CREATED BY

Peter Morgan

EPISODE 4.07

“The Hereditary Principle”

Grappling with mental health issues, Margaret seeks help and

discovers an appalling secret about estranged relatives of the
royal family.

WRITTEN BY:
Peter Morgan

DIRECTED BY:
Jessica Hobbs

ORIGINAL BROADCAST:
November 15, 2020

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 EPISODE CAST

Olivia Colman ... Queen Elizabeth II

Tobias Menzies ... Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Helena Bonham Carter ... Princess Margaret
Josh O'Connor ... Prince Charles
Emma Corrin ... Princess Diana
Marion Bailey ... Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Erin Doherty ... Princess Anne
Tom Burke ... Dazzle Jennings
Harry Treadaway ... Roddy Llewellyn
Nancy Carroll ... Anne Tennant
Richard Teverson ... Colin Tennant
Gemma Jones ... Penelope Carter
Charles Edwards ... Martin Charteris
Angus Imrie ... Prince Edward
Tom Byrne ... Prince Andrew
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[lighter clicks]

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[woman puffing, coughing]

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[exhales]

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["C'est Si Bon" by Dean Martin plays]

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[coughing]

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ C'est si bon ♪

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ Lovers say that in France ♪

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ When they thrill to romance ♪

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ It means that it's so good ♪

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♪ Ah c'est si bon ♪

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ So I say it to you ♪

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♪ Si bon si bon ♪

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♪ Like the French people do… ♪

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[man on TV] Here they come,
all the regulars.

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All the furs and diamonds on parade.

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I wonder how many of them are aware
of the tension behind the scenes.

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Some of these people
have paid a thousand pounds for a ticket.

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All that remains for the performers

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is to sort out their makeup,
put on their clothes,

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maybe have a sandwich, and sit and worry.

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Word gets passed around

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that the royal car is
just around the corner.

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The Queen, we're told,
is just moments away.

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And right on time, the royal car pulls up
to a crowd of well-wishers.

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The Queen, the real star of tonight,

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steps out onto the red carpet

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to be greeted by the much-loved
theatrical impresario Lord Delfont,

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president of the Entertainment Artistes'
Benevolent Fund.

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For tonight is the night

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when the worlds
of show business and royalty

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come together for a good cause.

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[nurse] For you, Annette.

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[man on TV] Joan Collins
from the television series Dynasty.

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A big smile from the Duke of Edinburgh.

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[nurse] All right then, George.

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-[man] And now the national anthem.
-["God Save the Queen" plays on TV]

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[nurse] Oh, it's started, has it?

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♪ God save our gracious Queen ♪

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♪ Long live our noble Queen… ♪

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[nurse] Right then, Katherine.
Here you are.

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And you, Nerissa.

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♪ God save the Queen… ♪

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[nurse] Good girl. Swallowed?

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[Katherine gulps]

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[nurse] Well done.

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How are you doing?

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♪ On her be pleased to pour… ♪

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[nurse] Nearly bedtime.

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♪ Long may she reign… ♪

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-[bicycle bell pings]
-♪ May she defend our laws ♪

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♪ And ever give us cause ♪

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♪ To sing with heart and voice ♪

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♪ God save our Queen ♪

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[theme music plays]

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["Let's Dance" by David Bowie playing]

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To the Royal Variety Show.

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♪ Let's dance ♪

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♪ Put on your red shoes
And dance the blues… ♪

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[Margaret laughs]

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-♪ Let's dance ♪
-[laughing]

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♪ To the song they're playing
On the radio ♪

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♪ If you say run ♪

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♪ I'll run with you ♪

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[laughing]

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♪ If you say hide ♪

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♪ We'll hide ♪

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♪ Because my love for you ♪

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♪ Would break my heart in two ♪

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-I have come tonight with a gift.
-Oh.

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Gossip.

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My favorite.

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Is it wicked?

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Very.

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Is it about someone famous?

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Yes.
But I must ask you to keep it a secret.

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Oh, don't be coy.

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I'll be the judge of that when I hear it.

