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CHILD: Gina! Gina! Ella!
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- Gina! Carina! Ella! Ella!
- Ella!
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(DOG BARKS)
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- Gina!
- Gina!
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Gina! Carina!
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Ella! Ella!
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(TELEPHONE RINGING)
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MAN: (OVER PHONE)
Hello, Windsor, this is Operations.
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- Are you hearing me?
- Hear you clearly.
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Stand by for testing five.
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- Testing now.
- Testing five...
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(DOGS BARK)
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Mummy.
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I've come to make a final representation.
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And to beseech you not to do this.
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I wish to address my people. It's my right.
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You have forfeited that right.
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There are things I wish to say.
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In which capacity?
You're no longer their king.
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As a private individual.
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Oh, no one wants to hear
from a private individual.
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Well, I beg to differ.
The newspapers are for me.
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The best thing for everyone would be
if you said your goodbyes
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quietly, privately,
and disappeared into the night.
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Preferably never to return.
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- I didn't say that.
- But you thought it.
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Admit it.
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Elizabeth! Margaret! Come inside!
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MAN: (ON RADIO) This is Windsor Castle.
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There follows an important announcement
from His Royal Highness,
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the Duke of Windsor.
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A few hours ago, I discharged my last duty
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as King and Emperor.
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And now that I have been succeeded
by my brother,
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the Duke of York,
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my first words must be to
declare my allegiance to him.
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This I do with all my heart.
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- (GIRLS LAUGH)
- Come along, girls.
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You all know the reasons which have
impelled me to renounce the throne.
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I have found it impossible to carry
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the heavy burden of responsibility,
and to discharge my duties as King,
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as I would wish to do,
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without the help and support
of the woman I love.
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This decision has been made
less difficult to me
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by the sure knowledge that my brother
has one matchless blessing...
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- Come in. Both of you.
- ...enjoyed by so many of you,
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and not bestowed on me.
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A happy home, with his wife and children.
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And now we all have a new King.
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I wish him, and you, his people,
happiness and prosperity,
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with all my heart.
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God bless you all.
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God save the King.
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(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
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(BIRDS CHIRPING OUTSIDE)
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(VACUUM CLEANER RUNNING)
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All right, Charles, all right. Stop it.
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Well...
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Good luck, darling.
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Thank you.
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And thank you for all this. It looks splendid.
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This is the first proper home I've ever had.
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(CAMERAS CLICK)
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- Tommy.
- Good morning, Your Majesty.
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- You tracked me down.
- Slightly, ma'am.
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If Your Majesty has no objection,
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I thought we might attend
to the Cabinet papers
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after your meeting with Their Majesties.
Your schedule allows for 20 minutes.
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- For the papers?
- No, ma'am,
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20 minutes with Their Majesties,
then directly onto the paperwork.
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And then?
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Things will become more manageable
once everything settles down.
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Will it?
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And once the palace is your main residence.
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NORFOLK: Our understanding is that he is
arriving at Southampton as we speak.
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- QUEEN MARY: Alone?
- We believe so, ma'am.
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Hmm. He's something.
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NORFOLK: Some last-minute adjustments
to the funeral arrangements.
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If you are in agreement, ma'am,
we thought that the Duke of Windsor
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should join the Dukes of Gloucester,
Kent and Edinburgh.
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That'd be in the row behind me.
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Breathing down my neck.
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We could, if Her Majesty likes,
increase the distance,
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put him back a few rows.
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Any chance that could stretch
to being on the steps outside the chapel?
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I'm sorry, I know he's your son.
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A son who gave up the throne
and, effectively, killed my other son.
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Why not put him there?
Close to the Prime Minister?
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Thank you, ma'am.
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Cry baby.
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- What?
- It's what he calls Winston.
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He and his wife have
nasty little nicknames for all of us.
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I'll tell you yours, if you ask me nicely.
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No, thank you.
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Shirley Temple.
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- (SEAGULLS SQUAWK)
- (PEOPLE CHATTER)
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(SHIP HORN BLARING)
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Ready, sir.
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DAVID: This is indeed
a sad arrival in my country.
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I have crossed the Atlantic
for the funeral of a dear brother,
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and to comfort Her Majesty, Queen Mary.
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My heart goes out
to the widowed Queen Mother
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and her two daughters in their grief.
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Thank you.
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(CROWD CLAMOURING)
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- Down there, look.
- Right, that's enough. Look sharp.
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His Royal Highness,
the Duke of Windsor, Your Majesty.
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Dear Mama.
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Poor Bertie.
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So young.
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One can only be thankful
for all the years one had him.
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So wonderfully thoughtful and caring.
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An angel to his mother, wife and children.
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I honestly believe
he never thought of himself at all.
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He really was the perfect son.
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I can't imagine how difficult
it must be for you.
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You've been very much
in our thoughts and prayers.
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Ours?
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You'd be wise not to mention
that woman's name for the next few days.
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- I mentioned no name.
- The implication was enough.
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If you say so.
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I offer that in the spirit of maternal advice
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that you may emerge from this trip with
any remaining respect or affection at all.
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I had hoped all this might wait.
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I'm afraid not, ma'am.
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I understand.
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Shall we?
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Now, the top sheet is simply a summary
of all the contents of the box.
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And we have in this case,
a five-power conference first. See...
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- That's this month?
- But you have to go to...
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- What's all this?
- More detail.
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- So, we start with this one?
- Yes, Your Majesty.
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(CONVERSATION
CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
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PHILIP: He's here.
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He's here.
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PHILIP: Don't rush, darling.
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It'll take him an hour to get to the front door.
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And then it'll take him an hour
to get through the bloody thing.
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Now, don't forget
the two things we discussed.
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- I won't.
- The children keeping my surname.
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- Yes.
- And us staying here in Clarence House,
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not moving to Buckingham Palace.
Both very important.
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I know. I won't forget.
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- And don't be nervous.
- I'm not nervous.
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You look nervous.
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Be firm. Just lay down the law.
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I know he's Winston Churchill and all that,
but remember who you are.
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- You're...
- Nobody.
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...the Queen of England.
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(TOY HORN HONKS)
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WINSTON: Don't let me overrun.
