[drums beat]
- Spring 1937.
Albert Windsor, known as Bertie,
is woken by the sound of a military band,
practicing for his coronation.
He is about to be crowned King George VI,
a role he never wanted.
[dramatic music]
His elder brother chose to give up the throne
to marry a twice-divorced American.
- I have found it impossible
to discharge my duties as king,
without the help of the woman I love.
- Can King George, the shy man with a stutter,
mend a broken monarchy?
His brother, Edward, has not gone quietly into exile.
[soldiers chanting]
And a looming war threatens global chaos.
- The glory of a British coronation.
Nowhere in the world is there anything half so wonderful.
It'll be one of the dates in English history
that the school children will learn about.
- Immediately before the coronation,
it must've been momentous for George.
This was a huge ceremony that had been prepared
for his older brother, but it was he
who was taking it all on.
- George's coronation occurred on the same day
that it would've occurred for his brother, Edward.
Nothing was changed, except the person doing it.
Here's somebody with a complete sense of inadequacy.
He'd always been the moon to his brother's sun.
- Before he was king,
George was living a relatively normal, free,
under the radar life. Happily married.
And, as a younger member of the royal family,
he does a few public duties,
and is contented with that life.
- He was always known as Bertie in the family,
but when he becomes king,
his whole life is completely changed.
He is intensely aware that he has been, sort of,
tasked with this incredibly difficult job.
So one of the first things he does
is change his name to George,
stressing the continuity between his reign
and that of his father, George V.
- The new King George VI is extremely worried
on taking over the throne,
because the abdication looms large.
His brother, Edward, was the most popular man
in the English-speaking world,
and now George has got to stand up to the plate.
- George is a believer in the principle of monarchy.
He feels that the British monarchy is really important
to Britain's national identity,
and it holds the nation together.
- Edward's abdication
suggests that kingship isn't quite as stable
as it has always appeared,
that it can be given up easily.
- So George's challenge is basically
to restore the monarchy to something like the stability
that it had before his brother sat on the throne.
- So it's absolutely crucial for George
that the coronation is a success,
and that he is launched successfully as a monarch.
- But insecurities plague the new king.
- One of George's biggest worries is he suffers
from a stutter.
For him, talking in public is torture.
- In the modern news reel age,
the British public expects both to see
and hear their monarch.
- Now, the British monarchy is under a lot of scrutiny.
So, the monarch has to be comfortable
in the role of communicator.
- I think he felt the pressure of what was expected of him.
His brother was fluent at making speeches,
which made him feel inadequate.
- Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm sure...
that we are all...
happy to feel...
- The stutter sometimes prevents him
from talking at all.
- That the generosity of his majesty...
has set an example to all.
- A decade earlier, in 1925,
George's wife, Elizabeth, had sought the help
of various specialists to try and cure his stutter.
They tried all sorts of methods but none worked.
Essentially, he was told he had a mental defect.
- Elizabeth is his greatest supporter and champion,
and she seeks out help,
and identifies Lionel Logue as a therapist,
who can help him overcome that difficult stammer.
- My grandfather realizes that confidence is key.
- They went through speeches together,
replacing certain words until he felt confident.
And in the run-up to the coronation,
my grandfather, Lionel Logue,
makes frequent trips to Buckingham Palace
to help the king prepare for reciting the oath.
- King George and Queen Elizabeth
are beginning their triumphal progress, in the state coach.
- This is the most stressful, terrifying event of his life.
There's no going back now.
[horn fanfare]
- And the historic coronation ceremony is begun.
- The abbey is absolutely full,
including his two daughters,
Princess Elizabeth, who is 11,
and Princess Margaret, who is six.
George and his family were very close.
It was one of the great assets that George had
that Edward did not have.
- The former king, George's brother, Edward,
is in exile in France...
- The King moves from his chair, towards...
- Listening to the ceremony over the radio.
- Edward, who is now called the Duke of Windsor,
is sitting with Wallis.
He's actually knitting her a sweater.
Edward absolutely hates pomp and pageantry.
If Edward had gone through that same ceremony,
inside his head, he would be thinking,
"This is a bunch of balls."
[horn fanfare]
In comparison, George realizes
the significance of the coronation.
- The coronation ceremony
is a code of time-honored ritual,
handed down through the ages.
- For George, the coronation is a massive issue.
He wasn't an actual performer, unlike his brother.
