who want change. with scandals swirling around her sister margaret threatening to tarnish her reign, the queen must assert her power, sacrificing the happiness of those she loves. february 1952. elizabeth ii has been queen for just a few days, following the death of her father, king george vi. shortly after the king s death the queen s uncle holds a dinner party at the house in hampshire. lord louis mountbatten played a key role in the life of his young nephew philip. when philip is a child the greek family are deposed and they flee to exile and his father has no time for him. louis mountbatten takes over as philip s guardian and so he sees him as his son really. lord mountbatten had always had domestic ambitions for his . what has this damned fool got to do with the name of this house? queen mary s husband, george v, was the king who d begun the house of windsor. queen mary goes to winston churchill and said this is what mountbatten is plotting. mountbatten
all of us here know that we are present at the making of history. as the queen takes her first cautious steps as monarch, she is torn between the palace old guard led by her mother and those like her husband, philip, who want change. with scandals swirling around her sister margaret threatening to tarnish her reign, the queen must assert her power, sacrificing the happiness of those she loves. february 1952. elizabeth ii has been queen for just a few days, following the death of her father, king george vi. shortly after the king s death the queen s uncle holds a dinner party at his house in hampshire. lord louis mountbatten played a key role in the young life of his nephew philip. when philip is a child the greek family are deposed and they flee to exile and his father has no time for him. louis mountbatten takes over as prince philip s guardian, and so he sees him as his son really. lord mountbatten had always had domestic ambitions for his nephew philip. he wa
it s been almost wiped from the archives. and i think that was a tipping point at which times the royal family felt that perhaps they had let their guard down too much. the point of the queen is there s a mystique about her. and if you get too close and find out too much, you lose that. and i think that was something that worried them. there is this terrible balance that they ve got to strike between being extraordinary and being ordinary. and they came to the conclusion that they were being too ordinary. the queen succeeds in withdrawing the documentary. but by then, it s really too late. the damage is done. the public and the press have got a taste for this more intrusive style of royal coverage after the 1969 documentary. we see a much more explosive form of media coverage develop very quickly, which is set on exposing the impropriety that exists behind closed palace doors. next on the windsors. charles had no choice in his
different but not so different. they re still family people. and the other one was to see her taking prince edward into the shop at balmoral to buy him an ice cream. would you like to go and get one? one of the golden rules had been that their conversation was not to be recorded when they were out and about doing public events. token as a memento of your visit here. though the public saw and heard them, i think, in a way that was entirely new. the public are ecstatic. they never believed that the queen, prince philip, and their children, could be just like them. huge ratings. i think 24 million people in britain watched. and then the extraordinary thing about it, the puzzling thing, is that now you cannot see it at all. it s been almost wiped from the archives. and i think that was a tipping point at which times the royal family felt that perhaps they had let their guard down too much. the point of the queen is