1 00:00:08,357 --> 00:00:12,986 [child] Gina! Gina! Ella! 2 00:00:13,070 --> 00:00:16,407 - Gina! Carina! Ella! - Gina! Carina! Ella! 3 00:00:16,490 --> 00:00:18,200 [dog barks] 4 00:00:18,283 --> 00:00:20,369 Gina! Carina! 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,920 Gina! Carina! 6 00:00:30,003 --> 00:00:33,048 Ella! Ella! 7 00:00:47,771 --> 00:00:49,857 [phone ringing] 8 00:00:57,906 --> 00:01:00,033 [man] Hello, Winston, this is Operations. 9 00:01:00,117 --> 00:01:02,578 - Are you hearing me? - Hear you clearly. 10 00:01:02,661 --> 00:01:04,288 Stand by for testing. 11 00:01:05,164 --> 00:01:07,958 - Testing now. - Testing five, four, three, two, one. 12 00:01:10,669 --> 00:01:13,172 [dogs bark] 13 00:01:22,139 --> 00:01:23,223 Mummy. 14 00:01:24,057 --> 00:01:27,603 I've come to make a final representation. 15 00:01:27,686 --> 00:01:30,647 And to beseech you not to do this. 16 00:01:30,731 --> 00:01:33,859 I wish to address my people. It's my right. 17 00:01:33,942 --> 00:01:36,904 You have forfeited that right. 18 00:01:36,987 --> 00:01:38,572 There are things I wish to say. 19 00:01:38,655 --> 00:01:41,950 In which capacity? You're no longer their king. 20 00:01:42,034 --> 00:01:43,452 As a private individual. 21 00:01:43,535 --> 00:01:46,205 Oh, no one wants to hear from a private individual. 22 00:01:46,288 --> 00:01:48,957 Well, I beg to differ. The newspapers are for me. 23 00:01:49,041 --> 00:01:52,252 The best thing for everyone would be if you said your goodbyes 24 00:01:52,336 --> 00:01:56,632 quietly, privately, and disappeared into the night. 25 00:01:56,715 --> 00:01:58,592 Preferably never to return. 26 00:02:00,844 --> 00:02:03,555 - I didn't say that. - But you thought it. 27 00:02:05,557 --> 00:02:06,725 Admit it. 28 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,656 Elizabeth! Margaret! Come inside! 29 00:02:20,739 --> 00:02:22,991 [man on radio] This is Windsor Castle. 30 00:02:23,075 --> 00:02:27,371 There follows an important announcement from his Royal Highness, 31 00:02:27,454 --> 00:02:28,789 the Duke of Windsor. 32 00:02:28,872 --> 00:02:33,961 A few hours ago, I discharged my last duty 33 00:02:34,044 --> 00:02:37,422 as King and Emperor. 34 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:42,678 And, now that I have been succeeded by my brother, 35 00:02:43,804 --> 00:02:45,514 the Duke of York, 36 00:02:46,848 --> 00:02:51,270 my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him. 37 00:02:53,814 --> 00:02:55,899 This I do with all my heart. 38 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:58,485 - [girls laugh] - Come along, girls. 39 00:02:58,569 --> 00:03:03,198 You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. 40 00:03:03,282 --> 00:03:05,659 - I have found it impossible to carry... - Girls. Girls! 41 00:03:05,742 --> 00:03:11,665 ...the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King, 42 00:03:11,748 --> 00:03:15,794 as I would wish to do, 43 00:03:15,877 --> 00:03:21,592 without the help and support of the woman I love. 44 00:03:21,675 --> 00:03:25,596 This decision has been made less difficult to me by the sure knowledge 45 00:03:25,679 --> 00:03:29,725 that my brother has one matchless blessing... 46 00:03:29,808 --> 00:03:33,729 - Come in. Both of you. - ...enjoyed by so many of you, 47 00:03:33,812 --> 00:03:35,897 and not bestowed on me. 48 00:03:37,149 --> 00:03:41,528 A happy home, with his wife and children. 49 00:03:43,322 --> 00:03:45,282 And now we all have a new king. 50 00:03:47,242 --> 00:03:53,790 I wish him, and you, his people, happiness and prosperity... 51 00:03:56,460 --> 00:03:58,170 with all my heart. 52 00:03:59,379 --> 00:04:01,048 God bless you all. 53 00:04:02,382 --> 00:04:04,843 God save the King. 54 00:05:30,137 --> 00:05:32,556 [birds chirping outside] 55 00:06:19,519 --> 00:06:22,314 [vacuum cleaner running] 56 00:06:22,397 --> 00:06:24,441 All right, Charles, all right. Stop it. 57 00:06:29,070 --> 00:06:32,157 Well... good luck, darling. 58 00:06:33,241 --> 00:06:34,451 Thank you. 59 00:06:36,912 --> 00:06:40,373 And thank you for all this. It looks splendid. 60 00:06:41,625 --> 00:06:44,377 This is the first proper home I've ever had. 61 00:07:18,578 --> 00:07:20,163 [cameras click] 62 00:08:03,748 --> 00:08:05,584 - Tommy. - Good morning, Your Majesty. 63 00:08:05,667 --> 00:08:07,919 - You tracked me down. - Slightly, ma'am. 64 00:08:08,003 --> 00:08:09,713 If Your Majesty has no objection, 65 00:08:09,796 --> 00:08:11,798 I thought we might attend to the Cabinet papers 66 00:08:11,882 --> 00:08:16,094 after your meeting with Their Majesties. Your schedule allows for 20 minutes. 67 00:08:16,177 --> 00:08:17,846 - For the papers? - No, ma'am, 68 00:08:17,929 --> 00:08:21,558 20 minutes with Their Majesties, then directly on to the paperwork. 69 00:08:21,641 --> 00:08:23,059 And then? 70 00:08:24,686 --> 00:08:27,772 Things will become more manageable once everything settles down. 71 00:08:27,856 --> 00:08:28,732 Will it? 72 00:08:28,815 --> 00:08:32,235 And once the Palace is your main residence. 73 00:08:34,362 --> 00:08:38,450 [Norfolk] Our understanding is that he is arriving at Southampton as we speak. 74 00:08:38,533 --> 00:08:40,744 - [Queen Mary] Alone? - We believe so, ma'am. 75 00:08:40,827 --> 00:08:42,954 Hm. That's something. 76 00:08:48,126 --> 00:08:51,628 [Norfolk] Some last minute adjustments to the funeral arrangements. 77 00:08:51,713 --> 00:08:55,342 If you are in agreement, ma'am, we thought that the Duke of Windsor 78 00:08:55,425 --> 00:08:58,595 should join the Dukes of Gloucester, Kent and Edinburgh. 79 00:08:58,677 --> 00:09:02,515 But that'd be the row behind me. Breathing down my neck. 80 00:09:02,599 --> 00:09:05,268 We could, if Her Majesty likes, increase the distance, 81 00:09:05,352 --> 00:09:06,937 put him back a few rows. 82 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:10,732 Any chance that could stretch to being on the steps outside the chapel? 83 00:09:10,815 --> 00:09:13,318 I'm sorry, I know he's your son. 84 00:09:13,401 --> 00:09:17,614 A son who gave up the throne and, effectively, killed my other son. 85 00:09:27,290 --> 00:09:30,418 Why not put him there? Close to the Prime Minister? 