And the prospect of the whole world listening to his words--
you know--he's really anxious
that he will stammer over the oath,
and that this will make the monarchy look ridiculous.
- The coronation oath.
- I, George VI,
do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God,
declare...
that I will uphold
and maintain the said powers,
according to law.
- In practice, the King manages the coronation day,
and the oath and all the ceremonial perfectly well.
He did, in fact, rise to the occasion.
[crowd chanting] God save the King.
[cheering]
[triumphant music]
- The coronation is a public triumph,
but George has got big fights ahead,
and that is to show the world
he is the rightful king, not his brother.
- The newly appointed Duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Wallis Simpson
were married in a simple ceremony,
in a lavish, French château.
[somber music]
- A month after the coronation of King George,
Edward and Wallis are finally married,
and this is a rather sad occasion in many ways.
- My grandfather, Fruity Metcalfe,
was asked to be the best man at the wedding,
because none of the Duke's brothers were willing to do it.
- Edward's marriage does not have the King's blessing.
No one from the royal family attends.
- Edward never realized just what a distance
the abdication would put him
from the King, from all his old friends, from his country.
- Newsreel films are made,
but they're not shown in Britain.
The newsreel filmmakers did not release them,
as it would direct too much attention on Edward.
But Queen Elizabeth wants to draw the public attention
back towards her and the King.
- Queen Elizabeth was rather scared that the monarchy
was not necessarily secure.
That perhaps there might be
an element of the British public
that saw Wallis and Edward
as the charming couple, and that they could be rivals
in the British public's affections.
- So the new Queen Elizabeth is determined to put herself
and her family center stage.
[crowd cheering]
- Queen Elizabeth is the brains of the outfit, really.
She's shrewd,
and she understands the creation of an image.
[camera shutters clicking]
- She takes part in this incredible photo shoot
in 1939, with Cecil Beaton on camera.
- Cecil Beaton at the time was not your traditional
royal photographer.
He was a very successful fashion photographer.
- Queen Elizabeth was wearing these amazing white dresses,
and these huge, sort of, crinoline skirts.
Her look is completely the opposite
of Wallis's look, you know.
Wallis is sharp, angular, tailored.
- Elizabeth dislikes Wallis.
She blames Wallis for undermining
and almost fatally
destroying the British monarchy.
[camera shutter clicks]
- And so Queen Elizabeth's look is modeled
on a 19th-century portrait
of Queen Victoria, who, at that time,
was Britain's longest serving monarch.
So, she is aligning herself with world tradition and duty.
And every photograph is a success.
- The monarchy was still reeling from a crisis
and the image that Cecil Beaton projected
was of a sort of glamorous queen
who brought some of that glamour into the royal family.
- She was a strong character.
You know, she appeared to be jokey
and a light-hearted person,
but she had a sort of rod of steel in there, actually.
- Queen Elizabeth projects this public image
which is warm, comforting, lovely,
George VI was shy.
He didn't like public attention.
Not like her.
And at the same time, she is intent on projecting
a public image of the ideal family group.
As opposed to Edward and Wallis Simpson,
who are childless.
- In private, Queen Elizabeth
is preparing her eldest daughter,
also named Elizabeth,
for her future role.
Overnight, the abdication made the ten-year-old princess
heir to the British throne.
- Her mother sees the royal job as a practical job.
She teaches Elizabeth how to converse with dignitaries,
and conduct royal duties.
- Princess Elizabeth was quite a shy child,
like her father,
and she followed her mother's example very much.
[triumphant music]
- England launches an historic campaign,
to increase and solidify friendship in North America.
[violin music]
- In 1939, the Second World War's on the horizon,
and George VI and his wife, Elizabeth,
embarked for America
to meet President Roosevelt
because Britain was going to need
all the allies it could get.
- The American alliance had been crucial
to Britain's success in the First World War,
so the sort of diplomatic purpose
of the visit is to make a bond
with President Roosevelt and his wife.
- The King's brother had visited the United States
some ten years earlier and had become beloved
by the people of the United States.
George did not have that confidence.
- So a lot is riding on this visit.
This really is George's moment to prove
not just to America and to Britain,
but also to himself,
that he can be every bit as wonderful as Edward.
- The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
found the King and Queen warm and, if anything,
regular people almost immediately.
- Elizabeth is central to the success of this tour.
She makes people feel comfortable,
and everyone falls in love with her.
