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I welcome the opportunity

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to speak to all the peoples

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of the British Commonwealth
and Empire

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wherever they live

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whatever race they come from

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and whatever
language they speak.

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This is a happy day for me

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but it is also one that brings
serious thoughts.

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Thoughts of life looming ahead

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with all its challenges

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and with all its opportunity.

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At such a time

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it is a great help to know

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that there are multitudes
of friends all round the world

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who are thinking of me,
and who wish me well.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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If we all go forward together

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with an unwavering faith

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a high courage,
and a quiet heart...

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we shall be able to make of this
ancient Commonwealth

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which we all love so dearly

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an even grander thing.

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To accomplish that,
we must give nothing less

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than the whole of ourselves.

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[DISTANT EXPLOSION]

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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There is a motto

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which has been borne
by many of my ancestors

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a noble motto.

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"I serve."

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I should like to make
that dedication now.

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But I shall not have strength

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to carry out
this resolution alone

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unless you join in it with me.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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God help me
to make good my vow

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and God bless all of you
who are willing to share in it.

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[ROYA NIKKHAH]:
When Princess Elizabeth is born

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there is no concept
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that she will ever
one day become monarch.

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That's just not the way
it was planned for her.

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[ROBERT LACEY]:
Her father is the "spare"

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not the heir.

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The succession is with

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the glamorous Prince of Wales,
her uncle...

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and she will spend her life
as a charming royal accessory.

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[JANE RIDLEY]: I think there was
almost a deliberate attempt

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not to spoil her

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and that she shouldn't be,
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living in a gilded cage.

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[LACEY]:
Her parents are very insistent

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that this little girl's life
should be fun.

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Elizabeth is four years old

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when her sister
Margaret is born.

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[DUCKS QUACK]

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Her father loved the idea

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that he wasn't destined
to be King...

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and that he could enjoy
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and these two little daughters

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a family life.

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[ANDREW MORTON]:
The Duke of York would

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play with them every day.

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Play hide and seek,
play games outside.

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There'd be morning silliness,
throwing pillows, giggling.

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It was a very loving household,
and a very loving upbringing.

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[BIG BEN CHIMES]

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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[LACEY]:
There are whispers in the family

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that things are not going well.

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Elizabeth's dynamic,
attractive uncle

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the new Edward VIII...

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he's picked up yet another
of these divorcees

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American, in fact, divorcees.

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This one is called
Mrs Wallis Simpson.

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Her husband is still
not just alive

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but married to her!

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And he insists on parading her
as his partner.

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[MAN]:
My opinion of the King?

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He should marry
who he loves.

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He's been a good chap
to the working class.

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That's my opinion of him.

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[MAN 2]:
The King is a man like myself

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but he should not
allow his private life

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to interfere
with his public life.

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[MAN 3]:
Apart from the fact

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that she isn't of noble blood

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Mrs Simpson has twice been
in the divorce courts.

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To my mind, that completely

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rules her out
as Queen of England.

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[ROBERT HARDMAN]:
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Godfearing, church-going
Britain, he's a sinner.

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Here is the supreme governor
of the Church of England

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and he's clearly in breach

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of the teachings
of the Church of England

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and that's just...
That's not on in the '30s.

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[LACEY]: Edward VIII has to
choose between love or duty.

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Confronted by the dilemma

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of wanting to stay
with the woman he loves

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or giving up the throne

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for which he's trained
all his life

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which is his destiny.

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[EDWARD VIII]:
A few hours ago

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I discharged my last duty

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as King and Emperor.

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I have found it impossible
to discharge my duties

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as King without the help
and support

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of the woman I love.

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[NIKKHAH]: The abdication had
an enormously profound impact

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both on the nation
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It rocked both.

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[RIDLEY]:
This was the first time

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in British history
that any King had abdicated.

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Elizabeth experiences this

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through the pain
of her parents.

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[RIDLEY]: It was something
that her father

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really didn't want.

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He really didn't want
to become King.

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When he realises
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he goes and sees his rather
formidable mother, Queen Mary

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and he cries on her shoulder
for half an hour.

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What Elizabeth's uncle,
the King, had done

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was allow love to take priority
over duty.

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He'd done something
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which was really immoral.

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[LACEY]:
This all matures her.

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It gives her this gravitas,
this weight

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that marks
her entire life after that.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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[REPORTER]:
The eyes of the world

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were focused on London

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as George VI rode
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to be crowned King of England.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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[RIDLEY]: It was really
important to have a king

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who could restore
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that the monarchy had lost
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[BISHOP]:
I here present unto you

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King George,
your undoubted King.

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[CROWD]:
God save the King!

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God save the King!

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God save the King!

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[LACEY]:
As she sees the crown

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land on her father's head

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she knew that this lay ahead

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for her as well.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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This girl,
not yet in her teens

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is now an heir to the throne...

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and experiencing the radiation

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of affection, adoration

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curiosity from all those
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out there.

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[CROWD WHISTLES AND CHEERS]

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This is going to be
her future life.

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[SOMBRE MUSIC ON FOOTAGE]

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[SIREN WAILS]

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[REPORTER]:
Then came the war.

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The King had a sad
and weary task to perform.

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Wherever his people suffered,
he came.

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And by his presence,
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and assurance in their ordeal.

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[AMERICAN REPORTER]: Bombs fell
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Here, Buckingham Palace

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and the swimming pool
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are shambles.

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[DISTANT EXPLOSIONS]

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[HARDMAN]: The King's
actually in Buckingham Place

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with the Queen, and they see
these bombs start to land.

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They see two bombs come
right down below their window

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and they make a dash
for the door

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and as he writes, you know,
he's just amazed

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that they weren't both killed.

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[LACEY]:
The immediate effect of the war

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for Elizabeth
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as so many other
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They are evacuated.

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[LADY MUIR]:
They spent most of their time

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at Royal Lodge in Windsor Park.

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I think they were educated
with a governess

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and I don't think they went
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[LACEY]: It's a great
opportunity for her, personally

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to move beyond
the school room.

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To actually do
something serious.

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["RULE BRITANNIA"
PLAYS ON FOOTAGE]

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[REPORTER]:
Princess in overalls.

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On her 19th birthday

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the heiress presumptive
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learns a few facts
about tyres and carburettors.

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[RIDLEY]:
Elizabeth joined up

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with something called the ATS.

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The Auxiliary
Territorial Service.

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[LADY MUIR]: Well, it was
part of the war effort

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and also part of learning,
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Learning about
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[REPORTER]:
Now, visited by her parents

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and sister Margaret Rose

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at a training station
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she shows them

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she knows a fan belt
from a spark plug, alright

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and isn't afraid
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[LACEY]:
And it also provides

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the first evidence
of any rift with her father

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because her father, the King,
wants to keep her at home...

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and there was a tiff

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a disagreement between them.

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[RIDLEY]:
That really does tell us

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something about her character

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about her really strong
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If she knows, or believes

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that something
she wants to do is right

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she will do it,
she has great determination.

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[PLANE ENGINES ROAR]

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[LACEY]: Right at
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she's introduced
to young Philip Mountbatten.

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[WESLEY KERR]:
She met him

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and really liked him
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that day at Dartmouth
Royal Naval College.

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He's a Naval cadet,
and he really impresses her.

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As the Royal Yacht leaves
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he's in a little rowing boat

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following it,
and there's a group of them

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but he's the last to follow it,
and the King says

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"You're a damn fool,
what's it..."

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But he makes a very
powerful impression on her.

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[NIKKHAH]:
She's kind of starstruck by him

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because he's different,
and he's quirky and he's fun.

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And he's incredibly dashing
and very good looking

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so she's completely
bowled over by him

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and it's an instant thing.

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When he is, you know,
away at sea

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there's a correspondence,
there are letters

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and there are letters exchanged
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It is this wonderful...

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most old-fashioned courtship

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that starts with
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and develops.

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[RIDLEY]:
Once the war was over

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they begin to see
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And Elizabeth decides
that she wants to marry Philip.

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[CROWD CHEERS]

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[LACEY]:
George VI certainly

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and the Queen Mother
have reservations about

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this young man's rather
imperious, dashing manner.

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The whole question of who
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is not simple.

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I mean, yes, it's supposed
to involve love

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but also as the family
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too much love can cause
a lot of trouble.

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[KERR]: It was very significant,
the South African tour.

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It was actually the first time
that she'd left the country...

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and it wasn't really a holiday,
but it was three months away

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and it was a very significant
period in her life.

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[LACEY]: She seems to become
a different person on this ship.

256
00:17:20.522 --> 00:17:22.179
There's the liberation, somehow

257
00:17:22.213 --> 00:17:24.526
that comes from wartime Britain

258
00:17:24.560 --> 00:17:25.803
her palace life...

259
00:17:33.638 --> 00:17:34.881
But it's also her debut

260
00:17:35.295 --> 00:17:39.782
her "coming out", if you like,
as a public person.

261
00:17:40.473 --> 00:17:42.406
[SHIP HORN BLARES]

262
00:17:45.581 --> 00:17:47.825
[ELIZABETH]: You have
a tremendous heritage.

263
00:17:48.722 --> 00:17:50.897
A big country
waiting to be developed.

264
00:17:53.796 --> 00:17:57.352
I now have great pleasure
in declaring

265
00:17:57.593 --> 00:18:00.320
the Princess Elizabeth
Graving Dock open.

266
00:18:09.847 --> 00:18:13.747
[KERR]: The tour takes her
from the rather shy girl

267
00:18:14.507 --> 00:18:17.268
to the "beginning to be
confident" woman

268
00:18:17.475 --> 00:18:19.891
and seeing that
she has got an opportunity

269
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to make a difference.

270
00:18:29.177 --> 00:18:31.593
[LACEY]: Here now, officially,
she sits down

271
00:18:31.869 --> 00:18:37.323
and she makes her personal
and public declaration

272
00:18:37.357 --> 00:18:39.532
of what lies ahead for her.

273
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I declare before you all

274
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that my whole life

275
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whether it be long or short

276
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shall be devoted
to your service

277
00:18:50.543 --> 00:18:53.649
and to the service
of our great imperial family

278
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to which we all belong.

279
00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:01.968
[LACEY]: We know she had
help with the speech

280
00:19:02.002 --> 00:19:05.420
but we also know that it was
very much her own words.

281
00:19:10.770 --> 00:19:13.531
[NIKKHAH]: It sets out
Elizabeth's personal manifesto

282
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for life, and her sense
of duty...

283
00:19:17.397 --> 00:19:18.433
and she talks about

284
00:19:18.467 --> 00:19:19.882
"Whether my life
be long or short

285
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it will be devoted
to your service"

286
00:19:21.712 --> 00:19:23.334
and she's addressing
her subjects

287
00:19:23.369 --> 00:19:25.164
not just in England
but around the Commonwealth.

288
00:19:25.957 --> 00:19:27.959
But I shall not have strength

289
00:19:27.994 --> 00:19:30.203
to carry out
this resolution alone

290
00:19:30.997 --> 00:19:33.344
unless you join in it with me

291
00:19:33.586 --> 00:19:35.450
as I now invite you to do.

292
00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:39.937
I know that your support
will be unfailingly given.

293
00:19:42.008 --> 00:19:44.390
God help me
to make good my vow

294
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and God bless all of you
who are willing to share in it.

295
00:19:53.468 --> 00:19:55.953
What is extraordinary
is that she meant it

296
00:19:56.298 --> 00:19:58.818
and we know from having
watched her

297
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over many, many, many years

298
00:20:00.854 --> 00:20:02.787
that's she's carried out
those duties

299
00:20:02.822 --> 00:20:05.273
absolutely to the word

300
00:20:05.307 --> 00:20:07.447
to the letter of the word
that she spoke

301
00:20:07.482 --> 00:20:09.967
when she was merely 21.

302
00:20:10.001 --> 00:20:12.280
It's a very, very early age

303
00:20:12.314 --> 00:20:14.489
to assume such
a heavy responsibility.