86 00:09:31,461 --> 00:09:33,546 - Thank you, ma'am. - Cry Baby. 87 00:09:34,631 --> 00:09:36,758 - What? - It's what he calls Winston. 88 00:09:38,259 --> 00:09:41,429 He and his wife have nasty little nicknames for all of us. 89 00:09:42,931 --> 00:09:45,433 I'll tell you yours, if you ask me nicely. 90 00:09:45,517 --> 00:09:47,143 No, thank you. 91 00:09:49,145 --> 00:09:51,147 Shirley Temple. 92 00:09:55,193 --> 00:09:58,780 - [seagulls squawk] - [people chatter] 93 00:10:00,615 --> 00:10:03,827 [ship horn blaring] 94 00:10:13,586 --> 00:10:14,629 Ready, sir. 95 00:10:26,766 --> 00:10:30,937 [Duke of Windsor] This is indeed a sad arrival in my country. 96 00:10:32,147 --> 00:10:38,194 I have crossed the Atlantic for the funeral of a dear brother, 97 00:10:38,278 --> 00:10:41,740 and to comfort Her Majesty, Queen Mary. 98 00:10:42,699 --> 00:10:47,037 My heart goes out to the widowed Queen Mother 99 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,665 and her two daughters in their grief. 100 00:10:52,208 --> 00:10:53,460 Thank you. 101 00:10:53,543 --> 00:10:57,338 [crowd shouting] 102 00:11:16,775 --> 00:11:19,736 - Down there, look! - Right, that's enough. Look sharp! 103 00:11:56,856 --> 00:11:59,526 His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, Your Majesty. 104 00:12:18,044 --> 00:12:19,629 Dear Mama. 105 00:12:40,775 --> 00:12:41,901 Poor Bertie. 106 00:12:43,695 --> 00:12:44,821 So young. 107 00:12:47,157 --> 00:12:50,910 One can only be thankful for all the years one had him. 108 00:12:53,413 --> 00:12:57,125 So wonderfully thoughtful and caring. 109 00:12:57,208 --> 00:13:00,920 An angel to his mother, wife and children. 110 00:13:02,589 --> 00:13:06,426 I honestly believe he never thought of himself at all. 111 00:13:08,303 --> 00:13:11,890 He really was the perfect son. 112 00:13:15,393 --> 00:13:18,146 I can't imagine how difficult it must be for you. 113 00:13:20,106 --> 00:13:22,984 You've been very much in our thoughts and prayers. 114 00:13:23,067 --> 00:13:24,319 Ours? 115 00:13:25,278 --> 00:13:28,406 You'd be wise not to mention that woman's name for the next few days. 116 00:13:28,489 --> 00:13:31,367 - I mentioned no name. - The implication was enough. 117 00:13:31,451 --> 00:13:33,036 If you say so. 118 00:13:33,119 --> 00:13:36,664 I offer that in the spirit of maternal advice 119 00:13:36,748 --> 00:13:41,419 that you may emerge from this trip with any remaining respect or affection at all. 120 00:13:54,807 --> 00:13:57,852 I had hoped all this might wait. 121 00:13:57,936 --> 00:14:00,438 I'm afraid not, ma'am. 122 00:14:04,359 --> 00:14:05,735 I understand. 123 00:14:07,362 --> 00:14:08,613 Shall we? 124 00:14:25,380 --> 00:14:31,302 Now, the top sheet is simply a summary of all the contents of the box. 125 00:14:31,386 --> 00:14:35,765 And we have in this case, a five power conference first. See... 126 00:14:35,848 --> 00:14:37,809 - That's this one? - Yes. 127 00:14:37,892 --> 00:14:40,561 - So this... - More detail. 128 00:14:40,645 --> 00:14:43,189 - So, we start with this. - Yes, Your Majesty. 129 00:14:43,273 --> 00:14:47,026 [conversation continues indistinctly] 130 00:15:01,708 --> 00:15:04,669 - [Philip] He's here. - He's here! 131 00:15:07,046 --> 00:15:12,010 Don't rush, darling. It'll take him an hour to get to the front door. 132 00:15:12,093 --> 00:15:14,220 And then an hour to get through the bloody thing! 133 00:15:18,391 --> 00:15:20,977 Now, don't forget the two things we discussed. 134 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:23,104 - I won't. - The children keeping my surname. 135 00:15:23,187 --> 00:15:25,273 - Yes. - And us staying here in Clarence House, 136 00:15:25,356 --> 00:15:27,900 not moving to Buckingham Palace. Both very important. 137 00:15:27,984 --> 00:15:29,110 I know. I won't forget. 138 00:15:29,193 --> 00:15:31,112 - And don't be nervous. - I'm not nervous. 139 00:15:31,195 --> 00:15:32,280 You look nervous. 140 00:15:33,448 --> 00:15:34,949 Be firm. Just lay down the law. 141 00:15:35,033 --> 00:15:37,869 I know he's Winston Churchill and all that, but remember who you are. 142 00:15:37,952 --> 00:15:38,870 - You're... - Nobody. 143 00:15:38,953 --> 00:15:40,371 The Queen of England. 144 00:15:47,712 --> 00:15:49,339 [toy horn honks] 145 00:15:56,721 --> 00:15:59,223 [Churchill] Don't let me overrun. 146 00:15:59,307 --> 00:16:01,059 [man] The Prime Minister, Your Majesty. 147 00:16:21,037 --> 00:16:22,288 Your Majesty. 148 00:16:27,293 --> 00:16:31,672 I so looked forward every Tuesday to my audiences with your... 149 00:16:33,466 --> 00:16:34,634 dear papa. 150 00:16:36,594 --> 00:16:39,847 His late Majesty was a hero 151 00:16:41,766 --> 00:16:43,768 to me and to all his people. 152 00:16:44,394 --> 00:16:45,478 Thank you. 153 00:16:49,232 --> 00:16:51,609 Do sit down, Prime Minister. 154 00:16:52,693 --> 00:16:57,073 I've ordered tea. Or something stronger, perhaps. 155 00:16:57,156 --> 00:16:59,617 Oh, dear. Did no one explain? 156 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:06,916 The Sovereign never offers a Prime Minister refreshment. 157 00:17:06,999 --> 00:17:08,960 Nor a chair. 158 00:17:09,043 --> 00:17:11,838 The precedent set by your great-great-grandmother 159 00:17:11,921 --> 00:17:16,426 was to keep us standing like Privy Councillors. 160 00:17:16,509 --> 00:17:20,263 To waste time is a grievous sin. 161 00:17:20,346 --> 00:17:23,516 And, if there is one thing I have learned in 52 years of public service, 162 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:29,647 it is that there is no problem so complex, nor crisis so grave, 163 00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:35,987 that it cannot be satisfactorily resolved within 20 minutes. So... 164 00:17:37,780 --> 00:17:39,615 shall we make a start? 165 00:17:41,701 --> 00:17:43,369 [Philip] She's in with the PM now. 166 00:17:44,036 --> 00:17:46,622 And I made it abundantly clear how important it was 167 00:17:46,706 --> 00:17:49,457 that she and the children take your name. 168 00:17:49,542 --> 00:17:53,671 [Lord Mountbatten] It's your name too. It's the name I gave you. 169 00:17:55,339 --> 00:18:00,595 Having Mountbatten as the name of the Royal house, 170 00:18:00,677 --> 00:18:06,017 having your first-born son, Charles, as the first Mountbatten king... 171 00:18:07,101 --> 00:18:09,896 Well, that would be some achievement, wouldn't it? 172 00:18:10,980 --> 00:18:15,526 Now, I would like to discuss your coronation. 