- These have been tremendously strenuous days
for the King and Queen.
But there's a short rest from their public engagements
when they get to stay at Hyde Park,
the country home of President Roosevelt's mother.
- On the King and Queen's last day,
they have a picnic luncheon with the Roosevelts
that features hot dogs,
this symbolic food of the common man.
- The President's mother said,
"You cannot offer
the King and Queen of England a hot dog."
The President said, "Yes, that's exactly
what we're gonna do."
The King asked for a second one,
so they clearly enjoyed them.
[indistinct chatter]
- The royal visit to America
is a resounding success for the King.
[serious music]
But there's danger, and the danger lies
within George's own family.
- It's 1937, and Edward and Wallis
are now in France.
Edward is a king who's lost his throne
and his purpose in life.
He's bored.
- He's constantly ringing up King George
with advice. [phone rings]
And treating him still as the younger brother.
He hasn't yet adjusted to the fact that he is not the King.
- Edward is used to having a sense of entitlement.
Now George holds all the power.
- George VI complains and says, "Most people
"become king when their predecessor has died,
"and my predecessor is alive and well
in France and causing trouble."
[phone rings]
- George expects, at any time,
to be stabbed in the back by his brother.
[dramatic string music]
- And after a bit, George stops answering the phone
because these telephone conversations
get too difficult.
- Tension between the brothers deepens
when King George denies Edward
the one thing he desires most for his wife.
- When Edward and Wallis married, George VI wrote
to Edward informing him that he will not be giving
Wallis the title, Her Royal Highness, HRH.
- Her Royal Highness--
you're treated at a certain level.
People courtesy to you at court.
What George and Elizabeth are clearly indicating
is that Wallis is not part of the royal family.
- Edward's whole life is completely changed.
He can no longer dazzle Wallis
with his royal palaces and his status.
- But there is one man who will exploit
Edward's desire for deference and status.
[cheering]
- Hitler is saying, "Come to Berlin.
"We'll treat you like royalty.
We'll treat Wallis like royalty."
And it's too good an opportunity to pass up.
- Berlin. A huge crowd greeted
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
The purpose of the visit was to study
social institutions and welfare.
- The Nazi Party
lay out the red carpet
for Edward and Wallis.
They curtsied to her,
and they treated her royally.
[cheering]
- By 1937,
Hitler has an appalling reputation
for political persecution,
the violence of the Nazi party,
and anti-Semitism is rife in that country.
The fact that Edward is, if you like, cavorting
with the Nazis.
That suggests that he endorses Hitler's regime.
- The visuals are very damaging indeed.
It's a massive propaganda coup for the Nazi regime.
- This causes a lot of panic back in London.
You've got the loose cannon, Duke of Windsor,
meeting with Hitler, himself.
♪ ♪
- There is a great deal of outrage
at Edward's trip to Germany.
"The New York Times" chastens Edward
for allowing himself to be used as a pawn.
- Edward didn't really sympathize with the Nazis,
but he wanted to upstage his brother,
and be a figure of international importance.
So George was really very angry.
- Less than two years after Edward's visit,
Hitler's army invades Poland.
[explosions]
- Poland, September 1939.
[horses neighing] The German foe begins
its ruthless march of conquests,
and sets the stage for World War II.
[explosions]
[somber, dramatic music]
- Britain and Germany are now at war.
The King addresses an apprehensive nation.
- There may be dark days ahead,
but with God's help,
we shall prevail.
- Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War,
Winton Churchill becomes George's prime minister.
- The relationship is quite frosty in the beginning.
Churchill turns up to his weekly audience
with the king late.
He dominates the conversation,
and George finds it disrespectful.
As the war progressed, they held over 200 meetings
just between the two of them,
where they could talk freely.
- The role of the monarch was to be consulted,
not to make the decisions.
But during the Second World War,
he is able to backup Churchill and support him.
They become mutually very, very close.
- I think they talked about absolutely everything.
There came to be built up between the King
and my grandfather the most profound trust.
- Now, King George VI
is facing, really, the darkest hours
as they prepare for
the possibility of a German invasion.
[airplanes whirring]
- By September 1940,
London is being subjected
to a relentless bombing campaign,
known as The Blitz.
- During the war, the royal family
want to present themselves
as a unifying force,
as suffering alongside their people,
as the symbol that holds the nation together.
[explosions]
- As the bombing intensifies, the royal family
visits areas hit by The Blitz.
