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Sydney!
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Sydney!
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Unfortunately, the tests
revealed structural alterations
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in the larynx of His Royal Highness...
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and that the disease is advanced.
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There is no cure,
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only palliative care,
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and once the morphine starts,
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His Royal Highness will be debilitated
much of the time.
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My advice would be to make the most
of the precious time that remains.
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We must throw a party.
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Our greatest ever party.
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Hmm.
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And concentrate only on happy things.
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To that end,
let's cancel the Japanese emperor.
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Hirohito? No, we can't do that.
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No, too much planning has gone into it.
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Besides, it may be my only remaining
opportunity to restore my reputation.
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Oh, reputation...
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is an idle and most false imposition.
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Oft got without merit
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and lost without deserving.
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Hmm.
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No, we don't want it to look like Kabuki.
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Ah.
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Only the second time
he's ever left his country.
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Last time he was only 20.
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A boy. I was 26.
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He didn't speak a word of English.
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I gather he has a little now.
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They promised us no cameras.
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I don't want my people
to see me visit a man
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who could not hold on to his throne.
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Well...
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we didn't agree to this visit
for the conversation.
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One, two, three.
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Perfect.
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One, two, three.
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Imagine living in exile
from your homeland.
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I would sooner die.
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Never leaves Japan.
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Imagine being stuck on an island
your whole life.
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An island which is home.
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And where you reign as sovereign.
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I can think of worse things.
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"The Emperor and the former king.
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Two great statesman reunited." The Times.
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"A Royal Reunion." The New York Times.
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"Fifty years of strife laid to rest in
triumphant meeting." The Guardian.
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I heard this morning that he's requested
to do a television interview with the BBC.
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What kind of interview?
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An in-depth retrospective.
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I can't bear it.
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Now they're rehabilitating him.
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It's possible, Mummy,
that not everyone is as consumed
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by loathing of him as you are.
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Charles asked my blessing
to visit him in France.
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Whatever for?
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He said out of respect.
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But I imagine it's curiosity, too.
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One doesn't often get the opportunity
to meet a former king.
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Former kings are usually dead.
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That was cutting it fine.
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Why the cocktail dress?
Tonight's black tie.
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I'm not coming.
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What? You can't not come.
It's the amalgamation ball.
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I had a clash.
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- With what?
- None of your business.
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Look, this escalation of hostilities
is neither necessary nor justifiable.
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You had your chance for a ceasefire,
and you broke it.
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If you're talking about Ginny, it's over.
The whole thing was hideous.
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No, hideous was knowing
you were out on maneuvers with her.
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So, before we even discuss
the terms of a truce,
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you deserve to know how it feels.
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Who's that?
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Never you mind.
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- Evening.
- Good evening, sir.
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- You alone?
- Ah.
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Huh?
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Where's, uh... where's Memsahib?
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She had a better offer.
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- Really?
- Hmm.
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Oh.
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But, as it turns out... Evening.
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...that means I'm free to seek
a proposition of my own.
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Thank you.
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- Well, in that case...
- Yes?
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There's, uh...
There's someone you should meet.
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Come with me.
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Your Royal Highness?
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May I present
Captain Andrew Parker Bowles.
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Hello, Andrew.
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Your Royal Highness.
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What are you staring at?
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At you, ma'am.
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- And how much you've...
- Choose the next word very carefully.
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...flowered.
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Oh, you mean the dress.
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It's the Queen's. I look like a hydrangea.
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No, no. I mean, uh...
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...developed.
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Grown up.
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Evidently,
I've gone from invisible to visible.
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- No, you were, you were always visible.
- But somehow you'd never seen me.
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Now you're making up for it...
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...by gawping.
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- I'm so sorry.
- Don't apologize.
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I hate it when men apologize.
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It isn't honorable or chivalrous.
It's wet.
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I didn't say I objected to it, did I?
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- No.
- Well, then.
