to restart,
sir. We'll do a dead-stick landing.

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- I have control.
- You have control.

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That was wonderful.

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- Same time next week, sir?
- How about tomorrow?

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- Latest charts.
- Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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Johnson, what do you think of this?

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Interesting.

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Sir?

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I think you should see these.

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I see.

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Sir.

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Goodness me.

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Excuse me, you can't go
in there. Excuse me, sir.

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Sorry, sir. Thought you should see these.

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Good God.

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We must send a warning.

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To cover our backs.

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Kenneth, it should probably come from you,
as chief scientist.

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Address it to the PM.
He'll never read it, of course.

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But the important thing is we sent it.

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I'll get it to Downing Street right away.

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Wait there, please.

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If Her Majesty could lean forward.

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And deep breath in...

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...and out.

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The air's a little stuffy, ma'am. It
might help to open the window a crack?

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Not while they're rehearsing.

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What are they rehearsing?

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My funeral.

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Oh, there you are. Miss Scott.

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- Mr. Thurman.
- Mr. Collins.

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- This is for you.
- Thank you.

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I'm not a scientist.
I can't say I understand it.

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But, what I can tell you is we don't get
a weather warning like this every day.

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We don't get one every month, either.

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In fact, I've never heard of us
getting one at all.

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Does the name Donora mean anything to you?

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Donora?

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Oh, of course I remember Donora.
It was a scandal.

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A small mill town in America,
outside Philadelphia?

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Pittsburgh.

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They had a smog
brought on by a freak anti-cyclone

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which trapped the emissions
from the local copper work...

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- Zinc.
- ...in the fog.

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- In a few days a number of people died.
- Twenty.

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And several thousand became
seriously ill from the poisonous fog.

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After the incident a cross-party
delegation was sent to Donora

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on an urgent fact-finding mission.

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They recommended that clean air zones
be set up all round London,

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as a precautionary measure.

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- I never saw the report.
- With good reason.

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Our Prime Minister threw it away,
claiming it wasn't a priority.

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- Can you prove that?
- I can, Mr. Atlee.

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The Cabinet minutes
where it was discussed.

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He's insisted the country keep
burning coal irresponsibly this winter,

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to give the illusion of a solid economy.

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- This is great, Clem.
- It's interesting, for sure.

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What I don't understand is this.

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Why a Downing Street employee,
working for the government,

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should come to me with this information?

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I've read the <i>Aeneid,</i> Mr. Thurman.

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"Do not trust the horse, Trojans.

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I fear the Greeks
even when they bring gifts."

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Mr. Atlee, I entered the civil service
to serve the public

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and to serve government, any government.

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But I am also a responsible citizen

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and I cannot stand by
while chaos reigns around me.

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This is not a government.

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Mr. Attlee, this is a collection
of hesitant, frightened, old men

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unable to unseat a tyrannical,
delusional even older one.

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Yours was the most radical,

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forward-thinking government
this country has ever seen.

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How you lost the election escapes me.

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Escapes us all.

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I believe I would be doing the British
public and this country a service

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if I helped to usher him out of
the door, and you back in.

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And to that end you come to me
with a "master plan"

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that involves me crucifying the Tories
for their failure to deal with a fog

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which as yet shows no sign of appearing.

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At present I can see stars.

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- Good night.
- Good night.

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Miss Scott.

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Thank you for your conscientiousness,
but it's late.

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- Go home.
- I am, sir.

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You're no good to me tired.
Good evening to you.

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- Scott, still here?
- Good night, sir.

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Good night.

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Evening, Pat.

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You haven't moved.

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I suppose it's still a "no"?

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- To what?
- Coming out.

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Oh, you mean going to the Lamb and Flag
with you, sitting at the bar,

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twinkling our ankles at every
unremarkable young man in the room.

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Then letting those men buy us drinks
for us to bring them home,

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only to have their unremarkability
confirmed to us again?

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No, thanks.

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Goodness. And what will you be doing
in the meantime?

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Spend time in the company
of someone remarkable.

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Ta-ra.

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<i>"Hear this, young men and women
everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.</i>

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<i>The earth is yours
and the fullness thereof."</i>

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<i>"Be kind but be fierce.</i>

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<i>You're needed now more than ever before.</i>

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<i>Take up the mantle of change..."</i>

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<i>"...for this is your time."</i>

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<i>Good morning.</i>

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<i>The time is eight o'clock on the 6th
of December and here is the news.</i>

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<i>London has been brought to a halt
by dense fog,</i>

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<i>which has descended overnight.</i>

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<i>Long queues have formed on main roads.
There are reports of motorists</i>

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<i>abandoning their vehicles
and continuing on foot.</i>

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<i>London Airport is expected to be closed.</i>

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Good God.

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<i>The meteorological office
has issued a statement</i>

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<i>saying that a persistent anti-cyclone
over London is to blame.</i>

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<i>Smoke from the capital's chimneys
is being trapped at street level</i>

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<i>which is aggravating the fog.</i>

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<i>The windless conditions mean
it is expected to last for some time.</i>

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<i>Be careful out there,
it's a real pea souper.</i>

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Ah. Is the car ready?

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I'm afraid the visibility
is too poor to drive, ma'am.

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It's what, 200 yards?

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It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.

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I have an appointment
to see my grandmother.

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I intend to keep that appointment.

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If it's too hazardous to drive...
then there's only one thing to be done.

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I saw that.

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Might it be possible for you
to pretend that you haven't?

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And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.

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- Could you be more specific?
- Ma'am?