173 00:18:15,610 --> 00:18:16,527 Yes. 174 00:18:16,611 --> 00:18:20,573 I have a proposed date which has been run past Cabinet and approved. 175 00:18:20,656 --> 00:18:25,953 - Summer, I hope. - Indeed. Next year. 176 00:18:26,746 --> 00:18:29,207 Next year? Why the delay? 177 00:18:30,875 --> 00:18:33,503 For your benefit entirely. 178 00:18:33,586 --> 00:18:37,298 A long period between accession and coronation 179 00:18:37,381 --> 00:18:39,884 was of great value to your father. 180 00:18:39,967 --> 00:18:42,637 He had five months. 181 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,599 You're proposing I have 16 before I am crowned. 182 00:18:48,976 --> 00:18:50,061 Yes. 183 00:18:53,648 --> 00:18:57,401 [man] That would take anyone weeks to read... 184 00:18:57,485 --> 00:19:01,781 - Anyway, thanks for the drink. - Thank you, Jock. 185 00:19:01,864 --> 00:19:03,324 - Sir. - Sir. 186 00:19:06,327 --> 00:19:09,330 Foreign office first, let's surprise Anthony. 187 00:19:13,042 --> 00:19:14,835 - [Philip] And? - Nothing. 188 00:19:16,254 --> 00:19:19,382 We discussed the end of rationing of sugar, butter and meat, 189 00:19:19,465 --> 00:19:23,052 the situation in Korea, and the date of my coronation. 190 00:19:23,135 --> 00:19:24,303 I barely got a word in. 191 00:19:24,387 --> 00:19:26,389 Of course not, the man barely draws breath. 192 00:19:26,472 --> 00:19:28,849 - You have to butt in. - You can't! 193 00:19:28,933 --> 00:19:30,893 Not in the private audience. 194 00:19:30,977 --> 00:19:34,230 So, what about the issues I asked you to address? 195 00:19:34,313 --> 00:19:36,732 - I will find the right time. - When? 196 00:19:36,816 --> 00:19:38,693 - Why would he do that? - What? 197 00:19:39,485 --> 00:19:41,404 Why would he want to delay my coronation? 198 00:19:41,487 --> 00:19:45,157 What are you talking about? What... Elizabeth! 199 00:20:00,548 --> 00:20:02,425 [telephone rings in distance] 200 00:20:04,969 --> 00:20:06,596 [doors close] 201 00:20:13,894 --> 00:20:17,565 I realize we've had our differences in the past. 202 00:20:18,649 --> 00:20:20,943 If you'll allow me. 203 00:20:22,653 --> 00:20:27,867 But, for now, let us think only of what we have in common. 204 00:20:29,452 --> 00:20:34,498 You've lost a husband and father, 205 00:20:35,458 --> 00:20:37,126 I a brother. 206 00:20:38,669 --> 00:20:45,968 Let us be united in grief, on equal terms, for someone we all loved. 207 00:20:48,512 --> 00:20:52,099 I'll be here for a few days after the funeral 208 00:20:52,183 --> 00:20:54,185 before I return to New York. 209 00:20:55,436 --> 00:20:59,065 Perhaps we might find time to see one another. 210 00:20:59,148 --> 00:21:01,484 For lunch, or a walk. 211 00:21:04,737 --> 00:21:07,323 Yes. I'd like that very much. 212 00:21:09,992 --> 00:21:11,827 [door opens] 213 00:21:15,539 --> 00:21:17,124 Your Majesties. 214 00:21:17,208 --> 00:21:20,628 - [Queen Mother] We must go, girls. - So soon? 215 00:21:20,711 --> 00:21:23,047 Yes, to Westminster Hall. 216 00:21:23,130 --> 00:21:24,715 To see Papa. 217 00:21:38,979 --> 00:21:42,066 With this family, when you're in, you're never quite sure that you're in. 218 00:21:42,149 --> 00:21:44,902 But when you're out, there's no doubt at all. 219 00:21:44,985 --> 00:21:46,570 You're out. 220 00:21:50,825 --> 00:21:52,868 [sobs] 221 00:21:52,952 --> 00:21:55,329 Why can't you just be civil to him, Mummy? 222 00:21:55,413 --> 00:21:58,290 Let bygones be bygones. 223 00:21:58,374 --> 00:22:02,461 Sixteen years since the abdication, and he was close to Papa. 224 00:22:02,545 --> 00:22:05,131 Because the man is a monster! 225 00:22:05,214 --> 00:22:07,925 The responsibility of becoming king killed your father 226 00:22:08,008 --> 00:22:13,180 and I will never forgive his selfishness and weakness in passing on the burden. 227 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,812 He has done nothing for this family. 228 00:22:20,563 --> 00:22:23,190 And don't be fooled by his obsequiousness. 229 00:22:24,734 --> 00:22:27,945 The only reason he's even civil to us is because he wants to leech off us 230 00:22:28,028 --> 00:22:31,574 with a rich allowance to keep that Jezebel divorcee of his in the manner 231 00:22:31,657 --> 00:22:33,200 to which she's become accustomed. 232 00:22:33,284 --> 00:22:34,994 Well, I've spoken to the lawyers 233 00:22:35,077 --> 00:22:37,997 and we have a little surprise in store for them. 234 00:22:41,083 --> 00:22:43,043 [Duke of Windsor] My dear darling Peaches... 235 00:22:44,503 --> 00:22:46,630 They say hell is an inferno. 236 00:22:47,715 --> 00:22:51,802 What a sunless, frozen hell we both escaped in England. 237 00:22:53,262 --> 00:22:57,808 And what a bunch of ice-veined monsters my family are. 238 00:22:57,892 --> 00:23:00,060 How cold and thin-lipped, 239 00:23:01,395 --> 00:23:03,731 how dumpy and plain. 240 00:23:03,814 --> 00:23:06,317 How joyless and loveless. 241 00:23:07,818 --> 00:23:12,490 The way Cookie treated me looking down at me through her dumpy nose, 242 00:23:12,573 --> 00:23:17,161 it was as much as I could do not to let her have it with both barrels. 243 00:23:17,244 --> 00:23:19,246 And Shirley Temple, who has the rank now 244 00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:23,250 to silence her common mother, sadly, has no mind of her own. 245 00:23:25,628 --> 00:23:29,965 But I remained civil because I am following your advice... 246 00:23:31,926 --> 00:23:36,055 to keep them on side, keep a foot in the door... 247 00:23:37,139 --> 00:23:40,434 and see what we can get out of the wretched circus. 248 00:23:42,812 --> 00:23:48,192 Perhaps even a raise on the allowance, who knows? 249 00:23:48,275 --> 00:23:53,656 It's the only revenge I can think of for the insult of your non-invitation, 250 00:23:54,782 --> 00:23:57,451 to drain their coffers to our benefit. 