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MILITARY COMMANDS ECHO | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
This film contains some strong language | 0:00:11 | 0:00:18 | |
MUTED CHATTER ECHOES | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
CHOIR SINGS REQUIEM | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
# Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine | 0:01:19 | 0:01:28 | |
# Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine | 0:01:28 | 0:01:36 | |
# Et lux perpetua luceat ei | 0:01:36 | 0:01:45 | |
# Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine | 0:01:45 | 0:01:55 | |
# Et lux perpetua luceat ei. # | 0:01:55 | 0:02:06 | |
At last. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:12 | |
I needed room for thought to breathe. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
My life has been a lingering for the throne. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
Sometimes I must confess I imagined if my mother happ'ed to die | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
before her time - a helicopter crash, a rare disease. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
So, at an early age, I'd be in charge. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
Before me, years of constant, stable rule... | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
..but I am better thoughtful Prince than King. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
Potential holds appeal, since in its castle walls | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
one is protected from the awful shame of failure. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:05 | |
My wond'rous Charles, you did her proud, | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
for, as she would have liked, you never showed your pain. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
My whole existence has, like most of us, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
been built upon the ones who gave me birth. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
And now they're gone. That's it. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
First Dad. Now Mum. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
I'm alone. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:31 | |
Except for me. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
Ah, you're radiant. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
'Tis your gift, my dear, it's what you've brought to us - | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
a sense of fashion. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
Better hair, as well. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
I never thought I'd see her pass away. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
I felt the same. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
How are you, Dad? For soon, at last, you will be King. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
-Not soon. -Three months. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
Your father rules today. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
I thought the coronation marked the change. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
Well, you're right - officially, that is the case. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
But Britain cannot stand without a king or queen | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
for all the months it takes to organise a coronation. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
But surely, constitutionally speaking... | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
Oh sweet, my dear, we have no constitution. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
Instead tradition holds us to account. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
-Tradition, then... -Tradition holds that on the death of kings, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
or Queens, the next is monarch straight away. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
Your father ruled the moment granny passed. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
I might head off. If that's OK. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
Why? | 0:04:29 | 0:04:30 | |
Headache. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:31 | |
You really have to go? | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
It's not... | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
I mean, the whole... | 0:04:37 | 0:04:38 | |
I can't deal with all the chat. The people. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
It's important, Harry. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:44 | |
Yeah - the headache, though. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
We'll go and mingle with the crowds. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
A single round should be sufficient, then we're at the palace, yes? | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
But, Dad, you're shaken up. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
Perhaps we should take time to talk? | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
I'm sorry, it must wait - James wants us now. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
The Prime Minister's waiting. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
We'll see you later on. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
All right. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:09 | |
Prime Minister. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
Sincere condolences upon your loss. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
A loss, I think, that all her subjects share. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
Of course. We miss our Queen. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Your Majesty may not recall - we did decide for public reassurance | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
that you would leave with Mr Evans at your side, | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
the Crown and State, Prime Minister and King. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
Ah... Now we're here, I feel instead that I should remain... | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
aloft from politics, and walk with royals alone. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
I'm sure Prime Minister will understand. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
Of course. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
I'll go right now and... clear the way. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Such equal billing was a joy when Prince. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
To share the stage did spread attention out - | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
but now I'll rise to how things have to be. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
The Queen is dead, | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
long live the King. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
That's me. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
MUSIC: Blow Your Mind by Dua Lipa | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Come on, mate, it's better than moping about, eh? | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
There's a whole world of opportunity right there. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
Yeah. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
'sup, G? | 0:06:45 | 0:06:46 | |
You look like you've been raped by Primark. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
Yeah, I had to blend in. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
Thought I'd bag you a bona fide commoner as a surprise. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
She'll be here in a minute. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
She's, erm, distinctive. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
You should take your mind off things, you could, er... | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
-Coots! -..do a pleb. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
-Yeah. -Knob a prole. -Look, I'm not in the mood. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Approach a subject from a different angle, yeah? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
Here she is! | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
Jessica! | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
You're not joking, then. Invictus himself! | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
Er, yeah, look... | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
So is Charles really your dad? Or was it the other one? | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
The other one? | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
-Hewlitt. -Hewitt. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:25 | |
Cos you're very ginger. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
If you haven't done a test yet, then maybe you should, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
cos if Hewlitt was your dad instead, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:31 | |
you'd be out of the family, wouldn't you? | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Er, what? | 0:07:33 | 0:07:34 | |
Free of it at last. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
-Free of it?! -Dear, oh, dear. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
And why - why would I want to be free of it? | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
Cos you hate it. Don't you? | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
-No. -Not a clue! | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
He seriously doesn't, darling. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Yeah. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
Ever since you left the army, it's been all schmooze, Africa, sport. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
Very worthy but it screams lack of direction - and clearly, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
you hope it'll make you happy. But it doesn't. Does it? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
You're part of this big thing, but you don't get anything back. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
Just the drunken uncle. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
It's a trap for you, isn't it? | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
Your family. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
Er, what-what should I do, then? | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
I think it's time for you to tap out, darling. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
No, no, Coottsey... | 0:08:20 | 0:08:21 | |
Spencer. Someone wants you at the bar. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
Mate, you realise she's probably a socialist? | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
No, no. Come on. Not wanted! | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
So? What-What should I do? | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
You really want to know? | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Shall I be mother? | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Thank you, yes, that's kind. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
Good then, erm, how shall we begin? | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Er, today I thought we might commence by talking of a bill | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
about to land upon your desk that seeks the royal approval. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Yes? What bill do you mean? | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
To limit future growth and mass expanse of runways. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
-What environmental checks... -You must excuse me, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
much as this wants our attention, | 0:09:12 | 0:09:13 | |
I had assumed we'd start with, erm, something else. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
