All language subtitles for Royal Stories_ Episode 9_ Spare Heirs

May 2015 the world is in chaos France is

now on its highest level of alert

against another terrorist attack the

so-called Islamic state is waging war in

Britain the Prime Minister is fighting

to stay in power don't you ever dare

lecture us about how to help the men in

our country an arroyo event is capturing

the headlines

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Prince William and Kate Middleton are

celebrating the birth of their second

child Princess Charlotte oh it's

fantastic baby girl well done

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her brother George just two years old

will one day like his father be king but

Charlotte is almost certain never to be

Queen one of a growing number of the

royal family who are destined to serve

but never inherit they are the spares

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so the new princess will be fourth in

line to the throne and that she doesn't

know yet of course but this little one

already occupies a unique place in

British constitutional history she is

the first female royal heir who cannot

be superseded by a male heir born after

her charlotte is unique in more ways

than one her great-grandmother Queen

Elizabeth is Britain's longest and

oldest serving monarch her grandfather

Prince Charles will one day become King

her father will also become King as will

her brother George but she unless

something tragic happens to all of them

will always be a princess her official

position puts her fourth in line to the

throne but that doesn't mean Charlotte

will be able to live a normal life free

from the burdens of royal duties and

cameras the House of Windsor doesn't

work like that Charlotte like all spare

heirs within what the royal family

called the firm will be groomed from the

moment she toggles to step into the

breach should the unthinkable happen and

there is precedence for this close to

home

when Elizabeth was born she was never

expected to become Queen not only was

she female at a time when male heirs

were given priority over their elder

sisters but also her father wasn't a

direct heir

his brother Edward was spare air

Elisabeth destiny was changed only

because her uncle chose love over duty

and Queen Elizabeth isn't the only one

Kings such as William a second through

to Henry the eighth what also spares

perhaps the most famous and tragic spare

heirs are known as the princes in the

tower edward v of england and richard of

shrewsbury the Duke of York when their

father Edward the fourth died his

brother Richard took his young sons aged

12 and 9 to the Tower of London

for safekeeping they were never seen

again and their uncle became rich of the

third Prince Charles his namesake an

ancestor Charles the first was also a

spare heir who inherited when his older

brother died of typhoid but he made a

hash of it starting a civil war with his

own Parliament and having his head

chopped off in 1649 Multan spares

don't get beheaded but their every move

is now scrutinized and followed by the

media ass Elizabeth's younger sister

Princess Margaret discovered I think

that Princess Margaret did find that it

at times quite frustrating because I'm

not the her saying once you know nobody

ever asked her opinion about anything

she was just told when to turn up and

told what to do Princess Margaret was

tenth in line to the throne when she was

first told to wave to the British people

she and her sister both expected to

remain spare heirs enjoying a childhood

under the radar how wrong they were

nobody thought she would ever be heiress

to the throne her parents were the Duke

and Duchess of York

then suddenly her father became king the

royal family at the coronation and the

11 year old princess was next in line to

become Queen during World War two

Elizabeth as a potential future Queen

was in the forefront of the war effort

while Margaret was filmed as a

fun-loving civilian leading to a view

within royal circles that she was a

spoiled child but the public liked her

and she became popular when she mingled

with the crowds outside Buckingham

Palace as the war in Europe ended

instead of appearing on the famous

balcony with the rest of the Royals bat

popularity grim

as her sister gave birth to children

Margaret was pushed further down the

pecking order

but when Elizabeth became Queen Margaret

found herself the center of attention

despite a royal upbringing she was

unprepared for the social world that was

to follow as the post-war years became

the fifties and then the swinging 60s

Margaret found herself at the heart of

high society and a fashion icon

Princess Margaret retains her place as

an outstanding leader of fashion for the

charm samachar that charm made her the

most photographed woman of her day but

her love life remained largely private

Britain's press was nowhere near as

tabloid as today the wheels came off her

bandwagon when news leaked out that she

was in a close relationship with her

father's former equerry Captain Peter

Townsend enquiries are officers of the

royal household who were supposed to

assist members of the family not date

them Peter Townsend was 16 years

margaret senior with two children from a

previous marriage the romance became as

controversial as the one that had caused

her uncle Edward the eighth to abdicate

Mathers went from bad to worse when

Townsend divorced his wife and asked the

princess to marry him Bond Princess

Margaret centres worldwide interest and

sharing the spotlight is Group Captain

Peter Townsend

the group captain accompanied the late

King and his family on their South

African tour he and the ten very young

princess performing a venture two years

ago he left the royal household and was

posted to Brussels rumor that they had

been long in love seemed confirmed at

this stage it was still asked will they

become engaged millions all over the

world impatiently wonder a female in the

milk business was the only one not

curious margaret accepted and informed

her sister whose consent was required

it was now understood that there could

not be any news until the prime minister

had had audience with her majesty after

her return to London Queen Elizabeth was

in a bind as monarch she could not say

yes without the support of her

government and the Church of England and

they were both saying no even though the

general public supported Margaret behind

the scenes she was facing bitter

opposition her royal family feared a

repeat of the Edward the eighth

controversy on October the 31st 1955