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-Ma'am.
-Dazzle.

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You're not taking this seriously.

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Mm. How can you tell?

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[laughs]

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-This is a huge secret!
-[gasps mockingly]

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It's virtually a state secret.

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I'm…

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I'm all ears.

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And eyes.

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-And lips.
-All right.

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-Did you say lips?
-[chuckles lightly]

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[both chuckling]

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I'm feeling… naughty.

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Yes, I can see that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Ma'am, I have greatly enjoyed
the last few months.

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So have I.

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And the closeness
that has developed between us.

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-Not closeness. Intimacy.
-Oh God…

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[inhales sharply]

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Please.

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[Margaret] There was a time
when the men I loved

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would simply leave me for other women.

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Now they leave me for the Church.

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[Elizabeth] Who?

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-[Margaret] Derek Jennings.
-[Elizabeth] Dazzle?

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-[Margaret] Yes, Dazzle.
-What were you doing with him?

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Falling… slightly in love.

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-Oh, Margaret!
-Mm.

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Colin Tennant said we were
the two most impossible people he knew,

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that we should be kept apart at all costs
in the interests of public safety.

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Like nitrogen and glycerin.

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But… he's so handsome.

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Yes.

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[Margaret]
Has an unkind word for everyone.

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-Which I adore.
-[Elizabeth laughs]

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And… a touching vulnerability.

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And because he has found…
happiness as elusive as me,

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so we discuss all the different ways
that we try to find joy and calm.

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-A good brisk walk, I say.
-[Margaret] Mm.

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-Yes. That might work for you.
-It does, every time.

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But it might not be enough
for the rest of us.

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And Dazzle has found the thing
that works best for him.

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Which is?

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The priesthood.

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-Catholic priesthood?
-Yes.

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That's the second reason
he was never the right man for you.

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[coughs]

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The first being?

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Well, he's, you know…

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a friend of Dorothy.

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-Dazzle?
-Famously, yes.

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Are you sure?

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But the way he looks at me sometimes…

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[Elizabeth] Hmm.

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Describe that.

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With great big adoring eyes.

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I think you'll find
that's because you're a royal princess,

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and he's a raging snob.

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Am I that stupid?

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[coughs]

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Or desperate?

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-I don't like the sound of that cough.
-It's fine.

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You've been struggling with your chest
for a while.

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[Margaret] Should have realized when
he kept suggesting going to the opera.

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[coughs]

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Oh.

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[respirator hissing]

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[newsman] Princess Margaret
is undergoing investigative surgery

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at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

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The 54-year-old princess,
who was admitted this afternoon,

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is unlikely to learn the results
of those procedures for several days,

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but royal sources say

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she has not been suffering
from any specific ailment.

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The hospital has declined
to release further details

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on the princess's condition.

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It's thought that Princess Margaret
was smoking as many as 60 cigarettes a day

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and that would go against…

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I think we'll switch this off, shall we?
It's a bit…

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[newsman]
Princess Margaret will stay in hospital…

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[nurse] Princess Margaret will be fine.
Princess Margaret is in good hands.

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-[man] You all right, Katherine?
-[nurse] John. Come on.

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-Don't be difficult now.
-[man] Katherine, come on.

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[nurse] Right.

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-[man] Come on. It's bedtime.
-Dolly needs to go to bed, doesn't she?

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All together.

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There we go.

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Beddy-byes, Katherine. You're in this one.

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[respirator hissing]

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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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♪ Happy birthday, dear Edward ♪

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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

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Well done!

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[cheering]

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[nurse] Happy birthday, Katherine!

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[Philip] Children-wise, we seem
to do things in twos in this family.

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I can honestly say I never wanted four.

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[scoffs] A brace would have been
quite enough for me,

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but, um, the boss put her foot down,

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and after a tough negotiation

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on the yacht in Lisbon in a storm…

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-Do you remember?
-Yes, I do. [laughs]

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…along came, um, another two…

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The B-team!

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-Yes, the second 11!
-[laughter]

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[Philip] …who have been very special.