304
00:20:19.425 --> 00:20:21.772
[LACEY]: If one's looking for
some explanation

305
00:20:21.806 --> 00:20:23.877
of Elizabeth's success

306
00:20:24.395 --> 00:20:26.259
at this extraordinary job

307
00:20:26.535 --> 00:20:29.952
it is the sense that
she ultimately doesn't matter.

308
00:20:30.988 --> 00:20:33.473
She only takes her significance

309
00:20:33.508 --> 00:20:35.751
and meaning
from what she can do

310
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for other people
and for the institution.

311
00:20:40.791 --> 00:20:43.311
And she makes this speech

312
00:20:43.345 --> 00:20:47.073
dedicating herself
to what her life will become.

313
00:21:13.513 --> 00:21:14.997
[PROJECTOR RATTLES]

314
00:21:22.522 --> 00:21:24.352
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

315
00:21:26.354 --> 00:21:29.460
[LACEY]: Elizabeth's
engagement to Philip

316
00:21:30.150 --> 00:21:33.050
in defiance of
her father's wish

317
00:21:34.810 --> 00:21:37.882
shows her growing maturity

318
00:21:38.089 --> 00:21:40.782
but also an element
of headstrongness.

319
00:21:44.820 --> 00:21:46.028
Here is the future...

320
00:21:47.582 --> 00:21:48.962
and it is based on love.

321
00:21:50.205 --> 00:21:52.449
It is based on her wish

322
00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:55.072
to establish this union.

323
00:22:10.536 --> 00:22:12.538
[REPORTER]: In the great
Abbey of Westminster

324
00:22:12.572 --> 00:22:15.437
Elizabeth married
the man of her choice.

325
00:22:15.679 --> 00:22:17.888
[REPORTER 2]: In the proud words
of King George

326
00:22:17.922 --> 00:22:20.511
"Our daughter has married
the man she loves."

327
00:22:22.789 --> 00:22:24.653
[CROWD CHEERS]

328
00:22:26.241 --> 00:22:28.485
[REPORTER 3]: And how
they cheered the happy pair

329
00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:30.107
when they come out
onto the balcony.

330
00:22:30.659 --> 00:22:32.903
What a wonderful picture
the princess made.

331
00:22:43.845 --> 00:22:46.744
[LACEY]: She becomes
the Lady Di of her age.

332
00:22:49.575 --> 00:22:51.197
[NIKKHAH]:
They are a very glamorous

333
00:22:51.231 --> 00:22:52.785
almost Hollywood-esque
couple.

334
00:22:56.823 --> 00:22:58.549
[LACEY]:
There's this sense of future.

335
00:22:58.791 --> 00:22:59.999
What's going to happen

336
00:23:00.724 --> 00:23:02.829
and she and Philip
get on with it straight away.

337
00:23:05.625 --> 00:23:07.593
[REPORTER]: It has been
announced officially

338
00:23:07.627 --> 00:23:09.526
from Buckingham Palace
during the past hour

339
00:23:09.767 --> 00:23:11.907
that Her Royal Highness,
the Princess Elizabeth

340
00:23:11.942 --> 00:23:13.115
Duchess of Edinburgh

341
00:23:13.461 --> 00:23:15.014
was safely delivered
of a prince

342
00:23:15.048 --> 00:23:17.396
at14pm today.

343
00:23:19.121 --> 00:23:20.088
[BABY COOS]

344
00:23:34.792 --> 00:23:36.587
[LACEY]:
She wastes no time

345
00:23:37.036 --> 00:23:39.072
in producing two children.

346
00:23:39.797 --> 00:23:42.075
The first very conveniently,
and properly

347
00:23:42.110 --> 00:23:45.113
a son and heir, Prince Charles.

348
00:23:59.748 --> 00:24:01.198
[CAMERAS CLICK]

349
00:24:03.994 --> 00:24:06.168
[LACEY]:
Almost immediately afterwards

350
00:24:06.203 --> 00:24:07.929
a little sister, Princess Anne.

351
00:24:15.281 --> 00:24:17.525
And the plan is,
as we understand it

352
00:24:17.766 --> 00:24:21.252
they would go on
having more children

353
00:24:21.287 --> 00:24:23.565
and enjoying
their family life.

354
00:24:26.050 --> 00:24:28.605
And then fate intervenes.

355
00:24:30.123 --> 00:24:31.953
[REPORTER]:
It is with the greatest sorrow

356
00:24:31.987 --> 00:24:33.644
that we make
the following announcement.

357
00:24:35.128 --> 00:24:37.130
It was announced
from Sandringham

358
00:24:37.165 --> 00:24:41.203
at45 today,
February 6th 1952

359
00:24:42.377 --> 00:24:45.000
that the King who retired
to rest last night

360
00:24:45.035 --> 00:24:46.485
in his usual health

361
00:24:47.313 --> 00:24:49.660
passed peacefully away
in his sleep

362
00:24:50.074 --> 00:24:51.144
early this morning.

363
00:24:54.838 --> 00:24:55.942
[CAR HORNS HONK]

364
00:25:05.089 --> 00:25:07.022
[MORTON]:
Elizabeth was in Kenya

365
00:25:07.057 --> 00:25:09.197
when her father George VI died.

366
00:25:11.406 --> 00:25:13.788
She was shocked,
because when she'd left

367
00:25:13.822 --> 00:25:15.790
he seemed to be making
a recovery

368
00:25:15.824 --> 00:25:18.758
from a serious operation
he'd had some months before.

369
00:25:21.934 --> 00:25:23.556
Her response was

370
00:25:23.591 --> 00:25:26.248
the response you might
expect of a Queen.

371
00:25:28.803 --> 00:25:31.668
As one district officer
in Kenya said

372
00:25:31.702 --> 00:25:33.152
she was ice cold.

373
00:25:33.393 --> 00:25:35.913
She showed no emotion.

374
00:25:35.948 --> 00:25:38.226
She said,
"We must tell Australia."

375
00:25:38.260 --> 00:25:41.229
That is to say we must cancel
the trip to Australia

376
00:25:41.263 --> 00:25:43.542
which was
their ultimate destination.

377
00:25:45.889 --> 00:25:47.960
Her response
was matter of fact

378
00:25:48.167 --> 00:25:49.858
very cool

379
00:25:49.893 --> 00:25:53.344
but inside, she was really
holding back her emotions.

380
00:26:13.054 --> 00:26:15.297
[REPORTER]: The flag is low
as the news spreads.

381
00:26:15.919 --> 00:26:17.403
The King is dead.

382
00:26:18.715 --> 00:26:22.304
The King, our King,
is no more with us.

383
00:26:23.927 --> 00:26:27.171
In our hearts,
we feel this cannot be.

384
00:26:32.004 --> 00:26:34.006
[DICKIE ARBITER]:
I remember, I was 11

385
00:26:34.040 --> 00:26:35.179
I was at school in London.

386
00:26:35.697 --> 00:26:38.148
The headmaster went
round all the classrooms

387
00:26:38.182 --> 00:26:39.149
at the school I was at

388
00:26:40.253 --> 00:26:43.049
and he told each classroom
that the King had died

389
00:26:43.084 --> 00:26:45.362
and as a mark of respect,
off we go home.

390
00:26:48.745 --> 00:26:50.988
As the news began
to trickle out...

391
00:26:53.473 --> 00:26:56.131
people were actually
physically crying in the street.

392
00:27:03.035 --> 00:27:05.037
[NIKKHAH]:
When she arrives back in England

393
00:27:05.071 --> 00:27:06.832
for the first time as Queen

394
00:27:06.866 --> 00:27:09.041
the first person she's
greeted by is Winston Churchill.

395
00:27:11.526 --> 00:27:14.391
A country welcoming
a young Queen

396
00:27:14.425 --> 00:27:16.393
in a massively alpha-male
world in the 1950s.

397
00:27:22.019 --> 00:27:23.331
[HARDMAN]:
It just underlines

398
00:27:23.365 --> 00:27:25.126
the loneliness at the top,
if you like.

399
00:27:26.472 --> 00:27:28.785
She's a 25-year-old
mother of two

400
00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:30.821
and she's just heard
that her father's died...

401
00:27:32.961 --> 00:27:36.171
who suddenly has
the burden of expectation

402
00:27:36.206 --> 00:27:37.897
of the whole world
on her shoulders.

403
00:27:42.005 --> 00:27:43.662
[CAMERAS CLICK]

404
00:27:51.911 --> 00:27:53.879
[REPORTER]:
Through the London streets

405
00:27:53.913 --> 00:27:56.295
where so often the eager crowds
had cheered

406
00:27:56.847 --> 00:27:59.160
the procession
wends its silent way.

407
00:28:00.368 --> 00:28:02.404
This is London's
day of mourning.

408
00:28:07.202 --> 00:28:10.205
[LACEY]: All the weight is now
on her shoulders.

409
00:28:14.278 --> 00:28:17.074
It's the end of an era

410
00:28:17.109 --> 00:28:19.870
and now she has to give
her own stamp

411
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:22.217
to a new era.

412
00:28:23.287 --> 00:28:24.254
[REPORTER]:
London.

413
00:28:24.875 --> 00:28:26.981
The morning
of Tuesday June 2nd

414
00:28:27.567 --> 00:28:29.949
the morning
of Coronation Day.

415
00:28:31.571 --> 00:28:33.263
A new day dawns.

416
00:28:33.988 --> 00:28:36.369
Slowly, the first rays
of chill light

417
00:28:36.404 --> 00:28:38.406
creep across the face
of the royal city

418
00:28:38.924 --> 00:28:41.547
lighting upon thousands
huddled along the route.

419
00:28:42.099 --> 00:28:43.929
A cold, damp morning

420
00:28:44.239 --> 00:28:47.346
but in their hearts, there is
a warmth beyond description.

421
00:28:47.864 --> 00:28:49.486
From the farthest
corners of the world

422
00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:52.282
they have come to see
the first lady of our nation

423
00:28:52.316 --> 00:28:54.974
journey in rich majesty
to her crowning.

424
00:29:06.330 --> 00:29:07.884
[RIDLEY]:
Elizabeth becoming Queen

425
00:29:07.918 --> 00:29:10.472
has a sort of uplifting effect
on the country.

426
00:29:13.165 --> 00:29:15.581
I mean, it's the beginning
of the end of rationing.

427
00:29:15.615 --> 00:29:17.617
It's the beginning
of the end of the legacy

428
00:29:17.652 --> 00:29:18.826
of the Second World War.

429
00:29:20.828 --> 00:29:23.175
Britain is no longer
feeling quite so poor

430
00:29:23.209 --> 00:29:24.210
and unhappy

431
00:29:24.866 --> 00:29:26.557
and Elizabeth seems to embody

432
00:29:26.592 --> 00:29:30.492
all the sort of new hope
of a new Elizabethan reign.

433
00:29:35.463 --> 00:29:37.396
The first coronation
to be televised.

434
00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:40.123
For lots of people, the first
time they ever saw television

435
00:29:40.157 --> 00:29:41.158
or bought a television.

436
00:29:42.608 --> 00:29:44.299
[CHILDREN CHATTER]

437
00:29:46.474 --> 00:29:48.234
[ARBITER]: On the day
of the coronation

438
00:29:48.269 --> 00:29:49.995
I watched it all on television

439
00:29:50.029 --> 00:29:52.169
and it wasn't colour television

440
00:29:52.204 --> 00:29:53.619
it was black
and white television.

441
00:29:53.653 --> 00:29:54.862
You had to have
the curtains drawn

442
00:29:54.896 --> 00:29:57.623
because if they were open,
a chink of light would get in

443
00:29:57.657 --> 00:29:59.280
and it would destroy
the picture.

444
00:29:59.314 --> 00:30:02.007
Sitting on my dining room chair

445
00:30:02.041 --> 00:30:04.975
looking at the television
with a dozen neighbours

446
00:30:05.010 --> 00:30:07.115
who'd all crammed
into that room.

