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[people chattering]
[woman on recording] Members of the Elizabeth Company,
this is your beginners call. You'll begin this call.
Your call, please, Joe Ayew, Catherine Hampton,
Peter Marius and Jane Pipe.
Summon please, lighting, sound, stage management,
flies, costume, weights and stage crew.
Your beginners call, thank you.
[Princess Anne] In the White Drawing Room.
- I have moved the furniture. - Yes.
And I, um, have lit the fire
so that it looks quite sort of friendly like.
[instruments tuning]
- Do you think they're ready? - Yes, ma'am, they are indeed.
[dramatic fanfare playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[crowd cheering]
Let me entertain you
Let me
Enter...
...tain you
Let me
Enter...
...tain you
Yeah, yeah
Yeah
[crowd cheering]
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
- And a different sort of camera. - Electronic camera.
And, uh, that's the teleprompter which you will have...
[mutters]
- Is that far enough in for you? - No.
- [man] No? - Because that's right in the way.
- [man indistinct] - Oh, I see what you mean.
[all laughing]
- It's for the radio version... - For the radio, I see.
- ...and a run-through -of the words. - Mm-hm.
Clothes wise, does it look alright with the background?
[man] Yes, it does.
I mean, jolly lucky. I'd be awful if you'd said no
because I'd have to find something else.
[woman] Yes, it's alright for this.
[indistinct chatter]
[man] Whenever you're ready, ma'am.
Red and green should never be seen, but never mind.
Over the years, I have dwelt on the happier side of life
in my Christmas Broadcasts.
We need reminding of it, particularly at Christmas time.
This year, there have been, I hope,
times of happiness and good cheer for most of us.
My family, for instance, has been celebrating
my youngest grandchild's christening.
[male voice] ...old documentaries about the Queen
and the new documentaries, her accent has changed.
She's more, you know...
Before it was, like, "Oh, la-la-la,"
but these days it's more like, "Ha-ha-ha-ha."
So it's more like a street language, as if she's rapping.
Ladies and gentlemen...
I want to tell you all
throughout the ages...
and in grateful memory...
for our enjoyment...
it will not be easy...
[dialogue overlapping indistinct]
But it is a fragile institution.
[dialogue overlapping indistinct]
...by merely dialing the right number
up to a distance of some 300 miles.
[Lord Altrincham] I feel that her own natural self
is not allowed to come through
And if she herself were allowed to speak,
the effect would be wonderful.
Do you expect the Queen to have qualities of a wit?
You would like her to be a better orator?
You would like her to be a TV personality,
in addition to being a diligent, dutiful
and devoted monarch and a mother?
[Robin Day] What I was suggesting is,
is that spontaneity should be the key note,
even if they're prepared
from seeming to be the sort of speech that she would make.
That will teach you to insult the Queen.
[Robin] ...to terminate the interview,
I'm obliged to you for answering my questions.
Next week, at this time, there will be another edition of Impact.
Goodnight.
[narrator] When speaking to the Queen
your first introduction should be addressed as "Your Majesty".
From then on you should address her as "ma'am".
- Ma'am. - Yeah.
Your Majesty.
- Ma'am. - Ma'am, right.
To go down on the stool, very simple.
The conversation, you'll know it's come to an end, handshake...
Put your left foot at the left side, reverse back.
And bend the right knee.
And if the Ambassador and the High Commissioners
can be on my right, their spouse is on their right.
Grasp the handle with your right hand.
If the President is on my right,
then you'll walk in two paces or so and stop.
When the doors open, and you're first there, little neck bow
or a little curtsey from the ladies, if you feel that appropriate.
Right, I want your heels on the edge of the curb.
Come forward. Get forward so your heels are on the edge of the curb!
To, uh, make sure that the seating provides the best possible mix
we color code the different sort of people, uh, categories of people.
At what point will we hand over the gifts?
There's no handing over of gifts. It's simply a viewing.
They're really just on display.
These'll arrive in advance of the--
- of the, of the visit, I would suggest. - Yes.
Are laid out on a table. And it's simply a walk past.
- There's no actual giving. - [man] Oh, I see.
She says nothing.
So, once you have received the accolade, stand up,
and come round to the left-hand side of the stool.
[Billy Turnbull] This lady acts as the Queen's stand-in
at rehearsals for major events.
You've done Windsor, you've done the Cenotaph.
[woman] State opening of Parliament. VJ Day.
That was the best one because I rode in her carriage around Trafalgar Square
on a lovely sunny afternoon.
Everybody was waving at me.
It's very hard to smile for a long time, too.
It's quite difficult.
- There you are. - [people laughing]
[woman] Bless.
You did this last year, didn't you?
No, I haven't done it for about--
- I was Queen last year. - Deborah last year.
- [man] You did it last year? - I did.
Duke of Kent. Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Gloucester in the middle.
Right, gentlemen, the Queen is coming down the stairs.
Good afternoon, Your Majesty. Commander Henry Duffy.
Captain of HMS Liverpool.
Very nice to meet you, Commander. Absolutely delighted.
[Henry] Admiral, you need to chit-chat with the Queen here, now.
- Sorry? - You're gonna have to talk to the Queen.
- Small talk. - Small talk.
I think it would probably focus--
[woman] Talk about her dogs. How are her dogs?
- No. Louise, stop getting surreal. - Oh, sorry.
[indistinct chattering]
[ "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) by The Beatles playing]
I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?
[man] Basically a year's worth of insignia.
From terribly expensive stuff, which is used very rarely,
to things like MBEs and OBEs, which we probably get through a couple of thousand a year.
There you go. John Winston Lennon.
He came to an investiture at Buckingham Palace on the 26th of October, 1965.
