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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