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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,360 [Lascelles] As His Majesty the King has not yet produced a male successor, 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,520 nor do we at this stage expect one, 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,120 the decision has been taken to start preparing you in earnest for the Crown. 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,080 From this moment on, 6 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,080 you will no longer be the heir presumptive, 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,680 but the heir apparent, and your life will be quite different. 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,680 You will not be able to travel unaccompanied, 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,520 nor to socialize as freely. 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,520 Your father, the King, had little or no time to prepare for the throne, 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,400 which was thrust upon him. 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,400 We will not be caught out again. 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,160 The Crown is not just an ornament to be worn. 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,520 It is a privilege and a burden, 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:04,120 which comes with formidable expectations and responsibilities. 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,760 [door opens] 17 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,600 I don't think I can do it. 18 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:30,680 [Margaret] I could. 19 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,080 I know you could. 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:35,680 [Margaret] I'd love every minute. 21 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:39,520 To be on every coin, on every banknote, 22 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,840 to be the most famous woman in the world. 23 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,960 I'd be so very good at it. 24 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,360 Wearing a big crown, giving everyone orders. 25 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Yes. 26 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:56,800 Then tell them, 27 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,000 "Margaret Rose can do it." 28 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,520 Margaret Rose wants to do it. 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,160 "Margaret Rose was born to do it." 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:06,920 You were. 31 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:09,960 Then let me speak to them tomorrow. 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,200 It would be the best thing for both of us. 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,400 All right. 34 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,960 [Margaret chuckles] Good. 35 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,960 [crowd cheers] 36 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,000 [cheering] 37 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,320 [Elizabeth] Hello, you. 38 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,360 Your Majesty. 39 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,400 Just come to wish you a bon voyage and to thank you. 40 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,080 What for? 41 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,640 For agreeing to squeeze in so many public engagements 42 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,480 on what is essentially a private trip. 43 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,320 - And for flying this way, commercially. - [Margaret] Well, it's not so bad. 44 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,440 They've cleared out the first-class cabin just for us. 45 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,960 What's the first stop? New York? 46 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,400 Uh, San Francisco. Then Los Angeles. 47 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,040 Then five days with the Douglases in Arizona. 48 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:43,840 How lovely. 49 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,880 Then on to New York, where Tony is promoting his book. 50 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,360 - You've written a book? - Uh, a book of my photographs. 51 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:51,920 Oh, you are clever. 52 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,760 You must make time to really relax, too. 53 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,280 [Margaret] We will. 54 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,080 Be good to one another. Kind to one another. 55 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:02,440 Both of you. 56 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,480 [Margaret] Sad she felt the need to say that. 57 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,440 [Tony] What? 58 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,000 "Be good to one another. Kind to one another. Both of you." 59 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,440 [sighs] It was a little clumsy. 60 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,200 But she means well. 61 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:20,880 The two of us... 62 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,000 we're complicated. 63 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,320 She and I are complicated. 64 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 [Tony] It's true. 65 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,120 Elder sister, younger sister. 66 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,040 Number one and number two. 67 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,240 Who's number one? 68 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,720 You. Of course. 69 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:44,080 A natural number one whose tragedy it is to have been born number two. 70 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,080 Hmm. That is my burden. 71 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,120 She knows it, too. 72 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,720 Yes, I think she does. 73 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,920 - [speaker beeps] - That's her burden. 74 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,280 [announcer] Welcome aboard this BOAC flight to San Francisco. 75 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,080 Please take your seats and relax. 76 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,400 We're now ready for departure and will be taxiing shortly. 77 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,480 We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a very pleasant flight. 78 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,160 - [soldier] Ten-hut! - [feet stamp] 79 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,400 Good morning, Mr. Ambassador. 80 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,720 [Dean] Economically, as you know, Marvin, 81 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,200 the United Kingdom is right up against it. 82 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,320 It's seeing a terrifying run on sterling, 83 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,040 and our credit from the IMF is about to expire. 84 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:05,640 Now, the Prime Minister has made several attempts 85 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,240 to speak to the President about another bailout, 86 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,000 a rescue package. 87 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,000 But the President refuses to take his call. 88 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,800 [Watson] President Johnson is a busy man. 89 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,000 Too busy to talk to his oldest ally? 90 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,240 Historically, the holder of this office 91 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,280 has the warmest relationship with Downing Street. 92 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,280 Think of Churchill and Roosevelt, 93 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,640 or Truman and Attlee. Macmillan and JFK. 94 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,520 No need to keep mentioning Jack Kennedy like that. 95 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:34,880 Keep mentioning? 