1 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,520 Your Majesty. 2 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,360 So, it is always the Sovereign who begins the meal. 3 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:04,040 It is absolutely forbidden to begin before he, or she, takes their first bite. 4 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,360 Oui, Mademoiselle. 5 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,040 During the meal, when it is the first course, 6 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,480 you must only speak to the person seated on your right until the end. 7 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,520 Time for the Vice-Provost, Lilibet. 8 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,840 Your Royal Highness. Come on. 9 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,680 "There are two elements of the Constitution:" 10 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,880 wrote Walter Bagehot in 1867. 11 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,400 "The efficient and the dignified." 12 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,880 Which is the monarch? 13 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,720 Your Royal Highness? 14 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,400 -The dignified? -Very good. 15 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,440 The efficient has the power to make and execute policy 16 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,360 and is answerable to the electorate. 17 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,840 What touches all should be approved by all. 18 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,200 The dignified gives significance and legitimacy to the efficient 19 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,200 and is answerable only...? 20 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,680 -To God. -Precisely. 21 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:51,720 Two institutions, Crown and government, dignified and the efficient, 22 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,160 only work when they support each other. 23 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,960 When they trust one another. 24 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,480 You can underline that. 25 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,280 -Do you teach this to your other pupils? -No, just you. 26 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,880 This is what I teach them. 27 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,480 These are exam papers. 28 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,680 -Shouldn't I know all of this, too? -No, Ma'am. 29 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,600 All very undignified. 30 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,520 I see Mr. Einstein has changed his mind again? 31 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,240 -Oh? -The scientist. 32 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,840 No, I know who he is. What exactly has he changed his mind about? 33 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,240 That's rather less clear to me, 34 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,600 but everyone's making a tremendous fuss about it. 35 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,160 At the time of my education, I asked the Vice-Provost 36 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,120 if we shouldn't spend a bit of time on Literature, Philosophy, Science. 37 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,560 He felt I had enough on my plate as it was. 38 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,800 But don't you think I should have learned about it? 39 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:14,880 Why? 40 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,880 Well, doesn't one have a duty to know certain things? 41 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,480 You have a great many other virtues. You can't be expected to know everything. 42 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,920 Well, no, that's the point, Mummy. I know almost nothing. 43 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,600 You know when to keep your mouth shut. That's more important than anything. 44 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,520 And that would've been fine if I'd gone on to live a normal life. 45 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,880 But now I spend so much time with politicians and statesmen. 46 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,440 You know, I live in dread of being left alone with them. 47 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,000 Your dear papa was just the same. 48 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,920 Be nice to think that one could, if not hold one's own, 49 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 then at least not have to steer the conversation 50 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,400 away to dogs and horses every time. 51 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,560 The Prime Minister's on his way, Ma'am. 52 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,480 Well, one good thing about this one is you never have to open your mouth at all. 53 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:09,800 That's true. 54 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,480 Just smile politely while he drones on and on. 55 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,600 Your Majesty may or may not be aware, but this is my retirement year. 56 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,520 Is it really? How long has it been? 57 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,880 33 years, Ma'am, serving four sovereigns. 58 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:22,800 One can hardly imagine the place without you. 59 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,120 It's kind of you to say so, Ma'am, but we're well prepared for the transition. 60 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,240 A deputy's long been groomed and made ready. 61 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,840 -Two deputies, right? -Yes, Ma'am. 62 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,440 -A senior and a junior. -An heir and a spare. 63 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:33,320 Quite. 64 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,320 Well, before we discuss any of that, 65 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,080 I'd like you to know how grateful we all are to you. 66 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,320 -For your years of service. -Thank you, Ma'am. 67 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,560 My father was quite dependent on you. You know that. 68 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,920 And in our short time together, I could see how I could be, too. 69 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,040 But you deserve to put your feet up. 70 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,920 And I think I could work quite well with Martin Charteris. 71 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,480 -Martin Charteris? -Yes. 72 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,040 I assume you'll give that your blessing. 73 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,680 Martin is the junior deputy private secretary, Ma'am, the spare. 74 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,920 Michael Adeane is the senior. The rightful heir. 75 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,280 Yes, but Martin and I have worked together before. 76 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,320 -I'm aware of that. -I'm sure Michael would understand 77 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,600 that I had a pre-existing relationship with Martin and not take it personally. 78 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,440 Martin is a younger man. It's the more natural fit. 79 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,520 If that is Your Majesty's wish. 80 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,720 Prime Minister, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. 