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I don't mind admitting I've done my fair
share of gawping at you over the years.
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Have you?
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On the polo field.
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When I should have been watching the
Duke of Edinburgh or the Prince of Wales,
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my young, impressionable female eye,
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for some reason, was drawn to you.
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- That was fun.
- Yes, it was.
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That said, we should probably
make it the last time.
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- I don't want you to get hurt.
- What makes you think I would?
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Oh, it's what tends to happen to anyone
who gets in the way.
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Of what?
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Me and her.
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You sail, don't you?
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Do I need to brace myself
for a nautical metaphor?
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At sea, there are, um...
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...hidden currents. Deadly.
They can pull one under.
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Camilla and I are a bit like that.
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What are you doing?
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Leaving.
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- But I don't want you to.
- You just said you did.
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No I didn't.
I said I don't want you to get hurt.
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This conversation is going round
and round in circles.
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I preferred it when we were going round
and round in circles.
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I can see perfectly clearly who you are,
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and what this is and I can assure you
I'm not going to get hurt.
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Now, what's it going to be?
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A resumption or a cessation?
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Of what?
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A resumption.
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Fine.
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Where do you get it from at your age?
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- What?
- Oh, come on. That confidence.
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I'm not confident, dear.
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Just tough.
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Here come Windsor Park,
in the green, on the attack.
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Good run up the field, on a glorious day
here at the Guards Polo Club.
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Coming straight through,
looking confident,
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Prince Charles leading the charge there
with number four.
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Leans it forward, but there's
Parker Bowles with a tail shot,
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backs up the ball to his teammate,
and Windsor Park, on the pivot,
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to try and recover.
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Go on, Charles, go on.
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Blues and Royals
in the white with the red stripes
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on the counter-attack now
with two minutes left in this chukka.
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- Come on, sir!
- ...a tussle for possession now.
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Go on, your Royal Highness, sir!
You can do it!
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Yes, it's Windsor Park!
Windsor Park pushing up once more.
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Parker!
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Oh, Parker Bowles rides off
the Prince of Wales.
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He's ridden him off.
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Parker Bowles hits the big one.
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Windsor Park rushing back now,
they're in trouble.
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Parker Bowles striking ahead.
But Prince Charles is still in the race.
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Come on, sir! Come on!
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He's closing!
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Oh, come on.
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He's closing!
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And Parker Bowles scores!
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Parker Bowles for the Blues and Royals!
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That makes it two goals to nothing!
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- Bad luck out there.
- I might see you afterwards.
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Hmm.
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You played well today.
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You and I both know I didn't.
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Andrew Parker Bowles played well today.
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You just need a bit more aggression
in your game, that's all.
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So you keep telling me.
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How was Paris?
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And the Duke of Windsor?
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It was all very odd.
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He didn't look at all well.
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Hmm?
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And the house is like some...
bizarre monarchy museum.
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Reeked of joss sticks and dogs.
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Was she there?
Flapping around like a demented bat?
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- Yes.
- Hmm.
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I hear she consumes nothing but whiskey.
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And has had so many facelifts
she can barely speak.
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- Dickie...
- Oh!
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I don't know if I've told you, but...
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we've been writing to one another.
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I think he sees something
of himself in me.
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Don't tell your grandmother that.
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He keeps telling me to find a wife.
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Oh! It's far too early for that.
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Now is the time to sow your oats.
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Play the field.
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Perhaps.
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But as it happens,
there is someone I quite like.
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The one cheering you on today, yes?
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- Yes.
- Hmm.
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Who used to be with Andrew Parker Bowles
until they had a falling out.
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Over Anne.
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If you please.
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- Your sister?
- Don't ask. It's all a bit messy.
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But the long and the short of it is,
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Camilla is now free,
and I'd like to snap her up.
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Hmm.
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And that's her name?
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- Yes.
- Hmm.
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Camilla Shand.