447
00:30:07.150 --> 00:30:08.841
It was a day-long enterprise

448
00:30:08.876 --> 00:30:11.533
with sandwiches,
and bottles of pop and things.

449
00:30:18.609 --> 00:30:20.508
[ARCHBISHOP]:
I here present unto you

450
00:30:21.026 --> 00:30:22.199
Queen Elizabeth

451
00:30:22.648 --> 00:30:24.546
your undoubted Queen.

452
00:30:25.478 --> 00:30:28.240
Wherefore all you
who are come this day

453
00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:30.898
to do your homage and service

454
00:30:31.105 --> 00:30:33.141
are you willing
to do the same?

455
00:30:33.728 --> 00:30:36.420
[ALL]:
God save Queen Elizabeth!

456
00:30:49.123 --> 00:30:50.262
[ARCHBISHOP]:
Madam.

457
00:30:50.296 --> 00:30:52.574
Is Your Majesty
willing to take the oath?

458
00:30:53.058 --> 00:30:54.059
[ELIZABETH]:
I am willing.

459
00:30:55.750 --> 00:30:58.339
[ARCHBISHOP]: Will you solemnly
promise and swear

460
00:30:59.064 --> 00:31:00.651
to govern the peoples

461
00:31:01.031 --> 00:31:03.068
of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain

462
00:31:03.102 --> 00:31:04.207
and Northern Ireland?

463
00:31:05.311 --> 00:31:07.348
[ELIZABETH]:
I solemnly promise, so to do.

464
00:31:30.681 --> 00:31:33.374
[ALL]:
God save the Queen!

465
00:31:33.408 --> 00:31:35.065
God save the Queen!

466
00:31:35.410 --> 00:31:37.481
God save the Queen!

467
00:31:46.697 --> 00:31:49.252
I was one of the Queen's
maids of honour

468
00:31:49.286 --> 00:31:50.632
on Coronation Day.

469
00:31:54.533 --> 00:31:57.294
She was fantastically calm.

470
00:31:59.020 --> 00:32:03.024
She outwardly
was treating it just as

471
00:32:03.231 --> 00:32:05.061
a great occasion

472
00:32:05.095 --> 00:32:08.512
but didn't appear
to be nervous at all.

473
00:32:13.276 --> 00:32:15.726
And when we got out
of Westminster Abbey

474
00:32:15.761 --> 00:32:19.075
we were all formed up,
sort of behind her.

475
00:32:19.351 --> 00:32:22.664
I mean, she just said,
"Ready, girls?"

476
00:32:24.356 --> 00:32:25.736
And off we went.

477
00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:28.498
[CROWD CLAMOURS]

478
00:32:41.787 --> 00:32:43.271
[LADY MUIR]:
The roar of the crowd

479
00:32:43.582 --> 00:32:45.825
it was incredibly joyous

480
00:32:45.860 --> 00:32:48.690
and it was the most ghastly day.

481
00:32:49.036 --> 00:32:51.417
It was half raining
and very cold.

482
00:32:53.143 --> 00:32:55.628
Even then, the crowds
were absolutely enormous.

483
00:32:58.631 --> 00:33:01.151
It was amazing.

484
00:33:01.186 --> 00:33:02.704
It was very, very special.

485
00:33:17.236 --> 00:33:20.239
[LACEY]: The coronation
would actually mark

486
00:33:20.515 --> 00:33:22.483
a fresh beginning for Britain.

487
00:33:26.590 --> 00:33:27.764
It's the transition

488
00:33:28.316 --> 00:33:29.628
in terms of the decade

489
00:33:29.662 --> 00:33:32.838
between the age of austerity

490
00:33:33.218 --> 00:33:35.082
and the swinging '60s.

491
00:33:35.116 --> 00:33:36.255
Suddenly, it is glamour.

492
00:33:55.412 --> 00:33:57.518
[ELIZABETH]: As this day
draws to its close

493
00:33:59.244 --> 00:34:02.212
I know that my abiding
memory of it

494
00:34:02.247 --> 00:34:05.802
will be not only the solemnity

495
00:34:05.836 --> 00:34:07.493
and beauty of the ceremony

496
00:34:08.908 --> 00:34:13.120
but the inspiration
of your loyalty and affection.

497
00:34:14.500 --> 00:34:18.090
I thank you all
from a full heart.

498
00:34:19.574 --> 00:34:21.300
God bless you all.

499
00:34:44.323 --> 00:34:46.532
[LACEY]: The focus of it
is Elizabeth.

500
00:34:46.808 --> 00:34:48.534
The hand raised.

501
00:34:48.569 --> 00:34:50.467
That little baby in the pram

502
00:34:50.502 --> 00:34:52.573
has now progressed
to the Queen

503
00:34:52.607 --> 00:34:54.540
and now, the hand...

504
00:34:55.507 --> 00:34:57.854
wreaks magic
across the whole world.

505
00:34:57.888 --> 00:34:58.751
[TRAIN HORN HONKS]

506
00:35:09.797 --> 00:35:11.971
[NIKKHAH]: I think when
Elizabeth becomes Queen

507
00:35:12.006 --> 00:35:14.250
the role of mother
to the nation

508
00:35:14.284 --> 00:35:16.390
supersedes that
of being mother to her children.

509
00:35:17.977 --> 00:35:19.876
The demands on her time,
and the expectation

510
00:35:19.910 --> 00:35:23.293
of that role
are overwhelming.

511
00:35:30.197 --> 00:35:32.544
[REPORTER]: ... Hamilton,
Elizabeth II and her husband

512
00:35:32.578 --> 00:35:34.684
the Duke of Edinburgh,
greeted by Bermuda's governor.

513
00:35:34.718 --> 00:35:37.687
Jamaica, the largest island
in the British West Indies.

514
00:35:37.928 --> 00:35:40.621
[ELIZABETH]: Standing
at last on Australian soil

515
00:35:40.897 --> 00:35:44.418
I want to tell you all
how much I look forward

516
00:35:44.935 --> 00:35:46.799
to my journey
through Australia.

517
00:35:46.834 --> 00:35:48.560
[CROWD APPLAUDS]

518
00:35:50.907 --> 00:35:53.323
[LACEY]:
Just about their first job

519
00:35:53.358 --> 00:35:56.154
that they take on
is to go off round the world

520
00:35:56.740 --> 00:35:59.191
to present themselves

521
00:35:59.226 --> 00:36:02.298
to the ending empire
and the new Commonwealth

522
00:36:02.919 --> 00:36:05.818
and they leave
their children at home.

523
00:36:10.789 --> 00:36:13.032
[KERR]:
They circumnavigate the globe

524
00:36:13.067 --> 00:36:15.518
in five months without
leaving British territory.

525
00:36:15.552 --> 00:36:17.761
She becomes the most travelled
monarch in history.

526
00:36:19.004 --> 00:36:21.972
[REPORTER]: They have travelled
4,500 miles by land

527
00:36:22.387 --> 00:36:24.389
10,000 miles by air...

528
00:36:25.597 --> 00:36:27.806
[SIR MCDONALD]: It must be
a very tiring business

529
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.636
having to go round the world,
greeting people

530
00:36:31.706 --> 00:36:33.329
but she regards it
as part of her duty.

531
00:36:37.264 --> 00:36:38.403
[ELIZABETH]:
I'm glad too

532
00:36:38.851 --> 00:36:40.577
to be able to thank once again

533
00:36:41.509 --> 00:36:43.580
our hosts all around the globe

534
00:36:44.581 --> 00:36:46.963
for the way in which they made
our visits to them

535
00:36:47.757 --> 00:36:49.655
so enthralling and so agreeable.

536
00:36:54.867 --> 00:36:55.868
[TRAIN HORN BLARES]

537
00:37:06.707 --> 00:37:09.330
[LACEY]: Young Charles
and Anne remain at home

538
00:37:09.572 --> 00:37:11.746
essentially
in the care of nannies

539
00:37:12.057 --> 00:37:15.923
so that when the Queen
and her husband come home...

540
00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:20.272
there's this poignant scene

541
00:37:20.307 --> 00:37:23.448
where Prince Charles almost
seems not to recognise

542
00:37:23.827 --> 00:37:26.968
who is this lady, appearing.

543
00:37:42.605 --> 00:37:45.780
[RIDLEY]: There is a gap between
Elizabeth's first two children

544
00:37:45.815 --> 00:37:47.679
who are born
before she becomes Queen

545
00:37:47.713 --> 00:37:49.577
and then the third
and fourth children

546
00:37:49.612 --> 00:37:51.061
who are born later
in the '60s.

547
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.002
[REPORTER]: What would you like
the baby to be?

548
00:38:01.037 --> 00:38:02.107
[BOY]: A boy!
- [REPORTER]: Why?

549
00:38:02.141 --> 00:38:04.074
So I can hear
the 21 guns going off.

550
00:38:08.665 --> 00:38:11.392
[WOMAN]: I've been here
this morning since 10 o'clock.

551
00:38:11.427 --> 00:38:13.083
And how long are
you going to wait now?

552
00:38:13.118 --> 00:38:14.775
Oh, I'll wait till about
5 o'clock, I think

553
00:38:14.809 --> 00:38:15.914
till it gets too dark.

554
00:38:17.985 --> 00:38:19.987
[WOMAN 2]: Well, I thought
it'd be very interesting

555
00:38:20.021 --> 00:38:21.644
to be here when the news
was announced

556
00:38:21.678 --> 00:38:22.886
that the Queen had had a child.

557
00:38:25.889 --> 00:38:27.615
[REPORTER]: Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Philip

558
00:38:27.650 --> 00:38:29.410
proudly introduced
Prince Andrew.

559
00:38:35.105 --> 00:38:37.694
[REPORTER]: It's Her Majesty's
appearance on the balcony

560
00:38:37.729 --> 00:38:40.007
with three-month-old
Prince Edward in her arms.

561
00:38:43.390 --> 00:38:45.599
[LACEY]:
The birth of Andrew

562
00:38:45.633 --> 00:38:49.361
and Edward in the 1960s

563
00:38:49.396 --> 00:38:52.675
tells us of the importance
she attaches

564
00:38:52.709 --> 00:38:54.366
to having children

565
00:38:54.401 --> 00:38:57.852
and to trying to create
a family life.

566
00:38:57.887 --> 00:39:00.476
And we can see there
in these years

567
00:39:00.510 --> 00:39:02.478
the duality, the conflict.

568
00:39:02.512 --> 00:39:05.757
She wants to be together,
she wants a family life

569
00:39:05.791 --> 00:39:08.173
but at the same time,
duty has to intervene.

570
00:39:13.212 --> 00:39:16.388
And so the themes
that are going to develop

571
00:39:16.423 --> 00:39:17.665
through her reign...

572
00:39:18.183 --> 00:39:21.738
it's the conflict
between duty and love

573
00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:24.879
which of course, she's seen
in very dramatic terms

574
00:39:25.155 --> 00:39:26.502
in the abdication

575
00:39:26.536 --> 00:39:29.159
are now going to play out
in her own life

576
00:39:29.643 --> 00:39:30.782
in different ways.

577
00:39:31.645 --> 00:39:33.371
[ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
PLAYS ON FOOTAGE]

578
00:39:35.062 --> 00:39:37.133
[REPORTER]: An elegantly
dressed Princess Margaret

579
00:39:37.167 --> 00:39:38.306
goes dancing in London.

580
00:39:38.859 --> 00:39:41.586
The 25-year-old princess
is gay and animated

581
00:39:41.620 --> 00:39:44.002
as she and her partner,
Charles Smith-Ryland

582
00:39:44.036 --> 00:39:45.762
perform an accomplished foxtrot

583
00:39:45.797 --> 00:39:48.006
even in the midst of
such a crush of dancers.

584
00:39:50.595 --> 00:39:53.045
[MORTON]: During the 1950s,
there were two people

585
00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:54.771
who were
on magazine covers.