81 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,600 Not at all. 82 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:56,360 -Oh, but I see you've found company. -Yes. 83 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,440 Honey, Sugar, Pippin, say goodbye. Thank you, Tommy. 84 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,760 Shall we make a start? 85 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,560 One item overshadows every other on the agenda this week, Ma'am. 86 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,080 The Soviets and their H-bomb. 87 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,440 We now have confirmation that they have been testing 88 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,720 in the Kazakh Desert. 89 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,480 It is vital that we act swiftly to secure peace 90 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,360 and vital that we British spearhead the effort. 91 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,720 I have always been the person 92 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,640 everyone wants in a room with the Russians 93 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,400 because Stalin would only talk to me. 94 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,800 With him gone, there is a great danger 95 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,120 that Eisenhower will take it upon himself to run the show. 96 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,160 And that would be bad? 97 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,840 Oh, a disaster, Ma'am. For all the obvious reasons. 98 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:54,160 Of course. 99 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,440 Remind me. Of the obvious reasons. 100 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,800 Russia... 101 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:11,960 is a great old empire which demands and deserves respect. 102 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:17,360 Americans like to wave the big stick and speak with a loud voice. 103 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:22,480 In the matter of world governance, they are not yet ready. 104 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:24,520 They need 105 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,320 an experienced and elder power 106 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,840 to guide them, school them. 107 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,400 Yes, we could all do with some school. 108 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,800 To that end, I've asked the Foreign Secretary to go to Washington 109 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,320 to lay plans for a summit meeting between myself and Eisenhower, 110 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,000 to start discussing a unified approach 111 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,160 for how to bring the Russians back into the family. 112 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,880 -Do you think he's up to it? -Eisenhower? 113 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,440 No, the Foreign Secretary. 114 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:57,440 Anthony is the finest Foreign Secretary this country has had for generations. 115 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,240 Yes, but I've heard he's also a very sick man. 116 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,720 I would hate to think that the country wasn't in safe hands, 117 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,360 being led by healthy men. 118 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,320 We are both fine, Ma'am. I assure you. 119 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,280 Early indications are that the bomb they tested 120 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,280 was a fission and fusion-fueled Sloika design, 121 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,440 based on lithium-six deuteride and uranium-two-three-five 122 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,600 with a yield of 400 kilotons. 123 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,680 Khrushchev claims the weapon is ready for immediate use, 124 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,960 capable of deployment from a bomber aircraft. 125 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,640 He was bragging about it to the Presidium last week. 126 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:37,960 Do we believe that? 127 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,400 Latest CIA intelligence seems to support it, with the Soviets known to be 128 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,040 ramping up their production of long-range bomber aircraft... 129 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,840 Are you all right, sir? 130 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,920 My bag, please. Give me my bag. 131 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:10,280 You can do this. 132 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,960 Sir, this really should be done by a doctor. 133 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,880 Just find a vein. Come on! 134 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,800 Now, we can say with confidence that Joe Four's total yield, 135 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,240 why, was in the range of four to 500 kilotons. 136 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,960 Now, intelligence sources indicate the Soviets used the layered design... 137 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,520 similar to our own "Ivy Mike" detonation in '52, 138 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,840 which is consistent with the blast radius. 139 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,080 The British Foreign Secretary. 140 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:12,080 That gentleman is not just a sleeping man, 141 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,120 it's a sad metaphor. 142 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:15,800 The second most powerful man 143 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,160 in what was once the most powerful country on Earth. 144 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:22,920 What's that on his arm? 145 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,440 Looks like blood, sir. 146 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,240 Good God. 147 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,800 Colonel Charteris, Your Majesty. 148 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,240 -You asked to see me? -I did. Do sit down. 149 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:54,760 Now, as I'm sure you're aware, 150 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:59,400 Tommy Lascelles will be leaving us shortly to begin his well-deserved retirement. 151 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,720 And his departure will leave something of a gap. 152 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:07,200 Yes. 153 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:12,240 And I was wondering whether you might be interested in filling that gap? 154 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,480 -As what, Ma'am? -My Private Secretary. 155 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,280 -I'd be delighted, but... -But what? 156 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,720 What about Michael Adeane? 157 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,160 -What about him? -He is the natural successor. 158 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,280 I was hoping it might be possible for me to make my own decision just once. 159 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,000 There are two Private Secretaries to choose from. 160 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,280 And I happen to prefer the Junior. 161 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,760 So, shall we say that's that? 162 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,800 Yes. I suppose we shall. 