Well, of course. Whichever subject you would like. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
Your bill concerning privacy, | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
which sets restriction on the freedom of the press. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
The regulation of the press we feel is overdue... | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
Yes - I've, er, read the bill. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:32 | |
Well, erm... | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
Good. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:37 | |
You like this law? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
I absolutely do. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
You yourself must know the lasting wounds the press inflict. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
Unproven accusations, photographs obtained by theft, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
are daily 'splayed as front page news. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
You do not think a principle is here at stake? | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
There's something vital to our sense of freedom is being risked. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
Your Majesty, | 0:10:00 | 0:10:01 | |
of course I understand that view, and have myself considered | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
where the balance lay, but there is opinion that something must be done. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:09 | |
The law is what your people want. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
They want the leaders they elected | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
standing up and making choices they themselves cannot. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
They pay their taxes well, so we - or you - | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
may take the time to study hard and make the right decision on the day. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:26 | |
I know. I have - | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
and this is what we think. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:29 | |
I have to say it does surprise | 0:10:36 | 0:10:37 | |
that with the great intrusion they have made into your life, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
you'd have them left untouched like this. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
What of the pack of wolves that mercilessly did hunt to death | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
your late and much missed wife? | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
That's bold. So soon in our relationship. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
What's bold? | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
To utilise Diana. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
I'm sorry. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 | |
But, in fact, it's rare | 0:11:08 | 0:11:09 | |
to have to justify the passing of a law like this. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
I would have thought of all the victims, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
you'd feel the strongest something must be done. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
As a man, a father, husband, yes, I do. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
But that's not who we are when sat with you in here. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
Not just am I defender of the faith, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
but in addition I protect this country's unique force | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
and way of life. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
Politically our sway and influence are in decline | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
but still we demonstrate the way a just society should work - | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
judiciary, democracy and more - a low corruption rate. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
All those who hold the strings held to account themselves in turn. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
Your Majesty - thanks. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
I understand and say I will, if opportunity transpires, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
make sure I take your views into account. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
Perhaps we should move on to other things. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
It is the law on privacy that holds concern. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
And so I ask you tell me what, as my Prime Minister, you do intend. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:12 | |
The law is made, and passed. It is too late. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
My views, to you, mean nothing, then? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
Your views mean much, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
but on this subject, yes. I disagree. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
The public vote to choose the members of their parliament, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
and that's where decisions will be made. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
Not in this room between the two of us. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:36 | |
Then our weekly meeting's done. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
I should apologise if I've caused offence - | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
I simply wanted to explain my view. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:45 | |
And so you have. We'll meet next week. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
You recognise my guest. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
Mr Evans. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:52 | |
I reasoned thus - in case there did arise an accusation | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
that my vision here of left and right | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
was being tilted out of proper balance, | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
I will from now on make sure each week | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
I have the usual half an hour with my good Prime Minister, | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
but then give equal time for Leader of the Opposition, too. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
Mr Evans is a man of principle. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
But he does not like me, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
and has made explicit that he will not change a single thing | 0:13:18 | 0:13:23 | |
in light of what I say. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:25 | |
And if this is the case, then, erm, what am I? | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
My mother gained respect from what she'd seen. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
The Blitz... She sat with Churchill, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
and met all the most important figures of her years. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
But what am I? | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
It may not be too late to stop the law. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
But when I sign the bill... | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
If you sign the bill. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:52 | |
For surely that requirement remains your choice. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
A ceremonial right, not one to use. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
I hate to differ, but I think this strikes the heart | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
of why we have a Queen - or King. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
They are the check and balance of our land. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
I've long believed that we could never see a Nazi party | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
making British laws | 0:14:12 | 0:14:13 | |
because the reigning monarch then would stand his ground | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
and, being head of state, refuse to sign - | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
refuse to let the country lose democracy, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
and, doing so, provoke revolt. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
It's not our place. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Would do more harm than good. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Then not important. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
Write your name in ink, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
and un-amended let it into law. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
Thank you, er, Mrs Stevens. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
Your Majesty. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
# I who have died am alive again | 0:15:00 | 0:15:11 | |
# Today | 0:15:11 | 0:15:19 | |
# This is the birth day of life and wings. # | 0:15:19 | 0:15:27 | |
RAP MUSIC PLAYS | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
Hey, you're lucky - she doesn't usually put out much. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
Oh, yeah, actually we, we haven't done anything like that, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:28 | |
-just went out, had fun, so... -Yeah! | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
-All right, too late for tea. Got a seminar. -Right. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
Good to meet you. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
I'm Robert. Bob. What's your name? | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
Harry. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Harry. Right. Bye. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
Hey! | 0:16:57 | 0:16:58 | |
Erm, I was just...making some tea. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
Er, I'll, er, get the milk. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
You all right? | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
Yeah, great. Really great. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
God, can you believe it? | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
What? | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
Everything we did last night. Wetherspoons. Bowling. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
Dans Le Noir. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:22 | |
The restaurant where you eat in the pitch black! | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
They thought I was an estate agent. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:17:29 | 0:17:30 | |
This whole life! | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
I want more. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:36 | |
No-one's stopping you. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
A night, yeah, but I can't do this with my life! | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Why not? | 0:17:40 | 0:17:41 | |
It's not what I was born into. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
Then change it. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:50 | |
The world you were born into was paid for | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
by those people in Wetherspoons. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
You take money from their hard work | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
and you spend it on planes, and palaces, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
and, in your case, flights to Las Vegas. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
It's not your money to spend. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
Have you been to Las Vegas? | 0:18:06 | 0:18:07 | |