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MAN: The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty.
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I so looked forward every Tuesday
to my audiences with your...
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Dear Papa.
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His late Majesty was a hero
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to me and to all his people.
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Thank you.
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Do sit down, Prime Minister.
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I've ordered tea.
Or something stronger, perhaps.
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Oh, dear. Did no one explain?
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The Sovereign never offers
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a Prime Minister refreshment.
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Nor a chair.
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The precedent set
by your great-great-grandmother
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was to keep us standing
like Privy Counsellors.
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To waste time is a grievous sin.
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And if there is one thing I've learned
in 52 years of public service,
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it is that there is no problem so complex,
nor crisis so grave,
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that it cannot be satisfactorily resolved
within 20 minutes. So...
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Shall we make a start?
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PHILIP: She's in with the PM now.
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And I made it abundantly clear
how important it was
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that she and the children take your name.
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LORD MOUNTBATTEN: It's your name, too.
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It's the name I gave you.
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Having Mountbatten
as the name of the royal house,
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having your first-born son, Charles,
as the first Mountbatten king,
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well, that would be some achievement,
wouldn't it?
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Now, I would like to discuss your coronation.
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Yes.
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I have a proposed date which has been
run past Cabinet and approved.
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Summer, I hope.
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Indeed. Next year.
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Next year? Why the delay?
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For your benefit entirely.
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A long period
between accession and coronation
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was of great value to your father.
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He had five months.
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You're proposing I have 16
before I am crowned.
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Yes.
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MAN: That would take anyone weeks to read.
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- Anyway, thanks for the drink.
- Thank you, Jock.
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- Sir.
- Sir.
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Foreign Office first, let's surprise Anthony.
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- PHILIP: And?
- Nothing.
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We discussed the end of rationing
of sugar, butter and meat,
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the situation in Korea,
and the date of my coronation.
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I barely got a word in.
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Of course not, the man barely draws breath.
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- You have to butt in.
- You can't!
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Not in the private audience.
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So, what about the issues
I asked you to address?
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- I will find the right time.
- When?
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- Why would he do that?
- What?
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Why would he want to delay my coronation?
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What are you talking about? What...
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Elizabeth!
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(TELEPHONE RINGS IN DISTANCE)
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(DOORS CLOSE)
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I realise we've had our differences
in the past.
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If you'll allow me.
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But for now, let us think only
of what we have in common.
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You've lost a husband and father,
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I a brother.
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Let us be united in grief, on equal terms,
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for someone we all loved.
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I'll be here for a few days after the funeral
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before I return to New York.
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Perhaps we might find time
to see one another.
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For lunch, or a walk.
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- Yes.
- I'd like that very much.
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(DOOR OPENS)
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Your Majesties.
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- QUEEN MOTHER: We must go, girls.
- So soon?
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Yes, to Westminster Hall.
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To see Papa.
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DAVID: Mmm.
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With this family, when you're in,
you're never quite sure that you're in.
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But when you're out, there's no doubt at all.
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You're out.
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(QUEEN MOTHER SOBS)
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Why can't you just be civil to him, Mummy?
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Let bygones be bygones.
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Sixteen years since the abdication,
and he was close to Papa.
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Because the man is a monster!
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The responsibility of becoming King
killed your father,
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and I will never forgive his selfishness
and weakness in passing on the burden.
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He has done nothing for this family.
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And don't be fooled by his obsequiousness.
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The only reason he's even civil to us
is because he wants to leech off us
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with a rich allowance to keep
that Jezebel divorcee of his in the manner
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to which she's become accustomed.
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Well, I've spoken to the lawyers
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and we have a little surprise
in store for them.
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DAVID: My dear darling Peaches.
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They say hell is an inferno.
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What a sunless, frozen hell
we both escaped in England.
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And what a bunch of ice-veined monsters
my family are.
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How cold and thin-lipped.
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00:23:01,298 --> 00:23:03,633
How dumpy and plain.
252
00:23:04,009 --> 00:23:06,428
How joyless and loveless.
253
00:23:07,846 --> 00:23:09,765
The way Cookie treated me,
254
00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:12,434
looking down at me
through her dumpy nose,
255
00:23:12,726 --> 00:23:16,730
it was as much as I could do
not to let her have it with both barrels.
256
00:23:17,105 --> 00:23:19,274
And Shirley Temple, who has the rank now
257
00:23:19,357 --> 00:23:23,111
to silence her common mother,
sadly, has no mind of her own.
258
00:23:25,614 --> 00:23:29,785
But I remained civil
because I am following your advice
259
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,916
to keep them on side, keep a foot in the door
260
00:23:37,084 --> 00:23:40,253
and see what we can get
out of the wretched circus.
261
00:23:42,672 --> 00:23:47,552
Perhaps even a raise on the allowance,
who knows?
262
00:23:48,261 --> 00:23:53,558
It's the only revenge I can think of
for the insult of your non-invitation,
263
00:23:54,768 --> 00:23:57,354
to drain their coffers to our benefit.
264
00:23:57,479 --> 00:23:59,064
(MECHANICAL CLUNKING)
265
00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:07,697
Thinking always of you
266
00:24:07,781 --> 00:24:12,202
and counting the minutes
until I am back in your arms.
267
00:24:12,702 --> 00:24:14,162
Your loving David.
268
00:24:15,872 --> 00:24:19,167
We therefore commit his body to the ground,
269
00:24:20,293 --> 00:24:27,175
earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
270
00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:33,974
in sure and certain hope
of the resurrection to eternal life,
271
00:24:34,057 --> 00:24:37,144
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
272
00:24:48,905 --> 00:24:51,199
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (DOGS BARKING)
273
00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:16,850
- What is that thing?
- Oh, I inherited it from my grandfather.
274
00:25:16,933 --> 00:25:20,812
Well, as you know, Kaiser Wilhelm
was not blessed with a normal physique.
275
00:25:21,062 --> 00:25:23,481
No, the withered arm.
276
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:27,277
Ah, but he loved to shoot,
so modifications had to be made.
277
00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:28,778
(LAUGHS)
278
00:25:31,281 --> 00:25:34,784
They didn't modify a shotgun,
they modified a cannon.
