1 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,896 - Everybody set? - Ready, sir. 2 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,120 Yes. Yes, hurry up. Hurry up. 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:22,240 Operator ready. 4 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,320 Right. 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,360 Absolute silence, everywhere. 6 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:30,920 Cue disc. 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,240 Live recording. 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,840 Ready, Your Royal Highness? 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:36,920 Five, 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 four, 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,200 three, 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,280 two, 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:41,760 one, 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:42,800 and… 15 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,880 "On this… 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,200 the occasion of my 21st birthday… 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,320 I welcome the opportunity 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,880 to speak to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire… 19 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:00,040 wherever they live, 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,280 whatever race they come from, 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,840 and whatever language they speak. 22 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,160 As I speak to you today from Cape Town, 23 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:15,120 I am 6,000 miles from the country where I was born. 24 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,960 But I am certainly not 6,000 miles from home. 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,480 That is the great privilege of belonging to our place 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,400 in the worldwide Commonwealth. 27 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,240 There are homes ready to welcome us in every continent of the earth. 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,400 Before I am much elder, 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,880 I hope I shall come to know many of them. 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,640 Although there is none of my father's subjects, 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,160 from the eldest to the youngest, whom I do not wish to greet, 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,280 I am thinking especially today of all the young men and women 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,960 who were born about the same time as myself 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,320 and have grown up like me 35 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,120 in the terrible and glorious years of the Second World War. 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,600 Will you, the youth of the British family of nations, 37 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,640 let me speak on my birthday as your representative? 38 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,320 Now that we are coming to manhood and womanhood, 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,000 it is surely a great joy to us all to think that we shall be able 40 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,600 to take some of the burden off the shoulders of our elders, 41 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,360 who have fought and worked and suffered to protect our childhood. 42 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,080 To that generation, 43 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,120 I say we must not be daunted 44 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,040 by the anxieties and hardships the war has left behind 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,320 for every nation of our Commonwealth. 46 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,640 We know these things are the price we cheerfully undertook to pay 47 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,520 for the high honor of standing alone seven years ago 48 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,680 in defense of the liberty of the world. 49 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,600 If we all go forward together with an unwavering faith, 50 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,800 a high courage, and a quiet heart…" 51 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,200 "…we shall be able to make of this ancient Commonwealth, 52 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,960 which we all love so dearly, 53 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,080 an even grander thing. 54 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,320 More free, more prosperous, 55 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:13,960 more happy, 56 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,400 and a more powerful influence for good in the world 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,800 than it has been in the greatest days of our forefathers." 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,800 Please welcome Margaret Roberts. 59 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,360 "To accomplish that… 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,320 we must give nothing less 61 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,240 than what my father, King George, the first head of the Commonwealth, 62 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,000 calls 'the whole of ourselves.'" 63 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:42,080 Good evening. 64 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,800 "There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors. 65 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:51,960 A noble motto. 66 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,760 'I serve.' 67 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,560 I should like to make that dedication now. 68 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,960 - It's very simple." - And smile! 69 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,440 "I declare before you all that my whole life… 70 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,720 whether it be long or short… 71 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,960 shall be devoted to your service… 72 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,320 and the service of our great imperial family 73 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,760 to which we all belong. 74 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,720 God help me to make good my vow… 75 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,280 and God bless all of you 76 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:25,720 who are willing to share in it." 77 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,400 - Thank you, ma'am. - Thank you. 78 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,120 It was the volte-face of Eurydice, 79 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,480 except I was Aristaeus, 80 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,160 driving her on towards the serpent… 81 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,320 Malachi, Maaalachi… 82 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,200 Twice, she called me by the name, 83 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:24,240 and twice she beckoned me with her outstretched dactyl… 84 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,120 I stood in darkness. She in light. 85 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,360 And yet here I was the diurnal, 86 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,280 and she the crepuscular, 87 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,480 if such a… 88 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,520 …nugatory distinction can pertain. 89 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,520 The aurora was breaking. 90 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,680 The island, sea-girt, was fast stirring. 91 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,000 I looked at her again. 92 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,400 Her dermis, pellucid in the lambent sunshine, 93 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,560 seemed as if a fish-skin pulled taut. 94 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,800 She gave me one last glancing look, 95 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,840 and then stepped off 96 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,000 and plunged down into the waxing viridescence 97 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,000 of the Ionian waters below… 98 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,720 Mors tua, vita mea. 99 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,680 The End. 100 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,280 Golly! Your very own War and Peace. 101 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,840 Ulysses, please. 