1 00:02:55,611 --> 00:02:57,260 - [Man] How's it going then? 2 00:02:57,260 --> 00:02:58,593 - Just a minute. 3 00:03:01,244 --> 00:03:04,744 (soft instrumental music) 4 00:03:12,826 --> 00:03:15,794 Oh, this is the wrong place, it's quite wrong. 5 00:03:15,794 --> 00:03:17,610 It will have to be moved. 6 00:03:17,610 --> 00:03:21,765 - It's a bit late to tell me now, isn't it? 7 00:03:21,765 --> 00:03:23,580 - [Princess] It's in the way of all my preparations. 8 00:03:23,580 --> 00:03:24,413 - Come on! 9 00:03:27,752 --> 00:03:29,752 - [Princess] Be careful. 10 00:03:33,012 --> 00:03:34,920 - [Man] Where are we going? 11 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,525 - Watch those photographs, be careful. 12 00:03:36,525 --> 00:03:37,698 - [Man] All right. 13 00:03:37,698 --> 00:03:38,865 - Turn around. 14 00:03:48,149 --> 00:03:49,811 - Look, watch it! 15 00:03:49,811 --> 00:03:51,120 This is expensive equipment. 16 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,703 Cost me my job if anything happens to this. 17 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:08,843 - Could you plug it in in there, please? 18 00:04:08,843 --> 00:04:10,676 - Thank you very much. 19 00:04:20,214 --> 00:04:22,284 - Would you thread this? 20 00:04:22,284 --> 00:04:26,451 - Look, I've got to be in South Croydon by half past four. 21 00:04:29,563 --> 00:04:31,980 (soft music) 22 00:04:38,982 --> 00:04:42,399 - Could you center it and test it please? 23 00:04:47,919 --> 00:04:49,001 That will do. 24 00:04:49,844 --> 00:04:51,225 - Thanks very much. 25 00:04:51,225 --> 00:04:54,142 - Thank you, you've done very well. 26 00:04:58,073 --> 00:05:00,244 You can call for it in the morning, 27 00:05:00,244 --> 00:05:02,084 but not before 11, please. 28 00:05:02,084 --> 00:05:04,825 - We'll have to see about that, depends on my day. 29 00:05:04,825 --> 00:05:07,742 - Thank you, you've been very kind. 30 00:05:20,915 --> 00:05:23,832 (doorbell ringing) 31 00:05:30,523 --> 00:05:33,106 The door's open, come right up. 32 00:05:37,626 --> 00:05:40,044 (soft music) 33 00:05:54,452 --> 00:05:55,952 - Ah, Cyril Sahib. 34 00:06:00,205 --> 00:06:01,623 It's wonderful to see you. 35 00:06:01,623 --> 00:06:02,540 Come on up. 36 00:06:07,616 --> 00:06:08,936 How was your journey? 37 00:06:08,936 --> 00:06:10,216 - Ugh! 38 00:06:10,216 --> 00:06:14,383 - I'm sure, that dreadful little train from Turton. 39 00:06:19,863 --> 00:06:23,030 Come and sit down, this is your chair. 40 00:06:24,034 --> 00:06:24,867 There. 41 00:06:25,784 --> 00:06:28,635 I want you to be absolutely comfortable. 42 00:06:28,635 --> 00:06:30,282 Oops! 43 00:06:30,282 --> 00:06:33,449 Put this here, and this for your back. 44 00:06:36,854 --> 00:06:37,687 There. 45 00:06:39,933 --> 00:06:43,850 Aww, it's just wonderful to see you on our day. 46 00:06:45,003 --> 00:06:46,333 - My dear Princess. 47 00:06:46,333 --> 00:06:48,005 - Our very own day. 48 00:06:48,005 --> 00:06:49,812 It's been exactly one year, 49 00:06:49,812 --> 00:06:51,984 and you look just the same. 50 00:06:51,984 --> 00:06:54,243 Exactly the same, you haven't aged one day. 51 00:06:54,243 --> 00:06:56,843 - You are younger, more beautiful than ever. 52 00:06:56,843 --> 00:06:58,944 - Aww, of course, of course. 53 00:06:58,944 --> 00:07:01,293 I'm going to make your tea now, everything is ready. 54 00:07:01,293 --> 00:07:03,293 No, I don't want you to move, 55 00:07:03,293 --> 00:07:05,824 I absolutely forbid it. 56 00:07:05,824 --> 00:07:06,843 - [Cyril] Where's Raju? 57 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:09,093 - Raju, gone with the wind. 58 00:07:11,472 --> 00:07:13,555 I don't need Raju anyway. 59 00:07:14,443 --> 00:07:18,400 There's no point in bringing servants from India these days. 60 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,141 They just stay with you for a little while. 61 00:07:21,141 --> 00:07:24,349 Then they say, may I go walk in the park? 62 00:07:24,349 --> 00:07:27,682 Or I want to start an Indian restaurant. 63 00:07:30,571 --> 00:07:31,738 I have a maid. 64 00:07:33,590 --> 00:07:35,257 She comes on Monday. 65 00:07:36,288 --> 00:07:39,760 I think I'm going to have to change her day, 66 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,590 because when she comes on Monday, 67 00:07:41,590 --> 00:07:45,757 she's still suffering from her weekend celebrations. 68 00:07:51,779 --> 00:07:53,669 And here I am. 69 00:07:53,669 --> 00:07:55,188 I had so much trouble with this 70 00:07:55,188 --> 00:07:57,226 dreadful garland again this year. 71 00:07:57,226 --> 00:07:59,865 These English florists, they simply do not know 72 00:07:59,865 --> 00:08:01,814 how to make a garland. 73 00:08:01,814 --> 00:08:04,591 I had to show the girl myself. 74 00:08:04,591 --> 00:08:06,924 This is good Darjeeling tea. 75 00:08:07,853 --> 00:08:08,770 Here we go. 76 00:08:11,573 --> 00:08:15,323 You simply can't tear yourself away, can you? 77 00:08:18,722 --> 00:08:22,003 - He certainly was a handsome man. 78 00:08:22,003 --> 00:08:23,973 - Oh Cyril Sahib. 79 00:08:23,973 --> 00:08:24,806 Handsome? 80 00:08:26,422 --> 00:08:27,743 Papa was. 81 00:08:27,743 --> 00:08:28,576 He was. 82 00:08:30,931 --> 00:08:32,754 He was just tops. 83 00:08:32,754 --> 00:08:34,173 - [Cyril] Quite. 84 00:08:34,173 --> 00:08:35,506 - In everything. 85 00:08:36,393 --> 00:08:40,476 Well, shall we drink a toast to our birthday boy? 86 00:08:44,372 --> 00:08:45,842 In tea? 87 00:08:45,842 --> 00:08:47,302 Drinking to Papa in tea? 88 00:08:47,302 --> 00:08:49,290 He would have had a good laugh at that. 89 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:52,042 - He was always amused by my drinking habits. 90 00:08:52,042 --> 00:08:54,482 Or I should say my non-drinking habits. 91 00:08:54,482 --> 00:08:58,360 A mild man, that's what he called me. 92 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,871 - How is Turton-on-the-sea? 93 00:09:00,871 --> 00:09:02,359 And the research? 94 00:09:02,359 --> 00:09:06,734 - Turton is quiet and mild, which is appropriate. 95 00:09:06,734 --> 00:09:11,105 And the research is coming along, slowly along. 96 00:09:11,105 --> 00:09:13,753 I shall have a book one of these days. 97 00:09:13,753 --> 00:09:17,086 - You know the book I want you to write. 98 00:09:29,363 --> 00:09:31,152 Well, everything is ready, you see, 99 00:09:31,152 --> 00:09:33,824 for our annual birthday treat. 100 00:09:33,824 --> 00:09:36,505 I have the tapes of the interviews as well. 101 00:09:36,505 --> 00:09:37,338 - Would you like me to-- 102 00:09:37,338 --> 00:09:38,772 - No, I don't want you to move. 103 00:09:38,772 --> 00:09:42,614 Such a nice young man from the BBC brought them over. 104 00:09:42,614 --> 00:09:46,781 And he said I could keep them for as along as I like. 105 00:09:48,393 --> 00:09:49,624 - I wish you'd let me help you. 106 00:09:49,624 --> 00:09:50,643 - Have some more tea. 107 00:09:50,643 --> 00:09:52,296 And have one of the samosas. 108 00:09:52,296 --> 00:09:53,638 Come on, I know you like them. 109 00:09:53,638 --> 00:09:54,638 - All right. 110 00:09:59,248 --> 00:10:01,798 - I do hope the film doesn't break 111 00:10:01,798 --> 00:10:03,928 like it did last year. 112 00:10:03,928 --> 00:10:07,428 They are so old and brittle, some of them. 113 00:10:09,307 --> 00:10:12,307 (projector running) 114 00:10:13,216 --> 00:10:14,918 I keep meaning to have them restored, 115 00:10:14,918 --> 00:10:18,710 but I don't know what exactly to do. 116 00:10:18,710 --> 00:10:20,659 - Ah, look at him. 117 00:10:20,659 --> 00:10:22,909 - This is just so precious. 118 00:10:23,838 --> 00:10:25,817 It's just got to be saved. 119 00:10:25,817 --> 00:10:29,317 Because when it's gone, everything's gone. 120 00:10:31,698 --> 00:10:34,040 Ummmm, that was a good team wasn't it? 121 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,091 But polo wasn't quite Papa's favorite sport. 122 00:10:37,091 --> 00:10:39,222 He thought it was rather tame. 123 00:10:39,222 --> 00:10:41,170 What is it that he used to say? 124 00:10:41,170 --> 00:10:44,642 Sitting on a horse to run after a ball? 125 00:10:44,642 --> 00:10:46,202 Of course when Papa sat on a horse, 126 00:10:46,202 --> 00:10:48,702 it wasn't to run after a ball. 127 00:10:50,803 --> 00:10:53,470 This was more his kind of sport. 