163 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,000 -Good. -Thank you. 164 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,920 Is there anything I can do? In the meantime. 165 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 No, no, no. Thank you, Martin. 166 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,960 Actually, Martin... 167 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,000 A tutor. 168 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,720 -Ma'am? -I'd like to engage one. 169 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,480 -Any particular field? -General education. 170 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,760 -I'll come up with some names. -Thank you. 171 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,640 Oh, and, Martin, preferably one, you know, not too stuffy. Sense of humor. 172 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:21,800 Understood. 173 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,360 I'm no stranger to pain, Winston, but this has become intolerable. 174 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,760 I must have corrective surgery. 175 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,200 And this "corrective surgery," must it really be Boston? 176 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,400 That's where the best man is. The only man. 177 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:48,160 They're better equipped to deal with gall bladder problems in America. 178 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,240 Due to the high fat diets they have here. 179 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,920 Leaving me without you for the summit with Ike. 180 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,240 -Can't you delay it? -No, I can't. 181 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,600 Besides, you have already stated 182 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,960 your ability to run the ship without me for some time. 183 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,360 In jest, my dear boy, when you become mutinous and presumptuous. 184 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,520 You know how much I depend on you. 185 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,760 -I do. -Well? 186 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,520 But I'd still like to hear you say it again. 187 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,760 -What? -I'd like you to say it again so that... 188 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:29,360 all the people listening in can hear. You were saying. 189 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,040 That... 190 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,200 I depend on you, Anthony. 191 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,320 What for? 192 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:43,080 For your judgement. 193 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:48,640 - What else? - Your integrity. And loyalty. 194 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,160 Louder, please. 195 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,520 Yes, all right! Yes, I need you there, Anthony! 196 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,880 I think we're all agreed, I need you! 197 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:01,960 And I need the surgery, Winston. It's my life that's at stake now. 198 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:03,400 I'm sorry. 199 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,920 Prime Minister. Prime Minister? 200 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,480 - What's that? - Here, Charles. That one. 201 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,560 Look. Look at this. Do you like my picture? 202 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,000 It's a rocket. One day it'll take us into space. 203 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Let's move on. 204 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,800 - Professor Hogg, Your Majesty. - Who? 205 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,800 Colonel Charteris said you were expecting him. 206 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,240 Oh, yes. 207 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,120 Where's Mercury? 208 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,680 High up in the sky, Charles. It's where all the other planets are. 209 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,640 -Your Majesty. -Professor Hogg. 210 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,480 During the course of my new daily life, 211 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,280 I have to spend a great deal of time alone with statesmen. 212 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,960 Men, like yourself, of exceptional intellect, 213 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,960 who've risen to the very top of their profession 214 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,760 by virtue of their intelligence and their ability. 215 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,880 There are frequently times 216 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,440 when I am discussing agendas of the day 217 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,240 with these people that I find myself... 218 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,120 on the back foot. 219 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,560 At something of a disadvantage. Because I... 220 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,760 I can't keep up. 221 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,240 Or I don't know what lies behind something. 222 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,520 And that's no way to live. 223 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,120 To be uninformed and entirely at someone else's mercy. 224 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,720 Quite. Which is why I was hoping that you might help me hold my own, some more, 225 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,200 feel at less of a disadvantage, fill in... 226 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,480 Fill in some of the gaps. 227 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:51,600 Perhaps Her Majesty would give me an idea of roughly how far she got? 228 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,600 -When? -With her education. 229 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,480 -In what sense? -Which exams she might have taken 230 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,760 and passed, that I might better know at what level to pitch our tutorials. 231 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,000 The Higher School Certificate, for example. 232 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,720 All right. The School Certificate, then. 233 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,880 No. 234 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,800 Any privately-tutored equivalents thereof, perhaps? 235 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,800 I see. 236 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,600 Her Majesty the Queen, Ma'am. 237 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,600 This is a surprise. 238 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,520 To what do I owe the pleasure? 239 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,640 I came because I wanted to ask you a question about my education. 240 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,840 What about it? 241 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,040 -The fact that I didn't receive one. -You did. 242 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:09,360 Sewing, needlework and saying poems with Crawfie. 243 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,880 That is not an education. 244 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:16,720 Darling, you also spent years one-on-one with the Vice-Provost of Eton College. 245 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,320 Being drilled in the Constitution. 