26000:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,358I s

260
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,358
I see. So I have no say
in my own palaces?

261
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,432
Why not move in here
and bring your lrish tinker with you?

262
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,478
The Queen and l
will be happy enough in the lodge!

263
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,839
So would I be, sir, if I thought that
people there would be polite to me!

264
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,798
- How dare you talk...!
- Enough!

265
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,591
You have exhausted the topic.

266
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,594
Conroy tried to force the Princess
Victoria's agreement to a Regency.

267
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,390
She wouldn't sign it, sick as she was.
That says something for her spirit.

268
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,398
Your next birthday
will be quite a landmark.

269
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,155
- I hope we'll see more of you at Court.
- I hope so too, Lord Melbourne.

270
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,673
(woman laughs)

271
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,839
You know,
should you ever need an ally,...

272
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,309
you have one in me.

273
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,790
The Prime Minister
has more important calls upon his time.

274
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,189
Not at all.
I knew the late Duke of Kent.

275
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,555
Naturally,
I take an interest in his daughter.

276
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,872
- You knew my father?
- Yes.

277
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,838
I'm sorry.
Is it difficult to speak of him?

278
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,675
No. I love to hear from someone who
knew him. For I never did, you see.

279
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:07,517
Well,... he was a great gentleman.
Of that you can be sure.

280
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,033
Indeed I am.

281
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:13,910
Excellent company like his brother, the
Regent, but not quite so extravagant.

282
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:22,236
And kind, like his brother, the King,...
but perhaps not so talkative.

283
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,151
(laughs)

284
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,357
Well, you make him sound
as though he were the best of them.

285
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,000
Oh, I think so, ma'am.

286
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,395
Your leader is hard at work, Duchess.

287
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,429
You see him hover with his net
to catch the pretty butterfly.

288
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,752
And when your party is back in power,
Duke, will you not do the same?

289
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,435
(laughs)
Not nearly as well as Melbourne.

290
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,991
Unfortunately, I have no small talk.
Peel has no manners.

291
00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:55,510
And I would have a hard time
praising her father.

292
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,876
The most brutal officer
I ever encountered.

293
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,513
(orchestra stops playing)

294
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,750
(he sighs)

295
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,829
(he sighs)

296
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,151
(slurred) I thank you
for your good wishes on my birthday.

297
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,354
It has been a long life...
and an interesting one.

298
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,270
But I shall be content
with only a short while more.

299
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:09,152
Just enough... to dispense
with any thought of a Regency,...

300
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:17,875
..so that I may pass the Royal
Authority directly to that young lady.

301
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:25,188
And not... to the hands...
of a person now near me...

302
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,269
..who is surrounded by evil advisers

303
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:35,957
and who cannot act with propriety in
the station in which she's been placed!

304
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,793
I have been insulted!

305
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,395
Grossly and continually insulted!

306
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:50,477
She has kept her daughter,
my brother's child, from my Court!

307
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,793
But from now on,
I'd have her know that I am King!

308
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,668
And I will not be flouted
or disobeyed by her

309
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,355
or by that jackanapes
she keeps about her!

310
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,996
Are you alright?

311
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,150
(heavy door slams)

312
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,232
Families, who'd be without them?

313
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,712
(insects chirrup)

314
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,677
Are you listening?

315
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,032
What?

316
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,712
- Well?
- Ma'am, you do have a letter,

317
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,837
but it's not from Germany,
it's from the King.

318
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,439
So it is. Thank you, Watson.

319
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,836
- Don't you see what he wants?
- He increases my income

320
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,879
once I'm 1 8 and he asks to see me
at Court, what is wrong with that?

321
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,556
The King wants to separate you from
your mother. He wants to control you,

322
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,757
to take you from those whose sole aim
is trying to protect you!

323
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,150
No need to shout. The people
will find out our business soon enough

324
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,471
without hearing it from your lips.

325
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,836
Tell her. Make her understand.

326
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,719
What Sir John means is that you're
unprepared for the task ahead of you.

327
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,711
And if I am, whose fault is that?

328
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,598
You're too young! You've no experience!

329
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,478
You're like a china doll
walking over a precipice!

330
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,394
Well, then, I must smash!
For it's too late to mend my ways now!

331
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,916
- So if you'll excuse me...
- But I will not excuse you!

332
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,958
Now this is what you will do!

333
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,192
First, you will refuse the money and
demand that it be given to your mother.

334
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,592
Next, you will appoint me
your private secretary from today.

335
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,558
Finally, you will agree
to be co-regent with the Duchess

336
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,156
until your 25th birthday.
Neither she nor I will accept less!

337
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,198
You may do
what you like with the money.

338
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,714
Now, get out of my way!

339
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,916
And if you think that I will ever forget

340
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,470
that you just stood by silent
and you watched him treat me thus,

341
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,551
you are dreaming!

342
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,277
(dog whimpers)

343
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,198
(King William) Is there no limit
to this disobedience?

344
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,989
Mark my words!
The reign of King Conroy is coming!

345
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,471
My poor sister-in-law. What is the hold
that wicked man has over her?

346
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,396
What about her uncle in Brussels?
Could he not be of assistance?

347
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,951
King Leopold is as slippery
as a barrel full of eels.

348
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,238
If he did dislodge Conroy, it'd only be
to tighten his own grip on the girl.

349
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,673
Mightn't there be some benefit
if I pay Princess Victoria a visit

350
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,548
before Conroy
has a chance to usurp her?

351
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,677
(sighs) Very well.

352
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,196
Lord, in your mercy, get me past May!

353
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,469
That way she'll be of age and we'll
have killed off the Regency at least.

354
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,758
I tell you, Lord Melbourne,
his behaviour to me

355
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,072
makes it impossible to keep him
in any post near my person.

356
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,549
Any post whatever.

357
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,031
You don't think it more dangerous
to cut him loose?

358
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,477
I know things that mean
I could never have confidence in him.

359
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,074
Now, I see I must endure Lady Flora.

360
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,993
Mama cannot appear at Court
without a lady-in-waiting,

361
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,071
but I draw the line at Conroy.

362
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,391
And once I'm Queen, I do not wish
to look upon his face again.

363
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,436
Well, we can't prevent the Duchess

364
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,875
from keeping him
in charge of her own affairs.

365
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,952
That will be her mistake, not mine.

366
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,469
(Albert)
My dear Victoria, when I think...

367
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,915
Dearest Victoria,
if ever you should need...

368
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,599
What? Like a vulture? T o hover
at the edge until the King is dead?

369
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,912
And, ma'am, you needn't worry.

370
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,675
I'll be your private secretary.
For now, at least.

371
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,593
Thank you, Lord Melbourne.
That is a great comfort to me.

372
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,878
- Wenn er tot ist, dann gibt es mehr...
- Ernst! English, please!

373
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,112
When he is dead, there'll be more
than one vulture to contend with.

374
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,317
We should consider
the new appointments.

375
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,868
Your ladies-in-waiting and so forth.

376
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,953
Perhaps the Duchess of Sutherland
for Mistress of the Robes?

377
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,678
Oh, I don't really know her.

378
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,150
Ma'am, she's a dear friend of mine.
You'll enjoy her enormously.

379
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,312
I should be lost without your guidance.

380
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,279
- I hope you know how grateful I am.
- I'll draw up a list.

381
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,476
Wha