128 00:10:56,961 --> 00:10:58,771 People came from all over India, 129 00:10:58,771 --> 00:11:01,171 all over the world. 130 00:11:01,171 --> 00:11:04,720 Once there was this royal visitor from England. 131 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,731 And, um, he couldn't shoot very well. 132 00:11:06,731 --> 00:11:09,182 And he hit a tiger, he wounded it, 133 00:11:09,182 --> 00:11:10,249 And then he let him get away, 134 00:11:10,249 --> 00:11:12,502 which of course is very dangerous. 135 00:11:12,502 --> 00:11:15,530 So Papa decided that he would go after the tiger. 136 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:17,997 And he wouldn't let anyone go with him except 137 00:11:17,997 --> 00:11:20,189 Purushjin, his favorite chicarrie. 138 00:11:20,189 --> 00:11:23,223 And they searched for the tiger the whole day. 139 00:11:23,223 --> 00:11:25,738 They were just about to turn back, 140 00:11:25,738 --> 00:11:28,127 when the tiger surprised them. 141 00:11:28,127 --> 00:11:29,893 And he mauled Purushjin 142 00:11:29,893 --> 00:11:31,589 And he would have killed him. 143 00:11:31,589 --> 00:11:34,761 But of course Papa took out his gun and he shot him. 144 00:11:34,761 --> 00:11:35,742 And Papa and the tiger were 145 00:11:35,742 --> 00:11:38,641 just less than one foot away from each other. 146 00:11:38,641 --> 00:11:42,409 Papa called that the closest shave he'd ever had. 147 00:11:42,409 --> 00:11:43,873 And afterwards the tiger's skin 148 00:11:43,873 --> 00:11:46,131 was hung up in Papa's study. 149 00:11:46,131 --> 00:11:47,464 It was a beauty. 150 00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:53,709 Of course, Purushjin died of his wounds afterwards. 151 00:11:54,691 --> 00:11:56,150 Which was a tragedy. 152 00:11:56,150 --> 00:11:57,822 But Papa was very generous with his widow. 153 00:11:57,822 --> 00:11:59,760 You know how he was. 154 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,677 No wonder the poor just adored him. 155 00:12:03,661 --> 00:12:05,328 Hmmmm, pig sticking. 156 00:12:06,577 --> 00:12:09,629 That was his favorite sport of all. 157 00:12:09,629 --> 00:12:12,200 He called that a real man's sport. 158 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,401 He used to say that there's nothing between 159 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:17,499 you and the pig except steady hands, steady nerves 160 00:12:17,499 --> 00:12:19,011 and a brave heart. 161 00:12:19,011 --> 00:12:21,678 (fast drumbeat) 162 00:12:32,931 --> 00:12:34,920 I think what he really loved was danger. 163 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,120 That was his sport whether it was animals or airplanes. 164 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,120 (oompah band music) 165 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:50,039 He was one of the first princes to get a pilot's license. 166 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:54,030 And ours was one of the first aerodromes in the country. 167 00:12:54,030 --> 00:12:57,418 That was such a great day for him. 168 00:12:57,418 --> 00:13:00,001 The inauguration of the hangar. 169 00:13:10,947 --> 00:13:12,168 We were all terrified out of our wits 170 00:13:12,168 --> 00:13:13,947 whenever Papa went out to fly. 171 00:13:13,947 --> 00:13:16,362 Especially after Bajahpur was killed in his plane. 172 00:13:16,362 --> 00:13:18,684 We thought after that Papa would be more careful, 173 00:13:18,684 --> 00:13:20,276 but not at all. 174 00:13:20,276 --> 00:13:24,109 He said, when your time has come, it has come. 175 00:13:26,266 --> 00:13:27,599 Sir John Steele. 176 00:13:29,114 --> 00:13:31,244 He came down specially from Delhi 177 00:13:31,244 --> 00:13:33,935 for the inauguration ceremonies. 178 00:13:33,935 --> 00:13:36,167 That was such a big party. 179 00:13:36,167 --> 00:13:38,394 Papa loved parties, he had such fun. 180 00:13:38,394 --> 00:13:39,644 Papa loved fun. 181 00:13:40,604 --> 00:13:42,733 He never spared any expense. 182 00:13:42,733 --> 00:13:47,039 Quails from Isfahan, fireworks, champagne. 183 00:13:47,039 --> 00:13:50,966 And jokes, Papa loved jokes and making people laugh. 184 00:13:50,966 --> 00:13:54,567 Once he made an apple pie bed with his own hands 185 00:13:54,567 --> 00:13:56,672 for the English resident, Sir Philip Croft. 186 00:13:56,672 --> 00:13:58,563 In the morning at breakfast he asked Sir Philip, 187 00:13:58,563 --> 00:14:00,683 "Well, Sir Philip, I hope you had a good night." 188 00:14:00,683 --> 00:14:02,694 And Sir Philip said, "Excellent Your Highness, 189 00:14:02,694 --> 00:14:04,574 thanks to your very personal efforts." 190 00:14:04,574 --> 00:14:06,423 (laughing) 191 00:14:06,423 --> 00:14:09,694 Ah, Sir Philip had such a sense of humor. 192 00:14:09,694 --> 00:14:10,974 Which is not something that can 193 00:14:10,974 --> 00:14:13,614 be said for a lot of the Indian princes. 194 00:14:13,614 --> 00:14:15,275 Stuffy nabobs. 195 00:14:15,275 --> 00:14:17,275 Just having a good time. 196 00:14:18,774 --> 00:14:21,315 Then, when Papa used to go to London, 197 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:23,534 he would buy out all the joke shops 198 00:14:23,534 --> 00:14:25,443 on Tottenham Court Road, and he always 199 00:14:25,443 --> 00:14:27,123 came back with these trunk fulls of 200 00:14:27,123 --> 00:14:29,163 squeaking cushions and exploding cigars 201 00:14:29,163 --> 00:14:30,795 and things like that. 202 00:14:30,795 --> 00:14:32,144 Of course here were a few accidents 203 00:14:32,144 --> 00:14:34,096 because of his sense of humor. 204 00:14:34,096 --> 00:14:37,929 But he always made it up to people afterwards. 205 00:14:38,833 --> 00:14:41,250 (soft music) 206 00:15:41,846 --> 00:15:44,013 - Is that Prince Impooshi? 207 00:15:45,841 --> 00:15:47,294 - No. 208 00:15:47,294 --> 00:15:49,683 Yes it is Prince Impooshi. 209 00:15:49,683 --> 00:15:51,414 Because there's Uncle Rajman, 210 00:15:51,414 --> 00:15:54,414 and he wasn't there for the wedding. 211 00:15:59,672 --> 00:16:00,922 Those weddings. 212 00:16:01,822 --> 00:16:05,073 People came for a month and stayed for three, 213 00:16:05,073 --> 00:16:07,906 with all their servants naturally. 214 00:16:12,850 --> 00:16:15,267 (soft music) 215 00:17:09,886 --> 00:17:10,886 Poor Bubbly. 216 00:17:11,854 --> 00:17:15,937 She's in Mexico now with that person she married. 217 00:17:18,133 --> 00:17:21,205 He is still in that sanitarium. 218 00:17:21,205 --> 00:17:22,715 - You didn't tell me that. 219 00:17:22,715 --> 00:17:25,184 - [Princess] He used to be such a good 220 00:17:25,184 --> 00:17:27,055 wonderful rider and dancer. 221 00:17:27,055 --> 00:17:27,972 - Poor boy. 222 00:17:36,664 --> 00:17:39,624 - This is the suite that was done up in '38 223 00:17:39,624 --> 00:17:41,707 for the Jesalmay wedding. 224 00:17:43,064 --> 00:17:47,235 Of course all those frescoes are very valuable now. 225 00:17:47,235 --> 00:17:48,068 Art Deco. 226 00:17:51,713 --> 00:17:53,323 They were designed by a German artist. 227 00:17:53,323 --> 00:17:54,517 - Austrian. 228 00:17:54,517 --> 00:17:56,964 - Oh yes, and his name was Paul Merkler. 229 00:17:56,964 --> 00:17:57,867 He was really amazing. 230 00:17:57,867 --> 00:17:59,465 He could turn his hand to anything. 231 00:17:59,465 --> 00:18:02,117 He sewed the curtains for the royal ballroom. 232 00:18:02,117 --> 00:18:06,266 And he designed a new uniform for the palace guard. 233 00:18:06,266 --> 00:18:08,849 He stayed with us for 15 years. 234 00:18:09,776 --> 00:18:12,055 And we thought he'd stay with us forever. 235 00:18:12,055 --> 00:18:14,315 I don't know what happened. 236 00:18:14,315 --> 00:18:16,275 One day he just suddenly decided 237 00:18:16,275 --> 00:18:18,108 to go back to Germany. 238 00:18:19,907 --> 00:18:21,157 After 15 years. 239 00:18:22,056 --> 00:18:23,795 And he was in the middle of 240 00:18:23,795 --> 00:18:25,118 doing these terrazzo murals 241 00:18:25,118 --> 00:18:27,197 for the indoor swimming pool. 242 00:18:27,197 --> 00:18:28,576 He left it all unfinished. 243 00:18:28,576 --> 00:18:30,838 The whole scene, the mythological scene 244 00:18:30,838 --> 00:18:33,005 with Neptune and mermaids. 