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Clips from The Crown (2016) - Scientia Potentia Est (S01E01)

"And it's in the small things that the rot starts."
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"Do the wrong thing once, it's easier to do it again."
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"Do the individualistic thing once, it is easy to do it again."
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"Now, in the case of your uncle, it started with wanting to use"
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"Buckingham Palace simply as the office and York House as his home."
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"Then he stopped attending church, decided he wanted to sell Sandringham."
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"in favor of younger, sycophantic supplicants."
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"Of course, no one saw the abdication coming then,"
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"but the ego, the willfulness,"
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"the individualism, the rot had set in."
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"-Martin and I have an understanding. -I don't deny it."
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"It would make me feel as if I had an ally,"
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"friend almost, in what can sometimes feel like a very..."
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"Well..."
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"The next in line and the senior of my two deputies"
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"and the natural heir is Michael."
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"-Your man. -The right man."
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"But as always, the final say is with you, Ma'am."
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"Thank you."
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"Just had the Palace on the phone,"
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"requesting a private audience this afternoon."
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"It seems the Queen wants to see you, sir."
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"What's all this about, Patrick?"
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"-Don't know, sir. -Can't you give me a clue?"
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"Mr. Colville, Your Majesty."
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"You were my Private Secretary for two years before Martin Charteris."
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"I was."
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"And it was my impression that we always had a good understanding"
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"and we were able to speak openly with one another."
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"-Yes, of course. -And trust one another,"
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"speak plainly when matters of real importance came up."
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"And before Her Majesty says anything else, let me just say how sorry I am."
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"It's been agony. I tried to stop them, I told them my opinion,"
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"After the second one, I really was of a mind to let you know the truth."
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"-Second what? -Stroke, Ma'am."
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"But they insisted again, everyone keep it quiet, say nothing."
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"And who was it that was doing the insisting?"
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"Lord Salisbury, Ma'am."
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"And the Prime Minister himself. On the rare occasions he was conscious."
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"That is what you asked me here to discuss?"
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"No."
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"for my Private Secretary, rather than Martin Charteris."
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"But what you've just told me is far more important."
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"-No. -Yes."
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"The slippery old so-and-so's."
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"-Do nothing and stay silent at all times. -Is it?"
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"From memory, and forgive me, Ma'am, it's a while since I read Bagehot,"
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"-I doubt it. I'd have to check. -I think you know precisely."
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"Yes, it is."
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"But I can't just summon the brightest, most formidable men in the country"
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"and give them a dressing down, like children."
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"Why? You are in the right, they in the wrong."
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"Yes, but they're far more intelligent than I am."
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"Any confrontation, they'd out-debate me, out-think me and out-maneuver me."
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"But this isn't about education or intelligence."
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"This is about integrity and principle."
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"You do."
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"You were drilled for years in the finer points of our Constitution."
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"You know it better than me, better than all of us."
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"You have the only education that matters."
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"So what would you have me do?"
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"Summon them and give them a good dressing down like children."
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"Why would they stand for that?"
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"Because they're English, male and upper class."
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"A good dressing down from Nanny is what they most want in life."
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"Unconventional to the end, Professor."
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"Thank you, Professor."
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"I'm afraid I urgently need something from Windsor Castle."
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"At least I think it's at Windsor. It might be at Sandringham. Or Balmoral."
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"-Or it might be here. -Ma'am."
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"Lord Salisbury, please."
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"If you wouldn't mind, Prime Minister."
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"Ma'am."
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"It has come to my attention that for a period of time last week,"
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"my Prime Minister was incapacitated."
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"And the Foreign Secretary, too."
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"And that you colluded in keeping that information from me."
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"-Your Maj... -No, it is not my job to govern."
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"But it is my job to ensure proper governance."
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"But how can I do that if my ministers lie and plot and hide the truth from me?"
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"You have prevented me from doing my duty."
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"You have hampered and bamboozled the proper functioning of the Crown."
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"How could you?"
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"My own late father valued you greatly."
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"He believed the phrase, "History teaches, never trust a Cecil.""
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"Perhaps not."
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"You may go."
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"Prime Minister."
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"Please."
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"The Prime Minister, Your Majesty."
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"Your Majesty."
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"Winston."
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"I am just a young woman, starting out in public service."
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"And I would never presume to give a man, so much my senior,"
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"and who has given this country so much, a lecture."
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"I was."
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"And you therefore heard for yourself as I took the solemn oath"
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"according to their respective laws and customs."
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"Now, one of those customs is that their elected Prime Minister"
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"should be of reasonably sound body and mind."
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"Not an outrageous expectation, one would've thought."
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"No."
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"been of sound body and mind these past weeks."
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"And that you chose to withhold that information from me."
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"A decision which feels like a betrayal, not just of the covenant of trust"
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"between us and the institutions that we both represent,"
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"but of our own personal relationship."
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"In 1867, Walter Bagehot wrote:"
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""There are two elements of the Constitution:"
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"the efficient and the dignified.""
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"The monarch is the dignified and the government, the efficient."
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"These two institutions only work"
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"when they support each other,"
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"Your actions, your breaking of that trust"
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"was irresponsible and it might have had serious ramifications"
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"for the security of this country."
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"Is your health better now?"
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"-It is. -Good."
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"But is it sufficiently better?"
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"Fit for office better?"
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