And on the 26th of November, 1969, he returned it to us...
for various reasons.
And then she said it's time for bed
[Sir Lenny Henry] The Queen was very much part of our lives as we were growing up.
My mum liked the Queen.
You know, there was that sense of the Commonwealth
and the mother country.
And she came from Jamaica in the 50s.
She literally had this idea
that the Queen had invited her to come to Britain to work.
[narrator] Now the end of their journey is near.
What will they find in the land they regard as an El Dorado?
[reporter] Well, what do you consider are the dangers
of an increasing colored population?
[man] There are many immediate evils of the colored invasion,
but in our opinion, the most important
is the long-term one of mass inter-breeding.
[Lenny] When I did the Royal Variety the first time,
and my mum being there on the same tier at the London Palladium
waving at her constantly.
"Hello, that's my son."
And my mum's here tonight.
[interviewer] Did the Queen wave back?
I think... [laughing]
I think she might have called security.
- [horn blowing] - [crowd cheering]
[Elizabeth] Coming up the river to the pool of London...
seeing Tower Bridge opening.
And we had the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, with us.
And, uh, one saw this dirty commercial river as one came up,
and he was describing it as the silver thread
which runs through the history of Britain.
He saw things in a very romantic and glittering way.
So, perhaps one was looking at it in a rather too mundane way.
And then to come up the river in a small boat
with all the sides of the river completely...
people on each side.
Wonderful.
[horns playing fanfare]
[narrator] And so this day of days most memorable comes to an end.
And with it begins a new era. The new Elizabethan Age.
An age in which the love and faith and hope of all the Commonwealth
rests on the slim shoulders of the beautiful Queen who has just been crowned.
Long may she reign.
...part of Great Britain, capital city of a former empire
that embraced a quarter of the world's population and land area.
An empire, they said, upon which the sun never set.
But recently it has set.
Now it is part of the Commonwealth.
[David Cameron] Some doubted whether this organization would succeed,
but she has assiduously supported it.
Growing it from just seven members in 1952, to 53 today.
She has played the leading role in building a unique family of nations
that spans every continent, all the main religions,
and nearly a third of the world's population.
[Lee Kuan Yew] We are no longer citizens of, uh, Rome, so to speak.
But we are, many of us, still alive
who were once citizens of Rome.
I was a British subject.
And, uh, we share a certain background
which makes us understand each other.
And she represents that continuity and change.
Because her role has changed, too.
[Elizabeth] In this modern age,
the strength and unity of the Commonwealth family
does not lie in bonds forged by formal instruments
nor in common ancestry,
nor in pursuing the same political line.
It springs from the knowledge
that we all share a lively concern for individual freedom
and all the machinery which makes this possible.
There are several expressions of this unity.
As the Head of the Commonwealth I am one.
[Michael Manley] The Commonwealth will survive without the Queen
because I think it's got its own rationale,
its own internal dynamic that justifies it.
On the other hand, she does serve a function
because there are large sections, firstly of the Commonwealth,
who do look positively towards the symbolism
that is bound up in the monarchy.
And, in any case, she is very fine at her job.
I mean, you know, she really is very good at going to countries,
going to heads of government, conferences, talking to people,
and being knowledgeable about their problems
and knowledgeable about world affairs.
I have no doubt that she does that job very well.
[train whistle blowing]
[Elizabeth] I see the balloons are still stuck in the tree there.
[man] Yes, we were trying to get the keeper of the Privy Purse to take a shotgun out.
[Elizabeth] But there's horrible bits of shredded rubber.
- [man] Yes. - [Elizabeth] They hit the trees and exploded.
And the garden's absolutely full of dead balloons.
- [laughing] - It's very, very disagreeable.
[elegant music playing]
[camera clicks]
[Annie Liebowitz] Very nice. Very nice.
[Robert Hughes] Nobody stands in front of the Mona Lisa.
Everybody stands, as it were, inside it.
We're enveloped in its reproductions
from the moment of our birth.
There are millions of Mona Lisa's
printed on everything from postcards to tea towels,
from soap to sweatshirts.
It passes the final test of celebrity.
It is famous for being famous.
It's called the Mona Lisa, though we don't know who the sitter actually was.
The Mona Lisa, smiling enigmatically away there, kept her secret.
Do you smile to tempt a lover Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way
To hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there
And they die there
Are you warm?
Are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely...
[Hughes] ...which the Louvre will not allow to be filmed or photographed
under any circumstances.
It is, in fact, a very bad
19th century copy of it.
Does it indeed matter that I'm not standing in the Louvre
but in the middle of a film studio?
I don't think so.
It's all a game with the media.
And in Artisan life,
you either enjoy the fiction or you don't.
[ "U Don't Know Me" (Jaxxhouz Klubmix) by Basement Jaxx playing]
You think you know me
Know what I do
But all you think about is what it all means to you
I got so much so much to give
All you gotta do is be ready ready to live
You think you know a lot about my kinda woman
But you don't know nothing 'bout me
Part woman...
and part god.
Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
[woman] Nowadays, of course, they don't even do sketches.
They take photographs, then take them home and copy them.
I think that's cheating.
Yes, the portrait everybody likes best does look like a photograph.
The Annigoni. Yes, I like that one, too.
Portraits are supposed to be frightfully self-revealing, aren't they?
Show what one's really like. The secret self.
[man] And that's the very first Landseer of Queen Victoria.
She apparently sat in the library for that.
[Elizabeth] That's an idea, isn't it? Hadn't thought of that.
- Have the horse indoors? - Mm.
[both chuckle]
It was one of what I call my "all walks of life" luncheons.
