1 00:01:37,723 --> 00:01:38,765 Your majesty. 2 00:01:53,488 --> 00:01:57,367 Everyone at the post office is delighted with the new profile, ma'am, 3 00:01:57,909 --> 00:02:00,245 which they feel to be an elegant reflection 4 00:02:00,329 --> 00:02:03,915 of her majesty's transition from young woman to... 5 00:02:04,916 --> 00:02:06,001 Old bat? 6 00:02:08,587 --> 00:02:12,215 Mother of four and settled sovereign. 7 00:02:13,091 --> 00:02:16,595 The postmaster general himself commented that the two images, 8 00:02:17,179 --> 00:02:21,683 the young and the slightly older queen, 9 00:02:22,059 --> 00:02:23,769 are almost identical. 10 00:02:24,019 --> 00:02:26,438 Postmaster bevins is very kind. 11 00:02:27,314 --> 00:02:29,524 He's also a barefaced liar. 12 00:02:29,608 --> 00:02:33,487 Just the tiniest changes, in the hair... 13 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:34,821 A great many changes. 14 00:02:35,364 --> 00:02:36,531 But there we are. 15 00:02:37,074 --> 00:02:39,534 Age is rarely kind to anyone. 16 00:02:39,951 --> 00:02:41,411 Nothing one can do about it. 17 00:02:42,496 --> 00:02:44,164 One just has to get on with it. 18 00:04:16,089 --> 00:04:19,092 But, somehow, Harold Wilson had to inspire the electorate 19 00:04:19,176 --> 00:04:22,804 to thrust a wedge into the tories, to win the floating vote for labour, 20 00:04:22,888 --> 00:04:25,640 and stop the liberals stealing too much of the cake. 21 00:04:26,224 --> 00:04:29,227 Sir Alec's position could likewise be affected by the liberals. 22 00:04:29,311 --> 00:04:30,812 They've had quite a revival. 23 00:04:31,396 --> 00:04:34,566 In the 1950 election, the labour majority crumbled. 24 00:04:35,066 --> 00:04:37,527 Some of its great figures were already ill. 25 00:04:37,611 --> 00:04:40,530 The pressures of Korea and rearmament were growing. 26 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:42,799 It's never easy to fight an election... 27 00:04:42,824 --> 00:04:44,534 - Louder, please. - Sir. 28 00:04:44,618 --> 00:04:47,913 Your opponent's promises often seem so much more enticing. 29 00:04:50,165 --> 00:04:51,792 There are so many unknowns. 30 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:54,211 Even the weather can wash your hopes down the gutter. 31 00:04:54,294 --> 00:04:56,755 At once Harold Wilson's life changed. 32 00:04:56,838 --> 00:04:57,838 Oh, no! 33 00:04:58,590 --> 00:04:59,590 What? 34 00:04:59,633 --> 00:05:01,301 Winston's had another stroke. 35 00:05:01,551 --> 00:05:04,554 - Oh, poor old thing. - I'll go and see him today. 36 00:05:07,974 --> 00:05:11,770 You do know, if that man wins today, he'll want us out. 37 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:13,772 - Who? - Wilson. 38 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:18,485 Half his cabinet would be made up of rabid anti-monarchists. 39 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:20,904 They'd want our heads on spikes. 40 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:25,700 Except I doubt they speak French 41 00:05:25,784 --> 00:05:28,537 in halifax or huddersfield. 42 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:30,747 - The old order. - Or wherever he's from. 43 00:05:30,831 --> 00:05:34,000 The old boys' network, the cozy... 44 00:05:34,084 --> 00:05:37,337 I even heard a rumor that he's a kgb spy. 45 00:05:37,587 --> 00:05:39,756 Mr. Wilson? That's ridiculous. 46 00:05:39,881 --> 00:05:45,053 That his predecessor, Hugh gaitskell, was poisoned by the Russians, 47 00:05:45,136 --> 00:05:46,763 so that their man might take over. 48 00:05:47,848 --> 00:05:50,488 - Who did you hear that from? - A friend of mine at the lunch club. 49 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:51,601 He had a whole theory 50 00:05:51,685 --> 00:05:55,856 about Wilson being turned while on a trade mission to Russia. 51 00:05:55,939 --> 00:06:00,569 Said he even had a kgb code name. "Olding." 52 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:03,405 Well, if you know it, and your churn knows it, 53 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:05,740 obviously mi5 will know it, 54 00:06:05,824 --> 00:06:09,160 and they must have come to the conclusion that Mr. Wilson was fine, 55 00:06:09,244 --> 00:06:11,121 or they would have done something about it. 56 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:13,832 Unless they never expected him to get this far. 57 00:06:13,915 --> 00:06:16,042 - The ruthless application -no one did. 58 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:19,087 Of scientific techniques in Soviet industry... 59 00:06:19,838 --> 00:06:24,843 Can see clearly that only the state should have this level of control. 60 00:06:41,151 --> 00:06:43,278 Good morning, your royal highness. 61 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:56,541 Sir, a reminder that lunch is at 1 at the Mirabelle. 62 00:06:56,625 --> 00:06:57,918 Tell her I'm not coming. 63 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:02,422 A labour prime minister... 64 00:07:02,505 --> 00:07:05,550 - Go on. Off you trot. - Sir. 65 00:07:13,016 --> 00:07:15,352 Good morning, your royal highness. 66 00:07:16,978 --> 00:07:17,978 Who are you? 67 00:07:18,772 --> 00:07:19,940 I'm new. 68 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:24,527 I'm assuming "new" is not your name. 69 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:30,116 - So when I ask you... - Violet, ma'am. 70 00:07:36,373 --> 00:07:37,749 Where's the other one? 71 00:07:38,333 --> 00:07:40,293 The... the fat one. 72 00:07:40,794 --> 00:07:42,379 She left, ma'am. 73 00:07:44,631 --> 00:07:46,174 Nervous exhaustion. 74 00:07:52,222 --> 00:07:53,348 Yes? 75 00:07:53,431 --> 00:07:56,059 Morning, ma'am. Lord snowdon sends his apologies. 76 00:07:56,142 --> 00:07:59,062 - What? - He's heading out to take photographs. 77 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:01,064 - What? - Of election day. 78 00:08:01,147 --> 00:08:03,483 - No! - He will try and join you for coffee. 