1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,919 We'll be a family of three by the first week of December. 2 00:00:02,919 --> 00:00:07,918 I used to do this with my sister. Winding wool was her favourite game. 3 00:00:07,918 --> 00:00:10,517 Mosley's going to break down barriers of class. 4 00:00:10,517 --> 00:00:14,236 Persie, you've embraced an ideology you do not comprehend. 5 00:00:14,236 --> 00:00:16,116 How do you know I don't comprehend it? 6 00:00:19,355 --> 00:00:22,674 I will send my sister to bed when I'm good and ready. Agnes! 7 00:00:22,674 --> 00:00:26,353 I'm relieved to see her taking charge of something. 8 00:00:26,353 --> 00:00:28,033 I have a secret. 9 00:00:32,072 --> 00:00:34,271 Somebody come to our bedroom! 10 00:00:34,271 --> 00:00:40,430 Lotte will be looked after here for as long as necessary. That way this house can start to make amends. 11 00:01:14,501 --> 00:01:20,140 Hallam, Agnes tells me you intend to name this baby Hector. 12 00:01:20,140 --> 00:01:23,619 If it is a boy, I shall be deeply hurt if you don't call it Greville. 13 00:01:23,619 --> 00:01:26,218 What if it's a girl? 14 00:01:26,218 --> 00:01:29,057 I should have thought that was obvious. 15 00:01:33,256 --> 00:01:36,415 What's wrong with my mother's name? 16 00:01:36,415 --> 00:01:38,975 Your mother's name was Ambrosine. 17 00:01:38,975 --> 00:01:40,334 Brenda. 18 00:01:40,334 --> 00:01:44,133 That's my favourite. I like Biblical names. 19 00:01:44,133 --> 00:01:47,253 I don't think they're at all exclusive. 20 00:01:47,253 --> 00:01:49,852 You see Biblical names above pub doors, 21 00:01:49,852 --> 00:01:52,851 and when they're shortened, they can sound quite common. 22 00:01:52,851 --> 00:01:55,851 What's your Christian name, Mr Pritchard? 23 00:01:55,851 --> 00:01:59,530 Warwick. After the town where my parents honeymooned. 24 00:01:59,530 --> 00:02:02,969 It makes me glad we keep to formal terms. 25 00:02:05,088 --> 00:02:10,007 'Strawberries, raspberries, lemon tart, what is the name of your sweetheart? 26 00:02:10,007 --> 00:02:15,845 'Does it begin with A, B, C? D or E or F or G? 27 00:02:15,845 --> 00:02:18,685 'Does it begin with H or I...' 28 00:02:18,685 --> 00:02:22,164 J, K, L or apple pie? 29 00:02:22,164 --> 00:02:25,123 You're meant to jump in when I say L. 30 00:02:25,123 --> 00:02:27,123 L for Lotte. 31 00:02:28,082 --> 00:02:30,002 Excuse me, madam. 32 00:02:30,002 --> 00:02:33,681 I'm not pointing the finger, but we're a fondant fancy down again. 33 00:02:33,681 --> 00:02:36,080 Miss Buck has had to be creative with the cake stand. 34 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,520 It was only one. 35 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,319 And they were both for Lotte. 36 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:44,158 I was hoping she'd say thank you. 37 00:02:49,117 --> 00:02:52,156 'Have you learned any new Marlene Dietrich songs?' 38 00:02:52,156 --> 00:02:53,676 Herr von Ribbentrop? 39 00:02:55,315 --> 00:02:58,994 I had hoped you might sing me Just A Gigolo. 40 00:02:58,994 --> 00:03:02,234 But you're not just a gigolo now, Herr von Ribbentrop. 41 00:03:03,953 --> 00:03:06,553 You're the German Ambassador. 42 00:03:06,553 --> 00:03:09,112 And I would have thought that since you've been promoted, 43 00:03:09,112 --> 00:03:13,231 you'd have more to do in the afternoons than telephone young ladies for a chat. 44 00:03:25,668 --> 00:03:28,387 I can't lift this, it's too heavy. 45 00:03:28,387 --> 00:03:31,946 Mr Pritchard, you'll have to swap with her. If I must. 46 00:03:31,946 --> 00:03:35,265 Please note the Georgian cream jug and sugar nips. 47 00:03:35,265 --> 00:03:37,305 It's only a nanny come for an interview. 48 00:03:37,305 --> 00:03:40,224 Well, this one's been with the Greek royal family. 49 00:03:40,224 --> 00:03:43,823 And apparently the Countess of Oranmore is after her! 50 00:03:43,823 --> 00:03:46,222 I'm assuming no news on an upstairs maid. 51 00:03:46,222 --> 00:03:49,822 Lady Agnes won't discuss it till a nanny is engaged. 52 00:03:49,822 --> 00:03:52,941 Well, I didn't come here to be scrubbing my own turnips. 53 00:03:52,941 --> 00:03:56,100 And which doctor will be delivering Baby? 54 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,020 Mr Gascoigne. 55 00:03:59,659 --> 00:04:02,338 At home, or in the hospital? 56 00:04:02,338 --> 00:04:04,138 Here, of course. 57 00:04:04,138 --> 00:04:06,737 It seems foolish not to, when everything is so well appointed. 58 00:04:06,737 --> 00:04:09,896 Your floral arrangements are certainly a feature. 59 00:04:09,896 --> 00:04:13,136 Oh, these are exceptional. 60 00:04:13,136 --> 00:04:15,615 My sister and I are being photographed tomorrow. 61 00:04:15,615 --> 00:04:18,774 By Cecil Beaton. 62 00:04:18,774 --> 00:04:21,733 My concern is purely with the nurseries. 63 00:04:21,733 --> 00:04:24,853 And the kitchen, which I would like to view. 64 00:04:24,853 --> 00:04:28,732 All uncooked meat must be moved elsewhere. 65 00:04:28,732 --> 00:04:31,491 And I hope the basement floor is properly aired. 66 00:04:31,491 --> 00:04:35,010 Baby's napkins need a ventilated space for drying. 67 00:04:35,010 --> 00:04:37,410 We were planning to use a laundry service. 68 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:41,329 In which case, every napkin must be monogrammed. Oh! 69 00:04:41,329 --> 00:04:43,688 Are there other children apart from Baby? 70 00:04:43,688 --> 00:04:46,647 This is Lotte, who's staying with us for the present. 71 00:04:46,647 --> 00:04:49,087 She likes to keep her shoes here on the bottom stair. 72 00:04:49,087 --> 00:04:51,286 And is Lotte a relative? 73 00:04:51,286 --> 00:04:53,445 I consider her my ward. 74 00:04:53,445 --> 00:04:56,845 She's being looked after downstairs by our staff. 75 00:04:56,845 --> 00:04:59,004 She has impetigo. 76 00:04:59,004 --> 00:05:01,763 A nasty, dirty illness. 77 00:05:01,763 --> 00:05:04,483 Very similar to ringworm. 78 00:05:04,483 --> 00:05:07,162 'She will have gone straight round to the Countess of Oranmore.' 79 00:05:07,162 --> 00:05:09,521 She didn't even ask what kind of pram I'd ordered. 80 00:05:09,521 --> 00:05:12,641 Hallam had impetigo three times in India. 81 00:05:12,641 --> 00:05:16,200 Twice on his face, and once somewhere he'd prefer me not to mention. 82 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,799 Miss Buck says they can treat it with a dab of gentian violet. 83 00:05:19,799 --> 00:05:22,918 No, it's imperative that Lotte sees a doctor. 84 00:05:22,918 --> 00:05:25,397 And not because of that petty skin affliction. 85 00:05:25,397 --> 00:05:30,476 I strongly suspect that the loss of her mother has caused her some sort of mental blockage. 86 00:05:30,476 --> 00:05:32,476 I don't doubt it. 87 00:05:32,476 --> 00:05:34,635 The child hasn't spoken since her mother died. 88 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:37,634 She needs to be with what family she has left. 89 00:05:37,634 --> 00:05:41,473 Mr Amanjit, have you made any progress? 