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I like her.
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So...
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Have you voted yet?
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Yes.
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Who for?
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None of your business, sir.
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They say it's a formality for Wilson.
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Ugh! Not if I've got anything
to do with it. Ah!
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I've rather given things away there,
haven't I?
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How am I going to be able to persuade you
to have dinner with me?
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- Issue a royal decree?
- I can't do that.
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I'm not King.
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Yet.
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Yet.
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Then just say please.
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Please.
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...this early general election
has failed to pay off,
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then it could be
we find ourselves waking up
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to a different prime minister tomorrow.
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The leader of the opposition,
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Mr. Edward Heath, Your Majesty.
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Mr. Heath.
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The people have voted
in your party's favor.
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As their sovereign, I invite you
to form a government in my name.
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Congratulations.
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Thank you, Your Majesty.
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It really is an encouraging set
of circumstances.
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Labour took the British people
for granted.
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Mr. Wilson behaved like a petty emperor,
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and treated this election
like a coronation.
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Nothing wrong with a coronation.
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Under the right circumstances.
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We then had a brief foray into small talk.
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He's taking a grand piano with him
to Downing Street, if you please.
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Some bring a wife, others a grand piano.
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I then asked him
what his first priorities were,
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he said he'd like me to go to France
at the earliest opportunity.
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What for?
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To try to charm Pompidou,
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so he doesn't block our entry
into the European Economic Community,
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like his predecessor.
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He's passionately committed to Europe.
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Your Majesty.
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- Your Royal Highness.
- Martin.
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I never see the other one anymore.
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- Sir?
- Where's the other one?
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The, um... the, the bald one.
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The... Oh!
Colonel Adeane. He's retired, sir.
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Has he?
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00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,040
- Three months ago. You gave him a clock.
- Did I?
263
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:23,400
What is it, Martin?
264
00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,560
A reminder that the BBC interview with
the Duke of Windsor is coming up soon.
265
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,680
Now, we understand the Duke
is no longer in the best of health.
266
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,960
Might be worth visiting
when you go to Paris.
267
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,600
Certainly not.
268
00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,560
Go on, Martin.
269
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,040
There's just a slight concern that
if the BBC interview were to go down well,
270
00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,240
following the successful visit
of Emperor Hirohito,
271
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,400
the question might be asked,
272
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,920
if the Japanese make the effort to visit,
why would his own family not?
273
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,680
He didn't cause them offense.
274
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,320
He didn't abdicate the Japanese throne,
or kill the Emperor's father.
275
00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,240
For the last time, no.
276
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,320
That man, his shame...
277
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,480
like the stench of livestock.
278
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,400
Sir?
279
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,160
It seeps into the woodwork,
and never goes away.
280
00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,880
Your Majesty.
281
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,840
Your Royal Highness.
282
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:46,880
Thank you.
283
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,960
♪ I'm beggin' ♪
284
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,720
- ♪ Beggin' you ♪
- ♪ Beggin' ♪
285
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,040
♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪
286
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,680
- ♪ Beggin' ♪
- ♪ Beggin' you ♪
287
00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,240
♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪
288
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,400
♪ Ridin' high ♪
289
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,080
♪ When I was king ♪
290
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,600
♪ Played it hard and fast
'Cause I had everything ♪
291
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,600
♪ You walked away ♪
292
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,480
♪ Won me then ♪
293
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,920
♪ But easy come and easy go
And it would end ♪
294
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,280
- ♪ Beggin' ♪
- ♪ Beggin' you ♪
295
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,560
♪ Put your lovin' hand out, baby ♪
296
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,480
♪ I'm fighting hard to hold my own ♪
297
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,520
♪ No I just can't make it all alone ♪
298
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,680
What's it like?
299
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,240
- Like?
- Living here.
300
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,080
Well, not very grand, as you can see.
301
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,240
This is the apartment
where they keep Anne and me.
