Reporter: Motorists in parts of the capital.
Trains are stopped or running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
The Prime Minister is facing criticism for failure to deal with the mounting crisis.
London Airport is closed again today, with all flights grounded.
Male 1: Piss.
Reporter: The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
is likely to cause complete darkness by two o'clock this afternoon.
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Princess Elizabeth: Are you all right?
You're not.
Come on, let's get you up.
Queen Mary: No, no.
I'm fine. I promise.
It's just because the window was open.
Now, go to work.
You've got a job to do.
Winston Churchill: Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
where anti-colonial passions continue to run high and where our soldiers continue to come
under fire from nationalist insurgents.
It is vital that we remain and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth heads
when I host them for the weekend at Chequers.
Queen Elizabeth II: Weather permitting.
Winston Churchill: Indeed.
Queen Elizabeth II: What is the latest information that you have?
Winston Churchill: About the weather?
It's fog, ma'am.
It will lift eventually.
Queen Elizabeth II: I was hoping for something more scientific.
Winston Churchill: Then I will ensure that a barometric report is included
in your box tomorrow, complete with isobars and isohumes.
It has been an unusually cold winter and there are only so many things that I,
as Prime Minister, am prepared to inflict on your subjects as a reward
for winning a World War and prevailing over fascism, evil, and tyranny.
Letting them freeze is not one of them.
Queen Elizabeth II: You do not seem unduly concerned.
Winston Churchill: I'm not.
Queen Elizabeth II: You do know that my late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors
to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party was building.
Winston Churchill: Indeed.
And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today,
baying for blood, wanting my head.
People have to be angry at someone.
But as a leader, one cannot simply react to everything.
We need the power stations.
We need the coal.
People need to burn coal to warm their homes!
It is weather.
It will pass!
Queen Elizabeth II: Well, I do hope so.
Not least because my husband's mood is intolerable.
Winston Churchill: Why?
Queen Elizabeth II: Well, being caged in like this.
He can't fly.
Winston Churchill: Fly where?
Queen Elizabeth II: Well, nowhere.
He's learning to fly.
Winston Churchill: Whatever for?
Have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go?
Queen Elizabeth II: No, he wants to fly himself.
It's a boyhood dream.
It's what he's always wanted.
Winston Churchill: Why was government not consulted?
Queen Elizabeth II: Because it's a private matter.
And I am in favor.
Winston Churchill: Nothing you or His Royal Highness do is a private matter.
And the father of the future king
of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable!
Queen Elizabeth II: Please, do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further.
You've taken away his home.
You've taken away his name.
There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.
Winston Churchill: And the job of drawing that line falls to Cabinet, ma'am.
Not to you.
Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time
to complete your education!
And now, our time is up.
Until next week.
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