All language subtitles for Upstairs.Downstairs.s01e03.-The.Cuckoo.eng

We'll be a family of three
by the first week of December.

I used to do this with my sister.
Winding wool was her favourite game.

Mosley's going to
break down barriers of class.

Persie, you've embraced an
ideology you do not comprehend.

How do you know
I don't comprehend it?

I will send my sister to bed
when I'm good and ready. Agnes!

I'm relieved to see her
taking charge of something.

I have a secret.

Somebody come to our bedroom!

Lotte will be looked after here
for as long as necessary. That way
this house can start to make amends.

Hallam, Agnes tells me you
intend to name this baby Hector.

If it is a boy, I shall be deeply
hurt if you don't call it Greville.

What if it's a girl?

I should have thought
that was obvious.

What's wrong with my mother's name?

Your mother's name was Ambrosine.

Brenda.

That's my favourite.
I like Biblical names.

I don't think
they're at all exclusive.

You see Biblical names
above pub doors,

and when they're shortened,
they can sound quite common.

What's your Christian name,
Mr Pritchard?

Warwick. After the town
where my parents honeymooned.

It makes me glad
we keep to formal terms.

'Strawberries,
raspberries, lemon tart,
what is the name of your sweetheart?

'Does it begin with A, B, C?
D or E or F or G?

'Does it begin with H or I...'

J, K, L or apple pie?

You're meant to jump in when I say L.

L for Lotte.

Excuse me, madam.

I'm not pointing the finger, but
we're a fondant fancy down again.

Miss Buck has had to be
creative with the cake stand.

It was only one.

And they were both for Lotte.

I was hoping she'd say thank you.

'Have you learned
any new Marlene Dietrich songs?'

Herr von Ribbentrop?

I had hoped you might
sing me Just A Gigolo.

But you're not just a gigolo
now, Herr von Ribbentrop.

You're the German Ambassador.

And I would have thought
that since you've been promoted,

you'd have more to do
in the afternoons than
telephone young ladies for a chat.

I can't lift this, it's too heavy.

Mr Pritchard, you'll have
to swap with her. If I must.

Please note the Georgian cream jug
and sugar nips.

It's only a nanny come
for an interview.

Well, this one's been
with the Greek royal family.

And apparently the
Countess of Oranmore is after her!

I'm assuming no news
on an upstairs maid.

Lady Agnes won't discuss it
till a nanny is engaged.

Well, I didn't come here
to be scrubbing my own turnips.

And which doctor
will be delivering Baby?

Mr Gascoigne.

At home, or in the hospital?

Here, of course.

It seems foolish not to, when
everything is so well appointed.

Your floral arrangements
are certainly a feature.

Oh, these are exceptional.

My sister and I
are being photographed tomorrow.

By Cecil Beaton.

My concern
is purely with the nurseries.

And the kitchen,
which I would like to view.

All uncooked meat
must be moved elsewhere.

And I hope the basement floor
is properly aired.

Baby's napkins need
a ventilated space for drying.

We were planning
to use a laundry service.

In which case, every napkin
must be monogrammed. Oh!

Are there other children
apart from Baby?

This is Lotte, who's staying
with us for the present.

She likes to keep her shoes
here on the bottom stair.

And is Lotte a relative?

I consider her my ward.

She's being looked
after downstairs by our staff.

She has impetigo.

A nasty, dirty illness.

Very similar to ringworm.

'She will have gone straight
round to the Countess of Oranmore.'

She didn't even ask
what kind of pram I'd ordered.

Hallam had impetigo
three times in India.

Twice on his face, and once somewhere
he'd prefer me not to mention.

Miss Buck says they can treat it
with a dab of gentian violet.

No, it's imperative
that Lotte sees a doctor.

And not because of
that petty skin affliction.

I strongly suspect that the
loss of her mother has caused
her some sort of mental blockage.

I don't doubt it.

The child hasn't spoken
since her mother died.

She needs to be
with what family she has left.

Mr Amanjit,
have you made any progress?

I have dispatched
many letters of enquiry.

Sir Hallam furnished me
with a list of German prisons,

and I wrote to them all in the
hope of finding Lotte's father.

The man was jailed
for communist activity.