302
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,400
Two bedrooms. One small drawing room.
All very normal.
303
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,040
Come on, none of this is normal.
304
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,080
Not just that you live in a palace,
but the fact that you are who you are.
305
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,800
Prince of Wales?
306
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320
It's not so much an existence as...
307
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,840
a predicament.
308
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,720
I am both free...
309
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,280
and imprisoned.
310
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,840
Utterly superfluous
and quite indispensable.
311
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,480
One can never fully invest in one thing,
or another because at any moment...
312
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,000
it could all change.
313
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,080
And you become king.
314
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,760
Not to mention
what it does to you as a family.
315
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,120
How can one be a good son when...
316
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,760
even though it's the thing you most...
317
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280
dread.
318
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,000
Her dying?
319
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,680
It's the thing you most...
320
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:04,680
Not desire.
321
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,800
Well, yes, desire.
322
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,840
Because until she dies
I cannot be fully alive.
323
00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:16,440
Nor can I be the thing
for which I have been born, so...
324
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,440
One is condemned
to this frightful business of waiting.
325
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,880
Like Saul Bellow.
326
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,880
Sorry, I don't know who he is.
Did he wait a lot?
327
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,960
He's an American author.
328
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,360
He wrote a book called Dangling Man.
329
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,760
I sometimes feel like the main character,
whom he describes as...
330
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,400
"Existing in a timeless,
and slightly ridiculous abyss."
331
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,560
Was he a prince?
332
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,160
No.
333
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,360
An unemployed man from Chicago
waiting to be drafted to go to war.
334
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,560
And he actually wants to be drafted,
because it will give his life meaning.
335
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,360
Even though he might be killed?
336
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,400
Yes.
337
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,720
That's how much humans need meaning.
338
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,000
Ma'am.
339
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,320
Oh, for me?
340
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,440
Hmm!
341
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:29,840
Ha! Gotcha!
342
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,800
That's brilliant!
343
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,160
That dreadful waffle
about dangling in the abyss!
344
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,680
Paul Sellow?
345
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760
S-S-Saul Bellow.
346
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,200
And the Queen dying.
347
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,280
Yes! Mummy kicking the bucket
at long last.
348
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,440
And then kerpow! Gotcha!
349
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,680
That's brilliant!
350
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,520
Oh!
351
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,240
Yes. Your face when you saw it,
"Oh, for me?"
352
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,520
I wasn't expecting that, sir!
353
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,720
Oh, my God, you got me!
354
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,240
Sorry, yes.
355
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,080
Sir, just a reminder,
356
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,160
the television interview
with his Royal Highness,
357
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,000
the Duke of Windsor, is about to begin.
358
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,400
Thank you. Thank you.
359
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,960
You join me
in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris
360
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,960
in this magnificent house,
once home to General de Gaulle.
361
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,240
Its occupants today need no introduction.
362
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,400
His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor,
363
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,960
Edward VIII, King of England
for a little more than ten months.
364
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,320
And the Duchess of Windsor,
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson,
365
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,600
when they met.
366
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,720
Ma'am, when you first met the Duke,
what was your first impression?
367
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,440
He struck me
as being rather "with it."
368
00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,520
Ahead of his time.
369
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480
Full of pep. Unlike most Englishmen.
370
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,040
And that meeting occurred
when you were Prince of Wales?
371
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,840
Yes. A role that
I also very much hoped to redefine.
372
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,400
I had my own ideas, my own opinions,
373
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,520
my own... philosophy.
374
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,600
And then finally the day came.
375
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,520
When you acceded to the throne.
376
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,440
Yes, and much to everyone's frustration,
377
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,400
I stayed true to myself...
378
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,120
and the conviction
that monarchy had to change,
379
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,680
to move with the times.
380
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,760
Hmm.
381
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,840
But I soon discovered that any attempt
to make even the most trifling change
382
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,520
was met with hostility and suspicion.