102 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,880 Uh… 103 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,640 I shall… set aside a year of my life. 104 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,360 - What? - Just kidding. 105 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,360 I'll have it read by the end of next week. 106 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,920 - You're very kind. - And, Michael, bravo! 107 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,520 Ah-ah! No congratulations till you've read it. 108 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,400 You deserve congratulations 109 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,320 for being able to carry it up the stairs. Kidding again. 110 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,560 Oh. 111 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:52,640 Well… 112 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,680 I look forward… 113 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,520 to hearing from you. 114 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:03,560 Uh, taxi! 115 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,440 - Buckingham Palace, please. - Right you are, sir. 116 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,400 Good work. Leave it on my desk. 117 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:34,560 - Morning, James. - Morning, sir. 118 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,480 - Morning, Michael. - Sarah. 119 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:38,560 Sorry to ambush you, 120 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,440 but I've got the Today newspaper asking for confirmation 121 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,160 of an apparently open secret in Commonwealth government circles, 122 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,280 that the Queen is deeply frustrated by Thatcher's refusal 123 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,840 to back sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa. 124 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,920 A frustration which threatens to strain her relationship with the prime minister, 125 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,120 who the Queen holds personally responsible, 126 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,840 and they'd like you, as palace press secretary, to comment. 127 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,840 You should know better than to come to me with nonsense like that, Sarah. 128 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,360 In the 33 years she's been on the throne, 129 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,280 the Queen has never once expressed a point of view about her prime ministers, 130 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,440 positive or negative, 131 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:15,560 and never will. 132 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,000 Political impartiality 133 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,240 and support of her prime minister is an article of faith to her. 134 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,480 And we all know how the Queen is… 135 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:25,880 about her faith. 136 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,240 …the now all too familiar use of violence. 137 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,960 Tear gas, followed by rubber bullets, and then bird shot. 138 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,640 It's been nearly four decades since the system of racial segregation, 139 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,400 termed apartheid, became the official policy of South Africa. 140 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,200 The current violent oppression of Black protesters by government forces 141 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,120 is creating increased international outrage. 142 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:01,160 The situation is getting worse and worse, ma'am. 143 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,280 Countless instances of brutality by the South African police 144 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,160 against members of the public. 145 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,120 As you know, we believe the only way to stop these atrocities 146 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,520 is through sustained economic pressure. Forty-eight of the Commonwealth countries 147 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,680 are committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on Pretoria 148 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,160 to try and bring down the apartheid regime. 149 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,720 But, as Her Majesty knows, 150 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,760 in order to implement those sanctions, total unanimity is required, 151 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,840 and one country remains against. 152 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,040 The United Kingdom. 153 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:33,080 Mrs. Thatcher remains opposed. 154 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,760 I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Thatcher about all this in private 155 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,240 at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the Bahamas. 156 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,400 The Commonwealth. 157 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,880 Ridiculous waste of time. 158 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,920 Ridiculous organization. 159 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,800 Worse. Morally offensive. 160 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,200 Why we allow our Queen 161 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:03,880 to fraternize with countries like Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland… 162 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,320 Unstable countries. 163 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,360 Unstable despotisms with appalling human rights records. 164 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,960 And calling them "family"! 165 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,400 Yes! 166 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:21,320 Anyway, she's requested a private audience on board the royal yacht 167 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,720 for what the palace is calling 168 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,640 "a frank conversation about the way forward in South Africa." 169 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Spare me! 170 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:33,440 I'll give her a frank conversation about not wasting my time. 171 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Oh, excuse the eggs, boys. 172 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,080 Right. Who wants kedgeree? 173 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,960 It's not my best, I'm afraid. 174 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,880 For the dinner, this sunshine chiffon… 175 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:48,840 There you go. 176 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,680 …to pick out the yellow in the flag of the Commonwealth. 177 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:52,600 Yummy! 178 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:57,560 Oh, and a brooch given to you by King Otumfuo Opoku Ware. 179 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,680 Is that a porcupine? 180 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,960 A symbol of courage and strength in Ashanti culture. 181 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,480 Oh, we might need some of that. 182 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,520 - What's all this? - CHOGM. 183 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,200 - Oh, of course. - To what do I owe the honor? 184 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:17,960 I came to tell you that I've decided to ask Edward to be my best man. 185 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,440 Not Charles? 186 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,000 No. 187 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,560 - Oh, that will raise some eyebrows. - Good! 188 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,680 Let him see what it feels like to be sidelined in a… 189 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,560 slimmed-down role, 190 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,160 since I gather that's what he now thinks the future of the monarchy should be. 191 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,880 You, him, and his own precious bloodline. To hell with the rest of us. 192 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,120 Insecure, jealous fool. 193 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,480 What's he jealous of? 194 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,160 Me! Always has been. 195 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,240 Oh, Andrew. 