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

"I'm not going to let your coronation be like this."
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"You're a young woman. Symbol of a new era."
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"In a fast-changing, modern world."
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"And I think your coronation should reflect that."
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"- Sorry. - ...Almighty God of his great mercy."
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"Sorry, darling."
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"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
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"through our Lord Jesus Christ, who changed our vile body"
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"that it may be like unto his glorious body..."
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"Ladies and gentlemen..."
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"We should go."
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"Good morning."
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"Head's up."
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"A herd? A pack?"
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"A school?"
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"Thank you."
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"I'd like to start by saying how very honoured I feel"
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"to be working with all the great minds and talents here in this room today"
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"as we come together to organize the very best coronation for my wife,"
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"the Queen."
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"We all know the scale of the challenge that faces us."
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"The eyes of the world will be on us, Britain will be on show"
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"and we must put our best foot forward."
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"is to roll out the red carpet and follow the precedents"
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"set by the grand and successful coronations of the past."
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"would be a mistake in my view."
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"Britain today is not the Britain of past coronations."
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"Assumptions made at the time of my father-in-law's coronation"
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"That is why I think we should adapt this ceremony."
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"Make it less ostentatious. More egalitarian."
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"We have a new sovereign, young and a woman."
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"Let us give her a coronation that is befitting"
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"of the wind of change that she represents,"
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"modern and forward-looking at a moment in time"
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"are making things possible we never dreamt of."
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"Which brings me to my next point..."
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"It's an unconscionable vulgarization."
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"How close are you proposing that these cameras get?"
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"They will be kept at a very discreet distance."
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"No, no close-ups, sir?"
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"Zoom lenses."
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"Oh, no, it will all be done with the greatest sensitivity"
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"and respect for the occasion."
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"But I have had one or two broader thoughts about the service itself."
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"What?"
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"We can both see what's going on here."
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"A young couple are playing marital games"
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"Our Queen wouldn't agree with a single one of these radical proposals,"
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"television being just the tip of the iceberg."
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"She's simply trying to keep peace in her own bed chamber"
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"by promoting her husband and keeping him happy and occupied"
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"-That's what's going on here, Winston. -Why? What else has he proposed?"
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"-Prime Minister. -Your Majesty."
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"Please tell me this has nothing to do with my husband."
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"I told him not to go mad."
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"No one is questioning the Duke of Edinburgh's motives"
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"or the sincerity of his beliefs."
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"The changes he is proposing to an ancient, sacred,"
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"never previously changed liturgy and text..."
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"And if it were just a business, it would be applauded."
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"And one has to ask oneself..."
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"What is the purpose of the Crown? What is the purpose of the monarchy?"
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"Does the Crown bend to the will of the people"
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"to be audited and accountable?"
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"Or should it remain above temporal matters?"
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"What say you?"
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"No, ma'am. What say you?"
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"The decision is yours to make."
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"We will take our lead from you."
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"Alright."
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"-What is this? Hide and seek? -I told you not to overstep the mark."
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"I made it clear, carte blanche or nothing at all."
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"Trade Unionists and businessmen? In the Abbey?"
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"-If you want to stay on the throne, yes. -In a trimmed-down televised coronation?"
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"If you want to avoid a revolution, yes. You forget."
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"I have seen first-hand what it is like for a royal family to be overthrown"
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"because they were out of step with the people."
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"I left Greece in an orange crate. My father would have been killed."
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"You have no idea who they are or what they want."
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"Oh, oh, I'm just Johnny Foreigner, again, who doesn't understand. Fine, fine."
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"You want a big overblown ceremony costing a fortune"
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"while the rest of the country is on rations, have it."
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"But don't come bleating to me"
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"when your head and the heads of our children are on spikes."
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"If the people are hungry, they want something that lifts them up."
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"The people look to a monarchy for something bigger than themselves."
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"An inspiration. A higher ideal."
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"If you put it in their homes,"
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"allow them to watch it with their dinner on their laps."
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"It will democratize it, make them feel that they share in it. Understand it."
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"Alright!"
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"On one condition."
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"That you kneel."
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"-Who told you? -My Prime Minister."
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"-He said you intended to refuse. -I merely asked the question."
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"Whether it was right in this day and age that the Queen's consort,"
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"her husband, should kneel to her rather than stand beside her."
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"You won't be kneeling to me."
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"That's not how it will look. That's not how it will feel."
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"It will feel like a eunuch, an amoeba, is kneeling before his wife."
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"You'll be kneeling before God and the Crown as we all do."
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"Because I'm already flattened under the weight of this thing."
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"Oh, spare me the false humility. Doesn't look like that to me."
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"-How does it look to you? -Looks to me like you're enjoying it."
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"It's released an unattractive sense of authority and entitlement"
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"that I have never seen before."
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"In you, it's released a weakness and insecurity I've never seen before."
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"-Are you my wife or my Queen? -I'm both."
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"I want to be married to my wife."
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"I am both and a strong man would be able to kneel to both."
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"-But my Queen commands me? -Yes."
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"I beg you make an exception for me."
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"No."
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"Come on, they'll be here soon!"
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"David, you're our host, darling."
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"Be right there."
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"a Queen receives the crown. A big day for the British public"
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"who are living these beautiful hours after the end of the war."
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"Leaving Buckingham Palace, the historical carousel carrying the Queen and the Duke,"
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"is travelling towards Westminster Abbey..."
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