79 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:22,168 Tony. 80 00:08:29,342 --> 00:08:30,677 Open the door. 81 00:09:05,503 --> 00:09:08,006 Your majesty, your royal highness. 82 00:09:09,007 --> 00:09:10,592 Sir Anthony, what's all this? 83 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:12,927 Preparations for the forthcoming exhibition 84 00:09:13,011 --> 00:09:14,929 at the guildhall gallery, ma'am. 85 00:09:15,013 --> 00:09:17,807 - Of our paintings? - Portraiture in early modern Europe. 86 00:09:18,349 --> 00:09:20,560 I believe you kindly agreed to say a few words. 87 00:09:21,144 --> 00:09:22,604 - Did I? - That was a mistake. 88 00:09:22,687 --> 00:09:23,897 Probably. 89 00:09:24,606 --> 00:09:27,275 - Who's that by? - Annibale carracci. 90 00:09:27,525 --> 00:09:28,735 Never heard of him. 91 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:30,695 This one? 92 00:09:30,779 --> 00:09:33,490 - Artemisia gentileschi. - No, never heard of him, either. 93 00:09:33,865 --> 00:09:35,325 Her, sir. 94 00:09:36,326 --> 00:09:38,766 I'm afraid we're not great connoisseurs of art in this family. 95 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:41,039 No, we're country people, really. 96 00:09:41,122 --> 00:09:43,500 - Savages. - I wouldn't say that. 97 00:09:44,125 --> 00:09:45,668 But I just did say that. 98 00:09:46,544 --> 00:09:47,796 Are you disagreeing with me? 99 00:09:48,713 --> 00:09:52,092 I've always said, both the queen and queen Elizabeth the queen mother 100 00:09:52,175 --> 00:09:53,468 have a very good eye. 101 00:09:53,843 --> 00:09:55,970 What? Between them? 102 00:09:56,471 --> 00:09:58,348 One each. 103 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:01,601 Right, darling. 104 00:10:05,146 --> 00:10:06,356 Eyes left. 105 00:10:12,529 --> 00:10:13,738 Good luck with Winston. 106 00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:21,579 If I am to say a few words, 107 00:10:21,663 --> 00:10:24,624 I wonder if you might give me another of your wonderful tutorials. 108 00:10:24,707 --> 00:10:25,750 With pleasure. 109 00:10:25,834 --> 00:10:28,169 Your predecessor had very little Patience with me, 110 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:33,049 whereas you've always been kind enough to make me feel, if not scholarly, 111 00:10:33,133 --> 00:10:35,343 then not stupid, which I appreciate. 112 00:10:36,052 --> 00:10:39,889 So, to that end, what would you say constitutes early modern? 113 00:10:40,306 --> 00:10:41,933 The end of the middle ages 114 00:10:42,016 --> 00:10:44,144 to the beginning of the industrial revolution. 115 00:10:44,227 --> 00:10:47,063 Roughly late 15th century to late 18th century. 116 00:10:47,147 --> 00:10:49,107 And what era are we in now, do you suppose? 117 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:50,567 The frighteningly modern? 118 00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:53,611 I think that all depends on the result of the general election today. 119 00:10:53,695 --> 00:10:55,655 Oh, yes. Have you voted? I know one shouldn't ask. 120 00:10:55,697 --> 00:10:56,781 I have, ma'am. 121 00:10:57,574 --> 00:11:00,285 - Conservative. - Really? 122 00:11:01,286 --> 00:11:03,163 I always had you down as a man of the left. 123 00:11:03,246 --> 00:11:05,415 Perhaps once. Not anymore. 124 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:07,709 - Who's this? - Rembrandt. 125 00:11:07,792 --> 00:11:09,502 An old man in military costume. 126 00:11:10,253 --> 00:11:12,130 Wonderfully enigmatic character. 127 00:11:13,423 --> 00:11:16,259 Speaking of enigmas, what do we make of Mr. Wilson? 128 00:11:16,342 --> 00:11:18,845 - One's heard the rumors, of course. - Rumors, ma'am? 129 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:22,640 Yes, whilst on a trade mission to Moscow, the kgb got to him. 130 00:11:22,724 --> 00:11:23,892 Nonsense, I know. 131 00:11:25,101 --> 00:11:28,021 I wouldn't dismiss them so quickly. 132 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:32,275 For a young socialist to visit Russia in those days... 133 00:11:32,859 --> 00:11:34,569 With an impressionable mind. 134 00:11:35,236 --> 00:11:39,574 It's not unthinkable he might have been turned to more radical ideas. 135 00:11:41,326 --> 00:11:43,369 But Mr. Wilson is an older man now... 136 00:11:44,078 --> 00:11:46,080 And, I'm sure, a wiser one. 137 00:11:48,416 --> 00:11:51,044 Harold Wilson's life changed dramatically. 138 00:11:51,127 --> 00:11:53,546 From being a prominent opposition politician, 139 00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:56,466 Harold Wilson became the opposition politician. 140 00:11:56,549 --> 00:11:58,927 The potential prime minister and a servant of the crown. 141 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,440 The conservatives can afford to lose... 142 00:12:12,523 --> 00:12:14,150 Sir, the queen. 143 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:16,361 A small but workable majority. 144 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:19,739 - Dear Winston. - Your majesty. 145 00:12:20,323 --> 00:12:21,407 Don't move. 146 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:24,077 How are you? 147 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,162 Gripped, ma'am. 148 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:28,498 It's a proper nail-biter. 149 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:31,209 Key battleground seats. The Midlands... 150 00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:34,462 - You think Mr. Wilson has a chance? - I'm afraid I do. 151 00:12:35,171 --> 00:12:39,092 I think we must face the cold wind of socialism 152 00:12:39,175 --> 00:12:42,387 blowing through this land once more. 153 00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:46,391 I probably shouldn't tell you this. 154 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:48,851 When I was prime minister... 