245 00:18:37,696 --> 00:18:39,686 Are you tired? 246 00:18:39,686 --> 00:18:41,486 - No, no, not at all, no. 247 00:18:41,486 --> 00:18:44,069 - We'll take a break, shall we? 248 00:18:55,998 --> 00:18:59,081 Cyril Sahib, what is your book about? 249 00:19:00,117 --> 00:19:03,976 - You ask me that every year and in your Christmas card. 250 00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:05,226 - Aw, I forget. 251 00:19:06,158 --> 00:19:07,568 Oh, I remember. 252 00:19:07,568 --> 00:19:09,947 It's about the life of some Englishman. 253 00:19:09,947 --> 00:19:11,067 - Dennis. 254 00:19:11,067 --> 00:19:13,478 - Who lived in Assam for donkey's years. 255 00:19:13,478 --> 00:19:16,777 - 35 years, and not in Assam, Orissa. 256 00:19:16,777 --> 00:19:19,206 He made the most comprehensive record 257 00:19:19,206 --> 00:19:22,646 of local history, songs and poetry 258 00:19:22,646 --> 00:19:24,406 that was ever assembled. 259 00:19:24,406 --> 00:19:27,307 An enormously valuable work. 260 00:19:27,307 --> 00:19:29,107 But at the same time, he was a first-class 261 00:19:29,107 --> 00:19:30,934 administrator who left his district 262 00:19:30,934 --> 00:19:33,657 one of the most prosperous and progressive in the country. 263 00:19:33,657 --> 00:19:35,936 - Wonderful, but what about the other book? 264 00:19:35,936 --> 00:19:36,769 Our book. 265 00:19:40,827 --> 00:19:43,617 Well then if you don't write it, who will? 266 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:47,695 All this material will just vanish into thin air. 267 00:19:47,695 --> 00:19:50,695 It would be such a loss to humanity. 268 00:19:52,726 --> 00:19:54,453 What's left of royal India except what 269 00:19:54,453 --> 00:19:56,881 people like us remember? 270 00:19:56,881 --> 00:20:00,381 We owe it to posterity to put it all down. 271 00:20:01,864 --> 00:20:03,447 It's a sacred debt. 272 00:20:06,285 --> 00:20:07,781 I want you to see these interviews 273 00:20:07,781 --> 00:20:11,531 that the young man from the BBC brought over. 274 00:20:15,641 --> 00:20:17,342 I told you about them. 275 00:20:17,342 --> 00:20:21,092 They were shown on the BBC about a month ago. 276 00:20:22,123 --> 00:20:25,456 When I saw them, I just cried and cried. 277 00:20:27,051 --> 00:20:29,083 I said to myself, you silly goose. 278 00:20:29,083 --> 00:20:31,651 What is there to cry for? 279 00:20:31,651 --> 00:20:33,734 That's the way it is now. 280 00:20:36,449 --> 00:20:38,866 (soft music) 281 00:20:41,981 --> 00:20:42,961 - [Narrator] They were like children 282 00:20:42,961 --> 00:20:44,862 playing on a private beach. 283 00:20:44,862 --> 00:20:48,123 King of the castle, but their castles were made of sand, 284 00:20:48,123 --> 00:20:50,483 and the rising tide of democracy swept away 285 00:20:50,483 --> 00:20:52,983 power, position and privilege. 286 00:20:54,003 --> 00:20:57,358 They ran to higher ground, but it was lonely there, 287 00:20:57,358 --> 00:21:00,997 as one, the former Maharani of Jaipur, discovered. 288 00:21:00,997 --> 00:21:03,198 - As the atmosphere is today, we as princes 289 00:21:03,198 --> 00:21:06,948 are public enemy number one, on the one hand. 290 00:21:08,015 --> 00:21:10,227 Whereas on the other hand, we still have our 291 00:21:10,227 --> 00:21:12,025 traditional support. 292 00:21:12,025 --> 00:21:14,666 And as far as the local people are concerned, 293 00:21:14,666 --> 00:21:17,906 they still look up to you for some kind of a lead. 294 00:21:17,906 --> 00:21:21,027 So it's in that context that I have to find a way, 295 00:21:21,027 --> 00:21:25,569 or how to justify this support, this loyalty. 296 00:21:25,569 --> 00:21:28,596 - You don't possibly recognize anyone, do you? 297 00:21:28,596 --> 00:21:31,465 And in my passport, of course, they took away my titles, 298 00:21:31,465 --> 00:21:34,194 but they've even taken away my husband's, 299 00:21:34,194 --> 00:21:36,893 which I think is absolutely ridiculous. 300 00:21:36,893 --> 00:21:38,276 - I prefer it as it is now 301 00:21:38,276 --> 00:21:42,133 because one is becoming more in contact with the people. 302 00:21:42,133 --> 00:21:43,774 Because you have to lead your own life, 303 00:21:43,774 --> 00:21:46,305 you mix in far more, you get to know far more 304 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:48,644 about how people live. 305 00:21:48,644 --> 00:21:51,164 Whereas before you were rather aloof 306 00:21:51,164 --> 00:21:52,433 and on a sort of pedestal. 307 00:21:52,433 --> 00:21:54,673 People had to look at you, you couldn't meet people easily. 308 00:21:54,673 --> 00:21:57,622 You couldn't go out, couldn't mix. 309 00:21:57,622 --> 00:21:58,601 - [Narrator] But India's royalty would be 310 00:21:58,601 --> 00:22:00,942 roughly tumbled from that pedestal. 311 00:22:00,942 --> 00:22:03,589 The former Maharani of Jaipur. 312 00:22:03,589 --> 00:22:05,652 Were the any aspects of the government's controversial 313 00:22:05,652 --> 00:22:07,780 policy with which she felt in sympathy? 314 00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:09,390 - Well, you know, I couldn't really say so. 315 00:22:09,390 --> 00:22:12,928 I would have been, had they not done it in the way they did. 316 00:22:12,928 --> 00:22:15,246 There were certain privileges the princes had 317 00:22:15,246 --> 00:22:16,870 which were rather unnecessary, 318 00:22:16,870 --> 00:22:19,689 like red number plates and all that sort of thing. 319 00:22:19,689 --> 00:22:22,670 So that was perhaps an anachronism, 320 00:22:22,670 --> 00:22:25,521 but to do away with the allowances 321 00:22:25,521 --> 00:22:28,087 I think was very unfair. 322 00:22:28,087 --> 00:22:30,780 Just one or two of this things that, 323 00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:32,870 but no, not really. 324 00:22:32,870 --> 00:22:34,110 - [Interviewer] Could you tell me, 325 00:22:34,110 --> 00:22:35,740 what is the reaction of the peasants 326 00:22:35,740 --> 00:22:38,550 to the retainers of the this new regime? 327 00:22:38,550 --> 00:22:41,492 - Well, strangely enough, even though we haven't got 328 00:22:41,492 --> 00:22:45,659 any power anymore, they still love and respect one. 329 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:49,741 They don't understand why this should have happened to us. 330 00:22:49,741 --> 00:22:53,509 But of course, gradually, they are being taught 331 00:22:53,509 --> 00:22:55,851 by the Congress workers 332 00:22:55,851 --> 00:22:58,161 to disrespect and to say that these people 333 00:22:58,161 --> 00:23:00,782 are really nobody at all and why you shouldn't respect them. 334 00:23:00,782 --> 00:23:02,622 But basically, in their hearts, 335 00:23:02,622 --> 00:23:05,331 that love is still there and that trust, 336 00:23:05,331 --> 00:23:07,451 which is really very gratifying. 337 00:23:07,451 --> 00:23:10,170 - Jagat, in terms of your life, 338 00:23:10,170 --> 00:23:12,363 what do these new measures mean? 339 00:23:12,363 --> 00:23:16,126 - It means that we've moved to smaller houses, 340 00:23:16,126 --> 00:23:17,526 smaller palaces. 341 00:23:17,526 --> 00:23:20,646 I've changed, in fact, about three times now. 342 00:23:20,646 --> 00:23:22,548 And I'm now living in a much smaller place 343 00:23:22,548 --> 00:23:24,465 with a staff of my own. 344 00:23:25,756 --> 00:23:27,537 This is because we have to live in as many 345 00:23:27,537 --> 00:23:29,676 separate houses as possible, 346 00:23:29,676 --> 00:23:31,737 so that we can keep them 347 00:23:31,737 --> 00:23:36,188 and stop them from being confiscated by the government. 348 00:23:36,188 --> 00:23:38,388 - At that time, I just kind of, 349 00:23:38,388 --> 00:23:40,756 when I was going abroad and coming back, 350 00:23:40,756 --> 00:23:43,526 it was really very much of a game. 351 00:23:43,526 --> 00:23:44,359 Because, 352 00:23:45,518 --> 00:23:49,878 I could come back, and somewhere on the airplane, 353 00:23:49,878 --> 00:23:52,788 I'd sort of turn a switch in my mind, and I'd become Indian. 354 00:23:52,788 --> 00:23:56,106 And when I went back again, same thing. 355 00:23:56,106 --> 00:23:59,916 Turn a switch in my mind, and I'd become English. 