383
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:46,920
By whom?
384
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,320
By the establishment.
385
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,280
The gray men of the court.
386
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,960
And by my family, too.
387
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,880
They saw me as a rebel.
388
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,680
A threat.
389
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,000
- Too...
- Colorful.
390
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:01,720
Dynamic.
391
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:03,960
Individualistic.
392
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,640
Christ, they're ghastly.
393
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,800
In the end, I didn't get to introduce...
394
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,640
Both of them. Monstrous.
395
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,520
Because of the pressure
to stand down...
396
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,960
- I'm going to bed.
- ...to abdicate had become unbearable?
397
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,680
Yeah.
398
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,920
People always assume
it was because of the Duchess,
399
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:25,440
because of my obstinate desire to marry.
400
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,480
But the establishment's opposition
to our marriage
401
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,760
was really a symptom of something deeper.
402
00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:37,880
Their fear of the character
and freedom of thought,
403
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,760
which I represented.
404
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,880
How was it?
405
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,040
The candle-lit dinner?
406
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,160
Come on.
There are no secrets in this place.
407
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,880
Lovely.
408
00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:15,400
Thank you.
409
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,160
Camilla Shand, eh?
410
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,440
Yes.
411
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,200
And you're seeing her ex, Andrew.
412
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,320
Not sure you can call
what we're doing "seeing."
413
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920
Not sure you can call him an ex, either.
414
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,040
Camilla told me. He's definitely an ex.
415
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,960
Hmm.
416
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,520
Just make sure
things remain the right way round.
417
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,320
Us playing with Camilla and Andrew.
418
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Not them playing with us.
419
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,560
What does that mean?
420
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:00,680
Anne.
421
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,600
- Ah! Gotcha!
- Well played, ma'am.
422
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,200
Darling?
423
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,480
David.
424
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,560
Excuse me.
425
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,120
- Sir?
- No, no. I'm all right, I'm all right.
426
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,240
Sydney, call the doctor.
427
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,080
Yes, ma'am.
428
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,520
The plan is start in Rouen
429
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,280
to commemorate the Allied
fallen in the Great War.
430
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,120
Then back to Paris for a presentation
of the Diplomatic Corps.
431
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,360
Then the all-important reception
432
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,680
with President and Madame Pompidou
in the Élysée.
433
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,760
Hmm.
434
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,880
Landing in ten minutes, ma'am.
435
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,160
It is said
436
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,040
that those who do not learn from history
437
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,040
will be forever condemned to repeat it.
438
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,240
Though we have lived
through times of conflict,
439
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,280
our two countries share
an ancient relationship.
440
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,280
Let us not forget our deeper bonds,
441
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,160
our sense of common purpose
442
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,200
on which can be built a new partnership,
443
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,240
a new entente.
444
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,520
Joined together,
in this august European enterprise,
445
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,680
a great adventure lies ahead.
446
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,440
Monsieur le President.
L'Union fait la force.
447
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,640
Merci. Thank you.
448
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,680
Thank you.
449
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,680
- Excuse me, Your Majesty?
- Excuse me.
450
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,600
We've had a message concerning
His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor.
451
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,280
Uh, I think we're close to the end.
452
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,200
Thank you.
453
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,080
Your Royal Highness. Ma'am.
454
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,560
Her Majesty the Queen, she's coming.
455
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,400
- What, here?
- Yes, ma'am.
456
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,040
She's on her way.
457
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,320
- Get me up!
- You can't be serious.
458
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,680
I-I've never been more serious.
459
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Thank you.
460
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,800
Her Majesty the Queen, sir.
461
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,840
Thank you.
462
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,520
Oh, no. Please don't.
463
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,160
Your Majesty.
464
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,200
There was no need for that.
465
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,400
If the roles were reversed...
466
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,240
you would do exactly the same.
467
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:31,920
Yes.
468
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,760
I am sorry you're not well.