90 00:05:41,473 --> 00:05:43,753 I have dispatched many letters of enquiry. 91 00:05:43,753 --> 00:05:46,512 Sir Hallam furnished me with a list of German prisons, 92 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:49,591 and I wrote to them all in the hope of finding Lotte's father. 93 00:05:49,591 --> 00:05:52,191 The man was jailed for communist activity. 94 00:05:52,191 --> 00:05:54,510 Which is nothing short of heroic under Hitler. 95 00:05:54,510 --> 00:05:56,749 Or foolhardy, if you are a Jew. 96 00:05:56,749 --> 00:06:02,148 If we can find any relatives for that child at all, I intend to get them out of Germany. 97 00:06:35,699 --> 00:06:41,378 Do you ever wonder how we dare? When the walls are almost made of glass? 98 00:06:41,378 --> 00:06:45,577 Nobody ever comes out here. Not at night, at any rate. 99 00:06:47,137 --> 00:06:50,216 You should creep into the house. 100 00:06:50,216 --> 00:06:52,215 Sneak up to my room. 101 00:06:52,215 --> 00:06:54,375 We'd be much more likely to get caught. 102 00:06:54,375 --> 00:06:57,694 I don't want to get caught. 103 00:06:57,694 --> 00:06:59,813 Don't you think it would be fun 104 00:06:59,813 --> 00:07:01,653 to see my sister's face? 105 00:07:03,173 --> 00:07:04,692 No. 106 00:07:16,489 --> 00:07:19,208 Sir. 107 00:07:19,208 --> 00:07:24,447 Holland. Did you know the King has set Mrs Simpson up in a house in Cumberland Terrace? 108 00:07:24,447 --> 00:07:27,566 Yes. As soon as her newest divorce came through. 109 00:07:27,566 --> 00:07:30,806 Thank God for the English papers and their honourable silence. 110 00:07:30,806 --> 00:07:33,405 It won't last. It can't. 111 00:07:33,405 --> 00:07:36,124 It will have to burst soon like a boil. 112 00:07:37,644 --> 00:07:40,283 I want you to look at this. 113 00:07:44,362 --> 00:07:48,481 It's a copy of a letter written to the King by his private secretary. 114 00:07:48,481 --> 00:07:51,960 Who was advised, discreetly, by certain government ministers. 115 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,919 Mr Baldwin and the Cabinet are to meet to discuss action? Yes. 116 00:07:56,919 --> 00:07:59,638 Meanwhile, we're collating information about Ribbentrop, 117 00:07:59,638 --> 00:08:02,358 and his rumoured liaison with the Simpson woman. 118 00:08:02,358 --> 00:08:05,317 But there are rumours she turned tricks in a Peking brothel. 119 00:08:05,317 --> 00:08:09,636 Rumours that she's actually a man! None of those have put the King off. 120 00:08:09,636 --> 00:08:11,275 Rumours won't. 121 00:08:11,275 --> 00:08:13,515 Ribbentrop is under surveillance. 122 00:08:13,515 --> 00:08:17,434 We need proof. And proof takes time. 123 00:08:17,434 --> 00:08:20,633 Once the papers break, we're out of time completely. 124 00:08:42,267 --> 00:08:45,707 Poor child was lying in a heap of papers. 125 00:08:45,707 --> 00:08:48,306 Not even tucked up in an envelope. 126 00:08:48,306 --> 00:08:51,905 Mother doesn't like to talk about Pamela. 127 00:08:51,905 --> 00:08:57,384 She was bringing her to England to stay with relatives. She died of fever on the voyage home. 128 00:08:59,623 --> 00:09:01,303 Agnes. 129 00:09:01,303 --> 00:09:03,782 You said you didn't like to talk about her. 130 00:09:03,782 --> 00:09:06,501 Well, I'd quite like to talk about her now. 131 00:09:06,501 --> 00:09:09,380 What sort of fever was it? 132 00:09:09,380 --> 00:09:11,420 Mother didn't say. 133 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:15,539 I suppose I didn't ask, although I do remember crying. 134 00:09:15,539 --> 00:09:18,938 I thought I'd have a sister all my life. 135 00:09:18,938 --> 00:09:22,417 But she was born, she played with wool. 136 00:09:22,417 --> 00:09:25,057 Always white wool. 137 00:09:25,057 --> 00:09:27,256 And we lost her. 138 00:09:30,375 --> 00:09:33,294 It was such a little life. 139 00:09:33,294 --> 00:09:36,774 The world seems full of little lives just now. 140 00:09:36,774 --> 00:09:40,053 I never noticed them before, and all of a sudden they're everywhere I look. 141 00:09:40,053 --> 00:09:44,572 Lotte makes me feel something is circling my house. 142 00:09:44,572 --> 00:09:48,331 Tapping on the window, like a bird's beak, or a branch. 143 00:09:49,930 --> 00:09:53,489 I wish it was a less disturbing feeling. 144 00:09:55,849 --> 00:09:58,288 You said to wear the marabou bolero! 145 00:09:58,288 --> 00:10:00,807 I know I did, and who am I to judge? 146 00:10:00,807 --> 00:10:04,726 Miss Buck's coming down to press the Hartnell crepe de Chine. 147 00:10:04,726 --> 00:10:07,606 There's been a contretemps regarding pastel tones. 148 00:10:07,606 --> 00:10:11,245 I still can't credit we've got Cecil Beaton upstairs! 149 00:10:11,245 --> 00:10:13,564 What does it look like, now it's all set up? 150 00:10:13,564 --> 00:10:18,203 You can't fault the man on detail, Mrs Thack. He's brought his own pillar. 151 00:10:18,203 --> 00:10:22,162 One of the assistants has said our make-up is wrong for a black-and-white photograph. 152 00:10:22,162 --> 00:10:25,081 I'm being sent for liquid powder, and a Tangee lipstick. 153 00:10:25,081 --> 00:10:29,360 There's no need to risk your diamonds. Ivy, dry your hands! 154 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,599 We're in a hurry. I'd sooner go myself. 155 00:10:33,599 --> 00:10:36,358 You're supposed to ring if you want the car. 156 00:10:36,358 --> 00:10:39,518 Mr Amanjit's on the telephone talking to Maud's publisher. 157 00:10:39,518 --> 00:10:41,437 Lady Holland's publisher. 158 00:10:41,437 --> 00:10:44,956 Why do you keep telling me the rules? 159 00:10:44,956 --> 00:10:47,836 Because I'm getting sick of breaking them. 160 00:11:31,264 --> 00:11:35,104 Don't move a single muscle. 161 00:11:35,104 --> 00:11:39,103 I spy the shadow of an unruly rose. 162 00:11:39,103 --> 00:11:42,462 Mr Beaton uses roses quite a lot. 163 00:11:42,462 --> 00:11:44,261 Does he really? 164 00:11:44,261 --> 00:11:46,981 It used to be branches of blossom, 165 00:11:46,981 --> 00:11:49,100 but he seems to have moved on. 166 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:51,579 You're very familiar with his style. 167 00:11:51,579 --> 00:11:55,658 I've got several of his portraits pinned up round my mirror. 168 00:11:55,658 --> 00:11:58,578 I think it helps me keep my standards up. 169 00:11:58,578 --> 00:12:02,097 Do me a kindness, and stay just where you are. 170 00:12:02,097 --> 00:12:04,256 No. 171 00:12:04,256 --> 00:12:05,896 Sit on the chaise. 172 00:12:16,613 --> 00:12:18,293 People say 173 00:12:18,293 --> 00:12:21,252 Mr Beaton does a bit afterwards. 174 00:12:21,252 --> 00:12:26,411 That he takes inches off a waist, and a decade off a jawline. 175 00:12:26,411 --> 00:12:30,050 Do you suppose that's true? I know it's true. 176 00:12:30,050 --> 00:12:34,608 What people don't perceive is how much he does beforehand. 177 00:12:34,608 --> 00:12:36,568 It's like my meringues. 