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Clips from The Crown (2016) - Gloriana (S01E01)

"-Everyone is still dancing. -Then why are you here?"
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"To tell you that I love you."
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"Thank you."
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"-And that they're just children. -I know."
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"-And I'm mad for you. -Me too."
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"Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret"
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"and wartime fighter ace Group Captain Townsend"
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"were important weekend visitors at Allenby Park near Windsor."
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"were undeterred by the official statements"
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"that no announcement is expected."
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"But whatever the answer to the question that millions are asking,"
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"for the Queen's sister and the former equerry to Her Majesty."
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"Since our last meeting, I've been thinking a great deal"
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"about something that my father said to Princess Margaret and myself"
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"at the time of the abdication."
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"He made us swear, as sisters,"
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"never to put anything or anyone before one another,"
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"in the way that he felt his brother had."
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"It's an oath that we both made and that... we intend to keep."
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"But I can't see how I'm to honor it."
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"It is my duty as Queen to refuse Margaret marriage to a divorced man."
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"Everyone advises me so."
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"And yet I will be breaking a promise, not only to my sister..."
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"but also to my late father."
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"And the one body of people who might make it possible for me to keep my promise..."
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"is Cabinet."
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"A group whom I've learned count no fewer than four divorced men in their number."
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"-Yes. -Yourself included, Prime Minister."
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"Indeed."
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"Now, I wonder, in light of this,"
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"whether you might go back and use your considerable influence"
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"and ask your Cabinet colleagues if they might reconsider"
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"their decision to oppose the marriage."
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"Certainly, Ma'am."
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"Although, I feel I should warn you"
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"Yes, well, I'll see to that."
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"The Archbishops of Canterbury, and York."
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"The Bishop of Durham, and is that Winchester?"
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"-The big guns. -The four horsemen of the apocalypse."
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"The cornerstone of our Christian family life."
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"Its foundation and its rock."
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"And according to the Canon law of the Church of England..."
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"indissoluble."
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"Put simply, there are no circumstances"
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"where the Church might permit the remarriage of divorced persons"
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"while the husband or wife of the former marriage is still alive."
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"No circumstances at all."
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"That makes my position very difficult."
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"Your Majesty, as Queen..."
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"you are Fidei defensor..."
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"defender of the faith."
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"That was the oath you made at the coronation."
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"I married the man of my choice. I'd like to think she could do the same."
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"Well, the way I look at it, if she really likes the fella..."
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"Time to concede, it would seem."
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"Quite frankly, the world today isn't what it was a few years ago,"
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"and he was not the guilty party..."
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"I think they're making it very clear."
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"You don't need to listen to them, surely?"
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"As Head of the Church of England, I thought I might."
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"Oh."
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"Well, in the name of the people that live with you and love you,"
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"might I suggest not being Head of the Church for a minute."
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"Or Head of State, or Head of the Commonwealth of Nations,"
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"or the Army, or the Navy, or the Government,"
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"A sister. A daughter. A wife."
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"Elizabeth..."
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"I've been hoping to hear from you."
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"I've found myself hovering by the phone for days."
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"-Is it about Margaret? -Yes."
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"The French are very much for her."
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"At least Paris is, which is the only France that matters."
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"And are you for her, too?"
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"For Margaret, 'la Marianne,' how can I not be?"
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"I share with her the fate of having a great love"
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"that captured much of the country's imagination,"
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"So, naturally, my sympathy is with her."
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"I see."
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"But there is also the other great love of my life..."
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"the Crown."
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"And protecting that crown."
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"And I imagine you find yourself in a difficult position now."
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"One half is sister. One half is Queen."
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"A strange, hybrid creature."
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"Like a sphinx or Gamayun."
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"As I am Ganesha or Minotaur."
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"We are half-people."
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"Ripped from the pages of some bizarre mythology,"
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"the two sides within us, human and crown"
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"engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends."
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"And which blights our every human transaction as..."
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"as brother, husband..."
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"sister, wife, mother."
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"I understand the agony you feel and I am here to tell you,"
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"it will never leave you."
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"I will always be half-King."
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"My tragedy is that... I have no Kingdom."
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"Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret."
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"A great deal of thought."
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"The issue of your marriage has, for the past weeks, months,"
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"gone to the very heart of a great number of things."
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"But also something closer to home."
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"Who I am."
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"What I am."
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"And your marriage to Peter..."
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"-Wait, I... -No, please, Margaret."
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"It doesn't come naturally for me to speak like this, so please let me finish."
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"It's involved going against members of our family,"
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"against senior courtiers, against Cabinet."
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"You know how I hate confrontation, or mess, or dereliction of duty."
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"But..."
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"I was prepared to go through it all and support you, as a sister."
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"Because I'd given you my word."
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"But..."
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"But?"
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"But what?"
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"But I realized..."
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"that I have no choice."
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"I cannot allow you to marry Peter and remain part of this family."
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"In defiance of the pledge you made to our father?"
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