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Clips from The Crown (2016) - Marionettes (S02E02)

"There have been some reactions in the newspapers"
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"to last night's television interview, and to the assault upon Lord Altrincham."
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"[stuttering] I'm afraid it's not quite as we'd hoped."
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"Uh, well, the man that struck Altrincham, it turns out,"
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"is a member of the extreme right League of Empire Loyalists,"
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"and has a clear doctrine of English racial supremacy."
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"Oh, dear."
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"And it seems that most people have decided,"
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"having watched Altrincham on the television,"
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"that he is eminently reasonable."
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"Now, almost half the country appears to agree with his sentiments,"
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"and there are new polls to support this."
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"Letters to the Daily Mirror are running at four to one"
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"in Altrincham's favor..."
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"changed its tune this morning."
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"and this, I believe, reflects on his growing concern"
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"at some of the telephone calls he has been receiving..."
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"the Prime Minister has suggested that he come up a week earlier than planned,"
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"in order to discuss it all with you in person."
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"Goodness! A constitutional crisis."
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"Well, I hope you're going to apologize to Mr. Macmillan, too."
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"You're not going to deny this whole mess springs from a badly written speech"
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"which I gave, unquestioningly, because I trusted you."
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"Perhaps Altrincham's right."
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"Perhaps I should surround myself with younger, more dynamic people"
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"with one foot in the real world!"
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"And you believe it's now a government matter?"
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"Ambassadors from all around the world have been calling me, concerned."
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"Her Majesty will hardly need reminding a great many other countries"
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"have overthrown their monarchies and become republics in recent years."
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"Egypt, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia only last month."
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"Of course we're not at that point. Not at a red light."
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"We're not even at an amber. But we'd hate it to become amber."
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"And so, it is my view, the government's view,"
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"that it would be wise to contain this as soon as possible."
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"-And do what? -The obvious thing."
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"Altrincham is a fire which needs to be put out."
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"[Charles] Got you! [laughs]"
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"[Charles] Got you!"
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"The palace has offered up a chap called Charteris."
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"To meet. I looked him up."
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"He used to be her principal private secretary."
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"-Well, there you are. -Before the King died."
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"-When she was princess. -And now?"
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"He's assistant private secretary, so not quite a pawn,"
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"but certainly not a bishop or knight, either."
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"Go."
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"Go, in order to be fobbed off?"
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"Go in the spirit of openness and wanting to work together."
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"If they wanted to work together,"
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"-they would have sent someone higher up. -Go."
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"All right."
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"And take a list of suggestions. Recommendations."
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"Don't go empty-handed."
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"Not yet! John!"
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"Your tooth! John!"
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"[clamoring]"
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"[reporter 2] Lord Altrincham!"
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"-Yes. -[equerry] This way, please."
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"Good to know I'm seeing the top man."
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"In one sense."
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"Here we are, Lord Altrincham."
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"Colonel Charteris will be with you shortly."
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"-Thank you. -Sir."
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"I see we have something in common."
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"Your Majesty."
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"[stuttering] I was referring to the photos of Eton and Sandhurst."
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"Hm. Which you attended too, I gather."
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"Going on to become an Officer of the Guards"
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"at both St James's Palace and Windsor Castle."
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"It's the assumption everyone has made."
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"Because I dare offer an opinion, I must be trying to burn the temple down."
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"On the contrary, I'm trying to make sure it survives."
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"Shall we begin?"
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"[Altrincham laughs]"
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"Is my voice all right? You can understand me?"
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"-[stutters] Yes. -Not too strangled?"
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"So, what is it that you'd have me change?"
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"It's not so much what I'd have you change,"
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"just an acknowledgment that it has changed."
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"And to prepare yourself for the fact we now live in a time where..."
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"people like me--"
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"-In any way they want. -Yes."
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"And, remind me, why is that, exactly?"
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"Because the age of deference is over."
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"And what is left without deference?"
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"Anarchy?"
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"Equality."
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"How can it be equality when I cannot return the fire?"
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"You can."
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"But I struggle to think of a moment in history where it has worked"
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"to a monarch's advantage to return fire on their own people."
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"But you have managed to think of how this monarch"
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"might do something to her advantage."
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"I have."
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"And that same monarch is sitting before, forgive me..."
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"a failed politician and an unrecognized journalist..."
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"and taking his advice on how to do her job."
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"The situation is as baffling to me as it is to you, Your Majesty."
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"-Ah. You've got a list. -I do."
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"recommendations of things to change, but for the purposes of this meeting,"
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"I chose to limit those recommendations to, um, six."
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"Three things to start and three things to stop."
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"-Well, let's start with the "stops." -Very well."
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"Ah, yes. Putting an end to the debutantes' ball."
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"The idea that young women of a certain class are presented to the sovereign,"
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"and women who are not of that class are not presented to the sovereign"
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"and somehow not acceptable."
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"This is the sort of inequity that should have died out"
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"with our grandparents' generation, certainly after the war."
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"Next."
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"Uh..."
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"Allow divorced people to move more freely in royal circles."
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"Why?"
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"The sovereign is head of the Church of England,"
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"and the Church does not recognize divorced persons."
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"It's unkind. Discriminatory."
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"Quite possibly unlawful."
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"Next."
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"Uh..."
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