178 00:12:36,568 --> 00:12:41,807 A single moment in the mouth, but they're all night in the oven with the door pushed to. 179 00:12:45,566 --> 00:12:49,405 Oh. You've rather lovely wrists. 180 00:12:49,405 --> 00:12:51,724 Trouble is, they've got my hands attached. 181 00:12:51,724 --> 00:12:56,243 It's like I've got someone else's gloves on. Loose-fitting, and with a sort of corded back. 182 00:12:56,243 --> 00:12:58,922 I keep wanting to take them off, cast them aside. 183 00:12:58,922 --> 00:13:01,042 But I'm stuck with them. 184 00:13:01,042 --> 00:13:02,561 Not necessarily. 185 00:13:14,438 --> 00:13:16,358 You're Mr Beaton! 186 00:13:25,196 --> 00:13:27,875 Where did you disappear to? 187 00:13:27,875 --> 00:13:30,394 My room. 188 00:13:30,394 --> 00:13:33,074 I've been applying Porter's liniment. 189 00:13:55,148 --> 00:13:57,547 I always wondered what it'd be like. 190 00:13:57,547 --> 00:14:00,747 To have a man come home to you from a public house. 191 00:14:00,747 --> 00:14:03,306 Well, you can carry on wondering. 192 00:14:03,306 --> 00:14:06,065 This isn't your home, and I haven't come to you. 193 00:14:08,225 --> 00:14:10,224 You're losing your way. 194 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:14,343 You don't come to meetings. You go in secret. You don't need the car. 195 00:14:14,343 --> 00:14:16,543 I get the bus. 196 00:14:16,543 --> 00:14:20,102 I've got beliefs. Unlike you, it would appear. 197 00:14:20,102 --> 00:14:22,261 I've seen the result of those beliefs. 198 00:14:22,261 --> 00:14:24,820 In this house. 199 00:14:24,820 --> 00:14:26,940 And I have to live with that. 200 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:30,419 No-one has to do anything, Harry. 201 00:14:30,419 --> 00:14:33,738 No-one has to accept the status quo. You mean you don't have to. 202 00:14:33,738 --> 00:14:38,017 People like you don't have any need for politics. Your world don't need to shift. 203 00:14:38,017 --> 00:14:41,056 Everything's golden, and nothing touches you. 204 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:47,535 You've changed your tune. 205 00:14:51,614 --> 00:14:53,733 I've changed. 206 00:15:55,158 --> 00:15:57,477 I'm sorry it's so late. 207 00:16:00,756 --> 00:16:04,195 Nobody is disturbed, it's delightful to hear your voice. 208 00:16:11,873 --> 00:16:16,512 I was passing by your door, and I required a cigarette. 209 00:16:16,512 --> 00:16:19,111 You do talk a lot of rot. 210 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,631 Come upstairs. 211 00:16:23,350 --> 00:16:26,510 You know Esmond Harmsworth, don't you? 212 00:16:26,510 --> 00:16:28,709 Chairman of Associated Newspapers. 213 00:16:28,709 --> 00:16:31,148 Yes, of course. 214 00:16:31,148 --> 00:16:33,508 Ask him to dinner, old chap. 215 00:16:33,508 --> 00:16:35,547 And ask me too. 216 00:16:37,227 --> 00:16:41,426 Help me lever one more week of silence from the press. 217 00:16:44,025 --> 00:16:46,824 There are still tactics we can use. 218 00:16:46,824 --> 00:16:51,543 Things we can do to keep my brother on the throne. 219 00:16:51,543 --> 00:16:54,662 Do you seriously believe he may... 220 00:16:54,662 --> 00:16:56,822 renounce it? 221 00:16:58,342 --> 00:17:00,941 The word is "abdicate". 222 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:07,259 The first time I heard it said, it was as though an axe had been brought out of an armoury. 223 00:17:09,219 --> 00:17:13,018 Every syllable has an edge like steel. 224 00:17:13,018 --> 00:17:17,457 As my mother said, it's the sort of thing that happens in Romania. 225 00:17:20,656 --> 00:17:23,335 You really are out of cigarettes, aren't you? 226 00:17:26,894 --> 00:17:29,294 There's been so much talk. 227 00:17:32,413 --> 00:17:35,732 Quite as if we're an ordinary family. 228 00:17:35,732 --> 00:17:39,331 Struggling with a conventional black sheep. 229 00:17:39,331 --> 00:17:42,210 Except ordinary families don't talk... 230 00:17:42,210 --> 00:17:43,890 much. 231 00:17:45,410 --> 00:17:47,249 I suppose not. 232 00:17:52,608 --> 00:17:56,567 Hallam, Eden is aware that this dinner has been proposed. 233 00:17:56,567 --> 00:18:02,325 Will you do it? I don't want you to feel that it's some sort of duty. 234 00:18:04,245 --> 00:18:06,124 But my brother has a duty. 235 00:18:07,964 --> 00:18:09,723 And we need more time. 236 00:18:16,522 --> 00:18:19,521 Why can't the Duchess of Kent give a bloody dinner? 237 00:18:19,521 --> 00:18:22,760 She is rather heavily expectant. 238 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,919 He begged me, Agnes. 239 00:18:25,919 --> 00:18:29,838 When the Kents entertain, it's the Duke who chooses all the food and wine! 240 00:18:29,838 --> 00:18:32,478 Her Royal Highness doesn't have to lift a finger! 241 00:18:32,478 --> 00:18:35,517 Why can't Agnes organise the menu? 242 00:18:35,517 --> 00:18:39,596 I thought all London was in thrall to her Dixie Chicken Wings. 243 00:18:39,596 --> 00:18:42,635 Mother, Eden needs me to do this. 244 00:18:42,635 --> 00:18:45,314 The Duke of Kent has begged me to do this. 245 00:18:45,314 --> 00:18:49,313 And if it goes the wrong way, we could end up with Mrs Simpson as our Queen! 246 00:18:50,833 --> 00:18:55,352 Well, I'll put off my publisher, and come to dinner as a guest. 247 00:18:55,352 --> 00:18:57,271 But I am busy with revisions. 248 00:18:57,271 --> 00:18:59,431 You'll have to speak to Mrs Thackeray yourself. 249 00:19:04,549 --> 00:19:09,588 I had to serve toast to the Duke of Kent last night. 250 00:19:09,588 --> 00:19:12,867 All the raised game pie was gone. 251 00:19:12,867 --> 00:19:14,587 It was Lotte. 252 00:19:14,587 --> 00:19:16,746 She likes a bedtime snack. 253 00:19:16,746 --> 00:19:21,745 I never noticed any gravy round her mouth. 254 00:19:28,983 --> 00:19:32,662 It's from the university where Rachel used to teach. 255 00:19:32,662 --> 00:19:35,902 My German is rudimentary, but it says... 256 00:19:35,902 --> 00:19:40,380 they have no other address for Frau Rachel Perlmutter, 257 00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:43,780 and are aware of no other relations. 258 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:45,299 Snap! 259 00:19:46,979 --> 00:19:49,738 Lotte, you're meant to say snap. 260 00:19:51,937 --> 00:19:54,617 Meanwhile, I have found no trace of 261 00:19:54,617 --> 00:20:00,895 Lotte's father. I don't know what good he'd be, put inside for flirting with the Reds. 262 00:20:00,895 --> 00:20:03,734 He should've thought on, with a wife and child. 263 00:20:03,734 --> 00:20:06,294 Oh! It's my photograph! 264 00:20:06,294 --> 00:20:07,853 What photograph? 265 00:20:12,252 --> 00:20:16,051 "I did a bit afterwards. With pleasure, Cecil Beaton". 266 00:20:19,930 --> 00:20:21,890 I could be aristocracy. 267 00:20:23,409 --> 00:20:25,689 Have you seen my hands? 268 00:20:30,608 --> 00:20:34,687 And then, I suppose, a soup. 269 00:20:34,687 --> 00:20:37,766 What about Consomme a la Christina? 270 00:20:37,766 --> 00:20:41,205 It has a chestnut garnish, nice for the time of year. 271 00:20:43,164 --> 00:20:47,123 Very well. 272 00:20:47,123 --> 00:20:49,483 Do we do the fish next? 273 00:20:49,483 --> 00:20:51,202 Erm... 274 00:20:51,202 --> 00:20:54,802 Cod. En fricasse a la suede. 