Today, we had the head of the CBI, an Olympic swimmer,
primary school headmistress,
a general in the Salvation Army and Glenda Jackson.
It's a bit sticky.
I've been to one, ma'am. That was a bit sticky, too.
The trouble is, whenever I meet anyone,
they're always on their best behavior.
And when one's on one's best behavior,
one isn't always at one's best.
[gentle music playing]
[girl] Ow!
[reporter] ...what some call a royal watcher
and a keen one.
She left her Sussex home yesterday
to grab a prime position in Bradford today.
[woman] This is the most important bit of the day
because this is where we need to make a commitment
to where we're going to stand.
Okay, right, think this through logically.
You've gotta be standing this side of those barriers,
so logic says she's gonna get out of the car at one end,
in front of that building.
[announcer] We have lots of tiny, small school children.
If it's at all possible, if you can allow the children closer to the barriers...
Oh, get out of it! Just because they...
There already are children at the front!
Well, they'll have to come and move us, then, won't they?
[cheering]
[camera clicks]
[Eamonn Andrews] ...you may have detected a--
a special air of excitement.
Well, that's because we've had our most distinguished guest
ever in our studio here.
We're deeply honored to say,
Your Majesty, welcome to Crackerjack.
[music playing]
[Dawn French] For a start, you have to...
you have to tussle with that whole idea of,
"Will you curtsey, won't you curtsey? Will you curtsey?"
And I decided before, "No, look, curtseying, it's...
No, I'm not going to bow down for royal, I'm not going to."
And then immediately you do.
[audience laughing]
Immediately you curtsey far too much, too low.
There was a group of about four of us around her.
And she says a very small thing, you know...
"So, are you enjoying the evening?"
And everybody goes like this.
- [over laughing] - [audience laughing]
[French] So, the Queen...
I think people are just nervous or they're eager to please,
don't want to be beheaded or something.
So, the Queen, I'm sure, must think that she's a great comedian or something.
[audience laughing]
I was doing it.
Why was I doing it? I don't know.
[Robbie Williams] She actually thought I was someone else.
I gave her a big smile and she said,
"Were you the gentleman on the wires?"
I was like, "No."
I am the Queen.
She said, "Have you been working hard?"
And I said, "No, we're having a holiday,"
you see, because I couldn't think what to say.
...because I swam the Channel.
- The Channel? - I swam the Channel for Sport Relief.
[David Walliams] I filled her in why I was here,
which I thought was a helpful thing to do,
because there was a long queue of people.
She asked me how much money was raised.
She asked me if I was covered in lard.
- It was lard... - Lard?
But it's not as much fun as you think.
Immediately you walk in,
and you feel you're in the presence of power.
It's kinda weird when you meet someone that famous,
there's almost a kind of glow around them anyway.
And for her especially because she's an icon.
So when you actually see her, you can't quite believe it's really her.
God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the...
[reporter] First garden party of the year
has been given by Her Majesty the Queen
in the Palace grounds.
Here come the toppers and the debutantes.
Attending the first of the season's afternoon parties...
[reporter 2] ...Commonwealth and Empire, as well as from Britain
numbered about 7,000.
Happily the weather was nice and bright when the Queen
and members of the Royal Family came out across the...
[Elizabeth] Last week there were 37 casualties, or something.
[man] Yes, 37. Thirty-seven treatments.
- You may be busy. - [man] Thirty-seven treatments, shall we say,
- as opposed to casualties. - Yes.
[laughter]
But people come so unsuitably dressed, that's the other thing.
They'll probably frizzle by the time they get here.
[man] And the new shoes, of course.
[Elizabeth] Well, that's rather hazardous.
- What do you do? - [woman] I'm a hairdresser.
- Hairdresser? - Yeah.
[Elizabeth] So, what are you involved with?
I'm just along here as a friend.
Are you? Yes.
[muted dialogue]
[man] Did you get to see the Queen?
Oh, yes. As near to her as your cameraman.
Yes, yes.
- Yeah. It was worth the wait. - Mmm.
- Well, she's the same age, born on the same day. - [woman] Yeah, same date.
I was born the same day as the Queen, you see.
[newscaster] In Britain, it chose this moment to rain.
Pretty well the first rain in London for a month.
Shelter at once became the most important thing.
[man] Thousands and thousands of umbrellas
and the crowd got thicker and thicker.
And then there's this big scrum outside the tea tent.
And out from behind the silver urns, and the gladioli,
came cups of tea, beautifully presented.
Beautifully presented sandwiches
which were not cut in triangles, they were cut straight across.
So, for anyone who wants to know,
that's the way to cut sandwiches to be really fashionable.
And then we had one, Vicky had a wobbly when Jim said,
"Shall... would you like another cup of tea?" So I said, "Yes".
So he went back and came back with two cups of tea.
"Got one for her?" And she went charging through, you know.
And I had to rush after her and say to the lady,
"Could she have a cup of tea, please?"
Would you like a cup of tea, Your Majesty?
No, not at the moment. I've just-just had lunch.
- [Jim] And out she came. - [Jim's wife] Well, about "out she came."
I mean, Jim was standing there and suddenly...
- Well, you could see they all clapped... - ...stopped.
- ...and cheered and things. - And you peered, and he said,
"There she is. Orange dot. The top of the stairs."
[ "Our House" by Madness playing]
In the middle of our
Our house it has a crowd
There's always something happening
And it's usually quite loud
Our mum she's so house-proud
Nothing ever slows her down and a mess is not allowed
Our house
In the middle of our street
Our house
In the middle of our
Our house
In the middle of our street our house
Something tells you that you've got to move away from it
Father gets up late for work
Mother has to iron his shirt
Then she sends the kids to school
Sees them off with a small kiss
She's the one they're going to miss in lots of ways
Our house
In the middle of our street
Our house in the middle of our
I remember way back then when everything was true and when
We would have such a very good time
Such a fine time
Such a happy time
And I remember how we'd play simply waste the day away
Then we'd say nothing would come between us
Two dreamers
[newscaster] Windsor Castle is getting ready for its big event of the year.