Which is nothing short
of heroic under Hitler.

Or foolhardy, if you are a Jew.

If we can find any relatives
for that child at all,
I intend to get them out of Germany.

Do you ever wonder how we dare? When
the walls are almost made of glass?

Nobody ever comes out here.
Not at night, at any rate.

You should creep into the house.

Sneak up to my room.

We'd be much more likely
to get caught.

I don't want to get caught.

Don't you think it would be fun

to see my sister's face?

No.

Sir.

Holland. Did you know the King
has set Mrs Simpson up in
a house in Cumberland Terrace?

Yes. As soon as her newest divorce
came through.

Thank God for the English papers
and their honourable silence.

It won't last. It can't.

It will have to burst soon
like a boil.

I want you to look at this.

It's a copy of a letter written to
the King by his private secretary.

Who was advised, discreetly,
by certain government ministers.

Mr Baldwin and the Cabinet are
to meet to discuss action? Yes.

Meanwhile, we're collating
information about Ribbentrop,

and his rumoured liaison
with the Simpson woman.

But there are rumours she turned
tricks in a Peking brothel.

Rumours that she's actually a man!
None of those have put the King off.

Rumours won't.

Ribbentrop is under surveillance.

We need proof. And proof takes time.

Once the papers break,
we're out of time completely.

Poor child was lying
in a heap of papers.

Not even tucked up in an envelope.

Mother doesn't like
to talk about Pamela.

She was bringing her to England
to stay with relatives. She
died of fever on the voyage home.

Agnes.

You said you didn't like
to talk about her.

Well, I'd quite like
to talk about her now.

What sort of fever was it?

Mother didn't say.

I suppose I didn't ask,
although I do remember crying.

I thought I'd have
a sister all my life.

But she was born,
she played with wool.

Always white wool.

And we lost her.

It was such a little life.

The world seems full
of little lives just now.

I never noticed them before,
and all of a sudden
they're everywhere I look.

Lotte makes me feel
something is circling my house.

Tapping on the window,
like a bird's beak, or a branch.

I wish it was
a less disturbing feeling.

You said to wear the marabou bolero!

I know I did, and who am I to judge?

Miss Buck's coming down to
press the Hartnell crepe de Chine.

There's been a contretemps
regarding pastel tones.

I still can't credit
we've got Cecil Beaton upstairs!

What does it look like,
now it's all set up?

You can't fault the man
on detail, Mrs Thack.
He's brought his own pillar.

One of the assistants
has said our make-up is wrong
for a black-and-white photograph.

I'm being sent for liquid powder,
and a Tangee lipstick.

There's no need to risk your
diamonds. Ivy, dry your hands!

We're in a hurry.
I'd sooner go myself.

You're supposed to ring
if you want the car.

Mr Amanjit's on the telephone
talking to Maud's publisher.

Lady Holland's publisher.

Why do you keep
telling me the rules?

Because I'm getting sick
of breaking them.

Don't move a single muscle.

I spy the shadow of an unruly rose.

Mr Beaton uses roses quite a lot.

Does he really?

It used to be branches of blossom,

but he seems to have moved on.

You're very familiar with his style.

I've got several of his
portraits pinned up round my mirror.

I think it helps me
keep my standards up.

Do me a kindness,
and stay just where you are.

No.

Sit on the chaise.

People say

Mr Beaton does a bit afterwards.

That he takes inches off a waist,
and a decade off a jawline.

Do you suppose that's true?
I know it's true.

What people don't perceive
is how much he does beforehand.

It's like my meringues.

A single moment in the mouth,
but they're all night in the oven
with the door pushed to.

Oh. You've rather lovely wrists.

Trouble is,
they've got my hands attached.

It's like I've got someone else's
gloves on. Loose-fitting,
and with a sort of corded back.

I keep wanting to take them off,
cast them aside.

But I'm stuck with them.

Not necessarily.

You're Mr Beaton!

Where did you disappear to?

My room.

I've been applying
Porter's liniment.

I always wondered what it'd be like.

To have a man come home
to you from a public house.

Well, you can carry on wondering.

This isn't your home,
and I haven't come to you.

You're losing your way.