196 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Of me and you, 197 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:49,640 of our… 198 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,480 of our closeness. 199 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,280 The fact that I've fought in a real war, 200 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:57,960 won real medals. 201 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,600 Or the fact that I'm happier in love, more popular. 202 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:03,080 And… 203 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,880 like other second sons I could mention, I'd so obviously be better at it than him. 204 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:08,960 At what? 205 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Being the heir. 206 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,000 I just want to see you all happy. 207 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,320 There are two families I care about. 208 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,200 My own family and the Commonwealth family of nations. 209 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,520 Keeping them all together is my life's work. Now I must get on. 210 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:25,400 Mummy. 211 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,280 For the state breakfast, 212 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,520 a dress of the palest blue and gold brocade… 213 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:35,440 Sarah! 214 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,760 …will go very well with the diamond necklace given to you 215 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,640 by the people of South Africa on your 21st birthday. 216 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Lovely. 217 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,920 I told her. She was fine with it. Edward it is. 218 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,240 Aren't you, now. 219 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,480 Right, let's go. 220 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,920 Your Majesty. I just included that sentence there. 221 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,560 I don't think that's necessary. 222 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,760 - No, I liked it before. - We'll change it back. 223 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,080 Your Majesty. Thank you for coming. 224 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,560 Oh, thank you. They're lovely. Thank you very much. 225 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,760 Those of you who know me 226 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,240 will be aware that the Commonwealth of Nations 227 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,200 is a second family to me, 228 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,880 as it was to my late father, 229 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,560 King George VI. 230 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,360 There are always tensions between nations. 231 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,040 Global peace is fragile. 232 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:56,160 But I believe this union offers us all something rare and valuable. 233 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,280 The capacity to celebrate difference. 234 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,880 To value compromise over conflict. 235 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:12,640 And to find a way to heal divisions in the interests of peace and goodwill. 236 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:15,640 Thank you. 237 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,760 Attention! 238 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,160 Prime Minister. 239 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,480 The prime minister, Your Majesty. 240 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:54,240 Your Majesty. 241 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,880 It was kind of you to come. I won't keep you long. 242 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,640 Um, I was hoping we could briefly discuss South Africa. 243 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:01,720 Ma'am. 244 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,640 It is my fervent hope that Britain will join 245 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,800 the other countries of the Commonwealth and impose sanctions 246 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,720 on an apartheid regime that has no place in the modern world. 247 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,840 Let us be quite clear about this. 248 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,120 Nothing useful can be achieved by sanctions. 249 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,400 Really? It was my understanding they would devastate the South African government. 250 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,520 They would devastate us too. 251 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Trade between our two countries is worth three billion pounds a year. 252 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,000 Might we look at it from the South African point of view? 253 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,760 I am, ma'am. 254 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,560 South Africa is already a disinvestment economy. 255 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,320 But Black South Africans want sanctions, so shouldn't we listen to them? 256 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,720 Black South Africans don't want to inherit a wasteland. 257 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,040 They will if they feel it is their wasteland. 258 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,640 President Kaunda of Zambia would confirm as much. 259 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,760 It is not the business of a British prime minister 260 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,240 to consult with unelected dictators. 261 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,880 But it is a sovereign's duty when they are part of the Commonwealth. 262 00:16:58,400 --> 00:16:59,400 Yes. 263 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,440 The Commonwealth. 264 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:04,000 Yes, the Commonwealth. 265 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,880 I recognize that for your family, 266 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:11,960 the transition of this nation 267 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,960 from empire to comparative supplicancy on the world stage 268 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,400 must have come as a greater shock than to the rest of us. 269 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:25,560 But I would argue that the Commonwealth is not the way to fill that gap. 270 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,720 There are ways of Britain being great again, 271 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,800 and that is through a revitalized economy, 272 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,640 not through association with unreliable tribal leaders 273 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,240 in eccentric costumes. 274 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,240 But isn't that all I am, Prime Minister? 275 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,280 A tribal leader in eccentric costume? 276 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:44,680 Certainly not. 277 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,960 You're head of an evolved constitutional monarchy 278 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,040 that stretches back to William the Conqueror. 279 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,880 It's not comparing like with like. 280 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,840 Ah, now that's where we differ. 281 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,440 You see, I consider myself to be exactly like them. 282 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,000 To me, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi 283 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,760 are all great sovereign nations with great histories. 284 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,080 I am aware you probably don't share that view. 285 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,280 To you, the Commonwealth is something of a distraction, 286 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:12,440 a waste of time. 287 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,840 But in many ways, I have given my life to it. 288 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,560 It was the pledge I made 40 years ago. 289 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:20,680 On the wireless? 290 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,720 "To our great imperial family…" 291 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,480 I remember listening to it 292 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,560 as a student at Oxford. 