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- Which queen?
- Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.

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- Which one? There are two.
- The young one.

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Oh, the Queen.

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I thought you was all queens.
They gave me a sheet.

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We are.

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I was the queen so long as my husband
the king was alive, but since he died,

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I am no longer the queen,
I am simply Queen Mary.

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My late son's widow was also the queen,
but upon the death of her husband,

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she became Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother.

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Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth,
is now queen, so she is...

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- The Queen.
- Bravo.

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Nurses and nuns have the same problem.

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- We're all called Sister.
- So you are.

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Well, she's outside. The Queen.

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Then let her in. Sister.

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- Bad time?
- Not at all.

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- How are you?
- I'm always happy to see you,

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and my mood will improve yet further
if you promise me one thing.

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- Name it.
- Not to ask me how I am.

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It's all anyone ever does.

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Forget death by lung disease,
it's death by bad conversation.

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All right. I promise.

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But if you are feeling up to it,

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there was something
I wanted to talk to you about.

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Fire away.

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I was listening
to the wireless this morning,

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where they described this fog
as an act of God.

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Now, in your letter that you sent me,

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you said...

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"Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
is your duty above everything else,

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because the calling comes
from the highest source.

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From God himself."

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Yes.

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Do you really believe that?

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Monarchy is God's sacred mission
to grace and dignify the earth.

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To give ordinary people
an ideal to strive towards,

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an example of nobility and duty
to raise them in their wretched lives.

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Monarchy is a calling from God.

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That is why you are crowned in an abbey,
not a government building.

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Why you are anointed, not appointed.

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It's an archbishop
that puts the crown on your head,

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not a minister or public servant.

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Which means that you are answerable
to God in your duty, not the public.

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I'm not sure that my husband
would agree with that.

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He would argue
that in any equitable modern society,

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that church and state
should be separated.

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That if God has servants
they're priests not kings.

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He would also say that he watched
his own family destroyed,

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because they were seen by the people
to embody indefensible

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and unreasonable ideas.

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Yes, but he represents a royal family
of carpetbaggers and parvenus,

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that goes back what? Ninety years?

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What would he know of Alfred the Great,
the Rod of Equity and Mercy,

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Edward the Confessor,

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William the Conqueror
or Henry the Eighth?

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It's the Church of England, dear,
not the Church of Denmark or Greece.

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Next question.

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It's chaos out there. Trains
disrupted, air services cancelled.

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At Richmond Bridge this morning,

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visibility was officially measured
at one yard.

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That's a record low, incidentally.

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Our Trojan friend in Downing Street
has been speaking

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to his friends at the Met office.

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They say this is just the beginning.
They expect it to get worse.

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I know you would have me call
a vote of no confidence,

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and will doubtless call me
over-cautious for not doing so.

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But the Prime Minister
needs to be given a chance.

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Even if it's only to hang himself.

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Let's see how the old fool responds.

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There you go. There you go.

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Hey! Get out the way!

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Morning.

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Oh. I'm glad to see someone else made it
in. No one saw this coming, did they?

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No.

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Prime Minister? Sir?

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- Ah, you made it? Bravo!
- Oh, I'm so sorry, sir.

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- I was just...
- No, no. You did well to get here.

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I gather
half the Downing Street staff didn't?

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It wasn't easy. Just crossing the road
you take your life in your hands.

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Well, then don't.
You are too important to all of us.

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Hardly.

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00:24:10,255 --> 00:24:13,535
All I do is bring you things to sign.
Then take them away again.

241
00:24:13,615 --> 00:24:17,975
And so the wheels keep turning,
and the business gets done,

242
00:24:18,055 --> 00:24:20,055
and the country is governed.

243
00:24:22,495 --> 00:24:27,055
But what's my personal contribution?

244
00:24:28,495 --> 00:24:33,455
You improve the quality of life
for all that deal with you.

245
00:24:34,255 --> 00:24:37,655
An ornament. A flower.

246
00:24:39,015 --> 00:24:43,375
By comparison at my age
you were a published writer,

247
00:24:43,455 --> 00:24:46,215
and a cavalry officer, posted to India,

248
00:24:46,295 --> 00:24:48,935
fighting local tribesmen
on the north west frontier.

249
00:24:49,015 --> 00:24:50,135
Who told you that?

250
00:24:50,215 --> 00:24:54,535
You asked me to engage in a relationship
with a young man, my own age.

251
00:24:54,615 --> 00:24:56,975
So I have been reading
your autobiography.

252
00:24:57,055 --> 00:25:00,575
Oh, yes.
That's not quite what I had in mind.

253
00:25:00,655 --> 00:25:05,335
"Hear this, young men and women
everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.

254
00:25:06,095 --> 00:25:09,855
The earth is yours
and the fullness thereof.

255
00:25:11,335 --> 00:25:13,775
Be kind but be fierce.

256
00:25:14,655 --> 00:25:17,735
You are needed now
more than ever before.

257
00:25:18,935 --> 00:25:21,375
- Take up the mantle of change...
- Stop.

258
00:25:21,455 --> 00:25:23,935
...for this is your time."

259
00:25:28,375 --> 00:25:31,135
You were 24.

260
00:25:32,775 --> 00:25:37,375
All energy and hope
and passion and fire.

261
00:25:38,615 --> 00:25:40,415
It's remarkable.

262
00:25:44,295 --> 00:25:48,055
You found something you liked
in that young man?

263
00:25:49,895 --> 00:25:51,135
I did.