You don't come to meetings. You go
in secret. You don't need the car.

I get the bus.

I've got beliefs.
Unlike you, it would appear.

I've seen the result
of those beliefs.

In this house.

And I have to live with that.

No-one has to do anything, Harry.

No-one has to accept the status quo.
You mean you don't have to.

People like you don't
have any need for politics.
Your world don't need to shift.

Everything's golden,
and nothing touches you.

You've changed your tune.

I've changed.

I'm sorry it's so late.

Nobody is disturbed,
it's delightful to hear your voice.

I was passing by your door,
and I required a cigarette.

You do talk a lot of rot.

Come upstairs.

You know Esmond
Harmsworth, don't you?

Chairman of Associated Newspapers.

Yes, of course.

Ask him to dinner, old chap.

And ask me too.

Help me lever one more week
of silence from the press.

There are still tactics we can use.

Things we can do to keep
my brother on the throne.

Do you seriously believe he may...

renounce it?

The word is "abdicate".

The first time I heard it said,
it was as though an axe had
been brought out of an armoury.

Every syllable
has an edge like steel.

As my mother said, it's the sort
of thing that happens in Romania.

You really are out of
cigarettes, aren't you?

There's been so much talk.

Quite as if
we're an ordinary family.

Struggling with a
conventional black sheep.

Except ordinary
families don't talk...

much.

I suppose not.

Hallam, Eden is aware that
this dinner has been proposed.

Will you do it? I don't want you
to feel that it's some sort of duty.

But my brother has a duty.

And we need more time.

Why can't the Duchess of
Kent give a bloody dinner?

She is rather heavily expectant.

He begged me, Agnes.

When the Kents entertain,
it's the Duke who chooses
all the food and wine!

Her Royal Highness doesn't
have to lift a finger!

Why can't Agnes organise the menu?

I thought all London was in
thrall to her Dixie Chicken Wings.

Mother, Eden needs me to do this.

The Duke of Kent
has begged me to do this.

And if it goes the wrong
way, we could end up with
Mrs Simpson as our Queen!

Well, I'll put off my publisher,
and come to dinner as a guest.

But I am busy with revisions.

You'll have to speak to
Mrs Thackeray yourself.

I had to serve toast
to the Duke of Kent last night.

All the raised game pie was gone.

It was Lotte.

She likes a bedtime snack.

I never noticed any
gravy round her mouth.

It's from the university
where Rachel used to teach.

My German is rudimentary,
but it says...

they have no other address
for Frau Rachel Perlmutter,

and are aware of no other relations.

Snap!

Lotte, you're meant to say snap.

Meanwhile, I have found no trace of

Lotte's father.
I don't know what good he'd be, put
inside for flirting with the Reds.

He should've thought on,
with a wife and child.

Oh! It's my photograph!

What photograph?

"I did a bit afterwards.
With pleasure, Cecil Beaton".

I could be aristocracy.

Have you seen my hands?

And then, I suppose, a soup.

What about Consomme a la Christina?

It has a chestnut garnish,
nice for the time of year.

Very well.

Do we do the fish next?

Erm...

Cod. En fricasse a la suede.

Is that...swede?

It means Swedish.

It's potato,
piped in ornamental crescents.

What do you

want for your meat?

Well, everybody likes a steak.

This isn't a formal menu.

This is just brown dinner!

Brown soup, brown fish, brown meat.

And a pudding au chocolat to finish.

If you'd read it properly, you'd see
Sir Hallam wants to finish with a
savoury. We settled on marrow bones.

Marrow bones are what
one gives an ailing dog!

We'll have a pimento croustade
for the savoury.

Pheasant for the main course.

And the dessert simply must
introduce a note of colour.

Petits Puddings Alexandra
would be nice. Yes.

And perhaps a pistachio Bavarois.

He nodded and he smiled.

I referred to my meringues
so as to illustrate a point.

I'll be referring to your meringues
in a letter of dismissal if I have
to unpick a mess like that again!

I'm sorry, Miss Buck, but Sir
Hallam sent for me.

I'm sorry, Mrs Thackeray,
but you've forgotten your place.

Oh, Miss Buck! Miss Buck!
Those are very harsh words!

It started with that photograph.

