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MAN: A few moments ago,

Buckingham Palace announced the death of

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral.

CHARLES: My life will, of course, change as I take up

my new responsibilities.

I, Charles, do become your liege man of life and limb.

REPORTER: The British press often casts him

as weak and a bit weird.

CHARLES: Now where have you all come from?

CREW MEMBER: We’re the Australian crew.

CHARLES: Bloody hell!

INTERVIEWER: Are there many contenders at the moment...

CHARLES: Contenders for what?

INTERVIEWER: For your hand in marriage.

CHARLES: No, no.

(clapperboard claps).

(crowd cheering)

WILLIAM: Lord Mountbatten helped him by providing a

secure weekend house for courting purposes.

CHARLES: I suppose I lead a fairly sheltered life.

I was chucked into a pond, and I either sank or I swam.

We’re not reacting quickly enough.

INGRID: We have an unwritten constitution;

he can’t meddle in politics; he has to be above politics.

INTERVIEWER: Some people have accused you of meddling.

CHARLES: Really? You don't say.

It's not so bad for me,

it's much worse for the girl concerned because she's

not used to dealing with the press, at all.

Please, no, it's too...

(Harry laughs).

CHARLES: I shall endeavor to serve you as I have

throughout my life.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: Oh, God, I hate this pen.

CAMILLA: Oh, look it’s going everywhere.

CHARLES: I can’t bear this bloody thing!

What they do, every stinking time.

♪ ♪

MAN (over film): So, to the picture for which

the world has been waiting:

the first official film record of the infant prince,

Charles of Edinburgh.

And now we’re privileged to show you the very latest

picture of young Prince Charming on

his second birthday.

MICHAEL: They’re not the same as any other family, because

they’re one of that very small group of families

that whatever they do is news

and is subject to public scrutiny.

INTERVIEWER: When did you first realize as a little boy

that you were heir to the throne and not just

an ordinary chap?

CHARLES: Um, I didn’t suddenly wake up in my pram

one day and say, “Yippee!” you know.

I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly,

that you get the idea that you have a certain

duty and responsibility.

I went to a hotel to have a meal.

And while we were waiting for the meal,

a lot of people were looking in the windows

from other windows.

And so, I thought,

“I can't bear this anymore” and went off somewhere else.

And the only other place was the bar.

Having never been into a bar before,

first thing I thought of doing was having a drink, of course,

seemed the most sensible thing.

And being terrified, not knowing what to do,

I said the first drink that came into my head,

which happened to be cherry brandy.

And hardly had I taken a sip when the whole world exploded

around my ears.

♪ ♪

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: Let the pictures be taken, sergeant.

You’ve got to let the pictures be done.

They can’t shoot through you.

INTERVIEWER: What about the Australian press?

Were they kind to you? Did they leave you alone?

CHARLES: We treated them in such a way that, you know,

one helped, one gave them the facility to take photographs.

And if one treated them normally and respectfully,

they went away very happily, saying,

“Thank you very much.”

Which I think is easier than, you know,

getting angry with them to begin with.

(camera shutters click)

(camera shutters click)

CHARLES: Now where have you all come from?

CREW MEMBER: We’re the Australian crew.

CHARLES: Australia? What next?

Bloody hell!

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

I think that I am quite a sort of private person.

I'm not prepared to just perform whenever they

want me to perform.

REPORTER: Will he pose for you?

PHOTOGRAPHER: Well, he says he won’t,

but I know that he does.

CHARLES: If I appear annoyed and fed up, it’s because I am.

REPORTER: We understand.

In fact, the story's on a respite and

we, we don’t want to appear to be harassing you.

(groans).

CHARLES: I’m sorry, it’s just,

it really does, you know, there’s a limit, I find,

to how long one’s patience can last.

I always think there's a camera now, always.

Wherever you are, there's somebody hiding behind

something somewhere.

And with these immense cameras now with these

huge lenses and magnification,

and you can sit a mile away and photograph

through windows and everything else.

