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Clips from The Crown (2016) - The Hereditary Principle (S04E04)

"Then the way things suddenly changed for all of us,"
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"none of us could have foreseen it."
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"The abdication--"
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"can be explained away by the abdication."
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"Well, the abdication did change everything."
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"and it's cruel."
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"I myself have experienced in this family."
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"if you're an individual character with individual needs,"
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"and God forbid an irregular temperament…"
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"If you don't fit the perfect mold of…"
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"silent, dutiful supplication,"
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"or, worse, declared dead!"
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"Darwin had nothing on you lot."
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"Margaret!"
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"[fireplace crackling]"
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"[door shuts]"
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"will you at least listen?"
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"The fact is,"
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"the moment that man, your perfidious uncle,"
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"abdicated the throne,"
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"it really did change everything overnight."
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"I went from being the wife of the Duke of York,"
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"leading a relatively normal life,"
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"to being Queen"
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"and… wife of a king-emperor."
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"At the same time, my family, the Bowes-Lyons…"
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"went from being minor Scottish aristocrats…"
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"resulting…"
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"in the children of my brother…"
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"Katherine and Nerissa."
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"…and their first cousins…"
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"Idonea…"
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"Etheldreda…"
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"And Rosemary."
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"[Queen Mother] Yes."
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"…paying a terrible price."
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"Why?"
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"Because… [sighs]"
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"…their illness…"
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"their imbecility--"
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"Don't use those words."
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"would make people question the integrity of the bloodline."
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"Can you imagine the headlines if it were to get out?"
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"The hereditary principle already hangs by such a precarious thread."
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"Throw in mental illness…"
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"and it's over."
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"The idea that… one family alone has the automatic birthright to the Crown"
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"is already so hard to justify."
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"had better have 100% purity."
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"There have been enough examples on the Windsor side alone to worry people."
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"King George III."
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"Prince John, your uncle."
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"If you add the Bowes-Lyon illnesses to that…"
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"the danger is, it becomes untenable."
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"[bottles rattling lightly]"
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"[Margaret] It's all a family disease, isn't it?"
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"When they… they tell you you can't marry."
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"When they strip away your official role."
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"When they side with your husband as your marriage falls apart."
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"And now this."
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"This final…"
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"That every diminishment,"
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"every…"
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"[sobs] …rotten…"
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"misfortune…"
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"is written in my blood."
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"So…"
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"without… tiptoeing to protect me"
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"or dressing things up,"
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"tell me the truth."
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"As well as being born second…"
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"am I destined to be mad, too?"
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"No, ma'am."
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"When I heard you'd… made the appointment to come today…"
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"Now the genetic fault responsible for your cousins' condition"
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"seems to have descended from their common maternal grandfather,"
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"Charles Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton."
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"This suggests that the recessive gene responsible for their condition"
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"lies with the Clinton family."
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"So, how did it get to the Bowes-Lyon family?"
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"Through your aunt Fenella,"
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"who married John Bowes-Lyon."
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"And whatever issues you may or may not be facing,"
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"It hasn't somehow passed…"
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"to my mother, Queen Elizabeth?"
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"No."
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"But then, if they didn't threaten the integrity of the royal family,"
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"the girls need never have been hidden away."
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"And what my family did was unforgivable."
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"Anyway, she prescribed… medication,"
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"and increased exercise."
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"They'll be suggesting giving up alcohol soon."
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"Giving up alcohol."
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"You could always just convert and come over to Rome."
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"-Dazzle. -It's the only thing that's worked for me."
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"Lifted my spirits."
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"After I converted, I found a faith."
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"-The difference is night and day. -Now you're being evangelical."
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"I feel evangelical. It's not just the beauty,"
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"it's the rigor of the Catholic Church."
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"It demands complete submission,"
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"which strong, willful characters like mine and, I would suggest, yours, ma'am, need."
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"One cannot fully receive God"
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"until one has submitted to something larger,"
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"and the moment I did--"
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"Don't tell me. The lights went on, you found happiness?"
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"More than happiness."
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"Ecstasy."
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"And the gloom we talked about so many times…"
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"the emptiness…"
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"has gone."
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"How nice."
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"I would, but in case you hadn't noticed, Dazzle,"
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"I've already submitted to something larger."
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"The royal family of the United Kingdom."
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"If I became Catholic,"
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"it would be a national scandal."
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"There'd be talk of betrayal, second Reformation."
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"No, they'd make me give up my title and kick me out."
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"Would that be so bad?"
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