293 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,000 But we cannot let the values of the past 294 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,560 distract us from the realities of the present, 295 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,080 particularly where Britain's economic interests are concerned. 296 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,920 Forty-eight countries of the Commonwealth are now preparing a statement 297 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,520 condemning the South African regime and recommending tougher sanctions. 298 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:48,600 What they… 299 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,400 What I would like you to do is sign that statement. 300 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,760 If I didn't know better, 301 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,960 that sounded very much like a directive. 302 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,760 Think of it as a question. 303 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,120 The jolly atmosphere at the opening of the Commonwealth conference in Nassau, 304 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,360 nicknamed the CHOGM, fooled nobody. 305 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,680 Within an hour, South Africa came up 306 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,000 with the Indian prime minister making his position crystal clear. 307 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:21,720 How was it? 308 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,480 My meeting with the Queen? It was a little testy. 309 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,160 Although I must say, I do like the boat. 310 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,240 Yacht. 311 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,160 It isn't a yacht. 312 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:33,960 It's a great big ship. 313 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,640 And when the sovereign sails in it, historically it's called a yacht. 314 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,720 Oh, don't be a know-all. It's unbecoming. 315 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,440 Why was it frosty? 316 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,720 I didn't say "frosty." I said "testy." 317 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,280 Although I wish it had been frosty. It's far too hot here. 318 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:54,920 Because my fellow heads of government are now coming up with a statement 319 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,240 condemning the South African government they want me to sign. 320 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,200 I've told them I won't accept anything with the word "sanction," 321 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,720 and… they've started... 322 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,640 Getting their knickers in a twist? 323 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,280 Insisting they won't accept anything less. 324 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:16,280 So now we need to come up with a word that… works for everyone. 325 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,640 Well, good luck with that. 326 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,080 Thank you, DT. 327 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,840 No, no, no, no. 328 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,040 She rejected any mention of "proposals." 329 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,480 I'm determined to win this battle, Sonny. 330 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,960 I don't often get into a fight, but when I do, I want to win. 331 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,200 You will, ma'am. 332 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,360 Remember, you are not alone. 333 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,960 It is 48 against one. 334 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,680 We are going back with another word. 335 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,680 "Measures…" 336 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,920 No, no, no. 337 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,920 No. 338 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,880 I'm sorry. 339 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,160 A no to "measures." 340 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,280 Yes, so we are going back with "actions." 341 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:20,640 And should that fail? 342 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,200 We still have "controls." 343 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,000 Yes, I'm beginning to see this is all about control. 344 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,200 No. No. 345 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,480 No. No, no, no. 346 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:47,920 No. 347 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:51,440 Thank you. 348 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,040 They must be out of their minds. 349 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,840 No. No! No… 350 00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,640 Definitely not. 351 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:01,720 No! 352 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,240 Ridiculous. 353 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,560 What we need here is not useless politicians… Sorry, Sonny. 354 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,640 …but a writer. 355 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,520 Where might we find one? 356 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,160 …sanctions… 357 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,680 …restrictions… 358 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,200 …protocols… 359 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,280 …measures… 360 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,240 …proposals… 361 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,360 …curbs… 362 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,080 …gestures… 363 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,040 …expediences… 364 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:40,560 …signals… 365 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:58,440 Hmm. 366 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,280 Yes, I think we can work with that. 367 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:10,360 "Signals"! 368 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,920 Yes, she agreed to "signals." 369 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 And among the signals she agreed to 370 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,400 are actually several of the sanctions she would never have contemplated 371 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,920 had they been called sanctions. 372 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,400 Oh, thank you, Michael. And congratulations. 373 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,760 - Have we won? - Oh yes. 374 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,160 It's a victory for the Commonwealth, for humanity, a victory for you. 375 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,840 When put in the ring with her Queen, the Iron Lady melted. 376 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,480 Oh. 377 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,640 Well played, Margaret. A victory for common sense. 378 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,440 Whatever are you talking about? 379 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,480 The other heads of government will appreciate 380 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,400 your willingness to seek a compromise. 381 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,200 There's a reason the top job has always eluded you, Geoffrey. 382 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,120 The absence of the killer instinct. 383 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:21,680 …that our family is once more united around a common consensus. 384 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,080 But, ladies and gentlemen, first, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. 385 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:28,800 - Prime Minister. - Yes? 386 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,120 You have been forced to make significant concessions. 387 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,480 Not that I noticed. 388 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,080 You signed a document prepared by 48 countries 389 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,840 who were in conflict with you. 390 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,200 I did. 391 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,240 But the question is, 392 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,200 did one person move to the 48, 393 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,440 or did 48 move to one? 394 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,520 Yes, I agreed to "signals." 