A three day state visit by a former shipyard electrician from Gdansk,
now the President of Poland, Lech Walesa.
But he's amazed by the size of everything, that's what amuses me.
- What, the rooms? - Yes.
His only two English words are quite interesting words.
And he-- and he goes round looking, you know, at everything, so sweet.
"Good heavens" he could manage, could he?
Well, it's better than that, but...
Good evening.
[piano music playing]
[man] Draw swords!
At last.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] His Majesty was accompanied by
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester
when he rode from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade
for the birthday ceremony of Trooping the Colour. The heiress presumptive...
[narrator 2] A hand, cool and steady, like a Grenadier on parade,
is needed for the last finishing touches of paint.
Yes, it's the ceremony of Trooping the Colour on the King's birthday
with Princess Elizabeth...
[dramatic music playing]
[crown clamoring]
[gunshot]
[gunshots]
[crowd screaming]
[man] He just stepped backwards, took about a half step backwards
and raised it up in his right hand
and then, you know, held it, police marksman style
and fired about four or five shots.
It was absolutely incredible.
It bought it home to us how terribly vulnerable she is.
If that had been a real gun, there's no doubt that she would have been dead
and that probably a lot of the crowd would have been, as well.
[ "Cheek to Cheek" by Fred Astaire playing]
Heaven
They're off!
I'm in heaven
On the wrong leg.
Look, it's on the wrong leg.
No wonder it can't go round the corner.
That I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
The happiness I seek
When we're out together
Dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me
Through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together
Dancing cheek to cheek
[Elizabeth] Do you know that I haven't watched
from a pair of binoculars for ages?
Look at it. I'm pouring with tears.
- Oh, dear. - I always watch on television.
- It's the emotion, perhaps. - No, no, I watch on television.
No, Mummy, if you look into the wind like that.
It's like looking for deer.
Dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I'd love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
That's my... my horse.
I've got money on the sweep.
Many congratulations.
Thank you very much. What do I get?
Well... [chuckles] you get 16, ma'am.
- Sixteen pounds? - Sixteen pounds.
[chuckles]
[girl] Gonna celebrate her...
- twenty-five years. - [man] Yes.
And she's gonna celebrate her Silver Jubilee.
[man] How will she celebrate that, do you think?
Have tea.
[Monty Modlyn] June the 6th, 1977,
and the many months of worrying and planning
are put to the test in Sheila's street.
And they kicked off with one of the best line-ups
of fancy dress I've ever come across.
[crying]
[Modlyn] Judges, what are we looking for?
Yeah, but what are we looking for?
[man] Well, basically, the ones that have been made of paper, you know,
there's lots of work gone into...
[Modlyn] What are you looking for, my dear?
[woman] Originality, I suppose,
and also the work that's gone into them
and, and general effect of the whole, the whole outfit.
[Modlyn] Pretty good, really.
Nice to see you, dear.
Well, we must have the oldest in the street,
mustn't we?
- Am I the oldest? - Well, that's what--
[woman] You know you're the oldest.
- How old are you, darling? I shouldn't-- - Nearly 90.
We shouldn't really ask a lady her age, should we?
[woman] Oh, I don't mind.
[Modlyn] You are sweet.
[woman] Does she have her flowers?
Oh, you've had your flowers, have you?
[Modlyn] Darling, I don't-- Can you hear me, love?
Have you got a message for the Queen
you'd like to give as the oldest person in the street?
I hope she'll be always healthy.
That is the main thing, your health.
God bless her.
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen
[cheering]
[piano music playing]
[man] Hey, hey!
No-- the Queen, the Queen.
Turn the Queen the other way, you bloody Communists.
Get her up that. The right way up, the Queen!
[overlapping chatter]
[man] Behave yourself. Don't be saying things like that.
[boy] She ain't done a day's work in her whole life.
[indistinct chatter]
[muted dialogue]
[man] Why do we have a Queen, do you think?
[children] Um...
[man] Anyone know, please?
- [girl] I know. - [man] You know.
So she can look after our country.
[man] Yeah.
And then, when we need help,
she can give us help.
[young man] I've had one interview, 160 turned up.
And they only want 14.
Fourteen vacancies.
There wasn't much chance with that.
And I got the letter yesterday
to say that I've not been accepted.
[crowd cheering]
[newscaster] Today, the Royal Family
spend a lot of time encouraging industry.
Queen's award, royal visits.
The balance has shifted from armies to defend the Empire,
to exports to defend the pound.
[newscaster 2] ...to the works of the English Steel Corporation.
Her Majesty and the Duke watched with keenest interest
many of the operations in this large steel-making and engineering plant,
at which some 10,000 people are employed.
I can't pretend to be a great celebrity
But still I'm quite important in me way
The job I have to do may not sound much to you
But all the same I'm very proud to say
I'm the girl that makes the thing
That drills the hole that holds the ring
That drives the rod that turns the knob
That works the thingummy bob
I'm the girl that makes the thing
That holds the oil that oils the ring
That takes the shank that moves the crank
That works the thingummy bob
It's a ticklish sort of job
Making a thing for a thingummy bob
Especially when you don't know what it's for
But it's the girl that makes the thing
That drills the hole that holds the ring
That makes the thingummy bob
That makes the engines roar
And it's the girl that makes the thing
[upbeat music playing]
[man] Hello. I'd like to take some time
to give each of us an individual and collective guidance
to each of our roles and collective roles
on Friday of this week, on the 13th
when we receive Her Majesty the Queen and the Chairman
and each of their parties.
