1 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:42,600 Sydney! 2 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,200 Sydney! 3 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,320 Unfortunately, the tests revealed structural alterations 4 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,720 in the larynx of His Royal Highness... 5 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,920 and that the disease is advanced. 6 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,040 There is no cure, 7 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,200 only palliative care, 8 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,520 and once the morphine starts, 9 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,320 His Royal Highness will be debilitated much of the time. 10 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,080 My advice would be to make the most of the precious time that remains. 11 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:21,800 We must throw a party. 12 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,200 Our greatest ever party. 13 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:27,880 Hmm. 14 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,160 And concentrate only on happy things. 15 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:38,120 To that end, let's cancel the Japanese emperor. 16 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,240 Hirohito? No, we can't do that. 17 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,240 No, too much planning has gone into it. 18 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,080 Besides, it may be my only remaining opportunity to restore my reputation. 19 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,600 Oh, reputation... 20 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,600 is an idle and most false imposition. 21 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,560 Oft got without merit 22 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,520 and lost without deserving. 23 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,120 Hmm. 24 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,360 No, we don't want it to look like Kabuki. 25 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,760 Ah. 26 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,480 Only the second time he's ever left his country. 27 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,640 Last time he was only 20. 28 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,680 A boy. I was 26. 29 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,040 He didn't speak a word of English. 30 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,120 I gather he has a little now. 31 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,560 They promised us no cameras. 32 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,120 I don't want my people to see me visit a man 33 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,560 who could not hold on to his throne. 34 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:04,680 Well... 35 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,400 we didn't agree to this visit for the conversation. 36 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,720 One, two, three. 37 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,560 Perfect. 38 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,920 One, two, three. 39 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:37,240 Imagine living in exile from your homeland. 40 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,320 I would sooner die. 41 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,520 Never leaves Japan. 42 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,000 Imagine being stuck on an island your whole life. 43 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,200 An island which is home. 44 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,240 And where you reign as sovereign. 45 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,480 I can think of worse things. 46 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,920 "The Emperor and the former king. 47 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,520 Two great statesman reunited." The Times. 48 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,560 "A Royal Reunion." The New York Times. 49 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,200 "Fifty years of strife laid to rest in triumphant meeting." The Guardian. 50 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,280 I heard this morning that he's requested to do a television interview with the BBC. 51 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,600 What kind of interview? 52 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,800 An in-depth retrospective. 53 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,120 I can't bear it. 54 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,400 Now they're rehabilitating him. 55 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,200 It's possible, Mummy, that not everyone is as consumed 56 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,600 by loathing of him as you are. 57 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,440 Charles asked my blessing to visit him in France. 58 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,600 Whatever for? 59 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,880 He said out of respect. 60 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,600 But I imagine it's curiosity, too. 61 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,120 One doesn't often get the opportunity to meet a former king. 62 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,440 Former kings are usually dead. 63 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,280 That was cutting it fine. 64 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,480 Why the cocktail dress? Tonight's black tie. 65 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,800 I'm not coming. 66 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,040 What? You can't not come. It's the amalgamation ball. 67 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,480 I had a clash. 68 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,800 - With what? - None of your business. 69 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,920 Look, this escalation of hostilities is neither necessary nor justifiable. 70 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,240 You had your chance for a ceasefire, and you broke it. 71 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,120 If you're talking about Ginny, it's over. The whole thing was hideous. 72 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,520 No, hideous was knowing you were out on maneuvers with her. 73 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,480 So, before we even discuss the terms of a truce, 74 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,640 you deserve to know how it feels. 75 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:37,240 Who's that? 76 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,559 Never you mind. 77 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:58,480 - Evening. - Good evening, sir. 78 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,400 - You alone? - Ah. 79 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,120 Huh? 80 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,480 Where's, uh... where's Memsahib? 81 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:11,960 She had a better offer. 82 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,240 - Really? - Hmm. 83 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:15,880 Oh. 84 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,440 But, as it turns out... Evening. 85 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,320 That means I'm free to seek a proposition of my own. 86 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,320 Thank you. 87 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,400 - Well, in that case... - Yes? 88 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,960 There's, uh... There's someone you should meet. 89 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:32,520 Come with me. 90 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,640 Your Royal Highness? 91 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,320 May I present Captain Andrew Parker Bowles. 92 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:51,840 Hello, Andrew. 93 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,080 Your Royal Highness. 