246 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,640 Which is far more than your sister ever got. 247 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:26,080 Mummy! I'm talking about a normal education. In normal subjects. 248 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,720 You received an entirely appropriate education for a woman of your background. 249 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,480 Which has entirely failed to prepare me for the life I lead now. 250 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,960 We taught you how to be a lady, a princess. What do you want? A degree? 251 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,880 No one wants a bluestocking or a college lecturer as sovereign. 252 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,400 They want a Queen. 253 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,000 Yes, a queen who is hopelessly ill-equipped 254 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,600 to deal with the people that she has to meet. 255 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,840 What has this to do with me? 256 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,600 How could you have let me down like this? 257 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,280 Is this a criticism of my motherhood? 258 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,680 I would've thought you'd think twice before throwing stones on that score. 259 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,680 What's that supposed to mean? 260 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,560 I hardly see you blazing a trail in that department. 261 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:18,720 That's not fair. 262 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,760 Besides, I thought we were past the age now 263 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,480 where we take cheap shots at our parents. 264 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,080 I educated you as your father and I saw fit. 265 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,200 Why didn't we push harder? 266 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,720 No one advised that we should. That includes the Vice-Provost. 267 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,880 Oh, don't force something that doesn't come naturally, dear. 268 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,560 That's what I've learned. 269 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,800 We all have to accept our limitations in life. 270 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,720 That's it, there. The grace and favor flat, 271 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,760 belonging to the Queen's Private Secretary. 272 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,960 -Our new home. -How much of the ground floor is it? 273 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,640 All of it. Including the rooms stretching to the back. 274 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,400 The girls will be happy here. 275 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,800 Now, we must go. 276 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,160 -I don't want anyone to see us. -Why? 277 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:34,800 Well, it's just indiscreet. 278 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,560 -And I haven't got the job yet. -What about that tree? 279 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,200 It's blocking all the light. 280 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,560 Well, I daresay one could ask to have it trimmed back. 281 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,320 Will you ask? 282 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,760 I don't see the rush, but... yes, I can ask. Discreetly. 283 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,400 Good God. 284 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,320 A stroke, Bobbety, that's all, a minor stroke. 285 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,840 But I'm on the mend, bouncing back. 286 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,840 Well, you don't look very bouncy to me. 287 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,480 -Who knows? -No one. 288 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,160 And no one can know. Especially the Queen. 289 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,080 What? 290 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,360 I have promised her that the country will always have a healthy man in charge. 291 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,000 You know me, Bobbety, I am a man of my word. 292 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,440 But you can't just hide it from her. 293 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,560 I mean, you're head of the government which runs the country in her name. 294 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,400 Don't you think she'll smell a rat 295 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,440 when no one turns up at her private audience? 296 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,160 The Palace has been told that I have a cold. 297 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,400 A cold? 298 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:43,520 Jock, you have my permission to extend that to the flu. 299 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,560 -Sir. -But no more. 300 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,880 And what about the meeting with Eisenhower in Washington? 301 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,880 Alas, as I have been refused permission to fly, 302 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,080 I am left with no option. 303 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,040 -To postpone it? -Are you mad? 304 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:02,760 The Russian situation could not be more delicately poised, 305 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,080 nor more needing of my influence. 306 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,120 No. 307 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,400 We have to get Eisenhower here. 308 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,840 You see, Tommy, there's no other way. Well, how about the 12th of July? 309 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,640 -I doubt it. -All right, the 13th? 310 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,560 -I doubt that as well. -The 14th then. 311 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,360 I can put it to her, Bobbety, but I wouldn't hold your breath. 312 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,920 Well, I'll leave it to your powers of persuasion. 313 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,560 Goodbye. 314 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,480 Sorry to disturb you, Ma'am, 315 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,960 but I just had Lord Salisbury on the phone 316 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,040 with an unusual request. 317 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:13,000 President Eisenhower is due to meet the Prime Minister 318 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:18,120 in Washington for a summit next week, but Mr. Churchill's developed a cold, 319 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,920 a nasty cold and Lord Moran, his doctor, has forbidden him to fly. 320 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,680 Now, the feeling is the meeting is of the utmost importance 321 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,640 so Downing Street was wondering whether we might be able to help. 322 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,520 -Help how? -By inviting the President here. 323 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,600 -Where? -Here, Ma'am, to Buckingham Palace, 324 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,520 to a state banquet next week. 325 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:42,240 The feeling is that, by that time, Winston should have made a sufficient recovery. 