356 00:23:59,916 --> 00:24:01,225 It was a good game while it lasted, 357 00:24:01,225 --> 00:24:05,046 but as I grew older, it began to dawn on me 358 00:24:05,046 --> 00:24:07,446 that I had to make choices. 359 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,574 Between what I wanted to retain in one system, 360 00:24:09,574 --> 00:24:10,814 what is good in one system, 361 00:24:10,814 --> 00:24:13,134 and what is good in the other system. 362 00:24:13,134 --> 00:24:13,967 And um, 363 00:24:15,569 --> 00:24:18,116 well I'm still in that position now. 364 00:24:18,116 --> 00:24:19,616 More so than ever. 365 00:24:24,784 --> 00:24:27,353 - [Narrator] But the time for games would soon be over. 366 00:24:27,353 --> 00:24:30,464 The palaces and ancient privileges of the Maharajas 367 00:24:30,464 --> 00:24:33,734 were guaranteed, they thought, forever. 368 00:24:33,734 --> 00:24:35,894 From the schools and ski slopes of Europe, 369 00:24:35,894 --> 00:24:38,526 they hurried home, prepared for battle, 370 00:24:38,526 --> 00:24:40,387 but it was already too late. 371 00:24:40,387 --> 00:24:43,570 - I thought I had about a couple of years, 372 00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:46,824 not being old enough to stand for election, 373 00:24:46,824 --> 00:24:49,524 to review the situation. 374 00:24:49,524 --> 00:24:51,202 But then Mrs. Gandhi surprised us all 375 00:24:51,202 --> 00:24:54,252 with this midterm election. 376 00:24:54,252 --> 00:24:58,513 And, really then the whole country took two sides, 377 00:24:58,513 --> 00:25:00,148 pro and anti Mrs. Gandhi, 378 00:25:00,148 --> 00:25:02,238 perhaps we were wrong in doing that. 379 00:25:02,238 --> 00:25:04,038 We should have not really made it 380 00:25:04,038 --> 00:25:06,249 a referendum for Mrs. Gandhi. 381 00:25:06,249 --> 00:25:08,998 But even so, at that time, 382 00:25:08,998 --> 00:25:11,828 it was felt by most of us here, 383 00:25:11,828 --> 00:25:15,328 that we had to do something, and to stand. 384 00:25:17,908 --> 00:25:22,075 And to be left out of it would be not doing our duty. 385 00:25:23,889 --> 00:25:26,100 And therefore, without really knowing 386 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:29,498 what we were going into, I persuaded my mother 387 00:25:29,498 --> 00:25:31,746 to stand for election. 388 00:25:31,746 --> 00:25:35,721 And out of the five seats that we contested, 389 00:25:35,721 --> 00:25:37,881 she was the only one that got through. 390 00:25:37,881 --> 00:25:39,070 So whether I like it or not, 391 00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:43,237 today I'm directly or indirectly involved in politics. 392 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:48,121 - [Narrator] But even mothers cannot turn back the tide. 393 00:25:48,121 --> 00:25:50,229 Democracy and Mrs. Gandhi won. 394 00:25:50,229 --> 00:25:53,260 The Maharajas, stripped of their titles and stipends 395 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:57,921 by an amendment to India's constitution, must learn to swim. 396 00:25:57,921 --> 00:26:00,081 To swim in currents that are unfamiliar, 397 00:26:00,081 --> 00:26:02,401 cold, and sometimes dangerous. 398 00:26:02,401 --> 00:26:05,070 (crowd yelling) 399 00:26:05,070 --> 00:26:06,700 - One can't really choose a career when you're 400 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:10,780 in a situation like I am at the moment. 401 00:26:10,780 --> 00:26:14,460 It's no point saying that I want to be a painter, 402 00:26:14,460 --> 00:26:18,033 because probably, it's impossible for me to say 403 00:26:18,033 --> 00:26:20,302 I want to be a painter or a banker. 404 00:26:20,302 --> 00:26:22,502 There are things one has to do, and one maybe will have 405 00:26:22,502 --> 00:26:25,883 to go back to Jaipur and work there. 406 00:26:25,883 --> 00:26:29,822 - If you had a choice, how would you distribute your time? 407 00:26:29,822 --> 00:26:32,412 - Well I'd live about six or seven months 408 00:26:32,412 --> 00:26:35,724 of the year in Jaipur, then I'd like to travel. 409 00:26:35,724 --> 00:26:39,182 I love coming over to England because I was born here. 410 00:26:39,182 --> 00:26:41,092 I have a lot of friends here, so it's always nice 411 00:26:41,092 --> 00:26:45,202 to see them, and I also like seeing new places. 412 00:26:45,202 --> 00:26:47,665 This time, I went to the Far East for the first time. 413 00:26:47,665 --> 00:26:49,513 I'd like to go around the world traveling, 414 00:26:49,513 --> 00:26:52,580 but hate being a tourist, so I'd like knowing people 415 00:26:52,580 --> 00:26:55,504 in the places that I go to, 416 00:26:55,504 --> 00:26:57,903 so you can see the place through their eyes 417 00:26:57,903 --> 00:27:00,865 and see how they live there. 418 00:27:00,865 --> 00:27:03,364 And the rest of the time, traveling, a little bit 419 00:27:03,364 --> 00:27:07,154 of the time in America, and I do like a bit of sea life. 420 00:27:07,154 --> 00:27:09,076 And I used to love skiing. 421 00:27:09,076 --> 00:27:13,174 If I could get back in, that would be ideal, my ideal. 422 00:27:13,174 --> 00:27:16,174 (projector running) 423 00:27:26,141 --> 00:27:28,127 Well, who was he, anyway, 424 00:27:28,127 --> 00:27:30,288 this Dennis Leaver, that you should spend 425 00:27:30,288 --> 00:27:33,408 so much time and work on him? 426 00:27:33,408 --> 00:27:35,958 - He was an Englishman in India. 427 00:27:35,958 --> 00:27:39,985 - My goodness, there were enough of those. 428 00:27:39,985 --> 00:27:41,456 Papa just had to snap his fingers, 429 00:27:41,456 --> 00:27:42,616 and they would come running. 430 00:27:42,616 --> 00:27:46,033 To shoot our tigers and drink our liquor. 431 00:27:47,215 --> 00:27:48,465 How they drank. 432 00:27:49,917 --> 00:27:52,798 Scotch and claret for breakfast. 433 00:27:52,798 --> 00:27:55,667 And port and champagne all night. 434 00:27:55,667 --> 00:27:58,648 - Dennis Leaver was not entertained by Maharajas. 435 00:27:58,648 --> 00:28:02,328 He was too busy sinking wells and building schools. 436 00:28:02,328 --> 00:28:06,278 What spare time he had, he spent riding around the country. 437 00:28:06,278 --> 00:28:10,091 He sat for days and nights with the villagers, 438 00:28:10,091 --> 00:28:13,674 to listen to their stories and their songs. 439 00:28:16,390 --> 00:28:20,090 Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to 440 00:28:20,090 --> 00:28:21,750 complete his magnum opus. 441 00:28:21,750 --> 00:28:24,430 He died in '17 of cholera, 442 00:28:24,430 --> 00:28:27,760 the year before he was due to retire. 443 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,260 His work had to be published posthumously. 444 00:28:37,942 --> 00:28:40,707 - How long were you in India, Cyril Sahib? 445 00:28:40,707 --> 00:28:42,550 - A long time. 446 00:28:42,550 --> 00:28:44,490 - And always with us. 447 00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:46,073 You were one of us. 448 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,718 And the British never liked it. 449 00:28:49,718 --> 00:28:53,142 Papa had fearful rows with them about you. 450 00:28:53,142 --> 00:28:54,790 Sir Philip wanted to appoint 451 00:28:54,790 --> 00:28:57,349 a British officer as Papa's tutor. 452 00:28:57,349 --> 00:29:00,920 And later on, when Papa made you his private secretary, 453 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,850 they were all furious, it went right up to the viceroy. 454 00:29:04,850 --> 00:29:06,822 They put terrible pressure on Papa. 455 00:29:06,822 --> 00:29:09,200 But he stuck up for you. 456 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,283 He was loyal. 457 00:29:13,178 --> 00:29:18,099 He prized loyalty above everything else, and that is why 458 00:29:18,099 --> 00:29:21,160 he was so disappointed when people failed him. 459 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,660 As they often did. 460 00:29:31,332 --> 00:29:32,749 When Paul Merkler 461 00:29:35,081 --> 00:29:38,248 wanted to leave after all those years, 462 00:29:39,972 --> 00:29:43,423 Papa offered him everything, just to make him stay. 463 00:29:43,423 --> 00:29:44,756 But he wouldn't. 464 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:47,660 Papa was so hurt. 465 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:51,243 He said, he didn't love us as we loved him. 466 00:29:52,860 --> 00:29:56,542 - Paul Merkler came to my room one day. 467 00:29:56,542 --> 00:29:59,470 It was in the afternoon, it was a very hot day. 468 00:29:59,470 --> 00:30:02,812 And there'd been a dust storm blowing for several days. 469 00:30:02,812 --> 00:30:04,641 Outside the palace windows, you couldn't see anything 470 00:30:04,641 --> 00:30:06,732 except the sun and the dust and the desert, 471 00:30:06,732 --> 00:30:09,575 and Paul said to me, he just couldn't stand it any longer. 