94 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,920 What are you staring at? 95 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,160 At you, ma'am. 96 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,760 - And how much you've... - Choose the next word very carefully. 97 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:09,920 Flowered. 98 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,400 Oh, you mean the dress. 99 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,840 It's the Queen's. I look like a hydrangea. 100 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:16,560 No, no. I mean, uh... 101 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,400 developed. 102 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:21,160 Grown up. 103 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,840 Evidently, I've gone from invisible to visible. 104 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,240 - No, you were, you were always visible. - But somehow you'd never seen me. 105 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,080 Now you're making up for it... 106 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,320 by gawping. 107 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,480 - I'm so sorry. - Don't apologize. 108 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,760 I hate it when men apologize. 109 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,440 It isn't honorable or chivalrous. It's wet. 110 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,200 I didn't say I objected to it, did I? 111 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,440 - No. - Well, then. 112 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,640 I don't mind admitting I've done my fair share of gawping at you over the years. 113 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:55,800 Have you? 114 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,520 On the polo field. 115 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,800 When I should have been watching the Duke of Edinburgh or the Prince of Wales, 116 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,440 my young, impressionable female eye, 117 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,480 for some reason, was drawn to you. 118 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,640 - That was fun. - Yes, it was. 119 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,120 That said, we should probably make it the last time. 120 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,040 - I don't want you to get hurt. - What makes you think I would? 121 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,880 Oh, it's what tends to happen to anyone who gets in the way. 122 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:38,240 Of what? 123 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:39,720 Me and her. 124 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,480 You sail, don't you? 125 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,800 Do I need to brace myself for a nautical metaphor? 126 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,920 At sea, there are, um... 127 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,560 hidden currents. Deadly. They can pull one under. 128 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,080 Camilla and I are a bit like that. 129 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:05,960 What are you doing? 130 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:07,520 Leaving. 131 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,800 - But I don't want you to. - You just said you did. 132 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:13,680 No I didn't. I said I don't want you to get hurt. 133 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,120 This conversation is going round and round in circles. 134 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,440 I preferred it when we were going round and round in circles. 135 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,080 I can see perfectly clearly who you are, 136 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,840 and what this is and I can assure you I'm not going to get hurt. 137 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,360 Now, what's it going to be? 138 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,520 A resumption or a cessation? 139 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:36,880 Of what? 140 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:43,720 A resumption. 141 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,720 Fine. 142 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,120 Where do you get it from at your age? 143 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,320 - What? - Oh, come on. That confidence. 144 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:55,600 I'm not confident, dear. 145 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:57,680 Just tough. 146 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,440 Here come Windsor Park, in the green, on the attack. 147 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,240 Good run up the field, on a glorious day here at the Guards Polo Club. 148 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:10,240 Coming straight through, looking confident, 149 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,120 Prince Charles leading the charge there with number four. 150 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,920 Leans it forward, but there's Parker Bowles with a tail shot, 151 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 backs up the ball to his teammate, and Windsor Park, on the pivot, 152 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,240 to try and recover. 153 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,280 Go on, Charles, go on. 154 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,120 Blues and Royals in the white with the red stripes 155 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,880 on the counter-attack now with two minutes left in this chukka. 156 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,200 - Come on, sir! - a tussle for possession now. 157 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,800 Go on, your Royal Highness, sir! You can do it! 158 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,280 Yes, it's Windsor Park! Windsor Park pushing up once more. 159 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,600 Parker! 160 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,840 Oh, Parker Bowles rides off the Prince of Wales. 161 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,520 He's ridden him off. 162 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,800 Parker Bowles hits the big one. 163 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,720 Windsor Park rushing back now, they're in trouble. 164 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,640 Parker Bowles striking ahead. But Prince Charles is still in the race. 165 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,240 Come on, sir! Come on! 166 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,800 He's closing! 167 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:00,440 Oh, come on. 168 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,680 He's closing! 169 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,000 And Parker Bowles scores! 170 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,000 Parker Bowles for the Blues and Royals! 171 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,480 That makes it two goals to nothing! 172 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,840 - Bad luck out there. - I might see you afterwards. 173 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:28,560 Hmm. 174 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:32,480 You played well today. 175 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,560 You and I both know I didn't. 176 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,400 Andrew Parker Bowles played well today. 177 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,200 You just need a bit more aggression in your game, that's all. 178 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,040 So you keep telling me. 179 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,200 How was Paris? 180 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,080 And the Duke of Windsor? 181 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,160 It was all very odd. 182 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,720 He didn't look at all well. 183 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,120 Hmm? 184 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,760 And the house is like some... bizarre monarchy museum. 