586
00:39:54.806 --> 00:39:56.946
Elizabeth Taylor
and Princess Margaret.

587
00:39:57.256 --> 00:39:59.086
She was the most
glamorous member

588
00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:01.468
of the Royal Family in decades.

589
00:40:01.709 --> 00:40:03.228
[CAMERAS CLICK]

590
00:40:03.711 --> 00:40:06.093
She would be photographed
going to nightclubs

591
00:40:06.127 --> 00:40:07.508
to restaurants...

592
00:40:08.785 --> 00:40:10.856
so she was the first,
as it were

593
00:40:10.891 --> 00:40:12.133
"paparazzi princess".

594
00:40:12.996 --> 00:40:14.584
[CAMERAS CLICK]

595
00:40:19.244 --> 00:40:21.867
[REPORTER]: Excitement bubbles
like champagne in London

596
00:40:21.902 --> 00:40:23.938
as Group Captain
Peter Townsend returns

597
00:40:23.973 --> 00:40:25.526
from diplomatic duties
in Belgium

598
00:40:25.561 --> 00:40:27.459
to call on Princess Margaret.

599
00:40:27.494 --> 00:40:29.565
Another, possibly
a climatic phase

600
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.912
opens in the much-publicised
royal romance

601
00:40:31.946 --> 00:40:33.741
that's had
the Western world agog.

602
00:40:34.052 --> 00:40:35.640
All the world loves a lover

603
00:40:35.674 --> 00:40:37.296
and there's nothing
like a happy ending

604
00:40:37.331 --> 00:40:39.816
to a royal love story
for national rapture.

605
00:40:44.856 --> 00:40:47.997
[MORTON]: Elizabeth, within the
first few months of her reign

606
00:40:48.238 --> 00:40:49.619
was on the horns
of a dilemma.

607
00:40:53.554 --> 00:40:55.694
Margaret came to see her
and explained

608
00:40:55.729 --> 00:40:58.041
that she was in love
with a divorcee

609
00:40:58.076 --> 00:40:59.767
Group Captain Peter Townsend.

610
00:40:59.802 --> 00:41:02.529
Now, the Queen
liked Peter Townsend.

611
00:41:02.563 --> 00:41:04.082
He was a decent man,
charming...

612
00:41:06.636 --> 00:41:08.224
but he was a divorcee

613
00:41:08.258 --> 00:41:09.881
at a time when
the Church of England

614
00:41:10.537 --> 00:41:12.090
did not allow divorce.

615
00:41:17.336 --> 00:41:20.685
[LADY MUIR]: I knew
Princess Margaret very well.

616
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.134
We were contemporaries.

617
00:41:23.860 --> 00:41:25.897
She wanted to marry
Peter Townsend.

618
00:41:25.931 --> 00:41:27.864
I mean, they were
very much in love.

619
00:41:30.246 --> 00:41:32.144
He was a very attractive man.

620
00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.527
I mean, I sat next to him
at dinner a number of times

621
00:41:35.872 --> 00:41:37.633
and he was absolutely charming

622
00:41:37.667 --> 00:41:41.119
and I could absolutely see
why she fell in love with him.

623
00:41:44.053 --> 00:41:46.814
Elizabeth is acutely divided
over this situation.

624
00:41:46.849 --> 00:41:47.746
It's a dilemma.

625
00:41:52.130 --> 00:41:53.683
She wants to help her sister.

626
00:41:53.718 --> 00:41:55.754
She wants her sister
to be happy

627
00:41:55.789 --> 00:41:57.963
but as head of
the Church of England

628
00:41:58.170 --> 00:42:00.241
her duty is in conflict
with this.

629
00:42:04.901 --> 00:42:08.318
And her solution is, really,
to sort of wait

630
00:42:08.664 --> 00:42:11.149
and to hope that
if they delay the marriage

631
00:42:11.183 --> 00:42:12.668
don't get engaged

632
00:42:12.702 --> 00:42:14.980
then perhaps
the whole thing will fizzle out.

633
00:42:16.741 --> 00:42:19.295
[MORTON]: She hoped that
he would find somebody else

634
00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:21.815
and that her sister,
who'd fallen in love

635
00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:24.403
effectively with the first man
she'd set eyes on

636
00:42:24.438 --> 00:42:26.060
when she was 16

637
00:42:26.095 --> 00:42:28.131
would start to look elsewhere.

638
00:42:47.910 --> 00:42:51.016
[LADY MUIR]: It was very sad
that she didn't marry him.

639
00:42:53.122 --> 00:42:54.917
Times have changed now

640
00:42:54.951 --> 00:42:56.815
but in those days,
I mean, you...

641
00:42:57.367 --> 00:43:00.129
you didn't marry
a divorced person

642
00:43:00.163 --> 00:43:01.302
and that was it.

643
00:43:06.756 --> 00:43:10.035
[RIDLEY]: For Elizabeth,
who was devoted to Margaret

644
00:43:10.070 --> 00:43:11.796
this was a huge relief.

645
00:43:11.830 --> 00:43:14.419
It meant she didn't
have to follow her duty

646
00:43:14.453 --> 00:43:16.041
and forbid the relationship.

647
00:43:20.287 --> 00:43:21.840
Much as she loved her sister

648
00:43:21.875 --> 00:43:23.428
duty always comes first.

649
00:43:35.992 --> 00:43:37.649
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

650
00:43:41.515 --> 00:43:43.724
[REPORTER]: The first stop
on this royal tour

651
00:43:43.759 --> 00:43:45.864
is, tonight, giving the Queen
a big welcome

652
00:43:45.899 --> 00:43:48.177
but never before have plans
for a royal tour

653
00:43:48.211 --> 00:43:51.007
been subjected to such anxious
last-minute scrutiny

654
00:43:51.318 --> 00:43:53.251
since last weekend,
when bombs exploded

655
00:43:53.285 --> 00:43:55.494
near the route marked out
for the royal drive

656
00:43:55.529 --> 00:43:57.324
the whole question
of the Queen's safety

657
00:43:57.358 --> 00:43:59.188
has been searchingly
re-examined.

658
00:44:10.820 --> 00:44:12.788
[PRESIDENT NKRUMAH]:
We must attain control

659
00:44:12.822 --> 00:44:14.790
of our own economic
and political destinies.

660
00:44:18.069 --> 00:44:21.003
We ask for complete
independence at the earliest

661
00:44:21.037 --> 00:44:22.038
practicable moment.

662
00:44:25.248 --> 00:44:29.114
I am an African nationalist,
wanting my people

663
00:44:29.321 --> 00:44:31.323
to have their own
independence

664
00:44:31.358 --> 00:44:32.773
just like any other country.

665
00:44:36.328 --> 00:44:37.916
[LACEY]:
The first Elizabethan age

666
00:44:37.951 --> 00:44:39.884
saw the creation
of the British Empire

667
00:44:39.918 --> 00:44:41.782
and the expansion
of the nation.

668
00:44:46.511 --> 00:44:48.306
The second Elizabethan age

669
00:44:48.755 --> 00:44:51.930
the new Elizabeth steps
into a diminishing nation

670
00:44:52.310 --> 00:44:54.208
no longer top dog in the world.

671
00:44:54.588 --> 00:44:56.970
[MEN SING]:

672
00:45:06.048 --> 00:45:08.326
[KERR]: Britain's royal world
changes dramatically.

673
00:45:11.122 --> 00:45:13.262
Things begin to look difficult
for the empire.

674
00:45:13.296 --> 00:45:14.366
It begins to be unsustainable.

675
00:45:19.302 --> 00:45:21.891
[LACEY]: Countries in Africa
want their freedom.

676
00:45:21.926 --> 00:45:24.825
They see India
go independent in 1947.

677
00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:27.034
They don't want this
top-down relationship

678
00:45:27.414 --> 00:45:31.038
with some remote European
power which is exploiting them.

679
00:45:31.073 --> 00:45:33.420
They want to create
their own destiny.

680
00:45:36.837 --> 00:45:39.391
Many monarchies
come crumbling down

681
00:45:39.944 --> 00:45:41.221
with their empires.

682
00:45:41.497 --> 00:45:43.499
Who knows what lies ahead

683
00:45:43.533 --> 00:45:47.365
and her choices
are going to be very important.

684
00:45:52.232 --> 00:45:55.373
In the wide association
which is the Commonwealth

685
00:45:56.823 --> 00:46:00.033
we must all try to cultivate
the virtues

686
00:46:00.067 --> 00:46:01.897
of tolerance and understanding.

687
00:46:03.174 --> 00:46:05.486
To recognise
each other's qualities

688
00:46:06.833 --> 00:46:09.111
and to respect
each other's feelings.

689
00:46:25.230 --> 00:46:27.336
[KERR]: Obviously,
there's a lot of negativity

690
00:46:27.370 --> 00:46:30.028
in empire, certainly when
we look at it historically

691
00:46:30.063 --> 00:46:32.030
and there's an implication
of one race

692
00:46:32.065 --> 00:46:33.791
being better than other races.

693
00:46:37.484 --> 00:46:40.038
So, Elizabeth,
through her leadership

694
00:46:40.073 --> 00:46:43.076
she had to turn Britain's back
on those ideas

695
00:46:43.490 --> 00:46:45.630
and create this new idea
of equality

696
00:46:47.080 --> 00:46:48.357
embodied in the Commonwealth.

697
00:46:52.602 --> 00:46:55.951
[LACEY]: And in these years,
dozens of countries

698
00:46:55.985 --> 00:46:59.057
go from being colonies
to independent members

699
00:46:59.092 --> 00:47:00.403
of the United Nations.

700
00:47:03.406 --> 00:47:05.546
But Britain has a Queen

701
00:47:05.581 --> 00:47:07.169
a glamorous figure

702
00:47:07.203 --> 00:47:11.035
to which many countries feel
they want to remain attached

703
00:47:11.311 --> 00:47:15.591
to remain members
of this curious family

704
00:47:16.005 --> 00:47:17.351
the British Commonwealth.

705
00:47:18.490 --> 00:47:20.527
In this modern age

706
00:47:21.010 --> 00:47:23.530
the strength and unity
of the Commonwealth family

707
00:47:24.427 --> 00:47:27.120
does not lie in common ancestry

708
00:47:27.154 --> 00:47:29.847
nor in pursuing
the same political line.

709
00:47:31.365 --> 00:47:33.436
It springs from the knowledge

710
00:47:33.989 --> 00:47:36.474
that we all share
a lively concern

711
00:47:36.508 --> 00:47:38.303
for individual freedom

712
00:47:38.648 --> 00:47:41.341
and all the machinery
which makes this possible.

713
00:47:44.965 --> 00:47:46.933
[KERR]: She doesn't think
that she has a right

714
00:47:46.967 --> 00:47:48.935
to be Queen
of any of these countries.

715
00:47:50.108 --> 00:47:52.524
She believes
in multi-racialism.

716
00:47:55.976 --> 00:47:58.634
I think, interestingly,
as a black person growing up

717
00:47:58.668 --> 00:48:00.567
she was probably
the only public figure

718
00:48:01.016 --> 00:48:03.984
that I regularly saw
with other black people

719
00:48:04.226 --> 00:48:07.160
and she seemed to treat them
in a position of equality.

720
00:48:09.610 --> 00:48:12.510
I think it makes her a very
modern, contemporary figure.

721
00:48:12.544 --> 00:48:14.236
Almost ahead of her times.

722
00:48:18.481 --> 00:48:20.587
She works very, very hard

723
00:48:20.621 --> 00:48:22.900
at knowing what goes on
in those countries

724
00:48:23.693 --> 00:48:25.903
about their current
preoccupations

725
00:48:27.318 --> 00:48:31.046
and they always feel that
they have a friend at court

726
00:48:32.185 --> 00:48:34.118
and that means
an enormous amount to them.

727
00:48:45.301 --> 00:48:47.200
[CROWD CHEERS]

728
00:48:47.234 --> 00:48:51.549
She is the glue that holds
all these countries together.