472 00:30:09,575 --> 00:30:12,363 He only wanted to leave and to go home. 473 00:30:12,363 --> 00:30:13,684 He didn't have to say much to me 474 00:30:13,684 --> 00:30:16,335 because I knew only too well what he was talking about. 475 00:30:16,335 --> 00:30:19,135 I too had been in India for a long time. 476 00:30:19,135 --> 00:30:19,977 - [Princess] Oh, but always with us. 477 00:30:19,977 --> 00:30:22,793 - No, no, no, wait, please. 478 00:30:22,793 --> 00:30:26,233 I know that I was living in undreamed of luxury. 479 00:30:26,233 --> 00:30:29,393 I was living in a palace, waited on hand and foot. 480 00:30:29,393 --> 00:30:31,582 I was eating rich food. 481 00:30:31,582 --> 00:30:35,783 I had all the time in the world to do everything I wanted. 482 00:30:35,783 --> 00:30:38,223 Read, write, study, everything. 483 00:30:38,223 --> 00:30:39,056 Only, 484 00:30:40,444 --> 00:30:42,873 only most of the time, 485 00:30:42,873 --> 00:30:44,040 I did nothing. 486 00:30:45,343 --> 00:30:49,497 I just lay on my soft bed, and I felt that I was 487 00:30:49,497 --> 00:30:51,914 rotting of heat, and boredom. 488 00:30:56,681 --> 00:30:59,500 When I first came out to be your father's tutor, 489 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:03,681 I thought that I would never want to go home. 490 00:31:03,681 --> 00:31:07,241 I just wanted to be in India, to be part of India. 491 00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:09,370 I dressed up in Indian clothes. 492 00:31:09,370 --> 00:31:11,532 His highness showered silk turbines 493 00:31:11,532 --> 00:31:13,991 and brocade coats on me, 494 00:31:13,991 --> 00:31:16,281 and even dressed me up in them himself. 495 00:31:16,281 --> 00:31:21,023 Then stood back and had a hearty laugh at my expense. 496 00:31:21,023 --> 00:31:22,601 I don't doubt I looked quite ridiculous. 497 00:31:22,601 --> 00:31:25,961 I learned to eat curry with my fingers, 498 00:31:25,961 --> 00:31:29,211 to chew beetle, even to smoke a hookah. 499 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,140 I sat on the floor cross-legged with the other courtiers, 500 00:31:34,140 --> 00:31:38,671 and we were playing rough and tumble games like boys. 501 00:31:38,671 --> 00:31:42,260 We played card games for high stakes, 502 00:31:42,260 --> 00:31:44,427 and cheated like anything. 503 00:31:46,201 --> 00:31:48,951 Then, I don't know what happened. 504 00:31:51,818 --> 00:31:53,901 Why it stopped being fun. 505 00:32:01,020 --> 00:32:04,020 (projector running) 506 00:32:09,210 --> 00:32:11,650 Although, at the beginning, I was excited 507 00:32:11,650 --> 00:32:14,829 by all the processions and ceremonies. 508 00:32:14,829 --> 00:32:16,969 After a while, they all seemed the same. 509 00:32:16,969 --> 00:32:19,552 Marriages, birthdays, funerals. 510 00:32:20,610 --> 00:32:23,193 Always crowds, always very hot. 511 00:32:24,517 --> 00:32:26,100 One day, I fainted. 512 00:32:27,669 --> 00:32:30,589 Had to be carried back to the palace. 513 00:32:30,589 --> 00:32:34,199 His highness showed such kindness and concern. 514 00:32:34,199 --> 00:32:37,008 He left the ceremony and all his guests 515 00:32:37,008 --> 00:32:40,951 just to inquire after me and to sit by my bedside. 516 00:32:40,951 --> 00:32:45,359 I was never allowed to go out in the sun again after that. 517 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:47,111 All those crowds. 518 00:32:47,111 --> 00:32:48,861 Crowds, city streets. 519 00:32:50,879 --> 00:32:54,298 Full of crowds, and there was a lot of waiting. 520 00:32:54,298 --> 00:32:57,021 Waiting for hours in that hot sun, everybody had to wait, 521 00:32:57,021 --> 00:32:58,981 his highness included. 522 00:32:58,981 --> 00:33:02,810 He accepted it, it was part of the ceremony. 523 00:33:02,810 --> 00:33:06,701 And there was a great deal of confusion. 524 00:33:06,701 --> 00:33:08,671 Moments when nobody seemed to know 525 00:33:08,671 --> 00:33:11,781 exactly what was supposed to happen next. 526 00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:14,071 And they would argue about it. 527 00:33:14,071 --> 00:33:17,199 This is the way it always has been done, no, 528 00:33:17,199 --> 00:33:20,101 that is the way and so on. 529 00:33:20,101 --> 00:33:23,249 Sometimes the elephant hadn't turned out. 530 00:33:23,249 --> 00:33:25,719 Or the mahuts were missing. 531 00:33:25,719 --> 00:33:27,719 Our Rolls-Royce had a puncture, 532 00:33:27,719 --> 00:33:29,999 and the man who knew how to fix it 533 00:33:29,999 --> 00:33:31,890 had chosen to go that day to the hospital 534 00:33:31,890 --> 00:33:34,140 to visit his elder brother. 535 00:33:36,421 --> 00:33:40,370 Now this, you see, I don't know what's going on. 536 00:33:40,370 --> 00:33:43,370 You'd have thought that, as the years went by, 537 00:33:43,370 --> 00:33:46,591 all these ceremonies would become more familiar to me, 538 00:33:46,591 --> 00:33:47,841 but not at all. 539 00:33:48,999 --> 00:33:52,749 They became more mystifying, more mysterious. 540 00:33:54,239 --> 00:33:57,231 I was able less and less to keep them apart, 541 00:33:57,231 --> 00:33:59,814 marriages, birthdays, funerals. 542 00:34:00,730 --> 00:34:04,839 They all seemed to come together somehow. 543 00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:08,256 You know, like parts of the same process. 544 00:34:09,551 --> 00:34:11,634 This box, now what is it? 545 00:34:12,551 --> 00:34:15,384 Oh, I think it's the dowager queen 546 00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:19,123 being carried to some ceremony. 547 00:34:20,479 --> 00:34:23,312 Oh no, it appears to be a funeral. 548 00:34:25,399 --> 00:34:27,816 (soft music) 549 00:34:28,959 --> 00:34:30,042 What is this? 550 00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:36,609 Ah yes, this is one of the birthday weighing ceremonies. 551 00:34:36,609 --> 00:34:38,919 Afterwards, the gold or the silver would be distributed 552 00:34:38,919 --> 00:34:41,002 among the poor, and this, 553 00:34:42,701 --> 00:34:43,830 this is not a palace. 554 00:34:43,830 --> 00:34:47,981 This is the cenotaph of his highness's father. 555 00:34:47,981 --> 00:34:49,564 This too, cenotaph. 556 00:34:50,609 --> 00:34:54,687 You see, the ashes of a king had to be palatially housed, 557 00:34:54,687 --> 00:34:56,759 but it was a little disconcerting not to know 558 00:34:56,759 --> 00:35:00,926 if the palace was occupied by a live king or a dead one. 559 00:35:02,090 --> 00:35:04,110 Oh, I remember this. 560 00:35:04,110 --> 00:35:07,340 This is the cenotaph of the dead queen. 561 00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:10,991 This is where they brought them after their purdah lives 562 00:35:10,991 --> 00:35:13,727 in the purdah palaces were finished. 563 00:35:13,727 --> 00:35:17,930 This is the other side of the coin, you might say. 564 00:35:17,930 --> 00:35:20,930 It was more quiet, more lonely, more 565 00:35:22,290 --> 00:35:23,123 silent 566 00:35:24,813 --> 00:35:28,481 than any other place I know on Earth. 567 00:35:28,481 --> 00:35:31,591 There was nothing there except a few vultures. 568 00:35:31,591 --> 00:35:34,141 I always used to imagine that the cenotaphs themselves 569 00:35:34,141 --> 00:35:37,162 looked rather like vultures or some 570 00:35:37,162 --> 00:35:41,329 extinct species of bird come to roost in the desert. 571 00:35:43,082 --> 00:35:45,411 I was haunted by this place. 572 00:35:45,411 --> 00:35:47,711 I used to think about it at the oddest moments, 573 00:35:47,711 --> 00:35:49,842 for instance when these singing and dancing girls 574 00:35:49,842 --> 00:35:51,991 came to visit the palace, 575 00:35:51,991 --> 00:35:56,158 I would be thinking about those poor dead queens out there. 