264
00:26:18,415 --> 00:26:19,855
<i>Good morning.</i>

265
00:26:20,895 --> 00:26:25,335
<i>The time is eight o'clock on the 7th
of December, and here is the news.</i>

266
00:26:25,415 --> 00:26:29,335
<i>The serious fog that brought much
of the capital to a standstill yesterday</i>

267
00:26:29,415 --> 00:26:33,055
<i>continues this morning, with emergency
services struggling to cope</i>

268
00:26:33,135 --> 00:26:36,295
<i>and widespread disruption
reported across the nation.</i>

269
00:26:37,575 --> 00:26:41,175
<i>Flares are being used to guide motorists
in parts of the capital.</i>

270
00:26:41,255 --> 00:26:43,655
<i>Trains are stopped
or running hours behind schedule</i>

271
00:26:43,735 --> 00:26:46,095
<i>from major London railway stations.</i>

272
00:26:47,535 --> 00:26:50,215
<i>The Prime Minister is facing criticism</i>

273
00:26:50,295 --> 00:26:52,135
<i>for failure to deal
with the mounting crisis.</i>

274
00:26:53,815 --> 00:26:57,575
<i>London Airport is closed again today,
with all flights grounded.</i>

275
00:26:57,655 --> 00:26:59,055
- Piss.
- <i>The unmoving fog,</i>

276
00:26:59,135 --> 00:27:03,335
<i>which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
is likely to cause complete darkness</i>

277
00:27:03,415 --> 00:27:04,855
<i>by two o'clock this afternoon.</i>

278
00:27:19,295 --> 00:27:20,535
Are you all right?

279
00:27:22,735 --> 00:27:23,895
You're not.

280
00:27:25,295 --> 00:27:29,775
- Come on, let's get you up.
- No, no. I'm fine. I promise.

281
00:27:32,255 --> 00:27:37,575
It's just because the window was open.
Now go to work. You've got a job to do.

282
00:27:46,135 --> 00:27:49,775
Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,

283
00:27:49,855 --> 00:27:53,135
where anti-colonial passions
continue to run high,

284
00:27:53,215 --> 00:27:58,095
and where our soldiers continue to come
under fire from nationalist insurgents.

285
00:27:58,175 --> 00:28:04,255
It is vital that we remain
and successfully defend the Suez Canal,

286
00:28:04,335 --> 00:28:08,415
a point that I will be making in person
to the Commonwealth Heads,

287
00:28:08,495 --> 00:28:12,535
when I host them
for the weekend at Chequers.

288
00:28:12,615 --> 00:28:14,855
Weather permitting.

289
00:28:14,935 --> 00:28:15,975
Indeed.

290
00:28:16,055 --> 00:28:18,455
What is the latest information
that you have?

291
00:28:19,215 --> 00:28:25,015
About the weather?
It's fog, ma'am. It will lift eventually.

292
00:28:25,095 --> 00:28:27,415
I was hoping
for something more scientific.

293
00:28:28,895 --> 00:28:31,655
Then I will ensure
that a barometric report

294
00:28:31,735 --> 00:28:33,935
is included in your box tomorrow,

295
00:28:34,015 --> 00:28:39,375
complete with isobars and isohumes.

296
00:28:39,455 --> 00:28:42,375
It has been an unusually cold winter,

297
00:28:42,455 --> 00:28:46,095
and there are only so many things
that I, as Prime Minister,

298
00:28:46,175 --> 00:28:50,295
am prepared to inflict on your subjects
as a reward for winning a World War

299
00:28:50,375 --> 00:28:54,775
and prevailing over fascism,
evil and tyranny.

300
00:28:54,855 --> 00:28:57,695
Letting them freeze is not one of them.

301
00:28:58,255 --> 00:29:01,175
- You do not seem unduly concerned.
- I'm not.

302
00:29:01,255 --> 00:29:07,135
You do know that my late father wrote,
many years ago, to your predecessors,

303
00:29:07,215 --> 00:29:10,055
to express his deep concern
about the inner city power stations

304
00:29:10,135 --> 00:29:11,615
that your party was building.

305
00:29:14,895 --> 00:29:15,935
Indeed.

306
00:29:17,175 --> 00:29:22,615
And I was sympathetic
with your father's concerns at the time.

307
00:29:22,695 --> 00:29:27,055
I also have sympathy with the leader
articles in the newspapers today,

308
00:29:27,135 --> 00:29:28,775
baying for blood.

309
00:29:28,855 --> 00:29:34,855
Wanting my head.
People have to be angry at someone.

310
00:29:34,935 --> 00:29:39,895
But as leader,
one cannot simply react to everything.

311
00:29:39,975 --> 00:29:43,135
We need the power stations,
we need the coal.

312
00:29:43,215 --> 00:29:46,055
The people need to burn coal
to warm their homes.

313
00:29:46,135 --> 00:29:51,375
- It is weather. It will pass.
- Well, I do hope so.

314
00:29:51,455 --> 00:29:54,815
Not least because my husband's mood
is intolerable.

315
00:29:54,895 --> 00:29:55,895
Why?

316
00:29:56,895 --> 00:30:00,415
Well, being caged in like this.
He can't fly.

317
00:30:02,135 --> 00:30:07,015
- Fly where?
- Well, nowhere, he is learning to fly.

318
00:30:08,575 --> 00:30:10,575
Whatever for?

319
00:30:10,655 --> 00:30:14,295
Have we not enough qualified pilots
to take him where he needs to go?

320
00:30:14,375 --> 00:30:18,175
No, he wants to fly himself.
It's a boyhood dream.