279
00:25:35,785 --> 00:25:37,787
(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)
280
00:25:40,207 --> 00:25:42,292
You are a cheat, Hannover.
281
00:25:50,008 --> 00:25:54,888
LORD MOUNTBATTEN: I realise that
beyond these walls, a country mourns,
282
00:25:54,971 --> 00:26:00,310
struggles under a programme
of austerity and rationing,
283
00:26:00,393 --> 00:26:03,146
but what to do?
284
00:26:03,563 --> 00:26:06,399
It might all appear indulgent,
285
00:26:06,483 --> 00:26:11,404
but in keeping the estate
and the local community going,
286
00:26:11,488 --> 00:26:15,242
we are all doing our share tonight
for the economy.
287
00:26:15,367 --> 00:26:16,368
(CHUCKLING)
288
00:26:16,451 --> 00:26:18,870
So, let us start with a toast.
289
00:26:24,668 --> 00:26:28,338
- To His late Majesty, the King.
- ALL: The King.
290
00:26:29,923 --> 00:26:35,845
- And the Queen that has succeeded him.
- ALL: The Queen.
291
00:26:36,012 --> 00:26:37,097
And to our generous host
292
00:26:38,515 --> 00:26:41,101
and the royal house that is now in his name.
293
00:26:41,184 --> 00:26:44,104
ALL: To our host and the royal house.
294
00:26:44,187 --> 00:26:49,192
- To the royal house Mountbatten.
- ALL: To the royal house Mountbatten.
295
00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:56,032
(AEROPLANE ROARING OVERHEAD)
296
00:26:56,908 --> 00:26:59,744
PHILIP: Right, come on. You can do it.
297
00:26:59,828 --> 00:27:01,037
Kick it back.
298
00:27:03,748 --> 00:27:05,166
Kick it back, boy. Go on.
299
00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:11,798
- It's not going to bite you. Kick it.
- PARKER: Ah, he's a Burnley centre-back.
300
00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:13,466
Tell me, do you play football with your boy?
301
00:27:13,550 --> 00:27:17,637
- When I get to see him, yeah. Rugby.
- Rugby? Chance would be a fine thing.
302
00:27:17,721 --> 00:27:20,056
This one doesn't seem to
want to do anything but dream.
303
00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:21,391
Ah.
304
00:27:21,641 --> 00:27:23,643
Your old man's struggling a bit, is he?
305
00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:25,478
Well, come on then. Show him how it's done.
306
00:27:25,562 --> 00:27:29,190
Right. Come on then, Charles.
Let's give you something to aim at.
307
00:27:31,401 --> 00:27:33,778
That thing's been buzzing around
all morning.
308
00:27:33,862 --> 00:27:35,572
(WHISPERS) The top of his trousers.
309
00:27:36,740 --> 00:27:39,951
Yeah. Taking aerial photographs
for some magazine.
310
00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:41,703
- Oh, is that right?
- Mmm-hmm.
311
00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:45,915
It was always my dream to join the Air Force.
312
00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:50,170
But Dickie put me in the Navy.
313
00:27:50,253 --> 00:27:52,756
He felt the social connections
would be better.
314
00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:54,507
Hmm.
315
00:27:54,591 --> 00:27:57,260
Judging by where you ended up,
I'd say the plan worked.
316
00:27:57,344 --> 00:27:58,345
Ha.
317
00:27:58,595 --> 00:28:00,930
(WHISPERS) Come on, Charles. Bash it.
318
00:28:01,598 --> 00:28:02,766
(GASPS)
319
00:28:03,099 --> 00:28:06,311
Not bloody bad, Charles. Not bloody bad.
320
00:28:06,853 --> 00:28:09,356
No, Daddy, not the bushes!
321
00:28:09,773 --> 00:28:11,107
(LAUGHTER)
322
00:28:11,608 --> 00:28:14,694
Dad! Daddy! Not the bushes!
323
00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:20,116
Right, Charlie Boy, here we go.
I will teach you...
324
00:28:31,419 --> 00:28:32,420
Come on, then!
325
00:29:00,031 --> 00:29:01,491
(BELL DINGS)
326
00:29:05,161 --> 00:29:06,246
DAVID: Oh, it's vile.
327
00:29:06,329 --> 00:29:09,040
Tommy Lascelles comes up to me
at the funeral, of all places,
328
00:29:09,124 --> 00:29:13,962
asks me for a word, then tells me,
to my face, "Do you credit it?"
329
00:29:14,045 --> 00:29:18,091
I come all this way,
back to this gaping wound of a country,
330
00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:22,804
forbidden to bring my own wife,
to pay respects to my dear, late brother,
331
00:29:22,887 --> 00:29:27,267
and they compound an already traumatic
and painful trip with this humiliation.
332
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:30,311
The timing does seem
particularly unfortunate.
333
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,896
It's an outrage.
334
00:29:33,148 --> 00:29:37,360
- How much is the allowance?
- 10,000 a year.
335
00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:40,488
The agreement between Bertie and me
was that I would give up everything
336
00:29:40,572 --> 00:29:44,409
and go into exile and keep a low profile
in return for a pension
337
00:29:44,492 --> 00:29:48,663
that was clearly meant to be
for the term of my whole life, not his.
338
00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:52,083
Now he's barely cold
and Cookie turns off the bloody tap!
339
00:29:52,167 --> 00:29:55,378
- How dare she?
- Oh, you don't know that it was her.
340
00:29:55,462 --> 00:29:57,797
- Of course it was her.
- And don't call her that.
341
00:29:58,047 --> 00:30:00,758
Why not?
She's fat, common and looks like a cook.
342
00:30:00,884 --> 00:30:03,470
Did they offer any justification?
343
00:30:03,553 --> 00:30:09,517
Oh, that it would appear insensitive
for a member of the extended royal family
344
00:30:09,601 --> 00:30:12,645
to be seen to be rewarded and live in luxury.
345
00:30:12,729 --> 00:30:14,314
"Extended royal family."
346
00:30:14,522 --> 00:30:17,775
I was the most senior member
of that family, the King!