275 00:20:54,802 --> 00:20:57,081 Is that...swede? 276 00:20:57,081 --> 00:20:59,280 It means Swedish. 277 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,680 It's potato, piped in ornamental crescents. 278 00:21:05,519 --> 00:21:07,278 What do you 279 00:21:07,278 --> 00:21:08,998 want for your meat? 280 00:21:08,998 --> 00:21:11,877 Well, everybody likes a steak. 281 00:21:18,076 --> 00:21:19,995 This isn't a formal menu. 282 00:21:19,995 --> 00:21:22,674 This is just brown dinner! 283 00:21:22,674 --> 00:21:25,874 Brown soup, brown fish, brown meat. 284 00:21:25,874 --> 00:21:27,993 And a pudding au chocolat to finish. 285 00:21:27,993 --> 00:21:35,791 If you'd read it properly, you'd see Sir Hallam wants to finish with a savoury. We settled on marrow bones. 286 00:21:35,791 --> 00:21:38,310 Marrow bones are what one gives an ailing dog! 287 00:21:40,270 --> 00:21:44,189 We'll have a pimento croustade for the savoury. 288 00:21:44,189 --> 00:21:47,508 Pheasant for the main course. 289 00:21:47,508 --> 00:21:50,547 And the dessert simply must introduce a note of colour. 290 00:21:50,547 --> 00:21:55,026 Petits Puddings Alexandra would be nice. Yes. 291 00:21:55,026 --> 00:21:57,746 And perhaps a pistachio Bavarois. 292 00:21:57,746 --> 00:22:02,104 He nodded and he smiled. 293 00:22:02,104 --> 00:22:05,464 I referred to my meringues so as to illustrate a point. 294 00:22:05,464 --> 00:22:11,822 I'll be referring to your meringues in a letter of dismissal if I have to unpick a mess like that again! 295 00:22:11,822 --> 00:22:15,021 I'm sorry, Miss Buck, but Sir Hallam sent for me. 296 00:22:15,021 --> 00:22:18,420 I'm sorry, Mrs Thackeray, but you've forgotten your place. 297 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:22,459 Oh, Miss Buck! Miss Buck! Those are very harsh words! 298 00:22:22,459 --> 00:22:24,339 It started with that photograph. 299 00:22:24,339 --> 00:22:27,938 It gave her a taste of what it's like to ape her betters. 300 00:22:27,938 --> 00:22:30,057 Please, you're just twisting the knife! 301 00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:33,057 You're the one aping your betters. 302 00:22:33,057 --> 00:22:37,295 Making a god of your cast-off silver teapot. 303 00:22:37,295 --> 00:22:42,894 That teapot is testament to the fact that I gave the Bellamy family 304 00:22:42,894 --> 00:22:45,493 40 years of impeccable service! 305 00:22:45,493 --> 00:22:48,253 It was a throw-out and you know it. 306 00:22:48,253 --> 00:22:50,652 Either you got it or the dustbin. 307 00:22:50,652 --> 00:22:57,370 I am your direct superior and I will not have this insolence. 308 00:22:57,370 --> 00:23:01,089 This photograph has turned your head. 309 00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:04,689 I won't have the junior servants exposed to it. 310 00:23:04,689 --> 00:23:07,888 Consider it confiscated. 311 00:23:17,205 --> 00:23:20,884 Mr Pritchard, would you tell Miss Buck I'll be repairing to my kitchen? 312 00:23:20,884 --> 00:23:23,924 I'll pass on the grocery order in due course. 313 00:23:32,721 --> 00:23:36,281 I'm disappointed, Lady Holland. I had hoped to meet your famous monkey. 314 00:23:36,281 --> 00:23:40,240 Solomon? Sadly, Mr Harmsworth, formal dining bores him. 315 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:46,798 And you know, he doesn't do tricks, unlike a certain favourite of the King. 316 00:23:50,357 --> 00:23:53,196 I understand His Majesty is currently in Wales. 317 00:23:53,196 --> 00:23:58,515 Where he was met by an arch of unlit Davy lamps, held aloft by jobless miners. 318 00:23:58,515 --> 00:24:04,153 You read the Daily Mail. The King's remarks on unemployment played quite splendidly, I thought. 319 00:24:04,153 --> 00:24:07,233 A very good headline. "Something must be done". 320 00:24:07,233 --> 00:24:10,192 I never heard a comment so doomed to reverberate. 321 00:24:10,192 --> 00:24:11,951 Something must be done about what? 322 00:24:11,951 --> 00:24:14,991 Is he referring to the miners or his own parlous position? 323 00:24:14,991 --> 00:24:16,950 Mother... 324 00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:23,988 Mr Harmsworth, may we discuss the discretion of the press with regards to Mrs Simpson? 325 00:24:23,988 --> 00:24:28,747 The topic hasn't been mentioned and we're almost finished with the pheasant. 326 00:24:31,866 --> 00:24:35,066 I don't know what's under discussion in the dining room but every time we 327 00:24:35,066 --> 00:24:38,305 knock, the silence is so thick you could stuff a cushion with it. 328 00:24:38,305 --> 00:24:40,784 Ivy, you can carry up the Bavarois! 329 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:57,660 Out of Borstal then, Johnny? 330 00:24:57,660 --> 00:24:59,699 Yes, Mr Pritchard. 331 00:24:59,699 --> 00:25:04,458 I've had my eye on you, Miss Morris, and I'm not having this. 332 00:25:04,458 --> 00:25:07,457 Dishing out cold food to vagrants. 333 00:25:09,657 --> 00:25:11,976 You can dish out hot food. 334 00:25:21,454 --> 00:25:23,133 What was it like 335 00:25:23,133 --> 00:25:26,533 in Borstal then? No worse than here. Up at dawn, meals on the dot. 336 00:25:26,533 --> 00:25:28,172 Mind your Ps and Qs. 337 00:25:29,692 --> 00:25:31,211 Where do you go to now? I dunno. 338 00:25:36,010 --> 00:25:38,450 Back home to your village? 339 00:25:38,450 --> 00:25:39,969 To the pit? 340 00:25:43,808 --> 00:25:45,728 I've been released into the wild. 341 00:25:47,247 --> 00:25:49,567 Like a bird. 342 00:25:49,567 --> 00:25:51,326 Parliament has made it plain. 343 00:25:51,326 --> 00:25:56,045 The King must renounce Mrs Simpson or the throne. 344 00:25:56,045 --> 00:25:59,964 Mrs Simpson has assured me that she understands entirely. 345 00:26:02,523 --> 00:26:05,403 You've been in conversation with her? 346 00:26:05,403 --> 00:26:07,602 She's invited me to luncheon. 347 00:26:07,602 --> 00:26:12,121 To discuss the likely public response to her unveiling. 348 00:26:12,121 --> 00:26:13,881 In one of your papers? 349 00:26:13,881 --> 00:26:15,760 In all of my papers. 350 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,279 Mrs Simpson cares, Sir. 351 00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:21,679 And quite rightly. 352 00:26:21,679 --> 00:26:23,478 She loves the King 353 00:26:23,478 --> 00:26:26,837 and he insists that they must marry. 354 00:26:26,837 --> 00:26:29,277 But she has no wish to become Queen. 355 00:26:29,277 --> 00:26:32,756 Then someone must suggest to her a morganatic marriage. 356 00:26:32,756 --> 00:26:36,515 He stays on the throne and she takes one of his less enthralling titles. 357 00:26:36,515 --> 00:26:39,114 She might find "Duchess of Lancaster" acceptable. 358 00:26:39,114 --> 00:26:40,634 Yes. 359 00:26:40,634 --> 00:26:44,193 One imagines she'd be satisfied on almost every level. 