1 00:00:55,924 --> 00:00:58,380 Give it me! - Amelia. 2 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,659 Captain Greville, Ma'am... 3 00:01:25,660 --> 00:01:28,400 His Majesty's new equerry. 4 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,650 Captain Fitzroy? 5 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,820 Could you show me...? 6 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:49,470 Come on, Pa. 7 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,159 What's that one, Fred? 8 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,039 I discovered the other day ... 9 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,505 I'm bishop of Osnabruck. 10 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,159 Amazing what one is, really. 11 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:05,065 George! 12 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:14,760 Crown. 13 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,335 Your Majesty. 14 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:26,279 Ah, Lord Chancellor. 15 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,159 God, this place is as cold 16 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,119 as a greyhound's nostril. 17 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,610 Lord Chancellor. 18 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,375 Papa! 19 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:29,896 Papa, Papa! Lift me up! 20 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,199 Oh hey, what's this, Madam? 21 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,112 Right. 22 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,319 The son is unwholesome. 23 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,639 And fatter, always fatter. 24 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,799 Fatter because he's not doing, what? 25 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,079 - Do you know England? - Yes. 26 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,319 Brighton, Bath, yes. 27 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,719 But you know its mills and manufactories? 28 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,599 Do you know its farms? Because I do. 29 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,519 Do you know what they call me? Farmer George. 30 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,399 - Do you know what that is? - Impertinent, Sir? 31 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:07,479 No, Sir. Love! 32 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:08,480 Affection. 33 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,799 Admiration! You ought to marry, Sir, settle down. 34 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,199 Yes, grow up. 35 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,519 Good plain woman. That's what you want. 36 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,959 Then the people will love you, as they love me. 37 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,959 It is not good, this idleness. 38 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,239 That is why you're getting fat, Sir. 39 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,839 Do not be fat, Sir. Fight it! 40 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:27,799 Now who's got that blasted speech? 41 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,879 Stop! Who's got the speech? 42 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,239 - Here, Sir. - Lord Chancellor. 43 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,730 - Ready? - Yes. 44 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,245 Well, come on. Let's get it over with. 45 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,719 The King commands the members of this honourable House 46 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,495 to attend His Majesty in the House of Peers. 47 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,079 Do you enjoy all this flummery, Mr Pitt? 48 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,445 No, Mr Fox. 49 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,519 Do you enjoy anything, Mr Pitt? 50 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,839 A balance sheet, Mr Fox. 51 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,975 I enjoy a good balance sheet. 52 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,625 Whereas we, George III, 53 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,439 in this year of our Lord 1788 54 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,359 do open this Parliament, 55 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,799 giving notice that our will and pleasure 56 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,719 is that the following bills 57 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,039 shall be laid before this House... 58 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,399 A bill for the regulation of trade 59 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,559 with our possessions in North America. 60 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,839 Our former possessions in North America. 61 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:29,335 A bill for... 62 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,999 You see that the King did not write his own speech, Mr Pitt. 63 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,919 The King will do as he's told, Mr Fox. 64 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,199 Then why not be rid of him? 65 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,119 If a few ramshackle colonists in America 66 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,839 can send him packing, why can't we? 67 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:46,519 Petitioners for the King! 68 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,439 Petitions for the King! 69 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,520 Present your petition! 70 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,320 Open the gate! 71 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,559 Stay with the line. 72 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,770 Over there. Petitioners. 73 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,159 The petitioners, Your Majesty. 74 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,230 Oh. Yes. 75 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:25,420 Thank you. 76 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:29,660 Thank you. 77 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:31,980 Thank you. 78 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,460 - The knife! - Seize her! 79 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,220 Hold her, boy! 80 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,835 No, no. Not yet. 81 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,119 His Majesty is unharmed! 82 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,679 I've a property due to me from the Crown of England. 83 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,199 The poor creature's mad. No, no, no. 84 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,879 Do not hurt her. She's not hurt me. 85 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,639 Give me my property, or England will be drenched in blood. 86 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,479 Will it, indeed, Madam? 87 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,799 Well, not with this. 88 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,799 It's a fruit knife. 89 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,345 Wouldn't cut a cabbage. 90 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,599 Ah. Who are you, Sir? 91 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,719 This is Captain Greville, Sir, the new equerry. 92 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,679 Well, you are undressed, Sir. Do yourself up, Sir. 93 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,359 You're an equerry, not a scarecrow. 94 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,039 A property due to me from the Crown. 95 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,919 You murderous fiend! 96 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,999 Thank God I have you yet. 97 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,439 Do not fuss, Madam. 98 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,679 The King has no wound, just a torn waistcoat. 99 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,999 One would consider that almost as vexing. 100 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,319 What was that? 101 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,999 I was rejoicing, Sir, that you are unharmed. 102 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,319 The son rejoices. 103 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,639 The Prince of Wales rejoices. 104 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,999 Me, too, Pa. God save the King... and so on. 105 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,295 Your Majesty! 106 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,359 Aha, Mr Pitt. Well, you had a lucky escape, what, what? 107 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,180 Aye, Your Majesty. 108 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,639 Yes, you. You're my prime minister. 109 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,679 If anything happened to me, you'd be out and Mr Fox in. 110 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,639 There's no danger of that, Sir. 111 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:57,959 Right. Back to Windsor. 112 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,765 George! 113 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,719 Smile, you lazy hound. It's what you're paid for. 114 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,799 Smile and wave. Come on. 115 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,425 Smile and wave. 116 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,959 Everybody, smile and wave. 117 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,585 Smile and wave! 118 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,305 Arthur. 119 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,125 Pa's right. 120 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,110 I am getting fatter. 121 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,399 I don't mind that. 122 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,815 What do you mind? 123 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,919 That the world thinks I'm just your mistress. 124 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,205 That's what I mind. 125 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,079 You shall be Queen one day... 126 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,690 the whole bag of tricks. 127 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,050 I am determined. 128 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:28,980 I just don't want to be thought a Catholic whore. 129 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,635 George... 130 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,959 If you tried harder to get on with the King, 131 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,919 you could tell him the truth. 132 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,795 And he'd forgive me, hmm? 133 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,919 You are a sweet... 134 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,890 silly... 135 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,235 creature. 136 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:52,550 Try, George. 137 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,890 Come on, boy! Come on! Come on! 138 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:08,515 Pigs! 139 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,170 Come on. 140 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,039 I say, these are fine specimens. 141 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,359 What are they, Tamworths, what? 142 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,239 If it please Your Majesty. 143 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,679 Yes. They're a fine breed. 144 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:32,399 There's plenty of meat on them, hey? 145 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,719 Big litter. Show me the youngster. 146 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,719 Yes, that's the one. Yes, I say. Hey, hey. 147 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,359 You know what you are? 148 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:40,759 You're a Tamworth. 149 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,079 Are they really? 150 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Well, are they really? 151 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,999 Married yet, Mr Pitt, what, what? 152 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:56,970 No, Sir. 153 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,670 Got your eye on anybody, then, hey? 154 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,050 No, Sir. 155 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,239 A man should marry. 156 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:11,275 Yes, yes. 157 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,239 The best thing I ever did. 158 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,370 And children, you see. Children. 159 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,360 Great comfort. 160 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,759 This fellow we're putting in as a professor at Oxford. 161 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,839 Was his father canon of Westminster? 162 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,190 I have no idea, Sir. 163 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,319 Yes, yes, Phillips. 164 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,599 That's the father. This is the son. 165 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,559 And the daughter married the organist at Norwich Cathedral. 166 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,599 Sharpe. Yes, their son is the painter. 167 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,199 The other son is a master at Eton, 168 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,759 he married somebody's niece. 169 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,839 Your Majesty's knowledge of even the lowliest appointments 170 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,799 never ceases to astonish me. 171 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,500 What's happened to Mr Fox? 172 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,640 Such a dodger. 173 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:03,945 Reform! 174 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,359 Too many ideas. 175 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,079 Not like you, Mr Pitt. You don't have ideas. 176 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:13,115 Ah, well, 177 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,279 you have one very big idea balancing the books... 178 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,519 and a very good idea it is to have, too, 179 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,999 and one with which I absolutely agree. 180 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,079 As I agree with you, Mr Pitt, on everything. 181 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,395 Apart from the place we mustn't mention. 182 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:34,975 The colonies! 183 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,399 They're now called the United States, Sir. 184 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:39,435 Are they? 185 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,215 Goodness, me. 186 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,980 The United States. 187 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,665 Well, I haven't mentioned them. 188 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,879 I prefer not to, whatever they're called. 189 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,295 They are a fact, Sir. 190 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,439 The vicar of Lichfield! 191 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,399 - Sir. - The vicar of Lichfield. 192 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,679 It was his niece that married 193 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:07,159 the second son of the organist at Norwich Cathedral. 194 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,079 Good night, Mr Pitt. 195 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,555 Good night, Your Majesty. 196 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,039 Fascinating stuff, what, what? 197 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,390 Let's have it again. 198 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,039 Your Majesty, Lady Townsend wishes to sit down. 199 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,879 Well, certainly not! 200 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:44,455 What? 201 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,119 Lady Townsend wants to sit down. 202 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,155 What for? 203 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,759 Because she is five months pregnant. 204 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,765 So? You've had 15 children. 205 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,559 If everybody who is having a baby wants to sit, 206 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,199 the next thing will be everybody with gout! 207 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,439 Before long, the place will look like a Turkish harem, 208 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:07,605 what, what? 209 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,359 That's enough. 