It looks boring. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
Yeah! Yeah, it is, actually. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
My mate Dee, she had her baby in this crap hospital. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
Shared ward, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:17 | |
pissed-off midwife, 20 mums. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
She puts on the TV, and what does she see? | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
Kate, your sister-in-law, with her perfect baby, | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
outside her private hospital. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:29 | |
Dee was like, "I paid for that. My taxes." | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
You're very beautiful. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
-Don't patronise me - listen to what I'm saying. -I am - | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
I know what you're saying, and I agree with it, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
but I'm adding, in addition, that you're beautiful, as well. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:50 | |
You know Bob wants nothing less than the abolition of the monarchy. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
Yeah, well, he should be more open minded. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
Well, imagine what he'd say if I got off with you. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Do you want to? | 0:19:05 | 0:19:06 | |
-What? -Get off with me? | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
Harry, I hate everything you stand for. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
Yeah, I know. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
Right, then. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:13 | |
Yeah. It's, it's just, you really look like you want to kiss me. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
Yeah, well, I don't. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
This is a mistake. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:40 | |
KNOCKING AT DOOR | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
Forgot his keys, probably. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
Wait, wait! | 0:19:58 | 0:19:59 | |
Yes? | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
Your Highness. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
Oh. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:07 | |
Apologies for interrupting. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
James Cadbury Reiss, press advisor to the palace. May I? | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
This is Jessica. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
-Hi. -Charmed. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
Your Highness. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:25 | |
Your grandmother, the Queen, recently passed away. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
The country's in a position very few people have experienced before. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
This is perhaps the most unstable moment the royal family will face. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
-So...? -So, perhaps a conversation should be had about... | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
..timing. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:43 | |
Your security are waiting outside. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
Goodbye. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
SHE SCOFFS | 0:20:51 | 0:20:52 | |
Wow. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
That, there, is why I'm never getting off with you again. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
Yeah. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:07 | |
I understand. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:11 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:21:15 | 0:21:16 | |
KEYS RATTLE | 0:21:19 | 0:21:20 | |
Can I call you? | 0:21:26 | 0:21:27 | |
Yeah. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
It's good of you to come and see us here. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:53 | |
It's so important that we meet like this. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
Especially now. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:01 | |
That as a family we have this time to talk. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
Excuse me. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:14 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:22:19 | 0:22:20 | |
When offered what he's wanted for so long, | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
I thought Dad would seize the moment and renew, to go greet the people. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
Instead, he stays inside, just reading books and bills. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
It isn't what I'd hoped. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:37 | |
Then why not talk to him? | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
Oh, Lord. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:42 | |
Oh...you're William and Kate. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
They said I was to wait here and soon the King would join. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
They didn't mention you were settled here, as well. I'll, erm... | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
-HE CLEARS HIS THROAT -I'll quickly go sit elsewhere. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
But, sir - you look so pale, distraught, you must sit down. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
I'd rather that than have you faint. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
You're kind to me. | 0:22:58 | 0:22:59 | |
So sudden? What's the cause? | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
You will forgive me if I do not give detail of my conference. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
It is a matter of some...delicacy. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
But if it causes such distress...? | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
Of course, we understand, and will not press on you. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
Perhaps some water? | 0:23:11 | 0:23:12 | |
Thanks. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
Must be something virulent indeed that does affect | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
the King as strongly as Prime Minister. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
Perhaps it is an illness passing round? | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
No illness, Duchess, no, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
a matter that need only trouble him and I for now. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
Please tell me what. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
Perhaps I might... | 0:23:34 | 0:23:35 | |
relieve the harshness of this mystery sore. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
In reading here, you mustn't tell a soul | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
what's written - or not written - by the King. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
Dear Mr Evans, water, | 0:23:49 | 0:23:50 | |
fetched and got by careful hand of Prince of Wales. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
Thank you. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
But, Kate, what on that paper makes that look | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
which from experience I know tends doom and fury | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
from your normally soft and poised face? | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
I take it this is not a fake? | 0:24:10 | 0:24:11 | |
It's not...for Charles has marked it there himself, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
and I as people's leader come to say this will not stand. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
He must allow this bill to pass, both signed and unamended. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
But, William, why would your father interfere | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
so crassly in the affairs of state? | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
My husband, what say you? | 0:24:30 | 0:24:31 | |
Nothing. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
Say more, for nothing comes of nothing said. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
My father's King. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
He may have reason that we do not know or understand, as yet - | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
but we, as son and daughter of the Crown, will only give support, | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
and leave dispute to those who have a stake in what is being argued on. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
Well, you have a stake. Much more than most. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
We will depart, allowing you to talk. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
The opposition with me agreed | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
that, even though they did not want this bill, | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
and would not have it law... | 0:24:57 | 0:24:58 | |
You've talked to Mrs Stevens? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
What said she? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:01 | |
The same. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
That you must sign. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
HE EXHALES | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
But of course she said I must. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
Your Majesty, have you thought what people will, when hearing that | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
you have reserved assent, be wont to do? | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
Division would result. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
I beg you, sir, let's talk some more as months and years go on, but... | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
here it is. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:28 | |
Perhaps you could just get your pen and sign the bill. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
You have not changed a word? | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
It is the same. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:56 | |
Were there solution evident that could enable both of us | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
to have our way and... take it in an instant. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
For I know you're acting out of conscience. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
That's right, and in good conscience I have thought | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
that, come the moment, surely I could sign. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
But when the pen approaches paper thus, | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
about to store forever my assent, | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
the pen dries up. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
My hand, it cannot write. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
For if my name is given through routine, | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
and not because it represents my view, | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
then soon I'll have no name, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
and nameless, I... | 0:26:45 | 0:26:46 | |
..have not myself. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
This is your role. You surely must have... | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
Not since the news was born | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