155 00:12:49,686 --> 00:12:53,147 A young Mr. Wilson came to me, 156 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:56,776 asking my permission to go to Russia. 157 00:12:58,778 --> 00:13:02,156 On behalf of the... 158 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:03,950 Board of trade. 159 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:06,619 Yes. Board of trade. 160 00:13:07,370 --> 00:13:12,375 One of the first western politicians to go behind the iron curtain. 161 00:13:13,126 --> 00:13:17,255 I remember thinking then, we'd better keep an eye on that one. 162 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:21,217 See a clear picture emerging of who might be the likely winner. 163 00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:24,220 I can't imagine what that would be like... 164 00:13:25,722 --> 00:13:27,974 Having a prime minister one didn't trust... 165 00:13:29,267 --> 00:13:31,477 When one thinks what it was like with you. 166 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:35,523 I was a terrible bully. 167 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:38,484 You were my guardian angel. 168 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:41,321 The roof over my head. 169 00:13:42,739 --> 00:13:44,365 The spine in my back. 170 00:13:45,366 --> 00:13:46,951 The iron in my heart. 171 00:13:50,621 --> 00:13:53,458 You were the compass that steered and directed me. 172 00:13:55,418 --> 00:13:57,170 Not just me, all of us. 173 00:13:58,171 --> 00:14:00,381 Where would Great Britain be without its... 174 00:14:02,050 --> 00:14:03,509 Greatest briton? 175 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:46,344 God bless you, Winston. 176 00:15:01,526 --> 00:15:04,529 After the generation of conservative rule, 177 00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:08,074 in which we have seen recession, scandal, national divide... 178 00:15:37,812 --> 00:15:40,481 Go on, margot. Do us one more song. 179 00:15:44,318 --> 00:15:46,487 Yes, margot. Your turn. 180 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:24,525 Jesus Christ. 181 00:16:36,078 --> 00:16:37,914 Another gain for labour there. 182 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:41,417 We've seen a 3.5 percent swing from the conservatives so far tonight. 183 00:16:45,796 --> 00:16:47,757 The haves and have-hots 184 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,080 and the fact that neither party 185 00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:52,512 has been able to secure the confidence of a large majority of voters 186 00:16:52,595 --> 00:16:57,517 is symptomatic not only of fundamental dissatisfaction with government, 187 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,269 but of the failure of the entire political class. 188 00:17:32,134 --> 00:17:33,261 Bravo! 189 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:36,514 Thank you. 190 00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:38,975 Arriving into us now. 191 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,310 Yes, it's a labour gain. 192 00:17:41,811 --> 00:17:44,480 The labour party will form the next government. 193 00:17:44,564 --> 00:17:47,525 People will be waking up tomorrow in a new britain, 194 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:50,945 a britain whose destiny lies firmly in the hands of Mr. Wilson. 195 00:17:51,028 --> 00:17:53,030 We now go over to transport house, 196 00:17:53,114 --> 00:17:56,409 where labour staff and supporters are gathered to hear their celebration. 197 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:35,823 Sir, the protocol is as follows. 198 00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:37,666 When you're announced, you bow from the neck. 199 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:39,910 First time you see the queen, you say, "your majesty." 200 00:18:39,994 --> 00:18:41,954 After that it's "ma'am." Rhymes with "ham." 201 00:18:42,038 --> 00:18:44,415 Until you leave. Then it's "your majesty" again. 202 00:18:44,498 --> 00:18:47,460 Don't sit until her majesty does. Don't talk until she does. 203 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,755 Absolutely no physical contact, other than taking her hand, 204 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:53,090 if and only if she offers it. 205 00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:55,217 No small talk unless she invites it. 206 00:18:55,384 --> 00:18:57,637 At the end, she'll buzz, and I'll come and get you. 207 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,139 Bow from the neck, and walk back towards me. 208 00:19:12,943 --> 00:19:15,154 The leader of the opposition, your majesty. 209 00:19:19,116 --> 00:19:20,201 Thank you. 210 00:19:26,957 --> 00:19:28,167 Your majesty. 211 00:19:29,043 --> 00:19:32,672 The country has spoken. Your party has won the election. 212 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:34,340 The duty befalls me, as sovereign, 213 00:19:34,423 --> 00:19:36,634 to ask you to form a government in my name. 214 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:40,221 Congratulations, prime minister. 215 00:19:55,403 --> 00:19:59,156 Well, I suppose I should kick things off with an apology. 216 00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:01,492 - Whatever for? - Well, winning. 217 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:04,745 I'm aware of your affection for my predecessor, 218 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:07,873 and doubtless you'd have preferred him to have continued in office. 219 00:20:08,374 --> 00:20:10,793 It is my duty not to have preferences. 220 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:14,505 Well, we all do, though, don't we? We can't help it. It's human nature. 