210 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,239 Thank you, gentlemen. 211 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,340 Thank you. 212 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,015 Ah, Greville. 213 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,220 Thank you. 214 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,759 - Yes, that's better, what, what. - Your Majesty. 215 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,999 You don't look at the King. Didn't they tell you? 216 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,740 - I forgot, Sir. - Don't. 217 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,439 That's Lady Pembroke. 218 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,399 Handsome woman, what? 219 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,239 Daughter of the duke of Marlborough. 220 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,960 Stuff of generals. Blood of Blenheim. 221 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,479 Husband's an utter rascal. 222 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,090 Eloped in a packet-boat. 223 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:05,670 Yes. 224 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,185 Good evening, Mrs King. 225 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,640 Good evening, Mr King. 226 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,015 When we get this far, 227 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,439 I call it dandy, hey? 228 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,935 Yes, Mr King. 229 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,959 I ate a pear at supper. 230 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,585 Two pears, Sir. 231 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,879 It's as tight as a drum! 232 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,315 Ha ha ha. 233 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,675 Saving your presence, I will try a fart. 234 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:51,405 No? 235 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,879 Cold fish, Pitt. 236 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,175 Never smiles. 237 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,319 Yet he works hard, though. 238 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,320 Never stops. Drinks, they say. 239 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,119 They all drink. 240 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:10,580 His father, poor man... went mad. 241 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,279 Doesn't show any sign of that. 242 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:13,790 Mmm. 243 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,020 Not at the moment, anyway. 244 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,015 Oh, the pain! 245 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,625 George! George! 246 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,710 George! 247 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,735 Help me. Help us! 248 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,050 Help us! 249 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:32,535 Help! 250 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,095 He looks well enough. 251 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:40,039 I sent over some senna. Was that given to him? 252 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,879 Yes. The pain got worse. 253 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,319 Whereabouts was the pain? 254 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,439 Would it not be better to ask His Majesty? 255 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,759 How long have you been in waiting? 256 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,679 I cannot address His Majesty until he addresses me. 257 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,999 I cannot inquire after His Majesty's symptoms 258 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,599 until he chooses to inform me of them. 259 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,999 Sir George, whatever his situation, 260 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,999 His Majesty is just a man. 261 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,239 You're the King's equerry with radical notions like that? 262 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:05,275 Good God! 263 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,599 With any patient, I undertake a physical examination 264 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,559 only as a last resort. 265 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,879 It's an intolerable intrusion of a gentleman's privacy. 266 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,079 With His Majesty, it's unthinkable! 267 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,279 Sharp, sharp! 268 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:18,719 The King! The King! 269 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,079 Ah, Baker. Yes, a ninny, what, what? 270 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,959 You can tell him I am much better. 271 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,719 I had a pretty smart bilious attack, 272 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,119 but it has passed. 273 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,039 Would it be possible to take His Majesty's pulse? 274 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,279 Would it be possible to take Your Majesty's pulse, Sir? 275 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,645 Yes. Do it. 276 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,239 Now don't faff, Sir. Hold it, man. Don't fondle it. 277 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,959 Were you responsible for the senna, Baker? 278 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:44,959 I prescribed it for Your Majesty. 279 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,959 Then you are a fool, Baker. 280 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,919 It's only a mild purgative, Sir. 281 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,159 Mild? 14 motions, and you call it mild? 282 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,439 I could have manured the whole parish. 283 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,359 If 2 glasses bring the King low, can be the end of government. 284 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,919 Your Majesty was only to take three spoonfuls. 285 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,719 When did three spoonfuls of anything did any good? 286 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,959 Measure the medicine to the man. Pulse? 287 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,799 - It's very, very fast. - Good, good. 288 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,039 Your Majesty will probably feel better after a warm bath 289 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,319 and its settling effect on the spirit. 290 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,999 Well you have one. Your spirit's more agitated than mine. 291 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,399 Breathe this air, Greville. Breathe it! 292 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,359 Come on, lads. Keep up! 293 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:26,439 This is the way we deal with America. I'll teach you! 294 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,759 Take that, Mr Colonist! 295 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,279 And that, Sir! 296 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,315 And that! 297 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,410 Fetch the Queen. 298 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,079 No, no. That's not cricket. Don't hold the bat like that. 299 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,035 What is he doing? 300 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,165 Over there. Out of the way. 301 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,519 - Run! - How's that? 302 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:46,030 Out! 303 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,905 - Yay! - Oh, good God! 304 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,399 Well done. Well done, lads. 305 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,679 'The following day, he rose before dawn,' 306 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,439 went round to the provost of Eton's lodgings, 307 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,079 and battering on the door, 308 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,639 roused the provost and commanded him to show him the chapel! 309 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:02,085 So? 310 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,879 Lord Chancellor, it was still dark. 311 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:10,300 Have we finished this catalogue of regal nonconformities? 312 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,639 Because I've heard nothing to suggest His Majesty's behaviour 313 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,599 is in any way unusual. 314 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,405 He also harps on America... 315 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:22,975 the colonies. 316 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,199 Captain Fitzroy, for the strongest reasons, 317 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,870 both foreign and domestic... 318 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,919 a degree of discretion. 319 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,279 And a hold on public functions. No levees or concerts. 320 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,690 Just, uh... just... Hmm? 321 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,039 The cork's too tight in the bottle. That's it. 322 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,759 He must be the first King not to have a mistress. 323 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,279 15 children seem to me to indicate 324 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,599 a degree of conscientiousness in that regard. 325 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,599 I'm talking of pleasure, not duty. 326 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,679 Actually, there was a mysterious illness 327 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,639 once before in your father's time. 328 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,279 Government was at a standstill. 329 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,239 Well, it was of no consequence. 330 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,119 It was of no consequence because he recovered. 331 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:10,999 It was of no consequence because the Prince of Wales 332 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,919 was a child of three 333 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,439 and because Mr Fox and his friends 334 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:20,870 were not perched in the rafters waiting to come in. 335 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,199 We consider ourselves blessed in our constitution. 336 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,759 We tell ourselves 337 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,599 our Parliament is the envy of the world. 338 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,039 But we live in the health and well-being of the sovereign 339 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,959 as much as any vizier does the sultan. 340 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,839 The sultan orders it better. 341 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,565 He has his son and heir strangled. 342 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,575 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 343 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,519 - Cricket? Pa? - How's that? 344 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,879 - What, what? - Well played, hey, hey? 345 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,799 To watch it, Sir, was quite distasteful. He was not himself. 346 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,719 Warren, what do you think? 347 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,799 I'm not the King's doctor. 348 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,439 No, nor ever will be. 349 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,079 He's more likely to go to my tailor than my doctor. 350 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,545 But, Sir, this is not the same. 351 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,170 Could he be ill? 352 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:22,550 Yes. 353 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,159 Morning, Sir. 354 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,455 Morning, Sir. 355 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:41,475 Sherry... 356 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,439 What would happen if the King were ill, 357 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:45,950 hmm? 358 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,039 I mean, gravely ill. 359 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,319 Your Royal Highness would have to be declared regent. 360 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,025 Regent? 361 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,975 King in all but name. 362 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,439 With all the powers. 363 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,520 Subject to Parliament. 364 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,105 Charles, don't quibble. 365 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,690 And certainly... all the funds. 366 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,030 Ha ha ha ha. 367 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,199 Just think of it. 368 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:15,905 Regent! 369 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,505 Prime minister. 370 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,515 America forgiven. 371 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:23,985 London rebuilt. 372 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:26,399 Parliament could be reformed. 373 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:27,999 A palace on Primrose Hill. 374 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,399 The slave trade abolished. 375 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,565 Yeah! Yeah! 376 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,039 Oh, yes. All that, too. 377 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:33,680 Sir... 378 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,060 Is he ill? 379 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,070 Well, he's not well. 380 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,145 I know, I know. 381 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,490 One day. 382 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,370 One day. 383 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,300 It's 4.00. 384 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,590 Where are you, Sirs? 385 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,039 What is this? The King is unattended. 386 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,919 Up with you, Sirs! 387 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:33,560 Braun! 388 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:34,690 Fortnum! 389 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:36,380 Papandiek! 390 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,679 Where are you, Sirs? 391 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,999 What's the matter, Sir? 392 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,319 It is morning. That is the matter. 393 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,399 Not being attended to is the matter. 394 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,439 And don't mutter or mutter will be the matter. 395 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,399 What time is it, Sir? 396 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,279 What is that to you? 397 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,599 The King is up. 398 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,720 When the King is awake, you're awake. 399 00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,655 4.00. 400 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,679 Six hours sleep is enough for a man, 401 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,599 seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. 402 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,759 We've had three. We went to bed at 1.00. 403 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,119 Is that insolence, Sir? 404 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,479 No, Sir. Arithmetic. 405 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:12,799 What's your name? 406 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:13,959 Fortnum, Sir. 407 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,999 Fetch me my breeches. 408 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,639 - Yours? - You know my name, Sir. 409 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,199 Don't tell me what do and don't know. What is it? 410 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,399 Papandiek, Sir. Arthur, Sir. 411 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,895 Is it Arthur? 