326 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,840 Well, I was planning on going to Sandringham. 327 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,480 I'm afraid it would mean postponing that by a few days. 328 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,400 We can extend an invitation through our ambassador in Washington. 329 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,560 -Is that a green light, Ma'am? -Yes. 330 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,160 Then, if you'll excuse me, I better get cracking. 331 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,960 Do you have a moment, Tommy? I need to speak to you urgently. 332 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,560 I don't, I'm afraid, I have a state banquet to arrange, 333 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,360 so if it can possibly wait until later... 334 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,120 I think when you hear it, you'll share my sense of alarm. 335 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,880 It seems that Martin Charteris 336 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,840 is to replace you as Her Majesty's Private Secretary, not me. 337 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,440 What? Says who? 338 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,040 Says Margaret Colville, Jock Colville's wife, 339 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,200 who plays bridge with Alice Jameson, lady-in-waiting, 340 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,000 who as you may know, plays tennis with Mary Charteris. 341 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,760 Why on earth would I know that? 342 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,280 Anyway, so confident are they of the appointment, 343 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,200 -that Mary has even gone so... -Don't tell me. 344 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,040 So far to speak to the Palace Head Gardener 345 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,160 about trimming the tree outside my window. 346 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,920 Yes. 347 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,360 Ask Martin to come and see me, would you? 348 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,680 That is, if he and his lady wife are not too busy measuring carpets and curtains 349 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:57,880 for what is still my home. 350 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,280 -Right, it's green light. Jump to it. -Sir. 351 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,200 -You asked to see me, Tommy. -I did. Do sit down. 352 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,960 Martin, you've worked for the Palace now, for what, three years? 353 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,640 I'd have thought that long enough for you to know the ropes. 354 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,800 Understand the rules, the way things are done. 355 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,000 I think I do. 356 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,240 Manifestly not. 357 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,360 Professor Hogg, Your Majesty. 358 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,800 -Your Majesty. -Professor. 359 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,080 I know you were going to prepare some tutorials of a more general nature, 360 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,880 but it seems I'm going to need some more specific knowledge first. 361 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,560 -On which subject? -President Eisenhower. 362 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,800 He'll be coming here in a matter of days and I'll be expected... 363 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,120 to sit next to him and make conversation with him. 364 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,720 So I need to know all about him and what interests him. 365 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,560 The military industrial complex, Ma'am. 366 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:39,880 What? 367 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,200 And its threat to democratic government. It's what most concerns him. 368 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,560 -Something lighter, perhaps? -Golf? 369 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,040 -Anything else? -Oil painting. 370 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,560 -I'm told he paints landscapes. -Oh, don't they all? 371 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,600 Would Your Majesty give me 24 hours to do some research and come back to you? 372 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,600 Yes. Of course. 373 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,160 He was baptized, wasn't he? Just six months ago. 374 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,600 Yes, I think I read about that. A Presbyterian. 375 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,680 -Did they dunk him, do you think? -Dunk? 376 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:34,720 -A full immersion. In some river. -If I were a gambling man, I'd say yes. 377 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,800 Are you? 378 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,520 Occasionally. The Derby, Ma'am, and the Grand National. 379 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,120 Oh, how did you get on this year? 380 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,960 At the National, rather well. I had "Early Mist" on an each-way bet. 381 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,440 Oh, well done, you. You won by 20 lengths. I share your admiration for Mr. O'Brien, 382 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,720 and everything he's doing at Ballydoyle Stables. 383 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,040 -Who? -The trainer. 384 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,560 -That's not why you backed him? -No. I just liked the name. 385 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,680 I see. 386 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,600 -Back in 24 hours. -Thank you. 387 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,000 "I'm so sorry to hear that in these past days 388 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,120 you've not been in your usual good health." 389 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,160 Isn't that nice? 390 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,600 "And that your tireless exertions on behalf of this country 391 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,360 have resulted in this temporary inconvenience." 392 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,640 "Temporary inconvenience." 393 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,040 How much does she know exactly? 394 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,760 Because, from the tone of this... 395 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,400 Winston. 396 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,880 -She thinks it's a cold. -A cold? 397 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,640 Yes, a cold. If she knew the truth, she would bid me stand down. 398 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,680 -Good. -A replacement would have to be found. 399 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,680 The wrong replacement, because the right man... 400 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,040 -Anthony. -...is himself incapacitated. 401 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,520 Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing. 402 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,320 Do you mean to tell me that, at the moment, 403 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,880 this country's without a fit leader or a deputy leader? 404 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,560 Shh. Not so loud. 405 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,400 -But... -Come. 406 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,080 Good news, sir. It's a yes from Eisenhower. 