has Government and State been there allowed to use the threat of jail | 0:26:54 | 0:26:58 | |
to stop the presses based on what THEY deem is unacceptable. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
The Queen did not, in all her years bethroned, | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
face laws like this to pass. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
I do agree. For, in her time, she faced far greater revolution. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
When she lost an empire. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:11 | |
She oversaw the alteration from the unions, mines and factories | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
that stood for generations, | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
to a world that, Thatcherated, | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Reaganised, did place the profit higher value than the pride | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
belonging to the man who travels, day by day, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
upon the Clapham omnibus. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
And through all this, when laws arrived from those | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
prime ministers she hated, | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
doing things of which I'm sure she never would approve, | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
she still did sign. Respected all the votes | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
empowering those elect to make the law. She always signed. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
She always gave assent. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:44 | |
Well... | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
..I cannot. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
I'm sorry, sir, but if I leave this room without "King Charles" | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
imprinted there below, I cannot keep it secret. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
And in addition, I'll ensure this bill becomes the law | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
without your royal assent. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:32 | |
Redraft the law with changes | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
that defend the independence of the press and send it back, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:39 | |
and I will sign immediately. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
Your Majesty... | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
no. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:49 | |
You are sure that this is what you want to do? | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
Without my voice and spirit, | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
I am dust. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:14 | |
This is not what I want... | 0:29:18 | 0:29:19 | |
..but what I must. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
With the bill concerning privacy | 0:29:43 | 0:29:45 | |
and the statutory regulation of the press, | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
the King has unexpectedly refused to grant assent. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
And despite his knowledge that the royal assent is ceremonial | 0:29:51 | 0:29:55 | |
and not a tool, he has continued to withhold his pen. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
So, here I say, importantly, | 0:29:58 | 0:30:02 | |
that first we must defend democracy itself. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
I am speaking from the palace to you all... | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
reluctantly. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:12 | |
I had a hope my ministers and I could find a way | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
to circumvent a public feud like this. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
But, driven by my conscience, | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
I have declined to pass a law that would give Government | 0:30:23 | 0:30:27 | |
the right and power to restrict | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
what is acceptable to say in print. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
Once fragile politicians can, | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
whilst claiming public sensitivity, | 0:30:36 | 0:30:39 | |
go censoring what is writ or not, | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
it will be easier to govern as corrupt | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
than bother being held unto account. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:49 | |
And therefore I, who stand outside the rough and tumble | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
of expedience, do caution... | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
and ask they think again. | 0:30:57 | 0:30:58 | |
So far, they have refused. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
-..weight, influence to the shaping of the Government. -MPS: -Hear, hear. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:06 | |
So now do I, as King and... | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
servant to the populace... | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
..request your understanding and your trust | 0:31:14 | 0:31:18 | |
that this, a rare but necessary act, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:22 | |
is not me stepping too far from the throne, | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
but is my duty, and fulfilling what the king or queen | 0:31:25 | 0:31:30 | |
is sworn by oath to do. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
You're late. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:40 | |
Well, if you'd seen the news, perhaps you'd realised | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
I've been rather busy. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:44 | |
So, what's wrong? | 0:31:46 | 0:31:49 | |
Increasingly, there's stories in the papers about me and Harry. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:52 | |
I suppose they think that I'm a quite unusual match | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
because of class. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:56 | |
Yes, well, that's hardly a surprise. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
Three years ago, I knew a boy called Fin, | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
who was a dick, if truth be told. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:06 | |
But because we lived in different cities, did text our love. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:09 | |
I'm guessing where this goes. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:11 | |
One day, when I was in the mood, I had composed a text | 0:32:11 | 0:32:14 | |
expressing love and stuff, which then I sent... | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
..but now he contacts me again and makes a threat. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:21 | |
He threatens you with one small text? | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
Yeah, well, in truth, it did contain additional form. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
-You mean...? -Some pictures of myself that were artistic, yeah? | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
His e-mail said he'd seen the news, | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
and since I was so clearly after gold, he should have his. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
He said if I do not pay up, | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
he'd send the photo to the Sun on Sunday. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:42 | |
It's blackmail, so you could approach police - | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
but they, I warn you, leak like carrier bags, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
and have no love for matters Royal these days. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
If truly you wish to save the Prince, | 0:32:51 | 0:32:53 | |
perhaps you need to leave his side, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:55 | |
and so doing take from this man the power he now has. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:58 | |
If this was Harry or the King, you would do something. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:02 | |
You don't understand, miss, you are not part of the family. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
MOBILE BUZZES | 0:33:07 | 0:33:08 | |
HE SCOFFS | 0:33:08 | 0:33:09 | |
Of all the moments you could pick. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
Opinion polls suggest the people are divided almost equally | 0:33:37 | 0:33:41 | |
as to if my non-signing is within my rights... | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
..or not. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
But that half's far more than I expected | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
would agree with me on this. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:52 | |
Whatever many like to think, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
there is a wise and ancient bond | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
between the Crown and population | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
of this pleasant isle. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH | 0:34:03 | 0:34:04 | |
Charles, you have a visitor. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
Oh, not Mr Evans? No, I'm tired. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
It's Mrs Stevens. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:17 | |
I see. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:20 | |
Be careful. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
I do not trust her well. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:26 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
Your Majesty, please forgive how late it is. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:34 | |
I was not keen to draw attention | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
to the fact that we had a conference tonight. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
I'm sure you weren't, | 0:34:38 | 0:34:39 | |
since vocally you've been most critical of what I've done, | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
despite a week before assuring me of your complete support. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:46 | |
Forgive me, but all I think I did | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
was draw attention to your rights as King. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
A politician's tongue you have indeed. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
It's late. I'm tired. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
Cut to the chase. | 0:34:58 | 0:34:59 | |
Tomorrow, Mr Evans' bill is read | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
that makes it clear a law cannot be halted | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
waiting for the King's assent. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:08 | |
This bill will pass, and when it does, | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
the Crown will lose the right to speak forever more. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
So I had wondered what Your Majesty did plan | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
to fix this far erroneous course. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
Because, you see, the vote's tomorrow - | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
and I for one would not be happy | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
that the influence our monarch has is changed. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
Therefore, you think the better evil is take pen and sign | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