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Not that the first lot aren't special,

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but they were expected, I suppose.

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Duty.

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Whereas the second lot came out of…

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I was going to say "pleasure,"
but that's maybe not the right word,

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judging by Anne's face!

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[laughter]

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-[Philip] What's the word I'm looking for?
-Joy?

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[Philip] Exactly.

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Joy.

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They were conceived in reconciliation,

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and they have bound us all together
and brought great joy.

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So please raise your glasses.

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Are you sure?

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[Philip chuckles] Come on, Margot.

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-Steady on.
-Here.

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[Philip] Many happy returns to, um…

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-I'm sorry. What's your name again?
-[laughter]

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The runt of the litter,

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dear Edward.

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-Happy birthday!
-Thank you.

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-[nurse] You want the big piece?
-[Katherine] Yeah!

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[nurse] You can't have all of that!
Come off it.

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I'll chop it up in two.

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Seeing as it's your sister's birthday,

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you get the extra big piece.

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[respirator whirring]

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Has everyone seen it?

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[respirator clicks off]

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I remember the day
that one was christened.

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-Other way round.
-You don't play.

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-Shall I play?
-[Anne] You don't play!

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There's a photograph of us
with our babies.

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Yes.

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You were holding yours
as if it were a bomb.

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-[laughs]
-[trombone sounds]

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You looking terribly glum, having just had
another huge row with Tony.

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-[Margaret] Mm.
-He was never the right man for you.

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Well, I've come to the view
that there is no right man for me.

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-Don't say that.
-No, it's true.

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Love is a tender kiss for most people.

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For me, she saves her sharpest ax.

232
00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,080
Well, I am ready for a new chapter…

233
00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,800
without men,

234
00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,960
without… cigarettes, without…

235
00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:51,880
[server] Ma'am?

236
00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,080
I'm finally ready…

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to focus on the one thing
that won't let me down.

238
00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,840
What's that?

239
00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:05,760
Us.

240
00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,480
My position as a royal.

241
00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:10,440
My duty.

242
00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,200
So I come on bended knee

243
00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,360
with a familiar request.

244
00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,240
Give me as much responsibility as you can.

245
00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,080
As many jobs, as much work.

246
00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,840
What your sister needs to stay afloat…

247
00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:31,880
is a sense of meaning.

248
00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,240
Mm-hmm.

249
00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,720
-Look how big his head is.
-You look ridiculous.

250

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[indistinct chatter]

251
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[Elizabeth] Hello, you.

252
00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,800
Hello, you.

253
00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,640
And hello, him.

254
00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,360
-Your Royal Highness.
-Not interrupting, are we?

255
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,000
No, not at all. René is coming at noon.

256
00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,400
Oh, a new beau?

257
00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,160
No, a new hairdresser.

258
00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,520
-Another friend of Dorothy's.
-Ah.

259
00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,160
Other than that, nothing, no.

260
00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,720
The day stretches before me
like a great yawning void.

261
00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:51,800
So…

262
00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,680
What do you want?

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263
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It can't be good news,

264
00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,800
or you wouldn't have brought Lurch.

265
00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,560
Ma'am, we've come to talk to you
about the 1937 Regency Act,

266
00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,720
which created a list of senior royals
who could be called on

267
00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,960
to deputize for the monarch
on formal occasions.

268
00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,600
[Margaret] Yes, I know all about that.
I've been stepping in for her for years.

269
00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,560
Yes.

270
00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,480
Uh, but there is a… specific number
of those senior royals,

271
00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,560
just six.

272
00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:29,600
Go on.

273
00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,480
[Charteris] Well,
the recent 21st birthday of Prince Edward

274
00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,840
means that he is now of age,

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and as a child of the sovereign's…

276
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,280
well, he ranks higher than you
in the line of succession.

277
00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:45,960
And you will therefore…

278
00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,920
be required to relinquish your role
as Counsellor of State.

279
00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,560
Don't take that away from me.
It's all I've got.