360 00:26:44,193 --> 00:26:50,831 She'd be spared the consort's crown but still have a coronet to appease her magpie mind. 361 00:26:50,831 --> 00:26:55,230 Would the King agree to a morganatic marriage? 362 00:26:55,230 --> 00:26:59,869 It would be a compromise of course and compromise has never been his strong suit. 363 00:26:59,869 --> 00:27:03,908 But I don't doubt Mrs Simpson would consider it. 364 00:27:03,908 --> 00:27:07,427 I suggest you put it to her, Mr Harmsworth. 365 00:27:07,427 --> 00:27:09,946 During our luncheon? 366 00:27:09,946 --> 00:27:12,506 She was spawned by a republic. 367 00:27:12,506 --> 00:27:16,905 Explaining the finer points would take at least a week. 368 00:27:18,584 --> 00:27:21,943 And you wouldn't want to leak the story in the meantime. 369 00:27:21,943 --> 00:27:23,943 After all, 370 00:27:23,943 --> 00:27:25,622 you are her confidant. 371 00:27:31,941 --> 00:27:35,660 Here's five bob to help you on your way. 372 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:37,939 Mr Pritchard says they don't charge at that hostel. 373 00:27:39,899 --> 00:27:42,858 Use it 374 00:27:42,858 --> 00:27:44,977 for your bus fare. Dining room. 375 00:27:44,977 --> 00:27:46,497 I'll leave you to it. 376 00:27:52,136 --> 00:27:54,335 I'm not happy about this at all. 377 00:28:10,531 --> 00:28:12,770 There's still been absolutely nothing in the papers. 378 00:28:12,770 --> 00:28:14,370 Largely thanks to Mother. 379 00:28:14,370 --> 00:28:18,249 You can always trust her judgement. 380 00:28:18,249 --> 00:28:20,808 Are you going to ask me what Mr Gascoigne said? 381 00:28:22,328 --> 00:28:24,807 What did he say? 382 00:28:24,807 --> 00:28:27,807 That it looks like a Christmas baby. 383 00:28:27,807 --> 00:28:31,206 I've got weeks more of this to go. 384 00:28:31,206 --> 00:28:35,725 He says my age is more of a hindrance than a help and he's going to put me to sleep and use forceps. 385 00:28:35,725 --> 00:28:39,324 Is that not good? When he left, he patted my hand. 386 00:28:39,324 --> 00:28:45,122 Have you any idea how terrifying it is when an obstetrician pats your hand? 387 00:28:45,122 --> 00:28:47,522 Next week, his nurse is coming. 388 00:28:47,522 --> 00:28:49,601 And she's going to medicalise the bedroom. 389 00:29:24,992 --> 00:29:27,711 Whatever's going on? 390 00:29:31,830 --> 00:29:35,309 No-one will hurt you. I'm sorry, Sir! She sleeps with me but I never heard her wake! 391 00:29:35,309 --> 00:29:38,669 Has she done this before? Often. 392 00:29:38,669 --> 00:29:41,788 Though she doesn't come down to this floor in the general way, Sir. 393 00:29:41,788 --> 00:29:43,747 She's made a puddle on the carpet! 394 00:29:43,747 --> 00:29:45,747 I'm not sure I can bear this. We're bearing it. 395 00:29:45,747 --> 00:29:48,266 That is enough! 396 00:29:48,266 --> 00:29:51,265 Ivy, show Sir Hallam where you sleep. 397 00:29:51,265 --> 00:29:53,505 He'll carry Lotte back upstairs. 398 00:29:55,024 --> 00:29:59,823 Be very careful or you'll disturb her further. 399 00:29:59,823 --> 00:30:01,943 Come on, good girl. 400 00:30:19,778 --> 00:30:22,537 I simply want to help the child. 401 00:30:22,537 --> 00:30:25,817 I thought she could go to boarding school and live here in the holidays. 402 00:30:25,817 --> 00:30:28,456 But now I'm not convinced that that is possible. 403 00:30:28,456 --> 00:30:30,775 Lotte needs specialist medical care. 404 00:30:30,775 --> 00:30:33,655 If she cannot speak, she cannot have a future. 405 00:30:33,655 --> 00:30:36,494 Please allow me to consult the proper doctors. 406 00:30:36,494 --> 00:30:38,133 I'm sorry, Mother. 407 00:30:38,133 --> 00:30:42,492 I took Lotte on, I should be the one who resolves the situation. 408 00:30:45,492 --> 00:30:49,811 Hallam, Whitehall needs you and Agnes is preoccupied. 409 00:30:49,811 --> 00:30:53,690 I could start by arranging for her throat to be examined. 410 00:30:57,449 --> 00:30:59,528 What did you give her salt water for? 411 00:30:59,528 --> 00:31:02,407 I only wanted her to gargle! 412 00:31:02,407 --> 00:31:05,567 Salt water's good if you've got a poorly throat! 413 00:31:05,567 --> 00:31:07,686 Ivy's a very bad girl, Lotte! 414 00:31:07,686 --> 00:31:11,405 If I was Miss Buck, I'd make sure she was disciplined. 415 00:31:11,405 --> 00:31:16,164 You come in my kitchen. I'll make you a drink to take the taste away. 416 00:31:16,164 --> 00:31:18,963 I bet Lady Holland's going to put her in an orphanage! 417 00:31:18,963 --> 00:31:21,203 Lotte has no family, Ivy. 418 00:31:21,203 --> 00:31:25,162 She's got us! She bunks in with me and she don't eat hardly nothing! 419 00:31:25,162 --> 00:31:29,121 She sleeps in my bed and she eats hardly anything. 420 00:31:29,121 --> 00:31:31,200 I don't care what English you say it in, Mr Pritchard. 421 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,799 Queen's English or the human kind. 422 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,358 But I don't want her going nowhere like the Cottage Homes! 423 00:31:37,358 --> 00:31:40,598 And you wouldn't neither if you'd been put in one when you was born! 424 00:32:07,231 --> 00:32:09,350 I was born in a thousand-year-old castle. 425 00:32:09,350 --> 00:32:11,950 Once upon a time, a warlord earned it. 426 00:32:11,950 --> 00:32:15,229 Or fought for it. Drew blood from an enemy and won. 427 00:32:15,229 --> 00:32:17,668 But after that, not a thing 428 00:32:17,668 --> 00:32:19,508 was ever altered. It's like a carcass. 429 00:32:19,508 --> 00:32:21,907 You can smell it going bad. 430 00:32:21,907 --> 00:32:24,187 You're talking like a socialist. 431 00:32:25,706 --> 00:32:27,986 I've looked into socialism. 432 00:32:27,986 --> 00:32:29,545 "From each according to their ability. 433 00:32:29,545 --> 00:32:31,625 To each according to their needs"? 434 00:32:31,625 --> 00:32:34,944 I think it will lead to a ghastly imbalance. 435 00:32:34,944 --> 00:32:37,663 I'm not a socialist, Herr Ribbentrop. 436 00:32:37,663 --> 00:32:40,063 I wish you would call me Joachim. 437 00:32:40,063 --> 00:32:44,901 I'm a national socialist, Joachim. 438 00:32:44,901 --> 00:32:47,861 Mosley thinks the world of you. 439 00:32:47,861 --> 00:32:49,900 Mosley's had his day. 440 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:52,060 No seat in Parliament. 441 00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:54,379 Since Cable Street, he's practically been outlawed. 442 00:32:54,379 --> 00:32:56,978 He isn't devoid of friends. 443 00:32:56,978 --> 00:32:59,138 He is in London. 444 00:32:59,138 --> 00:33:01,137 And in London, that's the only thing that counts. 445 00:33:03,097 --> 00:33:04,736 Tell me about Germany. 446 00:33:07,416 --> 00:33:10,175 We did our utmost, Sir. 447 00:33:10,175 --> 00:33:13,014 The morganatic marriage notion bought some time 448 00:33:13,014 --> 00:33:20,012 and MI5 did uncover secret trysts between Mrs Simpson and a used car salesman. 449 00:33:20,012 --> 00:33:21,732 Not Ribbentrop? 450 00:33:21,732 --> 00:33:23,691 No. It was deemed a private matter. 