185 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,880 Reeked of joss sticks and dogs. 186 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,800 Was she there? Flapping around like a demented bat? 187 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,720 - Yes. - Hmm. 188 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,000 I hear she consumes nothing but whiskey. 189 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,560 And has had so many facelifts she can barely speak. 190 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,800 - Dickie... - Oh! 191 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,920 I don't know if I've told you, but... 192 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,600 we've been writing to one another. 193 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,120 I think he sees something of himself in me. 194 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,040 Don't tell your grandmother that. 195 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,960 He keeps telling me to find a wife. 196 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,760 Oh! It's far too early for that. 197 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,880 Now is the time to sow your oats. 198 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:46,280 Play the field. 199 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:47,880 Perhaps. 200 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,160 But as it happens, there is someone I quite like. 201 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,920 The one cheering you on today, yes? 202 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,920 - Yes. - Hmm. 203 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,280 Who used to be with Andrew Parker Bowles until they had a falling out. 204 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,560 Over Anne. 205 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:07,440 If you please. 206 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,960 - Your sister? - Don't ask. It's all a bit messy. 207 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,920 But the long and the short of it is, 208 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,200 Camilla is now free, and I'd like to snap her up. 209 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:18,280 Hmm. 210 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,080 And that's her name? 211 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,000 - Yes. - Hmm. 212 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,000 Camilla Shand. 213 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,120 I like her. 214 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 So... 215 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,600 Have you voted yet? 216 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:39,840 Yes. 217 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:41,640 Who for? 218 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,080 None of your business, sir. 219 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,040 They say it's a formality for Wilson. 220 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,160 Ugh! Not if I've got anything to do with it. Ah! 221 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,080 I've rather given things away there, haven't I? 222 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,800 How am I going to be able to persuade you to have dinner with me? 223 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,960 - Issue a royal decree? - I can't do that. 224 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:05,520 I'm not King. 225 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,359 Yet. 226 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,560 Yet. 227 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:12,440 Then just say please. 228 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,319 Please. 229 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,599 ...this early general election has failed to pay off, 230 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,680 then it could be we find ourselves waking up 231 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,839 to a different prime minister tomorrow. 232 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,920 The leader of the opposition, 233 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,520 Mr. Edward Heath, Your Majesty. 234 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,560 Mr. Heath. 235 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,520 The people have voted in your party's favor. 236 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,000 As their sovereign, I invite you to form a government in my name. 237 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:55,680 Congratulations. 238 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,040 Thank you, Your Majesty. 239 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,840 It really is an encouraging set of circumstances. 240 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,600 Labour took the British people for granted. 241 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,560 Mr. Wilson behaved like a petty emperor, 242 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,760 and treated this election like a coronation. 243 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,120 Nothing wrong with a coronation. 244 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,080 Under the right circumstances. 245 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,640 We then had a brief foray into small talk. 246 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,600 He's taking a grand piano with him to Downing Street, if you please. 247 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,440 Some bring a wife, others a grand piano. 248 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,360 I then asked him what his first priorities were, 249 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,000 he said he'd like me to go to France at the earliest opportunity. 250 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:45,400 What for? 251 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,000 To try to charm Pompidou, 252 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,120 so he doesn't block our entry into the European Economic Community, 253 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,440 like his predecessor. 254 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,080 He's passionately committed to Europe. 255 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,440 Your Majesty. 256 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,160 - Your Royal Highness. - Martin. 257 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,400 I never see the other one anymore. 258 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,320 - Sir? - Where's the other one? 259 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,840 The, um... the, the bald one. 260 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,960 The... Oh! Colonel Adeane. He's retired, sir. 261 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,200 Has he? 262 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,040 - Three months ago. You gave him a clock. - Did I? 263 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:23,400 What is it, Martin? 264 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,560 A reminder that the BBC interview with the Duke of Windsor is coming up soon. 265 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,680 Now, we understand the Duke is no longer in the best of health. 266 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,960 Might be worth visiting when you go to Paris. 267 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,600 Certainly not. 268 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,560 Go on, Martin. 269 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,040 There's just a slight concern that if the BBC interview were to go down well, 270 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,240 following the successful visit of Emperor Hirohito, 271 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,400 the question might be asked, 272 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,920 if the Japanese make the effort to visit, why would his own family not? 273 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,680 He didn't cause them offense. 274 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,320 He didn't abdicate the Japanese throne, or kill the Emperor's father. 