321
00:30:18,255 --> 00:30:21,335
- It's what he's always wanted.
- Why was government not consulted?

322
00:30:21,415 --> 00:30:24,615
Because it's a private matter.
And I am in favor.

323
00:30:24,695 --> 00:30:28,175
Nothing you or His Royal Highness do
is a private matter.

324
00:30:28,735 --> 00:30:30,535
And the father
of the future king of England

325
00:30:30,615 --> 00:30:33,455
risking his life needlessly is...

326
00:30:33,535 --> 00:30:34,575
quite unacceptable.

327
00:30:34,655 --> 00:30:39,455
Please. Do not curtail my husband's
personal freedoms any further.

328
00:30:39,535 --> 00:30:42,855
You've taken away his home.
You've taken away his name.

329
00:30:42,935 --> 00:30:45,775
There comes a time
where one must draw a line in the sand.

330
00:30:45,855 --> 00:30:50,055
And the job of drawing that line
falls to Cabinet, ma'am. Not to you.

331
00:30:50,135 --> 00:30:53,255
Something your dear late papa
would certainly have taught you

332
00:30:53,335 --> 00:30:56,455
had he been granted more time
to complete your education.

333
00:30:58,495 --> 00:31:00,135
And now our time is up.

334
00:31:04,855 --> 00:31:05,895
Until next week.

335
00:31:11,815 --> 00:31:12,815
Sir.

336
00:31:17,055 --> 00:31:19,855
Meteorological report.

337
00:31:22,055 --> 00:31:25,135
<i>Good morning. The time is
eight o'clock on the 8th of December</i>

338
00:31:25,215 --> 00:31:26,495
<i>and here is the news.</i>

339
00:31:26,575 --> 00:31:30,495
<i>The choking, eye-watering fog which
has already caused two days of chaos</i>

340
00:31:30,575 --> 00:31:33,375
<i>across the capital
has worsened overnight.</i>

341
00:31:33,455 --> 00:31:36,735
<i>The great coal-burning electricity
stations in Battersea and Fulham,</i>

342
00:31:36,815 --> 00:31:38,255
<i>have attempted to reduce emissions</i>

343
00:31:38,335 --> 00:31:40,935
<i>of poisonous sulphur dioxide
from their chimneys.</i>

344
00:31:41,015 --> 00:31:43,295
<i>But we've been told that it is unlikely</i>

345
00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:47,095
<i>they'll be able to make any significant
change to the air quality.</i>

346
00:31:47,175 --> 00:31:50,655
<i>The government is expected
to make a statement later today.</i>

347
00:31:59,775 --> 00:32:03,215
- Come on, let's get you to hospital.
- I'm fine.

348
00:32:03,295 --> 00:32:06,375
You're not. Come on. Let's get you up.

349
00:32:07,415 --> 00:32:08,615
Shoes.

350
00:32:16,495 --> 00:32:21,855
Off we go. Arm in. And the other.

351
00:32:34,135 --> 00:32:38,055
- I can't breathe.
- Do as I say and hold onto me.

352
00:32:47,855 --> 00:32:50,815
Come along.

353
00:33:04,855 --> 00:33:06,535
Quick, hold my hand.

354
00:33:18,095 --> 00:33:19,095
Make way!

355
00:33:20,255 --> 00:33:21,815
You all right, lady?

356
00:33:29,895 --> 00:33:33,335
Control of this story
is getting away from us.

357
00:33:33,415 --> 00:33:37,295
The opposition's blood is up.
We have to respond.

358
00:33:37,375 --> 00:33:38,695
Respond how?

359
00:33:38,775 --> 00:33:40,975
I would suggest
by commissioning a public enquiry.

360
00:33:42,455 --> 00:33:43,735
An enquiry would be expensive.

361
00:33:46,895 --> 00:33:50,855
Winston, people are angry.
They see us as the culprits.

362
00:33:50,935 --> 00:33:57,135
Culpable for what? It's fog. Fog is fog.
It comes and it goes away.

363
00:33:57,215 --> 00:34:01,135
Well, I'm glad that the Prime Minister
finds time for levity.

364
00:34:01,775 --> 00:34:05,735
Perhaps I should remind him exactly
how serious the situation has now become.

365
00:34:05,815 --> 00:34:09,815
This morning a suburban train
collided with a gang of railway workmen,

366
00:34:09,895 --> 00:34:12,535
killing several
and injuring a great many more.

367
00:34:13,135 --> 00:34:16,975
In parts of the capital, there is now
a total breakdown of law and order.

368
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,215
Hospitals are filling up,

369
00:34:18,295 --> 00:34:22,335
as our citizens are breathing in
poisonous sulphur dioxide.

370
00:34:30,615 --> 00:34:34,175
Sometimes we have sunshine.

371
00:34:34,255 --> 00:34:37,095
Too much sunshine
and they call it a drought.

372
00:34:37,175 --> 00:34:38,975
Then we have rain.

373
00:34:39,055 --> 00:34:43,815
Too much rain, and they call it a deluge
and find a way to blame us for that too.

374
00:34:43,895 --> 00:34:45,975
It's an act of God, Bobbety.

375
00:34:46,055 --> 00:34:51,295
It's weather. And for better or for worse,
we get a great deal of it on this island.

376
00:34:51,375 --> 00:34:54,575
Frankly, there are more pressing matters
to deal with.

377
00:34:54,655 --> 00:34:58,255
- Like what?
- The Duke of Edinburgh.

378
00:35:12,775 --> 00:35:14,895
Telephone, sir.
The Marquis of Salisbury.