And they do.

♪ ♪

It's clearly much easier to invent all this and

say that it's all come from some close friend or some member

of the staff or some,

you know, and it's all rubbish.

It's simply not true.

I've learnt over the years,

you know, to try and ignore it by,

by just not reading most of it.

Otherwise, you go bananas.

♪ ♪

(crowd cheering)

WOMAN over PA): Ladies and gentlemen,

his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

(gunshot).

ANCHORWOMAN: Prime Minister Keating has

expressed his disgust over an attack on

Prince Charles tonight.

REPORTER: A man ran out, firing what’s believed to be

a starter pistol.

(gunshot)

The prince held his ground.

The gunman was dragged away,

the prince resumed his seat and the concert continued.

WOMAN: Great pleasure in welcoming his Royal Highness

the Price of Whales.

ROBIN: The reports coming back from London are that

this has provided you with a new image,

a very approving sort of image.

I would...

CHARLES: Why do you listen to all this rubbish

that these people say?

It's not done for my image, for goodness sake!

What I don't understand is you're all gotta have some

angle on everything all the time instead of just treating

something as a part of life.

I mean, if you actually do things in public,

occasionally these things happen.

But I do see that if you are trying to produce a

rolling 24 hour news program every damn day of the week,

that you've gotta try and think of something to make

the news more exciting!

MICHAEL: You think what you would feel like if you

lived under the sort of glare that they live under.

It does create an awful strain.

♪ ♪

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TIM: Prince Philip's upbringing was in a sense, difficult.

His mother suffered a nervous breakdown when he was in his

early teens and his father went off to Monte Carlo and

he never saw him again.

So, he didn't have any serious role models as far as

parenting was concerned.

You know, this later came to be a bit of a handicap when

it came to bringing up Prince Charles.

SUSANNA: Gordonstoun, ghastly place.

It was all about being healthy and sportive and,

and it was awful.

JOHNNY: I actually saw one particular incident where

he was attacked playing rugby in the scrum.

And scrums are rough places anyway,

but I could see that they were pulling his ears,

and he got punched.

But the interesting thing is,

and it left a strong impression on me even at the time,

was that he was very stoic.

He never complained.

He didn't whinge, he didn't cry.

He didn't do anything that other people might have done

in the circumstances.

He just got on with it.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: I think probably my time in Australia,

funny enough, when I went for six months to school there,

had a profound effect on me because, I was,

I mean it may sound silly to you,

but I was chucked into a pond,

and I either sank or I swam.

I was determined I wasn't gonna sink.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: It was a very rigorous life.

It was tougher than Gordonstoun.

You had to go on expeditions every weekend into the bush and

you had two cross countries a week.

The first ones I had when I got there

were absolutely horrifying.

I mean, it was 90 degrees in the shade and flies everywhere.

Dust.

And you sort of ran around bunches of kangaroos and things.

I remember when I was at TImbertop having to go and

switch the lights out in the dormitories and

all I got were cries of “Pommy bastard!”

(crowd laughs and applauds).

WILLIAM: People in Australia as people in Britain did too,

acknowledged that the period out here had done him an

enormous power of good in terms of self-confidence.

CHARLES: It made me grow up very quickly.

I just happen to be one of those people who believes in

challenges because I think that through them,

you gain a sense of achievement.

JOHNNY: When he came back after he'd been in Australia,

you know, he did remarkably well.

And he ended up as head boy of Gordonstoun,

and then he went to Cambridge.

So, I think in some ways the Australian experience

really helped him,

and he found himself in Australia.

♪ ♪

PROTESTER: When is it time to get our country back?

To get independence and freedom for our people?

When is it?

When is it ever going to be right?

(cheering and jeering)

(overlapping chatter)

CHARLES: It is rather anachronistic and out of place

in this world which is perhaps somewhat cynical.

But I think it can mean quite a lot if one goes about

it in the right way.