275 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,240 For the last time, no. 276 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,320 That man, his shame... 277 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,480 like the stench of livestock. 278 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,400 Sir? 279 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,160 It seeps into the woodwork, and never goes away. 280 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,880 Your Majesty. 281 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,840 Your Royal Highness. 282 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:46,880 Thank you. 283 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,960 ♪ I'm beggin' ♪ 284 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,720 - ♪ Beggin' you ♪ - ♪ Beggin' ♪ 285 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,040 ♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪ 286 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,680 - ♪ Beggin' ♪ - ♪ Beggin' you ♪ 287 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,240 ♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪ 288 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,400 ♪ Ridin' high ♪ 289 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,080 ♪ When I was king ♪ 290 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,600 ♪ Played it hard and fast 'Cause I had everything ♪ 291 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,600 ♪ You walked away ♪ 292 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,480 ♪ Won me then ♪ 293 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,920 ♪ But easy come and easy go And it would end ♪ 294 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,280 - ♪ Beggin' ♪ - ♪ Beggin' you ♪ 295 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,560 ♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪ 296 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,480 ♪ I'm fighting hard to hold my own ♪ 297 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,520 ♪ No I just can't make it all alone ♪ 298 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,680 What's it like? 299 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,240 - Like? - Living here. 300 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,080 Well, not very grand, as you can see. 301 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,240 This is the apartment where they keep Anne and me. 302 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,400 Two bedrooms. One small drawing room. All very normal. 303 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,040 Come on, none of this is normal. 304 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,080 Not just that you live in a palace, but the fact that you are who you are. 305 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,800 Prince of Wales? 306 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320 It's not so much an existence as... 307 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,840 a predicament. 308 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,720 I am both free... 309 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,280 and imprisoned. 310 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,840 Utterly superfluous and quite indispensable. 311 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,480 One can never fully invest in one thing, or another because at any moment... 312 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,000 it could all change. 313 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,080 And you become king. 314 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,760 Not to mention what it does to you as a family. 315 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,120 How can one be a good son when... 316 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,760 even though it's the thing you most... 317 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280 dread. 318 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,000 Her dying? 319 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,680 It's the thing you most... 320 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:04,680 Not desire. 321 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,800 Well, yes, desire. 322 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,840 Because until she dies I cannot be fully alive. 323 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:16,440 Nor can I be the thing for which I have been born, so... 324 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,440 One is condemned to this frightful business of waiting. 325 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,880 Like Saul Bellow. 326 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,880 Sorry, I don't know who he is. Did he wait a lot? 327 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,960 He's an American author. 328 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,360 He wrote a book called Dangling Man. 329 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,760 I sometimes feel like the main character, whom he describes as... 330 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,400 "Existing in a timeless, and slightly ridiculous abyss." 331 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,560 Was he a prince? 332 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,160 No. 333 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,360 An unemployed man from Chicago waiting to be drafted to go to war. 334 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,560 And he actually wants to be drafted, because it will give his life meaning. 335 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,360 Even though he might be killed? 336 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,360 Yes. 337 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,720 That's how much humans need meaning. 338 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,000 Ma'am. 339 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,320 Oh, for me? 340 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,440 Hmm! 341 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:29,840 Ha! Gotcha! 342 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,800 That's brilliant! 343 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,160 That dreadful waffle about dangling in the abyss! 344 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,680 Paul Sellow? 345 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760 S-S-Saul Bellow. 346 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,200 And the Queen dying. 347 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,280 Yes! Mummy kicking the bucket at long last. 348 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,440 And then kerpow! Gotcha! 349 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,680 That's brilliant! 350 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,520 Oh! 351 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,240 Yes. Your face when you saw it, "Oh, for me?" 352 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,520 I wasn't expecting that, sir! 353 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,720 Oh, my God, you got me! 354 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,240 Sorry, yes. 355 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,080 Sir, just a reminder, 356 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,160 the television interview with his Royal Highness, 357 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,000 the Duke of Windsor, is about to begin. 358 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,400 Thank you. Thank you. 359 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,960 You join me in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris 360 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,960 in this magnificent house, once home to General de Gaulle. 361 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,240 Its occupants today need no introduction. 362 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,400 His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, 363 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,960 Edward VIII, King of England for a little more than ten months. 364 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,320 And the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 365 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,600 when they met. 366 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,720 Ma'am, when you first met the Duke, what was your first impression? 