# Hallelujah. # Gloriana. # Hallelujah. # Gloriana, hallelujah. # Hallelujah! # Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Able 2019. ALBERT: "I must go to Cambridge, as I have been asked to stand as chancellor of the university. "In my absence, I hope you will follow my advice "and employ a male tutor for Bertie. "His behaviour has become... unmanageable." For the Prince. -(KNOCK AT DOOR) -Mm-hm? From the Queen, sir. VICTORIA: "Bertie's misbehaviour "is simply that he does not fulfil "your very specific expectations of how a boy should act." Thank you. "There is no question of you going to Cambridge today. "Have you forgotten we are receiving "the foreign ambassadors tonight? "We must present a united front." ALBERT: "By 'united front', you mean "another opportunity for you to indulge your vanity "while I'm paraded around like a show pony." Sir. VICTORIA: "Must I explain again "that since I was forced to run away to Osborne, "I've had to double my efforts to show my people "the same devotion as I show my children. "What you call vanity, I call duty." ALBERT: "Well, if you treat your country like a child, "how will it ever mature?" VICTORIA: "I too have important work, Albert, "and that is to show my people their queen is by their side." Look what I can do with my new toy! Your Grace. I, uh... I've been meaning to thank you for what you did for me in Osborne. I... Anyone would have done what I did. (NANCY CHUCKLES) We open in three days. The place is filthy. -Look. -What? Look at these windows. Once they taste my strawberry tarts, they won't be looking out the window, Nancy! (LAUGHS) Do you think we should change the name? What should we call it? 'The Palace'. Please tell His Royal Highness our correspondence is at an end. I believe this letter is from Mrs Skerrett...uh, Mrs Francatelli, ma'am. Is that the best you can do? (SIGHS) Leave us. You seem out of sorts lately, Drina. Can you blame me? Albert is... ..God knows where, and the one person who can do my hair properly has... ..left me to get married. (FEODORA SIGHS) It's hopeless. Don't worry, Drina, hmm? I will never desert you. (CHUCKLES) (SOMBRE MUSIC) WOMAN: Can't you just give him some medicine, Doctor? Just last night he was on the street, playing, refusing to go to bed. Why has the Lord saved me but my boy... I'm very sorry to tell you that your son has cholera, Mrs Dolan. We don't know where it comes from, only that it acts fast. Now, d-do you remember who he was with yesterday? What are you talking about? Could you tell me where he had been before he came home last night? Do you want your son's life to mean something? If you can help me discover the cause, he will not die in vain. (WEEPS) Allow me. William's been at school for two months now. Perhaps I could visit him. Are you fond of this necklace? Remember... Everything you're fond of... ..belongs to me. Her Majesty the Queen! The King of Oudh sends his felicitations on the birth of the Princess Louise. (GUESTS CHATTER) Prime Minister, I wanted to tell you. I have been asked to stand as chancellor at Cambridge University. Mi dispiace, signora. Un momento. You'll be a vast improvement on the previous royal incumbent. The Duke of Gloucester had great difficulty in keeping his mouth closed. Well, there is much to be done. At Bonn, we studied botany, geology, all of the natural sciences, but at Cambridge, they study little more than the classics. Homer and Virgil made me the man I am today. Yes, I believe you studied at, um... ..'Mag-da-lene' College, Lord Palmerston. You might want to learn the names of the colleges before you start telling them what to study, sir. 'Mawd-lin', sir. Thank you. Of course, the chancellorship is an honorary position, sir. It has no executive power. And Cambridge is not a place that relishes innovation. Even more reason to accept the post. You must not worry about your duties here. I will support Victoria. I hope Cambridge is ready for you, sir. Thank you. (PIANIST PLAYS GENTLE MELODY) (SINGS OPERA PIECE) (ABIGAIL SIGHS) Use the leftovers from the Chartist banners. Isn't much call for them now. Cuffay's been transported. Sometimes it feels like none of it ever happened. Well, you've made them look beautiful. I shall repay the favour one day. It's you doing me the favour. Not much keeping me busy since you left. (WOMAN SOBS OUTSIDE) (WOMAN WAILS) I'm troubled by opening with all of this, Charles. You've been troubled from the moment you left the Palace. (SINGS OPERATICALLY) Prime Minister. Go away! Prime Minister. -I'm sorry. -Thank you. (SONG ENDS) Something the matter? Nothing to concern you at present, ma'am. Judging by the look on the Prime Minister's face, I would beg to differ. I've just been informed that there is a cholera outbreak in Soho. We thought it was just a few isolated cases. I assure you we're doing all we can. We are closing all the graveyards in town and opening them in the country to prevent any... ..congestion. So your suggestion is to tidy the problem away? Surely we should be trying to find out what is causing... It's a laudable