407 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,320 You were right, an invitation from the Palace 408 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,760 has proved impossible for the Americans to refuse. 409 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,360 They've changed his schedule and they're going to make it work. 410 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,280 -But that's wonderful news! -Don't get out bed, Winston! 411 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,840 -It is wonderful! -Don't get out bed, darling. 412 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,240 Don't get out of bed. 413 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,800 If Ike comes here, I can be leader again. 414 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,800 -Winston. -That's what really matters. 415 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,720 Getting me and Ike in the same room, so that he and I can... 416 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:49,920 Do go back to bed. 417 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,800 ...get on with building a real and lasting peace with the Russians! 418 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,720 Look, why don't you admit the truth, that you have been fighting for your life 419 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,000 and tell the Queen? 420 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,480 Winston? 421 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,280 -How serious is it this time? -It's impossible to know. 422 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:47,120 I fear we do now have to put off the Americans. 423 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,240 Yes, of course. 424 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:53,920 -And tell the Queen. -No. No, we're in too deep now for that. 425 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,520 If Eisenhower isn't coming, blame it on him, not on Winston. 426 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,280 The Queen must never know how much we've kept from her. 427 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,120 Prepare for inspection! 428 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,720 Sorry to disturb you, Ma'am. 429 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,880 I've been asked by Downing Street to inform you first 430 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,920 that President Eisenhower is no longer able to leave the United States, 431 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,400 owing to a political crisis at home. 432 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,600 Well, that's a relief. 433 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,000 And that the Prime Minister still hasn't shaken off his cold. 434 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,520 And will not be attending today's private audience. 435 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,440 Really? Goodness. 436 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,640 That's the second consecutive private audience that he's missed. 437 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,400 -It's most unlike him. -Yes, isn't it? 438 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:17,360 Are you all right, Martin? 439 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,640 Your Majesty, I've had the opportunity 440 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:26,560 to think about your very kind offer to become your Private Secretary. 441 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,520 And I'm afraid I must decline. 442 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,240 Why? 443 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,840 In this instance, I really do believe you'll be better served by Michael. 444 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:45,040 No, you don't. 445 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,760 -Ma'am? -You don't think that. 446 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,920 Nor could you ever think that. For the very good reason that it's not true. 447 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,200 Have you been spoken to by Tommy Lascelles? 448 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,800 -Ma'am. -You have. 449 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,440 And what did he have to say? 450 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,480 That I should've refused the offer in the room. 451 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,840 That I obviously have no respect or understanding 452 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,800 for Palace tradition and protocol, and that it must be Michael Adeane. 453 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,360 Did he now? 454 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,040 If you'll excuse me for a moment, Martin? 455 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,800 Come. 456 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,520 Oh. 457 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,000 -Your Majesty. -Look, Tommy. 458 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,080 There's no pretty way of saying this, I would prefer Martin. 459 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,440 -And that is your right, Ma'am. -Yes. And I rather thought so, too. 460 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,400 But it would be a mistake. 461 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,040 -And why is that? -Please. 462 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,280 There's a way of doing things here. 463 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,040 An order developed over time, generations. 464 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:43,160 And individuality in the House of Windsor, 465 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:47,560 any departure from that way of doing things, is not to be encouraged. 466 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,480 It results in catastrophes like the abdication. 467 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,800 Abdicating the Throne and choosing my Private Secretary 468 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,840 -is hardly comparing like with like. -I disagree. 469 00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,480 I served your uncle, as you know. 470 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:05,000 And it's in the small things that the rot starts. 471 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,720 Do the wrong thing once, it's easier to do it again. 472 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,760 Do the individualistic thing once, it is easy to do it again. 473 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,600 Now, in the case of your uncle, it started with wanting to use 474 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,880 Buckingham Palace simply as the office and York House as his home. 475 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,800 Then he stopped attending church, decided he wanted to sell Sandringham. 476 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,200 He dismissed courtiers who'd served under his father 477 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,040 in favor of younger, sycophantic supplicants. 478 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,440 Of course, no one saw the abdication coming then, 479 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,920 but the ego, the willfulness, 480 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,200 the individualism, the rot had set in. 481 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:47,160 -Martin and I have an understanding. -I don't deny it. 482 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,800 It would make me feel as if I had an ally, 483 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,600 friend almost, in what can sometimes feel like a very... 484 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,120 Well... 485 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,760 The next in line and the senior of my two deputies 486 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,920 and the natural heir is Michael. 