367 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,440 He struck me as being rather "with it." 368 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,520 Ahead of his time. 369 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480 Full of pep. Unlike most Englishmen. 370 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,040 And that meeting occurred when you were Prince of Wales? 371 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,840 Yes. A role that I also very much hoped to redefine. 372 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,400 I had my own ideas, my own opinions, 373 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,520 my own... philosophy. 374 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,600 And then finally the day came. 375 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,520 When you acceded to the throne. 376 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,440 Yes, and much to everyone's frustration, 377 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,400 I stayed true to myself... 378 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,120 and the conviction that monarchy had to change, 379 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,680 to move with the times. 380 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,680 Hmm. 381 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,840 But I soon discovered that any attempt to make even the most trifling change 382 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,520 was met with hostility and suspicion. 383 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:46,920 By whom? 384 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,320 By the establishment. 385 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,280 The gray men of the court. 386 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,960 And by my family, too. 387 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,880 They saw me as a rebel. 388 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,680 A threat. 389 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,000 - Too... - Colorful. 390 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:01,720 Dynamic. 391 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:03,960 Individualistic. 392 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,640 Christ, they're ghastly. 393 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,800 In the end, I didn't get to introduce... 394 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,640 Both of them. Monstrous. 395 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,520 Because of the pressure to stand down... 396 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,960 - I'm going to bed. - to abdicate had become unbearable? 397 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,560 Yeah. 398 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,920 People always assume it was because of the Duchess, 399 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:25,440 because of my obstinate desire to marry. 400 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,480 But the establishment's opposition to our marriage 401 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,760 was really a symptom of something deeper. 402 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:37,880 Their fear of the character and freedom of thought, 403 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,760 which I represented. 404 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,880 How was it? 405 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,040 The candle-lit dinner? 406 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,160 Come on. There are no secrets in this place. 407 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,800 Lovely. 408 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:15,400 Thank you. 409 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,160 Camilla Shand, eh? 410 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,360 Yes. 411 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,200 And you're seeing her ex, Andrew. 412 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,320 Not sure you can call what we're doing "seeing." 413 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920 Not sure you can call him an ex, either. 414 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,040 Camilla told me. He's definitely an ex. 415 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,880 Hmm. 416 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,520 Just make sure things remain the right way round. 417 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,320 Us playing with Camilla and Andrew. 418 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,080 Not them playing with us. 419 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,560 What does that mean? 420 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:00,600 Anne. 421 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,600 - Ah! Gotcha! - Well played, ma'am. 422 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,080 Darling? 423 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,360 David. 424 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,560 Excuse me. 425 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,120 - Sir? - No, no. I'm all right, I'm all right. 426 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,240 Sydney, call the doctor. 427 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,080 Yes, ma'am. 428 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,520 The plan is start in Rouen 429 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,280 to commemorate the Allied fallen in the Great War. 430 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,120 Then back to Paris for a presentation of the Diplomatic Corps. 431 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,360 Then the all-important reception 432 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,680 with President and Madame Pompidou in the Élysée. 433 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,640 Hmm. 434 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,880 Landing in ten minutes, ma'am. 435 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,160 It is said 436 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,040 that those who do not learn from history 437 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,040 will be forever condemned to repeat it. 438 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,240 Though we have lived through times of conflict, 439 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,280 our two countries share an ancient relationship. 440 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,280 Let us not forget our deeper bonds, 441 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,160 our sense of common purpose 442 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,200 on which can be built a new partnership, 443 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,240 a new entente. 444 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,520 Joined together, in this august European enterprise, 445 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,680 a great adventure lies ahead. 446 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,440 Monsieur le President. L'Union fait la force. 447 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,640 Merci. Thank you. 448 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,640 Thank you. 449 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,680 - Excuse me, Your Majesty? - Excuse me. 450 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,600 We've had a message concerning His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. 451 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,280 Uh, I think we're close to the end. 452 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,120 Thank you. 453 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,080 Your Royal Highness. Ma'am. 454 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,560 Her Majesty the Queen, she's coming. 455 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,400 - What, here? - Yes, ma'am. 456 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,040 She's on her way. 457 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,320 - Get me up! - You can't be serious. 458 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,680 I-I've never been more serious. 459 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:11,880 Thank you. 460 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,800 Her Majesty the Queen, sir. 461 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,840 Thank you. 462 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,520 Oh, no. Please don't. 463 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,160 Your Majesty. 