Margaret issued a statement saying she

had decided not to marry Peter Townsend

now she has put her royal duty first

the hearts of all internet in the

Commonwealth are with the young princess

who has chosen not self that country but

Margaret showed no sign of not enjoying

herself as she rejoined the nightlife of

London her close circle of friends

became known as the Margaret sect and

her life became a succession of fast

cars clubs and all-night parties she

also found a new beau Billie Wallace the

son of a government minister but their

planned marriage was cut short when he

was caught having an affair whilst on a

visit to the Bahamas

Margaret eventually fell for one of

Britain's top photographers Antony

armstrong-jones he had taken the

official portraits for the Queen and

Prince Philip's royal tour of Canada in

1957 when they married in Westminster

Abbey it became the first royal wedding

to be broadcast on television

300 million watched worldwide because he

was a commoner and in those days it was

unthinkable that they might have

children without a royal title

armstrong-jones

was made the first Earl of Snowdon a

Margaret became the Countess of Snowdon

even though the wedding captured the

imagination of television viewers it did

not meet with everyone's approval Antony

was after all a photographer without

royal blood

it was Antony's day job as a

photographer that first brought tensions

to the marriage he spent long periods

abroad for his work often with

attractive models margaret expanded her

social set to include showbiz

celebrities she spent time with Rolling

Stone Mick Jagger and comic actor Peter

Sellers who was smitten by the princess

he called ma'am darling by 1973 the

snowden's were separated in orbit name

but Margaret really caused an upset when

she began a relationship with this man

Sir Roger Llewellyn a baronet and TV

gardening expert he was 17 years younger

the son of a former Olympic equestrian

gold medalist and a member of the

British aristocracy the papers dubbed

him Margaret's toy boy as the princess

enjoyed the high life Britain's

politicians criticized him saying she

wasn't worth the fifty five thousand

pounds she received from the public

purse every year

although she remained on good terms with

armstrong-jones

in 1976 they formally separated Margaret

became the first senior member of the

royal family to divorce since Henry the

Apes who ended his marriage to Catherine

of Aragon to Mary Anne Boleyn Margaret

never remarried in her later years her

health declined she had always been a

chain smoker and drank heavily

she died in 2002 at the age of 71 the

princess died here at 6:30 this morning

after suffering a stroke confirmation of

Princess Margaret's death came in a

printed statement posted outside

Buckingham Palace please just read the

notice the power to know nothing went

quite right for it did it

and never portrayed very well with the

price I don't think we always it was bit

cruel to her I think Margaret isn't the

only spare air the press has been cruel

to that's where he's been up to sorry

him that's really here

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ever since he could walk Prince Harry

the youngest and the Princess Diana and

Prince Charles has kept Britain's

tabloids busy as the brother of a future

king he is the ultimate spare air

growing up in the harsh glare of his

parents acrimonious split a divorce and

the tragic death of his mother in Paris

there was a hug for one well-wisher

otherwise it was hard to believe fences

Harry and William were just 12 and 15

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Harry one the nation's heart at his

mother's funeral as the lowliest boy in

Britain

but it wasn't long before he began to

show a rebellious streak

he was caught smoking cannabis and

drinking underage when he was 17 was in

this pub at the 17 year old is said to

have been drinking and smoking cannabis

the serious allegations and one of the

newspapers has actually said that

they're prepared to offer us what they

describes the dossier all I'd like to

see what's in that because if there is

evidence on which we can act we'll do so

Prince Harry wasn't punished by his

father instead Charles discussed Harry's

problem with him and his brother William

before sending him to this

rehabilitation clinic in Peckham South

London where he heard from recovering

heroin addict about the effects of drug

taking that the young Harry continued to

create headlines he got into brawls with

the paparazzi outside London nightclubs

its wild days as a drinker and smoker of

exotic substances might be behind him

but then just a week ago allegations

that he cheated to pass not exam

strenuously denied by Clarence House and

now last night's fisticuffs

we know that Prince Harry is a bit of a

wild card he seems to enjoy the

nightlife and no one's having to go in

for that I mean he seems to like a night

out drinking and dancing with pretty

girls well thank goodness he does but

the reality here is that it's gone

beyond that the reality went even

further when Harry was photographed

wearing a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress

party brother William was there too and

the overall theme was Colonials and

natives all the focus has been on Jewish

hurt and the old veterans before the

Second World War and of course that is

deeply important because this month of

Auschwitz but actually I'm deeply

offended - by the very theme of the

party that both William and Harry went

to get their costumes for what kind of a

theme is Colonials and natives in the

21st 21st century these you know what

kind of message are they giving about

themselves these aristocrats these

aristocrats actually that's the culture

of the British ruling class it is a

colonial culture for us as Africans you

know that's our experience of the

British monarchy I think the difficulty

is just that one thing that you never

quite know if you're going to be called

upon as

to become king or instead have what you

feel being really cynical could say a

relatively pointless life Harry Nix

caused an internet sensation when he

played strip poker in Las Vegas leaving

little to the imagination but in the UK

newspapers were constrained by privacy

laws like the rest of the British media

we can't show you them because to do

that would be a breach of his privacy

even though they're plastered all over

the Internet

and you've probably seen them already

you know it's almost like we're going

back to the days of Edward of mrs.