96 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,240 It's just provocative. 97 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:37,960 Unhelpful. 98 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,640 President Johnson is his own man. 99 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:42,720 Well, of course. 100 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,840 I mentioned it only in the context of our leaders 101 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,280 standing shoulder to shoulder in times of difficulty. 102 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,680 Morning, Prime Minister. 103 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,880 [Dean] The United Kingdom and the United States. 104 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,240 Historically, it's like a marriage. 105 00:07:58,160 --> 00:07:59,400 Will you talk to him? 106 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,720 No! Screw the Brits! I don't like 'em. I never liked 'em. 107 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,760 If they're not looking down at you through their noses, 108 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,560 they're holding their hands out like beggars. 109 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,960 And I don't give a crap about any special relationship. 110 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,400 Harold Wilson wants my help, he should have thought about that 111 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,160 when he refused to support me over Vietnam. 112 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,720 You can't screw a man in the ass and then expect him to buy you flowers! 113 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,400 - The Prime Minister, Your Majesty. - Your Majesty. 114 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,360 Prime Minister. 115 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:44,280 Uh, I'm sure that it did not escape your attention 116 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,760 that President Johnson failed to attend Mr. Winston's funeral. 117 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,000 Yes, on account of a cold. 118 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,280 Well, that was the explanation the White House gave, 119 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:53,640 but it persuaded no one. 120 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,280 Uh... I fear that the President may have taken against me 121 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,560 for what he sees as my failure to support him over Vietnam. 122 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,360 And I wondered... [coughs] 123 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,720 [clears throat] ...in the past, 124 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,320 the royal family has been extremely helpful 125 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,920 in keeping the special relationship afloat. 126 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,560 And given the... 127 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,280 predicament the country finds itself in economically... 128 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,160 You'd like us to roll out the red carpet. Make a bit of a fuss. 129 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,120 Please. 130 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:35,680 All right. 131 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,840 I shall consult the Three Wise Men. See what they have to say. 132 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,160 Thank you, ma'am. 133 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,000 [photographer 1] Welcome to San Francisco! 134 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,760 Margaret! Margaret, over here! Over here! 135 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,280 [photographer 2] Picture, right this way! Thank you, Margaret. 136 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,560 [Tony] "What we have witnessed in Princess Margaret" 137 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,440 is a more vibrant, modern, and engaging version of her older sister." 138 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,120 [chuckles] Quite right. 139 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,800 [Tony] "To those accustomed to the formality of traditional royal visits," 140 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,880 meeting Princess Margaret has been like going from a black-and-white film 141 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,520 "to one in color." 142 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,360 What about a state dinner, 143 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,560 like the one held for Woodrow Wilson in 1918? 144 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,200 Or a weekend at Windsor Castle? 145 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,160 The important thing here, I'm told, 146 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,440 is that whatever we offer President Johnson, 147 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,200 it must exceed whatever we gave the Kennedys. 148 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,400 ["When You're Smiling" playing] 149 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,680 [reporter 1] Hey, we wanted to see the Queen! 150 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,280 [Margaret] You're seeing something better than the Queen! 151 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,640 [reporter 2] What do you think is the main difference between Britain and America? 152 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,800 [Margaret] Well, my sister isn't on the banknotes here! 153 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:39,760 [laughter] 154 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,520 [reporter 3] What are you most looking forward to in America? 155 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:44,960 Liberty! 156 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,440 - [crowd cheers] - [woman] We love you, Princess Margaret! 157 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:54,880 [camera clicks] 158 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:56,720 ? Be happy again ? 159 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,040 ? Keep on smiling ? 160 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,960 ? 'Cause when you're smiling ? 161 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,320 ? The whole world ? 162 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,040 ? Smiles with you ? 163 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,520 Keep smiling, darling. 164 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,840 [Elizabeth] What news of Princess Margaret? 165 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,360 After three days in San Francisco, 166 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,480 Her Royal Highness has safely arrived in Los Angeles. 167 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,280 Any disasters I should be aware of? 168 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,200 No, on the contrary, the trip seems to have been a great success. 169 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,000 Really? 170 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,360 [Charteris] There's rave reviews in all the newspapers... 171 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:26,720 [crowd cheers] 172 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,240 With even a name having been coined for the multitude of fans and well-wishers 173 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,200 who have followed her every step of the way. 174 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,200 - Which is? - Margaretologists. 175 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,320 Margaretologists? 176 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,720 - [cameras click] - [Charteris] Yes, ma'am. 177 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:40,960 Fans who have delighted 178 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,120 in Her Royal Highness's intelligence and articulacy, her beauty 179 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,840 and charm, with one newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, 180 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:47,920 even going so far as... 181 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,240 - Yes, all right. Thank you, Martin. - Uh, yes, ma'am. 182 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:51,800 I'm a queen, not a saint. 