412 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,355 Yes, Sir. 413 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,285 - And yours? - Braun, Sir. 414 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,695 - And yours? - Fortnum, Sir. 415 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,880 Well, come on, boys... 416 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,759 We're missing the best of the day. 417 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,730 Come on! 418 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,515 Run! Look at the weather! 419 00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,359 Please, Sir! 420 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:14,599 Where's that rascal Braun? He's not gone back to bed. 421 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:15,679 I'm here, Sir. 422 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,439 Well, give me my shirt, man. 423 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,575 This is calico, a hair shirt. 424 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,879 Fetch me another. 425 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,750 Another shirt, a softer one! 426 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,775 Wake up, Sir! 427 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,030 Attend, Sir, attend! 428 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,399 Have you said your prayers this morning? 429 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,879 I started, Sir, but I was interrupted. 430 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:40,959 Say after me... 431 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,559 - Our Father... - Our Father... 432 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,199 - Which art in heaven... - Which art... 433 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,719 - Hallowed be Thy name. - Hallowed... 434 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:48,919 Thy Kingdom come... 435 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,239 Thy will be done... 436 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,519 On earth as it is in heaven... 437 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,985 On earth as it is in heaven... 438 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,079 Thy Kingdom come... 439 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,679 Thy will be done... 440 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,519 Give us this day our daily bread... 441 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,839 Our Father which art in heaven... 442 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,399 Hallowed be Thy name... 443 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,719 As we forgive them 444 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,239 that trespass against us... 445 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,585 Hallowed be Thy name... 446 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,359 Give us this day our daily bread... 447 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,319 And lead us not into temptation... 448 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,639 On earth as it is in heaven... 449 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,919 Give us this day our daily bread... 450 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,919 For Thine... 451 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,159 is the Kingdom... 452 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,839 the power and the glory... 453 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,135 Deliver us... 454 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,395 Sir! Sir! 455 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,570 Sir! No! 456 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,639 Sir, we are in company. 457 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,985 Mind your own business. 458 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,199 The King has fallen! Help! 459 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,235 Help him! 460 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,239 Help the King! 461 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:40,945 George! 462 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,599 Why, Sir, you must rest. 463 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,439 I am the King. I cannot rest. 464 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,799 I must rule. 465 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,719 Half the day gone already. 466 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,479 Things to do-government. 467 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,279 The government hasn't begun yet, Sir. 468 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,199 The government's still in bed. 469 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,039 The government is lucky. 470 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,959 - Do you love God, Arthur? - Yes, Sir. 471 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,879 He loves us all, if only we'll let him. 472 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,479 Don't discuss the deity. It does not do. 473 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,439 Does not do? I'm the King. 474 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,185 What's the deity to me? 475 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,359 Piss-pot. 476 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:13,870 Huh? 477 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:15,395 Piss-pot. 478 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,599 Your Majesty. 479 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,240 Right. 480 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,040 Do it, England. Do it. 481 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,965 It's wonderful. 482 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,645 Ahh, that's better. 483 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,535 Whew. 484 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,439 I'm obliged to you, Madam. 485 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,759 Can't stop now. 486 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,450 On, England, on. 487 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,719 Look, it's blue. 488 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,599 Why are you dawdling? The King is unattended. 489 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,799 The King's water is blue, Sir. 490 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,245 So? 491 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,119 It's been this colour since this business began. 492 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,039 What business? Don't be insolent. 493 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,359 We thought it might be important. 494 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,199 What's important is not to dangle about. 495 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,719 The King's half undressed and unattended... 496 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,119 that's what's important. 497 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,615 Give me that. 498 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,785 Uh, Sir George. 499 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,759 - This is the King's water. - Well? 500 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,479 - It's blue. - So? 501 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,119 It's been blue since His Majesty's been ill. 502 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,719 Oh, God, another doctor. 503 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,439 Medicine is a science. It consists of observation. 504 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,199 Whether a man's water is blue or not 505 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,940 is neither here nor there. 506 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,919 Well, there's one blessing. 507 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,825 At least he's stopped all the "What-whatting". 508 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,800 Lady Pembroke. 509 00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,710 Mr Greville. 510 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,039 Her Majesty spoke favourably of you today, Mr Greville. 511 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,440 And we do not like Mr Fitzroy. 512 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,690 You will go far. 513 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,210 Captain Fitzroy. 514 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,959 I said no concerts, 515 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,040 no public appearances. 516 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,799 It is by order of the prince. 517 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,039 His Royal Highness thought it might cheer His Majesty up. 518 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,690 Come on. If we're late, he will be mad. 519 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,719 Do you like music, Warren? 520 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,479 If it's played, Sir, I listen to it. 521 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,595 Soothes the savage breast, do you think? 522 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,145 Not, I fear, in this case, Sir. 523 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,319 Push off, you fat turd! 524 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,140 Yes, Your Majesty. 525 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,719 Now, what is this? 526 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,999 America, I suppose? 527 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:20,970 No, Sir. 528 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,999 America's not to be spoken of, is that it? 529 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,039 For your peace of mind, Sir. But it's not America. 530 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,600 Peace of mind? 531 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,610 I have no peace of mind. 532 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,319 I've had no peace of mind since we lost America. 533 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,910 Forests, old as the world itself... 534 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,540 meadows... 535 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,475 plains... 536 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,470 strange, delicate flowers... 537 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,590 immense solitudes... 538 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,790 and all nature new to art... 539 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,285 all ours... 540 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:57,695 mine. 541 00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,015 Gone. 542 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,245 A paradise... lost. 543 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,870 Her Majesty is waiting, Sir. 544 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,399 I must ask you not to attend this concert, Sir. 545 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,815 You are not fit, Sir. 546 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:28,730 Not fit? 547 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,650 To be seen, Sir. 548 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,690 Not fit? 549 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,799 Sharp! Sharp! The King! The King! 550 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,359 Sir, I beg you! 551 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,359 Not fit?! 552 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,330 Not fit? 553 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,370 I'll give him "Not fit". 554 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,759 Telling me? I'm the King, do you hear? 555 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,759 The impudence! 556 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,119 Well, I'm here now. 557 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,335 Play, damn you, play! 558 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,280 Ahh. Remember this one... hmm? 559 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,215 Louder, Sirs! Louder! 560 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,610 Lay it on, lads! 561 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,159 One, two, three, four! 562 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,999 Come on, let's hear you! 563 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,319 Give it some stick! 564 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,039 You! Put your heart into it, Sir! 565 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,799 All right. Move over. 566 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:22,999 It's my turn. 567 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,279 Where are we? 568 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:24,920 Where? 569 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,279 This is child's play, man! 570 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,415 This is my favourite bit. 571 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,999 That's how to do it, see? 572 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,519 Come on, trumpets! Give it some heart! 573 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:39,160 Sir... 574 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,799 Sir, you're... 575 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,490 You are talking. 576 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,039 I'm not. I'm playing. 577 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,359 But, Sir, you... 578 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,330 Not now. 579 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,279 Now, give it a good whipping! 580 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,679 Thrash it, you villains! 581 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,039 What's the matter with you? 582 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:53,680 Right. 583 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:55,720 There. 584 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,710 Yes, this is Handel. 585 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,705 I met him once. 586 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,439 Ordinary looking fellow. 587 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,759 I have his harpsichord. 588 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,639 Right, then. Let's be having you. 589 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,065 Elbow people... 590 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,155 knee gentlemen... 591 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,540 bending persons... 592 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,095 hand kissers. 593 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,265 Fine cluster there, eh? 594 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,660 Go on. Look. Look. 595 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,239 Go on. You might learn something. 596 00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:30,759 Good arse, too... 597 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,505 And warm, eh, I'll bet. 598 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,759 And what brings you to Windsor, Sire? 599 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,159 I had heard Your Majesty was indisposed, 600 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,839 but I see that... 601 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:46,805 Indisposed. 602 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,119 Is there any way I can assist? 603 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,999 Want to hump the old bird out of the nest, is it? 604 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,319 No, Sir. There may be responsibilities I could share. 605 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,159 Want to get your fat hands on government, is that it? 606 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,959 Well, I'm old and infirm. 607 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,639 I'll not trouble you long. 608 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,319 I wish you the best of health, Father. 609 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,290 Wish me? 610 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,599 You wish me death, you plump little... 611 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:13,305 cuckoo. 612 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,959 Hush, father, hush. 613 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:16,535 Hush? 614 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:22,095 Hush! 615 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,679 You dare to stop the King of England from speaking his mind? 616 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:31,679 Father, please! 617 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,385 Please! 618 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,159 Please, Papa! For God's sake! 619 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,195 No, Papa! 620 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,399 I'll choke the air out of you! 621 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,719 I'll wring his neck! 622 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,639 It was something he ate. 623 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,500 You fools! You'll all be put out! 624 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,705 We know your game, you monster! 625 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,559 As heir to the throne, Mr Pitt, 626 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,439 I know His Majesty bears a heavy burden. 627 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,919 I fear the time is coming 628 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,999 when it is a burden we shall be forced to share. 629 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:06,640 Sir... 630 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:12,525 No, no. Mrs Fitzherbert has our entire confidence. 