To me, it’s a way of officially dedicating one’s life,

or part of one’s life, to Wales.

PETER: There are those that feel very strongly the

investiture of Prince Charles was an imposition on this

country of an English-born prince and taking the title of

Prince of Wales, which of course,

hadn't been held by a Welshman since the 13th century.

PROTESTOR: If you want something you have

to protest for it, don’t you?

This is nothing but a waste of money for this town.

♪ ♪

GEORGE: And he said to me, “Who are they?”

“Oh, they're protesters,” I said.

He said, “I'm going to talk to them.”

“Very unwise,” I said, “I don't think you ought to.”

“I'm going to talk to them.”

So all I said was, “Well, I'm coming with you.”

You know, he showed remarkable courage.

He wasn't 20 then.

He wasn’t 20.

He crossed the road started to chat with them.

They were laughing before he left them.

He's got a very great gift for disarming people.

It’s a marvelous gift for anyone in public life.

(crowd cheering)

CHARLES: And I think if I’ve learned anything during

the last eight weeks,

it’s been about Wales in particular,

and its problems,

and what these people feel about Wales.

You see, I think they feel so strongly about Wales as a

nation and it means something to them and

they’re depressed by, you know,

what might happen to it if they don’t try and

preserve the language and the culture which is very

unique and special to Wales.

And if something’s unique and special I see

it’s well worth preserving.

I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man

of life and limb and of earthly worship,

and faith and truth I will bear unto thee,

to live and die against all manner of folks.

IFOR: It’s now, after 550 years,

that we’re getting a prince who can speak to us

in our own language.

CHARLES (over PA): The words of your address have

certainly touched me deeply,

and I can assure you I have taken note of the hopes

expressed in them.

(crowd cheering)

CHARLES (over PA): My Lord Mayor,

thank you very much indeed, for the very kind welcome.

I apologize for keeping you all waiting.

EDWARDES: Well, I’ve spent my life like this and

I enjoy it so much.

CHARLES: Do you?

EDWARDES: Oh, I do. Every minute.

CHARLES: You don’t want to make money necessarily but

just enjoy yourself.

EDWARDES: No.

So long as I get enough to get food and the pleasures I want,

I’ll be quite happy.

Quite.

CHARLES: The people in the 18th century and so used to

plant a lot of trees, didn’t they?

EDWARDES: Yes.

CHARLES: I mean, trees do beautify the environment.

EDWARDES: Oh, they do.

♪ ♪

(helicopter rotors)

(helicopter rotors)

CHARLES: I like to see if I can challenge myself to do

something which is potentially hazardous,

just to see whether mentally I can accept that

challenge and carry it out.

I do think that a period in the armed forces is of enormous

value and benefit.

It certainly was to me.

Understanding people, human relations,

being responsible for other people's welfare.

And I learned an enormous amount from that.

McGREGOR: As long as he makes a good touchdown,

we've got it...

Beautiful, beautiful!

♪ ♪

CHARLES: And here I am showing just how adaptable a

sports commentator can be.

I love imitating and mimicking and I enjoyed it enormously at

school and university, the actual business of acting.

And I mean, I enjoy making people laugh if I can.

“Hello, hello, hello, I empty dust bins by taking the

lids off and lifting them into this cart.”

"Ah, those trumpets. I cannot stand those trumpets!"

If you're making a speech,

it's extremely useful if you can use acting techniques.

I mean, timing and double entendre and everything

is enormously helpful.

CHARLES (over PA): While in Florida recently,

I read in the newspapers, it must be true...

(audience laughs)

PENNY: He’s got involved with architecture, with education,

with urban regeneration, with rural regeneration,

with the environment, with conservation.

CHARLES: Do they make you go down pot holes and

things like that?

TEENS: Yes.

CHARLES: Rather you than me. I couldn’t keep...

DAVID: The Prince of Wales has launched many initiatives,

but none more far reaching than the Prince’s Trust.