379
00:35:14,975 --> 00:35:16,135
Oh, not now.

380
00:35:16,215 --> 00:35:20,015
He asked me to stress
the importance of the matter.

381
00:35:24,215 --> 00:35:28,015
- Bobbety.
- <i>Thanks for taking my call, Dickie.</i>

382
00:35:28,095 --> 00:35:30,335
- <i>Are you alone?</i>
- Yes.

383
00:35:30,415 --> 00:35:33,575
Can anyone overhear what you're saying?

384
00:35:36,415 --> 00:35:39,295
- No.
- Good.

385
00:35:42,055 --> 00:35:44,055
- It's chaos.
- I know.

386
00:35:44,135 --> 00:35:46,255
Every ward is full. Every corridor too.

387
00:35:46,335 --> 00:35:49,855
Most of the doctors are sick now,
and those that are well can't get in.

388
00:35:49,935 --> 00:35:51,615
It was better than this in the war.

389
00:35:51,695 --> 00:35:54,255
What do you need?
More equipment? Or masks?

390
00:35:54,335 --> 00:35:56,295
Masks are bloody useless.
They're just for show.

391
00:35:56,375 --> 00:35:58,575
To make it look like the government
is doing something.

392
00:35:58,655 --> 00:36:02,175
- Then what is needed?
- Money. People. Trained staff.

393
00:36:02,255 --> 00:36:04,095
Help is what is needed. Urgently.

394
00:36:05,575 --> 00:36:07,055
Let her rest for now.

395
00:36:09,255 --> 00:36:13,575
Maybe I can put a word in
with the people who make a difference.

396
00:36:13,655 --> 00:36:17,295
- Such as?
- The Prime Minister, for example.

397
00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:20,335
I see. You're just going to walk into
Downing Street and whisper in his ear.

398
00:36:20,415 --> 00:36:22,335
Yes, something like that.

399
00:36:22,415 --> 00:36:26,175
You know, my day is bad enough without
some delusional girl playing jokes.

400
00:36:26,255 --> 00:36:29,415
Now, excuse me. Nurse? Nurse.

401
00:36:30,695 --> 00:36:34,655
- I'll show you.
- Get out of the way.

402
00:36:42,135 --> 00:36:44,255
- Jim, where are you?
- Over here.

403
00:37:01,855 --> 00:37:03,575
Someone phone for an ambulance.

404
00:37:07,415 --> 00:37:09,575
How much longer
are you going to give the old man?

405
00:37:09,655 --> 00:37:11,095
Their majority is tiny.

406
00:37:11,175 --> 00:37:13,855
A vote of no confidence
and he'll be toppled.

407
00:37:15,335 --> 00:37:16,775
You know what he calls you?

408
00:37:17,775 --> 00:37:21,055
Yes, I know.
A sheep in sheep's clothing.

409
00:37:23,655 --> 00:37:26,095
Perhaps it's time to prove you're not.

410
00:37:31,815 --> 00:37:33,175
Very well.

411
00:37:33,255 --> 00:37:36,255
Let's put a motion down on paper
and brief the whips.

412
00:37:47,975 --> 00:37:49,255
Thank you, sir.

413
00:38:04,015 --> 00:38:07,255
- Anything interesting?
- Yes.

414
00:38:08,735 --> 00:38:11,535
- Care to share it?
- No.

415
00:38:12,815 --> 00:38:16,095
I'd be happy to share glide ratios
and adiabatic lapse rates with you.

416
00:38:16,175 --> 00:38:18,375
As part of a quid pro quo arrangement.

417
00:38:18,455 --> 00:38:22,175
One glide ratio in return
for some cabinet minutes, for example.

418
00:38:23,815 --> 00:38:27,735
No? A dihedral angle
or an absolute ceiling.

419
00:38:27,815 --> 00:38:30,495
These are very interesting concepts.
You might learn something,

420
00:38:30,575 --> 00:38:33,575
in exchange for a foreign office briefing?

421
00:38:34,695 --> 00:38:37,015
Am I going to have to explain
my position again?

422
00:38:37,095 --> 00:38:39,295
- No.
- Good.

423
00:38:42,255 --> 00:38:43,815
"Once you have tasted flight,

424
00:38:43,895 --> 00:38:46,495
you will forever walk the earth
with your eyes turned skyward,

425
00:38:46,575 --> 00:38:50,615
for there you have been
and there you will always long to return."

426
00:38:52,615 --> 00:38:55,095
You know what's remarkable
about those words?

427
00:38:57,175 --> 00:38:58,775
- Go on.
- They were written 300 years

428
00:38:58,855 --> 00:39:00,535
before man first got in a plane.

429
00:39:01,695 --> 00:39:03,135
Leonardo da Vinci.

430
00:39:05,935 --> 00:39:07,855
Look, Philip, I know...

431
00:39:11,135 --> 00:39:12,495
Lord Mountbatten, Your Majesty.

432
00:39:12,575 --> 00:39:15,775
- Uncle Dickie. What's he doing here?
- I know as much as you do.

433
00:39:15,855 --> 00:39:17,615
He said it was important, ma'am.

434
00:39:17,695 --> 00:39:18,735
Thank you.

435
00:39:23,615 --> 00:39:25,055
Elizabeth.

436
00:39:28,615 --> 00:39:31,215
- Hello.
- I came as soon as I could.

437
00:39:32,415 --> 00:39:33,575
So...

438
00:39:35,215 --> 00:39:40,215
Oh, is this a meeting
with Elizabeth your niece, my wife?