183 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:53,880 [Tony] That's it. Try not to smile. 184 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,520 [laughter] 185 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,880 [laughs] 186 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:12,160 [Tony] I gave it! 187 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,160 Not once, not twice, but three times, and you ignored it! 188 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:16,320 [Margaret] What? 189 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,680 The signal! 190 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,640 Our signal that I wanted to leave. 191 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,120 [Margaret] I didn't see it. 192 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,960 You know as well as I that if you are the guest of honor, 193 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,560 you cannot just leave. 194 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,200 In the course of our marriage, I have lost count of the number of times 195 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,200 you've walked out as "guest of honor." 196 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,240 - Once or twice. - All the bloody time. 197 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,920 - When it's dreary. - When it suits you! 198 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,520 When the people are ugly and dull. 199 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,800 These people were amusing and attractive. 200 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,040 And they made me feel good. 201 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,280 No, no, no, no. The alcohol made you feel good... 202 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,200 and blunted your judgment 203 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,720 to the sycophancy of the people surrounding you. 204 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,560 [Margaret] Is that right? 205 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,440 - [Tony] Yes. Keys. - Well... 206 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,200 sadly, it's not blunted my judgment 207 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,960 to your mean-spiritedness and jealousy and... 208 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,800 general pusillanimity... 209 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,120 pusinalamn... 210 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,400 Small-mindedness. 211 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,200 [Margaret] I don't recognize this. 212 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:24,640 Hmm. 213 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,440 Come to think of it, I don't recognize you. 214 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,640 Actually... [chuckles] 215 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,080 Nor did anyone else! 216 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,480 I mean, if we're honest... 217 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,240 [chuckles] 218 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,480 Isn't that the real problem here, hmm? 219 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,240 [in American accent] Oh, I'm sorry. 220 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,080 A-A-And... and you are... Tony who? 221 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,320 Oh, yeah! The husband guy. 222 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,600 It's not easy, sometimes. 223 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,400 What is not easy? 224 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,840 Being second fiddle to a pygmy princess. 225 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,200 Don't talk to me about being a second fiddle. 226 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,000 I get so little limelight. 227 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,960 [laughs loudly] 228 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,080 No, it's the price I pay for the sister I have. 229 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:21,240 But if the opportunity should once arise for me to shine, 230 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,160 I'd appreciate you putting aside the competitive little narcissist 231 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:27,360 that rages within you... 232 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,280 and letting me savor it. 233 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:36,720 [shoe falls] 234 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:42,720 I promise... 235 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,960 that once we get to New York, 236 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,040 the spotlight will be entirely on you, 237 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:51,880 and your book. 238 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,640 I'll take a back seat 239 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,040 and be the adoring and supportive number two 240 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,000 you want me to be. 241 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,480 And nothing will make me happier. 242 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,480 [car approaches] 243 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,800 [Johnson] Now, you can tell me all you want that 50,000, 244 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,000 hell, 100,000 more boots on the ground are going to resolve this. 245 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,480 But I put 100,000 more men in there, 246 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,520 who's to say that Ho Chi Minh isn't gonna put 100,000 more? 247 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,680 A man can't fight if he can't see daylight at the end of the road. 248 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,840 I wanna see solutions, gentlemen, solutions. 249 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:36,760 Not more numbers! 250 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,080 By God, I will not be the first American president 251 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:41,960 to lose a goddamn war! 252 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,400 - [knocking at door] - [door opens] 253 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,560 - That'll be all. - Yes, sir, Mr. President. 254 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:49,680 [Johnson sighs] 255 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:52,240 Thank you. 256 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,120 What is this? 257 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,560 [Watson] A peace offering from the Brits, hoping to secure the bailout. 258 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:12,360 - A weekend shooting at Balmoral? - Yes, sir. That's as good as it gets. 259 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,480 Even Kennedy never got that. 260 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:16,520 Really? 261 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,120 He got a banquet, a Naval Guard of Honor, but never a weekend shooting in Scotland. 262 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:23,680 No one has gotten that. 263 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,080 Hmm. 264 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,440 [sighs] Still... 265 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,720 that's a long flight, 266 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,360 followed by a long drive... 267 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,520 staying in some creepy haunted castle. 268 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,160 - [Watson chuckles] - The weather's terrible. 269 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,320 [sighs] And it would involve making small talk to fancy people. 270 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:53,920 Then when you go shooting, 271 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,560 there's rules, things you do and don't do, 272 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,920 which would involve research and learning... 273 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,600 cutting my nails... 274 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:06,599 and I'd still get it all wrong. 