251 00:23:57,535 --> 00:24:01,831 [mechanical clunking] 252 00:24:06,043 --> 00:24:07,711 Thinking always of you 253 00:24:07,795 --> 00:24:12,591 and counting the minutes until I am back in your arms. 254 00:24:12,675 --> 00:24:14,218 Your loving David. 255 00:24:15,886 --> 00:24:19,306 ...and therefore commit his body to the ground. 256 00:24:20,349 --> 00:24:27,439 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 257 00:24:28,607 --> 00:24:34,029 In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, 258 00:24:34,113 --> 00:24:37,449 through our Lord Jesus Christ. 259 00:24:49,003 --> 00:24:51,380 - [gunshots] - [dogs barking] 260 00:25:12,693 --> 00:25:16,989 - What is that thing? - Oh, I inherited it from my grandfather. 261 00:25:17,072 --> 00:25:20,951 Well, as you know, Kaiser Wilhelm was not blessed with a normal physique. 262 00:25:21,035 --> 00:25:23,454 No, the withered arm. 263 00:25:23,537 --> 00:25:27,249 Ah, but he loved to shoot, so modifications had to be made. 264 00:25:27,333 --> 00:25:29,668 [laughs] 265 00:25:31,545 --> 00:25:35,174 They didn't modify a shotgun, they modified a cannon. 266 00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:38,510 [gunshots continue] 267 00:25:40,471 --> 00:25:42,640 You are a cheat, Hannover. 268 00:25:50,064 --> 00:25:54,944 [Mountbatten] I realize that, beyond these walls, the country mourns, 269 00:25:55,027 --> 00:26:00,491 struggles under a program of austerity and rationing 270 00:26:00,574 --> 00:26:03,327 but, what to do? 271 00:26:03,410 --> 00:26:06,413 It might all appear indulgent 272 00:26:06,497 --> 00:26:11,377 but, in keeping the estate and the local community going, 273 00:26:11,460 --> 00:26:15,381 we are all doing our share tonight for the economy. 274 00:26:15,464 --> 00:26:16,507 [chuckling] 275 00:26:16,590 --> 00:26:19,051 So, let us start with a toast. 276 00:26:24,723 --> 00:26:28,560 - To His late Majesty, the King. - [all] The King. 277 00:26:29,979 --> 00:26:35,943 - And, the Queen that has succeeded him. - [all] The Queen. 278 00:26:36,026 --> 00:26:38,487 And to our generous host. 279 00:26:38,570 --> 00:26:41,281 And the Royal house that is now in his name. 280 00:26:41,365 --> 00:26:44,076 [all] To our host and the Royal house. 281 00:26:44,159 --> 00:26:49,289 - To the Royal house Mountbatten. - [all] To the Royal house Mountbatten. 282 00:26:53,877 --> 00:26:55,587 [airplane overhead] 283 00:26:57,006 --> 00:26:59,967 [Philip] Right, come on, then. You can do it. 284 00:27:00,050 --> 00:27:01,343 Kick it back. 285 00:27:03,846 --> 00:27:05,431 Kick it back, boy. Go on. 286 00:27:07,558 --> 00:27:11,812 - It's not going to bite you. Kick it. - [Parker] Ah, it's a Burnley centre back. 287 00:27:11,895 --> 00:27:13,689 Tell me, do you play football with your boy? 288 00:27:13,772 --> 00:27:17,568 - When I get to see him, yeah. Rugby. - Rugby? Chance'd be a fine thing. 289 00:27:17,651 --> 00:27:20,070 This one doesn't seem to want to do anything but dream. 290 00:27:20,154 --> 00:27:23,824 Ah. Your old man struggling a bit, is he? 291 00:27:23,907 --> 00:27:25,659 Well, come on then. Show him how it's done. 292 00:27:25,743 --> 00:27:29,246 Right. Come on then, Charles. Let's give you something to aim at. 293 00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:33,584 That thing's been buzzing around all morning. 294 00:27:33,667 --> 00:27:35,377 [whispers] Right between his trousers. 295 00:27:36,879 --> 00:27:40,007 Yup. Taking aerial photographs for some magazine. 296 00:27:40,090 --> 00:27:42,217 - Oh, is that right? - Mm-hm. 297 00:27:43,635 --> 00:27:46,388 It was always my dream to join the Air Force. 298 00:27:47,556 --> 00:27:50,476 But Dickie put me in the Navy. 299 00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:52,728 He felt the social connections would be better. 300 00:27:53,896 --> 00:27:57,399 Hm. Judging by where you ended up, I'd say the plan worked. 301 00:27:57,483 --> 00:28:01,653 - Ha. - [whispers] Come on, Charles. Bash it. 302 00:28:01,737 --> 00:28:02,988 [gasps] 303 00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:06,617 Not bloody bad, Charles. Not bloody bad. 304 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:09,495 - No, Daddy, not in the bushes! - In the bushes he goes! 305 00:28:09,578 --> 00:28:11,455 [laughter] 306 00:28:11,538 --> 00:28:14,750 No, Daddy! Not the bushes! 307 00:28:17,294 --> 00:28:20,214 Right, Charlie Boy, here we go. I'm going to teach you... 308 00:28:31,558 --> 00:28:32,559 Come on, then! 309 00:29:00,129 --> 00:29:01,630 [bell dings] 310 00:29:05,134 --> 00:29:06,593 [Duke of Windsor] Oh, it's vile. 311 00:29:06,677 --> 00:29:09,263 Tommy Lascelles comes up to me at the funeral, of all places, 312 00:29:09,346 --> 00:29:14,059 asks me for a word then tells me, to my face, "Do you credit it?" 313 00:29:14,143 --> 00:29:18,147 I come all this way, back to this gaping wound of a country, 314 00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:22,901 forbidden to bring my own wife, to pay respects to my dear, late brother 315 00:29:22,985 --> 00:29:27,239 and they compound an already traumatic and painful trip with this humiliation! 316 00:29:27,322 --> 00:29:30,450 The timing does seem particularly unfortunate. 317 00:29:30,534 --> 00:29:31,994 It's an outrage! 318 00:29:33,203 --> 00:29:37,332 - How much is the allowance? - Ten thousand a year. 319 00:29:37,416 --> 00:29:40,502 The agreement between Bertie and me was that I would give up everything 320 00:29:40,586 --> 00:29:44,631 and go into exile and keep a low profile in return for a pension 321 00:29:44,715 --> 00:29:48,760 that was clearly meant to be for the term of my whole life, not his! 322 00:29:48,844 --> 00:29:52,055 Now he's barely cold and Cookie turns off the bloody tap! 323 00:29:52,139 --> 00:29:55,309 - How dare she? - You don't know that it was her. 324 00:29:55,392 --> 00:29:57,978 - Of course it was her. - And don't call her that. 325 00:29:58,061 --> 00:30:00,856 Why not? She's fat, common, and looks like a cook. 326 00:30:00,939 --> 00:30:03,400 Did they offer any justification? 327 00:30:03,483 --> 00:30:09,489 Oh, that it would appear insensitive for a member of the extended Royal family 328 00:30:09,573 --> 00:30:12,743 to be seen to be rewarded and live in luxury. 