[narrator] At 10:25, Her Majesty the Queen and Chairman Lee
will simultaneously switch on both the microwave
and the monitor production lines.
They will then walk down the first production line
where they may pause to talk to some employees.
At an appropriate time,
everyone will be moved to a position that lines
the official route of the royal party.
Union and Korean flags will be distributed.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman Lee and Mr. Vice-Chairman Kim
for your welcome to Samsung.
Samsung have been operating in Teeside for some time.
And the success of this venture is based firmly on a partnership
between your company and the people of this area.
[narrator] If you are unsure about any of the details that you've just seen
for your guidance this program will be repeated every day
until Her Majesty's and Chairman Lee's visit.
[birds squawking]
[Peter Sissons] Britain will no longer have a royal yacht.
When Britannia completes her final journey
the government will end hundreds of years of maritime history
by confirming that Britannia will be the last
and that there's no money to keep her in service.
[bell dinging]
[priest] We are gathered together
to commemorate the paying off of the Royal Yacht Britannia.
After more than 43 years of distinguished service
to Her Majesty the Queen.
[newscaster] At John Brown's Yard on Tyneside,
the 4,000-ton royal yacht
is ready for launching by Her Majesty.
For many months, there has been speculation
about the name of the new yacht.
And there's an air of expectancy as Her Majesty steps forward
to perform the actual launching ceremony.
- I name this ship Britannia. - [crowd cheering]
I wish success to her and to all who sail in her.
[newscaster] Soon the Britannia will become a home
for the Queen, the Duke and their children.
[dramatic music playing]
[explosion]
[Elizabeth] We've been able to use Britannia
as our traveling home, so to speak,
and have been able to go to many more places
than would ever have been possible without her.
I mean, crossing the Pacific in a ship,
which one never does nowadays,
was an experience in itself.
Three weeks at sea.
I stuck in all pictures and photographs
in my photograph album, which I'd never have done otherwise.
[man] One, two, three.
Thank you, ma'am.
[explosions]
[ "Look at that Girl" by Guy Mitchell playing]
Look at the girl she's like a dream come true
Ah, look at that girl can blue eyes be so blue?
Look at the way she walks
Listen when she talks
With each word my heart just skips
Oh, if I could kiss those lips
Look at that girl she's like a dream come true
I don't believe it they're making it up
Look at that girl can blue eyes be so blue?
But if I'm dreaming please don't wake me up
[Paul McCartney] We were like, what, 14.
Very formative teenage years.
And the Queen was sort of 24, or something.
So, to us, she was a babe.
So we were... [grunts]
There was a certain lustfulness in us teenagers.
That's what we used to say in Liverpool.
"God, look at the heave on her".
And, uh, so we grew up loving the Queen.
So, how do you go about changing actresses appearances as to wardrobe?
[woman] The first thing I do is to get acquainted with the actress.
I actually met Miss Hepburn and made this wardrobe test.
And as you'll see, it's pretty successful.
[ "La Vie En Rose" by Emily Watts playing]
[woman] This is a transformation as the princess.
You see, we don't do any tricks or give her a crown.
But we give her a regal dress. A simple dress of real lace.
In other words, the type of dress that a real princess would wear.
This is even more of a regal costume.
This is one of the princess's ball gowns
for the opening of the film.
We had two costumes from which to choose
and we took this one with silver brocade
because it was a little more photographic, a little gayer.
Now, you notice what she's going to do now.
She is turning around in the picture
because the producer, William Wyler, said,
"It's too long, she can't possibly dance".
Now Audrey, who is an accomplished dancer,
said, "Just watch me". And that is why...
[voice fades]
[Elizabeth] I am so happy that on this, my third visit,
my future husband is by my side.
My husband and I... My husband and I...
My husband and me... Me and my husband...
Philip and me... My husband and I...
Prince Philip and I... My husband and I...
My husband and I...
I think everybody really will concede
that on this of all days,
I should begin my speech with the words
"My husband and I."
[audience cheering]
[ "Leaning On A Lamp Post" by George Formby playing]
I'm leaning on a lamp
I know I look just like a tramp
Or you may think I'm hanging round to steal a car
But, no, I'm not a crook
And if you think that's what I look
I'll tell you why I'm here and what my motives are
I'm leaning on a lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by
Oh me, oh my
I hope the little lady comes by
I don't know if she'll get away
She doesn't always get away
But anyhow I know that she'll try
Oh me, oh my
I hope the little lady comes by
There's no other girl I could wait for
But this one I'd break any date for
I won't have to ask what she's late for
She wouldn't leave me flat she's not a girl like that
Oh, she's absolutely beautiful
And marvelous and wonderful
And anyone can understand why
I'm leaning on a lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady passes by
[Elizabeth] But is it-- is it still as heavy?
Yes, it is. Yes, it weighs a ton.
[chuckles]
And it is impossible to tell
which is front and back, I suppose.
Very unwieldy.
Fortunately, my father and I
have about the same sort of shaped head.
And you can't look down to read the speech,
you have to take the speech up.
Because if you did, your neck would break, or it would fall off.
So there are some disadvantages to crowns,
but otherwise they're quite important things.
[woman] That's the last lesson.
Next Tuesday, we'll all watch the real thing on television.
I shan't, Miss Stokes.
My parents are taking me to London.
I'll really see the real thing.
You're a very lucky girl.
Never mind. I expect we'll all get a much better view in the end.