347
00:30:17,901 --> 00:30:21,237
Now, we barely make ends meet.
Every day is a struggle.
348
00:30:21,488 --> 00:30:24,741
You live in great style from what I've heard.
349
00:30:25,575 --> 00:30:29,454
Perhaps you should take a leaf
out of your late brother's book.
350
00:30:29,537 --> 00:30:34,334
- He was frugal, you know.
- He was born frugal. In every department.
351
00:30:34,417 --> 00:30:38,379
And that frugality earned him great favour.
352
00:30:38,588 --> 00:30:41,132
And he passed it on
to the women in his family.
353
00:30:41,216 --> 00:30:44,010
Who just spent 70,000
renovating Clarence House,
354
00:30:44,093 --> 00:30:46,930
so no lectures, please,
about the frugality of the new Queen.
355
00:30:47,514 --> 00:30:50,642
- That was her husband.
- What, The Foundling?
356
00:30:50,725 --> 00:30:53,019
- Don't call him that.
- Why not?
357
00:30:53,561 --> 00:30:56,689
I'd call him by his name, if he had one.
358
00:30:57,023 --> 00:30:58,441
(DOOR OPENS)
359
00:31:01,569 --> 00:31:05,740
His Royal Highness, Prince Ernst August
of Hannover, Your Majesty.
360
00:31:05,823 --> 00:31:07,742
- He's here.
- What?
361
00:31:07,825 --> 00:31:11,871
He apologises for the lack of warning,
but said it was important.
362
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:17,085
(SIGHS) All right. You'd better show him in.
363
00:31:25,176 --> 00:31:27,053
Ah... (SPEAKING GERMAN)
364
00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:29,806
Dear Aunt, forgive the intrusion...
365
00:31:29,973 --> 00:31:31,933
...I come directly from Broadlands.
366
00:31:32,016 --> 00:31:33,017
(IN GERMAN)
367
00:31:33,101 --> 00:31:34,227
What were you doing there?
368
00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:36,020
(IN ENGLISH) Please tell me
you weren't shooting,
369
00:31:36,104 --> 00:31:37,897
one day after the funeral.
370
00:31:37,981 --> 00:31:39,732
Oh, mein lieber Ernst.
371
00:31:39,816 --> 00:31:42,735
(IN ENGLISH) I assure you
the sport was very limited.
372
00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:46,030
And your late son was in our thoughts
the whole time.
373
00:31:46,656 --> 00:31:50,159
Anyway, in the evening,
we gathered for dinner.
374
00:31:50,451 --> 00:31:52,912
The food is normally quite good
at Broadlands.
375
00:31:52,996 --> 00:31:56,291
- Outstanding.
- Especially the duck, from memory.
376
00:31:56,374 --> 00:31:58,376
- With oranges.
- Rum-soaked raisins.
377
00:31:58,459 --> 00:31:59,586
Oh!
378
00:32:00,295 --> 00:32:01,421
- A Prussian recipe.
- (SPEAKING GERMAN)
379
00:32:01,504 --> 00:32:03,840
Spätzle, too. Remarkable!
380
00:32:03,923 --> 00:32:06,092
Crispy, with cheese and breadcrumbs.
381
00:32:06,175 --> 00:32:07,135
Delicious!
382
00:32:07,218 --> 00:32:08,511
(IN ENGLISH) Go on.
383
00:32:08,845 --> 00:32:14,475
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah. So, after dinner,
our host started to brag
384
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:17,687
about how the royal house
would soon be in his name.
385
00:32:17,854 --> 00:32:19,397
Nonsense.
386
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,443
The Royal Warrant of 1917
established the House of Windsor.
387
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:26,779
- Ah.
- My late husband presided over it himself.
388
00:32:26,863 --> 00:32:30,950
But the name Windsor would
only be carried by the male descendants.
389
00:32:31,034 --> 00:32:34,245
It did not take into account
the female descendants.
390
00:32:34,329 --> 00:32:36,289
They would take the name
from their husbands,
391
00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:38,541
- which, in this case, would mean...
- Mountbatten.
392
00:32:39,751 --> 00:32:41,044
Well...
393
00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:45,965
- He had us raising glasses to it.
- Glasses containing what?
394
00:32:48,051 --> 00:32:51,471
- Champagne.
- You were drinking champagne
395
00:32:53,014 --> 00:32:55,767
the day after my son's funeral?
396
00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:15,078
PETER: Come in.
397
00:33:22,168 --> 00:33:23,169
(SIGHS)
398
00:33:23,336 --> 00:33:24,629
I had to see you.
399
00:33:26,506 --> 00:33:27,590
Come in.
400
00:33:34,847 --> 00:33:37,433
I got home last night
to find this on the kitchen table.
401
00:33:58,079 --> 00:33:59,288
She's gone.
402
00:34:00,873 --> 00:34:02,542
All her belongings have gone.
403
00:34:04,961 --> 00:34:06,129
I'm so sorry.
404
00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:09,132
No, you're not.
405
00:34:10,049 --> 00:34:11,050
No.
406
00:34:13,010 --> 00:34:14,178
I'm not.
407
00:34:49,839 --> 00:34:54,469
- So, will you sue her for divorce?
- No, I'd lose my job.
408
00:34:54,552 --> 00:34:57,180
Well, you'll keep your job.
I'll make sure of that.
409
00:34:57,263 --> 00:34:59,766
It would make me a divorcee.
410
00:35:06,189 --> 00:35:07,607
But not the guilty party.
411
00:35:10,193 --> 00:35:15,031
Still, I'd be soiled goods.
I'd be tainted with scandal.
412
00:35:17,533 --> 00:35:19,076
(WHISPERS) You'd also be free.
413
00:35:20,870 --> 00:35:22,079
To remarry.
414
00:35:28,586 --> 00:35:29,879
One day.
415
00:35:32,799 --> 00:35:33,883
Yes.
416
00:35:40,223 --> 00:35:42,141
PHILIP: Down there, I think.
MAN: Maybe, that way.
417
00:35:42,725 --> 00:35:45,978
Christ. Hide. There, there. There. Go.