the wretched and corrupted bill? | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
It is not up to me to tell the King what he has privilege to do, | 0:35:32 | 0:35:35 | |
but if he needed inspiration, | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
he could mull how William IV | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
resolved a not entirely different situation. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:42 | |
William IV? | 0:35:44 | 0:35:46 | |
I just suggest you might research the past. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:53 | |
Your Majesty. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
# Lacrimosa dies illa | 0:36:18 | 0:36:25 | |
# Qua resurget ex favilla | 0:36:27 | 0:36:34 | |
# Judicandus homo reus | 0:36:35 | 0:36:43 | |
# Huic ergo parce Deus... # | 0:36:45 | 0:36:53 | |
You think I didn't love you. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:57 | |
It's not true. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:00 | |
Diana? | 0:37:01 | 0:37:03 | |
An indecisive man, | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
and oft so sad, | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
will be the greatest king we ever had. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:11 | |
# Lacrimosa... # | 0:37:13 | 0:37:21 | |
The greatest king? | 0:37:24 | 0:37:25 | |
SCREAM ECHOES | 0:37:28 | 0:37:31 | |
You're never up this early in the morn | 0:37:35 | 0:37:37 | |
unless for you it's still the night before. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:38 | |
I'm...I'm sure I heard a scream. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
So did I. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:42 | |
So like our mother's voice. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:44 | |
It freaked me out. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:45 | |
I've checked, there's nothing going on. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:47 | |
Well, that's the story of my life. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:50 | |
Once woke, I lay and thought, "I've had enough." | 0:37:51 | 0:37:53 | |
This appointed house we share is yours, not mine. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:58 | |
You will be King, Kate your Queen. | 0:37:58 | 0:38:01 | |
Even if our father's making waves, | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
at least he's allowed to choose his course, but I just... | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
chase your wake, a ginger joke, bereft of value. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
The way our father acts, the joke may be on all of us. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:13 | |
But then, I saw my phone and found that Jess had sent a text | 0:38:13 | 0:38:16 | |
which said she thought that it would never work. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
She would embarrass me. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:22 | |
From what I've read, I thought this Jessica did cheer your mood? | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
The two of you had fun? | 0:38:25 | 0:38:27 | |
We have, she does - and not just fun. | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
We have done things that most do every day but... | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
I assumed were not within my compass Royal. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
She has unblinkered me, | 0:38:43 | 0:38:45 | |
and op'ed my eyes. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:46 | |
The world is wider now, more depth and shape, but... | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
with this new perspective, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:54 | |
I do only seem more trapped... | 0:38:54 | 0:38:57 | |
by this, the family. | 0:38:57 | 0:38:58 | |
There will be girls to come, there've always been before. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
She's not just a girl. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:02 | |
And if our father's crisis black does shadow more, | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
I hope that I can turn, as I've always done, to you. | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
And you'll be there, already at my side, | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
the pact our mother made us make | 0:39:14 | 0:39:17 | |
as resolute as on the day was sworn. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
# Lacrimosa | 0:39:21 | 0:39:26 | |
# Lacrimosa. # | 0:39:28 | 0:39:34 | |
It's not too late. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
Just go at once and persuade your father of the damage he inflicts. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
-Catherine, I cannot. -You can. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
Since Mum died, he's wondered if myself and Harry | 0:39:52 | 0:39:57 | |
are more loyal to mother lost than to our father who survived and aged. | 0:39:57 | 0:40:01 | |
To question him on such a subject now, | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
when he, I know, will be embattled and besieged, | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
will in a second make him draw away. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
-Instead... -Your Highness? | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
The Prime Minister. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:11 | |
Thank you. Show him in. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:12 | |
Go back to bed and leave all this to me. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
I will not go. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:17 | |
For surely you'll be King some day - | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
but on that day I am as much the Queen | 0:40:19 | 0:40:20 | |
and I do not intend to be a silent partner in that regal match. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
Before, when sleeping, did you hear a scream? | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
A scream? What scream? | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
Good Mr Evans, what a kindness shown to come at such an early hour thus. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
I fear my family does cause you pains. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:43 | |
My lady, I cannot pretend that, yes, | 0:40:43 | 0:40:44 | |
my life would be a joy in recent weeks if Britain was republic. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:49 | |
Today, you still intend to call together | 0:40:50 | 0:40:51 | |
all the members of the House, | 0:40:51 | 0:40:53 | |
and then propose exclusion of the Crown from making law? | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
I do. Ideally, I'd preserve the role of the Crown. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:58 | |
But as things stand, I haven't got a choice. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:00 | |
Would you consider waiting for a week, | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
and giving time to let my father change? | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
Already, we have waited, and he changes not. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
What if William went at earliest hour to see his father? | 0:41:07 | 0:41:09 | |
-Kate, I can't. -What time's the vote? | 0:41:09 | 0:41:12 | |
It's 11 o'clock. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
I wonder if Prime Minister might have one more attempt? | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
See, I cannot think that if my father truly understood... | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
He comprehends it well. He will not sign. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
I have no choice. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:25 | |
My nervous future King, | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
it's not just him or you you risk | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
by sitting here and doing nothing thus - | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
it is our children, and their children hence, | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
and after that all generations Royal that are to come. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
They all do look to you, insisting you defend the Crown | 0:41:38 | 0:41:41 | |
against this fool's indulgence. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
It wouldn't change a thing. He is too proud. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
Then think not only of persuading him, | 0:41:47 | 0:41:49 | |
-but finding lever so he must agree. -What lever? | 0:41:49 | 0:41:52 | |
The fact that both of us command support | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
that near thrice outweigh the aged King... | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
and if we wanted might begin to itch in waiting for the Throne. | 0:41:57 | 0:42:01 | |
I will never step across my father's right. | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
I'm sorry it's come to this. I really am. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:09 | |
You did embarrass him. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:29 | |
DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE | 0:42:29 | 0:42:30 | |
My husband, look at me. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:38 | |
My love for you is full and as the moment that we met. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:47 | |
I do not think you weak at all, but wrong. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:51 | |
-Now, become the man I know you are and act. -I am not King. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
CLOCK TICKS | 0:43:24 | 0:43:25 | |
# Lacrimosa dies illa... # | 0:43:32 | 0:43:38 | |
RHYTHMIC CREAKING | 0:43:38 | 0:43:40 | |
# Qua resurget ex favilla | 0:43:40 | 0:43:48 | |
# Judicandus homo reus... # | 0:43:49 | 0:43:57 | |
William. | 0:43:57 | 0:43:59 | |
You're now the man I never lived to see. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:04 | |
Such pain, my son, such hurt. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
But now be glad... | 0:44:11 | 0:44:12 | |
..you'll be the greatest king we ever had. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:19 | |
# Lacrimosa dies illa... # | 0:44:19 | 0:44:29 | |
Long night, then? | 0:44:32 | 0:44:34 | |
I, erm... | 0:44:34 | 0:44:35 | |
I think I might quit my job. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:39 | |
Be careful about that... | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
way things are. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
I mean, we all have shit jobs, don't we? | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
Don't want to be rude, but perhaps your mum and dad can help you out? | 0:44:51 | 0:44:55 | |
My mum's dead. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:56 | |
Oh, right. | 0:44:57 | 0:44:58 | |
Mine, too. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:01 | |
I suppose everybody's mother dies one day. | 0:45:03 | 0:45:05 | |
Even the King. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:09 | |
His mother dies, he don't even cry. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:11 | |
Now what's that about? | 0:45:13 | 0:45:14 | |
Why do you want to quit, then? | 0:45:16 | 0:45:18 | |
I think I'm in love. | 0:45:18 | 0:45:20 | |
Hmm, pretty girl? | 0:45:26 | 0:45:28 | |
Yeah. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:29 | |
You going to run off with her? | 0:45:29 | 0:45:30 | |
Maybe. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:33 | |
Found that money yet? | 0:45:37 | 0:45:39 | |
Yeah, sorry. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:44 | |
Out of date now, innit? | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
You know, since she died, world's gone mad, I swear. | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