CHARLES: I felt the most important thing was to find a

way of getting through all the red tape and the bureaucracy

and reacting quickly to these people.

Are you learning something?

TEENAGER: Yeah. Quite a lot.

CHARLES: Like what? TEENAGER: Business admin.

CHARLES: Are you?

You’re going to be able to start your own business,

are you?

TEENAGER: Yeah.

CHARLES: I don't know about you, but I want to see

Britain great again.

(audience applause)

I do belong to a system of constitutional monarchy,

which does not take stands on controversial

or political issues.

INTERVIEWER: The system would override the conscience?

CHARLES: Well, now that's a very difficult question.

CHARLES: I have to think carefully before

I say something.

Because as you know,

if I say something about a particular subject,

it could be possibly headlines the next day.

You have, ladies and gentlemen, to give this much to

the Luftwaffe.

When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace

them with anything more offensive than rubble.

We did that.

We cannot be anything less than courageous and revolutionary in

our approach to tackling climate change.

ANCHORWOMAN: Well, we now turn to a story that’s

getting a good bit of attention here in the UK,

some secret letters Prince Charles wrote to

government ministers several years ago are now

being made public after a long legal battle.

REPORTER: Over the years, the Black Spider Memos

have developed an air of mystery, so-called

because of Prince Charles' sprawling handwriting.

NEWS EXPERT: Critics believe that this could be

Prince Charles lobbying behind the scenes,

secretly influencing government policy in ways

that he will not be held accountable for.

ROSE: The letters have some asking if the prince

is overstepping his bounds.

♪ ♪

INGRID: I think it’s a big indication that Charles is not

going to shut up when he becomes king.

But we have an unwritten constitution;

he can’t meddle in politics; he has to be above politics.

INTERVIEWER: Some people have accused you of meddling.

CHARLES: Really? You don't say.

But I always wonder what meddling is.

I mean, I always thought it was motivating.

But I've always been intrigued if it's meddling to

worry about the inner cities as I did 40 years ago and

what was happening or not happening there,

the conditions in which people were living.

If that's meddling, I'm very proud of it.

♪ ♪

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REPORTER: You allow the public to get very close to you.

And in fact, two women have got particularly close to you.

Have you been offended by those kisses?

CHARLES: Come on, would you be?

CHARLES: I thought it was marvelous. I’m delighted.

I’d much rather have them kiss me, than slap my face.

MAN: Talking about the media,

Do you find yourself in a position where you need to

warn the girl about this before going out?

CHARLES: Yes.

They get used to it, of course, that's another thing.

Everybody does get used to things if they're

exposed to it enough.

But it may encourage, of course, the wrong type of girl

to, to rush forward.

Do you know what I mean?

♪ ♪

COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN: The pressure on Prince Charles to

find a bride came from within him as much as anywhere because

he would realize as the future king,

that he had to get married and produce heirs for the throne.

♪ ♪

WILLIAM: The Prince of Wales had this relationship so close

with Mountbatten that it made his father rather jealous.

Lord Mountbatten was supposed to have helped him by providing

a secure weekend house for courting purposes,

suggesting to the Prince of Wales that he

might well sow his wild oats before he was married,

but then what you had to look for in the way

of a bride in his position was this

virginal, perfect, unblemished,

wife who would be a good bearer of children.

INTERVIEWER: Obviously, a lot of interest in the young ladies you escort.

Does it become a question of balance with you,

about the interest that the media takes?

CHARLES: Yes.

The only problem, of course,

is it’s not so bad for me;

it’s much worse for the girl concerned because she’s not

used to dealing with press at all.

INTERVIEWER: Would you like to kiss Prince Charles?

WOMAN: Oh, yes. Definitely.

WOMAN: No, not really.

INTERVIEWER: Why not?

WOMAN: Well, he’s about old enough to be my father

I would say.

NIGEL: He’s not been able to develop relationships as

you and I have.

He has to romance a girl in strict confines, you know,

take her pheasant shooting or up in his helicopter.