aim, sir, but as politicians, we can't waste our time with scientific red herrings. We need to make sure that the public are reassured. The last thing we need... ..is to have cabs filled with dead children outside graveyards. I don't want my guests to hear any of this. Perhaps Miss Lind could give us an encore. (MUSICIANS PLAYS GENTLE TUNE) (MISS LIND SINGS OPERA PIECE) ALBERT: Why would you not want me in a position where I can make real change? I need you here, Albert - how can you think of leaving London at a time like this? I'm sure you believe your presence here, it will cure the sick? Your predecessors may have believed in such superstitions, Victoria, but this is the 19th century! You are so callous at the moment! Do you know how hard it is to be without Skerrett? ALBERT: I suppose you believe that we are all abandoning you. -I don't recognise you. -Well, I recognise you! What does that mean? How could I forget your warmth and generosity in times of crisis is what holds this country together? VICTORIA: I am a queen, Albert! What is it you fail to understand? (UNEASY MUSIC) I can only assure the honourable member that every precaution is being taken to stop this terrible plague spreading. MP: This is the third and most devastating outbreak of cholera to ravage the streets of London in the last five years. 127 people have died within three days in one single street in Soho, half a mile from this House. RUSSELL: I can only repeat ` we are expediting every remedy we know. Renovating? Been up since 5am. Why not have someone do the hard work for you? Borrow $20,000 or more with a new Gem personal loan at a fixed rate of 12.99% per annum. We could do with a bit of a sleep-in. Let's be honest, we can all tell. You can do better with Gem, powered by Latitude. Apply today. * And now, His Royal Highness, and soon, I hope, to be chancellor of this university, will say a few words. Thank you, master. At my university in Bonn, one was not afraid to challenge tradition. We should strive to build a future that is enlightened by science and rationality. The dreaded disease that today is causing misery in our capital must be stopped, but that will only happen if institutions such as this ask the right questions. (PLAYS A FEW NOTES) (SIGHS) I'm sure you will resolve your differences. Hmm? (CHUCKLES) Do you know why I spend so much time playing this piano? My husband sold my instrument in Langenburg to pay off his gambling debts. I hardly know anything of your life in Germany. When I first arrived here... ..I thought we would never understand each other the way we did as children. My life had become so dark. And yours was... ..so light. But perhaps we have more in common than I thought. I too understand the ache of a lonely marriage. (SIGHS) We've always fought. But in the past, it would... would bring us closer together. He still resents me for taking him away from Osborne, his... ..his creation. You believe he's trying to take revenge? -That's a strong word. -Mmm. Perhaps it's the right one. No human pursuits have ever made any material progress until science was brought to bear upon them. Hear, hear! (BANGS TABLE) Thank you for your thoughts on our education, Your Royal Highness. Cambridge has produced the greatest minds in the world for over 600 years, from a curriculum based in theology and the lessons of the past. Are you, for example, suggesting that we teach the heretical work of Charles Lyell, who believes that the world was not created in seven days? MEN: Hear, hear. (THEY APPLAUD) Foreigners. It is brought in by foreigners. The first case recorded was in a seaman's hostel in Limehouse. Nonsense. The toxic miasma should abate soon now that Covent Garden has been closed. The only cure is for people to maintain their composure. Are we safe here in the Palace? Here, you are quite protected, ma'am. The air is clean and safe around the Palace. But outside, the danger of encountering the miasma is too great. Are you proposing to put me in quarantine? RUSSELL: As your prime minister, I urge you to remain here until contagion has passed, ma'am. And what example does it set to my people if I'm hiding here in the Palace? You don't have to be seen, ma'am. You could announce a national day of penance, perhaps a day of fast. Would that raise the spirits of my people? No! -RUSSELL: Dr Snow? -Do you have another theory? About how the disease is spread. I s-s-s-s... Yes? Without proof, I cannot offer you an answer, and as I have no proof, I have no answer, Your Majesty. * -What do you want? -You're still open? -Despite the cholera? -What's it to you? I have patients in this street. -Nothing wrong with my men. -How curious. It's simple ` no women, no foreigners and all the beer you can drink. Here, go on. Have one on the house. No, thank you. Suit yourself. I reckon it's the best medicine out there. Cheers. VICTORIA: Russell has been most unhelpful. I've heard the reports from Parliament, and I do not wish to stand idle. I should like you to organise a visit to the hospital. I'm your Foreign Secretary, ma'am. I suggest