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Elizabeth : Oh,
I do love this time of day. Shall we walk while there's
still light? You know the clocks go back next week.
It'll be dark before five. I do hope you're a walker.
Tony : I am.
Elizabeth : Good. I always think these meetings have
far a greater chance of success if the Prime Minister is
a walker. As a matter of fact, it's how I think best,
on my feet.
I've never been one for sitting around endlessly. A good
walk in fresh air sorts
everything out. One in four, you said,
wanted to get rid of me?
Tony : For about half an hour, but then you came down
to London, and all that went away.
Elizabeth : I've never been hated like that before.
Tony : It must have been difficult.
Elizabeth : Yes. Very. Nowadays, people want glamour
and tears, the grand performance. I'm not very good at
that. I never have been. I prefer to keep my feelings to myself,
and foolishly, I believed that was what people wanted
from their Queen - not to
make a fuss, nor
wear one's heart on one's sleeve.
Duty first, self second. That's how I was brought up.
That's all I've ever known.
Tony : You were so young when you became Queen.
Elizabeth : Well. Yes. Yes, a girl. But I can see that
the world has changed, and one must... modernize?
Tony : Well, perhaps that's where I can help.
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