- When they go and visit these bombed out places,
they are really resented.
People actually don't want them there.
- People end up booing and jeering
at the royal family.
People who have lost everything
don't take kindly to the royal family
trotting out of their car.
They see it as patronizing, as being utterly disconnected
from the real world.
- This reaction suggests that the monarchy does not
have the support of the British people,
and at a time of war,
where unity is absolutely essential,
this is really worrying.
- For the monarchy to survive, it has to be useful.
If they don't succeed to be of service,
it may lead to conversation about,
"Maybe we don't need a king, after all."
- On the 13th of September, 1940,
the King and Queen are at home in Buckingham Palace,
in the drawing room.
[sirens wailing]
- All of a sudden, the King and Queen
hear the sound that all Londoners
have come to dread--
the air raid siren.
- They hear the whir, whir, whir
of the German plane, and it's coming for them.
[explosions]
- A bomb fell only a few feet from the palace building,
close to the King's sitting room.
- A member of staff was killed.
It was a very, very severe bombing.
They realized that they were being targeted.
- And so it is, that Their Majesties
are walking among the debris in the garden,
just like other families in 100 homes today.
- The air raid on Buckingham Palace
is absolutely terrifying
for the King and for the Queen.
But it has a great impact on their public image.
It bolsters their symbolic appeal
as Londoners who are resolute.
- Buckingham Palace is bombed several times
and the safety of the King and Queen
is a real issue,
and there is quite a lot of pressure
for them to leave London.
And they absolutely refuse.
- Truly, this is a war of all the people.
We're all in it.
- The next time the King and Queen
go and visit The Blitz damage,
far from being booed and jeered.
This time, they get applauded.
[cheers and applause]
They have become the symbol of Keep Calm and Carry On.
- The royal family do not have any political power,
but Churchill realizes they can play
a really important part in boosting morale.
- So, it's not just the King and Queen
who are involved in the war effort.
Princess Elizabeth is enlisted as well,
and she makes broadcast.
She speaks on behalf of herself,
and her sister, Margaret Rose.
- Princess Elizabeth is not a natural speaker.
And age 14,
she has to address the world, really.
So it's a big pressure on her shoulders.
- And when peace comes, remember
it will be for us, the children of today,
to make the world of tomorrow
a better and happier place.
- It was an absolutely, sort of, magical moment.
Everybody was moved to tears by these two children
assisting their parents, really, in the war effort.
- We are both going to say goodnight to you.
Come on, Margaret.
- Goodnight, children.
- Goodnight, and good luck to you all.
- The war was very terrifying, and the idea of having
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose there
was really, really comforting.
- But King George still has a problem to contend with...
His exiled brother, Edward.
- At this point, Edward is still a liability,
and the government is increasingly concerned
about some of the company he's been keeping,
including people with pro-Nazi sympathies.
And all of this was undermining George.
- Churchill exercises his authority as prime minister,
effectively to shuffle him off
to the Bahamas as governor,
where it's hope that the Duke of Windsor
can do very little harm.
- Churchill thought in sending him a long, long way
from Western Europe, he can stay out of trouble.
- With Edward and Wallis over 4,000 miles away,
King George and Queen Elizabeth
can focus on boosting national confidence,
and driving the war effort.
- They traveled something like 50,000 miles in the course
of the war, around the United Kingdom,
visiting troops,
visiting hospitals, visiting factories.
They are everywhere.
- She is this effective, wartime queen.
She is sympathetic.
She is there meeting the people.
It is said that Hitler calls Queen Elizabeth
the most dangerous woman in Europe,
because he fears her massive effect on public morale.
[bell rings]
- Advance, Britannia.
Long live the cause of freedom.
God save the King.
[cheers and applause]
[triumphant music]
- After six long years of war,
Hitler is defeated.
When victory in Europe is declared,
the royal family and Winston Churchill
appear on the palace balcony
to celebrate with the crowds.
- My grandfather's admiration and respect
for the crown doing its duty
in a country under great pressure
was probably the most important thing in his entire life.
[cheers and applause]
- It was just completely mad. It was joyous.
And everybody was singing and dancing.
♪ ♪
- George broadcasts a victory speech
to the nation that evening,
that my grandfather listened to.
- At this hour,
when the dreadful shadow of war
has passed far from our...
hearths and homes...
- My grandfather made some observations in his diary that
the King sounded weary and tired.