It gave her a taste of what
it's like to ape her betters.

Please, you're just
twisting the knife!

You're the one aping your betters.

Making a god of your
cast-off silver teapot.

That teapot is testament to the fact
that I gave the Bellamy family

40 years of impeccable service!

It was a throw-out and you know it.

Either you got it or the dustbin.

I am your direct superior
and I will not have this insolence.

This photograph has turned your head.

I won't have the junior
servants exposed to it.

Consider it confiscated.

Mr Pritchard, would you
tell Miss Buck I'll be
repairing to my kitchen?

I'll pass on the grocery order
in due course.

I'm disappointed, Lady Holland.
I had hoped to meet your
famous monkey.

Solomon? Sadly, Mr Harmsworth,
formal dining bores him.

And you know, he doesn't do tricks,
unlike a certain
favourite of the King.

I understand His Majesty
is currently in Wales.

Where he was met by an
arch of unlit Davy lamps,
held aloft by jobless miners.

You read the Daily Mail.
The King's remarks on unemployment
played quite splendidly, I thought.

A very good headline.
"Something must be done".

I never heard a comment
so doomed to reverberate.

Something must be done about what?

Is he referring to the miners
or his own parlous position?

Mother...

Mr Harmsworth, may
we discuss the discretion of the
press with regards to Mrs Simpson?

The topic hasn't been mentioned and
we're almost finished
with the pheasant.

I don't know what's under discussion
in the dining room but every time we

knock, the silence is so thick
you could stuff a cushion with it.

Ivy, you can carry up the Bavarois!

Out of Borstal then, Johnny?

Yes, Mr Pritchard.

I've had my eye on you, Miss
Morris, and I'm not having this.

Dishing out cold food to vagrants.

You can dish out hot food.

What was it like

in Borstal then? No worse than here.
Up at dawn, meals on the dot.

Mind your Ps and Qs.

Where do you go to now? I dunno.

Back home to your village?

To the pit?

I've been released into the wild.

Like a bird.

Parliament has made it plain.

The King must renounce Mrs Simpson
or the throne.

Mrs Simpson has assured me
that she understands entirely.

You've been in
conversation with her?

She's invited me to luncheon.

To discuss the likely
public response to her unveiling.

In one of your papers?

In all of my papers.

Mrs Simpson cares, Sir.

And quite rightly.

She loves the King

and he insists that they must marry.

But she has no wish to become Queen.

Then someone must suggest
to her a morganatic marriage.

He stays on the throne and she takes
one of his less enthralling titles.

She might find "Duchess
of Lancaster" acceptable.

Yes.

One imagines she'd be
satisfied on almost every level.

She'd be spared the consort's
crown but still have a coronet to
appease her magpie mind.

Would the King agree to
a morganatic marriage?

It would be a compromise of
course and compromise has
never been his strong suit.

But I don't doubt
Mrs Simpson would consider it.

I suggest you put it
to her, Mr Harmsworth.

During our luncheon?

She was spawned by a republic.

Explaining the finer points
would take at least a week.

And you wouldn't want to leak
the story in the meantime.

After all,

you are her confidant.

Here's five
bob to help you on your way.

Mr Pritchard says they
don't charge at that hostel.

Use it

for your bus fare. Dining room.

I'll leave you to it.

I'm not happy about this at all.

There's still been absolutely
nothing in the papers.

Largely thanks to Mother.

You can always trust her judgement.

Are you going to ask me
what Mr Gascoigne said?

What did he say?

That it looks like a Christmas baby.

I've got weeks more of this to go.

He says my age is more of a
hindrance than a help and he's going
to put me to sleep and use forceps.

Is that not good?
When he left, he patted my hand.

Have you any idea how terrifying
it is when an obstetrician
pats your hand?

Next week, his nurse is coming.

And she's going to
medicalise the bedroom.

Whatever's going on?

No-one will hurt you.
I'm sorry, Sir! She sleeps with me
but I never heard her wake!

Has she done this before? Often.

Though she doesn't come down to
this floor in the general way, Sir.

She's made a puddle on the carpet!

I'm not sure I can bear this.
We're bearing it.

That is enough!

Ivy, show Sir Hallam where you sleep.