you contact -the commissioner for the Board of Health. -(SIGHS) And he will hum and hah and talk about the danger of infection. You, on the other hand, you've never met a rule you didn't want to break. You sound like my wife, ma'am. But don't you worry about catching it? Lord Palmerston, if one of my children were ill, I would not hesitate to go into the sickroom. I understand. I'll make the necessary arrangements. Although I imagine those wool gatherers at the Board of Health will have a conniption fit. Not if we don't tell them. Your Grace. From the Duke. Can you order my carriage? I have been summoned. I hope you will be careful. Surely your husband would rather you remained in the Palace until the contagion has passed? (HALF-LAUGHS) I cannot refuse him. In this circumstance, you should not be afraid to. Shall I let him know that you are to remain at the Palace? If he's not at home, he will be at his club. I make two kinds of tonic for women in your condition. This one works a treat for ladies who are happy to welcome a little stranger and, um... ..I have this one for those who aren't. (DOOR CLOSES) Do you want a surprise? Depends. -Is it a good one? -Yes. But you'll have to be patient. Why? 'Cause you'll have to wait nine months. Oh! (LAUGHS) -Ah! (LAUGHS) -(YELPS) -Yes? -Yes. (BOTH LAUGH HAPPILY) (MEN CHATTER) (MONMOUTH LAUGHS) Give us all some entertainment! What we've been craving! (LAUGHS) Your Grace, I have a message for you. I'm sorry. I didn't quite catch that. A message, Your Grace. It's almost as though he's speaking a different language. (MEN CHUCKLE) Her Grace would like to inform you that she has decided to remain at the Palace. You can remind the Duchess that as it was a command, I do not expect a reply. She must leave immediately. PALMERSTON: Are you sure you want to do this, ma'am? It's not a matter of 'want'. It's a matter of duty. NURSE: Excuse me, miss. (CHILDREN COUGH AND CRY OUT) (WOMAN SOBS) Help me, sir! Just straight ahead, ma'am. This way. It's a cruel disease, ma'am. (SQUEAKING) What's that noise? (SQUEAKS) I found her on the floor of the Parthenon in Athens. She'd fallen from her nest. And I've had her with me ever since. (SQUEAKS) Aren't you worried she'll bite you? No, she never has yet. Just as I've never caught anything from my patients. So you don't believe in the miasma theory? If it was in the air, I would be dead by now, ma'am. (WHISPERS) What do you think causes it? All I know is that it is a disease that follows poverty and dirt. Oh, there must be... Oh, there must be something I can do! (SIGHS) A subscription. Blankets? The medical board have theories. Fairytales. There's only one doctor who comes to visit. A quiet man with a stammer. I hope he will put an end to it. Thank you. Uh,... what is your name? Florence Nightingale, ma'am. Ah, it might look like a beauty, but it's a no from John West. (SQUEAKS DISAPPOINTEDLY) It's what John West rejects that makes John West the best. (WONDROUS STRING MUSIC) Wild caught and high in omega-3. * The work of Lyell is most intriguing. If the fossils do indeed date from different periods, then there is no basis... Sir, I thought you should know the gentleman Powis who made his preferences so clear at dinner has decided to stand against you. -Has this ever happened before? -No, but then they've never been faced with the prospect of a foreign chancellor ` and a German one at that. Thank you. Mama! Mama! -Mama! -Darling! -Oh, come here! Come here. -We missed you. What is it, Mama? Is it my fault? No, darling, I'm... I'm just so happy to see you. Aren't you happy to see me? Come along. Back inside. (SIGHS) Oh, Victoria. My poor sister. There was nothing I could do. You're so hard on yourself, hmm? (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) Duchess? It's your turn. JOSEPH: Your Grace. The Duke has asked me to inform you he does not wholly agree with your message. I see. I could let him know that it is a royal command. Thank you. I will deal with the situation myself. (INDUSTRIOUS MUSIC) -WOMAN: I went to church. -And then? -To my apothecary shop. -Where is that? Soho. Just off Broad Street. And... And after work? (SIGHS) Mrs Arbuthnot, I need a few more answers. You're the only case outside Soho. -Visited my sister. -Is she sick? No. Well, what route did you take home? The usual. Marshall Street. Broad Street. You can stop off for fresh water at the pump. For my tonics. (MOMENTOUS MUSIC) Stop using that pump! Stop! Please! Just... WOMAN: What are you doing?! Oh! (GRUNTS) MAN: Go on, get out! (SINGS) # Home, home # Home, sweet home # There's no place like home # There's no... # How long have you been there watching me? -Long enough. -For what? For you to finish so I won't have to do any work. (HUFFS) -That's why I married you. -(LAUGHS) (GASPS) Oh! Oh, it's perfect. (LAUGHS) (KNOCK AT DOOR) (INHALES SHARPLY) -MAN: Hello, hello! -FRANCATELLI: Welcome. -Come through. -Am I late? -The guest of honour is... -BOTH: Never late! -Mr Brodie! -(LAUGHS) Hope you're both hungry. There is a lot to get through before we open to the