329 00:30:12,826 --> 00:30:14,411 Extended Royal family! 330 00:30:14,494 --> 00:30:17,873 I was the most senior member of that family. The King! 331 00:30:17,956 --> 00:30:21,376 Now, we barely make ends meet! Every day is a struggle. 332 00:30:21,460 --> 00:30:25,631 You live in great style from what I've heard. 333 00:30:25,714 --> 00:30:29,426 Perhaps you should take a leaf out of your late brother's book. 334 00:30:29,509 --> 00:30:34,431 - He was frugal, you know. - He was born frugal. In every department. 335 00:30:34,514 --> 00:30:38,477 And that frugality earned him great favour. 336 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,146 And he passed it on to the women in his family. 337 00:30:41,230 --> 00:30:44,066 Who just spent 70,000 renovating Clarence House, 338 00:30:44,149 --> 00:30:47,527 so no lectures, please, about the frugality of the new Queen. 339 00:30:47,611 --> 00:30:50,656 - That was her husband. - What, the foundling? 340 00:30:50,739 --> 00:30:53,075 - Don't call him that. - Why not? 341 00:30:53,158 --> 00:30:56,828 I'd call him by his name, if he had one. 342 00:30:56,912 --> 00:30:58,705 [door opens] 343 00:31:01,583 --> 00:31:05,796 His Royal Highness, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Your Majesty. 344 00:31:05,879 --> 00:31:07,756 - He's here. - What? 345 00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:12,094 He apologizes for the lack of warning, but said it was important. 346 00:31:12,761 --> 00:31:17,391 [sighs] All right. You'd better show him in. 347 00:31:25,315 --> 00:31:26,316 Ah... 348 00:31:27,317 --> 00:31:30,362 [in German] Dear Aunt, forgive the intrusion. 349 00:31:30,445 --> 00:31:32,364 I come directly from Broadlands. 350 00:31:32,447 --> 00:31:34,366 [in German] What were you doing there? 351 00:31:34,449 --> 00:31:37,911 [in English] Please tell me you weren't shooting, one day after the funeral. 352 00:31:37,995 --> 00:31:42,624 - Oh, meine liebe Ernst. - I assure you the sport was very limited. 353 00:31:42,708 --> 00:31:46,503 And your late son was in our thoughts the whole time. 354 00:31:46,586 --> 00:31:50,215 Anyway, in the evening, we gathered for dinner. 355 00:31:50,299 --> 00:31:53,010 The food is normally quite good at Broadlands. 356 00:31:53,093 --> 00:31:56,305 - Outstanding! - Especially the duck, from memory. 357 00:31:56,388 --> 00:31:59,016 - With oranges. - Rum-soaked raisins. 358 00:31:59,099 --> 00:32:01,435 Oh! A Prussian recipe. 359 00:32:01,518 --> 00:32:05,564 [in German] Spaetzle, too. Remarkable! Crispy, with cheese and breadcrumbs. 360 00:32:05,647 --> 00:32:07,983 - Mmm. Delicious! - [in English] Go on. 361 00:32:08,859 --> 00:32:14,531 Yes. So, after dinner, our host started to brag 362 00:32:14,614 --> 00:32:17,784 about how the Royal house would soon be in his name. 363 00:32:17,868 --> 00:32:19,369 Nonsense. 364 00:32:19,453 --> 00:32:23,540 The Royal Warrant of 1917 established the House of Windsor. 365 00:32:23,623 --> 00:32:26,793 - Ah. - My late husband presided over it himself. 366 00:32:26,877 --> 00:32:31,048 But the name Windsor would only be carried by the male descendants. 367 00:32:31,131 --> 00:32:34,676 It did not take into account the female descendants. 368 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,595 They would take the name from their husbands 369 00:32:36,678 --> 00:32:38,972 - which, in this case, would mean... - Mountbatten! 370 00:32:39,806 --> 00:32:41,391 Well... 371 00:32:42,267 --> 00:32:46,146 - He had us raising glasses to it. - Glasses containing what? 372 00:32:48,065 --> 00:32:51,610 - Champagne. - You were drinking champagne 373 00:32:53,111 --> 00:32:55,989 the day after my son's funeral? 374 00:33:14,174 --> 00:33:15,300 [Townsend] Come in. 375 00:33:21,431 --> 00:33:23,433 [sighs] 376 00:33:23,517 --> 00:33:24,851 I had to see you. 377 00:33:26,686 --> 00:33:27,771 Come in. 378 00:33:34,945 --> 00:33:38,198 I got home last night to find this on the kitchen table. 379 00:33:58,260 --> 00:33:59,469 She's gone. 380 00:34:01,054 --> 00:34:02,722 All her belongings have gone. 381 00:34:05,142 --> 00:34:06,351 I'm so sorry. 382 00:34:08,019 --> 00:34:09,396 No, you're not. 383 00:34:10,230 --> 00:34:11,231 No. 384 00:34:13,233 --> 00:34:14,359 I'm not. 385 00:34:49,978 --> 00:34:54,566 - So, will you sue her for divorce? - No, I'd lose my job. 386 00:34:54,649 --> 00:34:57,277 Well, you'll keep your job. I'll make sure of that. 387 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,863 It would make me a divorcee. 388 00:35:06,328 --> 00:35:07,787 But not the guilty party. 389 00:35:10,332 --> 00:35:15,212 Still, I'd be soiled goods. I'd be tainted with scandal. 390 00:35:17,672 --> 00:35:19,382 [whispers] You'd also be free. 391 00:35:21,176 --> 00:35:22,385 To remarry. 392 00:35:28,767 --> 00:35:30,101 One day. 393 00:35:32,979 --> 00:35:34,064 Yes. 394 00:35:40,361 --> 00:35:42,739 [man] Down there, please. 395 00:35:42,822 --> 00:35:45,909 Christ. Hide. There, there. There. Go. 396 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,456 [voices approaching] 397 00:35:54,251 --> 00:35:57,295 - Is it this one? - Yeah, I think so. 398 00:35:57,379 --> 00:35:59,798 - No, no, it's not. It's this one. - Right. 399 00:36:01,298 --> 00:36:02,257 Come in. 400 00:36:03,342 --> 00:36:05,178 Sorry to barge in. Have you got a second? 401 00:36:05,262 --> 00:36:06,346 - Of course, sir. - May I? 402 00:36:06,428 --> 00:36:07,347 Please. 403 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,683 That's what I want to talk to you about. 404 00:36:13,268 --> 00:36:15,730 - Flying. - Yes, sir. 405 00:36:15,813 --> 00:36:18,066 You're an experienced air jockey and I've an idea. 406 00:36:18,149 --> 00:36:20,944 And, look, please disavow me of it if I'm wrong 407 00:36:21,026 --> 00:36:25,365 but, to be up there in a plane, it's the biggest thrill of them all. 408 00:36:25,448 --> 00:36:29,619 - It is, sir. - I mean, really. The biggest. 409 00:36:30,787 --> 00:36:31,913 It is, sir. 410 00:36:33,123 --> 00:36:39,379 Once you break through the clouds to the clear blue beyond, the space, the... 411 00:36:41,256 --> 00:36:45,176 the silence, the transcendent beauty, 412 00:36:45,260 --> 00:36:49,431 it's church for the irreligious man. 413 00:36:49,514 --> 00:36:52,642 That's what I'd hoped you'd say. Where could I learn? 