729
00:49:05.804 --> 00:49:08.428
[LACEY]: Britain is rather
an empty concept

730
00:49:08.462 --> 00:49:10.395
in some ways, in the 1970s.

731
00:49:10.430 --> 00:49:12.018
It's lost its empire.

732
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:14.399
What can it turn to?

733
00:49:17.678 --> 00:49:19.818
[HARDMAN]:
From very early on, the '70s

734
00:49:19.853 --> 00:49:22.269
become this period of
great turmoil.

735
00:49:25.686 --> 00:49:28.275
Britain starts
to not quite fall apart

736
00:49:28.310 --> 00:49:30.312
but it's a very troubled place.

737
00:49:30.726 --> 00:49:32.383
[CROWD CLAMOURS]

738
00:49:33.073 --> 00:49:35.317
[REPORTER]: It seemed like
a sure formula for trouble

739
00:49:35.351 --> 00:49:38.182
a major National Front march,
and at the same spot

740
00:49:38.216 --> 00:49:40.115
a left-wing rally
with one object

741
00:49:40.149 --> 00:49:41.495
to oppose the Front.

742
00:49:41.702 --> 00:49:43.566
Despite a massive
police presence

743
00:49:43.601 --> 00:49:45.741
the trouble came
almost immediately.

744
00:49:46.431 --> 00:49:47.985
[INDISTINCT SHOUTS]

745
00:49:55.613 --> 00:49:58.547
[LACEY]: Britain in the 1970s
was a succession of crises.

746
00:50:04.656 --> 00:50:08.315
Absolute confrontation
between certain sections

747
00:50:08.350 --> 00:50:10.628
of the population
and the government.

748
00:50:13.286 --> 00:50:15.150
[REPORTER]: Every day,
new rubbish is added

749
00:50:15.184 --> 00:50:17.083
to already decaying piles

750
00:50:17.117 --> 00:50:19.223
almost twice as fast
as the troops can cope.

751
00:50:21.328 --> 00:50:23.606
[REPORTER 2]: Squares as
famous as Leicester Square

752
00:50:23.641 --> 00:50:25.436
had been transformed
into special dumps.

753
00:50:27.196 --> 00:50:29.129
[HARDMAN]:
The unions versus

754
00:50:29.164 --> 00:50:30.786
the Conservative government
of Edward Heath

755
00:50:30.820 --> 00:50:33.375
becomes the sort of
dominant story

756
00:50:33.409 --> 00:50:34.238
of the early '70s.

757
00:50:35.653 --> 00:50:38.069
You know, the economy
is getting progressively worse.

758
00:50:38.897 --> 00:50:42.384
Industrial unrest is
breaking out all over the place.

759
00:50:42.936 --> 00:50:44.903
[MAN]: What do we need?
- More pay!

760
00:50:44.938 --> 00:50:46.422
When do we want it?
- Now!

761
00:50:46.733 --> 00:50:48.528
[INDISTINCT SHOUTS]

762
00:50:51.945 --> 00:50:54.430
The UK was not
a happy country to be in

763
00:50:54.741 --> 00:50:56.432
and people needed something

764
00:50:56.467 --> 00:50:58.124
to be able to
let their hair down.

765
00:50:58.503 --> 00:51:00.367
[WIND CHIMES JINGLE]

766
00:51:06.649 --> 00:51:08.513
[PEOPLE CHATTER]

767
00:51:09.928 --> 00:51:11.275
[ARBITER]:
The government decided

768
00:51:11.309 --> 00:51:12.724
yes, there would be
a celebration

769
00:51:12.759 --> 00:51:14.105
for the Silver Jubilee

770
00:51:14.140 --> 00:51:15.900
but a lot of money
wouldn't be spent on it

771
00:51:15.934 --> 00:51:17.764
cos it would be
the wrong thing to do.

772
00:51:37.508 --> 00:51:40.269
At this moment,
of my Silver Jubilee

773
00:51:41.201 --> 00:51:44.825
I want to thank
all those in Britain

774
00:51:45.516 --> 00:51:46.793
and the Commonwealth

775
00:51:47.863 --> 00:51:49.865
who, through their loyalty
and friendship

776
00:51:50.590 --> 00:51:52.557
have given me strength
and encouragement

777
00:51:52.971 --> 00:51:55.422
during these last 25 years.

778
00:51:55.457 --> 00:51:56.665
[CROWD CHEERS]

779
00:51:57.873 --> 00:51:59.495
[ARBITER]:
The Queen did travel

780
00:51:59.530 --> 00:52:01.601
to Australia, New Zealand

781
00:52:01.635 --> 00:52:02.947
and the Pacific Islands

782
00:52:02.981 --> 00:52:04.707
and to Canada
and to the West Indies...

783
00:52:06.778 --> 00:52:09.402
and I think she did
something like 36 counties

784
00:52:09.919 --> 00:52:11.645
in the United Kingdom

785
00:52:11.680 --> 00:52:13.578
travelling something like
7,000 miles.

786
00:52:16.581 --> 00:52:18.307
So, she did her duty.

787
00:52:18.514 --> 00:52:21.931
People turned up in their tens
of thousands to see her.

788
00:52:25.556 --> 00:52:27.316
[CROWD CHEERS]

789
00:52:47.819 --> 00:52:49.407
[ELIZABETH]:
When I was 21

790
00:52:49.856 --> 00:52:53.411
I pledged my life to the service
of our people.

791
00:52:54.067 --> 00:52:56.380
Although that vow was made

792
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.522
in my salad days,
when I was green in judgement

793
00:53:02.040 --> 00:53:05.354
I do not regret
nor retract one word of it.

794
00:53:05.665 --> 00:53:07.632
[CROWD CHEERS]

795
00:53:09.807 --> 00:53:11.567
[HARDMAN]:
People always want something

796
00:53:11.602 --> 00:53:13.535
to be proud of,
something to cheer them up

797
00:53:13.569 --> 00:53:14.501
in a crisis.

798
00:53:16.572 --> 00:53:20.335
The Jubilee, for people,
it represents a moment

799
00:53:20.369 --> 00:53:22.923
to come together
and be proud of being British.

800
00:53:25.547 --> 00:53:27.342
It's an excuse for a party.

801
00:53:27.549 --> 00:53:29.965
It's one of the rare moments

802
00:53:29.999 --> 00:53:31.932
of a sort of national unity

803
00:53:31.967 --> 00:53:34.038
after several years
of national discord.

804
00:53:34.728 --> 00:53:36.213
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

805
00:53:55.853 --> 00:53:57.441
[REPORTER]:
Is there any possibility

806
00:53:57.475 --> 00:53:59.097
of any announcement
of your marriage

807
00:53:59.132 --> 00:54:00.858
in the near future,
can you tell me?

808
00:54:00.892 --> 00:54:02.860
[BOY YELLS]:
Prince Charles' wifey!

809
00:54:02.894 --> 00:54:04.793
Can you tell me if there's
any possibility?

810
00:54:05.518 --> 00:54:07.451
I'm not going to say
anything, I'm afraid.

811
00:54:07.485 --> 00:54:08.866
Oh, sorry!
- Prince Charles did give us

812
00:54:08.900 --> 00:54:10.385
a hint himself.

813
00:54:10.419 --> 00:54:11.593
He said we wouldn't
have to wait too long.

814
00:54:11.627 --> 00:54:12.801
Careful!
- [THEY LAUGH]

815
00:54:18.462 --> 00:54:19.739
[MORTON]:
In the early days

816
00:54:19.773 --> 00:54:23.087
the Queen's relationship
with Diana was very good.

817
00:54:23.121 --> 00:54:26.608
I mean, she welcomed
Diana into the fold.

818
00:54:26.642 --> 00:54:28.575
As she and Prince Philip
used to say

819
00:54:28.610 --> 00:54:30.059
"She's one of us,"
and she was.

820
00:54:32.752 --> 00:54:34.926
The Queen felt that
she was a great addition

821
00:54:34.961 --> 00:54:36.618
to the family,
and she liked the fact

822
00:54:36.652 --> 00:54:39.379
that she was boisterous, fun

823
00:54:39.690 --> 00:54:41.933
someone who could jolt
Prince Charles

824
00:54:41.968 --> 00:54:43.901
out of his melancholic state.

825
00:54:45.765 --> 00:54:47.318
[PEOPLE CHANT]:
We want Di!

826
00:54:47.594 --> 00:54:48.871
We want Di!

827
00:54:49.700 --> 00:54:51.391
We want Di!

828
00:54:52.565 --> 00:54:53.876
[CROWD CHEERS]

829
00:54:54.636 --> 00:54:56.465
[]
Diana, Princess of Wales

830
00:54:56.500 --> 00:54:59.710
was just something so new
for the Royal Family.

831
00:55:00.020 --> 00:55:02.713
A young, fresh
approach to life

832
00:55:02.747 --> 00:55:04.611
obviously able to communicate

833
00:55:04.646 --> 00:55:06.924
and get on very easily
with people.

834
00:55:11.066 --> 00:55:13.620
[REPORTER]: Lady Diana Spencer
is soon to become

835
00:55:13.655 --> 00:55:15.760
Her Royal Highness,
the Princess of Wales.

836
00:55:18.384 --> 00:55:19.937
[OWEN]:
In the earlier stages

837
00:55:19.971 --> 00:55:23.803
they seemed like the most
glamorous couple in the world.

838
00:55:23.837 --> 00:55:25.736
[REPORTER]: What about the
proposal, Your Royal Highness?

839
00:55:25.770 --> 00:55:26.978
How did that come about?

840
00:55:27.600 --> 00:55:29.981
Um... Well, I...

841
00:55:30.016 --> 00:55:31.914
I asked Diana

842
00:55:31.949 --> 00:55:33.537
before she went to Australia.

843
00:55:33.847 --> 00:55:35.435
You actually said...

844
00:55:35.470 --> 00:55:36.919
[DIANA]: Yes, quite promptly.
- [HE LAUGHS]

845
00:55:47.827 --> 00:55:49.000
[REPORTER]:
Hello, good morning.

846
00:55:49.035 --> 00:55:50.692
Well, the big day has arrived.

847
00:55:50.726 --> 00:55:52.625
Britain and the world
will celebrate

848
00:55:52.659 --> 00:55:54.696
the wedding of the Prince
and Princess of Wales.

849
00:55:57.630 --> 00:55:58.838
[CROWD CHEERS]

850
00:56:05.189 --> 00:56:06.466
[OWEN]:
It was generally seen

851
00:56:06.501 --> 00:56:08.399
that this was an ideal way

852
00:56:08.434 --> 00:56:12.230
to modernise the Royal Family,
to have a couple

853
00:56:12.265 --> 00:56:14.509
who could seem
much more part

854
00:56:14.543 --> 00:56:16.062
of the modern age, if you like.

855
00:56:16.787 --> 00:56:17.960
[CROWD CHEERS]

856
00:56:24.864 --> 00:56:26.486
[HARDMAN]:
The Queen is obviously still

857
00:56:26.521 --> 00:56:27.625
very much in charge.

858
00:56:28.108 --> 00:56:30.214
She's still very well-regarded

859
00:56:30.248 --> 00:56:32.112
hugely respected
and admired

860
00:56:33.735 --> 00:56:35.806
but in terms of public interest

861
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:37.842
the sort of tectonic plates
have shifted.

862
00:56:39.223 --> 00:56:41.605
People want to know
all they can about this

863
00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:43.192
the most glamorous
young couple on Earth.

864
00:56:43.745 --> 00:56:45.402
[CROWD CLAMOURS]

865
00:56:48.681 --> 00:56:50.407
[CROWD ROARS]

866
00:56:59.795 --> 00:57:01.487
[SIRENS WAIL]

867
00:57:14.327 --> 00:57:16.467
The Queen did go through
difficult years

868
00:57:16.502 --> 00:57:17.641
when I was there.

869
00:57:18.020 --> 00:57:19.297
I don't think it was my fault

870
00:57:19.332 --> 00:57:21.161
and it wasn't her fault either.