Every night, people have this look. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:00 | |
Bit like you. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:02 | |
And it's like they're terrified. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
They don't know where they live. | 0:46:07 | 0:46:09 | |
They don't know what Britain is. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
What do you mean? | 0:46:13 | 0:46:15 | |
Like this meat here. | 0:46:17 | 0:46:18 | |
It's not one thing. | 0:46:20 | 0:46:21 | |
Different pieces, different slices, | 0:46:21 | 0:46:24 | |
collected around one core piece of steel. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
But you take that away, it all falls apart. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:31 | |
Maybe she is what held it all together. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:36 | |
Where's this girl of yours, then? | 0:46:40 | 0:46:42 | |
She left me. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:45 | |
Do you love her? | 0:46:47 | 0:46:48 | |
Yeah. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:50 | |
Yeah, I think I do. | 0:46:52 | 0:46:53 | |
Find her. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:56 | |
-MRS STEVENS: -'I thank you, Mr Speaker, | 0:47:29 | 0:47:32 | |
'and because we know the facts upon the matter well, | 0:47:32 | 0:47:35 | |
'I will unusually be very brief.' | 0:47:35 | 0:47:37 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:47:37 | 0:47:39 | |
'There is a contract made between a man or woman and the State...' | 0:47:39 | 0:47:44 | |
Kate? | 0:47:44 | 0:47:45 | |
'..to which both sides must there agree, | 0:47:45 | 0:47:47 | |
'that citizen does have a voice and in return will keep the law. | 0:47:47 | 0:47:51 | |
'And so an intervention such as this which so removes the voice, | 0:47:51 | 0:47:56 | |
'but keeps the law is absolutely wrong...' | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
'Hear, hear!' | 0:47:59 | 0:48:00 | |
Not at the table. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:05 | |
-MR EVANS: -'I make assumption we all will vote in favour of this bill. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:19 | |
'We all here now have made a choice to come and represent | 0:48:19 | 0:48:23 | |
'constituents to have their say in this, their House, | 0:48:23 | 0:48:26 | |
'and give their weight and influence...' | 0:48:26 | 0:48:29 | |
Where is he? | 0:48:29 | 0:48:31 | |
He's upstairs. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:32 | |
He'll be down shortly. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:35 | |
Upstairs?! | 0:48:35 | 0:48:36 | |
Roberts said he was not to be disturbed. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
'..and now he oversteps...' | 0:48:39 | 0:48:41 | |
So we must act. | 0:48:43 | 0:48:45 | |
And not out of disrespect, but since we have no other choice | 0:48:45 | 0:48:49 | |
than to protect our democratic, British, way of life. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
ALL: Hear, hear! | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
And now by ancient process, on this most important matter, | 0:48:56 | 0:49:00 | |
we'll divide the House. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
THREE LOUD KNOCKS | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
We will divide the House and vote. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:16 | |
Ayes to the left... | 0:49:16 | 0:49:17 | |
FOUR LOUD KNOCKS | 0:49:17 | 0:49:20 | |
MURMURS | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
# Dona eis requiem. # | 0:49:30 | 0:49:44 | |
Empowered by ancient decree I do, | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
as King of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, | 0:49:52 | 0:49:57 | |
use my Royal prerogative here to dissolve the Parliament at once. | 0:49:57 | 0:50:03 | |
UPROAR | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
Order! | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
Order! Order! | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
Order! | 0:50:13 | 0:50:14 | |
Order! | 0:50:16 | 0:50:18 | |
I will have silence! | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
This noise demeans you all. | 0:50:23 | 0:50:26 | |
Is this the space where public will is spoke and heard, | 0:50:26 | 0:50:30 | |
or just a stand for juvenile and selfish squall? | 0:50:30 | 0:50:33 | |
Through petty theft, and fighting here amongst yourselves, | 0:50:33 | 0:50:36 | |
you've lost the population's trust. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:38 | |
I am not prone to certainty, | 0:50:38 | 0:50:41 | |
but you have drawn that measure in my unsure heart. | 0:50:41 | 0:50:45 | |
Unlike you all, | 0:50:47 | 0:50:49 | |
I'm born and raised to rule. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:52 | |
I do not choose, | 0:50:53 | 0:50:56 | |
but like an Albion Oak, | 0:50:56 | 0:50:58 | |
I'm sown in British soil, | 0:50:58 | 0:51:00 | |
and grown, not for myself, | 0:51:00 | 0:51:03 | |
but reared with single purpose meant. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
Whilst you have small constituency support which gusts and falls | 0:51:06 | 0:51:09 | |
as does the wind, my cells and organs constitute this land... | 0:51:09 | 0:51:15 | |
The speaker knows it is within my right, | 0:51:16 | 0:51:19 | |
to sack my ministers and call a fresh election. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
SHOUTING | 0:51:22 | 0:51:23 | |
Order! Order! | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
My speaker, will you here confirm to them | 0:51:29 | 0:51:31 | |
that what I do is well within my right | 0:51:31 | 0:51:35 | |
and anointed power to, as King, demand? | 0:51:35 | 0:51:40 | |
Your Majesty, if this is what you want, | 0:51:43 | 0:51:48 | |
then this you can, as King, command. | 0:51:48 | 0:51:51 | |
CLAMOUR OF VOICES | 0:51:51 | 0:51:54 | |
HE SWITCHES TABLET OFF | 0:52:01 | 0:52:02 | |
Where's Mummy gone? | 0:52:32 | 0:52:33 | |
Fresh air. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:36 | |
Cry havoc. | 0:52:57 | 0:52:59 | |
DOORBELL BUZZES | 0:53:27 | 0:53:29 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:53:29 | 0:53:31 | |
Jess! Jess! | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
Oh! | 0:53:46 | 0:53:47 | |
Bob, I'm sorry to wake you. I-I know it's late. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:50 | |
Did you got her text? | 0:53:50 | 0:53:52 | |
Yeah, I've been trying to call. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:54 | |
-Your Highness? -Yeah? | 0:53:54 | 0:53:55 | |
Fuck off. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:57 | |
CROWD NOISE AND HUBBUB | 0:54:06 | 0:54:11 | |
I had to find you. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:30 | |
You can't be out here on your own, you'll be lynched. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:32 | |
I'm not on my own. Terry? | 0:54:32 | 0:54:34 | |
Yes, sir. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:35 | |
That's how I found you. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:37 | |
-What do you want? -Jess, I... | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
I want to say, I...I love you. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:41 | |
What? | 0:54:45 | 0:54:46 | |
Jess! | 0:54:54 | 0:54:56 | |
They're just using this to get at my father. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:58 | |
Well, I don't want anything to do with any of it. Or you. We're done. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
Yeah, but I know you like me. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:02 | |
Mate, it doesn't matter. You're a prince. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
You always will be. | 0:55:06 | 0:55:08 | |
Come to the palace. There's a way this can work. | 0:55:11 | 0:55:15 | |
Please! | 0:55:15 | 0:55:16 | |
Ohh! | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
HELICOPTER WHIRS | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
The crowds! | 0:55:37 | 0:55:39 | |
You hear? | 0:55:39 | 0:55:40 | |
How many guards are standing there outside? | 0:55:40 | 0:55:42 | |
Please, have them tripled. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:43 | |
Your Majesty, these men in front are there for tourist ceremony, | 0:55:43 | 0:55:46 | |
not defence. | 0:55:46 | 0:55:48 | |
If it's your safety that concerns... | 0:55:48 | 0:55:50 | |
It's my preservation - and I know that will be served by what is seen. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:55 | |
The truth is that my greatest enemies | 0:55:55 | 0:55:57 | |
stand not within the crowd outside, but there, in Whitehall, | 0:55:57 | 0:56:01 | |
waiting for the slightest glimpse of weakness. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:03 | |
Sir Matthew, when timely pressed, | 0:56:05 | 0:56:09 | |
you'll need to know precisely where, to whom, your loyalty lies. | 0:56:09 | 0:56:14 | |
My loyalty? | 0:56:16 | 0:56:17 | |
Your Majesty, when we join the forces we all swear | 0:56:17 | 0:56:21 | |
that, come what may, we shall protect the King, and so we will. | 0:56:21 | 0:56:26 | |
SHOUTING | 0:56:31 | 0:56:34 | |
You're looking at me. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
Aren't you? | 0:57:06 | 0:57:07 | |
All the time. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
You think you know me? | 0:57:17 | 0:57:18 | |
Well, I know nothing. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:22 | |
Just a plastic doll, | 0:57:24 | 0:57:26 | |
designed, I'm told, | 0:57:26 | 0:57:27 | |
to stand embodying a male-created bland and standard wife, | 0:57:27 | 0:57:31 | |
whose only job is prettying the Prince, | 0:57:31 | 0:57:34 | |
and then, if possible, get pregnant with the royal and noble bump, | 0:57:34 | 0:57:38 | |
to there produce an heir... | 0:57:38 | 0:57:40 | |
..and spare. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:43 | |
But, being underestimated so | 0:57:44 | 0:57:48 | |
does mean I can observe and plan and learn the way to rule. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:51 | |
Of course I understand, Dad, but this goes way beyond... | 0:57:51 | 0:57:54 | |
For I will be a queen unlike the ones before. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:58 | |
My mother's dad was in the North a miner born, | 0:57:59 | 0:58:02 | |
my father came from Leeds, | 0:58:02 | 0:58:04 | |
both of them when young and inexperienced did risk their house | 0:58:04 | 0:58:07 | |
and all they had to try and make a business of their own. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:11 | |
But it's not just this stock I bring to these most distant regal realms, | 0:58:13 | 0:58:16 | |
but something more important and precise. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:19 | |
I have ambition for my husband, yes, | 0:58:21 | 0:58:23 | |
and I hope my son will grow the finest King - | 0:58:23 | 0:58:28 | |
but if I must put up with taunts, and make so public everything I am, | 0:58:28 | 0:58:34 | |
then I demand things for myself. | 0:58:34 | 0:58:36 | |
I ask no less than power to achieve my will | 0:58:38 | 0:58:43 | |
in fair exchange for total service to the State. | 0:58:43 | 0:58:47 | |
Yes, this is what, enthroned, that I will do. | 0:58:47 | 0:58:51 | |
Not simply help my husband in his crown, but wear one of my own. | 0:58:51 | 0:58:55 | |
How did it go? | 0:59:01 | 0:59:03 | |
He simply said the strength of public voice in strong support | 0:59:03 | 0:59:06 | |
did give him solace that he wasn't wrong. | 0:59:06 | 0:59:08 | |
This is answer clear enough to me. He's stranded. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:11 | |
So, what's your plan? | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
Your Highness? The Prime Minister. | 0:59:15 | 0:59:17 | |
The Prime Minister? | 0:59:17 | 0:59:19 | |
-I didn't ask him here. -I know. | 0:59:19 | 0:59:21 | |
Prime Minister. Please tell us latest news. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:28 | |
Last night saw violence across the country. | 0:59:28 | 0:59:30 | |