- We may at last make one pause,
for thanksgiving.
- The war comes at a huge, personal cost for George VI.
And, to an extent, he's a broken man
who's not in the best of health.
- The shadow of war may have lifted,
but within George's own family,
peace will soon be disrupted
by a new man in the life of his eldest daughter.
- The Second World War has been over for a year,
and at Balmoral Castle in Scotland,
the 20-year-old Princess Elizabeth
is deep in conversation with Prince Philip of Greece.
- Well, of course, he was so good looking.
I mean, we were all in love with him.
- Prince Philip of Greece is a direct descendant
of Queen Victoria,
just as Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain
is also a direct descendant of Queen Victoria.
And this makes them third cousins.
- Prince Philip was the fifth child
of Prince Andrew of Greece.
He had four much older sisters.
And within a year and a bit
of his life starting,
the royal family
was overthrown in Greece.
There was a military coup,
and the family had to flee.
- He comes from a very broken home.
His father has a mistress in Monte Carlo.
His mother's been shut up
for her mental health problems.
He never sees her.
And so he's very rootless.
- Somebody described Philip
as a very large dog without a basket.
- When in England, Philip stays with his uncle,
the King's cousin, Lord Louie Mountbatten.
- Prince Philip had a very difficult childhood,
absent parents.
And so I think my grandfather Mountbatten
really took on that role.
I think he became more than even an uncle.
- He's sort of impressed by what he sees
in the young Prince Philip, and he starts to have
these, sort of, ambitions for him.
- Princess Elizabeth first noticed Philip
seven years earlier,
at the Royal Naval college in Dartmouth.
- In 1939, when Princess Elizabeth
was a little girl of 13,
and Prince Philip was 18
and a naval cadet.
[marching band music]
The King and the Queen, with their two daughters,
came to the college.
They played croquet.
Prince Philip, concentrating on his shot,
and there is little Princess Elizabeth
gazing up at him.
[bright, charming music]
- She was smitten, I'm sure, very, very quickly,
because they did start there,
and never looked back frankly.
It was a big love story.
- The feeling was that it had been Mountbatten
who engineered this.
- Elizabeth and Philip wrote letters to each other
throughout the war,
and Elizabeth had a photograph of Philip beside her bed.
And when the war was over, they began to see each other
really rather frequently.
- And when he asked her to marry him in 1946,
Elizabeth says yes to Philip,
but, of course, she has to ask her father's permission.
- Philip's proposal came as a nasty shock
to the King and the Queen.
- Prince Philip would not have been their first choice.
I mean, he was a sort of foreign prince
and had a lot of German connections.
- After the war, there is a great deal
of anti-German sentiment
in the royal household.
The problem for Philip is that three of his sisters
were married to Nazis,
and therefore, there's a great deal of suspicion
around Philip.
- The King's private secretary
thought that Philip was a rough, crude,
coarse sailor who would probably be unfaithful,
and he didn't trust him an inch.
- The King does consent to the marriage,
but on the condition
that they postpone the announcement of the engagement
until after the royal visit to South Africa.
- The King hopes that a little bit of separation
between Elizabeth and Philip will mean that perhaps
the love will cool a little.
- They go on this tour in 1947
to thank the South African people
for the support given to Britain
during the Second World War.
Princess Elizabeth has never been out
of the country before,
so this is the first opportunity for her
to unfurl her wings,
and she gets a great deal of enjoyment
out of the experience.
- While they're on this trip in South Africa,
on her 21st birthday,
Princess Elizabeth gives a radio broadcast,
and this is a key moment in her life.
- I declare before you all that my whole life,
whether it be long or short,
shall be devoted to your service.
- Princess Elizabeth,
unlike her Uncle Edward,
vows to devote herself
to a lifetime of public duty
when she is crowned queen.
- Now that is a deliberately
anti-abdication speech.
This is for life. "I will not abdicate."
- When she made that vow,
felt it deeply, and meant it,
every word of it,
and has stuck to it throughout her life.
[crowd cheering]
- After Elizabeth returns from South Africa,
she is still adamant
she wants to marry Prince Philip.
[cheering]
- Londoners, who had been waiting
outside the palace for hours,
made their feelings perfectly clear
when the Princess and her fiancé
came out onto the balcony.
[cheering]
- Philip is going to marry into the royal family.
You can't really do that without a handle to your name,
without a title,
and he becomes Duke of Edinburgh.