871
00:57:21.783 --> 00:57:24.958
I think the one that really
does come to mind is 1992.

872
00:57:32.241 --> 00:57:34.727
We knew that there was
a book coming out

873
00:57:34.761 --> 00:57:37.281
but there'd been so many books
about the Royal Family.

874
00:57:37.971 --> 00:57:39.145
Some of them fairly bland

875
00:57:39.179 --> 00:57:40.560
some of them sensational

876
00:57:40.595 --> 00:57:42.493
some of them sort of
blue-sky thinking

877
00:57:42.528 --> 00:57:45.082
sort of looking up and thinking,
"Well, what can I make up now?"

878
00:57:45.979 --> 00:57:48.465
And there I was,
reading in black and white

879
00:57:49.293 --> 00:57:51.744
stuff that could have
only come from her.

880
00:57:51.778 --> 00:57:53.470
It couldn't have come
from anybody else.

881
00:58:02.858 --> 00:58:04.998
And Diana phoned me
at about half past four

882
00:58:05.033 --> 00:58:06.344
five o'clock that morning

883
00:58:06.379 --> 00:58:08.312
"What do I do?" she said,
in a panic.

884
00:58:08.346 --> 00:58:09.934
I said, "Ma'am,
you've already done it."

885
00:58:14.939 --> 00:58:17.632
[MORTON]:
In 1991, '92, Diana felt

886
00:58:17.666 --> 00:58:19.599
very much a prisoner
of the palace.

887
00:58:19.806 --> 00:58:22.740
She felt that she was isolated.

888
00:58:22.775 --> 00:58:25.156
She felt that she was
marginalised.

889
00:58:25.191 --> 00:58:28.090
She felt that her husband
was effectively

890
00:58:28.125 --> 00:58:30.886
living with another man's wife,
Camilla Parker Bowles.

891
00:58:30.921 --> 00:58:33.302
She just felt
that she was living a lie

892
00:58:33.337 --> 00:58:34.925
and she wanted
to tell the truth.

893
00:58:50.837 --> 00:58:53.391
We wouldn't have published
this story if it wasn't true

894
00:58:53.426 --> 00:58:55.773
and hundreds of journalists
around the world

895
00:58:55.808 --> 00:58:58.224
have spent the last week
trying to find

896
00:58:58.258 --> 00:58:59.708
some flaw in this story.

897
00:58:59.743 --> 00:59:01.917
It is an accurate story.
It's a true account.

898
00:59:01.952 --> 00:59:04.817
The people at the centre of it
have stood by their stories.

899
00:59:04.851 --> 00:59:06.681
I stand resolutely behind them.

900
00:59:06.957 --> 00:59:08.752
The story was effectively

901
00:59:09.304 --> 00:59:13.204
one which those inside
the Royal Family knew about.

902
00:59:13.619 --> 00:59:15.621
They were aware
that Prince Charles was seeing

903
00:59:15.655 --> 00:59:16.725
another man's wife.

904
00:59:16.967 --> 00:59:19.107
They were aware
that Diana had suffered

905
00:59:19.141 --> 00:59:21.281
from an eating disorder,
bulimia nervosa.

906
00:59:24.457 --> 00:59:26.183
They couldn't believe
that something

907
00:59:26.217 --> 00:59:29.082
which had been
kept behind closed doors

908
00:59:29.117 --> 00:59:30.981
was now out in the public.

909
00:59:36.296 --> 00:59:38.851
[ARBITER]: The Queen
was, at first, angry.

910
00:59:38.885 --> 00:59:40.818
Prince Philip was very angry.

911
00:59:47.273 --> 00:59:50.345
[MORTON]:
One of the overriding qualities

912
00:59:50.379 --> 00:59:52.692
that the Queen has shown
during her long reign

913
00:59:52.727 --> 00:59:54.452
has been a sense of duty

914
00:59:54.487 --> 00:59:55.868
a profound sense of duty.

915
00:59:56.282 --> 00:59:58.836
And she expected her son

916
00:59:59.319 --> 01:00:00.631
to adhere to that

917
01:00:02.219 --> 01:00:05.256
and she did feel
that with Charles and Diana

918
01:00:05.291 --> 01:00:08.328
that they should make
a genuine attempt

919
01:00:08.363 --> 01:00:09.778
to make the marriage work

920
01:00:09.813 --> 01:00:11.918
because it was so damaging

921
01:00:12.194 --> 01:00:14.162
to the House of Windsor
and to the monarchy.

922
01:00:14.196 --> 01:00:15.819
[CAMERAS CLICK]

923
01:00:20.099 --> 01:00:22.826
[REPORTER]: Backbench MPs
have called it a savage attack

924
01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:24.793
on the personal lives
of the Royal Family.

925
01:00:27.416 --> 01:00:29.384
To anyone watching
the sheer number of press

926
01:00:29.418 --> 01:00:31.213
surrounding members
of the Royal Family

927
01:00:31.248 --> 01:00:34.009
there might be an impression
of a monarchy under siege.

928
01:00:35.942 --> 01:00:37.288
[CROWD CHEERS]

929
01:00:52.856 --> 01:00:55.686
[CHARLES ANSON]: The family
troubles and the separations

930
01:00:55.721 --> 01:00:59.725
and divorces and various other
sort of gossipy stories

931
01:00:59.932 --> 01:01:03.660
did have an impact on people's
perception of the family.

932
01:01:04.350 --> 01:01:07.077
This looked like the monarchy
was on its way out.

933
01:01:11.806 --> 01:01:15.292
That year was a year
of endless surprises

934
01:01:15.326 --> 01:01:17.466
and nothing was more surprising

935
01:01:17.501 --> 01:01:19.158
when on that Friday morning

936
01:01:19.745 --> 01:01:21.850
on a perfectly normal
Friday morning

937
01:01:22.057 --> 01:01:24.888
one of my team
came in and said...

938
01:01:25.129 --> 01:01:27.787
there's a small fire at Windsor

939
01:01:27.822 --> 01:01:29.547
and this is looking
very serious.

940
01:01:29.582 --> 01:01:31.273
The fire is spreading
very quickly.

941
01:01:44.424 --> 01:01:46.944
[KERR]: I've known Windsor
Castle since I was a little boy

942
01:01:46.979 --> 01:01:48.428
since I was brought up
very close

943
01:01:48.463 --> 01:01:50.707
so that was really, really
shocking.

944
01:01:56.022 --> 01:01:58.369
So, to see that building
I'd known and loved all my life

945
01:01:58.404 --> 01:02:00.061
massively in flames

946
01:02:00.095 --> 01:02:03.098
and the flames rising
hundreds of feet...

947
01:02:04.030 --> 01:02:05.342
I'll never forget that sight.

948
01:02:19.528 --> 01:02:21.116
[ANSON]:
She was out there

949
01:02:21.151 --> 01:02:25.396
and was able, of course,
to see all that was going on.

950
01:02:38.962 --> 01:02:41.378
[ARBITER]: The Queen had
lived there during the war.

951
01:02:41.861 --> 01:02:45.002
Five years during the war,
it really was home from home.

952
01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:48.488
She had first gone to Windsor

953
01:02:48.523 --> 01:02:51.181
when her grandfather was there,
George V.

954
01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.982
So it played a very pivotal role
in her life

955
01:02:59.845 --> 01:03:03.952
and to see this
centuries-old castle go up

956
01:03:04.332 --> 01:03:06.506
was very emotional, it was
very emotional for everybody.

957
01:03:19.934 --> 01:03:22.315
[ANSON]: And of course,
we all said how sorry

958
01:03:22.350 --> 01:03:24.076
we were about it,
and the Queen...

959
01:03:25.629 --> 01:03:27.251
just looked up
and smiled and said

960
01:03:27.286 --> 01:03:29.219
"At least we saved the pictures"

961
01:03:29.253 --> 01:03:34.569
which was a typical...
majestic understatement

962
01:03:34.603 --> 01:03:37.434
of what had been
a very troubling day.

963
01:03:44.682 --> 01:03:45.649
[DISTANT OFFICER SHOUTS]

964
01:03:47.168 --> 01:03:48.307
[SOLDIERS MARCH]

965
01:03:50.171 --> 01:03:52.656
[ANSON]:
That speech at the Guildhall

966
01:03:52.690 --> 01:03:56.833
in 1992 was at quite
an emotional moment.

967
01:04:06.670 --> 01:04:09.155
It had been
a difficult year already

968
01:04:09.500 --> 01:04:12.262
and then the fire
at Windsor on the Friday...

969
01:04:12.296 --> 01:04:16.335
She'd had a very, very
difficult sort of three days

970
01:04:16.369 --> 01:04:17.923
quite emotionally draining.

971
01:04:20.166 --> 01:04:23.549
It made for quite an emotional
moment for the Queen.

972
01:04:26.069 --> 01:04:29.866
1992 is not a year

973
01:04:30.142 --> 01:04:33.559
on which I shall look back
with undiluted pleasure.

974
01:04:36.251 --> 01:04:39.945
In the words of one of my more
sympathetic correspondents

975
01:04:40.324 --> 01:04:44.604
it has turned out to be
an annus horribilis.

976
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:45.882
[QUIET CHUCKLES]

977
01:04:46.089 --> 01:04:47.538
But the crack in the voice

978
01:04:47.573 --> 01:04:49.644
the smoke in her lungs

979
01:04:49.678 --> 01:04:52.405
and in her speech
was sort of evident

980
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:56.582
and made it feel as if the Queen
was almost on the edge of tears.

981
01:04:59.619 --> 01:05:02.415
I sometimes wonder
how future generations

982
01:05:03.175 --> 01:05:05.971
will judge the events
of this tumultuous year.

983
01:05:07.731 --> 01:05:10.320
I daresay that history
would take

984
01:05:10.354 --> 01:05:12.494
a slightly more moderate view

985
01:05:12.529 --> 01:05:15.187
than that of some
contemporary commentators.

986
01:05:16.498 --> 01:05:18.121
There can be no doubt,
of course

987
01:05:18.155 --> 01:05:20.088
that criticism
is good for people

988
01:05:20.123 --> 01:05:23.609
and institutions
that are part of public life

989
01:05:25.128 --> 01:05:27.647
and that scrutiny,
by one part of another

990
01:05:28.476 --> 01:05:30.581
can be just as effective

991
01:05:30.616 --> 01:05:33.619
if it is made with
a touch of gentleness

992
01:05:34.033 --> 01:05:36.277
good humour and understanding.

993
01:05:38.555 --> 01:05:42.076
[ANSON]: This was not
a self-pitying speech.

994
01:05:42.110 --> 01:05:45.665
It was a speech
about standards in public life

995
01:05:45.700 --> 01:05:49.738
the standing of our institutions
in a modern society

996
01:05:50.187 --> 01:05:51.775
and the fact
that it was healthier

997
01:05:51.809 --> 01:05:53.259
that there was criticism

998
01:05:53.294 --> 01:05:56.435
and, you know, the monarchy
needed to examine itself

999
01:05:56.469 --> 01:05:57.954
just as did other parts of it.

1000
01:05:59.300 --> 01:06:01.543
[REPORTER]: It was the Queen
voicing her own thoughts

1001
01:06:01.578 --> 01:06:04.788
under pressure to defend
her institution and her family.

1002
01:06:16.110 --> 01:06:17.663
[CROWD CHEERS]

1003
01:06:27.086 --> 01:06:31.125
[ELIZABETH]: Mr President,
I am delighted to welcome you

1004
01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:32.367
to Buckingham Palace

1005
01:06:32.885 --> 01:06:36.061
on this,
the first state visit to Britain

1006
01:06:36.095 --> 01:06:38.028
by a president of South Africa

1007
01:06:39.616 --> 01:06:41.790
and thus to underline once more

1008
01:06:42.205 --> 01:06:44.828
the close friendship
between our two countries.