Simpson when the whole of the world knew

about their affair but it wasn't

reported in the UK despite all this

herring remained one of the most popular

Royals

- helicopter combat tours in Afghanistan

helped they made him a hero

second lieutenant Wales is back in

England a country which he said he

didn't like very much in a recent TV

interview such a sentiment coming from a

member of the royal family would

normally generate deeply unflattering

headlines but not now not in the week of

Harry's tabloid reincarnation as the

hero soldier Prince and the question now

for Prince Harry is whether he can show

the same discipline in the rest of his

life now he's back home as he did during

the time that he was in the front line

on the front buyeth in Afghanistan if he

falls out of a nightclub drunk in two

weeks time a lot of the good that's been

done over the last few days will be

undone again very quickly the good

wasn't undone Harry's next step was to

champion an Olympic style competition

for disabled and wounded servicemen and

women it won him the hearts of the

nation 400 wounded service personnel

from 13 countries are competing in the

games and Harry believes their

determination is a lesson to us all

prosthetics dogs wheelchairs

high-performance cars four-by-fours

tattoos we've got everything here it

could only be the Invictus games

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no blowing from the left thank you

the birth of his nephew Prince George

pushed Harry further down the Royal

Order but it hasn't bothered him it's

fantastic to have another addition to

the family I only hope my brother knows

how expensive my baby sitting charges

are Harry seems content in his new role

as Britain's favorite spare heir he has

his faults but by god he's got his good

points and and you know when I go on

tour with Harriet oh joy because every

day he puts a hundred and ten percent

into it it might be the spare to the

heir but he's made himself very relevant

the same cannot be said for Harry's

uncle Prince Andrew the Duke of York

once second in line to his elder brother

Charles when their mother became Queen

Elizabeth a succession of royal births

pushed him down the inheritance list and

his reputation has suffered

despite being like Prince Harry a real

war hero

in the 80s he flew helicopters in the

Falklands hall and was in the thick of

the action His Royal Highness Prince

Andrew oh I left Tennant who calls

himself simply the driver was punctual

for his briefing and for the first time

we were allowed to film what is to him

simply routine search and surveillance

by the end of the nineties his love of

flying had earned him another nickname

air miles Andy even though he was an

official UK Trade and Investment

Ambassador the life of a working Royal

Prince Andrews Civil List salary is a

quarter of a million pounds none of the

princes trips broke the rules agreed

between the Treasury the Department of

Transport in the royal household

security journey length effective use of

royal time and yes value for money are

considered but a tight schedule the

household argues is reason enough for

flying yet other royals are more

circumspect while the Duke of York never

took a train or even a scheduled flight

for journeys under 2500 pounds the

Princess Royal did so nearly half the

time Prince Edward and his wife a

quarter of the time if it's good enough

for us why didn't it good enough for

members of our royal family certain

individuals in the royal family may need

to be reminded on occasions that we are

spending public money it's not only air

miles that have got the Duke into

trouble his love life has been littered

with controversy too first there was

coup stock an actress from New York

then came Sarah Ferguson better known as

Fergie he married her and they had two

children the princesses Beatrice and

Eugenie

Fergie became a figure of fun ridiculed

for her weight issues and labelled the

Duchess of pork by a satirical TV show

spitting image Media once dubbed me

great fun Fergie she was the breath of

fresh air and then it was just Rand and

then it was fat Fergie which gave way to

fat an appalling Fergie and I'll

they're my favorite and the best one of

all who ever thought it up Ferg you the

Duchess of pork yeah come on

okie saw were supposed to be

entertaining come you forgot up money

who's sorry I am you're right I can

stand up here and I can laugh but boy

did it hurt

Prince Andrew was also hurt by the

tabloid headlines alleging his wife's

extramarital indiscretions the main man

was John Bryan a Texan multi-millionaire

John Bryan the Texas businessman in the

pictures with the Duchess of York were

seeing nothing in public this morning

but in separate legal moves he took out

two court injunctions in an attempt to

suppress their publication Andrew and

Fergie divorced in 1996 but his world

came crashing down again when Fergie was

caught by a journalist from the news of

the world trying to sell access to him

she was asking for half a million pounds

what's a hard up Duchess to do when a

businessman you hardly know offers cash

in return for meeting your ex her former

husband Prince Andrews UK Special

Representative for trade and investment

as such he has access to some of the

wealthiest and most powerful people in

the world that seems to be why his

former wife thought she could sell

access to him Sarah Ferguson told the

undercover reporter she only gets 15

thousand pounds a year from her divorce

settlement

so the guardians of the firm that's

based here must not decide whether to

push her further from the spheres of

royal patronage or whether that runs the

risk of her doing something even more

embarrassing in future Britain's royal

spare heirs have always had more than

their fair share of controversy and no

doubt in the years to come more

skeletons will emerge to further

embarrass those who sit on the House of

Windsor throne

it's incredibly difficult for the

younger sibling to a future moment

because they are in the public eye but

they don't have the protection perhaps

and they don't have the advice and they

don't have the role of king or queen

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