414 00:36:52,726 --> 00:36:55,687 Uh... White Waltham Airfield, they've a good school there. 415 00:36:55,770 --> 00:36:57,272 - Would you take me? - Of course, sir. 416 00:36:57,355 --> 00:36:58,732 Good man. 417 00:37:01,651 --> 00:37:05,113 You know, my sister, my favourite sister actually, 418 00:37:05,196 --> 00:37:07,449 Cecile, died in a plane. 419 00:37:07,532 --> 00:37:11,661 It went down over Ostend in a storm. 420 00:37:11,745 --> 00:37:13,496 Eight months pregnant. 421 00:37:14,414 --> 00:37:18,585 She went into labour mid-flight and they found the child, 422 00:37:18,668 --> 00:37:20,712 next to her in the wreckage. 423 00:37:23,381 --> 00:37:24,758 A boy. 424 00:37:29,763 --> 00:37:31,222 Mm. 425 00:37:45,195 --> 00:37:46,863 Mm. 426 00:37:48,657 --> 00:37:51,117 New part of the uniform, Peter? 427 00:37:53,370 --> 00:37:54,788 [sighs] 428 00:37:58,416 --> 00:37:59,417 Anyone we know? 429 00:38:00,543 --> 00:38:02,921 [chuckles] I... no. 430 00:38:03,004 --> 00:38:04,422 [laughs] 431 00:38:04,506 --> 00:38:06,800 No, quite right. None of my business. 432 00:38:08,343 --> 00:38:09,344 Thank you, sir. 433 00:38:09,427 --> 00:38:13,682 [both laugh] 434 00:38:18,603 --> 00:38:20,438 [exhales] 435 00:38:21,856 --> 00:38:25,652 [laughs] 436 00:38:25,735 --> 00:38:27,445 You're enjoying this, aren't you? 437 00:38:29,864 --> 00:38:31,074 [laughs] 438 00:38:32,075 --> 00:38:32,951 Yes. 439 00:38:37,580 --> 00:38:39,666 Mr. Colville, Your Majesty. 440 00:38:42,293 --> 00:38:44,337 Your Majesties. Tommy. 441 00:38:45,672 --> 00:38:47,674 [Queen Mary] Come in, Jock. Take a seat. 442 00:38:49,008 --> 00:38:52,470 We have a significant concern which we'd like to convey 443 00:38:52,554 --> 00:38:54,472 to the Prime Minister. 444 00:38:54,556 --> 00:38:58,351 It concerns the Duke of Edinburgh. 445 00:39:09,821 --> 00:39:13,825 [Churchill] Ma'am, word has reached me that it is your desire 446 00:39:13,908 --> 00:39:19,122 that you and your children should keep your husband's name, Mountbatten. 447 00:39:20,582 --> 00:39:21,708 It is. 448 00:39:21,791 --> 00:39:25,670 Ma'am, you must not. It would be a grave mistake. 449 00:39:25,754 --> 00:39:28,923 Mountbatten was the adoptive name 450 00:39:29,007 --> 00:39:31,801 your husband took when he became a British citizen. 451 00:39:31,885 --> 00:39:36,681 His real name... you'll not need reminding, 452 00:39:37,474 --> 00:39:40,810 was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glucksberg 453 00:39:40,894 --> 00:39:45,482 of the Royal houses of Denmark and Norway and, latterly, of Greece! 454 00:39:51,404 --> 00:39:52,989 I am an old man. 455 00:39:54,699 --> 00:40:01,122 Many have questioned my relevance, whether I still have something to offer. 456 00:40:01,206 --> 00:40:04,876 In public life, the answer is, I have. 457 00:40:04,959 --> 00:40:09,255 Which is to leave in place a Sovereign prepared for office. 458 00:40:09,339 --> 00:40:12,842 Equipped, armed for her duty. 459 00:40:15,220 --> 00:40:21,601 Great things have happened to this country under the sceptres of her queens 460 00:40:21,684 --> 00:40:24,896 and you should be no exception. 461 00:40:24,979 --> 00:40:29,317 Yes, I am Queen, but I am also a woman. 462 00:40:31,528 --> 00:40:33,154 And a wife. 463 00:40:35,657 --> 00:40:40,119 To a man whose pride and whose strength were, in part, what attracted me to him. 464 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,667 I want to be in a successful marriage. 465 00:40:45,750 --> 00:40:49,838 I would argue, stability under this roof might even be in the national interest. 466 00:40:49,921 --> 00:40:51,631 Had you considered that? 467 00:40:52,590 --> 00:40:54,300 [sighs] 468 00:40:54,384 --> 00:40:57,971 Very well. I will discuss it with Cabinet. 469 00:41:02,058 --> 00:41:03,017 No. 470 00:41:05,937 --> 00:41:10,233 You will inform the Cabinet, Prime Minister. 471 00:41:13,736 --> 00:41:15,905 That is the favour you will do me, 472 00:41:17,949 --> 00:41:20,618 in return for one I'm already doing you. 473 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:32,338 I know your party wants you to resign to make way for a younger man. 474 00:41:32,422 --> 00:41:33,590 Mr. Eden. 475 00:41:35,884 --> 00:41:41,222 I also know that no one will bring up your resignation 476 00:41:41,306 --> 00:41:44,267 while you are actively engaged in planning the Coronation. 477 00:41:46,978 --> 00:41:52,275 So, by delaying my investiture, you are, in fact, holding onto power... 478 00:41:56,446 --> 00:41:59,782 in which case, I would suggest you are, somewhat, in my debt. 479 00:42:01,951 --> 00:42:05,163 So, if... I agree to the delay, 480 00:42:06,664 --> 00:42:11,961 perhaps you will consider supporting me in the matter regarding my husband's name. 481 00:42:18,217 --> 00:42:20,637 And perhaps you could also inform Cabinet 482 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,933 that my husband and I intend to stay here at Clarence House. 483 00:42:25,016 --> 00:42:27,727 - Why? - It is our home. 484 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,773 It has just been refurbished at great expense. 485 00:42:33,066 --> 00:42:35,735 Buckingham Palace can still be where official business is done 486 00:42:35,818 --> 00:42:42,867 but our home, our private family home, will be Clarence House. 487 00:42:48,915 --> 00:42:50,041 Very well. 488 00:43:12,438 --> 00:43:14,482 [Elizabeth] He was a little surprised, I think. 489 00:43:14,565 --> 00:43:17,276 - [Philip] Really? - I dare express any view at all. 490 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,529 Papa was always putty in his hands. 491 00:43:19,612 --> 00:43:21,781 But I think one should start as one means to continue. 492 00:43:21,864 --> 00:43:25,952 - Absolutely. Put a marker down. - Quite. Draw a line in the sand. 493 00:43:26,035 --> 00:43:29,664 He said he'd put it to Cabinet and I said there was nothing to discuss. 