395 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,640 But as you know, 396 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,800 with one simple turn, 397 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,480 a signal can soon point 398 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,160 in an entirely different direction. Thank you. 399 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,320 - Prime Minister! - Prime Minister! 400 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,520 Secretary-General, are you giving out a statement now? 401 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,200 Where does that leave the Commonwealth? 402 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,440 - That's what she said? - Yes, ma'am. 403 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,280 - Before walking off. - Really? 404 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,600 Ready? Here we go. 405 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:33,960 Please. We're ready. 406 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,720 In position. 407 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:37,520 Perfect. 408 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,240 Look at me. 409 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,680 Three, two, one… 410 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,520 ♪ …smash their brains in ♪ 411 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,240 ♪ 'Cause they ain't got no fink in 'em ♪ 412 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,200 ♪ Some a dem say dem a nigga haytah ♪ 413 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,800 ♪ An' some a dem say… ♪ 414 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,280 ♪ Some a dem say dem a Black stabbah ♪ 415 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:15,560 ♪ An' some a dem say dem a Paki bash ah ♪ 416 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,280 ♪ Fashist an di attack Noh baddah worry 'bout dat… ♪ 417 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,360 Everyone's reading it. 418 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,400 Some early reactions have come in, and so far, very encouraging. 419 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:27,520 Right. 420 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:28,560 But, uh… 421 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,400 no offers yet? 422 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,720 Oh, uh… 423 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,680 Not yet. But, regardless of whether we get this one published, 424 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:41,400 what is undeniable is that you write vividly, catchily… 425 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,760 Dare I say it? 426 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,600 …even commercially. 427 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,840 Well, it's not a dirty word, Michael. You can really tell a story. 428 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,160 I am wondering, 429 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,480 have you ever considered a political thriller? 430 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:54,400 What? 431 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,600 The inner workings of Whitehall, Westminster, the palace. 432 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,120 No one could write it better than you. 433 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,200 No. 434 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,920 No. If this magnum opus doesn't work, I'll call it a day. 435 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,880 You could expose it all under an assumed name. 436 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,480 Mmm. I could. 437 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,200 But, sadly, I'm old-fashioned and would never betray those confidences 438 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,280 or the people I'm proud to serve. 439 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,600 - I had to try. - Hmm. 440 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,600 Was that very grubby of me? 441 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,160 Mmm. 442 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,640 Not grubby. 443 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,600 Just quietly heartbreaking. 444 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,440 With violence escalating in South Africa, 445 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,440 tensions between the United Kingdom and other nations of the Commonwealth 446 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,080 are at breaking point. 447 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,360 Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to act on sanctions 448 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,000 being blamed for the collapse of the Commonwealth Games… 449 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,080 Good meeting? 450 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,680 Great, thank you. 451 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,080 Hate to dampen the mood, but the Today newspaper has let us know 452 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,000 they are now running a front-page story about the increasingly sour relations 453 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,680 between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street 454 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,120 following the recent crisis 455 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,600 at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. 456 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,600 - What is it with these people? - Tea, sir. 457 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,480 And that relations between the two women are in danger of completely breaking down. 458 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,080 The good news is, it's Today, 459 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,800 so we can expect it to have little impact. 460 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,160 The bad news is, 461 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,640 it won't be long before bigger, more influential newspapers 462 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,960 realize this warrants further scrutiny. 463 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,120 So I think the time might have come 464 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,960 for Your Majesty to make some kind of preemptive statement. 465 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,560 Uh, what kind of statement? 466 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,080 One of support, 467 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,680 even, dare I say… 468 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,280 personal affection for the prime minister. 469 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,680 About the job she's doing, 470 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,720 something that would kill the gossip stone-dead. 471 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,760 What if I'm not happy with the job she's doing? 472 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,960 What if I'd be happy for people to know the displeasure was actually real? 473 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,800 That I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion. 474 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,040 You know how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility 475 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,160 to remain silent, but each of us has our line in the sand. 476 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,000 If it were to become public knowledge 477 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,680 that there had been an unprecedented rift between sovereign and prime minister, 478 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,200 would that really be so bad? 479 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,320 Well… 480 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,480 Um… 481 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,400 If… if that really were your intention… 482 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,520 And for the record, ma'am, I must say I think that would be a misjudgment. 483 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,040 And risk doing serious and irreparable harm 484 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,040 to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street. 485 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,280 …then Today would not be the newspaper I would go to. 486 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,840 I'd go somewhere with more heft, 487 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,760 somewhere that also had a clear sense 488 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,720 of the unprecedented nature of this, where they understood the rules of the game. 489 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,640 Can I leave that with you, Michael? You are the expert. 