418
00:35:46,187 --> 00:35:47,814
(VOICES APPROACHING)
419
00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:57,114
- Is it this one?
- Er, yeah, I think so.
420
00:35:57,198 --> 00:35:59,575
- No, no, it's not. It's this one.
- Right.
421
00:36:01,118 --> 00:36:02,119
PETER: Come in.
422
00:36:03,329 --> 00:36:04,997
Sorry to barge in. Have you got a second?
423
00:36:05,081 --> 00:36:06,165
- Of course, sir.
- May I?
424
00:36:06,249 --> 00:36:07,250
Please.
425
00:36:08,459 --> 00:36:10,503
That's what I want to talk to you about.
426
00:36:13,256 --> 00:36:15,591
- Flying.
- Yes, sir.
427
00:36:15,675 --> 00:36:17,844
You're an experienced air jockey,
and I've an idea.
428
00:36:17,927 --> 00:36:20,763
And look,
please disavow me of it if I'm wrong,
429
00:36:20,930 --> 00:36:24,642
but to be up there in a plane,
it's the biggest thrill of them all.
430
00:36:25,476 --> 00:36:29,438
- It is, sir.
- I mean, really. The biggest.
431
00:36:30,773 --> 00:36:31,774
It is, sir.
432
00:36:32,942 --> 00:36:39,240
Um, once you break through the clouds
to the clear blue beyond, the space,
433
00:36:41,117 --> 00:36:45,079
the silence, the transcendent beauty,
434
00:36:45,162 --> 00:36:49,375
it's church for the irreligious man.
435
00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:52,545
That's what I'd hoped you'd say.
Where could I learn?
436
00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:54,130
Uh...
437
00:36:54,213 --> 00:36:55,840
White Waltham Airfield,
they've a good school there.
438
00:36:55,923 --> 00:36:57,133
- Would you take me?
- Of course, sir.
439
00:36:57,216 --> 00:36:58,259
Good man.
440
00:37:01,596 --> 00:37:05,057
You know, my sister,
my favourite sister, actually,
441
00:37:05,141 --> 00:37:07,018
Cecile, died in a plane.
442
00:37:07,852 --> 00:37:10,813
Uh, it went down over Ostend in a storm.
443
00:37:11,564 --> 00:37:12,815
Eight months pregnant.
444
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,737
She went into labour mid-flight
and they found the child,
445
00:37:18,613 --> 00:37:20,615
next to her in the wreckage.
446
00:37:23,326 --> 00:37:24,619
A boy.
447
00:37:29,540 --> 00:37:30,875
Mmm.
448
00:37:45,014 --> 00:37:46,223
Mmm.
449
00:37:48,517 --> 00:37:50,978
New part of the uniform, Peter.
450
00:37:53,356 --> 00:37:54,565
(SIGHS)
451
00:37:58,319 --> 00:37:59,320
Anyone we know?
452
00:38:00,279 --> 00:38:02,156
(CHUCKLES) I...
453
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:03,866
(LAUGHS)
454
00:38:04,325 --> 00:38:06,285
No, quite right. None of my business.
455
00:38:08,245 --> 00:38:09,330
Thank you, sir.
456
00:38:09,538 --> 00:38:10,957
(BOTH LAUGH)
457
00:38:18,172 --> 00:38:19,548
(EXHALES)
458
00:38:21,842 --> 00:38:23,052
(LAUGHS)
459
00:38:25,554 --> 00:38:27,264
You're enjoying this, aren't you?
460
00:38:29,725 --> 00:38:31,018
(LAUGHS)
461
00:38:31,811 --> 00:38:32,812
Yes.
462
00:38:37,441 --> 00:38:39,568
Mr Colville, Your Majesty.
463
00:38:42,113 --> 00:38:44,115
Your Majesties. Tommy.
464
00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:47,576
QUEEN MARY: Oh, come in, Jock.
Take a seat.
465
00:38:48,911 --> 00:38:52,289
We have a significant concern
which we'd like to convey
466
00:38:52,373 --> 00:38:54,375
to the Prime Minister.
467
00:38:54,458 --> 00:38:58,129
It concerns the Duke of Edinburgh.
468
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,728
WINSTON: Ma'am, word has reached me
that it is your desire
469
00:39:13,811 --> 00:39:19,025
that you and your children should keep
your husband's name, Mountbatten.
470
00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:21,527
It is.
471
00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:24,864
Ma'am, you must not.
It would be a grave mistake.
472
00:39:25,865 --> 00:39:28,826
Mountbatten was the adoptive name
473
00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:31,787
your husband took
when he became a British citizen.
474
00:39:31,871 --> 00:39:36,625
His real name,
you'll not need reminding, was
475
00:39:37,293 --> 00:39:40,713
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
476
00:39:40,796 --> 00:39:45,426
of the royal houses of Denmark and Norway
and, latterly, of Greece!
477
00:39:51,390 --> 00:39:52,975
I am an old man.
478
00:39:54,685 --> 00:39:57,980
Many have questioned my relevance,
479
00:39:58,064 --> 00:40:01,067
whether I still have something to offer.
480
00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:04,153
In public life, the answer is, I have.
481
00:40:04,945 --> 00:40:09,075
Which is to leave in place
a Sovereign prepared for office.
482
00:40:09,158 --> 00:40:12,495
Equipped, armed for her duty.
483
00:40:15,164 --> 00:40:20,711
Great things have happened to this country
under the sceptres of her queens
484
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:24,423
and you should be no exception.
485
00:40:24,965 --> 00:40:26,425
Yes, I am Queen,
486
00:40:27,343 --> 00:40:29,053
but I am also a woman.
487
00:40:31,514 --> 00:40:32,681
And a wife.
488
00:40:35,643 --> 00:40:39,480
To a man whose pride and whose strength
were, in part, what attracted me to him.
489
00:40:42,024 --> 00:40:44,527
I want to be in a successful marriage.
490
00:40:45,736 --> 00:40:49,824
I would argue, stability under this roof
might even be in the national interest.
491
00:40:49,907 --> 00:40:51,242
Had you considered that?
492
00:40:52,368 --> 00:40:53,536
(SIGHS)
493
00:40:54,370 --> 00:40:57,540
Very well. I will discuss it with Cabinet.