1009
01:06:46.071 --> 01:06:47.624
[REPORTER]:
Meanwhile, the princess

1010
01:06:47.658 --> 01:06:50.144
last seen with Prince Charles
in public at Eton

1011
01:06:50.178 --> 01:06:53.319
she has apparently yet to reply
to the letter from the Queen

1012
01:06:53.354 --> 01:06:55.218
urging an early divorce.

1013
01:06:55.252 --> 01:06:57.185
According to friends,
she's determined

1014
01:06:57.220 --> 01:06:58.704
there will be no divorce

1015
01:06:58.738 --> 01:07:00.706
until her future status
is assured.

1016
01:07:02.535 --> 01:07:04.572
Let's just remind people
who are just joining us

1017
01:07:04.606 --> 01:07:05.780
of why we're on the air.

1018
01:07:05.814 --> 01:07:07.747
We have reports from Paris

1019
01:07:08.438 --> 01:07:10.681
that Diana Princess of Wales
has been killed

1020
01:07:10.716 --> 01:07:11.751
in a car accident.

1021
01:07:55.381 --> 01:07:56.727
[FAINT BIRDSONG]

1022
01:08:03.976 --> 01:08:06.599
The silence from Balmoral
was deafening.

1023
01:08:10.155 --> 01:08:12.847
I think everybody
was looking for leadership

1024
01:08:13.296 --> 01:08:14.676
and for comfort.

1025
01:08:24.997 --> 01:08:27.206
[REPORTER]: Nicholas Owen,
our royal correspondent

1026
01:08:27.241 --> 01:08:28.345
is with me in the studio.

1027
01:08:28.863 --> 01:08:30.278
Nicholas?

1028
01:08:30.313 --> 01:08:32.211
[OWEN IN FOOTAGE]:
This is an occasion when frankly

1029
01:08:32.246 --> 01:08:33.557
words are not adequate at all.

1030
01:08:33.592 --> 01:08:34.765
The most...

1031
01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:36.319
I would say almost

1032
01:08:36.353 --> 01:08:38.424
the most loved member
of the Royal Family...

1033
01:08:41.703 --> 01:08:42.842
[OWEN]:
I went down there

1034
01:08:44.189 --> 01:08:46.639
and I began to hear
the whispers of criticism

1035
01:08:47.364 --> 01:08:48.676
of the Queen.

1036
01:08:50.505 --> 01:08:51.851
She looked uncaring.

1037
01:08:52.749 --> 01:08:53.784
She looked uncaring.

1038
01:08:56.925 --> 01:08:59.169
There was a danger
of the monarchy

1039
01:08:59.204 --> 01:09:01.758
getting into serious disrepute.

1040
01:09:03.794 --> 01:09:06.797
People might really turn
against the Queen herself.

1041
01:09:10.249 --> 01:09:12.286
[ARBITER]: There were
all sorts of headlines.

1042
01:09:12.320 --> 01:09:14.150
"Your people need you, ma'am."

1043
01:09:15.012 --> 01:09:16.842
Well, there were two people
who needed her more

1044
01:09:16.876 --> 01:09:17.739
William and Harry.

1045
01:09:31.788 --> 01:09:33.997
[ARBITER]:
To her, it was important

1046
01:09:34.031 --> 01:09:37.276
that her grandsons
came out of this OK.

1047
01:09:44.766 --> 01:09:46.665
The Queen stayed at Balmoral

1048
01:09:46.699 --> 01:09:48.805
to be a granny, and not Queen.

1049
01:09:53.016 --> 01:09:57.193
First time she has
put family above duty.

1050
01:10:17.799 --> 01:10:19.491
The Queen's flight is expected

1051
01:10:19.525 --> 01:10:21.700
to arrive at Northolt
any minute now.

1052
01:10:21.734 --> 01:10:24.358
She'll then make her way
to Buckingham Palace

1053
01:10:24.392 --> 01:10:26.739
to prepare for her live
broadcast to the nation

1054
01:10:26.774 --> 01:10:28.016
at six o'clock tonight.

1055
01:10:34.057 --> 01:10:35.817
[KERR]:
The Queen seemed off-balance.

1056
01:10:36.784 --> 01:10:39.442
There was almost a sort of
revolutionary atmosphere.

1057
01:10:40.443 --> 01:10:42.721
There was this anger
in the streets.

1058
01:10:50.384 --> 01:10:51.868
[ARBITER]:
Coming back to London

1059
01:10:52.524 --> 01:10:55.768
with the attack from the media
in the back of your mind.

1060
01:10:56.769 --> 01:10:58.495
"Is this going to be OK?"

1061
01:11:02.948 --> 01:11:05.053
[KERR]: Outside the gates
of Buckingham Palace

1062
01:11:05.088 --> 01:11:08.298
there's this tumult
of flowers and bouquets

1063
01:11:08.643 --> 01:11:10.507
and silent people.

1064
01:11:10.852 --> 01:11:11.819
Were they going to be angry?

1065
01:11:19.033 --> 01:11:20.931
[ARBITER]: There was
a bit of apprehension

1066
01:11:21.415 --> 01:11:24.418
as to what sort of reception
there would be.

1067
01:11:31.010 --> 01:11:32.805
[CROWD CHATTERS]

1068
01:11:34.635 --> 01:11:36.119
[CROWD APPLAUDS]

1069
01:11:46.888 --> 01:11:49.408
[SIR MCDONALD]: I don't
think I'd ever seen an image

1070
01:11:49.443 --> 01:11:51.721
of the Queen outside
Buckingham Palace on foot

1071
01:11:53.412 --> 01:11:55.621
but it was an indication

1072
01:11:55.656 --> 01:11:57.796
of the depth of feeling,
I think...

1073
01:11:59.660 --> 01:12:02.732
that she should at some stage
acknowledge

1074
01:12:02.766 --> 01:12:04.872
all those people who expressed

1075
01:12:04.906 --> 01:12:07.461
such great sorrow
about the passing of Diana.

1076
01:12:12.017 --> 01:12:13.812
[ARBITER]:
They looked at floral tributes.

1077
01:12:13.846 --> 01:12:15.814
They put flowers down
for mourners.

1078
01:12:16.642 --> 01:12:17.919
They talked to mourners.

1079
01:12:20.025 --> 01:12:22.130
When she came out,
she kind of looked at me

1080
01:12:22.165 --> 01:12:24.512
for a bit of reassurance,
I suppose

1081
01:12:24.754 --> 01:12:27.688
and I just said,
"That was fine, Your Majesty"

1082
01:12:27.722 --> 01:12:28.896
because it was fine.

1083
01:12:41.805 --> 01:12:44.014
Since last Sunday's
dreadful news

1084
01:12:44.636 --> 01:12:47.604
we have seen throughout Britain
and around the world

1085
01:12:48.502 --> 01:12:50.642
an overwhelming
expression of sadness

1086
01:12:50.676 --> 01:12:52.022
at Diana's death.

1087
01:12:52.057 --> 01:12:53.679
The line I always remember

1088
01:12:53.714 --> 01:12:55.854
the line that always
came out to me was

1089
01:12:56.061 --> 01:12:58.028
"as your Queen
and a grandmother."

1090
01:12:58.650 --> 01:13:00.134
So, what I say to you now

1091
01:13:00.168 --> 01:13:02.792
as your Queen
and as a grandmother

1092
01:13:02.999 --> 01:13:04.932
I say from my heart.

1093
01:13:05.139 --> 01:13:07.072
Head of the nation,
head of state

1094
01:13:07.106 --> 01:13:11.110
and also somebody
who was absolutely deeply

1095
01:13:11.145 --> 01:13:13.147
personally touched
by what had happened

1096
01:13:13.181 --> 01:13:15.460
and it was absolutely
the key moment, I think

1097
01:13:15.494 --> 01:13:18.428
the key moment to turn
public opinion round.

1098
01:13:19.809 --> 01:13:22.708
[ELIZABETH]: First, I want
to pay tribute to Diana myself.

1099
01:13:24.572 --> 01:13:26.436
I admired and respected her

1100
01:13:26.471 --> 01:13:28.956
for her energy
and commitment to others

1101
01:13:29.681 --> 01:13:32.753
and especially for her devotion
to her two boys.

1102
01:13:35.238 --> 01:13:38.793
I share in your determination
to cherish her memory.

1103
01:13:40.036 --> 01:13:41.865
Thank God for someone

1104
01:13:41.900 --> 01:13:44.247
who made many, many
people happy.

1105
01:13:46.939 --> 01:13:48.562
Suddenly, people thought

1106
01:13:48.596 --> 01:13:51.979
"Oh, gosh, yeah. This is
a tragedy for her as well."

1107
01:13:52.013 --> 01:13:55.879
And sympathy switched
very much

1108
01:13:55.914 --> 01:13:57.502
towards the Queen at that point.

1109
01:14:21.249 --> 01:14:23.079
[REPORTER]:
And the Queen standing there

1110
01:14:23.113 --> 01:14:26.254
in front of the gate
of Buckingham Palace.

1111
01:14:27.255 --> 01:14:29.913
A sight that no one
has seen before

1112
01:14:29.948 --> 01:14:31.639
because it hasn't
happened before.

1113
01:14:48.587 --> 01:14:51.210
[ARBITER]:
As the gun carriage went past

1114
01:14:51.832 --> 01:14:53.765
the Queen bowed.

1115
01:14:58.252 --> 01:15:00.116
The Queen doesn't normally bow.

1116
01:15:03.913 --> 01:15:06.053
She was showing
a mark of respect

1117
01:15:06.605 --> 01:15:08.124
that only she could've done.

1118
01:15:20.723 --> 01:15:23.311
I think that's the closest
we're ever going to come

1119
01:15:23.346 --> 01:15:26.591
to knowing
what the Queen thinks

1120
01:15:26.625 --> 01:15:28.558
how the Queen feels.

1121
01:15:40.639 --> 01:15:42.158
[BELL TOLLS]

1122
01:15:47.888 --> 01:15:50.304
[KERR]: There was a breach
between the British people

1123
01:15:50.338 --> 01:15:52.133
and their monarchy
that week.

1124
01:15:52.755 --> 01:15:54.273
[BELL TOLLS]

1125
01:15:57.414 --> 01:15:58.588
But the Queen...

1126
01:15:59.209 --> 01:16:01.177
through powerful
personal leadership

1127
01:16:01.211 --> 01:16:02.316
healed the breach.

1128
01:16:02.765 --> 01:16:04.387
[BELL TOLLS]

1129
01:16:04.421 --> 01:16:07.045
And yet again,
she connected very powerfully

1130
01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:08.667
at this moment of crisis.

1131
01:16:52.677 --> 01:16:54.264
[ANSON]:
The newspapers were saying

1132
01:16:54.299 --> 01:16:57.026
that there was virtually
no interest whatsoever

1133
01:16:57.060 --> 01:16:58.268
in the Golden Jubilee.

1134
01:17:02.031 --> 01:17:03.688
And this showed how much

1135
01:17:03.722 --> 01:17:05.448
the public were simply
not interested

1136
01:17:05.482 --> 01:17:07.208
in the monarchy
and the Royal Family.

1137
01:17:10.764 --> 01:17:13.387
And certainly less interested
five years after

1138
01:17:13.421 --> 01:17:15.700
the tragic death of
Princess Diana.

1139
01:17:19.186 --> 01:17:21.982
[LACEY]: As Elizabeth
approaches her Jubilee

1140
01:17:22.016 --> 01:17:25.157
her own life
has been challenged

1141
01:17:25.537 --> 01:17:29.645
by the death in short order
of her mother

1142
01:17:29.990 --> 01:17:31.716
and her sister Margaret

1143
01:17:31.750 --> 01:17:34.442
both of them incredibly
strong figures

1144
01:17:34.477 --> 01:17:36.444
with whom she spent
all her life to date.

1145
01:17:39.344 --> 01:17:40.897
[ANSON]:
There was a sort of sense

1146
01:17:40.932 --> 01:17:43.244
that the Jubilee was going
to be a very low-key occasion.