469
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,280
We've had our disagreements.
470
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,160
But you've always remained
my favorite uncle.
471
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,640
It's kind of you to say
472
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,200
and kind of you to...
473
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,520
visit.
474
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,080
Dear Lilibet.
475
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,400
- "Shirley Temple."
- Ah...
476
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,400
Yes.
477
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,240
I underestimated you.
478
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,560
We all did.
479
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,080
But the Crown always finds its way
to the right head.
480
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,560
My father, my brother...
481
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:20,720
you.
482
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,480
And... and one day, God willing, your son.
483
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,360
You don't think he's up to it?
484
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,680
I never said anything of the sort.
485
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,280
But you think it.
486
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:43,640
I can read you
487
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:49,120
every bit as well as you can read me...
488
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,280
and I know why you think it.
489
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,080
He can often appear weak.
490
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,240
Indecisive.
491
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,080
But with the right woman by his side,
492
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,720
I say he'll make a good king.
493
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,240
And his...
494
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,360
...thoughts have already turned
to the matter.
495
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:17,000
He writes to me, and I to him. He's...
496
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,400
He likes this girl, Camilla.
497
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,440
They barely know one another.
498
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:25,560
Sometimes...
499
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,520
one knows immediately.
500
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,800
You did.
501
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:34,880
What does he say?
502
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,680
Take the letters. Read them.
503
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,560
I can't do that.
It's a private correspondence.
504
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,200
They concern the future of the Crown...
505
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,320
and shed light on the soul
not only of a future king...
506
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,160
but also your son.
507
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,480
Better they should be in your hands
than anybody else's.
508
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,320
In the bureau. In the... the drawer.
509
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,000
And...
510
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:37,720
before you go,
511
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,320
one last time...
512
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,000
for all of it...
513
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,320
what I did to you...
514
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,320
forgive me.
515
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,200
Thank you.
516
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,280
What you did, your abdication
of the throne, did change my life.
517
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:07,560
Forever.
518
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,280
But I want you to know
519
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,080
it's not always a curse.
520
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,960
And I haven't always been cross with you.
521
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,560
That there are days...
522
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,720
in fact, more and more the older I get...
523
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,040
when I consider it to be a blessing.
524
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,160
I've even on occasion found myself...
525
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,640
wanting to thank you.
526
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,600
Dear Uncle David,
527
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160
I want to thank you again, and Wallis,
528
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,800
for having me at your home
in the Bois de Boulogne.
529
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,680
It's a rare thing that fate should allow
530
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,520
a former king
and a king-in-waiting to meet.
531
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,160
To tell the truth,
it opened my eyes to a few things.
532
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,520
To the nature of kingship...
533
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,320
the nature of love
534
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,240
and all the difficulties
that go with both.
535
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,680
I'm sure you know the family would have
preferred me not to visit you.
536
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,160
Afraid, perhaps,
I might recognize myself in you,
537
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,360
sympathize with you.
538
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,920
Well, let me confess
that I do recognize myself in you.
539
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,040
Your progressiveness and flair.
540
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,040
Your individuality and imagination.
541
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,040
What a king you would have made
in a kinder world.
542
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,920
What a king we were denied.
543
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,640
It makes me so sad
to see you living in exile,
544
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,800
when all you did
was take a stand for principle,
545
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,440
and love one woman completely.
546
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,800
You were cruelly denied your right
547
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,080
to reign alongside the woman
that you wanted by your side.
548
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,560
But I give you my word.
549
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,720
I will not be denied
what you have been denied.
550
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,720
The Crown is not a static thing
resting forever on one head.
551
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,560
It is moving.
552
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,320
Alive.
553
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,920
Divine.
554
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,720
The changing face of changing times,
555
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,080
and if, God willing, it has been ordained
that I should wear it...
556
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,360
then I shall do so on my own terms...
557
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,320
and hopefully make you proud.