494
00:41:01,919 --> 00:41:03,003
No.
495
00:41:05,881 --> 00:41:09,844
You will inform the Cabinet, Prime Minister.
496
00:41:13,722 --> 00:41:15,891
That is the favour you will do me,
497
00:41:17,893 --> 00:41:20,229
in return for one I'm already doing you.
498
00:41:26,861 --> 00:41:31,740
I know your party wants you to resign
to make way for a younger man.
499
00:41:32,408 --> 00:41:33,576
Mr Eden.
500
00:41:35,870 --> 00:41:41,167
I also know that no one
will bring up your resignation
501
00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:44,170
while you are actively engaged
in planning the coronation.
502
00:41:46,922 --> 00:41:52,261
So, by delaying my investiture,
you are, in fact, holding onto power.
503
00:41:56,432 --> 00:41:59,602
In which case, I would suggest,
you are somewhat in my debt.
504
00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:05,107
So, if I agree to the delay,
505
00:42:06,650 --> 00:42:11,822
perhaps you will consider supporting me
in the matter regarding my husband's name.
506
00:42:18,204 --> 00:42:20,623
And perhaps you could also inform Cabinet
507
00:42:20,706 --> 00:42:24,168
that my husband and I
intend to stay here at Clarence House.
508
00:42:25,002 --> 00:42:27,713
- Why?
- It is our home.
509
00:42:29,465 --> 00:42:31,759
It has just been refurbished at great expense.
510
00:42:33,052 --> 00:42:35,721
Buckingham Palace can still be
where official business is done,
511
00:42:35,804 --> 00:42:42,478
but our home, our private family home,
will be Clarence House.
512
00:42:46,190 --> 00:42:47,274
(SIGHS)
513
00:42:48,901 --> 00:42:50,027
Very well.
514
00:43:12,508 --> 00:43:13,717
ELIZABETH:
He was a little surprised, I think...
515
00:43:13,801 --> 00:43:14,760
PHILIP: Really?
516
00:43:14,843 --> 00:43:16,095
ELIZABETH:...that I dare express
any view at all.
517
00:43:16,178 --> 00:43:17,179
PHILIP: Hmm.
518
00:43:17,304 --> 00:43:19,390
Papa was always putty in his hands.
519
00:43:19,473 --> 00:43:21,767
I think one should start
as one means to continue.
520
00:43:21,850 --> 00:43:25,396
- Absolutely. Put a marker down.
- Quite. Draw a line in the sand.
521
00:43:26,021 --> 00:43:29,608
He said he'd put it to Cabinet,
and I said there was nothing to discuss.
522
00:43:29,692 --> 00:43:32,444
- Good for you.
- No, good for you.
523
00:43:32,528 --> 00:43:34,780
- That's why I did it.
- Thank you.
524
00:43:39,868 --> 00:43:41,745
(CROWD BOOING)
525
00:43:49,962 --> 00:43:52,214
(BOOING AND SHOUTING)
526
00:43:59,305 --> 00:44:01,432
Your Royal Highness, thank you for coming.
527
00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,059
Not at all, dear Winston. How can I help?
528
00:44:08,272 --> 00:44:12,109
I took it to Cabinet and, as expected,
the answer was unanimous.
529
00:44:12,192 --> 00:44:14,403
"No" to both matters.
530
00:44:14,486 --> 00:44:17,406
Well, she won't like it,
neither the snub over the name
531
00:44:17,489 --> 00:44:19,658
nor the move to Buckingham Palace.
532
00:44:19,742 --> 00:44:24,330
It really is the most dreadful place,
cold, uninviting,
533
00:44:24,413 --> 00:44:29,460
but it's the right thing, for the young family
and the children to live there.
534
00:44:29,543 --> 00:44:33,547
It's the focal point, it's the Monarch's home.
535
00:44:35,257 --> 00:44:40,429
- Do you want me to break it to her?
- That would be very kind.
536
00:44:40,512 --> 00:44:41,680
It's the least I can do.
537
00:44:42,389 --> 00:44:45,184
I've never forgotten the way
in which you defended me,
538
00:44:45,768 --> 00:44:49,813
fought for me during that terrible time.
539
00:44:50,397 --> 00:44:54,026
I still think no man
should be punished for love.
540
00:44:54,109 --> 00:44:57,237
And I also believe I spoke
for many in the country when I defended you.
541
00:44:58,238 --> 00:44:59,448
You're very kind.
542
00:45:01,950 --> 00:45:07,790
If I were to help you in this matter with her,
543
00:45:08,624 --> 00:45:11,585
perhaps I could ask a favour in return?
544
00:45:11,668 --> 00:45:12,795
Oh.
545
00:45:13,962 --> 00:45:15,089
Name it.
546
00:45:28,519 --> 00:45:29,812
(DOOR CLOSES)
547
00:45:30,646 --> 00:45:36,068
Put in a word with the young Queen
for my allowance to be reinstated.
548
00:45:36,151 --> 00:45:37,986
She holds the purse strings now.
549
00:45:38,821 --> 00:45:42,699
The family expect me
to turn down commercial opportunities,
550
00:45:42,783 --> 00:45:45,536
yet cuts off my allowance at the same time.
551
00:45:46,161 --> 00:45:47,913
10,000 pounds.
552
00:45:48,497 --> 00:45:52,126
It's quite impossible
to make ends meet without it.
553
00:45:52,209 --> 00:45:55,587
That a former king
should come to me begging...
554
00:45:56,713 --> 00:45:58,006
(SIGHS)
555
00:45:58,173 --> 00:45:59,508
Consider it done.
556
00:46:02,636 --> 00:46:08,642
There is also a brief moment
before the coronation
557
00:46:10,185 --> 00:46:13,397
where you might also
mobilise Cabinet support
558
00:46:14,398 --> 00:46:18,152
for the one other thing that has eluded me
559
00:46:19,695 --> 00:46:22,364
- and gnaws away at my heart.
- What?
560
00:46:23,615 --> 00:46:26,285
The appropriate title for the woman I married.
561
00:46:26,368 --> 00:46:28,912
- No, sir.