In Liverpool, in Oxford, | 0:59:30 | 0:59:32 | |
Edinburgh, in Belfast too. | 0:59:32 | 0:59:34 | |
But London is the worst. | 0:59:34 | 0:59:35 | |
-Prime Minister, I've seen what's going on. -And Parliament? | 0:59:35 | 0:59:38 | |
There is no Parliament. The speaker will not open the House | 0:59:38 | 0:59:41 | |
for he fears it is illegal as things stand. | 0:59:41 | 0:59:43 | |
So the members of Parliament do sit, | 0:59:43 | 0:59:44 | |
just as 400 years ago, in Westminster Hall instead. | 0:59:44 | 0:59:47 | |
Services are functioning well - schools, transport, health? | 0:59:47 | 0:59:49 | |
No, the schools are closed, doctors are stretched. | 0:59:49 | 0:59:52 | |
The bloodshed worsens every day we wait, | 0:59:52 | 0:59:54 | |
and while we in the House attempt to calm, | 0:59:54 | 0:59:55 | |
the King parks a tank in Buckingham Palace grounds. | 0:59:55 | 0:59:58 | |
Prime Minister, in private, I, of course, | 0:59:58 | 1:00:00 | |
whole-heartedly do give my support, but this is for Parliament to solve. | 1:00:00 | 1:00:03 | |
William, they can't! | 1:00:03 | 1:00:05 | |
Parliament is impotent. | 1:00:05 | 1:00:07 | |
The time has come to go and halt this mess. | 1:00:07 | 1:00:11 | |
Your Highness, you are the only way. | 1:00:11 | 1:00:13 | |
-And what am I to do? -You know full well. -I can't. | 1:00:13 | 1:00:16 | |
Then, sir, I think you will be Prince no more. | 1:00:16 | 1:00:21 | |
For none that follow will be King again. | 1:00:22 | 1:00:24 | |
George. | 1:00:24 | 1:00:26 | |
-Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! -George, come back inside, please. | 1:00:26 | 1:00:29 | |
I'm so sorry! He just ran away. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:33 | |
Go back inside, OK? Mummy and I are talking. | 1:00:44 | 1:00:46 | |
Prime Minister, go back to Number 10. | 1:01:07 | 1:01:10 | |
You can leave this to me. | 1:01:10 | 1:01:12 | |
I will bring an end to this unnecessary episode. | 1:01:12 | 1:01:14 | |
I thank you, sir. | 1:01:14 | 1:01:16 | |
For reasons you don't need to understand, | 1:01:23 | 1:01:26 | |
a picture made of Jessica that is quite intimate | 1:01:26 | 1:01:28 | |
has made its way into the pages of a national paper. | 1:01:28 | 1:01:32 | |
There is attack towards her worse than I have seen | 1:01:32 | 1:01:34 | |
against Kate, or me, or Mum, or you... | 1:01:34 | 1:01:37 | |
and now she wants to leave me, cos of this. | 1:01:37 | 1:01:40 | |
If I defend the freedom of the press, it's with the knowledge they | 1:01:58 | 1:02:03 | |
will never live up to a higher standard. | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
Naked girls, young boys will illustrate their pages, | 1:02:06 | 1:02:09 | |
and they'll make hypocrisy an art, | 1:02:09 | 1:02:11 | |
insisting that they stand chief moralist | 1:02:11 | 1:02:13 | |
while making cash as base pornographer. | 1:02:13 | 1:02:16 | |
I know this much. | 1:02:16 | 1:02:19 | |
So, all that we can do... | 1:02:19 | 1:02:21 | |
..is stand our ground. | 1:02:22 | 1:02:25 | |
For, if they're free to print this dirt, | 1:02:26 | 1:02:29 | |
then we have liberty, as well, to answer back. | 1:02:29 | 1:02:34 | |
So now you have my word, | 1:02:34 | 1:02:36 | |
you have the royal protection and respect. | 1:02:36 | 1:02:40 | |
Whatever we can do to help, we will. | 1:02:40 | 1:02:43 | |
You will be welcome in our family. | 1:02:43 | 1:02:46 | |
Wait, no, that isn't that we want. | 1:02:48 | 1:02:50 | |
Come, Harry, now it's done. | 1:02:50 | 1:02:53 | |
I do not want her noble princess made. | 1:02:53 | 1:02:56 | |
Instead descend myself into the mass, | 1:02:56 | 1:02:59 | |
cast off the princely burden of my birth | 1:02:59 | 1:03:02 | |
and for my life be Harry, man and friend, | 1:03:02 | 1:03:07 | |
with job, and house | 1:03:07 | 1:03:10 | |
and car and maybe wife. | 1:03:10 | 1:03:12 | |
It isn't possible. | 1:03:12 | 1:03:14 | |
We make no fuss 'cept that I've moved, found work. | 1:03:14 | 1:03:17 | |
I'll have no role official and not prince, | 1:03:17 | 1:03:19 | |
I'll live a life of normalcy, within this country, | 1:03:19 | 1:03:22 | |
rather than atop the mound, unearned and with a target on my back. | 1:03:22 | 1:03:27 | |
You would not be a prince?! | 1:03:27 | 1:03:29 | |
I'd be...your son, | 1:03:29 | 1:03:34 | |
but, no - my love for Jessica comes first. | 1:03:34 | 1:03:38 | |
Because like you, | 1:03:38 | 1:03:39 | |
I don't believe that born a prince must mean I sacrifice my soul. | 1:03:39 | 1:03:43 | |
Dissimilarity, it seems, does make a match. | 1:03:50 | 1:03:53 | |
So, Harry... | 1:03:53 | 1:03:57 | |
..yes. | 1:03:58 | 1:04:00 | |
You may do as you wish. | 1:04:01 | 1:04:04 | |
Sir, whatever you may do, | 1:04:04 | 1:04:07 | |
this story is distraction when the Crown itself is in dispute. | 1:04:07 | 1:04:11 | |
The people need to hear from you. | 1:04:11 | 1:04:13 | |
As we discussed, despite your reservations, | 1:04:13 | 1:04:16 | |
you must now go and meet the press. | 1:04:16 | 1:04:18 | |
Excuse me. | 1:04:18 | 1:04:20 | |
OK? | 1:04:23 | 1:04:24 | |
OK. | 1:04:28 | 1:04:29 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 1:04:30 | 1:04:32 | |
William! I didn't know you would be here. | 1:04:47 | 1:04:50 | |
We'll always serve the interests of the Crown. | 1:04:50 | 1:04:52 | |
As family, we should be seen as one. | 1:04:52 | 1:04:55 | |
James says it's what they will expect of us. | 1:04:55 | 1:04:57 | |
It was James persuaded you to come? | 1:04:57 | 1:04:59 | |
It was in conversation, yes. | 1:04:59 | 1:05:01 | |
I don't know how to thank you, James. | 1:05:01 | 1:05:03 | |
It will be now with pride and strength of clan | 1:05:03 | 1:05:06 | |
I stand my ground and state my case. | 1:05:06 | 1:05:08 | |
As always, James, you've thought of everything. | 1:05:08 | 1:05:10 | |
The picture here like this is now complete. | 1:05:10 | 1:05:13 | |
The family will be my backdrop and the news will say, | 1:05:13 | 1:05:16 | |
the country's safe, and clear united. | 1:05:16 | 1:05:20 | |
Ah, no photos yet, please. Good morning. | 1:05:22 | 1:05:24 | |
As you know, we've only got about 20 minutes. | 1:05:24 | 1:05:26 | |
So, erm, His Highness will say a few words. | 1:05:26 | 1:05:29 | |
Then we can do some set-ups afterwards. Thank you. | 1:05:29 | 1:05:31 | |
Good afternoon. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:37 | |
Gosh, there's quite a few of you - | 1:05:39 | 1:05:41 | |
but thank you all for coming here today. | 1:05:41 | 1:05:43 | |
My wife and I have been so shocked | 1:05:43 | 1:05:45 | |
by scenes unfolding here and overseas. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
My father has, through noble conscience said, | 1:05:47 | 1:05:50 | |
as is his right, he will withhold assent - | 1:05:50 | 1:05:52 | |
and furthermore, as is legal, too, he has dismissed elected government. | 1:05:52 | 1:05:57 | |
Of course, this has resulted in disquiet. | 1:05:57 | 1:05:59 | |
Not just in homes | 1:05:59 | 1:06:01 | |
and streets, or in the House, | 1:06:01 | 1:06:03 | |
but in our family, too. | 1:06:03 | 1:06:05 | |
My wife and I respect my father's choices, | 1:06:07 | 1:06:09 | |
but do wish this could have been avoided, | 1:06:09 | 1:06:12 | |
and so, today, I do announce that I, as Prince Of Wales, | 1:06:12 | 1:06:17 | |
from now will try to mediate between the King and the House of Commons. | 1:06:17 | 1:06:24 | |
I am convinced there is a way to move on this, | 1:06:24 | 1:06:26 | |
without the need for further violence, | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
and respecting both democracy | 1:06:29 | 1:06:31 | |
and the ancient British power of anointed King. | 1:06:31 | 1:06:36 | |
I have my father's blessing in this role. | 1:06:38 | 1:06:41 | |
He is as keen as I am to see an end | 1:06:41 | 1:06:44 | |
to this destructive and divisive time. | 1:06:44 | 1:06:47 | |
I'm also lucky to have Catherine, too. | 1:06:47 | 1:06:50 | |
For all of this was actually her idea. | 1:06:50 | 1:06:53 | |
Turns out she's cleverer than all of us. She'll sort us out. | 1:06:53 | 1:06:56 | |
CAMERAS CLICK AND PRESS SHOUT | 1:07:02 | 1:07:04 | |
Your Majesty, sir, I want to explain. | 1:07:12 | 1:07:14 | |
You knew what William would say to them?! | 1:07:14 | 1:07:16 | |
Indeed. I made it possible for him to speak. | 1:07:17 | 1:07:19 | |
You're surely not intending still to work for me, | 1:07:19 | 1:07:22 | |
not after treachery like this? | 1:07:22 | 1:07:24 | |
Your son has offered me employment. | 1:07:24 | 1:07:26 | |
I hope you fail in everything you do! | 1:07:32 | 1:07:37 | |
Prime Minister. | 1:07:42 | 1:07:44 | |
SHOUTING AND JEERING | 1:07:44 | 1:07:46 | |
Unjust. | 1:07:48 | 1:07:50 | |
Unkind. | 1:07:53 | 1:07:55 | |
Unruly mob! But wait. What's this? | 1:07:56 | 1:08:01 | |
There's now no tank, there's now no men! | 1:08:03 | 1:08:07 | |
Some loyalty! | 1:08:09 | 1:08:11 | |
Roberts! Roberts! | 1:08:11 | 1:08:16 | |
William, where's Roberts gone? | 1:08:27 | 1:08:31 | |
I said to take an hour off. | 1:08:31 | 1:08:34 | |
You said? | 1:08:34 | 1:08:35 | |
That's right, Your Majesty. | 1:08:35 | 1:08:37 | |
"Your Majesty"? But William, it's me. | 1:08:37 | 1:08:40 | |
Despite the horrid things you've done, it's me. | 1:08:40 | 1:08:44 | |
So call me Dad, or Father, if you like, but not Your Majesty, | 1:08:44 | 1:08:47 | |
like all the rest. | 1:08:47 | 1:08:49 | |
I call you that for that is what you are. Before my father, | 1:08:49 | 1:08:51 | |
long before all else you are the King, and that's to whom I speak. | 1:08:51 | 1:08:55 | |
But William, come look at this, a book... | 1:08:55 | 1:08:57 | |
You think too much on books and history. | 1:08:57 | 1:08:59 | |
But what is power held if never used? | 1:08:59 | 1:09:02 | |
Our duty's not to simply sit indoors and hope things get resolved, | 1:09:02 | 1:09:05 | |
but to engage all parties and attempt to find a way... | 1:09:05 | 1:09:07 | |
"Engage all parties"?! King's no such duty. | 1:09:07 | 1:09:10 | |
Duty royal. Shared amongst us all. | 1:09:10 | 1:09:12 | |
I do not request your counsel! | 1:09:12 | 1:09:14 | |
Instead it is support, expected, and support that you must give. | 1:09:14 | 1:09:18 | |
You should apologise for such betrayal! | 1:09:18 | 1:09:21 | |
But I'll put it down to youth, and nerves. | 1:09:23 | 1:09:26 | |
Now help me and go fetch good Roberts here. | 1:09:26 | 1:09:28 | |
The tank was still remiss, | 1:09:28 | 1:09:30 | |
and all those guards Sir Matthew kindly put in place have gone. | 1:09:30 | 1:09:34 | |
I know. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:35 | |
You know? | 1:09:38 | 1:09:40 | |
What do you mean, you know? | 1:09:41 | 1:09:43 | |
Sir Matthew came to Kensington. We spoke. | 1:09:43 | 1:09:46 | |
I said with the unrest and violence | 1:09:47 | 1:09:49 | |
that has spread across the country we should not be stoking it | 1:09:49 | 1:09:52 | |
with these provocative militaristic shows. | 1:09:52 | 1:09:54 | |
And what said he? | 1:09:54 | 1:09:56 | |
That it was not a show, | 1:09:56 | 1:09:57 | |
and that he had in consultation here with you agreed | 1:09:57 | 1:09:59 | |
it was important that the palace is defended | 1:09:59 | 1:10:01 | |
from attacks within the crowd. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:02 | |
Exactly, you should not have questioned it! | 1:10:02 | 1:10:04 | |
Having heard his answer I went on that in an hour | 1:10:04 | 1:10:07 | |
I'll drive straight down The Mall and enter through the guarded gates. | 1:10:07 | 1:10:11 | |
I then intend to go around the yard and if, I said, there is a tank, | 1:10:11 | 1:10:14 | |
I'll ask the men in blue that they do move it off | 1:10:14 | 1:10:17 | |
because it is a danger | 1:10:17 | 1:10:18 | |
having such a deadly weapon aimed towards the crowd. | 1:10:18 | 1:10:22 | |
And when as promised I drove down The Mall, police on either side, | 1:10:27 | 1:10:33 | |
expecting that the crowd would see me and attack the car, | 1:10:33 | 1:10:36 | |
instead they saw who steered and parted there to let us through. | 1:10:36 | 1:10:43 | |
And as we went between the mob, a silence briefly fell upon them all. | 1:10:43 | 1:10:49 | |
