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Clips from The Crown (2016) - Smoke and Mirrors (S01E01)

"The Archbishop of Canterbury's private secretary called, sir."
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"Oh? What about?"
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"Didn't say, sir. He hoped you could make tomorrow."
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"Fine, I have a few errands planned, but the Archbishop can come to lunch."
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"As a matter of fact, they suggested 4 p.m."
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"-Well, alright. We'll give him tea. -At Lambeth Palace."
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"Of course."
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"Now I'm no longer King, I go to them."
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"-Thank you. -Good night, Your Royal Highness."
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"His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, Your Grace."
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"Goodness. What is this?"
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"- An ambush? - Not at all, sir."
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"No, just a gathering of old friends who have come together"
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"in the hope that you will do what we all think... would be..."
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"The right thing."
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"-Regarding what? -The coronation."
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"What about the coronation?"
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"We acknowledge..."
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"as a..."
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"as a member of the Queen's close family, you are entitled to attend,"
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"but also feel that the attendance at this sacred ceremony"
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"by one who, however good his reasons,"
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"did not feel... capable of undertaking"
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"the obligations himself..."
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"To whom?"
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"- To everyone concerned. - I didn't ask you, Tommy."
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"This is Cookie's work, isn't it? The Queen Mother's?"
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"It's got her pudgy little fingers all over it."
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"She asked you to do her dirty work for her and you agreed, Archbishop, shame on you."
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"I will attend if I want. And I do want and so does my wife."
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"Alas, no, sir."
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"Of course the Royal Family is obliged to extend an invitation to you,"
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"as a Royal Duke."
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"But that obligation does not extend to the Duchess of Windsor."
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"And it is my duty to inform you on behalf of the Royal Family"
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"that she will not be offered an invitation."
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"Oh, that's madness."
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"The pusillanimity and vindictiveness knows no limits."
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"Seventeen years have elapsed since the abdication."
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"Shouldn't bygones be bygones?"
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"Some things can never be forgotten."
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"Which of us, for example, has forgotten the Somme?"
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"You would compare the love and public commitment I made to my wife"
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"to slaughter in a world war?"
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"Why not use a celebration such as this,"
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"the investiture of a new sovereign, a beautiful young child,"
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"symbol of modernity, change and progress, to turn a page?"
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"Surely the sophistication of a society"
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"can be measured by its tolerance and ability to forgive."
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"Its weakness, too. Sometimes lines just need to be drawn."
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"You know, Tommy, you're an embarrassment to the institution you serve,"
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"and to the country that institution serves in turn."
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"And I will take a lecture on national embarrassment from many people, sir,"
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"but not from you."
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"You knew already the answer to the choice you have given me."
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"It is simply the same as the choice that caused all this offense"
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"in the first place."
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"No, never. I will therefore not be attending the coronation"
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"of my own niece."
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"Whose favourite uncle I have always been."
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"Hers, you should know, was one of the strongest voices involved."
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"Oh, was it indeed?"
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"Well, we know from where she gets that ice in her veins."
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"And it wasn't from my own dear, weak brother."
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"Nothing weak about the late King, sir."
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"I'm sure I speak for everyone present when I call him a hero."
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"Hear, hear."
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""My Lord, Archbishop,"
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"And when your man is down, how very bold you are."
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"Of Christian charity, how very scant you are, you Auld Lang Swine,"
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"how full of cant you are.""
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"A rhyme composed for your perfidious predecessor at the time of my abdication."
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"I find the sentiment oddly applicable to you, too."
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"If I were to release a statement, could you have a look over it?"
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"Of course, sir."
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"I'm aware that it's normal for no reigning monarchs"
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"to be present at a coronation."
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"Perhaps we could extend that to include former kings too."
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"Might just throw some of the vultures off the scent."
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"It's an elegant solution, sir."
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"And I'm quite sure Cabinet will support it. Tommy?"
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"I'll speak to Their Majesties and get back to you."
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"We've just had a call from Marlborough House."
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"Regarding her Majesty, Queen Mary."
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"My own darling sweetheart."
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"Mama took ill in the afternoon,"
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"then began haemorrhaging in the early hours."
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"Doctors plied her with tranquilizers and morphine"
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"to ensure there was no suffering."
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"In the end, she passed in her sleep."
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"I was sad, of course,"
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"but let's not forget how she clung to such hatred for me,"
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"her eldest, till the last."
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"I'm afraid her blood ran as icy cold when she was alive"
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"as it does now she's dead."
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"to identify which of her personal possessions they would most like."
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"Not entirely."
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"I told Shirley Temple what I had my eye on."
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"I don't suppose it will do much good."
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"What a vile, tawdry rabble my relatives are"
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"and what a sad, desiccated bunch of hyenas most of them have become."
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"But I'm tired of talking about it."
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"I yearn for our perfect life together,"
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"away from the snarling and the sniping of the Court."
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"I adore you, my sweetheart,"
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"more deeply than you will ever realize,"
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"and I am furiously mad that you aren't here with me"
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"as you ought by right to be."
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"While Queen Mary lived,"
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"something of the great reigns of Queen Victoria and George V"
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"seemed to live on with her."
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"Proving that character is, as it will remain,"
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"the essential strength of British Monarchy."
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"Wherever she went, she was assured of an applause"
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"Have you noticed? Identical to the funeral of your father."
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"Nothing different. Not one detail."
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"as a servant of our country, which she served to the end."
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"No sooner does someone in the family pop their clogs, they ask themselves:"
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"Then let's do it exactly the same way again." I mean..."
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"Meanwhile, the people who have come to share in it are locked outside."
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