464 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,200 There was no need for that. 465 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,400 If the roles were reversed... 466 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,240 you would do exactly the same. 467 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:31,800 Yes. 468 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,760 I am sorry you're not well. 469 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,280 We've had our disagreements. 470 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,160 But you've always remained my favorite uncle. 471 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,640 It's kind of you to say 472 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,200 and kind of you to... 473 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,520 visit. 474 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,080 Dear Lilibet. 475 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,400 - "Shirley Temple." - Ah... 476 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,400 Yes. 477 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,240 I underestimated you. 478 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,560 We all did. 479 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,080 But the Crown always finds its way to the right head. 480 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,560 My father, my brother... 481 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:20,560 you. 482 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,480 And... and one day, God willing, your son. 483 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,360 You don't think he's up to it? 484 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,680 I never said anything of the sort. 485 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,280 But you think it. 486 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:43,640 I can read you 487 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:49,120 every bit as well as you can read me... 488 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,280 and I know why you think it. 489 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,080 He can often appear weak. 490 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,240 Indecisive. 491 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,080 But with the right woman by his side, 492 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,720 I say he'll make a good king. 493 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,200 And his... 494 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,360 Thoughts have already turned to the matter. 495 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:17,000 He writes to me, and I to him. He's... 496 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,400 He likes this girl, Camilla. 497 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,440 They barely know one another. 498 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:25,560 Sometimes... 499 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,520 one knows immediately. 500 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,800 You did. 501 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:34,880 What does he say? 502 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,680 Take the letters. Read them. 503 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,560 I can't do that. It's a private correspondence. 504 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,200 They concern the future of the Crown... 505 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,320 and shed light on the soul not only of a future king... 506 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,160 but also your son. 507 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,480 Better they should be in your hands than anybody else's. 508 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,320 In the bureau. In the... the drawer. 509 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,000 And... 510 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:37,720 before you go, 511 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,320 one last time... 512 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,000 for all of it... 513 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,320 what I did to you... 514 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,320 forgive me. 515 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,200 Thank you. 516 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,280 What you did, your abdication of the throne, did change my life. 517 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:07,440 Forever. 518 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,280 But I want you to know 519 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,080 it's not always a curse. 520 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,960 And I haven't always been cross with you. 521 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,560 That there are days... 522 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,720 in fact, more and more the older I get... 523 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,040 when I consider it to be a blessing. 524 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,160 I've even on occasion found myself... 525 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,640 wanting to thank you. 526 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,600 Dear Uncle David, 527 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160 I want to thank you again, and Wallis, 528 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,800 for having me at your home in the Bois de Boulogne. 529 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,680 It's a rare thing that fate should allow 530 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,520 a former king and a king-in-waiting to meet. 531 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,160 To tell the truth, it opened my eyes to a few things. 532 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,520 To the nature of kingship... 533 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,320 the nature of love 534 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,240 and all the difficulties that go with both. 535 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,680 I'm sure you know the family would have preferred me not to visit you. 536 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,160 Afraid, perhaps, I might recognize myself in you, 537 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,360 sympathize with you. 538 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,920 Well, let me confess that I do recognize myself in you. 539 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,040 Your progressiveness and flair. 540 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,040 Your individuality and imagination. 541 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,040 What a king you would have made in a kinder world. 542 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,920 What a king we were denied. 543 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,640 It makes me so sad to see you living in exile, 544 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,800 when all you did was take a stand for principle, 545 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,440 and love one woman completely. 546 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,800 You were cruelly denied your right 547 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,080 to reign alongside the woman that you wanted by your side. 548 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,560 But I give you my word. 549 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,720 I will not be denied what you have been denied. 550 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,720 The Crown is not a static thing resting forever on one head. 551 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,560 It is moving. 552 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,320 Alive. 553 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,920 Divine. 554 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,720 The changing face of changing times, 555 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,080 and if, God willing, it has been ordained that I should wear it... 556 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,360 then I shall do so on my own terms... 557 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,320 and hopefully make you proud.