631 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,159 Ahh, Baker, how is the King? 632 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,239 Still demented, Sir. And the pulse is 104. 633 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,959 Then he's not in command of his senses? 634 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,519 Nor likely to be... 635 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,799 If I may say so, Sir. 636 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,239 Since His Majesty's not fit to look after himself, 637 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:32,599 we must do so. 638 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,919 In the future, you, Warren, 639 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,119 will partner Baker as the King's physician. 640 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,439 I must insist that this arrangement 641 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,559 be subject to the approval of His Majesty's ministers. 642 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,115 Insist? Approval? 643 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,479 A son's concern for his sick father? 644 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,319 What is the world coming to, Mr Pitt? 645 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,639 His Royal Highness is quite right. 646 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,519 This is a family matter. 647 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:57,519 Thank you... 648 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,010 Lord Chancellor. 649 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,479 The children! 650 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,479 The children! 651 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,799 The children are asleep. 652 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,399 We must wake them up! London is flooded. 653 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,359 We must flee for higher ground. 654 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,239 Save Amelia, Adolphus, and little Octavius. Come. Come. 655 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:12,520 Octavius is dead, Sir. 656 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,159 Who's killed him-his brother? Yes, he would kill me, too. 657 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:16,995 George... 658 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,039 Hush, my baby! You're safe with Papa. 659 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,319 He just doesn't want you to get your feet wet. 660 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,359 Come. Come. 661 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:24,935 Mama! 662 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,199 Papa's not mad. No, he's not mad. 663 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,679 He's just lost himself, that's all. 664 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,479 We must get to the roof. 665 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,825 Sir... You are talking! 666 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,639 I know I'm talking! 667 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,239 I follow my words. I run after them. 668 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,835 I am dragged at locution's tail! 669 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,799 I have to talk to keep up with my thoughts. 670 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:49,799 I'm scared. 671 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,399 I thought he had taken you. 672 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,435 Who, Sir? 673 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,759 The other George. 674 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,759 You were not in my bed. 675 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,919 I thought you had deceived me with the son! 676 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,595 Elizabeth come to my bed. 677 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,759 Elizabeth, you leave us! 678 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,079 All of you, go! Just go! 679 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,575 You, too. Go! 680 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,239 You want to talk? 681 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,455 Then talk. Talk away. 682 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,639 What do you do with him that you don't do with me? 683 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,025 At it like pigs, the pair of you? 684 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,999 Those fat hands... that young belly... 685 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,319 Sir, for pity's sake... 686 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,319 Those warm thighs! 687 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,399 You harlot! 688 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,039 George, hear me! 689 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,440 Do you think that you are mad? 690 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,015 I don't know. 691 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,495 I don't know. 692 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,725 Madness isn't such torment. 693 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,435 Madness isn't half blind. 694 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,355 Madmen can stand. 695 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,800 They skip. They dance. 696 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,605 And I talk. 697 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,635 I talk and talk and talk. 698 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,399 I hear the words, so I have to speak them. 699 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,720 I have to empty my head of the words. 700 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,385 Something has happened. 701 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,425 Something is not right. 702 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:27,960 Oh, Charlotte. 703 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,439 I will not do this. 704 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,799 It's by order of the prince. 705 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,919 I'm equerry to His Majesty, not the prince. 706 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,919 His Majesty is mad! 707 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,345 Your Majesty... 708 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,559 Can we never be solitary? 709 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,079 I told you to leave us. 710 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,559 I am talking with His Majesty. 711 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,199 - The floods? - Hush! 712 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,159 No, my dear. No. No. 713 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,239 Greville's right. 714 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,719 He's right to take precautions. 715 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,559 We must fetch the children. 716 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,559 Take them to the higher ground. 717 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:11,879 Save Amelia, Adolphus, 718 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:12,879 little Octavius. 719 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:14,439 Now, bring the Queen. 720 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:15,759 Bring the Queen! 721 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,239 I've been instructed by His Royal Highness 722 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,839 to move Your Majesty's lodgings, Ma'am. 723 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,279 Uh, why? Where? 724 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,839 It is to assist His Majesty's recovery. 725 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:25,919 Captain Fitzroy! 726 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,395 - Go, Sir, go! - George! 727 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,359 Your Majesty is not to have access to the King's presence. 728 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,519 Not have access? But I am the Queen. 729 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,195 Where are you taking him? 730 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:39,795 No! Stop! 731 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:40,745 George! 732 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,185 Tyrant! 733 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,279 Assaulted by both one's parents in the same evening. 734 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,199 What is family life coming to? 735 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,439 I was told that, in England, 736 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,799 always the prince hates the King. 737 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,679 Is that why he's mad? 738 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,039 If he's mad, you've made him so by your idleness. 739 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,119 If I'm idle, it's because the King gives me nothing to do. 740 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,999 Do? Do what I do. I support him. 741 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,999 I have 15 of his children. 742 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,759 Be grateful to me for giving you a breathing space... 743 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,359 no, a breeding space. 744 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,999 I'm sorry. That really is awfully funny. 745 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,630 Ha ha ha ha! 746 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,365 George. No, George, please. 747 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,799 Please let me stay with him. Please. 748 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:46,900 No, Madam. 749 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,159 On what authority? 750 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,635 Medical authority, Ma'am. 751 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,119 On the authority of a son, who cares for his sick father. 752 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,319 But I'm his wife. Don't I care for him, too? 753 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:00,399 Possibly, Madam. 754 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,319 But in his current frame of mind, 755 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:09,280 I'm afraid His Majesty does not seem to care for you. 756 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:11,965 No! 757 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:17,750 Come, Madam. 758 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,430 Let me show Your Majesty where they have lodged us. 759 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,399 This is Sir Lucas Pepys, Lord Chancellor, 760 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,679 whom I've taken the liberty of consulting. 761 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,599 The more the merrier. 762 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,879 Are you familiar with His Majesty's condition? 763 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,839 I have spent a lifetime 764 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,995 studying the anfractuosities of the human understanding. 765 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:44,599 An... what? 766 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,799 The mind, Sir, and it's, uh... 767 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:47,960 delinquencies. 768 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,199 If it were possible, I would value an early view 769 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,519 of one of His Majesty's motions. 770 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,399 Yes. That could be arranged, couldn't it? 771 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,879 But what's the matter with him? 772 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,159 Persistent delirium... 773 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,719 and the pulse sometimes rises to 110. 774 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,759 The pulse varies. It doesn't signify. 775 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:07,730 I agree. 776 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,719 I've always found the stool 777 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:12,850 more... eloquent than the pulse. 778 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:18,519 So, uh, what do you suggest? 779 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,405 An immediate purge. 780 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:21,265 Warren? 781 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,919 He needs blistering. 782 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,239 On the back to draw the humours from the brain. 783 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:27,559 Blistering on the legs 784 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,159 to draw the humours to the lower extremities. 785 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,039 I agree... 786 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,585 but he'll never submit. 787 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,675 Hello there, Georgie boy. 788 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:44,910 Not my skin. 789 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,070 Not my skin, please. 790 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,670 Oh, for pity's sake. 791 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:52,999 I'm the Lord's anointed. 792 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,159 God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, 793 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,919 and from whom no secrets are hid, cleanse... 794 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,239 h-h-hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit 795 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:05,639 that we may perfectly love Thee 796 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,319 and Thy Holy Name, 797 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,559 through Christ our Lord! Amen! Amen! Amen! 798 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,279 My most merciful Father... 799 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,559 stray from thy ways like lost sheep. 800 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,159 We follow too much. 801 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,640 God, help me. Help me. 802 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,535 Have mercy upon us... 803 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,750 miserable offenders. 804 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,519 Do not touch me! I'm the King! 805 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,640 Go and tell the Queen I am assaulted! 806 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,460 The Queen! 807 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,070 Queen! Help! 808 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,410 He soils his clothes. Urine. Excrement. 809 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,639 He talks filth, the slops of his mind swilling over. 810 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,279 I am not a nurse. 811 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,759 If His Majesty cannot regulate himself, 812 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,719 how should he regulate the country? 813 00:44:54,720 --> 00:45:01,270 I shall be relieved when it is ended, one way or the other. 814 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:06,145 Omni felonious. 815 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:07,559 Omni victorious. 816 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,445 Happy and glorious. 817 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,600 Mr Pitt, Your Majesty. 818 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:16,440 Where? 819 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,045 Here, Your Majesty. 820 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:23,935 Stand close, Mr Pitt. 821 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,079 You'll have to speak up. I don't see very well. 822 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,560 There is a fog here... 823 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,155 and... in my ear. 824 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,340 In my ear. 825 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:37,725 In my ears. 826 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,599 There have been questions in the House, Sir. 827 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,095 In the House? 828 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,005 Parliament? 829 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,839 Well, do nothing, Mr Pitt. Nothing. 830 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,470 I'm not mad. 831 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:53,520 I'm... 832 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:54,750 I... 833 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,750 I can't see. 834 00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,970 There is a mist. 835 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:01,920 Oh, the Queen. 