1147
01:17:43.866 --> 01:17:45.281
[CROWD CHATTERS]

1148
01:18:04.921 --> 01:18:06.198
[CROWD CHEERS]

1149
01:18:08.269 --> 01:18:09.892
[ANSON]:
But in fact, it turned out

1150
01:18:09.926 --> 01:18:12.239
that the public wanted
to celebrate

1151
01:18:12.273 --> 01:18:13.965
both the Queen

1152
01:18:13.999 --> 01:18:17.244
as well as where Britain was,
and what it stood for.

1153
01:18:20.074 --> 01:18:22.283
[SIR MCDONALD]: Looking
down the Mall on that day

1154
01:18:22.594 --> 01:18:25.079
you could see nothing
but people.

1155
01:18:28.289 --> 01:18:30.291
[ANSON]:
Crowds of over a million.

1156
01:18:31.983 --> 01:18:34.571
The same scale of
public acclaim

1157
01:18:34.606 --> 01:18:36.573
as after the end of
the Second World War.

1158
01:18:36.608 --> 01:18:37.782
You know, on VE Day.

1159
01:18:43.339 --> 01:18:45.065
And as the Queen
and Prince Philip

1160
01:18:45.099 --> 01:18:46.860
came through Admiralty Arch...

1161
01:18:46.894 --> 01:18:48.102
[CROWD CHEERS]

1162
01:18:48.137 --> 01:18:50.001
...the rush of air of people...

1163
01:18:52.072 --> 01:18:55.385
gasping, "There is the Queen"
was massive.

1164
01:18:58.009 --> 01:19:01.391
It was literally the rushing
of a mighty wind down the Mall.

1165
01:19:09.952 --> 01:19:11.367
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

1166
01:19:13.921 --> 01:19:16.268
The Queen very rarely
looks surprised

1167
01:19:16.303 --> 01:19:18.546
after 50 years of her reign

1168
01:19:18.581 --> 01:19:20.445
but she looked quite startled

1169
01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:23.172
that there was this much
sort of public acclamation.

1170
01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:29.109
Often, her look
is a very serious one

1171
01:19:29.143 --> 01:19:31.007
but when she breaks
into a smile

1172
01:19:31.042 --> 01:19:32.388
it is such a big smile.

1173
01:19:34.321 --> 01:19:36.254
It's a smile that welcomes
everybody.

1174
01:19:38.946 --> 01:19:41.121
[SIR MCDONALD]:
It was an enormous success

1175
01:19:42.294 --> 01:19:43.882
despite all the discussions

1176
01:19:43.917 --> 01:19:45.815
about whether
the days of monarchy

1177
01:19:45.850 --> 01:19:47.092
are coming to an end.

1178
01:19:47.541 --> 01:19:51.096
People wanted to come out
and show their respect

1179
01:19:51.131 --> 01:19:54.203
their regard for the job
that she's done so well

1180
01:19:54.513 --> 01:19:56.170
over so many years.

1181
01:19:57.171 --> 01:19:58.863
[BELLS RING]

1182
01:20:25.717 --> 01:20:28.133
[LACEY]: William's marriage
is very important

1183
01:20:28.168 --> 01:20:29.376
to his grandmother.

1184
01:20:32.551 --> 01:20:35.175
After these years
of marital disharmony

1185
01:20:35.416 --> 01:20:39.144
suddenly here is a classic
young royal romance.

1186
01:20:44.978 --> 01:20:47.912
Kate Middleton seems
the ideal future successor.

1187
01:20:48.326 --> 01:20:51.122
People already at this stage
are talking of her

1188
01:20:51.156 --> 01:20:52.537
as a future Elizabeth II...

1189
01:20:54.919 --> 01:20:56.713
which will lead,
everybody hopes

1190
01:20:56.748 --> 01:20:58.888
to seeing the monarchy clear

1191
01:20:58.923 --> 01:21:00.510
into future decades

1192
01:21:00.545 --> 01:21:02.512
maybe even
to the end of the century.

1193
01:21:03.134 --> 01:21:04.687
[CROWD CHEERS]

1194
01:21:14.076 --> 01:21:16.354
[NIKKHAH]: When Harry
gets married to Meghan

1195
01:21:16.388 --> 01:21:18.701
the feeling from the public
is overwhelmingly joyful.

1196
01:21:18.735 --> 01:21:20.634
The crowds are all behind them

1197
01:21:20.668 --> 01:21:22.360
the press is all behind them.

1198
01:21:23.602 --> 01:21:26.226
There is a feeling
that the future is

1199
01:21:26.260 --> 01:21:28.435
interesting and diverse

1200
01:21:28.469 --> 01:21:30.437
and modern.

1201
01:21:36.374 --> 01:21:37.754
[REPORTER]:
Breaking news tonight.

1202
01:21:37.789 --> 01:21:39.515
The Duke and Duchess
of Sussex have announced

1203
01:21:39.549 --> 01:21:41.068
that they are carving out

1204
01:21:41.103 --> 01:21:43.277
what they call a "new role"
for themselves.

1205
01:21:45.383 --> 01:21:48.006
[LACEY]: Certainly the way ahead
which seemed so clear

1206
01:21:48.558 --> 01:21:51.009
for the Royal Family,
these two brothers

1207
01:21:51.216 --> 01:21:53.943
and their beautiful wives
moving forward

1208
01:21:53.978 --> 01:21:56.014
into a new generation,
goes sour.

1209
01:21:56.256 --> 01:21:57.533
[CAMERAS CLICK]

1210
01:22:01.537 --> 01:22:03.435
[NIKKHAH]: I think
Harry and Meghan's decision

1211
01:22:03.470 --> 01:22:05.679
to leave the Royal Family
is a huge source

1212
01:22:05.713 --> 01:22:07.267
of disappointment
to the Queen.

1213
01:22:07.819 --> 01:22:09.165
She does say

1214
01:22:09.200 --> 01:22:10.787
"We would much rather
they had remained

1215
01:22:10.822 --> 01:22:12.306
working members
of the Royal Family."

1216
01:22:12.341 --> 01:22:14.964
And that's from
the Queen herself

1217
01:22:14.999 --> 01:22:16.310
so you get
a strong insight there

1218
01:22:16.345 --> 01:22:17.449
into what she wanted.

1219
01:22:29.772 --> 01:22:31.118
[NIKKHAH]:
She understands

1220
01:22:31.153 --> 01:22:33.017
how difficult things
have been for them

1221
01:22:33.051 --> 01:22:34.501
and so while it's a source
of great regret

1222
01:22:34.535 --> 01:22:36.123
and disappointment to her

1223
01:22:36.158 --> 01:22:37.607
this is her grandson, she's
not going to hold him back.

1224
01:22:42.129 --> 01:22:43.372
[LACEY]:
Then suddenly

1225
01:22:43.648 --> 01:22:45.546
the Queen is faced
with, effectively

1226
01:22:45.581 --> 01:22:47.065
a second abdication.

1227
01:22:47.583 --> 01:22:50.068
A couple going off into exile...

1228
01:22:52.588 --> 01:22:56.592
and it's this curious echo
of her early years.

1229
01:23:01.700 --> 01:23:03.288
It's an unresolved issue.

1230
01:23:03.323 --> 01:23:05.014
She moves ahead.

1231
01:23:05.049 --> 01:23:07.189
Harry and Meghan
go to live in America

1232
01:23:07.223 --> 01:23:08.604
but it...

1233
01:23:08.811 --> 01:23:12.711
it's something that sours
these later years of her reign.

1234
01:23:14.437 --> 01:23:16.198
[BIRDSONG]

1235
01:23:29.073 --> 01:23:31.282
[REPORTER]: We are
breaking into programmes

1236
01:23:31.316 --> 01:23:34.699
to bring you an announcement
from the Royal Household.

1237
01:23:37.633 --> 01:23:39.497
Buckingham Palace
has announced the death

1238
01:23:39.531 --> 01:23:42.189
of His Royal Highness
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

1239
01:23:42.224 --> 01:23:44.364
who has passed away
at the age of 99.

1240
01:23:46.607 --> 01:23:49.093
[BORIS JOHNSON]: Prince Philip
earned the affection

1241
01:23:49.127 --> 01:23:51.612
of generations here
in the United Kingdom

1242
01:23:52.165 --> 01:23:53.373
across the Commonwealth

1243
01:23:54.374 --> 01:23:55.478
and around the world.

1244
01:23:57.273 --> 01:23:59.034
[OFFICER]: Fire! Fire!
- [CANNON FIRES]

1245
01:24:01.588 --> 01:24:02.554
Fire!
- Fire!

1246
01:24:27.752 --> 01:24:29.685
[LACEY]:
With no relatives beside her

1247
01:24:31.169 --> 01:24:35.587
suddenly a widow,
having to face the future

1248
01:24:35.622 --> 01:24:38.866
without the man
whose laughter and ideas

1249
01:24:38.901 --> 01:24:41.593
and companionship
has always kept her going.

1250
01:25:08.517 --> 01:25:10.519
[LACEY]:
Without her mother

1251
01:25:10.553 --> 01:25:12.279
without her sister...

1252
01:25:13.901 --> 01:25:15.765
no confidantes, really.

1253
01:25:17.905 --> 01:25:21.116
That image of her
at her husband's funeral

1254
01:25:21.771 --> 01:25:23.566
physically on her own

1255
01:25:24.395 --> 01:25:26.949
it's something
that's haunting, somehow

1256
01:25:26.983 --> 01:25:29.296
and stands for everything

1257
01:25:29.331 --> 01:25:31.574
in these final years,
which is difficult.

1258
01:25:33.024 --> 01:25:34.370
[CANNON FIRES]

1259
01:25:51.284 --> 01:25:53.631
Let me begin
by saying thank you

1260
01:25:54.218 --> 01:25:56.392
to all the thousands
of kind people

1261
01:25:56.703 --> 01:25:58.843
who have sent me
messages of goodwill.

1262
01:26:06.437 --> 01:26:07.610
At such a time

1263
01:26:07.955 --> 01:26:09.888
it is a great help to know

1264
01:26:10.234 --> 01:26:12.167
that there are multitudes
of friends

1265
01:26:12.581 --> 01:26:14.030
all round the world

1266
01:26:14.065 --> 01:26:15.584
who are thinking of me

1267
01:26:15.618 --> 01:26:16.688
and who wish me well.

1268
01:26:21.900 --> 01:26:23.074
There is a motto

1269
01:26:23.108 --> 01:26:25.421
which has been borne
by many of my ancestors.

1270
01:26:26.353 --> 01:26:27.423
A noble motto.

1271
01:26:27.906 --> 01:26:28.873
"I serve."

1272
01:26:32.773 --> 01:26:34.534
[CROWD CHEERS]

1273
01:26:40.574 --> 01:26:42.680
I declare before you all

1274
01:26:43.405 --> 01:26:44.716
that my whole life

1275
01:26:44.992 --> 01:26:46.856
whether it be long or short

1276
01:26:47.892 --> 01:26:49.894
shall be devoted
to your service

1277
01:26:50.929 --> 01:26:54.416
and to the service
of our great imperial family

1278
01:26:54.692 --> 01:26:56.038
to which we all belong.

1279
01:27:02.907 --> 01:27:04.495
But I shall not have strength

1280
01:27:04.529 --> 01:27:06.807
to carry out
this resolution alone

1281
01:27:07.705 --> 01:27:09.707
unless you join in it with me...

1282
01:27:10.363 --> 01:27:11.847
[CROWD CHEERS]

1283
01:27:12.848 --> 01:27:14.781
...as I now invite you to do.

1284
01:27:19.579 --> 01:27:22.340
I know that your support
will be unfailingly given.

1285
01:27:24.100 --> 01:27:26.275
God help me
to make good my vow

1286
01:27:27.414 --> 01:27:28.864
and God bless all of you

1287
01:27:29.382 --> 01:27:30.797
who are willing to share in it.