public tomorrow. I wish to see him. The young gentleman. Yorkshireman. Dr Snow? The fellow who could hardly string a sentence together? You should know that he is seen by the medical establishment as an eccentric. Please send for him immediately. (SIGHS) Joseph? I, uh... (CLEARS THROAT) I need some sealing wax. Your Grace. I'm glad you are still at the Palace. If the Queen is the only woman he can't pull rank on... You weren't at dinner. It was very quiet. Is my voice so loud? When it's the only thing I can hear. I can hardly believe I'm here under my own roof with my beautiful wife and with... ..a little Francatelli on the way. Long live the House of Francatelli! -(NANCY CHUCKLES) -Thank you. I want to propose a toast. To Charles Francatelli. For not listening to me when I said this couldn't be done. We may have left the Palace... ..but he is a king among men. -Good health. -ALL: To good health. If you'll excuse me for just a moment. -Ooh, that's delicious. -Lovely speech. Thank you. (OMINOUS MUSIC) MAN: Powis for chancellor! (MEN CHATTER AND CHEER) Powis for chancellor! Down with the German! (CLEARS THROAT) Lord Palmerston. I did not know you were in Cambridge. I thought I'd make the trip to brush up on my Ovid. And as a graduate, I've come to vote, of course. The future of this university is very important to me. And to the nation. Sir. Here you are, my darling. Everything just as you like it. Coddled eggs, poor knights of Windsor and... -What shall we call the baby? -Plenty of time to decide that. Victoria if it's a boy. Albert if it's a girl. No, that's not right. Victoria... if it's a girl. Shh. Nancy. Nancy. -(SOBS) -Shh, shh. What are you doing? We have to get up or Mr Penge will find out. Shh, shh. Nancy. Nancy. We're not in the Palace any more. (SIGHS) Oh! * Tea? Uh, I th-th-th... (SIGHS) I th-thought that the... Please, let me. (CLEARS THROAT) That will be all. Speaking in public has always been of great difficulty to me. The trick, I find, is... Well, it's to pretend I'm speaking to Isla. Isla hangs on my every word. Don't you, Islay? -(ISLA YAPS) -(SNOW LAUGHS) You were saying? (SIGHS) I've been c-certain for a while it's not miasma, not the air, but the water. Bad water, ma'am. Women and children are more likely to drink water and they have died in greater numbers. Men who work in the breweries are unaffected because they only drink beer. But...then this...case in Hampstead. Only one woman in the village had contracted it. I discovered that she had her water brought up from a pump in Broad Street. She even used it in the tonics in her apothecary. It is the pump that is spreading the disease. This evidence, I believe, can finally stop the contagion. (CLATTERING) Excuse me. Um, sir, what was the name of the woman making the tonics? Arbuthnot. The votes have been counted. Votes for the Earl of Powis... -837. -(MEN CHATTER) Votes for His Royal Highness Prince Albert... -953. -(MEN CHATTER) Congratulations, Your Royal Highness. Thank you. Although I'm sure you will be pleased to hear that I shall not be accepting the chancellorship under such circumstances. Clearly they do not want me. Well, then my journey will have been in vain. -You voted for me? -Yes, I surprised even myself. I had what the dons might call a Damascene conversion. You have come round to my way of thinking? Only on the matter of cholera, sir. (SIGHS) No. Oh, do something. Do...something! SNOW: When did it start? Early this morning. I thought it was something to do with the child. Child? (SIGHS) Oh, dear Skerrett. Do you want me to do your hair, ma'am? I've got my own palace now. Yes, you have. It's splendid. Victoria. If it's a girl. I couldn't dream of a greater honour. Charles! (WAILS) (SHRIEKS) FEODORA: The Chancellor of Cambridge University. (CHUCKLES) Congratulations, Albert. It should have been a...formality, but...instead it was... a humiliation. But you won, hm? Just. I should have listened to Victoria. It's not enough to be right. One also has to win over the public. Do you remember... ..when I first told you my name? That was when I knew. So did I. All that time... ..we could have been together. Just you wait. All of this... ..will be a marvellous success. Not without you. I should have married you sooner. It wasn't long. But it meant everything. (NANCY MOANS SOFTLY) Nancy? Nan... Nancy? SONG: # Through bushes and through briars # I lately took my way # All for to hear the small birds sing # And the lambs to skip and play # All for to hear the small birds sing # And the lambs to skip and play... # NANCY: "I know that I left when you needed me most." I... I never opened her letter. (ALBERT SIGHS) You could not have known. NANCY: "But as much as I wanted to remain by your side, "my heart took me into my new life." # Long time have I... "I hope you will accept my future with Mr Francatelli... "...as you once accepted my past." # Long time have I been waiting for... # "Abigail, whom you met, "I recommend to fill my position. "Your obedient servant. "Mrs Charles Francatelli." (PASSIONATE MUSIC SWELLS) SONG: # Hallelujah.