836 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,335 I missed her. 837 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,079 I... I... I... 838 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,575 I missed her. 839 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,125 Gone. Gone. 840 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:13,365 Gone. Gone. 841 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,159 The doctors thought it best, Sir. 842 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:19,735 Gone. 843 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,135 Oh, doctor... 844 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:31,475 Oh, Jesus Christ. 845 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,090 Come on. 846 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,370 Oh, God! 847 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:46,450 Oh, God! 848 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,359 'Honourable members would, I am sure, like to know 849 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,399 'that I saw His Majesty yesterday, 850 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,799 'and the only symptoms of his disorder 851 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,279 'were a tendency to repeat himself 852 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,599 'and a wandering from one topic to another... 853 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,199 a characteristic that's shared 854 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,639 by most of the converse of polite society... 855 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,279 which, if judged severely, 856 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,759 would warrant the consignment to bedlam 857 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,679 of many in this House! 858 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,199 Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! 859 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,105 Mr Fox. 860 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,439 Mr Pitt's consoling pleasantries should not deceive the House. 861 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,980 The King is incapacitated. 862 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,399 There are those who say he has lost his reason. 863 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:35,399 It isn't so! 864 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,239 - Nonsense! - In which case, 865 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,639 I propose a bill be drawn up 866 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,625 to make the Prince of Wales... regent. 867 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:45,160 Order! 868 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:46,560 Order! 869 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,479 The motion before this House 870 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,319 is that a bill be speedily drawn up 871 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,599 to appoint the Prince of Wales 872 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,945 regent of this Kingdom! 873 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,799 The house will divide. 874 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,119 Thank you, gentlemen, for your support. 875 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,599 Sir, I must vote. 876 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,879 For the life of me, I can't see why they need to vote. 877 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,879 The King is incapable. It's known. 878 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,519 These are the nation's representatives. 879 00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,799 Some come to Parliament in the hope 880 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,759 that they might serve their country. 881 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,959 But most of them, being human, 882 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,159 are here to fill their pockets. 883 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,439 Pitt and your father have done them very well... 884 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,125 pensions, places... 885 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:25,425 bribes. 886 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,679 Once it is plain that Pitt is finished 887 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,959 and there is no more swill in the trough, 888 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,075 Your Royal Highness will be made regent. 889 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,260 Sir, I must join the line. 890 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:46,660 Gascoigne. 891 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:48,235 Sheridan. 892 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:48,910 Fox. 893 00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:55,670 353. 894 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:57,590 323. 895 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:03,790 Very good. A majority of 30. 896 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,559 Rather good. A government majority of 30. 897 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:10,985 Government? 30? 898 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:12,999 You mean we haven't won? 899 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,319 Well, we didn't expect to win outright, 900 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:16,639 not the first vote. 901 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,439 I thought they liked me. 902 00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,230 They will, Sir, they will, in time. 903 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,420 Time, always time. 904 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,280 Now is the time, Charles! Now! 905 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,439 And that's our boy. 906 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,525 God rot all royals. 907 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:41,920 Give us the wisdom of America. 908 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,879 But he will recover in time, surely. 909 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,759 What good is that? Once he's made regent, 910 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,679 the prince will have him locked away in some Windsor hell-hole. 911 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,239 Mad or sane, no one will know. 912 00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:57,399 You've been reading too many novels. 913 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:02,245 He has to recover soon, or we're done for. 914 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:03,650 Mr Pitt. 915 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:12,600 Lady Pembroke. 916 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:15,959 Her Majesty understands 917 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,079 that you are dissatisfied with His Majesty's doctors. 918 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,439 The King is no better. 919 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,479 Mr Pitt, my Mother-in-law lost her wits, 920 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,079 and a succession of physicians failed to recover them for her. 921 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,559 But one doctor was confident of her return to health. 922 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,879 Accordingly, she was placed in his care. 923 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,359 And is she recovered? 924 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:36,195 Entirely. 925 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,319 Rides to hounds, founded some almshouses, 926 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,399 embroiders around the clock. 927 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,405 I've written down his name. 928 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:49,510 Sir! 929 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,679 Thank you, Mrs Cordwell. 930 00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,435 Look! Look! Look! 931 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,795 At last! At last! 932 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,799 - Mrs Cordwell... - This is my husband, 933 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,599 come post-haste from Portsmouth. 934 00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:23,759 Mrs Cordwell, 935 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,399 Captain Cordwell drowned 936 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,515 off the Goodwin Sands three years since. 937 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,350 But he is very like. 938 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,565 Back to work, Mrs Cordwell. 939 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:43,780 Dr Willis? 940 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,670 I must have certain undertakings... 941 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,279 authority over the patient, 942 00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,559 access to him at all times. 943 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,999 You will reside here at Windsor, 944 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,639 and Parliament will have to be kept informed, 945 00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,359 so you will need to write bulletins. 946 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:08,959 They must be confident, 947 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:09,925 optimistic. 948 00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:15,490 The survival of the government depends upon it. 949 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:18,479 And, Dr Willis, 950 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,500 you are my doctor. 951 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,180 Do you understand? 952 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,079 I'm the King's doctor, Sir. 953 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,495 It is the same thing. 954 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:36,895 In here, Sir. 955 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:42,950 Yes. 956 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,839 Do you know, Mr Greville, 957 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,919 the state of monarchy and the state of lunacy 958 00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,675 share a frontier? 959 00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,839 Some of my lunatics fancy themselves Kings. 960 00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:58,415 He... 961 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,550 is the King. 962 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,085 Where shall his fancy take refuge? 963 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:13,759 We do not use the word lunatic, Sir, in relation to His Majesty. 964 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,879 Well, who's to say what's normal in a King? Hmm? 965 00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,359 Deferred to, agreed with, acquiesced in. 966 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:24,679 Who can flourish 967 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,470 on such a daily diet of compliance? 968 00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,520 To be curbed... stood up to... 969 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,039 in a word, thwarted 970 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,250 exercises the character, 971 00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,800 elasticates the spirit, makes it more pliant. 972 00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:50,119 It's the want of such exercise that makes rulers rigid. 973 00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,119 Sharp, sharp! The King, the King! 974 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:53,999 This is the King, Sir. 975 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,599 Whom I must cure. 976 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,479 ...As straight as a ruler, 977 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,239 straight as a ruler done by a ruler. 978 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:01,559 And another beside that 979 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,199 until you have as pretty a ploughed field 980 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,599 this side of Cirencester. 981 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,360 I have a farm. 982 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,799 Put us out of our Kingdom. We'd not want for employment. 983 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,759 Give me the management of 50 acres, and I could do it. 984 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:24,795 I said... 985 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,870 I have a farm, Your Majesty. 986 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,879 This gentleman, Sir, 987 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,999 has made the illness under which Your Majesty labours 988 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,345 his special study, Sir. 989 00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,999 A mad doctor, is it? 990 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,940 I'm not mad, just nervous. 991 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,785 I shall endeavour to... 992 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,759 alleviate some of the inconveniences 993 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,399 from which Your Majesty suffers. 994 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:55,625 Inconveniences? 995 00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:58,290 Insults. 996 00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:00,395 Assaults. 997 00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,639 And salt besides rubbed into these wounds. Look! 998 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,959 By your dress, Sir, and general demeanour, 999 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,599 I'd say you were a minister of God. 1000 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,439 That's true. I was once in the service of the church. 1001 00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,850 Now I practice medicine. 1002 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,639 You've quitted a profession I've always loved 1003 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,479 and embraced one I most heartily detest. 1004 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,959 Our saviour went about healing the sick. 1005 00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,959 But he had not 700 pounds a year for it. 1006 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,195 Ha ha ha! 1007 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,005 Well, that's not bad for a madman. 1008 00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,565 I have a hospital in Lincolnshire. 1009 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,015 Lincolnshire. 1010 00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,955 Yes, I know Lincolnshire. 1011 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,079 Fine sheep there. Admirable sheep. 1012 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,180 Pigs, too. 1013 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,079 But I know of no hospitals. 1014 00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:55,799 My patients work, Sir. 1015 00:55:55,800 --> 00:56:00,079 They till the soil, cultivate... and in so doing, 1016 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,839 they acquire a better conceit of themselves. 1017 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,319 I'm King of England. 1018 00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:09,095 A man can have no better conceit of himself. 1019 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,519 Do you look at me, Sir? 1020 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:14,820 I do, Sir. 1021 00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,175 I have you in my eye. 1022 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,039 No, I have you in mine. 1023 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:25,995 You're bold, Sir. 1024 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:29,199 But by God, I'm bolder. 1025 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,559 Don't look at me! I'm not one of your farmers! 1026 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,199 You must behave! 1027 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,839 Must? Whose must is this, your must or my must? 1028 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,119 Get away from me, you bum sucker. 1029 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,559 Lincolnshire lick-fingers! 1030 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,439 Clean your tongue, Sir. 1031 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,359 I will not! I'll be a guest in the graveyard first. 1032 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,599 Very well. If Your Majesty will not behave, 1033 00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,945 you must be restrained. 1034 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,239 When felons were induced to talk, 1035 00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:13,679 they were shown first the instruments of their torture. 