494 00:43:29,747 --> 00:43:32,458 - Good for you. - No, good for you. 495 00:43:32,542 --> 00:43:34,919 - That's why I did it. - Thank you. 496 00:43:38,381 --> 00:43:41,968 [crowd booing] 497 00:43:52,103 --> 00:43:55,815 [booing and shouting] 498 00:43:59,318 --> 00:44:01,487 Your Royal Highness, thank you for coming. 499 00:44:01,571 --> 00:44:05,158 Not at all, dear Winston. How can I help? 500 00:44:08,286 --> 00:44:12,123 I took it to Cabinet and, as expected, the answer was unanimous, 501 00:44:12,206 --> 00:44:14,417 "No" to both matters. 502 00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:17,420 Well, she won't like it, neither the snub over the name 503 00:44:17,503 --> 00:44:19,714 nor the move to Buckingham Palace. 504 00:44:19,797 --> 00:44:24,385 It really is a most dreadful place, cold, uninviting, 505 00:44:24,469 --> 00:44:29,432 but it's the right thing, for the young family and the children to live there. 506 00:44:29,515 --> 00:44:33,519 It's the focal point, it's the monarch's home. 507 00:44:35,313 --> 00:44:40,485 - Do you want me to break it to her? - That would be very kind. 508 00:44:40,568 --> 00:44:42,320 It's the least I can do. 509 00:44:42,403 --> 00:44:45,698 I've never forgotten the way in which you defended me, 510 00:44:45,782 --> 00:44:50,244 fought for me during that terrible time. 511 00:44:50,328 --> 00:44:54,040 I still think no man should be punished for love. 512 00:44:54,123 --> 00:44:57,335 And I also believe I spoke for many in the country when I defended you. 513 00:44:58,252 --> 00:44:59,462 You're very kind. 514 00:45:01,964 --> 00:45:08,596 If I were to help you in this matter with her, 515 00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:12,058 perhaps I could ask a favour in return? 516 00:45:13,976 --> 00:45:15,520 Name it. 517 00:45:28,533 --> 00:45:29,742 [door closes] 518 00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:36,207 Put in a word with the young Queen for my allowance to be reinstated. 519 00:45:36,290 --> 00:45:38,793 She holds the purse strings now. 520 00:45:38,876 --> 00:45:42,713 The family expect me to turn down commercial opportunities, 521 00:45:42,797 --> 00:45:46,092 yet cuts off my allowance at the same time. 522 00:45:46,175 --> 00:45:48,427 Ten thousand pounds, 523 00:45:48,511 --> 00:45:52,140 it's quite impossible to make ends meet without it. 524 00:45:52,223 --> 00:45:55,601 That a former King should come to me begging... 525 00:45:58,229 --> 00:45:59,564 Consider it done. 526 00:46:02,650 --> 00:46:08,656 There is also a brief moment before the Coronation 527 00:46:10,199 --> 00:46:14,328 where you might also mobilize Cabinet support 528 00:46:14,412 --> 00:46:21,502 for the one other thing that has eluded me and gnaws away at my heart. 529 00:46:21,586 --> 00:46:23,546 What? 530 00:46:23,629 --> 00:46:26,299 The appropriate title for the woman I married. 531 00:46:26,382 --> 00:46:28,926 - No, sir. - Her Royal Highness. 532 00:46:29,010 --> 00:46:32,054 She is, after all, the wife of a former King. 533 00:46:32,138 --> 00:46:38,102 She's also a woman who has three husbands that still live and breathe. 534 00:46:38,186 --> 00:46:41,731 It is her right, Winston. 535 00:46:41,814 --> 00:46:46,444 I'm determined she shall have it. I'm determined she is shown respect. 536 00:46:48,362 --> 00:46:50,364 Will you fight for it? 537 00:46:50,448 --> 00:46:51,782 - [sighs] - One more time? 538 00:46:51,866 --> 00:46:57,121 I have defended you so many times. Each time to my cost and in vain. 539 00:46:58,372 --> 00:47:02,126 [sighs] This love for her has destroyed everything. 540 00:47:03,169 --> 00:47:05,922 It is love, Winston. 541 00:47:07,215 --> 00:47:08,591 Love. 542 00:47:10,176 --> 00:47:12,970 The greatest thing on Earth. 543 00:47:20,394 --> 00:47:24,190 [orchestral music playing] 544 00:50:15,194 --> 00:50:16,153 [door opens] 545 00:50:16,237 --> 00:50:18,989 [man] His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, Your Majesty. 546 00:50:24,286 --> 00:50:25,704 Your Majesty. 547 00:50:27,415 --> 00:50:29,667 Thank you for seeing me. 548 00:50:30,918 --> 00:50:32,336 Thank you for coming. 549 00:50:42,221 --> 00:50:47,101 Well, most of the time we're in Paris. We've been given a house there. 550 00:50:47,184 --> 00:50:51,689 Wallis likes to entertain. She's so good at it. 551 00:50:51,772 --> 00:50:56,735 So the place is always full. And we have dogs. 552 00:50:56,819 --> 00:50:58,821 Oh, really? What kind? 553 00:50:58,904 --> 00:51:06,162 Pugs. Davy Crockett, Trooper and Disraeli. 554 00:51:06,245 --> 00:51:11,125 - Why pugs? What's the attraction? - Well, they're... childlike. 555 00:51:12,084 --> 00:51:15,754 - Need a lot of loving. - They have a strange bark. 556 00:51:17,506 --> 00:51:19,675 - Yes. - More of a yap. 557 00:51:19,758 --> 00:51:22,386 And they're lazy. Spend all day sleeping. 558 00:51:22,470 --> 00:51:25,181 - Yes. - They're awfully gassy. 559 00:51:26,515 --> 00:51:27,516 Yes. 560 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,478 I suppose one can always open the windows. 561 00:51:30,561 --> 00:51:31,854 [chuckles] 562 00:51:35,149 --> 00:51:37,485 - Don't you miss it? - What? 563 00:51:37,568 --> 00:51:40,029 The country of your birth. The people here. 564 00:51:41,238 --> 00:51:42,698 Your own flesh and blood. 565 00:51:43,699 --> 00:51:47,661 Well, I would've done if they'd accepted the woman I love. 566 00:51:47,745 --> 00:51:51,916 But they didn't, so I don't. 567 00:51:51,999 --> 00:51:54,919 So the former King keeps himself at a distance. 568 00:51:55,002 --> 00:51:59,715 A distance that was imposed upon me. They wanted me out. 569 00:51:59,798 --> 00:52:02,384 And reduces us all to cruel nicknames. 570 00:52:04,512 --> 00:52:05,846 Shirley Temple. 571 00:52:07,765 --> 00:52:10,392 Uh... Yes. 572 00:52:11,769 --> 00:52:13,270 On account of the curls? 573 00:52:15,773 --> 00:52:18,359 And precociousness. 574 00:52:18,442 --> 00:52:21,487 - And stardom. - You flatterer. 575 00:52:21,570 --> 00:52:22,655 Not at all. 576 00:52:23,739 --> 00:52:27,368 Generally, we're better at queens than kings. 577 00:52:27,451 --> 00:52:30,704 In this country I have a feeling you'll be no exception. 578 00:52:31,747 --> 00:52:35,334 - I certainly intend to do it well. - I did, too. 579 00:52:36,544 --> 00:52:38,003 Obviously, not hard enough. 