- Her Royal Highness.
562
00:46:28,996 --> 00:46:32,040
She is, after all, the wife of a former king.
563
00:46:32,124 --> 00:46:38,046
She's also a woman who has three husbands
that still live and breathe.
564
00:46:38,172 --> 00:46:40,799
It is her right, Winston.
565
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,388
I'm determined she shall have it.
I'm determined she is shown respect.
566
00:46:48,348 --> 00:46:49,683
Will you fight for it?
567
00:46:50,267 --> 00:46:51,768
- (SIGHS)
- One more time?
568
00:46:51,852 --> 00:46:56,982
I have defended you so many times.
Each time to my cost and in vain.
569
00:46:58,066 --> 00:47:01,570
(SIGHS) This love for her
has destroyed everything.
570
00:47:03,113 --> 00:47:05,908
It is love, Winston.
571
00:47:07,159 --> 00:47:08,243
Love.
572
00:47:10,162 --> 00:47:12,372
The greatest thing on Earth.
573
00:50:01,958 --> 00:50:03,293
(INAUDIBLE)
574
00:50:14,554 --> 00:50:15,847
(DOOR OPENS)
575
00:50:16,223 --> 00:50:18,934
MAN: His Royal Highness,
the Duke of Windsor, Your Majesty.
576
00:50:24,272 --> 00:50:25,691
Your Majesty.
577
00:50:27,401 --> 00:50:29,236
Thank you for seeing me.
578
00:50:30,904 --> 00:50:32,280
Thank you for coming.
579
00:50:42,207 --> 00:50:47,129
Well, most of the time we're in Paris.
We've been given a house there.
580
00:50:47,212 --> 00:50:51,717
Wallis likes to entertain. She's so good at it.
581
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,802
So, the place is always full.
582
00:50:55,303 --> 00:50:56,722
And we have dogs.
583
00:50:56,805 --> 00:50:58,807
Oh, really? What kind?
584
00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:00,100
Pugs.
585
00:51:00,851 --> 00:51:05,480
Davy Crockett, Trooper and Disraeli.
586
00:51:06,106 --> 00:51:07,691
Why pugs? What's the attraction?
587
00:51:08,191 --> 00:51:11,194
Well, they're, um, childlike.
588
00:51:12,070 --> 00:51:13,321
Need a lot of loving.
589
00:51:13,822 --> 00:51:15,449
They have a strange bark.
590
00:51:17,534 --> 00:51:19,578
- Yes.
- More of a yap.
591
00:51:19,661 --> 00:51:21,747
And they're lazy. Spend all day sleeping.
592
00:51:22,581 --> 00:51:25,000
- Yes.
- They're awfully gassy.
593
00:51:26,376 --> 00:51:27,377
Yes.
594
00:51:27,544 --> 00:51:29,588
I suppose one can always open the windows.
595
00:51:30,297 --> 00:51:31,506
(CHUCKLES)
596
00:51:35,135 --> 00:51:37,429
- Don't you miss it?
- What?
597
00:51:37,512 --> 00:51:39,931
The country of your birth. The people here.
598
00:51:41,099 --> 00:51:42,517
Your own flesh and blood.
599
00:51:43,685 --> 00:51:47,606
Well, I would've done
if they'd accepted the woman I love.
600
00:51:47,689 --> 00:51:51,943
But they didn't, so, I don't.
601
00:51:52,027 --> 00:51:54,905
So, the former king
keeps himself at a distance.
602
00:51:54,988 --> 00:51:58,992
A distance that was imposed upon me.
They wanted me out.
603
00:51:59,534 --> 00:52:02,329
And reduces us all to cruel nicknames.
604
00:52:04,498 --> 00:52:05,832
Shirley Temple.
605
00:52:07,667 --> 00:52:09,002
Uh...
606
00:52:09,085 --> 00:52:10,295
Yes.
607
00:52:11,588 --> 00:52:13,089
On account of the curls?
608
00:52:15,717 --> 00:52:18,303
And precociousness.
609
00:52:18,386 --> 00:52:20,430
And stardom.
610
00:52:20,514 --> 00:52:22,599
- You flatterer.
- Not at all.
611
00:52:23,725 --> 00:52:26,645
Generally, we're better at queens than kings.
612
00:52:27,395 --> 00:52:30,398
In this country,
I have a feeling you'll be no exception.
613
00:52:31,733 --> 00:52:33,235
I certainly intend to do it well.
614
00:52:34,194 --> 00:52:35,237
I did, too.
615
00:52:36,321 --> 00:52:37,781
Obviously, not hard enough.
616
00:52:40,242 --> 00:52:41,243
No.
617
00:52:44,579 --> 00:52:45,580
You never apologised.
618
00:52:47,165 --> 00:52:49,167
To your papa, I most certainly did.
619
00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:52,671
Your mother, too. I can show you the letters.
620
00:52:52,754 --> 00:52:53,880
I didn't mean to them.
621
00:52:55,090 --> 00:52:56,383
I meant to me.
622
00:52:58,677 --> 00:52:59,678
You?
623
00:53:03,473 --> 00:53:05,475
You don't think I'm deserving of one.
624
00:53:07,853 --> 00:53:11,606
You don't think I would have preferred
to grow up out of the spotlight?
625
00:53:12,399 --> 00:53:13,567
Away from court?
626
00:53:15,110 --> 00:53:18,613
Away from the scrutiny and the visibility.
627
00:53:20,782 --> 00:53:22,033
A simpler life.
628
00:53:23,243 --> 00:53:24,452
Happier life.
629
00:53:25,620 --> 00:53:27,205
As a wife, mother.
630
00:53:29,541 --> 00:53:31,543
An ordinary English countrywoman.
631
00:53:35,422 --> 00:53:36,673
I'm sorry.
632
00:53:41,928 --> 00:53:43,138
Thank you.
633
00:53:50,729 --> 00:53:54,357
You might extend the same apology
to my husband the next time you see him.
634
00:53:54,441 --> 00:53:58,236
- Oh, is he struggling?
- A little.
635
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,947
Well, it'd be odd if he weren't.