1036 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,519 The King is shown the instrument of his 1037 00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,460 to induce him not to talk. 1038 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,905 Well, I won't, I won't. 1039 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:25,610 I won't. 1040 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,239 Bring him back. Bring him back! 1041 00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,679 What are you doing? This is the King! 1042 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:32,255 Stop. 1043 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,290 What are you doing, Sir? 1044 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,425 No. No. No. No. 1045 00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,279 This is the King, Sir! 1046 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,235 This is the King! 1047 00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:47,130 Bastard! 1048 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:52,240 I'm the King! Take your hands off me! 1049 00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,279 This is the King! 1050 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,285 Sit him down. Sit him down. 1051 00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,500 I'll have your hospital... 1052 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,280 Help me! Help! 1053 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:13,879 If the King refuses food, he will be restrained. 1054 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,439 If he claims to have no appetite, he will be restrained. 1055 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:18,639 If he swears 1056 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,839 and indulges in meaningless discourse... 1057 00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,959 he will be restrained. 1058 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,199 If he throws off his bedclothes, tears away his bandages, 1059 00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,639 scratches at his sores, and dosn't strive every day 1060 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,759 towards his own recovery, 1061 00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,565 then he must be restrained. 1062 00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,439 - I am the King of England! - No, Sir! 1063 00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,590 You are the patient! 1064 00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:10,960 Not permitted. 1065 00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:12,640 Not permitted! 1066 00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:14,079 We recommended him, 1067 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:17,280 and still it is not permitted. 1068 00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,639 None of them know him. 1069 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,279 Come, Baker, for heaven's sake. 1070 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:30,679 He's not himself. 1071 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,919 How can they restore him to his proper self, 1072 00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:37,120 not knowing what that self is? 1073 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:42,050 He's an angel of kindness and goodness. 1074 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:01,530 Fortnum. 1075 01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:02,390 Sir. 1076 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:04,239 What are you doing? 1077 01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,519 I'm going, Sir, to Piccadilly, Sir, 1078 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,839 to start a provision merchant's. 1079 01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:10,159 It isn't much, Sir, 1080 01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:14,675 but it's a cut above emptying piss-pots. 1081 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:16,920 Braun. 1082 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:46,320 Pepys. 1083 01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:49,260 Good news. 1084 01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,759 A fetid and a stinking stool. 1085 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:53,400 Pepys. 1086 01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,879 The colour good, well shaped, 1087 01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,420 and a prodigious quantity. 1088 01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,999 Mind you, the urine is a little dark. 1089 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,919 Or is it the light? 1090 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:07,799 Pepys, this Willis. 1091 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:08,310 Yes? 1092 01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,050 A dangerous man. 1093 01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:12,120 Is he? 1094 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,359 Not a proper doctor. 1095 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,399 Not a member of the Royal College of Physicians. 1096 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:18,759 Wants us out, Pepys. 1097 01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:19,205 No. 1098 01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,359 We must stick together. 1099 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,770 And remember, one voice. 1100 01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,180 - One voice. - One voice. 1101 01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,359 What kind of fellow is he? 1102 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:36,065 Parson. 1103 01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:37,920 Quack. 1104 01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,920 Has some modern ideas. 1105 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:45,759 He'll need watching. 1106 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,999 I've heard very good things about him. 1107 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,919 He does a lot of it with his eyes. 1108 01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,759 You mean he actually looks at the King? 1109 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:54,270 Yes. 1110 01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:57,359 Damned impudence. 1111 01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:01,679 Poor King. No Queen. Must be very lonely. 1112 01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:08,100 Such a pity he's not nearer. Then you could go visit him. 1113 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:08,950 Hmm. 1114 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,345 You don't mean... here? 1115 01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,135 Good God, no. 1116 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:18,390 Kew. 1117 01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:20,275 Kew? Aah! 1118 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,079 Throw him in. 1119 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,195 - Come on, Your Majesty. - Come on, Sir. 1120 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,039 Stop struggling, Your Majesty. 1121 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:30,550 God! 1122 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:31,615 Stop! 1123 01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:38,519 I see you, Sir. 1124 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,725 No, Sir. You do not see me. 1125 01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:43,865 Nobody sees me. 1126 01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,040 I am not here. 1127 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:46,935 Easy! 1128 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:55,800 Take your filthy hands off me, you... 1129 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,879 I have you in my eye, Sir. 1130 01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,035 And I shall do so 1131 01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,719 until you learn to do as you're told. 1132 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:06,359 I'm the King. I tell, I'm not told. 1133 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:11,075 I am the verb, Sir. I am not the object. 1134 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:13,279 Then till you can govern yourself, 1135 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:15,239 you're not fit to govern others. 1136 01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,720 And until you do so... 1137 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:19,959 I shall govern you. 1138 01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,439 Govern yourself then, you goat. Pbbblllt! 1139 01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,439 Get him in the coach. 1140 01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,119 Then I am dead! 1141 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,199 Coffin King! 1142 01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:29,199 I shall be taken out, murdered, 1143 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,479 and my genitals torn off and pulled apart by horses 1144 01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,039 and my limbs exhibited in a neighbouring town. 1145 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:36,359 Get him in! 1146 01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,675 Aah! Oh, help me, please! Help me. Help. 1147 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:55,370 Mr King. 1148 01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:09,555 - Come on, you little bugger. - Come on! 1149 01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,479 The Queen will come, you said. 1150 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,399 - In time, Sir. - It was a lie! 1151 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,559 An ordained minister lied. 1152 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,839 That lie will have you out of that famous farm. 1153 01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:31,130 Loose your tame lunatics across Lincolnshire, you liar. 1154 01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:37,855 Liar. 1155 01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:44,795 I'm here. 1156 01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:47,665 Here... 1157 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,360 But I'm not all there. 1158 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:06,870 Yes. 1159 01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:14,599 I used to sit with my father when he was ill. 1160 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,865 I used to read him Shakespeare. 1161 01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,755 I never read Shakespeare. 1162 01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,410 I'm a clergyman. 1163 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:49,319 They've killed the Queen. Did you know that? 1164 01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:50,290 No, Sir. 1165 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:52,735 Oh, yes, Sir. 1166 01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,295 Are you cold? 1167 01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:57,660 It is chilly, Sir. 1168 01:07:57,960 --> 01:07:59,785 Not for me. 1169 01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:05,080 I make the weather by means of mental powers. 1170 01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,399 Well, actually, it's not too bad about the Queen 1171 01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,799 because actually I never actually married her. 1172 01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:21,679 I was married to the tall one, Elizabeth. 1173 01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,799 Ah-ah! What are you saying, Sir? 1174 01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,755 What do you mean? 1175 01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,599 Don't they speak German in Lincolnshire? 1176 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:30,519 Allow me to translate, Sir. 1177 01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:32,439 Her Ladyship is game for anything. 1178 01:08:32,440 --> 01:08:34,079 I just say the word! 1179 01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,160 - Skirts up... - Gag! 1180 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:40,830 I'm in there, or she's down here... 1181 01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:47,559 You assured me you could cure him. 1182 01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,105 I can, Sir, given time. 1183 01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,030 We do not have time! 1184 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:58,510 - What are you praying for now? - The King. 1185 01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:02,385 You should pray for us. 1186 01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:04,220 Because... 1187 01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:08,639 if he did die or stay mad... 1188 01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:09,345 George! 1189 01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:14,439 Who's to stop us saying we're man and wife? 1190 01:09:14,440 --> 01:09:17,559 Don't you know who the bridegroom was? 1191 01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,399 It is a year ago. 1192 01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,719 Did the bride not mention she was a Catholic? 1193 01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,345 Why should she? 1194 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,135 Aha! Aha. Here it is. 1195 01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,719 The prince cannot marry without the King's permission, 1196 01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:37,439 and he cannot marry a Catholic. 1197 01:09:37,440 --> 01:09:40,319 You performed an illegal marriage. 1198 01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,199 And he only gave me 10 pound. 1199 01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:48,565 Well, here's 10 pounds more. Keep your mouth shut. 1200 01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:51,119 Here! That's against the law! 1201 01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:52,815 I am the law. 1202 01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:06,505 Long, long days, Elizabeth. 1203 01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,205 And longer for His Majesty. 1204 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,985 In the drawing-room, gentlemen. 1205 01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,540 The doctors, Your Majesty. 1206 01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,119 Good afternoon, Your Majesty. 1207 01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:33,060 And, uh, how are we today? 1208 01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,079 Blisters have healed up very nicely, 1209 01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,760 which won't do at all. 1210 01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:39,560 Mother of God. 1211 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:42,079 Get off me, you barbarian! 1212 01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:17,395 Bulletin. 1213 01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:22,880 "Much better." 1214 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,565 Ha. I can't see it. 1215 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,020 You doubt me, Sir? 1216 01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,400 I'll write it. 1217 01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:38,479 Could we mention the stool this time? 1218 01:11:38,480 --> 01:11:41,155 Oh, the stool, the stool. 1219 01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,239 My dear Pepys, the persistent excellence of the stool 1220 01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:48,239 has been one of this disease's most tedious features. 1221 01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,719 When will you get it into your head, 1222 01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:53,039 one can produce a copious, regular, 1223 01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:55,079 and exquisitely-turned evacuation every day 1224 01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:58,805 and still be a stranger to reason? 1225 01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:03,919 I will not trouble the House 1226 01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,399 with the detailed contents of the latest, 1227 01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:10,840 and I may say, generally optimistic bulletin. 1228 01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,959 But honourable members would, I am sure, like to know 1229 01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:19,930 that while His Majesty has had ups and downs... 1230 01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:25,315 His... his health continues steadily to improve. 1231 01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,010 Improve? That's a barefaced lie. 1232 01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:31,720 Ups and downs? 1233 01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:34,760 Ups and downs? 1234 01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,519 Mr Speaker, I can, with your permission, 1235 01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,319 quote from a copy of the same bulletin 1236 01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,279 handed to me by Dr Warren. 1237 01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,039 Some of these ups and downs... 1238 01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,580 His Majesty's obscenities! 1239 01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:53,770 His blasphemies! 1240 01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:56,725 His interminable ramblings! 1241 01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:04,140 Suffice to say this optimistic bulletin concludes thus... 1242 01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:08,479 that while His Majesty has had lucid intervals, 1243 01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:11,670 he remains periodically demented... 