580 00:52:40,506 --> 00:52:41,465 No. 581 00:52:44,802 --> 00:52:47,096 You never apologized. 582 00:52:47,179 --> 00:52:49,640 To your papa, I most certainly did. 583 00:52:49,723 --> 00:52:52,726 Your mother too. I can show you the letters. 584 00:52:52,810 --> 00:52:56,855 I didn't mean to them. I meant to me. 585 00:52:58,857 --> 00:52:59,775 You? 586 00:53:03,529 --> 00:53:05,489 You don't think I'm deserving of one. 587 00:53:07,992 --> 00:53:11,745 You don't think I would have preferred to grow up out of the spotlight? 588 00:53:12,413 --> 00:53:13,789 Away from Court? 589 00:53:15,165 --> 00:53:18,669 Away from the scrutiny and the visibility. 590 00:53:20,838 --> 00:53:22,047 A simpler life. 591 00:53:23,257 --> 00:53:24,466 Happier life. 592 00:53:25,634 --> 00:53:27,219 As a wife, a mother. 593 00:53:29,638 --> 00:53:32,558 An ordinary English countrywoman. 594 00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:36,937 I'm sorry. 595 00:53:41,942 --> 00:53:43,444 Thank you. 596 00:53:50,743 --> 00:53:54,413 You might extend the same apology to my husband the next time you see him. 597 00:53:54,496 --> 00:53:58,250 - Oh, is he struggling? - A little. 598 00:53:58,334 --> 00:54:00,961 Well, it'd be odd if he weren't. 599 00:54:02,713 --> 00:54:06,508 Anyway, if I am to succeed, 600 00:54:07,468 --> 00:54:10,721 then he and I are going to need all the help we can get. 601 00:54:10,804 --> 00:54:15,309 Well, I'm sure you're surrounded by good people offering it. 602 00:54:15,392 --> 00:54:18,145 Not if they're always off in Paris or New York, 603 00:54:18,228 --> 00:54:20,439 or wherever it is you spend your time. 604 00:54:21,774 --> 00:54:24,652 Y-You would take my advice? 605 00:54:25,653 --> 00:54:26,820 I would. 606 00:54:29,281 --> 00:54:31,450 Particularly now my father isn't here to give his. 607 00:54:34,119 --> 00:54:36,872 I'd know it came from the heart. 608 00:54:36,955 --> 00:54:41,001 Since I know, deep down, despite everything, 609 00:54:41,085 --> 00:54:43,003 that you care very deeply. 610 00:54:44,296 --> 00:54:46,048 I do. 611 00:54:54,431 --> 00:54:58,727 As it happens, there are two issues 612 00:54:58,811 --> 00:55:02,606 on which I would like to offer some advice. 613 00:55:02,690 --> 00:55:07,986 The first is your husband's surname and the name of the Royal house. 614 00:55:11,407 --> 00:55:12,783 And the second? 615 00:55:34,263 --> 00:55:37,349 There you are. There's something I'd like to discuss with you. 616 00:55:37,433 --> 00:55:39,184 Now, please don't react. 617 00:55:40,477 --> 00:55:42,479 I'd like to take flying lessons. 618 00:55:44,148 --> 00:55:45,566 I know. 619 00:55:45,649 --> 00:55:49,111 But, trust me, becoming a pilot has been a lifelong ambition of mine 620 00:55:49,194 --> 00:55:54,199 and I think I've found a teacher mad enough to take me on as a pupil. 621 00:55:55,075 --> 00:55:56,910 Peter, no less, Peter Townsend. 622 00:56:01,915 --> 00:56:04,543 - What's the matter? - I need to talk to you. 623 00:56:04,626 --> 00:56:05,669 About what? 624 00:56:09,298 --> 00:56:11,216 They'd rather we didn't keep the name. 625 00:56:12,509 --> 00:56:14,136 Mountbatten. 626 00:56:15,429 --> 00:56:17,389 Who's "they?" 627 00:56:17,473 --> 00:56:19,892 - Cabinet. - It's none of their business. 628 00:56:19,975 --> 00:56:22,770 [scoffs] I think you'll find it's very much their business. 629 00:56:22,853 --> 00:56:25,647 You're my wife, taking my name is the law. 630 00:56:25,731 --> 00:56:27,775 It's the custom. Not the law. 631 00:56:27,858 --> 00:56:30,778 A custom practiced so universally it might as well be the law. 632 00:56:30,861 --> 00:56:33,155 You can't do this. Am I to be the only man in the country 633 00:56:33,238 --> 00:56:35,115 whose wife and children don't take his name? 634 00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:37,910 You can't do this to Dickie. It will devastate him. 635 00:56:37,993 --> 00:56:40,954 You know that. You know how important it is to him. 636 00:56:41,038 --> 00:56:44,291 I've told him the Royal house Mountbatten is in the bag. 637 00:56:44,374 --> 00:56:47,961 Well, that was a mistake. It's not. 638 00:56:48,045 --> 00:56:52,049 The name has to be Windsor. For stability. 639 00:56:53,300 --> 00:56:54,301 There's more. 640 00:56:56,929 --> 00:57:00,182 - Clarence House... - Our home. What about it? 641 00:57:02,100 --> 00:57:03,685 We have to give it up. 642 00:57:05,145 --> 00:57:07,105 The home of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom 643 00:57:07,189 --> 00:57:08,315 is Buckingham Palace. 644 00:57:08,398 --> 00:57:09,566 Says who? 645 00:57:11,693 --> 00:57:13,403 Me. 646 00:57:15,656 --> 00:57:17,449 I thought you hated that place. 647 00:57:18,575 --> 00:57:20,994 I do. We all do. 648 00:57:23,372 --> 00:57:25,040 Then why go along with it? 649 00:57:26,458 --> 00:57:28,836 Because that's the overwhelming advice. 650 00:57:28,919 --> 00:57:31,046 But that's the point, Elizabeth, it's just advice. 651 00:57:31,129 --> 00:57:33,257 It doesn't mean that you have to act on it. 652 00:57:33,340 --> 00:57:36,051 When it comes from the government, you do. 653 00:57:49,273 --> 00:57:51,191 What kind of marriage is this? 654 00:57:52,359 --> 00:57:54,361 What kind of family? 655 00:57:56,029 --> 00:57:58,365 You've taken my career from me, you've taken my home. 656 00:57:58,448 --> 00:58:01,493 You've taken my name. 657 00:58:08,667 --> 00:58:10,836 I thought we were in this together. 658 00:58:23,056 --> 00:58:25,100 [door opens, closes] 659 00:58:46,914 --> 00:58:48,957 [Charles] See? Daddy's here. 660 00:58:49,750 --> 00:58:50,792 Welcome home, ma'am. 661 00:59:00,177 --> 00:59:04,389 [cheering] 662 00:59:18,612 --> 00:59:20,489 [Queen Elizabeth] My Lords... 663 00:59:21,865 --> 00:59:25,619 I hereby declare my will and pleasure 664 00:59:25,702 --> 00:59:31,083 that I and my children shall be styled and known 665 00:59:31,166 --> 00:59:34,419 as the House and Family of Windsor. 666 00:59:36,546 --> 00:59:37,965 And that my descendants, 667 00:59:38,048 --> 00:59:43,053 other than female descendants who marry, and their descendants, 668 00:59:43,136 --> 00:59:46,682 shall bear the name of Windsor. 669 00:59:56,650 --> 00:59:59,528 [cheering, applause]