636
00:54:02,657 --> 00:54:06,494
Anyway, if I am to succeed,
637
00:54:07,454 --> 00:54:09,664
then he and I are going to need
all the help we can get.
638
00:54:10,790 --> 00:54:15,253
Well, I'm sure you're surrounded
by good people offering it.
639
00:54:15,337 --> 00:54:18,131
Not if they're always off in Paris or New York,
640
00:54:18,214 --> 00:54:19,925
or wherever it is you spend your time.
641
00:54:21,134 --> 00:54:22,135
You...
642
00:54:22,218 --> 00:54:24,512
You would take my advice?
643
00:54:25,639 --> 00:54:26,806
I would.
644
00:54:29,267 --> 00:54:31,353
Particularly now my father isn't here
to give his.
645
00:54:34,105 --> 00:54:35,857
I'd know it came from the heart.
646
00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:40,195
Since I know, deep down, despite everything,
647
00:54:41,029 --> 00:54:42,656
that you care very deeply.
648
00:54:44,282 --> 00:54:45,325
I do.
649
00:54:54,376 --> 00:54:58,630
As it happens, there are two issues
650
00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:01,841
on which I would like to offer some advice.
651
00:55:02,676 --> 00:55:07,347
The first is your husband's surname
and the name of the royal house.
652
00:55:11,393 --> 00:55:12,727
And the second?
653
00:55:34,249 --> 00:55:36,668
There you are. There's something
I'd like to discuss with you.
654
00:55:37,419 --> 00:55:39,170
Now, please don't react.
655
00:55:40,422 --> 00:55:42,257
I'd like to take flying lessons.
656
00:55:44,134 --> 00:55:45,552
I know.
657
00:55:45,635 --> 00:55:49,097
But trust me, becoming a pilot
has been a lifelong ambition of mine
658
00:55:49,180 --> 00:55:54,060
and I think I've found a teacher
mad enough to take me on as a pupil.
659
00:55:55,061 --> 00:55:56,896
Peter, no less, Peter Townsend.
660
00:56:01,901 --> 00:56:04,529
- What's the matter?
- I need to talk to you.
661
00:56:04,612 --> 00:56:05,655
About what?
662
00:56:09,117 --> 00:56:10,869
They'd rather we didn't keep the name.
663
00:56:12,495 --> 00:56:13,580
Mountbatten.
664
00:56:15,415 --> 00:56:16,708
Who's "they"?
665
00:56:17,459 --> 00:56:19,794
- Cabinet.
- It's none of their business.
666
00:56:20,295 --> 00:56:22,714
(SCOFFS) I think you'll find
it's very much their business.
667
00:56:22,797 --> 00:56:25,633
You're my wife, taking my name is the law.
668
00:56:25,717 --> 00:56:27,719
It's the custom. Not the law.
669
00:56:27,802 --> 00:56:30,764
A custom practised so universally
it might as well be the law.
670
00:56:30,847 --> 00:56:33,141
You can't do this.
Am I to be the only man in the country
671
00:56:33,224 --> 00:56:35,060
whose wife and children
don't take his name?
672
00:56:35,143 --> 00:56:37,771
You can't do this to Dickie.
It will devastate him.
673
00:56:37,854 --> 00:56:40,899
You know that.
You know how important it is to him.
674
00:56:40,982 --> 00:56:44,152
I've told him the royal house Mountbatten
is in the bag.
675
00:56:44,319 --> 00:56:47,238
Well, that was a mistake. It's not.
676
00:56:47,989 --> 00:56:51,451
The name has to be Windsor. For stability.
677
00:56:53,286 --> 00:56:54,287
There's more.
678
00:56:56,915 --> 00:57:00,085
- Clarence House...
- Our home. What about it?
679
00:57:02,045 --> 00:57:03,338
We have to give it up.
680
00:57:05,131 --> 00:57:08,134
The home of the Sovereign of the
United Kingdom is Buckingham Palace.
681
00:57:08,301 --> 00:57:09,427
Says who?
682
00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:12,722
Me.
683
00:57:15,475 --> 00:57:17,268
I thought you hated that place.
684
00:57:17,435 --> 00:57:18,436
(SCOFFS)
685
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:20,980
I do. We all do.
686
00:57:23,358 --> 00:57:24,692
Then why go along with it?
687
00:57:26,444 --> 00:57:28,780
Because that's the overwhelming advice.
688
00:57:28,863 --> 00:57:30,865
But that's the point, Elizabeth,
it's just advice.
689
00:57:30,949 --> 00:57:32,283
It doesn't mean that you have to act on it.
690
00:57:33,326 --> 00:57:35,161
When it comes from the government, you do.
691
00:57:49,259 --> 00:57:51,052
What kind of marriage is this?
692
00:57:52,345 --> 00:57:54,055
What kind of family?
693
00:57:56,015 --> 00:57:58,351
You've taken my career from me,
you've taken my home.
694
00:57:58,434 --> 00:58:00,854
You've taken my name.
695
00:58:08,653 --> 00:58:10,572
I thought we were in this together.
696
00:58:22,750 --> 00:58:24,419
(DOOR OPENS)
697
00:58:26,421 --> 00:58:27,589
(DOOR CLOSES)
698
00:58:46,900 --> 00:58:48,943
CHARLES: See? Daddy's here.
699
00:58:49,569 --> 00:58:50,612
Welcome home, ma'am.
700
00:59:02,957 --> 00:59:04,792
(CHEERING)
701
00:59:18,598 --> 00:59:20,099
ELIZABETH: My Lords,
702
00:59:21,851 --> 00:59:24,938
I hereby declare my will and pleasure
703
00:59:25,647 --> 00:59:30,860
that I and my children
shall be styled and known
704
00:59:31,152 --> 00:59:34,405
as the House and Family of Windsor.
705
00:59:36,491 --> 00:59:37,909
And that my descendants,
706
00:59:37,992 --> 00:59:42,956
other than female descendants
who marry, and their descendants,
707
00:59:43,122 --> 00:59:46,292
shall bear the name of Windsor.
708
00:59:56,719 --> 00:59:58,680
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
709
01:00:33,923 --> 01:00:35,925
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)