1244 01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:16,165 and incapable of rational thought! 1245 01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:21,079 I put to the House that we have been deceived too long 1246 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,199 over His Majesty's continuing illness! 1247 01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:24,959 Yes! Hear, hear! Yes! 1248 01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:30,650 When will we see the bill appointing the prince regent? 1249 01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:37,200 In due course. 1250 01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:39,195 When? When? When? 1251 01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:41,879 It is still being drafted. 1252 01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,999 When? When? When? When? 1253 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:45,755 When? When? When? 1254 01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:48,320 Order! 1255 01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:50,435 When? When? When? 1256 01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:51,135 Soon! 1257 01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:57,615 Order! Order! 1258 01:13:59,440 --> 01:14:03,890 On Mr Fox's motion to present the bill, 1259 01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:10,405 the House will divide, ayes to the right, nos to the left. 1260 01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,555 They won, by three votes. 1261 01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:22,319 Then we've lost. 1262 01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:27,685 Bring in the bill. The prince must be made regent. 1263 01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:45,455 Well? 1264 01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:49,275 I'm praying, God damn it. 1265 01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,799 I'm almost ready to give you my support. 1266 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,679 Now? We don't need you now. 1267 01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:05,505 I think you do. 1268 01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:09,119 Your boy's married. 1269 01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:11,730 She's just his mistress. 1270 01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:21,395 I haven't told Mr Pitt... 1271 01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:22,470 Yet. 1272 01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:25,959 What is it you want? 1273 01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,570 The good of the country. 1274 01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,535 To remain as Lord Chancellor. 1275 01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:36,759 Well, I'm sure that can be arranged, 1276 01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:41,559 when, and if, we ever manage to get our hands on government. 1277 01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,439 The bill is ready, Sir. 1278 01:15:43,440 --> 01:15:48,839 I'm a snail, Lord Chancellor, creeping towards the throne. 1279 01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:52,100 Even Maria is becoming impatient. 1280 01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,559 Only for His Majesty's recovery, Sir. 1281 01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:58,399 Now the Lord Chancellor has come out in favour of Your Highness, 1282 01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,359 the end is surely in sight. 1283 01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,919 I have always been in his favour. 1284 01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:04,020 Of course. 1285 01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,439 Although the present situation calls for a certain delicacy. 1286 01:16:07,440 --> 01:16:10,879 This is your father, Sir. Be kind. 1287 01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:15,119 Rely on your oars, Sir. The tide is with you. 1288 01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:16,155 The tide? 1289 01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:18,970 Rely on my oars? 1290 01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:20,425 George! 1291 01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,879 Your Royal Highness has but to wait. 1292 01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:24,455 Wait? 1293 01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:26,395 Ha. Wait. 1294 01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:31,005 Lord Chancellor, my life has been waiting. 1295 01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,580 I endeavour to cultivate languor, 1296 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,239 but it is difficult to be languid 1297 01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,479 when the throne of England is pending. 1298 01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:41,565 People laugh at me. 1299 01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:46,480 What must I do to be taken seriously? 1300 01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:48,359 I tell you, Sir, 1301 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:53,005 to be Prince of Wales is not a position... 1302 01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:55,310 It is a predicament. 1303 01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,705 She has more sense than he has. 1304 01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:11,260 It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. 1305 01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:29,999 Maria is not mentioned. 1306 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,839 No, Sir. It is a little early for that. 1307 01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:37,760 It will happen, Maria. I promise you. 1308 01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:39,999 Won't it, Thurlow? 1309 01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:40,510 Sir. 1310 01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:44,805 No. 1311 01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,375 No, this must not be. 1312 01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:50,919 The son in charge of the father? 1313 01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,270 He will be put away. 1314 01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:56,980 This is his death warrant. 1315 01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:58,710 Elizabeth... 1316 01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,980 I must see him, Elizabeth. 1317 01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,505 No, I... I cannot do it, Ma'am. 1318 01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,439 Besides, if Her Majesty sees him, 1319 01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:23,559 he-he-he-he still utters such improprieties. 1320 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:24,719 About what? 1321 01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:25,950 About, uh... 1322 01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:27,780 About you. 1323 01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:30,010 Tell me. 1324 01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:33,375 I cannot say. 1325 01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:40,380 What is it His Majesty dreams of doing, Mr Greville, hmm? 1326 01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:43,919 Is it this? 1327 01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,280 Please, Madam. 1328 01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:46,015 This? 1329 01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:49,330 Or this? 1330 01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:52,630 Yay hey hey! 1331 01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:05,159 Come on, lads. Race you to the door. Come on. 1332 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:06,130 Come on! 1333 01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:10,720 I won! 1334 01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:14,420 Oh, Baker. 1335 01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:16,599 Baker, before you leave, 1336 01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,399 I have a secret mission for you. 1337 01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:22,439 I want you to hand over Gibraltar to Spain. 1338 01:19:22,440 --> 01:19:24,720 Get Minorca in return. 1339 01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:26,559 Can you do that? 1340 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,199 I'm a physician, Sir. 1341 01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:33,820 Well, then you should have no difficulty. Good afternoon. 1342 01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:45,775 Your Majesty. 1343 01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,559 Have you nothing to say to me, Sir? 1344 01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:06,725 Say, Madam? 1345 01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,399 What is there to say? 1346 01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:15,159 We were married for 28 years, never separated, even for a day. 1347 01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:18,159 You abandoned me to my tormentors. 1348 01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:20,879 They said it was for your own good. 1349 01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:24,159 My good? What do they know of my good? 1350 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:28,239 George, they may not permit me to see you again. 1351 01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:33,475 A bill has been prepared to make the son regent. 1352 01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:36,470 Regent? Hmm. 1353 01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:39,260 Do you understand? 1354 01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:43,230 He is to rule in your place. 1355 01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:48,545 Regent? 1356 01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:51,030 The fat one? 1357 01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:53,430 Hmm. 1358 01:20:54,440 --> 01:20:56,599 His Majesty was not told, Madam. 1359 01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:58,095 He must know. 1360 01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:00,279 George, you must know. 1361 01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:01,380 Come away. 1362 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:03,239 Do you understand? The son. 1363 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:04,210 The son? 1364 01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:08,679 The father pushed aside, put out, put away, ruled out. 1365 01:21:08,680 --> 01:21:10,879 The father not dead even. 1366 01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:12,765 By whose authority? 1367 01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:21,630 "The Prince of Wales should have full power and authority." 1368 01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:25,220 "All authorities, prerogatives, aides..." 1369 01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:29,445 Why was I not told of this? 1370 01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:44,695 The bill doesn't matter, Sir. 1371 01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:48,065 Your Majesty... 1372 01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:53,070 This bill is to be presented today. 1373 01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:58,119 Sir, the Prince of Wales has a majori... 1374 01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:01,055 Greville, Dr Willis is right. 1375 01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:03,855 Take it away. 1376 01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,039 He's on the mend? 1377 01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:25,359 I say, that's good news. 1378 01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:27,319 Does anyone else know? 1379 01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:27,765 No. 1380 01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,315 It may be only temporary. 1381 01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:37,079 Well, I see no reason to disseminate the information. 1382 01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,159 We can decide just how ill His Majesty is 1383 01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,639 when the bill is passed... 1384 01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:43,805 Eh, Warren? 1385 01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:49,760 Nearly there, Charles. 1386 01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:52,610 Where's Thurlow? 1387 01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:58,159 "These weeks are memories of those worser hours." 1388 01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:01,479 "I pray thee put them off." Go on, go on. 1389 01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:04,159 "I pray thee put them off." 1390 01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:06,159 "How does the King..." 1391 01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,959 - Lord Thurlow, Sir. - The very man. 1392 01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:14,159 Yes, we're reading Shakespeare. Willis, give him the book. 1393 01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:15,679 Oh, King Lear. 1394 01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:17,175 Is that wise? 1395 01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,639 I had no idea what it was about, Sir. 1396 01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:23,639 Now, I'm asleep, apparently, and Cordelia comes in 1397 01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,919 and asks the doctor - Greville - how I am. Off we go. 1398 01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:28,759 Uh, who's Cordelia? 1399 01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:29,730 You are. 1400 01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:33,359 Yes, but Willis can't do it. 1401 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:36,839 He's a fine doctor but a hopeless actor. 1402 01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:38,205 Off you go. 1403 01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,685 "Oh, you kind gods, 1404 01:23:46,440 --> 01:23:51,080 "cure this great breach in his abused nature. 1405 01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:56,840 "The untuned and jarring senses, oh, wind up, 1406 01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,025 "of this child-changed father." 1407 01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:05,675 That's very good. 1408 01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:11,685 Yes, the child-changed father's very good. 1409 01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:16,950 Yes, go on, Greville, it's you now. 1410 01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,270 "He hath slept long. 1411 01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,559 "Be by, good Madam, 1412 01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,879 "when we do awaken him. 1413 01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:27,210 "I doubt not of his temperance." 1414 01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,830 "Oh, my dear father. 1415 01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:34,519 "Restoration, hang thy medicine on my lips 1416 01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,540 "and let this kiss 1417 01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:39,405 "repair those violent harms 1418 01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:44,239 "which my two sisters have in thy reverence made." 1419 01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:47,310 Well, come on, man, kiss me. 1420 01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:55,400 Not there, man. Here, here. It's Shakespeare. 1421 01:24:58,440 --> 01:25:01,705 Right. No, no. Push off again. 1422 01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,119 This is the moment when the King awakes, you see. 1423 01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:06,220 You ready? 1424 01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,445 That's it. Come on. 1425 01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:17,679 "How fares my royal lord? 1426 01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,090 "How does Your Majesty?" 1427 01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:23,999 "You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. 1428 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,879 "Thou art a soul in bliss, 1429 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:30,159 "but I am bound upon a wheel of fire, 1430 01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:35,195 "that mine own tears do scald like molten lead." 1431 01:25:36,480 --> 01:25:38,175 It's so true. 1432 01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,719 "Pray do not mock me. 1433 01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:44,710 I am a very foolish, fond old man." 1434 01:25:46,480 --> 01:25:48,890 "And to deal plainly..." 1435 01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:54,535 "I fear I'm not in my perfect mind." 1436 01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:04,279 Is that the end, Your Majesty? 1437 01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:06,239 Oh, good Lord, no. 1438 01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,799 Cordelia - that's Thurlow-dies, 1439 01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:12,199 hanged, and the shock of it kills the King. 1440 01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:13,559 So they all die. 1441 01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:14,959 It's a tragedy. 1442 01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:15,959 Very affecting. 1443 01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:18,359 Well, it's the way I play it. 1444 01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,079 Your Majesty seems more yourself. 