490 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:13,960 - Ma'am. - Ma'am. 491 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,320 It's reckless. 492 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,560 - It's reckless, Martin, and irresponsible. - I'm as surprised as you are. 493 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,520 It goes against my professional advice, 494 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,320 and I want my objection noted. 495 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,120 Noted? 496 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,920 Noted, Martin. 497 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,160 It's noted. 498 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,720 - It... - It's noted. 499 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,160 Simon Freeman of the Sunday Times is on the line. 500 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,840 He's rung three times. 501 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:06,960 Following up on rumors about 502 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,360 "a deep and irreconcilable rift between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher." 503 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,520 All right. 504 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,040 Put him through. 505 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,720 - Six quid fifty-four, sir. - Yeah. Keep the change. 506 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,200 - Thank you. - Prime Minister. 507 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,560 - Evening, Prime Minister. - Evening, Bernard. 508 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,720 I've just had a call from the Sunday Times 509 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,200 letting us know that there will be a difficult piece in the paper tomorrow. 510 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,120 About what? 511 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,640 The fault lines that have developed 512 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,160 in the relationship between sovereign and prime minister. 513 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,680 What? 514 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,080 Sunday Times, first edition! 515 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,080 Sunday Times, first edition! 516 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:42,600 There we go. 517 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,720 Sunday Times, first edition! 518 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,240 - Bernard. - Michael. 519 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Here. 520 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,840 A constitutional crisis was on the verge of erupting this morning 521 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,000 as the Sunday Times published details of a sensational rift 522 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,520 between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street. 523 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,840 This story, which is likely to have a serious impact 524 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,520 on what had traditionally been cordial relations 525 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,960 between the sovereign and her prime ministers, 526 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,120 cites the cause of the rift as an alleged dispute 527 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,760 over Mrs. Thatcher's failure to commit to a policy of sanctions 528 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,120 against apartheid in South Africa… 529 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,080 Christ! 530 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,320 …a position regarding which the Queen has apparently expressed her disapproval, 531 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,520 marking a distinct break with the monarch's long-held practice 532 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,200 of never passing comment on political affairs. 533 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,240 So far, Buckingham Palace has refused to be drawn on the veracity of the report 534 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,600 with the palace spokesman declining to comment 535 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,000 on an article entitled… 536 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,160 "The African Queen. At odds with Number 10." 537 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,840 "It has been an eventful week for Buckingham Palace." 538 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,760 "Queen Elizabeth II, a well-intentioned, apolitical figurehead, 539 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,720 has been dragged into a messy row over South Africa 540 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,200 because of the stubbornness and insensitivity…" 541 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,680 "…of her prime minister. 542 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,640 Far from being a straightforward, uncomplicated countrywoman…" 543 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,240 "…a late-middle-aged grandmother, 544 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,080 who is most at ease when talking about dogs and horses…" 545 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,680 "…she has shown that she is also an astute political infighter 546 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,240 who is quite prepared to take on Downing Street…" 547 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,680 "…when provoked." 548 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:03,560 Really? 549 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:05,520 Well, that's what it says. 550 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,240 I'm feeling something for the very first time. 551 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,200 - Something which I never imagined feeling. - What is that? 552 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,360 Impatience for our next audience. 553 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,720 - There she is! - Mrs. Thatcher! 554 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:26,400 Over here! 555 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,800 Buckingham Palace has continued to deny accusations 556 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,320 published in the Sunday Times 557 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,080 regarding the rift between the Queen and Downing Street. 558 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,800 Government sources claim that the sacrosanct relationship 559 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,760 between sovereign and first minister was in danger of being blown apart. 560 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:46,720 The prime minister's here. 561 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,840 Your Majesty. 562 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:13,920 Prime Minister. 563 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,640 Before coming today, 564 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,640 I checked with the cabinet secretary, 565 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:29,320 and it turns out that in the seven years I have been prime minister, 566 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,680 we have had 164 audiences, 567 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,920 always the model of cordiality, productivity, and mutual respect. 568 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,520 So it is perhaps not unreasonable 569 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,720 to expect an isolated hiccup. 570 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:44,680 What hiccup? 571 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,000 I was under the impression 572 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:51,200 that Her Majesty never expressed her political views in public. 573 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,520 I don't. 574 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,320 That there was an unbreakable code of silence 575 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,320 between sovereign and first minister. 576 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,240 If you're referring to the Sunday Times, 577 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,400 I've always advised my prime ministers against reading the newspapers. 578 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,720 I don't, ma'am. 579 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,720 They misunderstand, misquote, 580 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,280 and misrepresent. Then everybody gets into a fluster. 581 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,360 But my press secretary does, 582 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,720 and he has working relationships with all of the editors, 583 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,240 and the editor in this case assured him that the sources were unimpeachable. 584 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,200 Close to the Queen. 