439
00:39:40,295 --> 00:39:42,695
- Or the Queen?
- The latter, I'm afraid.

440
00:39:42,775 --> 00:39:44,695
Right, then I know my place.

441
00:39:53,735 --> 00:39:56,895
- What's the matter with him?
- Nothing.

442
00:39:58,455 --> 00:40:02,455
He's just feeling a little grounded.
Ignore it.

443
00:40:02,535 --> 00:40:04,655
Right, all ears.

444
00:40:04,735 --> 00:40:09,935
I received a telephone call today
from Bobbety Salisbury.

445
00:40:10,695 --> 00:40:13,935
It seems that even among his own people
the feeling is that our Prime Minister

446
00:40:14,015 --> 00:40:17,055
is not able to deal
with a national crisis.

447
00:40:18,415 --> 00:40:23,255
Indeed he could be seen
to be responsible for that crisis.

448
00:40:23,335 --> 00:40:25,855
Hospitals are overflowing. People dying.

449
00:40:25,935 --> 00:40:28,855
As sovereign,
you have the right to demand

450
00:40:28,935 --> 00:40:32,855
that a government in your name
shows effective leadership.

451
00:40:34,015 --> 00:40:38,655
The opposition are now calling
for a motion of no confidence.

452
00:40:38,735 --> 00:40:42,695
So, I would say the time has come

453
00:40:42,775 --> 00:40:47,895
for you to... summon Churchill and...

454
00:40:48,935 --> 00:40:50,015
And what?

455
00:40:52,015 --> 00:40:53,775
Insist that he go.

456
00:40:56,495 --> 00:41:00,015
- I can't do that.
- You can, and should.

457
00:41:00,775 --> 00:41:04,575
But wouldn't that violate
the constitution?

458
00:41:04,655 --> 00:41:06,895
As queen...

459
00:41:09,335 --> 00:41:12,495
you have the right to be consulted.

460
00:41:13,415 --> 00:41:17,735
The right to encourage. The right to warn.

461
00:41:17,815 --> 00:41:22,535
Also, to appoint a new Prime Minister
in the event of incapacity

462
00:41:22,615 --> 00:41:28,775
and many would say that Churchill's
behavior now constitutes incapacity.

463
00:41:28,855 --> 00:41:32,495
- Then a revolution must come from within.
- They are trying.

464
00:41:32,575 --> 00:41:35,735
- Well, then, they must try harder.
- They will.

465
00:41:35,815 --> 00:41:39,775
But would prefer it to be bloodless.

466
00:41:39,855 --> 00:41:43,735
So have asked for your help and influence.

467
00:41:46,255 --> 00:41:48,895
I cannot do it. I will not do it.

468
00:41:48,975 --> 00:41:53,095
Let's not forget it was Churchill
who denied Philip's children

469
00:41:53,175 --> 00:41:54,895
- his own surname...
- Dickie.

470
00:41:54,975 --> 00:41:57,055
...and insisted that you live
in Buckingham Palace.

471
00:41:57,135 --> 00:42:00,535
- As, alas, did everyone else.
- And now with looters on the street

472
00:42:00,615 --> 00:42:02,615
and hospital corridors
stacked with the dead,

473
00:42:02,695 --> 00:42:05,295
he is interested in only one thing.

474
00:42:06,655 --> 00:42:09,855
Stopping Philip flying.

475
00:42:11,975 --> 00:42:14,215
- What?
- At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning

476
00:42:14,295 --> 00:42:16,535
when there should've only been
one thing on the agenda,

477
00:42:16,615 --> 00:42:19,055
the unfolding national emergency...

478
00:42:19,975 --> 00:42:26,415
all our Prime Minister wanted to discuss
was your husband's new hobby.

479
00:42:30,215 --> 00:42:34,095
- I'm so sorry, sir.
- Who are her parents?

480
00:42:34,175 --> 00:42:36,095
Her father is a clergyman. From Suffolk.

481
00:42:36,175 --> 00:42:38,615
- They've been notified.
- I want to go to the hospital.

482
00:42:38,695 --> 00:42:41,735
There is an emergency meeting
at the House. A meeting you must attend.

483
00:42:41,815 --> 00:42:43,215
The House can wait.

484
00:42:53,655 --> 00:42:56,215
- You wished to see me, Your Majesty?
- Yes, Tommy.

485
00:42:59,455 --> 00:43:02,295
<i>I know how much my father
depended on you.</i>

486
00:43:03,535 --> 00:43:06,535
And how closely you worked together.

487
00:43:06,615 --> 00:43:09,815
Which is why I wanted to ask your advice.
Now...

488
00:43:09,895 --> 00:43:16,295
It seems our Prime Minister, a man
who's led the country through many crises,

489
00:43:16,375 --> 00:43:18,615
is no longer leading us at all.

490
00:43:19,535 --> 00:43:22,775
Representations have been made to me,

491
00:43:22,855 --> 00:43:25,295
through an intermediary
from the heart of the government,

492
00:43:26,655 --> 00:43:32,495
to intercede and bid him stand down.
Make way for a younger man.

493
00:43:34,215 --> 00:43:36,935
Which brings me to my question.

494
00:43:39,215 --> 00:43:42,935
What are my responsibilities,
as head of state?

495
00:43:45,655 --> 00:43:47,535
What should I do?

496
00:43:47,615 --> 00:43:50,815
When it's in the national interest?
How far dare I go?

