(dramatic string music)
(audience applauding)
- Thank you.
- I'm strong. You know that.
And I can cope with the truth.
I just demand to know the truth.
It's when people don't tell me the truth
that I can't bear it.
- You don't want to know.
- Actually I do.
- The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Please.
- All right.
- The truth?
It makes a mockery of even the central tenets
of Christianity.
There is no possibility of my forgiving you.
The question is, how on earth can you forgive yourself?
Do you know, I've been queen barely 10 years.
And in that time I've had three prime ministers.
All of them ambitious men, clever men, brilliant men.
Not one has lasted the course.
They've either been too old, too ill or too weak.
A confederacy of elected quitters.
- I notice more forgetfulness.
Agitation.
Delusion.
Paranoia.
- I shouldn't worry too much.
Several of your predecessors
had far more serious afflictions.
and they continued to govern
without the public being any the wiser.
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The exit route which is open to everyone one of us.
- Divorce?
- Yes, divorce.
It's not an option for us.
Ever.
All anyone wants is for the pair of you
to pull yourselves together.
Stop making spectacles of yourselves
and make this marriage and your enormously
privileged positions in life work.
- And if I want to separate?
- You will not separate or divorce
or let the side down in any way.
And if one day you expect to be King.
- I do.
- Then might I suggest you start to behave like one.
- [TV Reporter] So what do we know about Margaret Thatcher.
- That's the last thing this country needs.
- What?
- Two women running the shop.
- Perhaps that's precisely what this country needs.
I would ask you to consider your response
in light of the respect that my rank and my office deserve.
Not that which my age and gender might suggest.
- The very idea that the first time a prime minister
should break down in this room, it would be a woman.
- It is by no means the first time
a prime minister has broken down in here.
- The solution to easily resolve this.
Stop smiling.
- Trouble is, I have the sort of face
that if I'm not smiling,
everyone says, oh isn't she cross.
- No that's not.
What do you think?
- I could inject the affected area with a relaxant.
You'll have to watch yourself with soup though.
You might find you have less control chewing and drinking,
and it's not a long-term solution.
- Oh, all right.
I'll have the injection.