[bells ringing]
[dramatic music playing]
[chorus singing indistinct]
[crowd chanting] God save the Queen. God save the Queen.
I
I will be king
And you
You will be Queen
And nothing
Will drive them away
We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be heroes
Just for one day
And you
You can be mean
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We could steal time
Just for one day
We can be heroes
Forever and ever
[crowd cheering]
[man on PA indistinct]
[crowd chanting] We want the Queen. We want the Queen.
[cheering]
[Elizabeth] As this day draws to its close,
I know that my abiding memory of it will be
not only the solemnity and beauty of the ceremony,
but the inspiration of your loyalty and affection.
[ "Royal Highness" by Tom Grennan playing]
You'll be my royal highness
Queen bee with a little sting to ya
You'll be my royal highness
My lady with a little freak to ya
You'll be my you'll be my royal highness
You'll be my, you'll be my
Royal highness royal highness
It will come along without you knowing
It's like finding a needle in a haystack
It will come along without you knowing
It's like finding
Royal highness royal highness
[Harold Wilson] It is of great value to a Prime Minister
every Tuesday evening, to go and talk to someone with experience,
but who is above the political battle.
[man] The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
[David Cameron] So it's a very frank conversation
about everything going on in the world that week.
I've been listening to the fact that you've been
visiting factories and things.
Yes, that's right. The Deputy Prime Minster and I
went to a tractor factory in Basildon.
[Cameron] As you explain a particular problem that the government has,
sometimes you find it is all becoming clearer
as you explain it to this one incredibly experienced person.
Because you're always very conscious
that she's been listening to this stuff for 60 years.
[man] Then I would tell her things.
Things that I've never told anyone.
Things that are locked deep in here.
[coughs]
And then as I talk to her
I would want her to hold out a soft white hand and say:
"Poor thing. You poor, poor thing."
[Tony Blair] There are only two people in the world, frankly,
to whom a Prime Minister can say what he likes about his Cabinet colleagues.
[crowd laughing]
[Blair] One's the wife and the other's the Queen.
[Elizabeth] But I have had quite a lot of Prime Ministers,
starting with Winston.
And some stayed longer than others.
They unburden themselves,
or they tell me what's going on, or if they've got any problems.
And sometimes one can help in that way, too.
Are you supposed to be looking as if you're enjoying yourself?
- Yes. - [all chuckle]
You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17... in 1976.
[scattered laughter]
Wrong year.
She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.
Ow, that's my foot you're standing on.
- Oh! Now, shall we go that way? - [girl] Yes.
- We want to go in the sun. - That way.
- Is that more fun? - That way.
- [woman] Come on, Smokey. - [William] Come on.
[newscaster] In 1949, Elizabeth proudly presented Prince Charlie to the world.
He was the first baby born to a British heir...
[crowd cheering]
[Charles] Your Majesty.
Mummy.
- [interviewer] How do you feel about her? - [woman] Um...
she's like...
I don't know, the mother, say of...
[interviewer] Was there a bit of a tear to the eye as she sailed?
- [woman] Yeah. Yeah, definitely. - [interviewer] Really?
[woman] Yeah...
[interviewer] What is that special thing
that gives British people in particular?
[man] I think it's the family thing.
I think you belong to a family.
[interviewer] In a sense, does she feel like
your mother or grandmother?
Yes. I think that's-- that is the feeling I feel...
[melancholy music playing]
[newscaster] In the male-dominated world of the mud men,
the idea of an all-powerful woman is impossible to grasp.
So they know their sovereign as Mrs. Quinn,
with much incomprehension or wrang.
[music continues]
Elizabeth
she's the girl next door
But she's a little bit
Yeah, to me she's a little bit more
When I'm with her then I feel like a king
Yes, I feel like a king
To be in her grace I would do anything
I would go down on my knees down on my knees
Down on my knees down on my knees down on my knees
Down on my knees down on my knees down on my
Oh, Queen Elizabeth
You're the one that I wanna be with
My Queen Elizabeth
Give it up, give it up
Give it up just a little bit
Oh, Queen Elizabeth
You're the one that I wanna be with
You're the one that I wanna be with now
Elizabeth
I am here at your beck and call
And in a little bit
I'll have you climbing the castle walls
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Can't keep me away keep me away
I'll be your knight any time of the day
Any time of the day
I will go down on my knees down on my knees
Down on my knees down on my knees down on my knees
Down on my knees down on my knees down on my
Oh, Queen Elizabeth
You're the one that I wanna be with now
- [song ends] - [piano music playing]
Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our victory is ultimately won
It was just those nasty Nazis who persuaded them to fight
[newscaster] ...the forthcoming visit of the King and Queen, to Canada and the United States
stands out as one of the few peaceful signals on the horizon.
Just as among the changing institutions of this world, British monarchy endures.
The King and Queen are leaving England on May the 6th for their tour in the New World.
And who should be more interested in where their Majesties are going
than the small daughters whom they leave behind?
[men chattering indistinct]
Well, you've all read your papers,
and you know that Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact
with Stalin yesterday.
As I see it, that means war next week.
[audio fades] ...to get this ship ready to sail.
None of us'll turn in, or take our clothes off, or sling our hammocks
for the next three days and nights till the job's finished.
Then we'll send Hitler a telegram saying,
"The Torrin's ready, you can start your war".
[wind whipping]
[narrator indistinct]
Campaigns do not wait on weather.
Ships must be kept in line by the escort vessel,
less they drop behind and crash into isolation.
[newscaster] But while at Denham Studios, the King and Queen,
accompanied by the Princesses,
visited the set of the Noel Coward palladium drama
In Which We Serve.
Get down, everybody!