He'll carry Lotte back upstairs.

Be very careful or
you'll disturb her further.

Come on, good girl.

I simply want to help the child.

I thought she could go to
boarding school and live
here in the holidays.

But now I'm not convinced
that that is possible.

Lotte needs specialist medical care.

If she cannot speak,
she cannot have a future.

Please allow me to
consult the proper doctors.

I'm sorry, Mother.

I took Lotte on, I should be the
one who resolves the situation.

Hallam, Whitehall needs you
and Agnes is preoccupied.

I could start by arranging
for her throat to be examined.

What did you give
her salt water for?

I only wanted her to gargle!

Salt water's good if
you've got a poorly throat!

Ivy's a very bad girl, Lotte!

If I was Miss Buck, I'd
make sure she was disciplined.

You come in my kitchen. I'll make
you a drink to take the taste away.

I bet Lady Holland's going
to put her in an orphanage!

Lotte has no family, Ivy.

She's got us! She bunks in with me
and she don't eat hardly nothing!

She sleeps in my bed and
she eats hardly anything.

I don't care what English
you say it in, Mr Pritchard.

Queen's English or the human kind.

But I don't want her going
nowhere like the Cottage Homes!

And you wouldn't neither if you'd
been put in one when you was born!

I was born in a
thousand-year-old castle.

Once upon a time,
a warlord earned it.

Or fought for it.
Drew blood from an enemy and won.

But after that, not a thing

was ever altered.
It's like a carcass.

You can smell it going bad.

You're talking like a socialist.

I've looked into socialism.

"From each according
to their ability.

To each according to their needs"?

I think it will lead
to a ghastly imbalance.

I'm not a socialist,
Herr Ribbentrop.

I wish you would call me Joachim.

I'm a national socialist, Joachim.

Mosley thinks the world of you.

Mosley's had his day.

No seat in Parliament.

Since Cable Street, he's practically
been outlawed.

He isn't devoid of friends.

He is in London.

And in London, that's the
only thing that counts.

Tell me about Germany.

We did our utmost, Sir.

The morganatic marriage
notion bought some time

and MI5 did uncover secret trysts
between Mrs Simpson
and a used car salesman.

Not Ribbentrop?

No. It was deemed a private matter.

The King will not be told.

Was there nothing at
all on our German friend?

There was plenty on
our German friend.

You'll be seeing the
documents later on today.

He hasn't abdicated yet!

It's all conjecture,
and vulgarised at that.

I don't know why people
are getting so distraught!

People feel
personally involved, Mr Pritchard.

And they aren't,
and they never will be.

I've put
canapes in that woman's mouth!

If that's not personal
involvement, I don't know what is!

Anyone who isn't
crying hasn't got a heart!

- Miss Buck is blinking tears back.
- That's enough.

I told you to unplug that
wireless and carry it upstairs.

The family's set has
broken altogether.

Take Lotte downstairs and
try to help her settle.
I shan't require you for a while.

Very good, Madam.

It's as I thought. The loss of
her voice is entirely in her mind.

There must be other
doctors who can help her.

Yes, dear.
They're called psychiatrists.

Is it that bad, do you suppose?

We must believe it's that bad
or she won't get any better.

Maud, I don't know what to do.

Keep the child entertained.

Give her an ordinary day.

I'll make all the
necessary arrangements.

Honey.

Honey.

Say honey!

If not for your own sake,
say it for your mother's.

When I was a girl, I
adored doing jigsaws.

I was always in
charge of the blue bits.

My mother used to say,
"that's Agnes's job.

Agnes is in charge of sky".

My mother died, Lotte.

She died when my
little sister was born.

That's me, kid.

I was older than you but it
was still unbearable.

I kept thinking, "I mustn't cry,
I mustn't howl, I must be brave".

There always seemed to be
so many people watching.

And in the end, I'd have to run
away into the woods and scream and

scream, without
using any words at all.

Because there's nothing one can say

when one's mother dies.

That really is quite splendid.

Such a lovely lot of blue.

For pity's sake, Agnes!

Will you spare the child?

And spare yourself.

Lotte and I will be leaving at three.

Spargo will drive us as
far as the branch line.

Please, Madam.