280
00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,320
-Oh, Margaret.
-It makes no sense.

281
00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,440
I have the maturity. I have the wisdom,

282
00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,440
not to mention the experience.

283
00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,000
Edward's a boy.

284
00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:07,480
He's an immature, useless boy!

285
00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,680
That may be,
but we have to play by the rules.

286
00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,720
You will have time
to concentrate on your convalescence.

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287
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Would you leave us, please?

288
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Leave us.

289
00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,080
[door opens]

290
00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:37,240
[door shuts]

291
00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,120
I don't want more time.

292
00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,960
Don't you… see?

293
00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,960
[whispers] Time, it scares me.

294
00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,280
It fills me with dread.

295
00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,440
I want…

296
00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,440
I want something to fill it with.

297
00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,560
-Well, you still have your interests.
-Oh please!

298
00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,200
-And your friends.
-Friends!

299
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,800
The ones worth knowing,
they're fed up with me.

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300
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-Your charities.
-Charities? They don't want me either.

301
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,200
No, not now we have the Princess of Wales,

302
00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,720
who's younger, she's nicer, prettier.

303
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,440
-No. Nobody wants this.
-Oh, Margot.

304
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,880
I asked you for just one thing.

305
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,840
To give me work!

306
00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,240
A purpose! Dignity.

307
00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,080
Yes, and if it were up to me,
I would have given it all to you,

308
00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,720
the whole show, gladly, from day one.

309
00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:38,800
But it's not.

310
00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,280
-So we have to live with it.
-No.

311
00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:44,920
I will have to live with it, not you.
I will!

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312
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,040
[sighs]

313
00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,320
No.

314
00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,200
Ah!

315
00:19:58,760 --> 00:19:59,600
Anne.

316
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,840
Welcome, ma'am.

317
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,720
-Everything all right?
-No.

318
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,160
[Colin] It turns out
my objection to the Marcoses

319
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,880
has caused a terrible stink
with the board of directors.

320
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,640
"What board of directors?"
I hear you sensibly ask.

321
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,200
The island is a limited company,
it needs a board of directors.

322
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,640
You ever heard anything so absurd?
It's in no one's interests anyway.

323
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,240
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[Anne] Welcome, Your Royal Highness.

325
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[Anne] Ma'am?

326
00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:04,360
[indistinct chatter]

327
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:13,760
Ma'am?

328
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,600
[Margaret] Ta-da!

329
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:21,280
All dry.

330
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,480
[clears throat] Lunch?

331
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,520
[Charles] What a wonderful spot.

332
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,720
You should have seen it in its heyday.

333
00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:44,120
It's rather sad now it's neglected,
gone to seed.

334
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,440
Look at these heliconias.

335
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,280
Is that a silk cotton tree?

336
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,240
Hmm?

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Yes.

338
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,000
"The challenge for any gardener
is the pruning."

339
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,040
"You need very nimble fingers."

340
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,400
Roddy. [clears throat]

341
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,840
-The garden or the neglect?
-[chuckles]

342
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,360
-Sadly, both!
-[chuckles]

343
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:19,520
[Charles] Thank you.

344
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:34,960
Diana's pregnant again.

345
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,800
Congratulations.

346
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,120
Which one might imagine
would lift the spirits.

347
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,160
Instead, an even deeper gloom
seems to have descended on both of us.

348
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,320
We hardly see one another anymore,
and when we do,

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we quarrel more than ever.

350
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,080
It's so depressing,

351
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,080
corrosive.

352
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,040
[Margaret] Mm.

353
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,120
And it's left me with no option
but to… start seeing someone.

354
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,120
Yes, I think we all know about that.

355
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,280
No, not Camilla.

356
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,800
I meant…

357
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:16,720
a professional.

358
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,120
A therapist, to help with the moods.

359
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:21,760
A headshrinker?

360
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,000
Aunt Margot, you can't call them that.

361
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,560
Has it helped?

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00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,560

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It hasn't made things worse.

363
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,680
Mm. Not much of an endorsement.