451 00:33:23,691 --> 00:33:25,411 The King will not be told. 452 00:33:26,931 --> 00:33:29,130 Was there nothing at all on our German friend? 453 00:33:29,130 --> 00:33:31,210 There was plenty on our German friend. 454 00:33:31,210 --> 00:33:34,729 You'll be seeing the documents later on today. 455 00:33:34,729 --> 00:33:37,168 He hasn't abdicated yet! 456 00:33:37,168 --> 00:33:39,927 It's all conjecture, and vulgarised at that. 457 00:33:39,927 --> 00:33:42,727 I don't know why people are getting so distraught! 458 00:33:42,727 --> 00:33:46,646 People feel personally involved, Mr Pritchard. 459 00:33:46,646 --> 00:33:48,325 And they aren't, and they never will be. 460 00:33:48,325 --> 00:33:52,204 I've put canapes in that woman's mouth! 461 00:33:52,204 --> 00:33:55,643 If that's not personal involvement, I don't know what is! 462 00:33:55,643 --> 00:33:59,162 Anyone who isn't crying hasn't got a heart! 463 00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:02,602 - Miss Buck is blinking tears back. - That's enough. 464 00:34:02,602 --> 00:34:07,080 I told you to unplug that wireless and carry it upstairs. 465 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,200 The family's set has broken altogether. 466 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:18,797 Take Lotte downstairs and try to help her settle. I shan't require you for a while. 467 00:34:18,797 --> 00:34:20,317 Very good, Madam. 468 00:34:24,836 --> 00:34:28,795 It's as I thought. The loss of her voice is entirely in her mind. 469 00:34:28,795 --> 00:34:31,274 There must be other doctors who can help her. 470 00:34:31,274 --> 00:34:35,953 Yes, dear. They're called psychiatrists. 471 00:34:35,953 --> 00:34:37,513 Is it that bad, do you suppose? 472 00:34:37,513 --> 00:34:41,072 We must believe it's that bad or she won't get any better. 473 00:34:44,031 --> 00:34:47,070 Maud, I don't know what to do. 474 00:34:48,790 --> 00:34:51,069 Keep the child entertained. 475 00:34:51,069 --> 00:34:53,669 Give her an ordinary day. 476 00:34:53,669 --> 00:34:56,428 I'll make all the necessary arrangements. 477 00:35:03,946 --> 00:35:05,466 Honey. 478 00:35:11,104 --> 00:35:12,624 Honey. 479 00:35:16,863 --> 00:35:18,982 Say honey! 480 00:35:18,982 --> 00:35:22,901 If not for your own sake, say it for your mother's. 481 00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:33,219 When I was a girl, I adored doing jigsaws. 482 00:35:33,219 --> 00:35:36,938 I was always in charge of the blue bits. 483 00:35:36,938 --> 00:35:40,257 My mother used to say, "that's Agnes's job. 484 00:35:40,257 --> 00:35:42,936 Agnes is in charge of sky". 485 00:35:50,414 --> 00:35:52,454 My mother died, Lotte. 486 00:35:52,454 --> 00:35:55,093 She died when my little sister was born. 487 00:35:55,093 --> 00:35:57,732 That's me, kid. 488 00:35:57,732 --> 00:36:02,211 I was older than you but it was still unbearable. 489 00:36:02,211 --> 00:36:06,770 I kept thinking, "I mustn't cry, I mustn't howl, I must be brave". 490 00:36:08,810 --> 00:36:12,689 There always seemed to be so many people watching. 491 00:36:12,689 --> 00:36:15,368 And in the end, I'd have to run away into the woods and scream and 492 00:36:15,368 --> 00:36:18,047 scream, without using any words at all. 493 00:36:20,247 --> 00:36:23,326 Because there's nothing one can say 494 00:36:23,326 --> 00:36:25,645 when one's mother dies. 495 00:36:32,724 --> 00:36:34,683 That really is quite splendid. 496 00:36:36,203 --> 00:36:38,722 Such a lovely lot of blue. 497 00:36:38,722 --> 00:36:40,322 For pity's sake, Agnes! 498 00:36:40,322 --> 00:36:42,281 Will you spare the child? 499 00:36:42,281 --> 00:36:43,801 And spare yourself. 500 00:36:49,439 --> 00:36:51,959 Lotte and I will be leaving at three. 501 00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:54,878 Spargo will drive us as far as the branch line. 502 00:36:54,878 --> 00:36:56,477 Please, Madam. 503 00:36:56,477 --> 00:36:58,717 Permit me to accompany you. 504 00:36:58,717 --> 00:37:02,876 No. There's enough of the circus about today's proceedings. 505 00:37:02,876 --> 00:37:06,035 If it is not the crowds outside the palace weeping for the King, it's the 506 00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:09,474 wailing and grizzling all over the house for Lotte. 507 00:37:09,474 --> 00:37:12,193 - We are concerned about her. - So am I. 508 00:37:13,713 --> 00:37:16,992 Very seriously concerned. 509 00:37:16,992 --> 00:37:20,191 But I've arranged for the child to have treatment. 510 00:37:21,711 --> 00:37:25,270 I do hope you'll trust me to do my best for her. 511 00:37:26,790 --> 00:37:28,469 Lady Holland, 512 00:37:28,469 --> 00:37:30,629 will she ever come back to us? 513 00:37:30,629 --> 00:37:33,988 If she doesn't recover, she can't come back. 514 00:37:46,185 --> 00:37:50,784 Your name is Carlotte Marganit Perlmutter. 515 00:37:50,784 --> 00:37:54,623 You were born in Frankfurt in 1929. 516 00:37:54,623 --> 00:37:57,382 You are a Jewess. 517 00:37:57,382 --> 00:37:59,701 Your father is called Avram Perlmutter. 518 00:38:01,221 --> 00:38:05,380 In August 1936, he was known to be alive. 519 00:38:05,380 --> 00:38:13,378 After your mother's death on 4th October 1936, you were removed to 165 Eaton Place, Belgravia. 520 00:38:14,898 --> 00:38:16,777 We ought to give her this. 521 00:38:16,777 --> 00:38:21,176 What would a child want with a woman's nightdress? 522 00:38:21,176 --> 00:38:25,255 When I started wearing it, it used to smell like Rachel. 523 00:38:25,255 --> 00:38:27,974 It don't smell like anything now, 524 00:38:27,974 --> 00:38:30,694 which probably means it smells like me. 525 00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:47,769 You were cared for by the staff. 526 00:38:47,769 --> 00:38:50,968 They remembered your mother. 527 00:38:50,968 --> 00:38:52,528 And they loved you. 528 00:40:10,188 --> 00:40:12,588 It's all in there. Every telephone call. 529 00:40:12,588 --> 00:40:16,267 Every visit to your home. You may peruse the records at your leisure. 530 00:40:16,267 --> 00:40:20,386 Joachim von Ribbentrop has never been in my home! Really? 531 00:40:21,905 --> 00:40:26,104 He turned up, inopportunely, at a cocktail party. You were there, Sir. 532 00:40:26,104 --> 00:40:30,983 I wasn't there last Friday night. He was. Arriving at half past midnight and leaving at 3am! 533 00:40:30,983 --> 00:40:32,663 Who was he visiting, if not you? 534 00:40:32,663 --> 00:40:34,622 Who was he telephoning, if not you?! 535 00:40:36,222 --> 00:40:39,021 I shall find out. We already have. 536 00:40:39,021 --> 00:40:40,901 It's all in here. 537 00:40:40,901 --> 00:40:42,620 It's Lady Persephone. 538 00:40:42,620 --> 00:40:45,859 Your wife's sister. 539 00:40:45,859 --> 00:40:48,579 I suggest you go home and put your house in order. 540 00:40:57,256 --> 00:40:59,016 Where is Lady Persie? 