585 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,600 Unprecedentedly close. 586 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,920 Well, I'm sure a clarification will soon be forthcoming. 587 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,280 In the meantime, should we make a start on the business of the week? 588 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,000 Only I am mindful of the time. 589 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,720 This is the business, ma'am. 590 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,520 The only business. 591 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,440 I think we have enough respect for one another personally 592 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,080 to ask ourselves some of the bigger questions, 593 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,440 woman to woman. 594 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,760 We are the same age, after all. 595 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:57,160 Really? 596 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,000 Just six months between us. 597 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,040 Oh? And who is the senior? 598 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,840 I am… ma'am. 599 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,480 "Uncaring, 600 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:16,600 confrontational, and socially divisive." 601 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,200 That's how these sources so close to the Queen describe me. 602 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,760 - Prime Minister... - That I lack compassion. 603 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,920 And that my government has done irretrievable damage 604 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,560 to the country's social fabric. 605 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,560 My responsibility, for the time I have in office, 606 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,160 is to put sentimentality to one side 607 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:46,960 and look after this country's interests 608 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,240 with the perspective of a cold balance sheet. 609 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,520 And while I greatly admire your sense of fairness 610 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,200 and compassion for those less fortunate than us… 611 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,480 Do you? Really? 612 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,800 …let us not forget 613 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,360 that of the two of us, 614 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:08,520 I am the one from a small street in an irrelevant town 615 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,360 with a father who could not bequeath me a title 616 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,600 or a Commonwealth, but only grit, 617 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,360 good sense, and determination. 618 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,280 And I don't want people's pity or charity or compassion. 619 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,240 Nothing would insult me more. 620 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:26,800 My goal… 621 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:33,320 is to change this country from being dependent to self-reliant, 622 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,000 and I think in that, I am succeeding. 623 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,680 I have had to learn many difficult lessons as sovereign... 624 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,920 Britons are learning to look after number one, 625 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,160 to get ahead, 626 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:44,800 and only then, 627 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,920 if they choose, 628 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,640 to look after their neighbor. 629 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:51,560 Of those... 630 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,440 No one would remember the Good Samaritan 631 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,360 if he only had good intentions. 632 00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,440 You see, 633 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,200 he had money as well. 634 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,480 …perhaps the hardest 635 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,880 is that I am obliged to support my prime ministers 636 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,560 on any position they take, 637 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,520 even yours, regarding sanctions against South Africa. 638 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,040 My question is, 639 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,800 given the lack of impact it has on your day-to-day political fortunes, 640 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,000 yet how important it is to me… 641 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,720 …could you not have supported me just once? 642 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,480 My fellow Commonwealth leaders, 643 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,840 many of whom I consider to be friends, 644 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,280 now feel that I have betrayed them on an issue most important to them. 645 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,480 Well, they need only read the Sunday Times. 646 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,480 It will give them no doubt as to your position. 647 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:54,960 Oh look, our time is up. 648 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,680 How it flies. 649 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,880 You must be very much looking forward to the wedding tomorrow 650 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,240 of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. 651 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,640 Yes, we are. 652 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,400 They seem like a good match. 653 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:10,480 Yes, we think so. 654 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:15,480 My own son, Mark, recently announced that he would be getting married. 655 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,160 Your favorite? The explorer? 656 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,720 Not an explorer, ma'am. 657 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,440 That was just the once. 658 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,080 He's a businessman now. 659 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,680 In the Middle East, mostly. 660 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:26,960 And South Africa. 661 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:30,160 Of course. 662 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,880 Your Majesty. 663 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,880 Listen to me carefully. There is no story here. 664 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,920 There's not a shred of truth to these rumors. 665 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,360 The Queen continues to have an extremely cordial 666 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,040 and productive working relationship with the prime minister. 667 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,400 The Sunday Times maintains 668 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,440 that the story came from a highly placed source within the palace. 669 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:00,960 That's the line we're running with. 670 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,040 We will deny it, and you will look like fools. 671 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,640 Spare me the indignation. 672 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,920 I understand you have to say it, but we both know that it's true, 673 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,760 and your continual denial is making you lot look like fools. 674 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,520 Hello? Can I take your details? 675 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,120 What's all this? Don't tell me the groom's having last-minute doubts. 676 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,480 No. Andrew's asked us all to come together because he wants someone to explain why... 677 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,640 What in God's name is going on with our mother? 678 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,080 The wedding of the Duke of York should be a landmark event, 679 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:36,680 at home and abroad. 680 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,760 Instead, 681 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,920 thanks to the Queen's inexplicable lapse of judgment, 682 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,720 the newspapers are full not of Sarah and me, 683 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,400 but of Mummy's rift with the prime minister! 