576 00:36:01,798 --> 00:36:04,299 Perhaps it was because these songs that the girls sang 577 00:36:04,299 --> 00:36:06,829 were not as gay as they were supposed to be, 578 00:36:06,829 --> 00:36:08,880 and I thought they were rather sad, actually. 579 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,728 I thought the girls were rather sad 580 00:36:10,728 --> 00:36:13,811 in their tawdry dresses, many of them 581 00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:17,792 no longer in their first youth. 582 00:36:17,792 --> 00:36:21,875 What happens to a singing girl when she gets old? 583 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,880 I once asked his highness that question, and he said, 584 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,380 they die of pox in the bazaar. 585 00:36:31,741 --> 00:36:33,620 And he laughed. 586 00:36:33,620 --> 00:36:34,453 So I 587 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,210 supposed that he was joking 588 00:36:46,409 --> 00:36:48,940 - Well ours wasn't a very backward state, 589 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:50,649 not compared with some of the others. 590 00:36:50,649 --> 00:36:53,679 - That's true, yes, there were worse. 591 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:55,179 - Much worse. 592 00:36:55,179 --> 00:36:57,089 When you think of Tantpur, they were living 593 00:36:57,089 --> 00:36:58,649 in the Dark Ages. 594 00:36:58,649 --> 00:37:00,559 Terrible things happened there. 595 00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:04,748 Child sacrifices, terrible horrible things, 596 00:37:04,748 --> 00:37:06,527 and so many cases of Sati, 597 00:37:06,527 --> 00:37:08,620 and we hardly had any Sati at all. 598 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:11,590 - What about your great aunt? 599 00:37:11,590 --> 00:37:15,361 - That was different, I mean it wasn't religious. 600 00:37:15,361 --> 00:37:17,847 But because she loved her husband. 601 00:37:17,847 --> 00:37:21,220 And when he died, she just didn't want to live anymore. 602 00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:24,619 All the people who were there said it was just beautiful, 603 00:37:24,619 --> 00:37:27,649 the way she climbed onto the funeral pyre 604 00:37:27,649 --> 00:37:31,816 and lay down beside the corpse, sacred and beautiful. 605 00:37:36,550 --> 00:37:40,138 The reason why ours was such a progressive state 606 00:37:40,138 --> 00:37:41,730 was because of Papa. 607 00:37:41,730 --> 00:37:44,140 He had such a modern mind. 608 00:37:44,140 --> 00:37:46,852 And he couldn't stand all those old superstitions. 609 00:37:46,852 --> 00:37:50,372 He would have swept them all away if he'd had a free hand. 610 00:37:50,372 --> 00:37:54,260 But he was hampered all the time by the old traditions. 611 00:37:54,260 --> 00:37:57,612 The old priests, and those aunts, 612 00:37:57,612 --> 00:38:00,230 and all those orthodox people. 613 00:38:00,230 --> 00:38:03,262 He tried, but how much can you do single-handed? 614 00:38:03,262 --> 00:38:05,801 How much could he do? 615 00:38:05,801 --> 00:38:08,041 One thing he did insist upon, 616 00:38:08,041 --> 00:38:10,790 and then nobody could stand in his way. 617 00:38:10,790 --> 00:38:13,790 And that was about me, my education. 618 00:38:15,161 --> 00:38:18,494 For that, I shall be eternally grateful. 619 00:38:20,881 --> 00:38:23,964 What he did for his motherless child. 620 00:38:30,412 --> 00:38:32,311 Can you imagine, Cyril Sahib, 621 00:38:32,311 --> 00:38:34,153 if it hadn't been for him, 622 00:38:34,153 --> 00:38:37,481 I would have been like all the others. 623 00:38:37,481 --> 00:38:40,814 My entire life spent in a purdah palace. 624 00:38:42,353 --> 00:38:46,302 Never going out, except in a closed carriage, 625 00:38:46,302 --> 00:38:49,552 with family servants before and behind. 626 00:38:50,673 --> 00:38:53,012 And then what would I have done? 627 00:38:53,012 --> 00:38:56,429 Afterwards, what would have become of me? 628 00:38:57,371 --> 00:39:00,721 It's as if he foresaw all of that, 629 00:39:00,721 --> 00:39:02,879 as if he knew that I would have to stand 630 00:39:02,879 --> 00:39:06,652 on my own two feet, as if he knew it. 631 00:39:06,652 --> 00:39:09,239 And when I was four, he sent for my first 632 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,902 English governess, Miss Simpkins, from Shropshire. 633 00:39:12,902 --> 00:39:15,591 I still remember the fearful row my aunts made 634 00:39:15,591 --> 00:39:18,332 when I had to go off to school in Switzerland. 635 00:39:18,332 --> 00:39:21,249 But he insisted, he wouldn't budge. 636 00:39:22,212 --> 00:39:24,444 And then when I was 15, 637 00:39:24,444 --> 00:39:26,850 my aunts, they wanted me to come back and get married, 638 00:39:26,850 --> 00:39:30,403 but he sent me off to England to a boarding school instead. 639 00:39:30,403 --> 00:39:32,073 He wouldn't even let me come home for the halls 640 00:39:32,073 --> 00:39:34,573 for fear they would get at me. 641 00:39:35,650 --> 00:39:36,483 Of course, 642 00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:40,833 all those years that I was in boarding school, 643 00:39:40,833 --> 00:39:42,500 I was very homesick. 644 00:39:45,182 --> 00:39:47,015 I see how wise he was. 645 00:39:48,652 --> 00:39:49,485 Because, 646 00:39:50,612 --> 00:39:51,445 this way, 647 00:39:52,513 --> 00:39:55,930 I could become a truly independent woman. 648 00:39:56,843 --> 00:40:00,010 And take my place in the modern world. 649 00:40:02,673 --> 00:40:03,506 Along with 650 00:40:04,692 --> 00:40:05,859 everyone else. 651 00:40:12,574 --> 00:40:16,074 Well, I'm going to make some more tea now. 652 00:40:40,598 --> 00:40:43,015 (soft music) 653 00:41:12,581 --> 00:41:15,331 (dramatic music) 654 00:41:16,784 --> 00:41:19,951 I won't be a jiffy, it's just brewing. 655 00:41:38,457 --> 00:41:42,624 Mmm, those were taken at the time of the princes assembly. 656 00:41:43,569 --> 00:41:46,118 The newspapers made such a fuss over him. 657 00:41:46,118 --> 00:41:49,220 India's Fairy Prince, they called him. 658 00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:51,058 Beside him, all these other Indian princes 659 00:41:51,058 --> 00:41:54,141 cut such a sorry figure, poor things. 660 00:41:59,468 --> 00:42:03,135 That is why they were all so jealous of him. 661 00:42:04,017 --> 00:42:06,857 And when he had his trouble, there wasn't one 662 00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:08,777 of them that stood up for him. 663 00:42:08,777 --> 00:42:10,307 But he didn't mind about them. 664 00:42:10,307 --> 00:42:14,390 He knew they weren't his friends, never had been. 665 00:42:16,717 --> 00:42:19,329 He minded when he felt betrayed by people 666 00:42:19,329 --> 00:42:22,079 whom he thought were his friends. 667 00:42:23,348 --> 00:42:26,417 I'll never forget the way he said about Paul Merkler. 668 00:42:26,417 --> 00:42:29,250 He didn't love us as we loved him. 669 00:42:30,598 --> 00:42:33,348 I know you were very fond of him. 670 00:42:34,548 --> 00:42:37,965 But if you had loved him as he loved you, 671 00:42:39,148 --> 00:42:42,948 wouldn't you have spoken up for him at that time? 672 00:42:42,948 --> 00:42:44,337 You had known him longer than anyone else, 673 00:42:44,337 --> 00:42:45,534 you could have told them. 674 00:42:45,534 --> 00:42:47,838 - What, what could I have told them, Princess? 675 00:42:47,838 --> 00:42:49,497 - That he was innocent. 676 00:42:49,497 --> 00:42:52,809 That he wasn't capable of anything base. 677 00:42:52,809 --> 00:42:55,726 He was a king, through and through. 678 00:42:56,606 --> 00:43:00,697 There wasn't a power on Earth that could depose him. 679 00:43:00,697 --> 00:43:03,417 And in spite of all the things they wrote in their papers, 680 00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:07,308 in the people's hearts, he was still the Maharaja. 681 00:43:07,308 --> 00:43:09,148 No little tribunal or commission could take 682 00:43:09,148 --> 00:43:10,731 that away from him. 683 00:43:16,348 --> 00:43:17,931 Don't look at that. 684 00:43:18,968 --> 00:43:20,202 - [Cyril] Those are your wedding pictures. 