275 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,319 And then everybody would laugh at me and they'd say I wasn't no Jack Kennedy, 276 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,800 who would know exactly which knife and fork to use and which bird to shoot. 277 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,359 - So, my position has not changed. - Hmm. 278 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,079 It is still, "No, thank you, Your Majesty." 279 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,840 Tomorrow, there's the reception given by the Council of Engineering Institutions 280 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,080 at the Science Museum, 281 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,960 followed by an audience with His Excellency Gu�mundur Gu�mundsson, 282 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,800 the new ambassador for the Republic of Iceland. 283 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,960 Thank you, Michael. And where are we with President Johnson? 284 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,880 Ah, we went back offering a weekend shooting in Balmoral. 285 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,080 Did we? Lucky LBJ. We don't get enough of those ourselves. 286 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,760 - And? - No response, ma'am. 287 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,120 - What? - Nothing. Complete silence. 288 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,440 - That's a first. - Yes. 289 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,440 And probably not what Downing Street was hoping for. 290 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,680 - Is everyone panicking? - Slightly. 291 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,120 - What about Princess Margaret? - Oh, safely arrived in Arizona, ma'am. 292 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,280 Oh, well, that's something. At the Douglas family ranch? 293 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,160 - Yes. - I've never been. 294 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,520 - What do we know about it? - They say it's quite something. 295 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,200 A beautiful 19th-century country house set under the Santa Rita mountains, 296 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,720 in miles and miles of wide-open desert. 297 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,320 [horse neighs] 298 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,640 - [Margaret coughs] - Tony! 299 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,920 - Tony. - Brace yourselves. 300 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:06,600 Come along, darling. 301 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,120 - Your Royal Highness. - Your Royal Highness. 302 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,360 [Margaret] No, Blinkie, no kissing. Germs! 303 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,240 [coughs] 304 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,640 [Tony] She's exhausted, poor thing. 305 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:24,160 [groans] 306 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,680 - I look hideous. - [Tony] No. 307 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,200 Ghastly. 308 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,640 You look a bit tired. 309 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,720 A bit coldy. 310 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,160 It's only to be expected after your... 311 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,040 heroics. 312 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,440 You hated every minute, didn't you? 313 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:45,800 Maybe. 314 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,200 But that's irrelevant. 315 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:50,920 The newspapers didn't. 316 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,800 Page after page about how extraordinary you were, 317 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,840 what an asset to the Crown, how underused you are, 318 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,360 what a secret weapon, how deserving you are of the spotlight. 319 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,880 - Your elder sister eclipsed and outshone. - Darling. 320 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,600 - And now you must sleep. - Hmm? What will you do? 321 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,840 Be a good guest and sing for our supper. 322 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,440 - So rest. - I will. 323 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,720 And get well for New York. 324 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,960 [door opens] 325 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,360 [door closes] 326 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,600 [Watson] Mr. President, I just got off the phone with our ambassador in London, 327 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,680 who just got off the phone with the Prime Minister, 328 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,160 - who got off the phone with the Queen. - Don't tell me, everybody's pissed. 329 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,560 The general view seems to be 330 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,080 that if you have a quarrel with the Prime Minister, 331 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,000 that's one thing, but no one gets to insult the Crown, sir. 332 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,040 - [urinates] - It's like, uh, treason or something. 333 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:57,360 How have I insulted the Crown? 334 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,640 By not accepting the Queen's invitation, sir. 335 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,680 Well, I didn't refuse. 336 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:04,560 I just haven't replied. 337 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,760 Well, now, don't you do this, Marvin. 338 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,920 You're my Chief of Staff, you're supposed to have my back. 339 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,400 Don't you get suckered into this. 340 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,280 You know, they got this whole thing going on over there, 341 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,200 Head of State, Prime Minister, Buckingham Palace, 342 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,480 Downing Street, it's like a double act, like tag-team wrestling. 343 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,040 One of 'em gets in trouble, the other jumps in to bail 'em out. 344 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,320 Wilson screws me over Vietnam, 345 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,080 and she jumps in to make it all good with some bird-shoot bullshit. 346 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,640 We don't have that here. 347 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:36,480 [Watson] No, sir. 348 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:38,640 [zips up fly] 349 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,120 The buck stops with me. 350 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,880 Who the hell am I supposed to call 351 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,520 if I want to issue an invitation to get me out of trouble? 352 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,600 [Watson] Well, you call me, sir, your oldest friend. 353 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,840 I'd come up with a sensible plan to get us all out of trouble. 354 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,240 All right. Come up with a plan. 355 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Well, sir, I just did. 356 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,280 This is the plan, right here. 357 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,160 Who in God's name is that? 358 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,080 [man on TV] They came to land at Oakland Airport, 359 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,120 and here, as in San Francisco, 360 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,560 crowds met and cheered them everywhere they went. 361 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,320 The Princess was radiant, obviously enjoying herself. 