364
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,440
The reason I bring it up
is I promised Anne

365
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,840
that I would urge you
to try seeing someone too.

366
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,280
Are you both ganging up on me?

367
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,360
We both care.

368
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,680
Why not try back in London?

369
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,520
Anne thinks she's found someone good.

370
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:02,760
It's outrageous that I, an HRH,
should travel to see her.

371
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,240
[Anne Tennant]
I gather it's part of the process,

372
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,520
that the patient accept
that they are a patient.

373
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,920
Apparently, the healing cannot start
until the grandiosity is diminished.

374
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,280

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What grandiosity?

375
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:19,680
I'm so far down the royal pecking order
these days,

376
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,600
I'm virtually an untouchable.

377
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:22,760
[Anne] Here we are.

378
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,040
[Margaret] I had therapy once before

379
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:41,000
in the early days
of my marriage to Lord Snowdon.

380
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,720
The problem we face is I'm…

381
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,240
Well, I'm so opposed to all of this.

382
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,680
I find it pathetic. It violates everything
I was brought up to believe.

383
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,480
[doctor]
What were you brought up to believe?

384
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,000
Self-pity won't get you very far.

385
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,640
You've just got to get on with it.

386
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,560
[doctor]
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387
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,000
It's also quite old-fashioned.

388
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,800
Did you just call me common? And old?

389
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,520
Because that would not be
a good way to start.

390
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,040
So, what made you want to try again?

391
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:20,440
Ma'am.

392
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,080
Ma'am.

393
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,040
Because…

394
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,080
Well,
I'm ashamed to say I've been feeling…

395
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,000
a little low…

396
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,040
for a while now.

397
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,240
And…

398
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,880
this current slump…

399
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,640
seems to have resisted every…

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400
00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,880
attempt I've made to muscle through.

401
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,720
Are you aware of anyone else
in your immediate family

402
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,680
struggling with mental health issues?

403
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,080
The Prince of Wales.
He has his ups and downs.

404
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,160
But I wouldn't say that's a condition.
That's just marriage.

405
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,120
The Duke of Gloucester, my uncle.

406
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,760
He got low from time to time.

407
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,840
[doctor] I only ask because I am aware,

408
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,040
through professional colleagues,
of… the sisters.

409
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Sisters?

410
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,040
What sisters?

411
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,080
[Margaret] That's when
she told me about our cousins.

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412
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,240
Our first cousins,
Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon.

413
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,320
Third and fifth daughters
of Mummy's favorite elder brother…

414
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,240
Uncle Jock.

415
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,800
…being locked up

416
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,000
in the Earlswood Institution
for Mental Defectives,

417
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,600
if you please, in Redhill.

418
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,320
Yes, I remember
hearing about Katherine and Nerissa

419
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,160
and their… terrible problems.

420
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,120
But they're long dead.

421
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240
It's my understanding
they're both very much alive.

422
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,280
But we can check.

423
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,680
-[rings bell]
-What are you doing? That's my button.

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424
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,360
Ah. Here we are. Burke's.

425
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,920
-[Elizabeth] Let me do that. I'll do that.
-No, I'm fine.

426
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,000
[Elizabeth] Ah.

427
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,800
Here we are. Ooh, heavy!

428
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,160
-Catch! [laughs]
-Don't you dare!

429
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,280
Not funny. Go carefully.

430
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,400
P, R, S…

431
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,280
Oh, did I just see it?

432
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,600
Mmm…

433
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,560
Oh, yes. Look, here it is.

434
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,080
Nerissa, deceased 1940.

435
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,400
Katherine, deceased 1961.
There it is in black and white.

436
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,200
Both died long ago.

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437
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,360
How strange.

438
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,240
[telephone ringing]

439
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,720
[footsteps approach]

440
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,840
-[telephone ringing]
-[Margaret] I'm not here.

441
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,640
[butler] Buckingham Palace.

442
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,280
-[phone hangs up]
-[clears throat]

443
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,200
Who was it?

444
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,640
[butler] Mr. Jennings, ma'am.