685 00:43:20,202 --> 00:43:21,369 - I hate them. 686 00:43:23,125 --> 00:43:26,792 It's one thing that I can't forgive him for. 687 00:43:28,405 --> 00:43:29,988 I mustn't say that. 688 00:43:31,903 --> 00:43:34,725 He was thinking only of my own good. 689 00:43:34,725 --> 00:43:36,644 How was he to know that Bernie wasn't going to turn out 690 00:43:36,644 --> 00:43:40,477 to be the most wonderful husband in the world? 691 00:43:42,074 --> 00:43:44,407 He wasn't a bad sort really. 692 00:43:45,902 --> 00:43:46,735 Just weak. 693 00:43:49,503 --> 00:43:50,503 And spoiled. 694 00:43:51,493 --> 00:43:53,826 Like the rest of his family. 695 00:43:55,212 --> 00:43:57,333 Of course Papa took opium too, 696 00:43:57,333 --> 00:43:59,834 but he knew how to control himself when necessary. 697 00:43:59,834 --> 00:44:01,733 Bernie would go mad, absolutely insane 698 00:44:01,733 --> 00:44:04,813 when he couldn't get the stuff. 699 00:44:04,813 --> 00:44:06,646 He wasn't bad looking. 700 00:44:07,805 --> 00:44:10,972 But nothing, nothing compared to Papa. 701 00:44:13,343 --> 00:44:14,593 Let's see this. 702 00:44:15,931 --> 00:44:18,764 Oh, that's a good picture of Papa. 703 00:44:30,094 --> 00:44:32,094 That was all a frame-up. 704 00:44:34,054 --> 00:44:35,623 He was completely innocent. 705 00:44:35,623 --> 00:44:37,974 Everybody knew that. 706 00:44:37,974 --> 00:44:42,806 They were just common criminals, common blackmailers. 707 00:44:42,806 --> 00:44:45,104 And to take away his throne 708 00:44:45,104 --> 00:44:47,794 because of two creatures like that, 709 00:44:47,794 --> 00:44:50,377 he should have shot that woman. 710 00:44:53,732 --> 00:44:55,815 Well why don't you speak? 711 00:45:01,157 --> 00:45:06,146 When it's time for your to speak, then you're silent. 712 00:45:06,146 --> 00:45:07,979 Now, and at that time, 713 00:45:09,099 --> 00:45:12,087 and don't think he didn't notice it. 714 00:45:12,087 --> 00:45:14,317 He may not have said anything, he was very proud for that, 715 00:45:14,317 --> 00:45:16,234 but he felt it, I know. 716 00:45:17,397 --> 00:45:19,347 Just another stab in the back. 717 00:45:19,347 --> 00:45:20,888 - You mustn't say that to me. 718 00:45:20,888 --> 00:45:22,499 - [Princess] It's true, you can't deny it. 719 00:45:22,499 --> 00:45:24,019 - I can deny it. 720 00:45:24,019 --> 00:45:24,997 - [Princess] You can't. 721 00:45:24,997 --> 00:45:28,517 If you cared for him, you would have stuck up for him. 722 00:45:28,517 --> 00:45:30,298 - And if I had, who would have listened to me? 723 00:45:30,298 --> 00:45:32,357 Who was I, I was just an Englishman who had stayed 724 00:45:32,357 --> 00:45:34,827 in India too long, I was his, 725 00:45:34,827 --> 00:45:37,141 his highness's creature. 726 00:45:37,141 --> 00:45:39,150 - No one called you that. 727 00:45:39,150 --> 00:45:41,483 - [Cyril] Not aloud perhaps. 728 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,100 - We all loved and respected you. 729 00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:50,752 You were part of our family. 730 00:45:50,752 --> 00:45:53,340 - I came out for one year. 731 00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:55,485 I really seriously intended to go home. 732 00:45:55,485 --> 00:45:57,840 My college had offered me a fellowship, 733 00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:58,941 and I was supposed to write a thesis 734 00:45:58,941 --> 00:46:01,683 about some very serious subject. 735 00:46:01,683 --> 00:46:03,723 By the end of the year, I said, 736 00:46:03,723 --> 00:46:06,806 next year, and then again, next year. 737 00:46:07,733 --> 00:46:10,510 And by the end of that time, 738 00:46:10,510 --> 00:46:13,891 I found I couldn't live without him. 739 00:46:13,891 --> 00:46:14,922 I couldn't let him out of my sight 740 00:46:14,922 --> 00:46:16,572 for more than an hour at a time. 741 00:46:16,572 --> 00:46:19,402 He knew this perfectly well, and he loved to tease me, 742 00:46:19,402 --> 00:46:22,485 so he'd take off day after day until, 743 00:46:25,082 --> 00:46:27,161 he'd finally come back and he'd say to me, 744 00:46:27,161 --> 00:46:30,042 where were you, Cyril Sahib? 745 00:46:30,042 --> 00:46:32,660 I looked for you everywhere. 746 00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:35,660 And if I reproached him, he laughed. 747 00:46:36,973 --> 00:46:39,431 Then he'd be off again for another week. 748 00:46:39,431 --> 00:46:42,300 And by the end of that time, 749 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:46,933 I was so frantic, and I made scenes like a woman. 750 00:46:46,933 --> 00:46:50,013 And this amused him for a time, but finally he, 751 00:46:50,013 --> 00:46:52,430 he got bored, and avoided me. 752 00:46:53,630 --> 00:46:57,071 He just made jokes about me to his hangers-on. 753 00:46:57,071 --> 00:46:58,933 - He fought for you. 754 00:46:58,933 --> 00:47:01,951 He stuck up for you against all those people 755 00:47:01,951 --> 00:47:03,284 and the viceroy. 756 00:47:05,621 --> 00:47:08,060 - Whenever there was a party of Englishmen 757 00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:11,191 visiting the palace, I would be sent for. 758 00:47:11,191 --> 00:47:13,734 And when I tried to withdraw, because I didn't like them 759 00:47:13,734 --> 00:47:16,734 any more than they liked me, as well he knew, 760 00:47:16,734 --> 00:47:19,335 when I tried to go, he wouldn't let me. 761 00:47:19,335 --> 00:47:23,233 And afterwards he would say with that innocent air, 762 00:47:23,233 --> 00:47:25,023 that he always had when you knew that something 763 00:47:25,023 --> 00:47:27,763 was going to hurt a person, he would say, 764 00:47:27,763 --> 00:47:30,564 why do they hate you so? 765 00:47:30,564 --> 00:47:33,943 I didn't answer him, so he went on needling me. 766 00:47:33,943 --> 00:47:38,575 He would say, is it because you're not good at games? 767 00:47:38,575 --> 00:47:40,353 Is it that you can't shoot straight 768 00:47:40,353 --> 00:47:43,882 or you can't even sit properly on a horse? 769 00:47:43,882 --> 00:47:48,049 Once he said, Mrs. Purblack says you are a degenerate. 770 00:47:50,174 --> 00:47:53,007 What is a degenerate, he asked me. 771 00:47:56,124 --> 00:47:58,738 But he always knew when he'd gone too far, 772 00:47:58,738 --> 00:48:02,807 and then he would change completely and 773 00:48:02,807 --> 00:48:05,140 become the soul of kindness. 774 00:48:08,546 --> 00:48:13,016 And then he'd show such delicate personal attentions, 775 00:48:13,016 --> 00:48:14,858 as only he knew how. 776 00:48:14,858 --> 00:48:16,441 One really did feel 777 00:48:17,927 --> 00:48:18,760 loved. 778 00:48:20,188 --> 00:48:22,437 And it was genuine. 779 00:48:22,437 --> 00:48:24,309 When the telegram arrived, for instance, 780 00:48:24,309 --> 00:48:25,658 to say that my mother had died, 781 00:48:25,658 --> 00:48:27,738 he wouldn't leave my sight for days on end. 782 00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,407 He slept in my room, 783 00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,367 I on the bed, he at the foot of it, 784 00:48:31,367 --> 00:48:34,127 and he sent for an Anglican priest 785 00:48:34,127 --> 00:48:36,487 all the way from Ambala, because he said 786 00:48:36,487 --> 00:48:40,086 he wanted me to have the comfort of my religion. 787 00:48:40,086 --> 00:48:44,253 Sat all the way through the service, weeping like a child. 788 00:48:48,149 --> 00:48:49,399 But very often, 789 00:48:50,607 --> 00:48:52,274 I was afraid of him. 790 00:48:54,154 --> 00:48:55,989 Now, there were lots of things that I was afraid of 791 00:48:55,989 --> 00:48:57,418 for no particular reason. 792 00:48:57,418 --> 00:49:00,549 Maybe it was because I began to feel that 793 00:49:00,549 --> 00:49:04,132 everything was alien to me, strange, alien. 794 00:49:06,189 --> 00:49:08,439 Ceremonies, priests, idols. 795 00:49:10,727 --> 00:49:13,477 (dramatic music) 796 00:49:15,807 --> 00:49:16,974 An alien land. 797 00:49:19,047 --> 00:49:22,880 There was a temple that was sacred to the rat. 798 00:49:24,138 --> 00:49:25,869 I found it difficult to go near the place 799 00:49:25,869 --> 00:49:27,536 or even think of it. 800 00:49:29,276 --> 00:49:32,395 I started to very careful about myself. 