497
00:43:54,335 --> 00:43:57,375
I'm not sure if her Majesty is aware,

498
00:43:57,455 --> 00:44:03,055
but shortly before your father died
the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, came,

499
00:44:03,135 --> 00:44:05,775
begging his late Majesty to intervene,

500
00:44:05,855 --> 00:44:09,775
if not on an official level,
then on a personal one.

501
00:44:09,855 --> 00:44:13,255
As a friend.
To bid the Prime Minister to resign.

502
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:17,735
- What did my father say?
- Well...

503
00:44:17,815 --> 00:44:19,695
His Majesty was,
like his father before him,

504
00:44:19,775 --> 00:44:22,255
a stickler for convention and tradition,

505
00:44:22,335 --> 00:44:25,695
and would never have done anything
that violated the constitution,

506
00:44:25,775 --> 00:44:28,655
or overstepped the mark.

507
00:44:30,495 --> 00:44:32,975
- Then I have my answer.
- But...

508
00:44:33,055 --> 00:44:35,695
that was His Majesty, not Your Majesty.

509
00:44:36,495 --> 00:44:39,855
And I do read the newspapers,
and I do listen to the wireless,

510
00:44:39,935 --> 00:44:43,175
and the situation we're in today
is quite different,

511
00:44:43,255 --> 00:44:46,135
than the one we were in when Mr. Eden
came to see your father.

512
00:44:48,455 --> 00:44:51,815
Different situation, different sovereign.

513
00:45:03,335 --> 00:45:04,735
Wait for me here.

514
00:46:02,615 --> 00:46:03,615
Sir.

515
00:46:06,375 --> 00:46:08,135
Just a child.

516
00:46:10,415 --> 00:46:12,495
A beautiful child.

517
00:46:14,255 --> 00:46:17,695
I just received word
from Buckingham Palace.

518
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:21,335
- The Queen has requested an audience.
- When?

519
00:46:21,415 --> 00:46:23,415
At your earliest convenience.

520
00:46:27,495 --> 00:46:33,815
"All energy and hope
and passion and fire."

521
00:46:36,655 --> 00:46:37,655
Sir?

522
00:46:48,775 --> 00:46:51,575
- Do the newspapers know I'm here?
- No.

523
00:46:54,095 --> 00:46:57,455
- But it could easily be arranged.
- Then do it.

524
00:46:58,695 --> 00:47:02,135
And tell the Queen
I'll be there first thing in the morning.

525
00:47:04,015 --> 00:47:05,615
After the papers.

526
00:47:36,495 --> 00:47:38,535
Good God.

527
00:47:41,975 --> 00:47:43,015
Dear God.

528
00:47:54,335 --> 00:47:57,655
Just come on in, the Prime Minister
will be here in a few moments.

529
00:48:12,575 --> 00:48:15,255
- They're ready for you, sir.
- Yes, yes. One moment.

530
00:48:24,015 --> 00:48:25,735
Quiet. Please. Settle down.

531
00:48:27,255 --> 00:48:32,335
- Mr. Churchill?
- I have witnessed scenes here today,

532
00:48:32,415 --> 00:48:37,935
the likes of which we have not seen
since the darkest days of the Blitz.

533
00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:44,295
But alongside the suffering,
I have also seen heroism.

534
00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:48,615
And where there is heroism
there will always be hope.

535
00:48:50,695 --> 00:48:57,615
<i>Only God can lift the fog,
but I, as Prime Minister,</i>

536
00:48:57,695 --> 00:49:01,535
<i>am in position to ease the suffering.</i>

537
00:49:01,615 --> 00:49:05,815
<i>To that end, I pledge to make available
with immediate effect,</i>

538
00:49:05,895 --> 00:49:11,215
more money for hospital staff,
more money for equipment,

539
00:49:11,295 --> 00:49:17,255
and a full and independent public enquiry
into the causes of air pollution...

540
00:49:18,615 --> 00:49:22,375
<i>to ensure that such a calamity</i>

541
00:49:22,455 --> 00:49:26,135
<i>may never befall us again.</i>

542
00:49:27,735 --> 00:49:29,535
Thank you all.

543
00:49:34,895 --> 00:49:37,015
<i>"The Prime Minister
was alone among senior politicians</i>

544
00:49:37,095 --> 00:49:40,935
to visit hospitals
and respond to the crisis in person.

545
00:49:41,015 --> 00:49:43,495
And was rewarded by cheers and applause,

546
00:49:43,575 --> 00:49:47,815
by those suffering through the worst smog
this city has ever witnessed."

547
00:49:47,895 --> 00:49:52,295
The headline reads,
"True leader in a crisis."

548
00:49:56,735 --> 00:49:58,415
Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.

549
00:50:00,775 --> 00:50:03,415
"The parallels
between his appearance yesterday,

550
00:50:03,495 --> 00:50:05,815
and the war time years was striking.

551
00:50:05,895 --> 00:50:10,135
<i>And his personal popularity
among the people remains undimmed."</i>

552
00:50:13,015 --> 00:50:14,095
<i>Hello?</i>

553
00:50:15,095 --> 00:50:19,775
<i>Clem, are you still there? Hello? Clem?</i>

554
00:50:21,575 --> 00:50:25,095
<i>Clem, can you hear me? No, right...</i>

555
00:51:26,495 --> 00:51:28,295
The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.

556
00:51:36,335 --> 00:51:37,575
Your Majesty.

557
00:51:40,695 --> 00:51:44,775
- You asked to see me, ma'am?
- I did.

558
00:51:54,535 --> 00:51:59,255
There is a delicate matter
which I felt I needed to discuss with you.