541 00:40:59,016 --> 00:41:00,855 She has a dinner engagement, Sir. 542 00:41:00,855 --> 00:41:02,535 We were told not to wait up. 543 00:41:08,334 --> 00:41:11,733 It's bad enough you knew nothing of your sister's movements but to 544 00:41:11,733 --> 00:41:14,852 relinquish all control of a small child in our care. 545 00:41:14,852 --> 00:41:17,851 I've had other preoccupations, just like you! 546 00:41:17,851 --> 00:41:19,371 Where was Lotte taken? 547 00:41:19,371 --> 00:41:22,410 To a reputable clinic. Under the care of a psychiatrist. 548 00:41:22,410 --> 00:41:25,329 Since when did my mother know anything about psychiatrists? 549 00:41:25,329 --> 00:41:27,409 She said she had connections through her charitable causes! 550 00:41:27,409 --> 00:41:29,808 She took charge most efficiently. 551 00:41:29,808 --> 00:41:32,327 Said it was best to act at once and without fuss. 552 00:41:32,327 --> 00:41:34,607 I can't believe you didn't ask more questions! 553 00:41:34,607 --> 00:41:36,486 That you allowed her to run the entire show! 554 00:41:36,486 --> 00:41:38,206 She's running everything else! 555 00:41:38,206 --> 00:41:43,885 And as you said, you can always trust her judgement. 556 00:41:43,885 --> 00:41:47,084 Lady Holland made me leave them with the branch line, Sir. 557 00:41:47,084 --> 00:41:50,843 You left my mother and a vulnerable child at a railway station? 558 00:41:50,843 --> 00:41:52,642 She insisted, Sir. 559 00:41:52,642 --> 00:41:56,321 And with respect, you know what Lady Holland's like when she insists. 560 00:41:56,321 --> 00:41:59,121 I can't accept that you have no knowledge of their whereabouts. 561 00:41:59,121 --> 00:42:01,880 She made calls when I was not in the room. 562 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,919 She has always made calls when I am not in the room. 563 00:42:06,919 --> 00:42:10,398 Even I am not permitted to know everything. 564 00:42:15,557 --> 00:42:17,116 Mother! 565 00:42:17,116 --> 00:42:19,356 You acted without my permission! 566 00:42:19,356 --> 00:42:23,634 I acted in everyone's best interest. 567 00:42:23,634 --> 00:42:26,274 I shouldn't have to have your permission to do that. 568 00:42:28,953 --> 00:42:34,232 I want any address relating to Berkshire, whether it sounds like a clinic or not. 569 00:42:34,232 --> 00:42:38,311 And any surname prefaced with the word "doctor". 570 00:42:39,830 --> 00:42:42,710 I respect her privacy. 571 00:42:42,710 --> 00:42:45,749 I am her secretary. Not a relative. 572 00:42:45,749 --> 00:42:48,468 She is refusing to talk to us. 573 00:42:48,468 --> 00:42:50,108 Go through them. 574 00:42:50,108 --> 00:42:53,267 Go through them all. Threaten me. 575 00:42:55,506 --> 00:42:58,346 You will have to threaten me or I cannot do it. 576 00:42:58,346 --> 00:43:01,465 I'll do more than threaten you. 577 00:43:01,465 --> 00:43:03,224 I'll threaten her. 578 00:43:03,224 --> 00:43:06,584 I'm going to find that child and she won't stop me. 579 00:43:33,337 --> 00:43:35,616 Good morning. I'm sorry, we don't usually have visitors so early. 580 00:43:35,616 --> 00:43:39,175 I came to see a girl who was brought here by my mother. 581 00:43:39,175 --> 00:43:41,935 Oh, Sir Hallam! 582 00:43:41,935 --> 00:43:43,734 How nice! 583 00:43:43,734 --> 00:43:46,373 She had breakfast on a tray this morning. 584 00:43:46,373 --> 00:43:48,413 You need room nine at the top of the stairs. 585 00:43:48,413 --> 00:43:51,452 Heathcote Manor. Nurse Jackson speaking. 586 00:45:31,707 --> 00:45:33,226 Pamela? 587 00:45:38,625 --> 00:45:41,984 I think I'm your brother, Pamela. 588 00:45:41,984 --> 00:45:43,904 I know you are. 589 00:45:57,820 --> 00:45:59,740 Sir Hallam! There's been some confusion! 590 00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:01,259 No. 591 00:46:04,738 --> 00:46:06,818 There's been no confusion at all. 592 00:46:09,657 --> 00:46:12,176 Mother! Mother! You will come out and speak to me. 593 00:46:12,176 --> 00:46:13,696 Damn you! 594 00:46:18,935 --> 00:46:21,614 Leave her be, Sir. 595 00:46:30,172 --> 00:46:31,692 Agnes told me. 596 00:46:33,771 --> 00:46:35,611 Is she still upset? 597 00:46:35,611 --> 00:46:37,450 Obviously. 598 00:46:37,450 --> 00:46:40,369 Although she's mainly moaning about her back. 599 00:46:40,369 --> 00:46:42,849 I said to her, "Cheer up, Sis. 600 00:46:42,849 --> 00:46:45,368 All the best families have a monster in the attic". 601 00:46:47,128 --> 00:46:50,927 The monster isn't Pamela, Persie. 602 00:46:50,927 --> 00:46:56,165 It's you. I'm hardly in the attic now Eden's done his stuff. 603 00:46:56,165 --> 00:46:58,365 And soon I won't be in your house at all. 604 00:47:00,884 --> 00:47:02,404 Where are you going? 605 00:47:03,923 --> 00:47:07,842 The King's about to speak to the Empire on the wireless. 606 00:47:07,842 --> 00:47:11,761 I shall listen with friends at the German Embassy. 607 00:47:11,761 --> 00:47:15,240 And after that, I'm leaving for Berlin. 608 00:47:23,078 --> 00:47:24,598 Give this 609 00:47:27,557 --> 00:47:31,356 to Agnes. She might like it if she has a little girl. 610 00:47:55,710 --> 00:47:59,389 Just those two suitcases. 611 00:47:59,389 --> 00:48:01,629 Do we have anything to say 612 00:48:04,668 --> 00:48:06,867 to one another? 613 00:48:06,867 --> 00:48:09,507 I don't know what you mean, Lady Persephone. 614 00:48:13,506 --> 00:48:15,465 I didn't think we did. 615 00:48:15,465 --> 00:48:17,105 Do hurry up. 616 00:48:17,105 --> 00:48:18,624 I'm missing all the fun. 617 00:48:59,214 --> 00:49:01,973 This is London. 618 00:49:01,973 --> 00:49:04,293 London calling the Empire, 619 00:49:04,293 --> 00:49:07,812 at home and overseas. 620 00:49:23,968 --> 00:49:29,486 This is Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness, Prince Edward. 621 00:49:29,486 --> 00:49:31,006 Come in. 622 00:49:32,526 --> 00:49:34,445 May we, Sir? 623 00:49:34,445 --> 00:49:36,445 At long last 624 00:49:36,445 --> 00:49:38,204 I am able to say a few words of my own. 625 00:49:42,643 --> 00:49:44,922 I have never wanted to 626 00:49:44,922 --> 00:49:46,442 withhold anything 627 00:49:48,362 --> 00:49:50,321 but until now, 628 00:49:51,921 --> 00:49:55,280 it has not been constitutionally possible 629 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,079 for me to speak. 630 00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:02,158 You all know the 631 00:50:02,158 --> 00:50:07,437 reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne 632 00:50:07,437 --> 00:50:13,115 But I want you to understand that in making up my mind, 633 00:50:13,115 --> 00:50:15,675 I did not forget 634 00:50:15,675 --> 00:50:17,354 the country 635 00:50:17,354 --> 00:50:18,874 or the Empire, 636 00:50:20,593 --> 00:50:23,393 which as Prince of Wales, 637 00:50:23,393 --> 00:50:25,992 and lately as King, 638 00:50:25,992 --> 00:50:30,751 I have for 25 years tried to serve. 639 00:50:35,710 --> 00:50:41,988 Why did you come? I need someone to send for Mr Gascoigne! 640 00:50:41,988 --> 00:50:45,307 I think it's far too late for Mr Gascoigne. 641 00:50:45,307 --> 00:50:48,986 Besides, he's probably listening to history being made. 642 00:50:50,506 --> 00:50:52,945 Brace yourself against the bath, my dear. 643 00:50:52,945 --> 00:50:54,505 Draw your knees right up. 644 00:50:54,505 --> 00:50:59,184 There's no need to look. It's not a sight that you'll care to recollect. 