487 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,520 -Your man. -The right man. 488 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,520 But as always, the final say is with you, Ma'am. 489 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,760 Thank you. 490 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,120 Just had the Palace on the phone, 491 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,120 requesting a private audience this afternoon. 492 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,080 It seems the Queen wants to see you, sir. 493 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,080 Me? 494 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,240 What's all this about, Patrick? 495 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,240 -Don't know, sir. -Can't you give me a clue? 496 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,960 Mr. Colville, Your Majesty. 497 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,080 -You asked to see me, Your Majesty? -Yes, Jock. 498 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:15,400 You were my Private Secretary for two years before Martin Charteris. 499 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:16,720 I was. 500 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,440 And it was my impression that we always had a good understanding 501 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,080 and we were able to speak openly with one another. 502 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,960 -Yes, of course. -And trust one another, 503 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,200 speak plainly when matters of real importance came up. 504 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,600 And before Her Majesty says anything else, let me just say how sorry I am. 505 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,480 It's been agony. I tried to stop them, I told them my opinion, 506 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,440 but they were so insistent we keep it from you. 507 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,560 After the second one, I really was of a mind to let you know the truth. 508 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,760 -Second what? -Stroke, Ma'am. 509 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,880 But they insisted again, everyone keep it quiet, say nothing. 510 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:01,880 I see. 511 00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,960 And who was it that was doing the insisting? 512 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,400 Lord Salisbury, Ma'am. 513 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:16,120 And the Prime Minister himself. On the rare occasions he was conscious. 514 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,560 I see. 515 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,480 That is what you asked me here to discuss? 516 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,680 No. 517 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,840 I asked you here to discuss whether I should take Michael Adeane 518 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,320 for my Private Secretary, rather than Martin Charteris. 519 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,640 But what you've just told me is far more important. 520 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,160 -No. -Yes. 521 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:51,960 The slippery old so-and-so's. 522 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:57,000 It's rather worse than slippery, wouldn't you say? Somewhat unconstitutional. 523 00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:03,080 -What are you going to do? -Nothing, of course. That's my job. 524 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,480 -Do nothing and stay silent at all times. -Is it? 525 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,960 From memory, and forgive me, Ma'am, it's a while since I read Bagehot, 526 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:16,280 but in circumstances such as these, is it not also your duty to act? 527 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:22,560 -I doubt it. I'd have to check. -I think you know precisely. 528 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:26,840 Yes, it is. 529 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,480 But I can't just summon the brightest, most formidable men in the country 530 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,240 and give them a dressing down, like children. 531 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,840 Why? You are in the right, they in the wrong. 532 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,280 Yes, but they're far more intelligent than I am. 533 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,800 Any confrontation, they'd out-debate me, out-think me and out-maneuver me. 534 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,800 But this isn't about education or intelligence. 535 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,400 This is about integrity and principle. 536 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,240 Ma'am, you say you don't have what it takes to do battle with these people. 537 00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:58,600 You do. 538 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:02,200 You were drilled for years in the finer points of our Constitution. 539 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,000 You know it better than me, better than all of us. 540 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,720 You have the only education that matters. 541 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,880 So what would you have me do? 542 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:16,320 Summon them and give them a good dressing down like children. 543 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:17,920 Why would they stand for that? 544 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,200 Because they're English, male and upper class. 545 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,640 A good dressing down from Nanny is what they most want in life. 546 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,920 Unconventional to the end, Professor. 547 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,880 Thank you, Professor. 548 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:44,240 I'm afraid I urgently need something from Windsor Castle. 549 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:49,640 At least I think it's at Windsor. It might be at Sandringham. Or Balmoral. 550 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:51,880 -Or it might be here. -Ma'am. 551 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,280 Lord Salisbury, please. 552 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,560 If you wouldn't mind, Prime Minister. 553 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,160 Ma'am. 554 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:07,000 It has come to my attention that for a period of time last week, 555 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,440 my Prime Minister was incapacitated. 556 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,840 And the Foreign Secretary, too. 557 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:19,320 And that you colluded in keeping that information from me. 558 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,760 -Your Maj... -No, it is not my job to govern. 559 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,640 But it is my job to ensure proper governance. 560 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:35,000 But how can I do that if my ministers lie and plot and hide the truth from me? 561 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,680 You have prevented me from doing my duty. 562 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,600 You have hampered and bamboozled the proper functioning of the Crown. 563 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,200 How could you? 564 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,400 My own late father valued you greatly. 