- She just looked so radiant. Always calm.
And also, so glamorous, you know.
Everybody suddenly, after the war, looked
rather wonderful.
- The royal wedding is a national success--
a day of celebration that brightens hard times.
[cheering]
And yet, the king's health is failing.
That ill health
is gonna have dramatic consequences
for the young Elizabeth.
- It has just been announced from Buckingham Palace
that Her Royal Highness, the Princess Elizabeth,
Duchess of Edinburgh,
was safely delivered of a prince at 9:14 p.m.
- Buckingham Palace, in November 1948--
Prince Charles is born.
Almost exactly a year after the birth,
Prince Philip takes up a post as second-in-command
of destroyer, "Chequers," based in Malta,
and the Princess comes out to join him.
- I think that when they were in Malta together,
it was the only time, really, in their married life
when they've lived like normal people.
[upbeat string music]
- She could go to dances, chat to the other wives,
go swimming, go to the hairdressers.
She felt such freedom. She loved it.
- I think those must have been
the best two years of their lives.
And then, of course, she had to come back to total reality.
Back to England.
- Anxious and sympathetic crowds were at the palace,
waiting for news.
The announcement, that the King was to undergo
an immediate major operation came as a shock to everyone.
- He needed to have an operation
for the removal of one of his lungs.
The King had lung cancer.
[somber music]
The operation itself seems to be successful,
and the King convinces himself that he's getting better.
- Even though George feels he is on the mend,
there is a trip that he has been planning to do.
But he's not up to it,
and he asks Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
to go in his stead.
- But five days after his daughter arrives in Kenya,
at home in Sandringham,
at the age of just 56,
the King dies.
[somber music]
- Princess Elizabeth is already the Queen
the moment her father dies
thousands of miles away at Sandringham.
So they have to get the message to her
before the news is announced on the radio.
And communications, of course, in 1952,
are very, very difficult.
- The palace sends out a coded message
to be communicated to Elizabeth,
but there's a problem.
- The code had to be deciphered,
and nobody had the code book.
- But the palace thinks Elizabeth will be told,
and so the palace tells the world,
but Elizabeth doesn't know.
- Elizabeth's private secretary, Martin Charteris,
was in the local town when he hears
that the King has died.
But at this point it's unconfirmed.
- Princess Elizabeth was in a room
writing to her father at the time,
and there is the radio.
Philip's private secretary went in
and took the radio out of the room.
- The private secretary hears
that the King is actually dead,
and so Prince Philip is told.
- Then Prince Philip has to go
to Princess Elizabeth
and say, "I think we better go take a walk outside."
And in the garden...
he breaks the news that her father has died.
- Elizabeth is only 25.
She's lost a father she adored.
He was her mentor. He was her guide,
and she was utterly devoted to him.
♪ ♪
- He demonstrated to her the meaning of duty.
She never expected she would lose him so soon.
♪ ♪
- One reign had ended.
A reign begins.
With members of Her Majesty's government
all await the Queen's arrival.
- My grandfather, Winston Churchill,
was worried that he didn't know her at all.
There was a generational difference.
He would've thought, "Well, my goodness,
What am I going to talk to her about?"
- And there she was, this very vulnerable young woman,
having to take on what she was going to have to do.
I think we were sort of dumbfounded, really.
I mean, one wasn't expecting that to happen.
- She took on this huge job
immediately on top of being
very, very sad that she'd lost her father.
- The opportunity was given for the people to pay tribute.
Soon, they were passing into the hall
at over 4,000 every hour--
itself a measure of public sorrow and sympathy.
- There is an incredibly striking image
of George's funeral,
of the three queens
with these incredibly, sort of, dramatic black veils.
And it's an image of complete desolation, really.
Total grief.
- I remember them with black veils over their faces.
I know, it's so sad.
And poor Queen Elizabeth-- then the Queen--
very young indeed.
- Goodness knows what was going through her mind.
A wondrous thought, how devastated she must be.
- The Queen is now the head of the royal family.
It is her responsibility.
She has the biggest job in the world,
and everyone is watching to see
whether she can succeed.
- Next on "The Windsors"...
- Philip and Elizabeth are a golden couple,
but behind the scenes, he's restless.
- There are rumors that there might be cracks
in the Queen's marriage.
- And her sister is actually involved
with a divorced man.
- Where there's a conflict between love and duty,
it is duty that comes first.