445
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400
Dazzle? Hmm.

446
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,560
What did he want?

447
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,040
[Butler] To let you know he'd be
in London next week for a few days,

448
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,760
in case you had any time.

449
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:40,880

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No.

450
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,440
[Dazzle]
Mater misericordiae, ora pro nobis…

451
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,720
-[Margaret] You're not praying, are you?
-I am.

452
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,120
Maria, mater gratio…
When was the last time you drove a car?

453
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,080
I drive all the time.
Well, maybe not this particular model.

454
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,680
Anyway, you're a fine one to talk.
You can't drive at all.

455
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,080
At least I recognize my limitations.

456
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,720
I'd have been happy
for the chauffeur to drive us,

457
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:15,680
but then…

458
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,160
[cyclist] What are you doing?

459
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,800
…well, we wouldn't have been alone.

460
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,120
Why is it so important that we're alone?

461
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,200

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What if someone asks me who I am?

462
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,400
-They won't. You're a priest.
-But I'm not.

463
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,320
Not yet. I'm still just a seminarian.

464
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:51,640
They don't know that.

465
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,800
You still look suitably clerical
and beyond suspicion.

466
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,200
It feels wrong, ma'am.

467
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:58,640
Deceitful.

468
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,040
You can always confess later. Now go.

469
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,920
[indistinct chatter]

470
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,920
Here we go. Just through here.

471
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,520
[rain pattering]

472
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,880
[breathing heavily]

473
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,480
They are alive, ma'am.

474
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You saw them?

475
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:12,800
I did.

476
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:16,560
How were they?

477
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,520
[Dazzle] Like children.

478
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,600
But they know who you are.

479
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,000
And they know who your sister is.

480
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,880
They have pictures of the whole family.

481
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,840
Which they know is their family.

482
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,560
-[nurse] You love that one, don't you?
-[Dazzle] Oh yes.

483
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,960
[nurse]
Keeps it in pride of place, she does.

484
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,200
[nurse] Aww!

485
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,480
Shall I get your cousins to say hello?

486
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,040
[Dazzle] Did you say cousins?

487
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-Hello.
-Hello.

488
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,120
And… there are more.

489
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,440
More what?

490
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,240
[Dazzle] More relatives.

491
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,160
Cousins of theirs, equally afflicted.

492
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,520
-Hello.
-[nurse] You can sit down here, love.

493
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,120
Wanna sit on the bed?

494
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,680
-All family together.
-[man] Oh, family, yes.

495
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,800
[nurse] You all right, Nerissa?

496
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,280
[indistinct chatter]

497
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:53,360
Oh, darling!

498
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,360
Oh, what a surprise!
You're just in time for lunch.

499
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:57,440
Not hungry.

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500
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,640
Oh. We're starving. We've all been
for long walks this morning.

501
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,200
Well, you and I are about go for another.

502
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,400
You don't mind
if I steal her away, do you?

503
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:10,760
No, not at all.

504
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:17,320
Five.

505
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,040
Five, Mummy!

506
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,280
Five members of our close family
locked up and neglected!

507
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,200
What do you expect us to do?

508
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,240
-Behave like human beings.
-Oh, don't be so naive. We had no choice.

509
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:31,960
They're your nieces.

510
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,600
-Daughters of your favorite brother!
-They were unwell.

511
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,040
Aunt Fenella was overwhelmed.

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Then the way
things suddenly changed for all of us,

513
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,440
none of us could have foreseen it.

514
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:43,720
It? What's it?

515
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,120
The abdication--

516
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,800
No! Not everything
that is wrong with this family

517
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,160
can be explained away by the abdication.

518
00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:52,920
Well,
the abdication did change everything.

519
00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:56,080
You were too young to understand.

520
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,440
Everything.

521
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,720
It's complicated.

522
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,160
No, it's not!

523
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:08,720
It's wicked, and it's cold-hearted,

524
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:09,800
and it's cruel.

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525
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,120
And it's entirely
in keeping with the ruthlessness

526
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,120
I myself have experienced in this family.