362 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,000 It wasn't long before her sparkle cast an informal atmosphere over the occasion. 363 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,080 The American people and their press have warmed to the couple, 364 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,960 enchanted by the natural display of charm and friendliness. 365 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,560 Prime Minister for you, ma'am. 366 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,040 Said it was urgent. 367 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,480 Prime Minister? 368 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:42,880 [Wilson] Just to say, we've finally had a response from the Americans, ma'am. 369 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,440 They've come back with an invitation of their own. 370 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,000 To dinner at the White House. 371 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,840 - For me? - No, for Princess Margaret. 372 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,000 - Oh, that's cunning. - Uh, yes. 373 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,280 That way, President Johnson can't be accused of snubbing my offer. 374 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:01,560 No. 375 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,480 It also side-steps the all-important issue of the bailout. 376 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,320 Indeed. 377 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,320 But we think not all is lost, 378 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,720 that Princess Margaret should accept the invitation, 379 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,480 go to the White House, 380 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,640 and use the occasion 381 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,320 to win over hearts and minds to the British cause. 382 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,120 It would be a political engagement of the utmost delicacy. 383 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,360 For which you want to send Princess Margaret? 384 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,680 Yes, well, that had been my reaction. 385 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,440 But her trip to America has been a terrific success. 386 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:37,520 So I gather. 387 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,360 So, will you ask her? 388 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,400 If those are my instructions. 389 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:49,800 Please. 390 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,600 Well, well. 391 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,720 I suppose the situation is so dire, there's really nothing to lose. 392 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,200 He doesn't know my sister. 393 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,680 [Charteris] Hmm. 394 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:05,920 Ma'am. 395 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,560 - [knocking at door] - [door opens] 396 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,720 [Margaret] No! 397 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,120 - [Blinkie] Your Royal Highness? - No! 398 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,240 - [Blinkie] Telephone for you. - No! 399 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,840 [Blinkie] It's the Queen. 400 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:24,680 [sighs] 401 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:28,880 [groans] 402 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,240 - [lighter clicks] - Hello, you. 403 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,120 Hello, you. 404 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,440 Sorry to disturb. 405 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,120 I know you're on holiday, so you won't want to hear this. 406 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,400 What? 407 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,280 We've had an invitation from the White House 408 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,760 for you to go to Washington 409 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,320 and have dinner with the President and the First Lady, 410 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,600 and we'd like you to attend. 411 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,600 - When? - This Wednesday. 412 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,680 Oh. Can't. 413 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 Why not? 414 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,520 I'm going to be in New York. 415 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:06,360 For Tony's book launch. 416 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,240 Perhaps I should make it clear. 417 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,680 There is rather a lot riding on it, 418 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,760 and everyone is keen, very keen, for you to go. 419 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,240 Perhaps I should make it clear 420 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,440 that nothing is going to stop me from supporting my husband, 421 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,960 just like you asked me to. 422 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,200 - [dial tone] - Margaret! 423 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:05,920 [Elizabeth] "Dear Margaret," 424 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,720 as a wife, I understand your desire to support Tony. 425 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,720 You know that it was my honest hope 426 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,840 that on this trip you would both find the opportunity 427 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,520 to be more courteous, 428 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,880 more encouraging to each other. 429 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,160 But for now, such considerations must be put aside. 430 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:25,680 I have asked you this once as a sister, 431 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,640 "and now I must command it as your Queen." 432 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,600 Your Royal Highness. Sir. Thank you so much for agreeing to this. 433 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,120 The most recent list of people attending the dinner, 434 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,200 with some brief biographies of those expected to sit close to you. 435 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,920 [Elizabeth] "What I'm asking you to do" 436 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,360 amounts to much more than simply attending a dinner. 437 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,200 Currently, there are matters pertaining to this country's future prosperity 438 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,200 that require a concerted effort on our part. 439 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,240 We must heal the divisions that are emerging 440 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,320 between Britain and its American cousins. 441 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,400 You've often lamented that you have nothing to do, 442 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,920 that you are a wasted resource. 443 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,960 Well, the task you are embarking on today could not be more crucial. 444 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,160 Britain currently has a deficit of �800 million. 445 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,240 What we need is a bailout of at least �1,000 million. 446 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,880 Only the Americans can give it to us. 447 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,320 I know you like to do things your own way. 448 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,160 But this is a diplomatic mission of the highest sensitivity. 449 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,480 And I would urge you, for once, 450 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,840 "to play things by the book." 451 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,640 Ready? 