[newscaster] The royal party met actors and crew
before staying to watch some of the filming.
[soldier in movie] Look at the Huns, sir.
They're jumping overboard in full marching order.
Oh, look at that. Come in, the water's lovely.
[man] Open fire!
[narrator] Convoys do not retreat when the enemy attacks
or withdraw to new positions.
The convoys sail on,
having no choice and wishing no others.
[newscaster] The whole country is growing food in this fourth year of war,
from the small backyard to the big estate.
At Sandringham, the King's country estate,
the entire park has been ploughed up,
including the private golf course,
which is now producing oats and rye.
The King, with his subjects, has enormously stepped up..
These are some of the girls who are doing their bit for victory.
They're taking the place of the men who have joined the fighting services,
and they're doing a great job.
[interviewer] And what would you like to do?
- I'd like to join the ATS. - Why the ATS?
[woman] Well, plenty of variety,
and I shall be doing my bit to help my country.
[interviewer] And what would you like to do?
Well, I'd like to help to build Spitfires.
My boy is in the RAF, and I feel I'm helping him.
[Air Marshal Harris] ...if you individually succeed,
you will have delivered the most devastating blow
against the very vitals of the enemy.
Let him have it, right on the chin.
[newscaster] That was how Air Marshal Harris,
Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command gave his instructions
for the largest air raid the world has ever known.
[reporter] The target is Dresden.
[crowd clamoring]
[Michael Buerk] The Queen has been jeered by demonstrators in Dresden
on the first day of her state visit to Germany.
She was there for a service of reconciliation
to commemorate the wartime bombing raid on the city
which killed as many as 40,000 people.
There was some applause among the catcalls, but the banners refer to
the statue recently erected in London to Bomber Harris,
blamed here for all that happened to the city.
[interviewer] What is the actual protocol
when you decide to get married, ma'am?
Whose permission do you have to ask?
[Anne] He asked my father.
He was very kind to me, actually.
I was petrified beforehand.
[interviewer] Did he ask you what your prospects are?
What sort of prospects? [chuckles]
[Frank Bough] ...is Princess Anne's gift
to her husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
A set of dress studs, cufflinks and buttons.
Well, somewhere else I spotted a tool-kit
for Captain Mark Phillips.
I don't know how much of a handyman he is.
Twelve dozen coat hangers.
Now there is a very imaginative and a very clever gift
- for a couple who've just got married. - [crowd clamoring]
[Prince Charles] Yes, what a difficult question.
[Charles and Princess Diana laugh]
[Charles] What do you think we've got in common?
[Diana] Sense of humor?
Um, every outdoor activity,
except I don't ride.
- Um... - Soon remedy that.
Lots of things, really.
[interviewer] And, I suppose, in love.
[Diana] Of course.
- Whatever "in love" means. - Yes.
[overlapping chatter]
[interviewer] Well, obviously means two very happy people.
[overlapping chatter]
[crowd cheering]
[reporter] The Prince had been up since the early hours yesterday,
organizing and taking part in a vastly complicated event
involving four members of the Royal Family,
and some 50 international stars.
- [Prince Edward] Have you been watching it? - [press] Yes.
Yeah. What did you think of it?
[crowd laughing]
- Thanks. - [woman] I thought it was brilliant.
- [Edward] Great! - [reporter] Then the royal walkout.
He's reported to have said, as he left Alton Towers,
"One of these days you lot are going to have to learn some manners".
[Peter Sissons] Centuries old Windsor Castle, one of the Queen's residences
has been consumed by fire for much of the day. A hundred and fifty-five--
[John Major] They've announced from Buckingham Palace, that with regret,
the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to separate.
Their Royal Highnesses have no plans to divorce...
[newscaster] ...Duchess of York have begun discussions about a formal separation.
A statement issued by the Queen said talks were not yet complete
and nothing more would be said.
[Sissons] Buckingham Palace announced today
that the Princess Royal and her husband,
Captain Mark Phillips, are to separate
after nearly 16 years of marriage.
The statement said the couple had decided to part... [voice fades]
[Prince Andrew] ...with the sweating, um, because, uh,
I-I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat,
um, or I didn't sweat at the time.
And that was, uh--
Yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I...
[Russell Howard] Can't sweat. I bet the Queen was like,
"What the fuck is he doing?!"
[audience laughing]
[Howard as Elizabeth] Philip, are you getting this!
Our son's an absolute moron!
[as Philip] I know.
He makes Charles look like Stephen Fry.
[newscaster] ...that Oprah Winfrey conducted
with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Buckingham Palace issue is a symbiotic relationship
between the Palace and the British Press.
So then Harry said, "There is this invisible contract behind closed doors
behind the institution and UK tabloids."
No institution, city, monarchy, whatever,
should expect to be free from the scrutiny of those
who give it their loyalty and support,
not to mention those who don't.
And that scrutiny,
by one part of another,
can be just as effective
if it is made with a touch of gentleness,
good humor and understanding.
[newscaster] Increasingly today, much of the anger
which was at first directed at the paparazzi
has been focused on the royals themselves.
For the past five days,
most of the Royal Family,
including the Queen,
have been 521 miles away at Balmoral
leaving the Palace empty, with no flag flying.
I feel like everyone else in this country today,
utterly devastated.
She was a wonderful, warm human being.
[crowd clamoring]
Very disgraceful I find their behavior.
Disgusting that they have not appeared or said a word.
I think they must be very, very cold-hearted not to have a flag up.
I think it's a disgrace on the whole Royal Family.
- I can't understand the Queen doing it, really. - [woman] No.
[Jennie Bond] Looks as though the Queen is about to--
she is, she's getting out of the car, Wes,
and is going to talk to people.