221 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:17,883 And I can see the attraction of someone like posh Alec. 222 00:20:17,967 --> 00:20:19,885 Someone you can chat with about the racing, 223 00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:23,222 someone well-bred, high-born, who knows how to hold his cutlery, 224 00:20:23,305 --> 00:20:24,932 as opposed to a ruffian like me. 225 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,101 Hardly. 226 00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:29,729 Still, the country said otherwise. 227 00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:33,065 They'd had enough of the mess those conservatives left us, 228 00:20:33,482 --> 00:20:35,651 and the havoc they wreaked. 229 00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:37,737 Soaring land and house prices, 230 00:20:37,820 --> 00:20:40,114 race riots, sex scandals, 231 00:20:40,197 --> 00:20:43,784 large-scale unemployment, rejection from the eec, 232 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:47,913 and an annual trade deficit of £800 million. 233 00:20:49,623 --> 00:20:51,751 Yes, it's an unenviable legacy. 234 00:20:53,836 --> 00:20:56,922 What will you do about the balance of payments? Will you devalue? 235 00:20:57,590 --> 00:20:59,425 No, ma'am. 236 00:21:00,176 --> 00:21:03,971 A labour government devalued the pound once before, with little success, 237 00:21:04,054 --> 00:21:08,809 and my party cannot risk being seen as the party of devaluation. 238 00:21:10,436 --> 00:21:13,022 It is also a matter of national pride. 239 00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:15,441 This is still a great country, 240 00:21:16,025 --> 00:21:18,235 and the pound is a powerful symbol. 241 00:21:21,864 --> 00:21:24,033 Can't have been an easy one to get used to. 242 00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:26,160 What's that? 243 00:21:26,243 --> 00:21:28,537 Well, you being part of that symbol. 244 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:31,415 Your face on every coin and banknote. 245 00:21:34,168 --> 00:21:37,463 I remember seeing my father's face on a shilling for the first time, 246 00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:39,590 and thinking how odd it looked. 247 00:21:40,925 --> 00:21:42,176 At the same time realizing 248 00:21:42,259 --> 00:21:44,887 I would probably, one day, have to look at my own face. 249 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:48,974 But one never knows what destiny has in store for one. 250 00:21:50,184 --> 00:21:52,144 Did you ever imagine you'd be prime minister? 251 00:21:52,228 --> 00:21:55,314 - Goodness, no. - How could you have done? 252 00:21:56,065 --> 00:21:59,693 - Mr. Gaitskell was still such a young man. - He was. 253 00:22:00,528 --> 00:22:02,822 No one could possibly have foreseen his death. 254 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:07,159 - So sudden. - Yes. 255 00:22:07,243 --> 00:22:08,285 And unexpected. 256 00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:13,165 Still, we make of our destiny what we can. 257 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:15,543 Indeed. 258 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,339 I'm not sure what I was expecting. 259 00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:22,424 Each of his predecessors, 260 00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:25,135 Churchill, Eden, MacMillan, even Alec, 261 00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:28,514 each in their own way was formidable. 262 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:30,182 Statesmanlike. 263 00:22:30,558 --> 00:22:33,602 But Wilson is neither old nor young, 264 00:22:34,103 --> 00:22:37,022 tall nor short, loud nor quiet, 265 00:22:37,565 --> 00:22:38,983 warm nor cold. 266 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:43,279 He seems to have come from nowhere, and is entirely unremarkable. 267 00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:46,115 Best qualities in a spy. 268 00:22:46,907 --> 00:22:47,950 What did you say? 269 00:22:48,951 --> 00:22:51,787 Aren't those the best qualities in a spy? 270 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:54,790 Well, to be forgettable, unremarkable. 271 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:56,333 Not stand out in a crowd. 272 00:22:56,417 --> 00:22:58,586 We used to say that about Henry, didn't we, dear? 273 00:22:58,669 --> 00:22:59,669 What? 274 00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:01,797 That you would have made the perfect spy, 275 00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,049 because no one could remember having met you. 276 00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:08,429 I'd say that was marginally better 277 00:23:08,512 --> 00:23:11,807 than everyone having nightmares having met you! 278 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:25,571 We do tease each other. 279 00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:29,366 With Tony, one never knows quite who one's going to get 280 00:23:29,450 --> 00:23:31,410 from one moment to the next. 281 00:23:31,493 --> 00:23:32,620 He's changeable. 282 00:23:33,162 --> 00:23:35,623 He goes from loving to hating. Mummy! 283 00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:37,041 You're not listening. 284 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:39,043 Of course I am, darling. 285 00:23:40,377 --> 00:23:41,879 Tony doesn't hate you. 286 00:23:42,713 --> 00:23:44,548 I think he may be starting to. 287 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:48,969 You must try not to let him consume you like this. 288 00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:52,222 The two of you have your trip to america coming up. 289 00:23:53,641 --> 00:23:57,227 You'll be with each other round the clock, working together as a team. 290 00:23:57,311 --> 00:24:01,231 Your father and I always found those trips very bonding. 