565 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,280 He believed the phrase, "History teaches, never trust a Cecil." 566 00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:58,920 Deeply unfair. 567 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:03,880 Perhaps not. 568 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,360 You may go. 569 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,680 Prime Minister. 570 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,000 Please. 571 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,880 The Prime Minister, Your Majesty. 572 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,640 Your Majesty. 573 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,280 Winston. 574 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,240 I am just a young woman, starting out in public service. 575 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:26,200 And I would never presume to give a man, so much my senior, 576 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:30,480 and who has given this country so much, a lecture. 577 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:34,280 However... 578 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,160 you were at my Coronation. 579 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:40,720 I was. 580 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,160 And you therefore heard for yourself as I took the solemn oath 581 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:48,920 to govern the people of my realms 582 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,640 according to their respective laws and customs. 583 00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:59,560 Now, one of those customs is that their elected Prime Minister 584 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,400 should be of reasonably sound body and mind. 585 00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,600 Not an outrageous expectation, one would've thought. 586 00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,160 No. 587 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:11,520 But it seems that you have not 588 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,800 been of sound body and mind these past weeks. 589 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:21,360 And that you chose to withhold that information from me. 590 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:28,880 A decision which feels like a betrayal, not just of the covenant of trust 591 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:33,920 between us and the institutions that we both represent, 592 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,520 but of our own personal relationship. 593 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,240 In 1867, Walter Bagehot wrote: 594 00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:21,480 "There are two elements of the Constitution: 595 00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,280 the efficient and the dignified." 596 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,360 The monarch is the dignified and the government, the efficient. 597 00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:36,560 These two institutions only work 598 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,960 when they support each other, 599 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,800 when they trust one another. 600 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,280 Your actions, your breaking of that trust 601 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,320 was irresponsible and it might have had serious ramifications 602 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,440 for the security of this country. 603 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,480 Is your health better now? 604 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,960 -It is. -Good. 605 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,760 But is it sufficiently better? 606 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,560 Fit for office better? 607 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,920 I would ask you to consider your response 608 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,680 in light of the respect that my rank and my office deserve, 609 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,040 not that which my age and gender might suggest. 610 00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:30,520 Ma'am... 611 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,880 I look at you now and I realize 612 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,560 that the time is fast approaching for me to step down. 613 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:46,440 Not because I am unwell or unfit for office, 614 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:52,320 but because you are ready. 615 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:57,120 And therefore I have discharged my duty to your father. 616 00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:04,960 With your blessing and your forgiveness, 617 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,760 I shall continue to serve as the leader of Your Majesty's government. 618 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,640 Your Majesty. 619 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:55,280 Hello? 620 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:05,760 Hello. 621 00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:08,360 Where have you been? 622 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:13,120 Oh, charity cricket match for the National Playing Fields Association. 623 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,560 Spent some time at the airfield, doing some rolls. 624 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,760 No cabinet approval. Don't tell anyone. 625 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,360 What are you dressed for? 626 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,400 Haven't you heard? We've a State banquet this evening. 627 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,040 Haven't you heard? It's been cancelled. 628 00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,040 Oh, Christ, why doesn't anybody tell me anything? 629 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,560 Well, perhaps if you were here more. 630 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,800 I've read two books on Eisenhower especially. 631 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,760 -Have you really? -No. 632 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:40,280 You look nice. 633 00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,800 -Do I? -Something's different. 634 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,920 -What? -I don't know. You seem... 635 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,680 I advise you to choose your next words very carefully. 636 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,840 Taller, somehow. Or is it just that I've shrunk? 637 00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,440 There's nothing shrunken about you, dearest. 638 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:57,440 Where are you going? 639 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,200 I've got an appointment with my new Private Secretary. 640 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,040 -Oh, God. Tell him to bugger off. -I can't do that. 641 00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:07,880 And do what instead? 642 00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:12,920 Two options: 643 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:17,600 either I get some stilts so I can reach the heights of my new, tall woman... 644 00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:20,040 Or? 645 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:26,720 Or... 646 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:30,560 she could get on her knees. 647 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:51,800 Major Adeane, Her Majesty requests that your appointment might wait. 648 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,240 -I see. -Until tomorrow. 649 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:56,800 Right.