452 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,640 [Margaret] What happens if I fail? 453 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,640 If we don't get the bailout? 454 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,800 Then we break our promises to the IMF, 455 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,880 exhaust the credit facilities available to us, 456 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,040 face a run on sterling, 457 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,040 and the government would be left with no option but to devalue the pound. 458 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,160 Hm-hmm. And that's bad? 459 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,560 Devaluation? 460 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,520 It's worse than bad. 461 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,840 It would relegate sterling to the second division of the world's currencies 462 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,480 and Britain to the third division of the world's economies. 463 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,360 It would mean international humiliation, political ignominy, and... 464 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,360 financial ruin. 465 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,080 Your Royal Highness. 466 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,440 President Johnson. 467 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,920 ["God Save the Queen" playing] 468 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,920 - Good morning, Prime Minister. - Good morning. 469 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,400 [Wilson] I've had an opportunity now 470 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:32,600 to speak to our ambassador in Washington about the White House dinner last night. 471 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:33,800 And? 472 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,480 I... 473 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,040 I don't know where to begin. 474 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,680 It seemed the first course had barely been served 475 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,560 before Princess Margaret made remarks about the late President Kennedy 476 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:48,640 that were... 477 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,600 less than discreet. 478 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,280 I met him once. Kennedy. 479 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,520 I was left distinctly... 480 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,280 underwhelmed. 481 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,440 [guests fall silent] 482 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,480 Margaret. 483 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,320 [Margaret] I'm sorry. Did I say something wrong? 484 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,200 I do know these days one's not allowed 485 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,200 to think anything other than what a great statesman Kennedy was. 486 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,080 - Say nothing, Lyndon. - [Margaret] Of course he'll say nothing. 487 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,440 He was his loyal deputy. 488 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,600 Which I think I can understand better than most. 489 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,400 The frustrations and resentments that can build up 490 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,680 from a life as a number two. 491 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,000 The support act. 492 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,040 Even of someone you adore. 493 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,440 You spent three years as Vice President. 494 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,600 I've spent my whole life as Vice Queen. 495 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,520 Except that came out wrong, I didn't mean I'm a... "vice queen." 496 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,120 Is there a strategy in place to deal with the fallout? 497 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,160 Oh, no. There's no fallout. 498 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,840 What? 499 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,040 President Johnson agreed. Thoroughly. Enthusiastically. 500 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,480 Unreservedly. 501 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,880 He said, um, if I remember rightly, 502 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,080 "Jack Kennedy..." 503 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,040 would've killed his own mother 504 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,240 just to take the skin off her ass to make a drum to beat his own praises. 505 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,760 [laughter] 506 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,120 Right? 507 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,440 I see. 508 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,080 This then led to a drinking contest. 509 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,200 - What? - [Margaret] Last man standing 510 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,360 - is the winner. - Challenge accepted! 511 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,640 [Wilson] Which, in turn, led to a limerick contest. 512 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,200 - Limericks? - Yes, ma'am. 513 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,560 Some of them, I'm afraid to say, a little off-color. 514 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:40,360 Hmm. 515 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,960 Well, go on then. 516 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,520 Oh, right... Um... [clears throat] 517 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,040 Well, the first one went a little... 518 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,800 "There was a young woman from Delaware..." 519 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,120 Who liked to make love... 520 00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,560 liked to make love... 521 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,840 - Delaware! Delaware! - In her underwear. 522 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,960 - [Margaret] A terrible prude... - [Wilson] "She would never go nude," 523 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,600 And her bum, hips, and tits she would never bare." 524 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,120 [raucous laughter] 525 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,440 What else? 526 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,640 The President countered with, 527 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,720 "There was a young man from Wisconsin 528 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,040 Who was blessed with an enormously large..." 529 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,320 - Johnson! - [raucous laughter] 530 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:26,520 Where's the rest of it? 531 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,840 I believe everyone thought that was long enough. As it were. 532 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,440 Any more? 533 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,600 Princess Margaret won the evening with this one... 534 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,960 "There was a young lady from Dallas, 535 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,080 Who used a dynamite stick as a phallus..." 536 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,560 They found her... 537 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,280 You've made it this far. 538 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,040 "They found her vagina in North Carolina..." 539 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,880 And her arsehole in Buckingham Palace. 540 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,040 [raucous laughter] 541 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,880 Bravo. 542 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,720 ["Coming Home Baby" playing] 543 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,680 Then, apparently, there was dancing. 