291 00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:05,319 Well, I hope you're right. 292 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:56,286 - Thank you. - Sir. 293 00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:59,748 - From margot. - Marvelous. Very good. 294 00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:01,750 - How did you know? - Margot! 295 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:05,295 Seventeen minutes, door to door. A land-speed record. 296 00:25:06,672 --> 00:25:09,967 Is there any food left, or have you eaten it all? Your majesty. 297 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:14,763 Your majesty. A thousand apologies. 298 00:25:15,848 --> 00:25:18,517 - Happy birthday, Henry! - Tony, where were you? 299 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,810 Oh, look. 300 00:25:19,893 --> 00:25:21,645 - Hello. - Tony. 301 00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:24,940 Tony, darling, come and sit next to your wife. 302 00:25:25,024 --> 00:25:27,317 Why would I do that? I see her all the time. 303 00:25:27,401 --> 00:25:30,279 Well, she was just saying she sees you none of the time. 304 00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:34,324 Because he's always working, traveling or waterskiing. 305 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:36,493 It's my new passion, ma'am. 306 00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:38,954 Your majesty, there's a telephone call for you. 307 00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:42,207 - Oh, it's lovely there. - It's a ghastly little pond. 308 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:44,501 I think you'll find we own that pond. 309 00:25:44,585 --> 00:25:46,712 I share a speedboat there with Simon sainsbury. 310 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:47,921 You have to wind it up. 311 00:25:48,797 --> 00:25:50,716 Well, the general idea is to stay out. 312 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,637 That's really charming. Elizabeth, thank you so much. 313 00:25:55,721 --> 00:25:57,181 Really, really charming. 314 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:17,201 - Hurrah! - That's enough. 315 00:26:18,869 --> 00:26:20,287 Winston is dead. 316 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:44,519 Fire! 317 00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:47,166 Sir, the CIA's director of counterintelligence on the phone. 318 00:27:47,249 --> 00:27:50,836 - I'll call him back. - He called on Juliet, sir. 319 00:27:52,546 --> 00:27:56,091 Heads of state from around the world are arriving, crowding into... 320 00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:57,175 Gentlemen. 321 00:27:57,426 --> 00:27:59,803 This great mother church of the commonwealth. 322 00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:32,294 A man by the name of Michael straight has surrendered himself to us at the DOJ. 323 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,713 I need to speak to a senior intelligence officer. 324 00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:37,633 He claims to be a sleeper agent working for the Russians. 325 00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:42,137 He says he has information that will uncover a senior kgb mole 326 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:44,181 at the top of the British establishment. 327 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:07,329 - Where is he now? - Washington. 328 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,414 We can have him flown in to you by tomorrow. 329 00:29:12,209 --> 00:29:17,214 We are assembled here as representing the people of this land 330 00:29:17,798 --> 00:29:23,387 to join in prayer on the occasion of the burial of a great man, 331 00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:27,891 who has rendered memorable service to his country, 332 00:29:27,975 --> 00:29:30,185 and to the cause of freedom. 333 00:29:33,146 --> 00:29:35,524 We shall think of him with Thanksgiving 334 00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,402 that he was raised up in our days 335 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:40,862 of desperate need 336 00:29:40,946 --> 00:29:44,658 to be a leader and inspirer of the nation, 337 00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:50,163 for his dauntless resolution and untiring vigilance. 338 00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:53,792 My name is Michael straight. 339 00:29:53,875 --> 00:29:58,588 And since all men are subject to temptation and error... 340 00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:02,884 We pray that we, together with him, 341 00:30:02,968 --> 00:30:07,639 may be numbered among those whose sins are forgiven... 342 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:12,352 And have a place in the kingdom of heaven. 343 00:30:13,061 --> 00:30:15,772 I attended Cambridge university... 344 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:21,361 And it was during this time that I was first approached 345 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:24,489 by members of the communist party. 346 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,084 Right. 347 00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:44,092 Right. 348 00:30:45,427 --> 00:30:49,056 I'll confirm with her majesty and come back to you straight away. 349 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,235 Director general of mi5, Mr. Furnival Jones, your majesty. 350 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,660 Your majesty. Thank you for seeing me. 351 00:31:19,461 --> 00:31:21,046 It gives me no pleasure to tell you 352 00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:24,174 that we have been approached by a former Russian agent 353 00:31:24,674 --> 00:31:28,428 who has identified a mole at the top of the British establishment. 