527
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,000
If you're not first in line,

528
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,080
if you're an individual character
with individual needs,

529
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,480
and God forbid an irregular temperament…

530
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,760
If you don't fit the perfect mold of…

531
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,040
silent, dutiful supplication,

532
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,600
then you'll be spat out,
or you'll be hidden away,

533
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,600
or, worse, declared dead!

534
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,440
Darwin had nothing on you lot.

535
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:45,920
Shame on all of you.

536
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,120
-Margaret--
-No.

537
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Margaret!

538
00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,720
[fireplace crackling]

539
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,040
[door shuts]

540
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,920
[Queen Mother] If I try to explain,

541
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,040
will you at least listen?

542
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,520
The fact is,

543
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,600
the moment that man,
your perfidious uncle,

544
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,040
abdicated the throne,

545
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,600
it really did change everything overnight.

546
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,160
I went from being
the wife of the Duke of York,

547
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,520
leading a relatively normal life,

548
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,840
to being Queen

549
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,680
and… wife of a king-emperor.

550
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,280

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At the same time,

my family, the Bowes-Lyons…

551
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,320
went from being
minor Scottish aristocrats…

552
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,880
to having a direct bloodline…
to the Crown…

553
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:12,920
resulting…

554
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,680
in the children of my brother…

555
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,920
Katherine and Nerissa.

556
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,800
…and their first cousins…

557
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,840
Idonea…

558
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:23,520
Etheldreda…

559
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,360
And Rosemary.

560
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:27,840
[Queen Mother] Yes.

561
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,440
…paying a terrible price.

562
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:35,880
Why?

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Because… [sighs]

564
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,600
…their illness…

565
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,280
their imbecility--

566
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,080
Don't use those words.

567
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:48,200
Their professionally diagnosed
idiocy and imbecility…

568
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,840
would make people question
the integrity of the bloodline.

569
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:54,560
What?

570
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:57,960
Can you imagine the headlines
if it were to get out?

571
00:37:58,480 --> 00:37:59,840
What people would say?

572
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,200
The hereditary principle
already hangs by such a precarious thread.

573
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,640
Throw in mental illness…

574
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:10,760
and it's over.

575
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:18,280
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has the automatic birthright to the Crown

576
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,360
is already so hard to justify.

577
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,480
The gene pool of that family…

578
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,720
had better have 100% purity.

579
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,840
There have been enough examples
on the Windsor side alone to worry people.

580
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,360
King George III.

581
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,320
Prince John, your uncle.

582
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,280
If you add
the Bowes-Lyon illnesses to that…

583
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,760
the danger is, it becomes untenable.

584
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,400
[bottles rattling lightly]

585
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,960
[Margaret]
It's all a family disease, isn't it?

586
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,280
When they… they tell you you can't marry.

587
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,720
When they strip away your official role.

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When they side with your husband
as your marriage falls apart.

589
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:29,280
And now this.

590
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:31,800
This final…

591
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:33,920
insult.

592
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,360
That every diminishment,

593
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:39,320
every…

594
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,760
[sobs] …rotten…

595
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:44,760
misfortune…

596
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,800
[inhales shakily] …is written…

597
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,720
is written in my blood.

598
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,240
So…

599
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,440
without… tiptoeing to protect me

600
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,040
or dressing things up,

601
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:03,920

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tell me the truth.

602
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,840
As well as being born second…

603
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,240
am I destined to be mad, too?

604
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:15,680
No, ma'am.

605
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,560
When I heard you'd…
made the appointment to come today…

606
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,400
I did a little research.

607
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,280
Now the genetic fault
responsible for your cousins' condition

608
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,720
seems to have descended
from their common maternal grandfather,

609
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,960
Charles Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton.

610
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:43,440
This suggests that the recessive gene
responsible for their condition

611
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,760
lies with the Clinton family.

612
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,400
So, how did it get
to the Bowes-Lyon family?

613
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,480
Through your aunt Fenella,

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614
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,560
born Clinton,

615
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,920
who married John Bowes-Lyon.