Permit me to accompany you.

No. There's enough of the
circus about today's proceedings.

If it is not the crowds outside the
palace weeping for the King, it's the

wailing and grizzling all
over the house for Lotte.

- We are concerned about her.
- So am I.

Very seriously concerned.

But I've arranged for the
child to have treatment.

I do hope you'll trust
me to do my best for her.

Lady Holland,

will she ever come back to us?

If she doesn't recover,
she can't come back.

Your name is Carlotte
Marganit Perlmutter.

You were born in Frankfurt in 1929.

You are a Jewess.

Your father is called
Avram Perlmutter.

In August 1936,
he was known to be alive.

After your mother's death on 4th
October 1936, you were removed to 165
Eaton Place, Belgravia.

We ought to give her this.

What would a child
want with a woman's nightdress?

When I started wearing it,
it used to smell like Rachel.

It don't smell like anything now,

which
probably means it smells like me.

You were cared for by the staff.

They remembered your mother.

And they loved you.

It's all in there.
Every telephone call.

Every visit to your home. You may
peruse the records at your leisure.

Joachim von Ribbentrop has
never been in my home! Really?

He turned up, inopportunely, at a
cocktail party. You were there, Sir.

I wasn't there last Friday night.
He was. Arriving at half past
midnight and leaving at 3am!

Who was he visiting, if not you?

Who was he telephoning, if not you?!

I shall find out. We already have.

It's all in here.

It's Lady Persephone.

Your wife's sister.

I suggest you go home and
put your house in order.

Where is Lady Persie?

She has a dinner engagement, Sir.

We were told not to wait up.

It's bad enough you knew nothing
of your sister's movements but to

relinquish all control of
a small child in our care.

I've had other preoccupations,
just like you!

Where was Lotte taken?

To a reputable clinic.
Under the care of a psychiatrist.

Since when did my mother know
anything about psychiatrists?

She said she had connections
through her charitable causes!

She took charge most efficiently.

Said it was best to act
at once and without fuss.

I can't believe you
didn't ask more questions!

That you allowed her
to run the entire show!

She's running everything else!

And as you said,
you can always trust her judgement.

Lady Holland made me leave
them with the branch line, Sir.

You left my mother and a vulnerable
child at a railway station?

She insisted, Sir.

And with respect, you know what
Lady Holland's like when she insists.

I can't accept that you have no
knowledge of their whereabouts.

She made calls when I
was not in the room.

She has always made
calls when I am not in the room.

Even I am not
permitted to know everything.

Mother!

You acted without my permission!

I acted in everyone's best interest.

I shouldn't have to have
your permission to do that.

I want any address relating
to Berkshire, whether it
sounds like a clinic or not.

And any surname prefaced
with the word "doctor".

I respect her privacy.

I am her secretary. Not a relative.

She is refusing to talk to us.

Go through them.

Go through them all. Threaten me.

You will have to threaten me
or I cannot do it.

I'll do more than threaten you.

I'll threaten her.

I'm going to find that
child and she won't stop me.

Good morning. I'm sorry, we don't
usually have visitors so early.

I came to see a girl who was
brought here by my mother.

Oh, Sir Hallam!

How nice!

She had breakfast on
a tray this morning.

You need room nine at
the top of the stairs.

Heathcote Manor.
Nurse Jackson speaking.

Pamela?

I think I'm your brother, Pamela.

I know you are.

Sir Hallam!
There's been some confusion!

No.

There's been no confusion at all.

Mother! Mother!
You will come out and speak to me.

Damn you!

Leave her be, Sir.

Agnes told me.

Is she still upset?

Obviously.

Although she's mainly
moaning about her back.

I said to her, "Cheer up, Sis.

All the best families have
a monster in the attic".

The monster isn't Pamela, Persie.

It's you. I'm hardly in the
attic now Eden's done his stuff.

And soon I won't be
in your house at all.

Where are you going?

The King's about to speak to
the Empire on the wireless.

I shall listen with friends
at the German Embassy.

And after that,
I'm leaving for Berlin.

Give this

to Agnes. She might like it
if she has a little girl.

Just those two suitcases.

Do we have anything to say

to one another?