354 00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:30,764 So it's true. 355 00:31:32,265 --> 00:31:34,226 - Ma'am? - I'd heard the rumors. 356 00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:36,520 Initially, I dismissed them, 357 00:31:36,603 --> 00:31:39,606 but spending time with him personally, in close proximity, 358 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:42,192 one had become more and more suspicious. 359 00:31:43,026 --> 00:31:44,111 Indeed. 360 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:49,491 And that he should have been able to carry on for so long, undetected, 361 00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:53,120 is a subject of enormous embarrassment to all of us. 362 00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:56,623 This obviously needs to be handled very delicately. 363 00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:58,804 That's what I've come to talk to you about, 364 00:31:58,834 --> 00:32:02,337 to see if we might find a way to contain it. 365 00:32:03,255 --> 00:32:06,341 What? We can't do that. 366 00:32:07,217 --> 00:32:09,428 Have a Russian spy in downing street? 367 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:16,184 Those rumors. You're talking about Harold Wilson. 368 00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:18,562 - Yes. - I'm so sorry, ma'am. 369 00:32:19,104 --> 00:32:20,981 Yes, it's widely accepted 370 00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:23,483 that repeated attempts were made by the kgb 371 00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,028 to recruit Wilson when he was younger, working on trade missions. 372 00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:30,615 He traveled to Russia a great deal in those years, 373 00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:34,411 but the evidence for the Russians having succeeded is so weak, 374 00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:36,496 we discounted it some time ago. 375 00:32:37,998 --> 00:32:39,708 And the poisoning of gaitskell? 376 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:42,461 Gaitskell wasn't poisoned. He died of lupus. 377 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:45,964 The fact is, even if the Russians had poisoned gaitskell... 378 00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:50,802 The most likely beneficiary would have been George brown, not Harold Wilson. 379 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:55,140 Wilson was not favorite to take over the leadership at the time. 380 00:32:55,432 --> 00:32:57,809 We don't have a Russian spy in downing street? 381 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:02,814 But it seems... 382 00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:07,777 We do have one in Buckingham Palace. 383 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:15,202 We look at a painting and immediately want to know it. 384 00:33:18,288 --> 00:33:22,042 But can anything ever be fully understood? 385 00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:26,338 Take our bearded trickster here. 386 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:30,842 A venetian cardsharp originally ascribed to titian, 387 00:33:30,926 --> 00:33:32,636 until new evidence came to light 388 00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:35,889 proving the painting is actually by Lorenzo lotto. 389 00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:39,684 As time passes, so we learn. 390 00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:42,437 Truths are revealed. 391 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:44,814 In the late renaissance, 392 00:33:44,898 --> 00:33:48,068 painting after painting, masterpiece after masterpiece, 393 00:33:48,151 --> 00:33:52,572 seemed full of hidden intentions, multiple meanings. 394 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,703 Annibale carracci's allegory of truth and time, 395 00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:01,665 painted in 1584 or 1585. 396 00:34:02,624 --> 00:34:05,001 This winged figure here... 397 00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:09,214 Rescues a young woman, his daughter, 398 00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:10,423 from the darkness. 399 00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,092 He is time. 400 00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:14,386 She is truth. 401 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:20,642 And this figure below, trampled by truth, is deceit. 402 00:34:21,268 --> 00:34:23,228 Carracci's message is clear. 403 00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:29,776 Be patient. The truth will out. 404 00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:34,614 I'm afraid I can now confirm that the surveyor of the queen's pictures, 405 00:34:35,115 --> 00:34:39,619 sir Anthony blunt, was the fourth man in the Cambridge spy ring. 406 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:44,249 The message encoded in the painting is repeated in reality. 407 00:34:44,332 --> 00:34:45,332 As with the lotto, 408 00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:48,420 time passed, and the painting was restored 409 00:34:48,503 --> 00:34:51,798 to reveal deceit is two-faced. 410 00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:55,927 She has a second, monstrous visage. 411 00:34:56,303 --> 00:35:00,557 And that alongside conducting a distinguished career as an art historian 412 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,976 and member of the royal household... 413 00:35:03,977 --> 00:35:07,314 He spent 15 years as an active kgb mole, 414 00:35:07,647 --> 00:35:12,068 and passed almost 2000 documents of sensitive military secrets 415 00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:13,737 to the kremlin. 