1445 01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:20,855 Do I? 1446 01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,220 Yes, I do. 1447 01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,839 Yeah, I've always been myself, even when I was ill. 1448 01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:30,385 Only now I seem myself. 1449 01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,985 And that's the important thing. 1450 01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:37,560 I have remembered how to seem. 1451 01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:39,925 What, what? 1452 01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:44,260 What did Your Majesty say? 1453 01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:46,679 What? I didn't say anything. 1454 01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:50,119 Besides, Greville, you shouldn't ask the King questions. 1455 01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:51,759 You should know that. 1456 01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:52,925 What, what? 1457 01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:55,720 Get him ready. 1458 01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:59,399 Look at his piss. We're back to lemonade. 1459 01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:01,319 It's still a bit inky. 1460 01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:03,239 That's yesterday's. This is today's. 1461 01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:07,290 Here, piss the elder, piss the younger. 1462 01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:11,940 Go on! Hyah! Hyah! 1463 01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,719 The matter before this house 1464 01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:22,959 is a bill to provide for the care of His Majesty's person, 1465 01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:25,919 and for the administration of the royal authority 1466 01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:28,719 during the continuance of His Majesty's illness. 1467 01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:29,885 Hear, hear! 1468 01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:32,005 Mr Speaker, 1469 01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:36,919 we on this side of the House count ourselves fortunate 1470 01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:40,839 that we have in the person of the Prince of Wales 1471 01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:45,350 a young man of such character and aptitude. 1472 01:27:50,440 --> 01:27:51,475 What now? 1473 01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:59,399 And so, Mr Speaker, I would like to set out 1474 01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:02,919 some measures of long overdue reform, 1475 01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:06,319 and, yes, I may be bold to say it, 1476 01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:08,330 necessary expenditure... 1477 01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:20,799 I've just been with His Majesty 1478 01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:24,759 for two hours of uninterrupted conversation with him. 1479 01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,679 - He means he's talking again. - No, damn it! 1480 01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:31,839 Well, yes, but not 15 to the dozen, and not nonsense, either. 1481 01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:33,559 He's actually a damn clever fellow. 1482 01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:35,399 Had me reading Shakespeare. 1483 01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:37,719 Have you read King Lear? Tragic story. 1484 01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:38,820 Of course! 1485 01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:42,479 If that fool of a messenger had got a move on, 1486 01:28:42,480 --> 01:28:44,439 Cordelia wouldn't have been hanged, 1487 01:28:44,440 --> 01:28:47,279 Lear wouldn't have died, and it would have ended happily. 1488 01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,839 As it is, it's so damned tragic. 1489 01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:52,119 The point is, the King is better. 1490 01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:53,399 Better than he was? 1491 01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:56,039 No, better. The "What, what?" is back. Come. 1492 01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:57,599 No one, Mr Speaker, 1493 01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:02,359 entertains a higher regard for His Majesty than I do. 1494 01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:06,239 But we cannot close our eyes to the fact 1495 01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:09,519 that His Majesty has been overtaken 1496 01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:14,360 by a terrible and I fear long-lasting illness 1497 01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:20,655 that seems immune to all forms of medical treatment. 1498 01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:57,070 I... 1499 01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:02,690 We're... 1500 01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,495 We're very touched... 1501 01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:08,315 by the concern... 1502 01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:13,950 shown by our most loyal subjects... 1503 01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:19,959 And very-very happy to be amongst you all again. 1504 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:24,359 Be assured that now that our strength has returned, 1505 01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:26,510 we will once more... 1506 01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:30,679 take up the reigns of government. 1507 01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:32,765 Long live the King! 1508 01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:35,519 How was that? Not bad, what, what? 1509 01:30:59,920 --> 01:31:01,805 Papa! Papa! Hooray! 1510 01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:05,519 Pa, you're back! You're back! 1511 01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:12,605 Come with me. Come with me. Mama is in the garden. 1512 01:31:29,880 --> 01:31:31,505 Two hours late! 1513 01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:33,479 He does this on purpose. 1514 01:31:33,480 --> 01:31:37,719 He knows it is his lateness that always drives you mad. 1515 01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:41,199 Fear not. I shall strike a note of reconciliation. 1516 01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:43,875 Love, that's the keynote. 1517 01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:48,280 Their Royal Highnesses, Your Majesty. 1518 01:31:52,920 --> 01:31:53,895 Fred. 1519 01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:56,505 Pa. 1520 01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:00,265 George. 1521 01:32:11,320 --> 01:32:13,075 Oh, do, please... 1522 01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:34,159 How is Your Majesty? 1523 01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:35,599 Fat lot you care! 1524 01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:36,895 Love, George. 1525 01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:41,745 You smile, Sir. 1526 01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,879 I'm happy to see my father his old self, 1527 01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:46,479 in such good spirits, Sir. 1528 01:32:46,480 --> 01:32:50,319 Good or bad, I am in control of them, Sir. 1529 01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:54,039 When a man can control himself his spirits are immaterial. 1530 01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:55,919 When a man cannot control himself, 1531 01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:58,239 he would do well to be sober! 1532 01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:01,110 - He would do well- - Ahem! 1533 01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:17,885 Marry, Sir. 1534 01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:24,879 I am married, Sir. 1535 01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:26,759 Somebody big. Somebody German. 1536 01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:28,159 Children, what, what? 1537 01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:29,559 I am married, Sir... 1538 01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:32,040 Not without my say-so! 1539 01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:36,999 And I do not say so. I will not say so. 1540 01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:39,039 You are not married, Sir. 1541 01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:44,925 If you have a cough, Sir, take it outside! 1542 01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:52,420 Put her away, Sir. 1543 01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:56,570 Your debts will be paid, 1544 01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:02,035 and you will have an income that is appropriate. 1545 01:34:08,480 --> 01:34:11,999 Is it any wonder a man goes mad? 1546 01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:17,095 Doctors! 30 guineas a visit and travelling expenses, 1547 01:34:17,440 --> 01:34:20,180 for six months of torture. 1548 01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:25,759 They would have a man pay for his own execution, what, what? 1549 01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:27,639 How much is he getting? 1550 01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:28,805 An annuity. 1551 01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:31,485 �1,000 a year, Sir. 1552 01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:40,359 Well, he's done me some service. 1553 01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:44,559 I think it is time has done you the service, Sir. 1554 01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:48,879 Yes? Mmm, but what of the colonies, Mr Pitt? 1555 01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:52,015 America is now a nation, Sir. 1556 01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:54,655 Well. 1557 01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:57,865 We must get used to it. 1558 01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:02,295 I have known stranger things. 1559 01:35:03,160 --> 01:35:07,085 I once saw a sheep with five legs. 1560 01:35:12,200 --> 01:35:13,105 Sacked? 1561 01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:15,140 Jesus! 1562 01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:18,479 - And me? - Forget what you've seen, 1563 01:35:18,480 --> 01:35:20,399 majesty in its small clothes. 1564 01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:22,279 Wipe it from your memory. 1565 01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:24,239 He was ill. We knew that. 1566 01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:26,985 Yes, and now he's well. 1567 01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:28,295 Here. 1568 01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:33,570 Me, too. 1569 01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:37,359 I'm no longer in service. 1570 01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:43,245 You were kind to His Majesty during his illness, Greville. 1571 01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:49,815 I did what I could, Captain Fitzroy. 1572 01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:51,530 Colonel Fitzroy. 1573 01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,319 Did you not know that? 1574 01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:59,359 It seems unfair, I agree, but a word of advice. 1575 01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:03,239 To be kind does not commend you to Kings. 1576 01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:06,159 They see it as they see any flow of feeling, 1577 01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:07,655 as a liberty. 1578 01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:10,759 A blind eye will serve you better, 1579 01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,630 and you will travel further. 1580 01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:19,580 Elizabeth. 1581 01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:25,870 His Majesty has yet to retire, Mr Greville. 1582 01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:31,039 I'm to leave tomorrow. 1583 01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:31,850 Yes. 1584 01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:34,075 You knew? 1585 01:36:34,640 --> 01:36:40,140 It's a pity. You seem such a promising young man. 1586 01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:44,600 Could I, um... 1587 01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:47,710 Mr Greville, please. 1588 01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:50,520 But... when... 1589 01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:54,599 It was what was required, Mr Greville. That was all. 1590 01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:58,060 Sharp, sharp! The King! The King! 1591 01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:04,470 Thank you, Thompson. 1592 01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:09,330 Madam... 1593 01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,185 When I was ill, 1594 01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:16,875 they tell me that 1595 01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:18,999 I said certain things. 1596 01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:21,399 I have no memory of them, Sir. 1597 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:27,495 Uh, it's not so much what was said as what was done. 1598 01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:28,855 So... 1599 01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:32,455 Did we? Did we, uh... 1600 01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:33,855 Your Majesty? 1601 01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:36,375 Um, did we... 1602 01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:41,599 did-did, uh, did we ever forget ourselves utterly, 1603 01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:47,559 because, if we did I should so like to remember, what, what? 1604 01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:52,325 No, Sir. Your behaviour throughout was impeccable. 1605 01:37:52,440 --> 01:37:53,439 Hey, hey! 1606 01:37:53,440 --> 01:37:55,239 Like the kindest father, 1607 01:37:55,240 --> 01:37:58,439 as well as the most generous of sovereigns. 1608 01:37:58,440 --> 01:37:59,605 Good, good. 1609 01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:19,075 Mrs King. 1610 01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:20,770 Mr King. 1611 01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:26,719 You're a good little pudding, 1612 01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:27,885 what, what? 1613 01:38:30,360 --> 01:38:34,610 It was said, when you were ill, that... 1614 01:38:34,760 --> 01:38:38,095 if you had led a normal life, 1615 01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:41,895 this might not have happened. 1616 01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:43,480 A normal life? 1617 01:38:46,480 --> 01:38:48,235 Other women, Sir. 1618 01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:57,020 Kicked over the traces, you mean. 1619 01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:02,225 No life is without its regrets. 1620 01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:07,480 Yet none is without its consolations. 1621 01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:11,079 You're a good little woman, Mrs King. 1622 01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:13,759 And we have been happy, have we not? 1623 01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:18,140 - Oh, yes, Mr King. - And shall be again. 1624 01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:24,119 Your Majesty, I shall be in the cathedral, 1625 01:40:24,120 --> 01:40:28,199 should the ceremony prove to be too much of a burden. 1626 01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:29,679 You may tell Dr Willis 1627 01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,559 that the ceremony will not be such a burden 1628 01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:34,959 as the want of ceremony has been. 1629 01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,439 Presume not I am as I was. 1630 01:40:37,440 --> 01:40:39,839 I'm not the patient. Be off with you. 1631 01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:42,910 Back to your sheep and pigs. 1632 01:40:43,440 --> 01:40:46,180 The King is himself again. 1633 01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:57,999 We must try to be more of a family. 1634 01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,879 There are model farms now, model villages, 1635 01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:02,759 even model factories. 1636 01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:05,679 Well, we must be a model family, 1637 01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:08,519 for the nation to look to. 1638 01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:12,159 Yes, you must try to be more typical, Fred. 1639 01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:14,719 But, Pa, I want something to do. 1640 01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,199 Do? Well, follow in my footsteps. 1641 01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:20,140 That's what you should do. 1642 01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:23,919 Smile at the people, wave to them. 1643 01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:30,036 Let them see that we're happy. That is why we're here.