801 00:49:32,395 --> 00:49:35,446 I became very fussy about what food I ate, 802 00:49:35,446 --> 00:49:37,516 drinking only boiled water, 803 00:49:37,516 --> 00:49:39,858 and swallowing quantities of quinine. 804 00:49:39,858 --> 00:49:42,367 I felt that I had somehow to protect myself, 805 00:49:42,367 --> 00:49:46,549 so heaven knows, what I was protecting myself 806 00:49:46,549 --> 00:49:49,382 from, and there were sports events 807 00:49:50,338 --> 00:49:52,077 and religious festivals, 808 00:49:52,077 --> 00:49:55,327 all mixed up in my mind, my dreams too. 809 00:49:57,826 --> 00:50:01,993 There was a festival in honor of the goddess Kali. 810 00:50:03,178 --> 00:50:06,761 This called for two goats and a young bull. 811 00:50:08,597 --> 00:50:13,797 (cannon firing) 812 00:50:13,797 --> 00:50:16,547 (dramatic music) 813 00:50:18,197 --> 00:50:20,864 (cannon firing) 814 00:50:26,286 --> 00:50:34,194 (cannon firing) 815 00:50:38,509 --> 00:50:42,050 - Many foreigners don't understand our Indian philosophy. 816 00:50:42,050 --> 00:50:45,199 There's creation, and destruction. 817 00:50:45,199 --> 00:50:47,690 And both are aspects of life. 818 00:50:47,690 --> 00:50:51,009 - Yes, well I could never understand that, nor accept it. 819 00:50:51,009 --> 00:50:55,176 Any more than I could accept what was happening to him. 820 00:50:57,559 --> 00:50:59,789 - People grow older. 821 00:50:59,789 --> 00:51:01,370 Everybody does. 822 00:51:01,370 --> 00:51:03,421 It would all be wonderful if we could stay young 823 00:51:03,421 --> 00:51:05,279 and beautiful forever. 824 00:51:05,279 --> 00:51:09,170 - But he changed so much, his whole face. 825 00:51:09,170 --> 00:51:11,119 - It was that woman. 826 00:51:11,119 --> 00:51:14,741 If I wasn't a modern person, I'd say that she used spells. 827 00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:16,789 Some people said that. 828 00:51:16,789 --> 00:51:19,181 How else could she have such a hold over him? 829 00:51:19,181 --> 00:51:20,759 How is it possible? 830 00:51:20,759 --> 00:51:24,470 - He was always, forgive me, Princess, very susceptible. 831 00:51:24,470 --> 00:51:26,790 - Well at least all the others had something. 832 00:51:26,790 --> 00:51:29,402 Even Sultana, she was a movie star, 833 00:51:29,402 --> 00:51:32,861 she had looks and she had talent to attract him. 834 00:51:32,861 --> 00:51:35,730 But this common Englishwoman, 835 00:51:35,730 --> 00:51:38,162 a person from the lowest class. 836 00:51:38,162 --> 00:51:40,461 She was despicable. 837 00:51:40,461 --> 00:51:43,009 Do you know that she's still alive? 838 00:51:43,009 --> 00:51:46,890 And she has the impudence to write me begging letters? 839 00:51:46,890 --> 00:51:48,530 When I receive them, I just tear them up 840 00:51:48,530 --> 00:51:50,613 and my hands feel soiled. 841 00:51:52,389 --> 00:51:53,941 - What about the man? 842 00:51:53,941 --> 00:51:56,441 - Oh, he disappeared long ago. 843 00:51:57,322 --> 00:51:59,410 I don't believe he was a husband at all. 844 00:51:59,410 --> 00:52:03,243 It was all just a plot to try and entrap Papa. 845 00:52:04,282 --> 00:52:06,410 I wish he'd shot them both. 846 00:52:06,410 --> 00:52:08,301 One time in his life that he missed. 847 00:52:08,301 --> 00:52:11,201 - Thank God he did, thank God. 848 00:52:11,201 --> 00:52:12,591 - What worse thing could they have done to him 849 00:52:12,591 --> 00:52:14,450 than already was done? 850 00:52:14,450 --> 00:52:16,010 I begged him that time. 851 00:52:16,010 --> 00:52:18,751 I said, Papa, please don't go to London now. 852 00:52:18,751 --> 00:52:21,009 Let's go in June for Ascot. 853 00:52:21,009 --> 00:52:24,130 It was as if I had some kind of premonition. 854 00:52:24,130 --> 00:52:26,471 But no, he insisted. 855 00:52:26,471 --> 00:52:29,111 He followed that creature to London, 856 00:52:29,111 --> 00:52:31,642 and then everything happened. 857 00:52:31,642 --> 00:52:33,600 He fell into their trap. 858 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,350 (dramatic music) 859 00:52:42,628 --> 00:52:45,518 (gunshot) 860 00:52:45,518 --> 00:52:49,948 - They called it The Shot that Shattered the Throne. 861 00:52:49,948 --> 00:52:51,698 They love a headline. 862 00:52:52,868 --> 00:52:54,681 Oh, I must be getting along. 863 00:52:54,681 --> 00:52:56,380 - Oh not yet. 864 00:52:56,380 --> 00:52:59,340 We have so much yet to talk about. 865 00:52:59,340 --> 00:53:00,681 It's pure selfishness on my part. 866 00:53:00,681 --> 00:53:02,369 I know you have to get back to Turton. 867 00:53:02,369 --> 00:53:05,481 - I like to be sure of finding a seat on the train. 868 00:53:05,481 --> 00:53:08,788 - I don't suppose anyone ever offers you a seat. 869 00:53:08,788 --> 00:53:11,329 Wouldn't occur to them. 870 00:53:11,329 --> 00:53:13,628 Well, you just have to learn to push these days. 871 00:53:13,628 --> 00:53:14,461 I do it. 872 00:53:18,148 --> 00:53:19,419 - [Cyril] What are you doing, Princess? 873 00:53:19,419 --> 00:53:21,009 - I insist, you're not to say no. 874 00:53:21,009 --> 00:53:24,009 This will do nicely for your supper. 875 00:53:25,180 --> 00:53:28,347 - Well, it will save a bit of cooking. 876 00:53:29,528 --> 00:53:32,659 - It is a shame that you have no one to look after you. 877 00:53:32,659 --> 00:53:33,770 - Oh, I manage all right. 878 00:53:33,770 --> 00:53:35,809 There's Mrs. Parish who comes in once a week 879 00:53:35,809 --> 00:53:37,950 to do the cleaning, or rather she used to. 880 00:53:37,950 --> 00:53:39,490 She's laid up now. 881 00:53:39,490 --> 00:53:42,371 - These people are always laid up, aren't they? 882 00:53:42,371 --> 00:53:45,871 We just have to learn to manage, don't we? 883 00:53:47,098 --> 00:53:48,580 - [Cyril] Oh Princess, please. 884 00:53:48,580 --> 00:53:52,531 - This will do for tomorrow's lunch as well. 885 00:53:52,531 --> 00:53:54,572 I do wish you stayed in town. 886 00:53:54,572 --> 00:53:57,572 This way I could stop and visit you. 887 00:53:59,220 --> 00:54:01,620 Must be very lonely for you out there. 888 00:54:01,620 --> 00:54:03,060 - Not at all, I keep busy. 889 00:54:03,060 --> 00:54:06,060 I have my research, my bit of writing, 890 00:54:06,060 --> 00:54:08,401 my walks by the sea. 891 00:54:08,401 --> 00:54:11,360 Sometimes, you know, I imagine that it's not the sea at all 892 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,100 but the desert at Rajasthan, 893 00:54:14,100 --> 00:54:16,910 which is quite as endless as the sea. 894 00:54:16,910 --> 00:54:19,270 You may laugh at me, but sometimes at my age 895 00:54:19,270 --> 00:54:22,670 it's not easy to distinguish between the past 896 00:54:22,670 --> 00:54:26,130 and the present, the desert and the sea. 897 00:54:26,130 --> 00:54:28,452 - I forgot, I've been saving it for you. 898 00:54:28,452 --> 00:54:33,092 Oh, it won't take any time, and you'll just love it. 899 00:54:33,092 --> 00:54:35,142 You know when I was home last, 900 00:54:35,142 --> 00:54:37,172 I went to see Berni Mutibai. 901 00:54:37,172 --> 00:54:39,460 - [Cyril] But she must be over 80. 902 00:54:39,460 --> 00:54:42,582 - Ah, and better than ever, you'll see. 903 00:54:42,582 --> 00:54:45,390 Of course, like a lot of these older court musicians, 904 00:54:45,390 --> 00:54:48,473 she's living in very straightened circumstances now. 905 00:54:48,473 --> 00:54:53,422 I was so sad at first when I saw her in that place. 906 00:54:53,422 --> 00:54:56,273 Just a part of the palace stables, 907 00:54:56,273 --> 00:54:58,822 or perhaps it's part of the sweeper's quarters, anyway, 908 00:54:58,822 --> 00:55:00,812 it's just a little hole in the wall. 909 00:55:00,812 --> 00:55:04,004 And she has nothing there, except a mat to sleep on 910 00:55:04,004 --> 00:55:06,025 and an old cooking pot. 911 00:55:06,025 --> 00:55:10,192 She's all alone, and she suffers terribly from gallstones. 912 00:55:11,044 --> 00:55:15,044 But gay as a bird, she's happy about everything. 913 00:55:17,123 --> 00:55:19,122 As if all the wonderful things that happened 914 00:55:19,122 --> 00:55:22,039 to her in the past are still there. 915 00:55:23,073 --> 00:55:25,385 With better ones yet to come. 916 00:55:25,385 --> 00:55:29,218 (singing in foreign language) 917 00:56:54,841 --> 00:56:56,372 Oh let me help you.