And they’ve got to fall in love with him and be able to enjoy

his life in a very, very strict level.

They can’t go to the cinema and neck in the back row

or the front row.

They can’t do wild things in Hyde Park on dark nights.

WILLIAM: Every time he was appearing in public

with some young woman,

it was an immediate pounce by the media,

thinking that they might have discovered the next

queen of Britain.

And so his courtship, I think, was extremely difficult,

poor boy.

INTERVIEWER: Are there many contenders at the moment or is

there any one special girl and do you have,

CHARLES: Contenders for what?

INTERVIEWER: For your hand in marriage.

(laughs).

CHARLES: No, no.

There’s no one special one at the moment, no.

Contrary to what the press in England think.

ROBERT: Every single girlfriend that Prince Charles

started going out with was promptly examined by

the newspapers in really the most prurient way

to discover whether she’d had a real boyfriend,

meaning a boyfriend she’d been to bed with.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

CHRISTOPHER: It’s said that Camilla's opening gambit

was “My great-grandmother and your great-great-grandfather

were lovers...

So how about it?”

Who could resist such an invitation?

ANNA: Camilla was the love of Prince Charles' life.

Most people would agree that, you know, they are soulmates.

ROBERT: Poor Camilla's problem was sort of

Catch 22, and when she met Prince Charles,

she fell in love.

They went to bed together, but that sort of automatically

ruled her out as a future queen.

We told Prince Charles,

“Sorry, mate, you can’t marry Camilla because

she’s been to bed with you.

It sounds ridiculous. It sounds primitive.

And it was.

♪ ♪

ROBERT: Unfortunately, of course, for both of them,

Charles and Camilla, the emotional attachment remained.

And so, their love affair continued.

INGRID: A lot of his girlfriends had a past.

And we, the press,

knew that Prince Charles had to find, at that time,

definitely, find someone who had no past.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: I’m amazed that she’s been brave enough to take me on.

INTERVIEWER: And I suppose in love?

DIANA: Of course.

CHARLES: Whatever “in love” means.

DIANA: Yes.

INTERVIEWER: And I suppose in love?

DIANA: Of course.

CHARLES: Whatever "in love" means.

DIANA: Yes.

CHARLES: Put your own interpretation...

INTERVIEWER: Well it obviously means too very happy people.

Well, from us, congratulations.

DIANA: Thank you very much.

CHARLES: You’re very kind.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: People keep telling me,

now that I’m about to get married,

that the most successful marriages are the ones where

you have to make an effort.

And you can’t expect the whole thing to be lovely and

rosy and successful unless you do work at it.

♪ ♪

LORD CHARTERIS: I look back on the marriage of the

Prince and Princess of Wales as one of the greatest things

I’ve ever seen.

It was a tremendous feeling of excitement about it.

And it looked perfect.

I saw no clouds on the horizon.

I saw nothing but sunshine and happiness.

HUGO: They were, for a time, really completely a dream team.

They could have gone anywhere and done anything.

It seemed ideal.

And it’s very unfortunate that it all went wrong.

♪ ♪

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DAVID: He told me both about the television program.

And you know, as he told me,

every warning bell was sounding in my ears.

And I said, “Look, I really would seriously question

whether this was the right thing to do.”

It brought everything absolutely out into the open

so that there could be no pretense.

There was no curtain to be drawn,

and I think that had consequences for everybody

involved in it.

RICHARD: The most damaging charge that is made in relation

to your marriage is that you were,

because of your relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles from

the beginning, persistently unfaithful to your wife and

thus caused the breakdown.

What is your response to that persistent criticism?

CHARLES: There is no truth in so much of this speculation.

Mrs. Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine.

And she has been a friend for a very long time, and,

along with a lot of other friends,

and will continue to be a friend for a very long time.

JONATHAN: Did you try to be faithful and honorable

to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage?

CHARLES: Yes, absolutely.

JONATHAN: And you were?

CHARLES: Yes.