616
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:57,840
Uncle Jock.

617
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,680
What your cousins suffer from
is a severe developmental disorder.

618
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,360
And whatever issues
you may or may not be facing,

619
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,400
that's not the same thing at all.

620
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,040
It hasn't somehow passed…

621
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,520
to my mother, Queen Elizabeth?

622
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,000
No.

623
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:18,760
But then, if they didn't threaten
the integrity of the royal family,

624
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,560
the girls need never
have been hidden away.

625
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,040
And what my family did was unforgivable.

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[sighs]

627
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:50,400
Anyway, she prescribed… medication,

628
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:52,760
psychotherapy,

629
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,560
and increased exercise.

630
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,000
They'll be suggesting
giving up alcohol soon.

631
00:41:58,760 --> 00:41:59,760
Giving up alcohol.

632
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,680
You could always just convert
and come over to Rome.

633
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,120
-Dazzle.
-It's the only thing that's worked for me.

634
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,560
Lifted my spirits.

635
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,840
Before I became Catholic,
I attended church.

636
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,240
After I converted, I found a faith.

637
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,360
-The difference is night and day.
-Now you're being evangelical.

638
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,800

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I feel evangelical.
It's not just the beauty,

639
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,360
it's the rigor of the Catholic Church.

640
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,080
It demands complete submission,

641
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:29,520
which strong, willful characters like mine
and, I would suggest, yours, ma'am, need.

642
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:31,880
[Margaret] Hmm.

643
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,520
One cannot fully receive God

644
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,120
until one has submitted
to something larger,

645
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,160
and the moment I did--

646
00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:41,360
Don't tell me.
The lights went on, you found happiness?

647
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,200
More than happiness.

648
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:46,880
Ecstasy.

649
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,040
And the gloom
we talked about so many times…

650
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:53,440
the emptiness…

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651
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,000
has gone.

652
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,480
How nice.

653
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:02,840
So come over.

654
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,800
I would,
but in case you hadn't noticed, Dazzle,

655
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,400
I've already submitted
to something larger.

656
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,920
The royal family of the United Kingdom.

657
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,000
If I became Catholic,

658
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,400
it would be a national scandal.

659
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,880
There'd be talk of betrayal,
second Reformation.

660
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,920
No, they'd make me give up my title
and kick me out.

661
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,280
Would that be so bad?

662
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,600
To free yourself once and for all?

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00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,040

To find happiness?

664
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,360
Why would I?

665
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,240
The title,

666
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,200
my seniority, the proximity to the Crown
is my happiness.

667
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,880
It's who I am.
I don't expect you to understand.

668
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,360
No, I don't understand!

669
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,600
You've just discovered
terrible things about your family.

670
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,480
A system that ignored
five members of its own to protect itself.

671
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,240
Will that same system protect you? No!

672
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,800
It doesn't protect anything
except the center.

673
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,640
-Those away from the center--
-But I am in the center!

674
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,760
I am in the very center.

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I am the Queen's sister,

676
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,640
daughter to a king-emperor,

677
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:11,880
and I will always be in the center.

678
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,120
Now go, Dazzle.

679
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,680
Back to your ecstatic new family,

680
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,640
and I will struggle on in mine.

681
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,240
And I think it would be better
if we… don't see one another again.

682
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:42,640
And…

683
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,880
should you ever… find a moment…

684
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,720
perhaps you will pray for me.

685
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:54,080
I will.

686
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,600
Your Royal Highness.

687
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,320
[door opens]

688
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:11,880

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[door shuts]

689
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,680
-[piano playing "Fallin"]
-[Margaret] ♪ Yeah, I was ridin' high ♪

690
00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:29,200
♪ But then my ivory tower toppled ♪

691
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,600
♪ And I tumbled from the sky ♪

692
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,120
♪ I got a feelin' like I'm fallin' ♪

693
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,040
♪ And you're the reason why ♪

694
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,360
[inaudible]

695
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,040
[vocalizing]

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