416 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:18,867 Truth may lie beneath the surface, buried, forgotten, 417 00:35:19,492 --> 00:35:22,495 but time has a way of uncovering it. 418 00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:26,249 One thinks of the merchant of venice. 419 00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:29,461 "Truth will come to light. 420 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:33,006 Murder cannot be hid long. 421 00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:35,592 A man's son may... 422 00:35:36,968 --> 00:35:40,430 But at the length, truth will out." 423 00:35:43,850 --> 00:35:45,560 Thank you. 424 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,285 We had initially hoped the information was false. 425 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:05,872 We get these sorts of claims all the time. But... 426 00:36:07,457 --> 00:36:11,252 We subsequently detained and interviewed blunt, and... 427 00:36:14,047 --> 00:36:16,257 I'm sad to say he has confessed. 428 00:36:18,343 --> 00:36:19,427 In full. 429 00:36:28,687 --> 00:36:30,063 What's the next step? 430 00:36:30,563 --> 00:36:32,482 Well, he's a traitor to his country. 431 00:36:32,941 --> 00:36:35,860 He should, of course, stand trial, be put in prison, 432 00:36:35,944 --> 00:36:38,238 and the key thrown away, quite frankly. 433 00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:43,076 Unless it was felt that exposure of blunt's treachery 434 00:36:43,493 --> 00:36:45,787 could cause even more damage. 435 00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:48,331 What, then, keeping it silent? 436 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:50,208 How? 437 00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:52,293 It could have a catastrophic effect 438 00:36:52,377 --> 00:36:54,879 on the reputation of our intelligence services. 439 00:36:54,963 --> 00:36:57,590 The fact that he had gone undetected for so long, 440 00:36:57,674 --> 00:37:02,637 which could, in turn, seriously affect our relationship with the Americans. 441 00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:06,808 We're on our last reserves of goodwill with them as it is. 442 00:37:06,891 --> 00:37:08,393 One more operational failure, 443 00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:10,812 and our credibility would be completely shot. 444 00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:12,647 What are they suggesting? 445 00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:16,151 That we turn a blind eye and allow a traitor... 446 00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:22,657 An enemy of this country, to remain free, with his career and reputation intact... 447 00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:26,286 Just to spare mi5's blushes? 448 00:37:29,205 --> 00:37:31,916 - The man should be shot. - I agree. 449 00:37:32,333 --> 00:37:35,879 But instead, I have to get up and pay tribute to him at this exhibition. 450 00:37:36,796 --> 00:37:39,007 How am I supposed to get through my speech? 451 00:37:39,549 --> 00:37:41,342 I might choke on my words. 452 00:37:57,066 --> 00:37:59,068 We stand here tonight, 453 00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:02,739 surrounded by some of the royal collection's greatest treasures... 454 00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:09,120 To admire the genius of rubens, titian, Rembrandt and holbein, 455 00:38:09,204 --> 00:38:11,414 but that we are able to make sense of it all, 456 00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:14,125 appreciate it, understand it... 457 00:38:14,959 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaks to the genius of another man, 458 00:38:17,629 --> 00:38:22,801 whose exceptional scholarship and vision have brought us together today. 459 00:38:23,551 --> 00:38:24,969 Sir Anthony blunt. 460 00:38:28,264 --> 00:38:29,307 Thank you. 461 00:38:31,142 --> 00:38:34,479 It is he who has curated this exhibition, 462 00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:36,815 and given meaning to mystery, 463 00:38:36,898 --> 00:38:40,819 and revealed what really does lie beneath the surface. 464 00:38:41,736 --> 00:38:45,281 I, for one, had never thought of art history in that way. 465 00:38:45,907 --> 00:38:47,867 As the art of investigation, 466 00:38:48,368 --> 00:38:51,246 solving riddles, finding clues, 467 00:38:51,871 --> 00:38:53,498 unlocking secrets. 468 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:55,959 It's been quite an education. 469 00:38:57,293 --> 00:38:59,128 I particularly enjoyed the portrait 470 00:38:59,212 --> 00:39:04,133 which turned out to have another person lurking beneath the surface. 471 00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,305 Have I described that correctly, sir Anthony? 472 00:39:09,389 --> 00:39:12,058 Or am I stumbling around in the dark, as usual? 473 00:39:12,976 --> 00:39:16,604 Not another person, ma'am. The same person. 474 00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:19,399 It was not uncommon in the early modern period 475 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:21,693 for an artist to finish a portrait, 476 00:39:21,776 --> 00:39:23,194 and the patron would take a look 477 00:39:23,278 --> 00:39:26,447 and ask for a more flattering version of themselves. 478 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,702 And the artist would paint another version over it. 479 00:39:32,495 --> 00:39:34,205 So not two different people. 480 00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:37,417 Two different versions of the same person. 481 00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,920 Which might as well be two different people. 482 00:39:41,963 --> 00:39:45,174 The idealized version of themselves they want to be seen, 483 00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:49,345 and the less desirable person they really are hidden away. 484 00:39:50,805 --> 00:39:52,932 There's even a word for it. Palimpsest. 