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PAMELA: When we were on that Commonwealth tour, and we were in Kenya.
And the people of Kenya, had as a wedding present...
had given them little Sagana Lodge.
PAMELA: There was no time then
for her, if she had wanted to...
to grieve.
And a very typical reaction actually.
She said, "Oh, I'm so sorry.
It means we've all got to go home."
As the plane was about to touch down at London Airport,
the Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
and my parents and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester,
and all the receiving line of the cabinet were drawn up there
in their black clothes.
And she sort of leans across, looks out,
and says, "Oh god, they've sent the hearses."
Meaning that instead of her car,
one of the big black cars.
And somehow, the way she said it,
one knew this 25-year-old realized that the
end of her private life had come.
And that for the rest of her life,
she would be a public figure until the day she died.
PAKENHAM: She did have the enormous advantage
of being trained by her own father.
But I think she must have enjoyed those training sessions with Papa...
because it was something so special between those two.
Nobody else had it.
MICHAEL: I remember her once saying to me that,
"My father told me I must always remember...
that whatever I said or did to anyone, that they would remember it.
So if I showed disapproval, they will remember that I showed disapproval."
Therefore I think she's very, very careful not to
give any sort of impression
that might be construed as disapproval.
MICHAEL: She's the Queen.
And he, perforce, is the husband.
So what does the husband do?
PAMELA: My father happened to be there when the King and Queen
took the two girls to Dartmouth,
when, I think, Princess Elizabeth was only about 12 years old,
and as Prince Philip was almost a senior cadet.
And, of course, this absolute Greek god.
And I think the princess fell headlong in love with him at that moment.
PAKENHAM: The Queen was too young. Nobody thought of her falling in love...
And remaining in love with that person for the rest of her life.
I mean, she was a child!
LARRY: I was at his bachelor party
the night before the wedding
to Princess Elizabeth.
He was scared.
His face was white.
This man just began to realize what he was getting into.
And now he finds he doesn't like it.
PAMELA: It was very much...
a conventional British household.
He was very much the man of the family.
He took the decisions.
She looked up to him...
in their private life.
Obviously, as Princess...
she had a lot of official things to do.
But they were still able, with these two small children...
to have this family group.
PAMELA: This extremely active
enthusiastic young man.
Who suddenly finds his...
whole life is going to be taken away from him.
And probably thinking he will become a yes man...
for the rest of his life.
This really devastated their lives
actually, as a married couple.
TIM: I don't think it was, you know, in that respect...
Prince Philip and, indeed, the Queen were significantly
different from an awful of...
upper-middle-class British parents.
That was the way that you...
behaved and you didn't cry in public...
you don't cuddle in public, etc.
And, life may be a lot more civilized now.
But it wasn't something peculiar to...
to Prince Charles's relationship with his parents.
And it wasn't...
that anybody was being deliberately unkind.
or cold.
It was just that that was the way you did things.
TOM: What the Queen and the Duke did with their children...
boarding school would often have strict discipline.
and didn't always produce...
rounded human beings, emotionally,
at the end of the process.
ARMSTRONG: She was a divorcée, I think.
And the question of whether it was appropriate for the
King of England to be married to a lady who was twice divorced.
EDWARD VIII: A few hours ago, I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor.
That I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility
without the help and support of the woman I love.
PAKENHAM: The two girls were in the house of Hyde Park Corner
when Elizabeth heard
all the noise of the cheering
when George became King.
And Elizabeth ran downstairs to see what all the excitement was.
And the footman told her that her father was King.
She came back and told her little sister, who was six.
And Princess Margaret said, "Does that mean you'll be Queen?"
And she said, "Yes, someday."
Princess Margaret said, "Poor you."
PETER: The Queen and Prince Philip very kindly invited me to dinner,
and we talked about this
very disturbing situation, obviously.
But the Queen, I shall never forget, her reaction was one of great sympathy,
although, no doubt, she harbored the greatest anxiety, I expect.
Marriage seemed to be the least likely solution.
MAN: The following statement has just been issued from Clarence House,
by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret.
I would like it to be known that I have decided...
not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.
Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble,
and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth,
I have resolved to put their consideration before any others.
TOM: I think, the Diana phenomena...
obviously Charles couldn't handle it, and neither could the Queen.
ANGELA: When the Princess of Wales died, the Queen was up at Balmoral
with the two little Princes, whose mother had been killed.
And yet, she was castigated
for not leaving them and coming to London
to mourn in the streets with people, who'd never even met the Princess.
GEORGE: She had two grandchildren,
who must have been very cut up at their mother's rather sudden death.
To rush them down to London
for the hype of publicity, seemed to me unnecessary.
Why you could be less feeling at Balmoral than at Buckingham Palace.
I do not know.
MAN: I'm now looking through the walls of the shattered school into the main hall,
which is a mass of people and firemen and policemen.
Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, and everybody.
MAN: The South Wales disaster.
It's now feared that nearly 200 lives were lost
when the coal tip at Aberfan near Merthyr Tydill
slid forward today.
TOM: And If ever the Monarchy was wobbled, it was in those
48 hours when they were stuck up in Balmoral,
when the country wanted the Queen in London and grieving.
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