559
00:51:59,335 --> 00:52:02,695
- In person.
- Concerning what?

560
00:52:05,335 --> 00:52:06,975
Your position.

561
00:52:09,375 --> 00:52:10,655
My position?

562
00:52:11,615 --> 00:52:13,015
Yes. Your position...

563
00:52:17,255 --> 00:52:18,495
as Prime Minister.

564
00:52:23,255 --> 00:52:24,535
Go on.

565
00:52:28,215 --> 00:52:30,655
<i>At that point she hesitated...</i>

566
00:52:31,775 --> 00:52:37,575
and then she asked me to pick
either Khawaja Nazimuddin of Pakistan

567
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:39,695
or Sidney Holland of New Zealand.

568
00:52:39,775 --> 00:52:43,615
- Whatever for?
- To sit next to at dinner!

569
00:52:43,695 --> 00:52:46,775
No, she summoned you for that?

570
00:52:46,855 --> 00:52:48,695
Oh, no, I think she summoned me

571
00:52:48,775 --> 00:52:51,855
to haul me over the coals
for my handling of the fog,

572
00:52:51,935 --> 00:52:54,135
but then the fog lifted,

573
00:52:54,215 --> 00:52:57,415
and she had to make a decision
right then and there, in the room.

574
00:52:57,495 --> 00:53:01,215
You could see the wheels
turning behind her eyes.

575
00:53:01,295 --> 00:53:06,175
And then she switched her tack
without so much as a flicker. Clever.

576
00:53:07,295 --> 00:53:09,615
- No, no, not clever. Ingenious.
- Why?

577
00:53:09,695 --> 00:53:14,095
Because it disarmed me.
And made me switch tack too.

578
00:53:14,175 --> 00:53:15,535
What about?

579
00:53:15,615 --> 00:53:19,615
About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
He can now.

580
00:53:19,695 --> 00:53:20,695
Good.

581
00:53:22,415 --> 00:53:25,735
But he still has to ask Cabinet
permission to do rolls and spins.

582
00:53:35,975 --> 00:53:37,935
What, dear girl?

583
00:53:40,535 --> 00:53:42,655
But what if the fog hadn't lifted?

584
00:53:44,735 --> 00:53:47,775
And the government
had continued to flounder?

585
00:53:47,855 --> 00:53:50,175
And people had continued to die?

586
00:53:51,295 --> 00:53:53,335
And Churchill
had continued to cling to power

587
00:53:53,415 --> 00:53:56,095
and the country had continued to suffer?

588
00:53:57,095 --> 00:54:01,735
It doesn't feel right,
as Head of State, to do nothing.

589
00:54:01,815 --> 00:54:05,095
- It is exactly right.
- Is it?

590
00:54:05,175 --> 00:54:08,255
But surely doing nothing is no job at all?

591
00:54:08,335 --> 00:54:11,455
To do nothing is the hardest job of all.

592
00:54:11,535 --> 00:54:14,815
And it will take every ounce of energy
that you have.

593
00:54:15,535 --> 00:54:19,015
To be impartial is not natural,
not human.

594
00:54:19,095 --> 00:54:22,855
People will always want you to smile
or agree or frown.

595
00:54:22,935 --> 00:54:27,095
And the minute you do, you will have
declared a position. A point of view.

596
00:54:27,175 --> 00:54:31,615
And that is the one thing as sovereign
that you are not entitled to do.

597
00:54:32,975 --> 00:54:37,535
The less you do,
the less you say or agree or smile...

598
00:54:37,615 --> 00:54:40,855
Or think? Or feel? Or breathe? Or exist?

599
00:54:40,935 --> 00:54:42,295
The better.

600
00:54:45,775 --> 00:54:47,615
Well, that's fine for the sovereign.

601
00:54:49,975 --> 00:54:51,855
But where does that leave me?

602
00:55:05,375 --> 00:55:06,375
<i>So go on.</i>

603
00:55:06,455 --> 00:55:08,575
How long would it take me to get my wings?

604
00:55:08,655 --> 00:55:11,775
Well, normally, a trainee would spend
anything between 100 and 120 hours

605
00:55:11,855 --> 00:55:13,375
in one of these things.

606
00:55:13,455 --> 00:55:15,575
Do you think I could do it
in three months?

607
00:55:15,655 --> 00:55:17,855
That would be unusual, sir.

608
00:55:17,935 --> 00:55:22,455
I'm a fast learner, and believe me
when I say I've got nothing else to do.

609
00:55:37,415 --> 00:55:39,695
I couldn't help notice
you filled her right up.

610
00:55:39,775 --> 00:55:42,655
- Starboard and port. Eighteen gallons?
- Yes.

611
00:55:42,735 --> 00:55:45,295
- Fancy lunch in Edinburgh?
- Edinburgh?

612
00:55:45,375 --> 00:55:48,735
They made me Duke there, so I
should probably show up from time to time.

613
00:55:48,815 --> 00:55:50,935
Unless you have
more pressing engagements?

614
00:55:51,015 --> 00:55:52,015
No, sir.

615
00:55:52,095 --> 00:55:56,215
All right, I'll adjust RPMs
and cruising speed for range flying.

616
00:55:56,295 --> 00:55:59,295
We'll have to land to refuel,
sir. RAF Finningley.

617
00:55:59,375 --> 00:56:01,975
- Oh, really? Where's that?
- Doncaster.

618
00:56:02,055 --> 00:56:05,095
Doncaster? Right.

619
00:56:21,940 --> 00:56:26,940
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