544 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,080 Whoo! 545 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,400 Followed by singing. 546 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,840 ? Anything you can be, I can be greater ? 547 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,880 ? Sooner or later, I'm greater than you ? 548 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,520 - [Johnson] ? No, you're not ? - [Margaret] ? Yes, I am ? 549 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,280 - ? No, you're not ? - ? Yes, I am ? 550 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,560 - ? No, you're not ? - ? Yes, I am, yes, I am ? 551 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:50,520 [cheering] 552 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,880 [Elizabeth] She staggered home at four in the morning, 553 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,920 newly Anglophile President Johnson having agreed to the bailout, 554 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,560 the special relationship more special than ever. 555 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,720 - ? Without being caught? ? - ? Yeah ? 556 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,600 ? That's what I thought, you crook ? 557 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,000 And all because Margaret was all the things 558 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,199 I'd specifically begged her not to be. 559 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:10,880 All the things I could never be. 560 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,480 Instinctive, spontaneous, dazzling. 561 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,360 [laughter] 562 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,920 ? Yes, I can ? 563 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,679 - You're all those things, too. - No, I'm not. 564 00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:25,440 I'm predictable, dependable, reliable. 565 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,560 Well, of those two, 566 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:30,600 I would pick dependability every day of the week. 567 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,320 Thank you. 568 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,159 But it would be nice to be dazzling on occasion, too. 569 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:38,800 - You are dazzling. - Hmm. 570 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,800 - You're a dazzling cabbage. - [chuckles] 571 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,280 [Margaret] ? Anything you can say, I can say faster ? 572 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,080 ? I can say anything faster than you ? 573 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:49,520 - ? No, you can't ? - ? Yes, I can ? 574 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,080 - ? No, you can't ? - ? Yes, I can ? 575 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:53,600 - ? No, you can't ? - ? Yes, I can ? 576 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:55,679 [guests cheer] 577 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,960 [laughs] 578 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,960 [crowd cheers] 579 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:16,800 Prime Minister. 580 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,760 Well played, Your Royal Highness. 581 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:21,760 Very well played. 582 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,280 Thank you, sir. 583 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:24,720 Shall we? 584 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,400 [clock chimes] 585 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,240 [exhales] 586 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,640 [footsteps approach] 587 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,880 - [Elizabeth] Hail the conquering heroine! - Ah, yes. 588 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,400 Let the abuse begin. 589 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,080 [Elizabeth] Now, you must know by now 590 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,440 any triumph from this family is met with a healthy dose of... 591 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,720 - Envy? Spite? - Good-natured teasing 592 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,320 to keep one's feet on the ground. 593 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,600 Everyone's very grateful. 594 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,440 The Prime Minister said he was going to write to you personally. 595 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,080 Better than that. He met me at the airport. 596 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:34,880 Ah. 597 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,240 And now we're all racking our brains 598 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,200 as to what to give you to show our appreciation. 599 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,240 How would you feel about the Order of Merit? 600 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,040 Or the Victorian Chain? 601 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,600 You can keep your gongs and your bongs 602 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,320 for all the men to whom it matters so much. 603 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,000 But I'd be lying if I didn't admit to having done a little thinking, 604 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,360 in view of how well it all went... 605 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,120 about us doing it more often. 606 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:04,800 Doing what? 607 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,280 Sharing duties. 608 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,840 But we didn't share duties. You just went to a dinner party. 609 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,800 In your place. 610 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,320 And represented Crown and country 611 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,440 with, I think we can agree, favorable results. 612 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,880 Isn't it possible that we've stumbled upon something here? 613 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,080 You have far too much to do, far too much pressure, 614 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,600 far too much responsibility. 615 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,240 And I, too little. 616 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,640 Having no role, having nothing to do is... 617 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:42,960 soul-destroying. 618 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,800 All I am asking is if you were prepared to share a little more. 619 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,640 For both our sakes. 620 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,560 Let me think about it. 621 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:06,920 I'll see what I can do. 622 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:08,440 [chuckles] 623 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,400 - [Philip] Don't tell me you softened? - I did. 624 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,320 And with good reason. 625 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,520 Margaret does suffer more than anyone else by not having a more meaningful role. 626 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,160 Suffers in health and happiness. 627 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:25,720 She's overlooked. 628 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,280 And in terms of ability and character 629 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,400 and intelligence and flair, she does not deserve to be overlooked. 630 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,520 So, why shouldn't we consider expanding the role, 631 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,960 sharing the job a bit more? 632 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,960 [Philip] There are two answers to that question. 633 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,760 Neither makes for pretty listening. 634 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:51,240 Yes, the system is unequal and unjust and cruel. 