485 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:56,769 That generally applies to manuscripts, ma'am. 486 00:39:56,853 --> 00:39:58,187 "Pentimento" for paintings. 487 00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:00,523 Pentimento. 488 00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:03,943 Well, I think I speak for everyone here 489 00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:06,613 when I say none of us will be able to trust 490 00:40:06,696 --> 00:40:10,283 or look at anything in the same way ever again. 491 00:40:41,814 --> 00:40:42,857 Prime minister. 492 00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:45,985 Your majesty. 493 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:47,654 I'm so glad you came. 494 00:40:47,737 --> 00:40:50,114 It gives me the chance to apologize in person. 495 00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:54,786 - What for? - There's no need to understand. 496 00:40:54,869 --> 00:40:57,997 All you need to know is that I misjudged you terribly, 497 00:40:58,081 --> 00:41:01,167 and I'd like to take this opportunity to say sorry. 498 00:41:06,965 --> 00:41:08,216 Are you an art man? 499 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:12,053 - Art? - Yes, art. Paintings. 500 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:14,138 Well, actually, no. No. 501 00:41:15,014 --> 00:41:18,893 I'm an economist, a statistician at heart. 502 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,396 I'm happiest with numbers. 503 00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:25,858 You can trust numbers. They're honest. 504 00:41:26,859 --> 00:41:28,736 There's no mystery, 505 00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:32,031 or deception or allegory. 506 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:34,659 You know where you stand. 507 00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:38,413 What you see is what you get. 508 00:41:40,415 --> 00:41:41,958 And I prefer things that way. 509 00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:44,460 I quite agree. 510 00:41:49,841 --> 00:41:52,010 His royal highness would like to see you, sir. 511 00:41:54,887 --> 00:41:55,887 Excuse me a moment. 512 00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:24,375 The very least you could do is quietly crawl away... 513 00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,963 Not force us to live with you under the same roof. 514 00:42:30,006 --> 00:42:31,966 But doing the right thing, 515 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:35,636 the decent thing, the honorable thing... 516 00:42:36,846 --> 00:42:39,098 You wouldn't have the faintest idea what that was. 517 00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:43,978 Well, I am going to be watching you, 518 00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:48,941 and one wrong step, you treacherous snake... 519 00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:52,320 And I will expose you and have you thrown in jail. 520 00:42:53,946 --> 00:42:58,326 I would think long and hard before I did that, sir. 521 00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:03,039 You would do well to reflect on your own position. 522 00:43:04,332 --> 00:43:05,833 What are you talking about? 523 00:43:09,378 --> 00:43:13,299 You may remember, at the height of the profumo sex scandal, 524 00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:17,595 there was talk of a member of the royal family being involved. 525 00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:19,055 No one knew who... 526 00:43:20,014 --> 00:43:23,392 But it was rumored to be a senior member of the royal family. 527 00:43:24,769 --> 00:43:26,020 Very senior. 528 00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:32,276 When the osteopath at the center of the scandal, Stephen ward, 529 00:43:33,027 --> 00:43:34,278 took his own life... 530 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:37,990 There was speculation that a number of portraits 531 00:43:38,074 --> 00:43:41,619 of that senior member of the royal family had been found in his apartment. 532 00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:47,416 Naturally, a great many people were keen to get their hands on those portraits. 533 00:43:48,668 --> 00:43:53,714 Mercifully, someone respected and well-connected in the art world... 534 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:58,219 Was able to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands. 535 00:43:58,594 --> 00:44:03,224 I never saw Stephen ward in any capacity other than as an osteopath. 536 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,146 If he made drawings of me, he would have done so from photographs. 537 00:44:09,230 --> 00:44:12,483 We all tell ourselves all sorts of things 538 00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:14,152 to make sense of the past. 539 00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,697 So much so that our fabrications, 540 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:20,241 if we tell them to ourselves often enough, 541 00:44:20,825 --> 00:44:22,285 become the truth. 542 00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:25,705 In our minds and everyone else's. 543 00:44:27,206 --> 00:44:31,878 And believe you me, I'm happy for your truth to be the truth. 544 00:44:33,254 --> 00:44:35,089 It would be better for everyone. 545 00:44:36,174 --> 00:44:38,968 Imagine how awful it would be, for example, 546 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,847 if those pictures saw the light of day now. 547 00:44:43,514 --> 00:44:45,641 The storm it would create. 548 00:44:46,434 --> 00:44:48,269 And for what? 549 00:44:50,479 --> 00:44:51,856 It's the past. 550 00:45:20,176 --> 00:45:23,012 - Would you excuse me? - Of course, your majesty.