I don't know what you mean,
Lady Persephone.

I didn't think we did.

Do hurry up.

I'm missing all the fun.

This is London.

London calling the Empire,

at home and overseas.

This is Windsor Castle.
His Royal Highness, Prince Edward.

Come in.

May we, Sir?

At long last

I am able to say a
few words of my own.

I have never wanted to

withhold anything

but until now,

it has not been
constitutionally possible

for me to speak.

You all know the

reasons which have impelled
me to renounce the throne

But I want you to understand
that in making up my mind,

I did not forget

the country

or the Empire,

which as Prince of Wales,

and lately as King,

I have for 25 years tried to serve.

Why did you come? I need
someone to send for Mr Gascoigne!

I think it's far too
late for Mr Gascoigne.

Besides, he's probably
listening to history being made.

Brace yourself against
the bath, my dear.

Draw your knees right up.

There's no need to look. It's not a
sight that you'll care to recollect.

I have found it impossible to carry
the heavy burden of responsibility

and to discharge my duties
as King as I would wish to do,

without the help and support

of the woman I love.

Don't leave me!

Dear, I must fetch help.

Might I be of any assistance?

Oh yes, Pritchard, you may.

Ah.

During the War,
I was on the ambulances.

Blood panics most people.

When I see it, I calm down.

All will be well. Mother nature
knows what she's about and so do I.

If you would be so
kind, your ladyship.

Oh, Prichard.

Events are moving very fast.
I imagine you'll need implements.

Master bedroom.
Bring the whole trolley.

Could you just blow, your ladyship?
Blow and blow again as if you're
putting out a lot of candles.

Keep bearing down.

Splendid! Splendid.

You're almost at the finish.

You have a little boy,
your ladyship.

Persie looked just like him
the day that she was born.

I vowed I'd take
care of her forever.

Persie will have to
take care of herself.

I never knew a day so
full of unimaginable things.

I imagined this.

Seven pounds, three ounces!

And they're calling him
Hector Greville Holland.

It is very dignified.

Not Warwick after you, then?

I reckon he's in for
a Christmas bonus!

It wasn't a complex delivery.

A passing policeman
would've obliged for a cigar.

What's Johnny doing here?

I shall be asking Sir Hallam
for a favour in due course.

My brother's gone, Hal.

He left on a destroyer.

It's finished.

It's finished and I... I don't know

where to start.

Start what, old chap?

Forgiving him.

You can't forgive him.

I have no choice

because the love doesn't stop.

And where there's no forgiveness,
love is just...

it's unbearable.

'It was what people did.'

It was what I did with you.

Children were sent to
England so that they didn't die.

In every bungalow one went to, every
single British home, there was always
a photograph in pride of place.

"Yes", they would say, "Those are the
children away at boarding school".

It was one's badge of honour.

A definite sign that
duty had been done.

You were always so
terribly easy to be proud of.

We thought we'd be proud
of your baby sister too.

It dawns gradually,

the knowledge that a
child is not like others.

It took time to accept
that she must be put away.

Mother.

Did you lie to Father too?

There was no need.

We always did the
biggest things together.

Why did you tell me she had died?

Were you afraid I
would not love her?

No.

I knew that you did.

And that sort of
devotion is an agony.

I'm your mother too.

I felt you should be spared it.

I suppose he seems
a respectable sort.

And at least he's decided
to be called King George.

Morning room and drawing
room fires both stoked.

I took what was left
to Mr Pritchard's grate.

It'll do you
to keep on his right side.

Shall we treat ourselves

and get my silver pot out?

I thought you'd got rid of it.

Hid it.

From you.

I'm not going to
be foolish about it.

Go on. Put it on the mantelpiece.

Funny things, names.

The way we let them gather dust.

I never liked the one my
mother picked for me

but I miss it now.

It's Clarice, isn't it? Yes.

And I'm Rose.

Pamela.

Do you know what that is, Lotte?

It's a new school uniform.

You do look grown-up.

You'll still be coming here
in the holidays, of course.

What do you say to Sir Hallam?
Thank you!

If you would care to step onto
the landing, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, Miss Buck!

Is everything as you would wish? Yes.

Yes, it is.

Well done, Miss Buck.