635 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,840 Primogeniture divides and destroys families, 636 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,920 the system stinks, but... 637 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,080 in its cruelty and injustice, it reflects something else, 638 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,960 which is harsh and brutal, 639 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,720 which no one is suggesting we rearrange. 640 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,280 Life. 641 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,600 We all desire equality, but here's the thing. 642 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,960 We were not born equal. 643 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,160 - And what's the second? - [chuckles] 644 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,040 Do you remember I told you once 645 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,200 I got drunk with that god-awful monster Tommy Lascelles? 646 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,160 Hmm. 647 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,240 Well, that night he shared with me his theory 648 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,360 about the House of Windsor. 649 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,440 I've never repeated it to anyone since. 650 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,320 Go on. 651 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,360 He asked me to imagine a mythological creature. 652 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,960 A Reichsadler. 653 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,080 A polycephalus, a two-headed eagle. 654 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,520 For the purposes of this conversation, 655 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,920 I want you to think of it as representing us. 656 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,280 This family. 657 00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,960 Your family. 658 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,440 There have always been the dazzling Windsors and the dull ones. 659 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,000 - Your father... - A saint. 660 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,120 But dull. Sorry. 661 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,120 Your grandfather, too. 662 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,720 - George V? - Deadly dull. 663 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,200 At the height of the Great War, when the... 664 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,680 the Tsar and the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria 665 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,880 were dazzling the world, where was he? 666 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,440 He was sticking stamps in his album. 667 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,520 - His wife... - Queen Mary, wonderful. 668 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:30,840 Ditchwater. 669 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,440 And so it goes, through George V to Queen Victoria and back. 670 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,720 An uninterrupted line of stolid, 671 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:39,960 turgid dreariness. 672 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,160 Culminating in me? 673 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:42,960 Well, yes, but... 674 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,920 alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain 675 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:50,920 runs another. 676 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,920 The dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic, 677 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,600 and... the dangerous. 678 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,040 And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII. 679 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,040 For every George V, you get a Prince Eddy. 680 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,840 For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII. 681 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,200 For every Lilibet... 682 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,880 you get a Margaret. 683 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,640 And she may have had a success in Washington, 684 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,200 but let's not delude ourselves that serious diplomacy can be achieved 685 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:25,680 through drinking and dancing. 686 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,800 Let Margaret have the glory, 687 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,880 but let's not rewrite the constitutional rulebook 688 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,760 because she got lucky once. 689 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,800 And where does that leave my relationship with her? 690 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,960 Unchanged. 691 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,320 You're the Queen. 692 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,640 And she's your dangerous baby sister. 693 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,240 She's outside. She knows we're talking about her. 694 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,560 Then let's join her. 695 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,760 That feverish mind of hers needs no encouragement. 696 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,560 [Lascelles] What you are suggesting is unthinkable. 697 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,200 The order of succession to the throne is determined 698 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,560 by the Act of Settlement of 1701, 699 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,120 not the wild and irresponsible whims 700 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,600 of young princesses. 701 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,600 The principle of undisturbed hereditary descent is a pillar 702 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,400 of stability and perpetuity for the nation. 703 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,920 Princess Elizabeth's destiny is to accede to the throne. 704 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,200 Yours is to serve and support. 705 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,160 I would urge you to accept your position in life... 706 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,280 and to dismiss forthwith any childish notions 707 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,040 about rewriting the rule books that it might better suit your character. 708 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,160 We all have a role to play. 709 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,640 Princess Elizabeth's will be center-stage, 710 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,120 and yours, ma'am, will be from the wings. 711 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,720 [door opens] 712 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:44,880 Margaret! 713 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,000 [door closes] 714 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,040 ["When You're Smiling" playing] 715 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,160 ? When you're smiling ? 716 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:08,760 ? When you're smiling ? 717 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:13,920 ? The whole world smiles with you ? 718 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,600 ? When you're laughing ? 719 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,240 ? When you're laughing ? 720 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,920 ? The sun comes shining through ? 721 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,400 ? But when you're crying ? 722 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,320 ? You bring all the rain ? 723 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,040 ? So, stop your sighing ? 724 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,920 ? Be happy again ? 725 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,920 ? Keep on smiling ? 726 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,600 ? 'Cause when you're smiling ? 727 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:44,520 ? The whole world smiles with you ? 727 00:46:45,305 --> 00:46:51,450 56091

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