[Wesley Kerr] It's extremely unusual.
This is almost unprecedented.
I think perhaps the last time... [voice fades]
What I say to you now, as your Queen
and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself.
She was an exceptional and gifted human being.
[Elizabeth chuckles]
I don't think he believes me.
Prince Andrew.
[Elizabeth] No.
There's another one there with a plaque.
[David Attenborough] Prince Andrew, 1969.
- That one? - [Attenborough] I think so, yes.
- You-you said... - [indistinct]
You said that was Andrew.
- Can't both be. - [Attenborough] No, that's Andrew.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Edward.
[chuckles]
- That's Edward. - Yeah.
There will be all kinds of different trees growing here
- in another 50 years maybe. - Might easily be, yes.
- I won't be here, though. - [chuckles]
I was going to say, a sundial neatly planted in the shade.
- Isn't it good, yes. - [chuckles]
Had we thought of that?
That it was planted in the shade?
It wasn't in the shade originally, I'm sure.
- But, um... - [chuckling]
Maybe we could move it.
Well, it depends whether you want to know the time or not.
[Walliams] ...through your family records.
- [Harry Enfield as Elizabeth] Yes. - And I've found an entry here
for your great-great-grandmother.
[Enfield] And what was her name?
Queen Victoria.
And what did she do?
She was the Queen.
You're joking.
And their grandson
was your grandfather, King George V.
And he had two sons,
the younger of whom was King George VI.
[Enfield] Shove off. From The King's Speech?
- [Walliams] That's correct, your father. - My father's Colin Firth?
[Walliams] No. Colin Firth played your father in the film.
[Enfield] So one isn't related to Colin Firth?
- [Walliams] No. - Oh, that's a shame.
[newscaster] Three Kings occupied the British throne in a single year.
King George departs, beloved after 25 years of rule.
And walking behind his coffin, in the sad procession, is the new King,
who is the beloved Prince of Wales.
- God save the King. - [fanfare plays]
[newscaster] And even while the proclamation still rings,
King Edward stands beside Mr. and Mrs. Simpson
in the windows of his apartments at St. James's Palace.
Soon he is to tell the world of the woman I love
and for her renounce the throne.
Then comes the year's third King
with his Scottish wife and their two children.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
And the little Princess Elizabeth,
who may one day be Queen.
[Elizabeth] But, you see, nobody writes anymore.
I keep a diary, but it's not really a diary
like Queen Victoria's, you know, or as detailed as that.
It's quite small.
[man] But you write it in your own hand?
- Oh, yes. - Yes, I think that's terribly important.
I can't write any other way.
Definitive edition of the plays of JM Barrie.
Peter Pan.
- He was the most wonderful storyteller. - [man] Yeah.
[Elizabeth] As children we used to go to tea
and he'd tell the most wonderful stories.
- [man] Did he? - [Elizabeth] Yes.
He just happened to be the sort of person
that could tell children's stories.
It didn't matter if you were just sitting at the tea table.
And, of course, boringly, one was a small child, one didn't realize...
- [man] Yeah, quite. - [Elizabeth] ...what a good storyteller
one was listening to.
If only one had known.
[Wendy] Oh, Mother, we are back.
- [Mr. Darling] Back? - [Wendy] All except the Lost Boys.
They weren't quite ready.
- Lost B... ready? - To grow up.
That's why they went back to Neverland.
Neverland?
- Yes, but I am. - Am?
Uh, ready to grow up.
[ "Crown" by Stormzy playing]
Searchin' every corner of my mind
Lookin' for the answers I can't find
I have my reasons and life has its lessons
I tried to be grateful and count all my blessings
But heavy is the head that wears the crown
Amen, in Jesus' name yes, I declare it
Any little seed I receive I have to share it
Bruddas wanna break me down I can't bare it
But heavy is the head with the crown I still wear it
You can't hold me down I still cope
Rain falling down at the BRITs I'm still soaked
Tried to put a hole in our shit we'll build boats
Two birds with one stone I'll kill both
Pray I never lose and pray I never hit the shelf
Promise if I do that you'll be checkin' on my health
If it's for my people I'll do anything to help
If I do it out of love it's not to benefit myself
[newscaster] ...the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret
enter their carriage,
and there begins the sad last journey of King George VI.
Searchin' every corner of my mind
Search every corner look for the answers
Lookin' for the answers I can't find
No, I can't find 'em no silver lining
I have my reasons and life has its lessons
I tried to be grateful and count all my blessings
But heavy is the head that wears the crown
[bell tolling]
[flute playing]
[Elizabeth] In a way, I didn't have an apprenticeship,
my father died much too young,
and so, it was all a very sudden kind of taking on,
and making the best job you can.
It's a question
of maturing into something that one's got used to doing.
And accepting the fact that here you are and it's your fate.
God save the Queen.
- Hip hip... - [all] Hooray.
- [man] Hip hip... - [all] Hooray.
[Elizabeth] The crown is an idea more than a person.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown
[young Elizabeth] My sister is by my side
and we are both going to say goodnight to you.
Come on, Margaret.
[young Margaret] Goodnight, children.
[young Elizabeth] Goodnight and good luck to you all.
[melancholy music playing]
[McCartney] Two.
[guitar strumming]
"Her Majesty" take one.
Her majesty's-- [clears throat]
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm gonna make her mine, oh yeah
Someday I'm gonna make her mine
- [man] Do you wanna hear it? - [McCartney] Yeah.
[soft piano music playing]
[rhythmic clanging to "God Save the Queen"
Long live our
God save our Queen
[jazzy piano]
[vibrating to "God Save the Queen"
[band playing]