Prince Charles: For years, Diana has washed her dirty linen in public. She's thrown endless grenades over the Palace gates trying to blow us all up. And throughout this, Camilla has remained a model of discretion and decency and dignity. And yet you save your most bitter condemnation for her. The prime minister...
Queen Elizabeth II: Ah yes, the prime minister.
Prince Charles: [ignoring her interruption] ...a young man who understands the public better than anyone, told me that what they want is a happy heir to the throne whose private life reflects the world as they see it.
Queen Elizabeth II: I don't want to get drawn on Mr. Blair or whether he understands the people better than me or not.
Prince Charles: I'd say he does.
Queen Elizabeth II: But I do want to make clear that the only person in this family to have a direct relationship with the first minister is the sovereign.
Prince Charles: Which will one day be me.
Queen Elizabeth II: One day. But not yet.
Prince Charles: When?
Queen Elizabeth II: You should know the answer better than anyone because, God willing, you will one day take the oath yourself. This job is for life.
Prince Charles: Let's hope there's still an institution for me to take the oath for.
Queen Elizabeth II: I don't think it's my behavior that's threatening its survival.
Prince Charles: Isn't it? It hasn't been on my watch that there's been a complete breakdown of authority, that a program on national television's made such a mockery of us.
Queen Elizabeth II: The vote, as I understand it, went comfortably in our favor. Less in yours.
Prince Charles: In Hong Kong, I saw how easy it is to dispose of us. Buildings renamed. Your head removed from the stamps. 150 years of living under the Crown, they couldn't have been shot of us more quickly. That's what happens when we fail to move with the times. You can't be blamed for living a long life.
Queen Elizabeth II: Thank you.
Prince Charles: But you have to accept that your, your values were shaped by Queen Mary.
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes. Proud of it.
Prince Charles: Hers by Queen Victoria.
Queen Elizabeth II: Proud of that too.
Prince Charles: I'm just worried, Mummy, that if we continue to hold onto these Victorian notions of how the monarchy should look, how it should feel, then the world will move on. And those who come after you will be, will be left with nothing.
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