645 00:51:02,263 --> 00:51:08,501 I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility 646 00:51:08,501 --> 00:51:16,099 and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do, 647 00:51:16,099 --> 00:51:19,139 without the help and support 648 00:51:19,139 --> 00:51:21,578 of the woman I love. 649 00:51:33,215 --> 00:51:34,815 Don't leave me! 650 00:51:34,815 --> 00:51:36,534 Dear, I must fetch help. 651 00:51:40,693 --> 00:51:42,733 Might I be of any assistance? 652 00:51:42,733 --> 00:51:45,092 Oh yes, Pritchard, you may. 653 00:51:46,692 --> 00:51:47,851 Ah. 654 00:51:50,611 --> 00:51:53,090 During the War, I was on the ambulances. 655 00:51:53,090 --> 00:51:54,969 Blood panics most people. 656 00:51:54,969 --> 00:51:57,009 When I see it, I calm down. 657 00:52:01,568 --> 00:52:07,206 All will be well. Mother nature knows what she's about and so do I. 658 00:52:10,086 --> 00:52:12,245 If you would be so kind, your ladyship. 659 00:52:13,205 --> 00:52:15,244 Oh, Prichard. 660 00:52:15,244 --> 00:52:18,444 Events are moving very fast. I imagine you'll need implements. 661 00:52:18,444 --> 00:52:20,203 Master bedroom. Bring the whole trolley. 662 00:52:21,643 --> 00:52:26,521 Could you just blow, your ladyship? Blow and blow again as if you're putting out a lot of candles. 663 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,360 Keep bearing down. 664 00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,559 Splendid! Splendid. 665 00:52:39,598 --> 00:52:42,437 You're almost at the finish. 666 00:52:55,834 --> 00:52:58,713 You have a little boy, your ladyship. 667 00:53:06,991 --> 00:53:11,270 Persie looked just like him the day that she was born. 668 00:53:11,270 --> 00:53:14,149 I vowed I'd take care of her forever. 669 00:53:14,149 --> 00:53:17,429 Persie will have to take care of herself. 670 00:53:17,429 --> 00:53:21,867 I never knew a day so full of unimaginable things. 671 00:53:23,987 --> 00:53:25,786 I imagined this. 672 00:53:30,985 --> 00:53:33,984 Seven pounds, three ounces! 673 00:53:33,984 --> 00:53:38,903 And they're calling him Hector Greville Holland. 674 00:53:38,903 --> 00:53:41,063 It is very dignified. 675 00:53:41,063 --> 00:53:44,502 Not Warwick after you, then? 676 00:53:44,502 --> 00:53:47,061 I reckon he's in for a Christmas bonus! 677 00:53:47,061 --> 00:53:49,780 It wasn't a complex delivery. 678 00:53:49,780 --> 00:53:53,180 A passing policeman would've obliged for a cigar. 679 00:53:57,778 --> 00:53:59,778 What's Johnny doing here? 680 00:53:59,778 --> 00:54:03,817 I shall be asking Sir Hallam for a favour in due course. 681 00:54:05,936 --> 00:54:08,736 My brother's gone, Hal. 682 00:54:08,736 --> 00:54:11,135 He left on a destroyer. 683 00:54:11,135 --> 00:54:13,494 It's finished. 684 00:54:15,414 --> 00:54:19,253 It's finished and I... I don't know 685 00:54:19,253 --> 00:54:21,812 where to start. 686 00:54:21,812 --> 00:54:23,492 Start what, old chap? 687 00:54:26,651 --> 00:54:28,371 Forgiving him. 688 00:54:30,290 --> 00:54:32,010 You can't forgive him. 689 00:54:32,010 --> 00:54:33,609 I have no choice 690 00:54:33,609 --> 00:54:36,449 because the love doesn't stop. 691 00:54:38,528 --> 00:54:45,886 And where there's no forgiveness, love is just... 692 00:54:45,886 --> 00:54:47,766 it's unbearable. 693 00:54:54,324 --> 00:54:55,804 'It was what people did.' 694 00:54:57,523 --> 00:55:00,163 It was what I did with you. 695 00:55:00,163 --> 00:55:04,241 Children were sent to England so that they didn't die. 696 00:55:05,761 --> 00:55:13,079 In every bungalow one went to, every single British home, there was always a photograph in pride of place. 697 00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:16,198 "Yes", they would say, "Those are the children away at boarding school". 698 00:55:18,438 --> 00:55:20,397 It was one's badge of honour. 699 00:55:20,397 --> 00:55:23,797 A definite sign that duty had been done. 700 00:55:25,876 --> 00:55:31,275 You were always so terribly easy to be proud of. 701 00:55:31,275 --> 00:55:35,594 We thought we'd be proud of your baby sister too. 702 00:55:40,192 --> 00:55:43,232 It dawns gradually, 703 00:55:43,232 --> 00:55:46,031 the knowledge that a child is not like others. 704 00:55:50,710 --> 00:55:53,949 It took time to accept that she must be put away. 705 00:56:00,867 --> 00:56:02,387 Mother. 706 00:56:03,866 --> 00:56:05,626 Did you lie to Father too? 707 00:56:06,586 --> 00:56:08,305 There was no need. 708 00:56:08,305 --> 00:56:10,665 We always did the biggest things together. 709 00:56:13,424 --> 00:56:15,423 Why did you tell me she had died? 710 00:56:16,703 --> 00:56:19,022 Were you afraid I would not love her? 711 00:56:19,022 --> 00:56:20,782 No. 712 00:56:20,782 --> 00:56:23,741 I knew that you did. 713 00:56:23,741 --> 00:56:26,581 And that sort of devotion is an agony. 714 00:56:28,780 --> 00:56:30,540 I'm your mother too. 715 00:56:34,419 --> 00:56:36,578 I felt you should be spared it. 716 00:56:43,536 --> 00:56:47,815 I suppose he seems a respectable sort. 717 00:56:47,815 --> 00:56:51,654 And at least he's decided to be called King George. 718 00:56:51,654 --> 00:56:55,053 Morning room and drawing room fires both stoked. 719 00:56:55,053 --> 00:56:57,453 I took what was left to Mr Pritchard's grate. 720 00:56:57,453 --> 00:57:00,052 It'll do you to keep on his right side. 721 00:57:10,329 --> 00:57:13,049 Shall we treat ourselves 722 00:57:13,049 --> 00:57:15,448 and get my silver pot out? 723 00:57:15,448 --> 00:57:18,247 I thought you'd got rid of it. 724 00:57:18,247 --> 00:57:19,767 Hid it. 725 00:57:19,767 --> 00:57:21,287 From you. 726 00:57:33,564 --> 00:57:36,003 I'm not going to be foolish about it. 727 00:57:36,003 --> 00:57:41,522 Go on. Put it on the mantelpiece. 728 00:57:55,158 --> 00:57:58,637 Funny things, names. 729 00:57:58,637 --> 00:58:01,996 The way we let them gather dust. 730 00:58:01,996 --> 00:58:05,196 I never liked the one my mother picked for me 731 00:58:05,196 --> 00:58:06,835 but I miss it now. 732 00:58:06,835 --> 00:58:09,794 It's Clarice, isn't it? Yes. 733 00:58:09,794 --> 00:58:11,954 And I'm Rose. 734 00:58:17,672 --> 00:58:19,672 Pamela. 735 00:58:19,672 --> 00:58:21,391 Do you know what that is, Lotte? 736 00:58:21,391 --> 00:58:24,071 It's a new school uniform. 737 00:58:24,071 --> 00:58:26,070 You do look grown-up. 738 00:58:26,070 --> 00:58:29,509 You'll still be coming here in the holidays, of course. 739 00:58:29,509 --> 00:58:33,028 What do you say to Sir Hallam? Thank you! 740 00:58:36,868 --> 00:58:40,227 If you would care to step onto the landing, ladies and gentlemen. 741 00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:14,298 Oh, Miss Buck! 742 00:59:14,298 --> 00:59:17,617 Is everything as you would wish? Yes. 743 00:59:17,617 --> 00:59:19,177 Yes, it is. 744 00:59:34,093 --> 00:59:35,613 Well done, Miss Buck.