684 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,480 Ah, yes. The Sunday Times. 685 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,600 - She has made a godawful mess of it. - What was she thinking? 686 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,840 She did what she's spent her life telling me I cannot do. 687 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,760 She opened her mouth and expressed an opinion. 688 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,320 And is being slaughtered for it. 689 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,120 Bloody thoughtless of her if you ask me. 690 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,080 You can hardly blame the newspapers for wanting to write about something 691 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,480 other than the wedding of a fringe member of the family who'll never be king. 692 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,000 Ouch! 693 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:17,960 Well, it's true, isn't it? 694 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,320 Fourth in line now, 695 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,720 and by the time William's had children, and his children have had children… 696 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:26,480 Fringe. 697 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:30,800 Shall we? 698 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,640 Did he really just say that? 699 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:41,840 On my wedding day? 700 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,480 That was impressively cunty. 701 00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,480 It would be hard to imagine there'd be anything 702 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,040 that could knock a royal wedding into second place on the news. 703 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,520 But the continuing escalation 704 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,000 of the row between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher 705 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,280 threatens to overshadow the nuptials. 706 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,640 The Queen has made a very serious error of judgment, 707 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,880 and this Sunday Times article has lit a touch paper 708 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,440 to what could very quickly become a major constitutional crisis. 709 00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,680 What the palace was hoping to achieve by this is hard to say, 710 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,240 but the fact is, they've stirred up a hornet's nest, 711 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:31,320 and so far seem to lack the wit to avoid getting stung. This story… 712 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,960 If I might interrupt, ma'am? 713 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,360 One unfortunate consequence of our denial of the story 714 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,080 is that the editor of the Sunday Times has now come out all guns blazing, 715 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,400 and whilst we could continue to deny it, 716 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,280 my own view is that it's no longer to our advantage. 717 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,480 And I think we're now going to have to give them something. 718 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,080 What? 719 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:56,160 A culprit. 720 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,600 To deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP. 721 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:04,640 We need to let them have a name. 722 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,280 Martin! 723 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:18,600 Michael. 724 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:21,880 Uh… 725 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,120 This… escalating situation 726 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,520 between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street… 727 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,240 - You can't say I didn't warn you. - Eh. 728 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,200 I think you know how seriously the Queen takes her responsibility 729 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,760 and how much she values the close relationship between the two houses. 730 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,840 Of course. 731 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,600 And… to see it… 732 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,960 well, compromised like this 733 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,880 as a consequence of your actions… 734 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:48,960 Wha... 735 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,440 What? 736 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,240 The fact is that the steps you took were completely unprofessional. 737 00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,240 Martin, stop it. 738 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,320 Impugning the integrity of the palace and of the Queen herself. 739 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,160 We know one another too well. 740 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,520 This is madness. 741 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,480 I hope we can rely on you… 742 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:12,720 to do the right thing. 743 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:28,400 Of course. 744 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:53,760 Michael. 745 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:08,520 "There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors. 746 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:10,520 A noble motto. 747 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:12,840 'I serve.' 748 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,000 I should like to make that dedication now. 749 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:17,840 It's very simple. 750 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,240 I declare before you all 751 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,400 that my whole life… 752 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,520 whether it be long or short, 753 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:28,240 shall be devoted to your service 754 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:32,000 and the service of our great imperial family 755 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,080 to which we all belong. 756 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,240 God help me to make good my vow, 757 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,960 and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it." 758 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,280 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 759 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:50,200 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 760 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:57,440 ♪ W'en mi jus' come to Landan toun ♪ 761 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,040 ♪ Mi use to work pan di andahgroun ♪ 762 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,880 ♪ But workin' pan di andahgroun ♪ 763 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,800 ♪ Y'u don't get fi know your way aroun' ♪ 764 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:09,880 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 765 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,040 ♪ Dere's no escapin' it ♪ 766 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,040 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 767 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,760 ♪ Dere's no runnin' whey fram it ♪ 768 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,400 ♪ Mi get a lickle jab in a big 'otell ♪ 769 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,880 ♪ An' aftah a while Mi woz doin' quite well ♪ 770 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,360 ♪ Dem staat mi aaf as a dish-washah ♪ 771 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,120 ♪ But w'en mi tek a stack Mi noh tun clackwatchah! 772 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,760 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 773 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,600 ♪ Dere's no escapin' it ♪ 774 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:44,720 ♪ Inglan is a bitch ♪ 775 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,480 ♪ Noh baddah try fi hide fram it ♪ 776 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,160 ♪ W'en em gi'you di lickle wage packit ♪ 777 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,360 ♪ Fus dem rab it wid dem big tax rackit ♪