It was most strange. | 1:10:50 | 1:10:53 | |
They stopped and watched us go... | 1:10:53 | 1:10:57 | |
..and as the gates did close behind us, | 1:11:03 | 1:11:05 | |
one girl called out, | 1:11:05 | 1:11:08 | |
"You tell him, Will" | 1:11:08 | 1:11:10 | |
And so I must. | 1:11:12 | 1:11:14 | |
Must tell me...what? | 1:11:15 | 1:11:20 | |
You can't go back from your decision now. | 1:11:20 | 1:11:22 | |
Agreed, retreating now would be the end. | 1:11:22 | 1:11:25 | |
And yet you can't progress, | 1:11:25 | 1:11:26 | |
-the Parliament will never hold elections as you wish. -We'll see! | 1:11:26 | 1:11:29 | |
So I propose on coronation day, | 1:11:29 | 1:11:31 | |
we have two thrones upon the dais placed, and sat on cushions | 1:11:31 | 1:11:34 | |
next to them are two crowns awaiting royal heads to rest. | 1:11:34 | 1:11:37 | |
Two thrones, two crowns? | 1:11:37 | 1:11:39 | |
It is not possible for Britain and the Commonwealth to have, | 1:11:39 | 1:11:43 | |
as you suggest, two Kings in tandem rule. | 1:11:43 | 1:11:46 | |
No, not two Kings. A King and Queen. | 1:11:46 | 1:11:49 | |
Oh, you mean Camilla? | 1:11:49 | 1:11:51 | |
Oh, oft we have discussed... | 1:11:51 | 1:11:53 | |
Camilla, no. | 1:11:53 | 1:11:55 | |
Then what DO you intend? | 1:11:58 | 1:12:00 | |
Cos if it's what I think | 1:12:02 | 1:12:04 | |
then you must speak the words of treachery yourself | 1:12:04 | 1:12:07 | |
and shank your father with a full and clear betrayal. | 1:12:07 | 1:12:11 | |
I mean myself and Kate are crowned instead. | 1:12:11 | 1:12:14 | |
And what of me? | 1:12:16 | 1:12:19 | |
I simply stand aside? | 1:12:19 | 1:12:24 | |
You offer...abdication | 1:12:24 | 1:12:28 | |
and explain since taking on the role, | 1:12:28 | 1:12:32 | |
you've felt your age. | 1:12:32 | 1:12:34 | |
There's something in your face I recognise. | 1:12:35 | 1:12:38 | |
It was Diana... | 1:12:41 | 1:12:43 | |
where I saw it last, and I had hoped that it had died with her. | 1:12:43 | 1:12:47 | |
But here it is, in you, ambition lurks! | 1:12:47 | 1:12:50 | |
I'm proud of that ambition, | 1:12:50 | 1:12:52 | |
I'm proud of her... | 1:12:52 | 1:12:54 | |
who, plucked so young, before she knew the world, | 1:12:54 | 1:12:57 | |
and thrust into a den of lions keen for meat, was given no protection. | 1:12:57 | 1:13:02 | |
You cast my mum aside, discarded and destroyed her by repute. | 1:13:02 | 1:13:07 | |
No, I loved your mother at the time | 1:13:07 | 1:13:08 | |
and did my very best to make sure you weren't harmed! | 1:13:08 | 1:13:11 | |
And that will be your tombstone - "I did my best. At least I tried." | 1:13:11 | 1:13:14 | |
That's a plea for effort rather than effect - | 1:13:14 | 1:13:16 | |
and that is you as husband, you as son, as father, too, | 1:13:16 | 1:13:20 | |
and now as King. | 1:13:20 | 1:13:21 | |
But all our sympathy is withered up and dry. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:23 | |
This is a job. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:25 | |
You should've got it right and you did not. | 1:13:25 | 1:13:28 | |
Be careful what you say. | 1:13:28 | 1:13:30 | |
You've always had my total love. | 1:13:32 | 1:13:34 | |
I will not abdicate! | 1:13:36 | 1:13:39 | |
I will not abdicate! | 1:13:41 | 1:13:44 | |
Ungrateful boy! | 1:13:44 | 1:13:46 | |
I'll never give the Crown away. For me it's duty and my calling, | 1:13:46 | 1:13:49 | |
things to do! | 1:13:49 | 1:13:50 | |
I know, don't ask me how, | 1:13:50 | 1:13:55 | |
that I will be the greatest king of all. | 1:13:55 | 1:14:01 | |
The greatest king?! | 1:14:02 | 1:14:03 | |
And so you shall. | 1:14:06 | 1:14:07 | |
For when they write the history books about this | 1:14:10 | 1:14:12 | |
they will tell stories crisis-like | 1:14:12 | 1:14:14 | |
about the stormy days after the Queen had died | 1:14:14 | 1:14:16 | |
and how for weeks you contemplated hard | 1:14:16 | 1:14:18 | |
upon the right and proper thing to do, | 1:14:18 | 1:14:20 | |
and, in the end, decided for the good of all your people | 1:14:20 | 1:14:23 | |
and their long-term happiness you would selflessly stand aside | 1:14:23 | 1:14:27 | |
and pass it on, to younger hands, | 1:14:27 | 1:14:30 | |
more popular and with more time to reign. | 1:14:30 | 1:14:34 | |
I will be King as ruler, not as doormat stepped across. | 1:14:34 | 1:14:39 | |
No, go! | 1:14:40 | 1:14:41 | |
I don't want to see you here! | 1:14:41 | 1:14:43 | |
Your Majesty... | 1:14:45 | 1:14:46 | |
..this is a sorry day, but if you cannot sign the law | 1:14:52 | 1:14:57 | |
you must make way for one who can. | 1:14:57 | 1:15:00 | |
I have brought here a document to state official abdication, | 1:15:00 | 1:15:03 | |
so we can achieve a common goal - stability. | 1:15:03 | 1:15:08 | |
Who made this thing? | 1:15:08 | 1:15:10 | |
The civil service drew it up today. | 1:15:10 | 1:15:11 | |
And printed out in haste - there are mistakes in spelling! | 1:15:11 | 1:15:14 | |
Will you sign? | 1:15:14 | 1:15:15 | |
I will not! | 1:15:18 | 1:15:20 | |
What's that document you're holding there? | 1:15:27 | 1:15:29 | |
You must do nothing till we have consulted with the experts | 1:15:32 | 1:15:35 | |
on the constitution. | 1:15:35 | 1:15:38 | |
I thought it Harry that was wild, | 1:15:38 | 1:15:41 | |
but you have now by far surpassed his worst excess. | 1:15:41 | 1:15:46 | |
A vile and nasty child. | 1:15:46 | 1:15:49 | |
I realise you and Catherine are the king and queen of column inches | 1:15:50 | 1:15:55 | |
but you're just a duke and duchess here! | 1:15:55 | 1:15:58 | |
The King is King! He will not sign. | 1:15:58 | 1:16:02 | |
Your thin opinion of us demonstrates how out of touch you are, | 1:16:02 | 1:16:06 | |
and jealous, too. | 1:16:06 | 1:16:07 | |
Our looks don't make us cruel, our youth is not an ignorance, | 1:16:07 | 1:16:10 | |
and detail in the way we dress should not be thought as vanity, | 1:16:10 | 1:16:13 | |
but as part of the substance only we provide. | 1:16:13 | 1:16:16 | |
Our column inches are the greatest influence we possess. | 1:16:16 | 1:16:19 | |
Majesty, sign - and bring an end to all this. | 1:16:25 | 1:16:30 | |
DOOR OPENS | 1:16:30 | 1:16:32 | |
My son, your loyalty! | 1:16:37 | 1:16:41 | |
The people turn to William. | 1:16:47 | 1:16:48 | |
This is the only way. | 1:16:53 | 1:16:55 | |
I am convinced. | 1:16:55 | 1:16:57 | |
Harry. | 1:16:57 | 1:16:59 | |
My boys. My little boys. | 1:17:02 | 1:17:07 | |
CHARLES SNIFFLES | 1:17:07 | 1:17:09 | |
Of course you're scared. | 1:17:09 | 1:17:11 | |
But I know what I do, so sit, let's talk. | 1:17:11 | 1:17:15 | |
We'll sit and be your sons. | 1:17:15 | 1:17:18 | |
But first you abdicate. | 1:17:20 | 1:17:22 | |
And if I don't... | 1:17:22 | 1:17:23 | |
Then we will leave. Yes, us, and Kate, the children. Family all. | 1:17:23 | 1:17:28 | |
You will not see us till you change your mind. | 1:17:28 | 1:17:30 | |
I will not see my sons? | 1:17:30 | 1:17:32 | |
Or grandchildren, too? | 1:17:38 | 1:17:40 | |
I cannot live alone. | 1:17:44 | 1:17:46 | |
You're not alone. And even if you were, | 1:17:46 | 1:17:50 | |
well, better that than father-servant to your shallow sons. | 1:17:50 | 1:17:55 | |
I cannot live alone. | 1:18:06 | 1:18:10 | |
HE CRIES | 1:18:39 | 1:18:41 | |
It's done. The King is at an end. | 1:19:02 | 1:19:07 | |
I will retreat to bed, and when I wake to a new dawn, | 1:19:11 | 1:19:18 | |
I'll simply be an old forgotten gardener, | 1:19:18 | 1:19:21 | |
who potters round and talks to plants and chuckles to himself. | 1:19:21 | 1:19:27 | |
Whilst far away the King and Queen do rule | 1:19:29 | 1:19:35 | |
over a golden age of monarchy | 1:19:35 | 1:19:39 | |
that bothers no-one, does no good, | 1:19:39 | 1:19:44 | |
and is a pretty, plastic picture | 1:19:44 | 1:19:48 | |
with no meaning! | 1:19:48 | 1:19:51 | |
Sorry, ma'am, your name doesn't appear on the list. | 1:21:37 | 1:21:40 | |
What? | 1:21:40 | 1:21:41 | |
Miss Jessica... | 1:21:41 | 1:21:43 | |
Thank you. | 1:21:46 | 1:21:47 | |
Why do you seem so lost? | 1:21:47 | 1:21:49 | |
The seating plan, my name does not appear. | 1:21:49 | 1:21:52 | |
You're sure the Prince did make his invitation known? | 1:21:52 | 1:21:55 | |
Perhaps it would be best, to find out from the man himself. | 1:21:55 | 1:21:58 | |
Oh, here he comes, so handsome in his uniform. | 1:21:58 | 1:22:02 | |
Here's Jessica, who seems omitted from the seating plan. | 1:22:02 | 1:22:06 | |
Perhaps you'll know a little more about this than I. | 1:22:06 | 1:22:09 | |
Are you all right? | 1:22:12 | 1:22:14 | |
You'll not attend today. | 1:22:19 | 1:22:21 | |
As William And Kate are crowned, you'll have to watch outside. | 1:22:22 | 1:22:25 | |
Outside? But why? | 1:22:25 | 1:22:28 | |
Harry? | 1:22:30 | 1:22:31 | |
My brother, talking with his wife, and close advisors, | 1:22:33 | 1:22:38 | |
feels it would be best you not attend. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:40 | |
You are too big a risk to what he needs - stability. | 1:22:40 | 1:22:42 | |
But that's not... | 1:22:42 | 1:22:44 | |
And furthermore... | 1:22:44 | 1:22:45 | |
..he's asked me personally if I would stop all contact with you | 1:22:46 | 1:22:49 | |
and resume the way I was before, | 1:22:49 | 1:22:51 | |
a singleton, amusing, mostly clownish and unthreatening. | 1:22:51 | 1:22:54 | |
I hope you quickly told him where to go. | 1:22:54 | 1:22:56 | |
He's now the King. | 1:22:56 | 1:22:58 | |
So King can tell you who to love and what to feel? | 1:22:58 | 1:23:00 | |
-The King is dictator of your heart? -My heart was made by King. | 1:23:00 | 1:23:03 | |
If I betray allegiance, then the little that I am is gone. | 1:23:05 | 1:23:08 | |
If you loved me you would fight this. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:12 | |
Or if I have to go, you'd come with me. | 1:23:12 | 1:23:14 | |
I want to. | 1:23:14 | 1:23:16 | |
Starting soon. | 1:23:21 | 1:23:22 | |
# Te deum laudamus | 1:23:37 | 1:23:42 | |
# Te Dominum confitemur | 1:23:42 | 1:23:47 | |
# Te aeternum | 1:23:47 | 1:23:50 | |
# Patrem omnis terra veneratur | 1:23:50 | 1:23:58 | |
# Te Deum laudamus | 1:23:58 | 1:24:03 | |
# Te Dominum confitemur | 1:24:03 | 1:24:09 | |
# Te aeternum Patrem | 1:24:09 | 1:24:14 | |
# Omnis terra veneratur | 1:24:14 | 1:24:19 | |
# Te Deum laudamus | 1:24:19 | 1:24:24 | |
# Te Dominum confitemur | 1:24:24 | 1:24:30 | |
# Te aeternum Patrem | 1:24:30 | 1:24:35 | |
# Omnis terra veneratur | 1:24:35 | 1:24:40 | |
# Tibi omnes Angeli | 1:24:40 | 1:24:46 | |
# Tibi caeli et universae potestates | 1:24:46 | 1:24:51 | |
# Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim... # | 1:24:51 | 1:24:56 | |
I here present to you King William, your undoubted King. | 1:24:56 | 1:25:01 | |
Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service. | 1:25:02 | 1:25:08 | |
Is Your Majesty willing to take the Oath? | 1:25:12 | 1:25:16 | |
I am willing. | 1:25:17 | 1:25:18 | |
Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the peoples | 1:25:18 | 1:25:22 | |
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, | 1:25:22 | 1:25:26 | |
Canada, Australia, New Zealand | 1:25:26 | 1:25:31 | |
and of your Possessions and other Territories? | 1:25:31 | 1:25:34 | |
I solemnly promise so to do. | 1:25:34 | 1:25:37 | |
Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, | 1:25:37 | 1:25:43 | |
to be executed in all your judgments? | 1:25:43 | 1:25:46 | |
I solemnly promise so to do. | 1:25:46 | 1:25:48 | |
Will you maintain and preserve inviolably | 1:25:48 | 1:25:52 | |
the settlement of the Church of England, | 1:25:52 | 1:25:55 | |
and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, | 1:25:55 | 1:26:01 | |
as by law established in England? | 1:26:01 | 1:26:06 | |
All this I promise so to do. | 1:26:06 | 1:26:08 | |
My son. | 1:26:47 | 1:26:48 | |
God save you. | 1:27:01 | 1:27:04 | |
God save the King! | 1:27:20 | 1:27:22 | |
ALL: God save the King! | 1:27:26 | 1:27:28 | |
God save the King! | 1:27:28 | 1:27:30 | |
# Lacrimosa dies illa | 1:27:35 | 1:27:41 | |
# Qua resurget ex favilla | 1:27:41 | 1:27:50 | |
# Judicandus homo reus | 1:27:50 | 1:27:55 | |
# Huic ergo parce, Deus... # | 1:27:55 | 1:28:01 |