Until it became irretrievably broken down.

♪ ♪

JONATHAN: I think that by telling the truth,

in that very precise and narrow way that he did,

lanced a large and growing boil.

Just imagine what it would be like if the

speculation had continued, story upon story,

lie upon lie, piling up.

I think he got it out the way.

It was painful for everyone involved, I mean,

it must have been awful for him.

However, I think it was a courageous and honest

thing to do.

REPORTER: The wedding comes 35 years after they first met.

And following a relationship that helped

destroy the Prince’s first marriage to Diana,

Princess of Wales.

Reaction has been mixed.

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CHARLES: Brilliant.

I'd like to think I'd be the sort of parent who will not

tell my children that you ought to go there,

and you ought to do that, and what I wanna do is discuss,

I hope with my children, the pros and cons of things.

What is marvelous is to see them develop and, you know,

start to get good at certain things,

develop interests and all that.

You know,

it gives me enormous pleasure and satisfaction and pride.

As they get older, there are more things that perhaps they,

being boys, they can do with their father.

But I've always, you know,

mucked around with them a great deal.

I remember when William was tiny,

I used to, you know,

muck around with him as much as I possibly could.

(church bell tolls).

(somber music).

JEFFREY: I remember Diana saying to me once, uh,

pointedly, she said

what a good father he was and...

...what a very dedicated man he was...

...and how much she admired him.

INTERVIEWER: Around what time period was that?

JEFFREY: Six months before she died.

CHARLES: I'm unbelievably proud of the children,

William and Harry.

They've been quite remarkable.

And I think they've handled an extraordinary difficult time,

as I'm sure all of you can imagine,

with quite enormous courage and the greatest possible dignity.

INGRID: As soon as the funeral was over,

nobody watched television, nobody read any newspapers,

they just did things with dad, you know.

And suddenly the world could see that actually

they love their father, which they always did,

but it was always this feeling that maybe he wasn't

a very good father,

but he always was a good father.

And then he took Harry with him to South Africa.

And I think that was a turning point for Charles when

the press were on the plane, and they suddenly thought,

you know, “here is a grieving father who is like

any other grieving father.”

♪ ♪

PRINCE HARRY: There's a lot of stuff that I read and

there's a lot of stuff that obviously irritates me

and my brother and my father most as well,

as he is someone who tries to do his best the whole time.

But always has been continually criticized for all sorts.

You just get on with it, you can't really deal with it.

There is no way of dealing with it.

You just hope that the next day that it isn't in the papers.

♪ ♪

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ANNA: Over the years,

he's always said that, you know, on becoming king,

he would very much step into his mother's shoes

and absolutely understand the limitations of his position

as constitutional monarch.

JONATHON: Don’t look for guarantees.

He’s his own man with extremely strong convictions,

and he won’t stop short of letting the politicians know

what they are.

CHARLES: The idea somehow that I'm gonna go on exactly

the same way if I have to succeed is complete nonsense.

Because the two situations are completely different.

I do realize that it is a separate exercise,

being sovereign, so of course,

you know, I understand entirely how that should operate.

TOM: His challenge is enormous.

I think he will rise to the challenge because he’s been

preparing for it for 70 years.

This is his moment; this is when he can prove himself.

OFFICER (over PA): Three cheers for His Majesty the King!

Hip-hip!

SOLDIERS: Hurray!

OFFICER (over PA): Hip-hip!

SOLDIERS: Hurray!

OFFICER (over PA): Hip-hip!

SOLDIERS: Hurray!

(overlapping chatter)

♪ ♪

CHARLES: May I say what an enormous pleasure it is to see

so many familiar faces gathered in this room.

Being here today is rather like asking a pheasant to award

the prizes to the best shot.

(crowd laughter).

Speaking as a pheasant,

you’ve been wonderfully sporting shots,

because I've only got a few pellets in my backside,

and you haven't yet brought me down.

(audience applause)

Captioned by Cotter Media Group.