Name: Dear Mrs. Kennedy
Released: 2018-01-19
Cast: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Victoria Hamilton

1) me.

where no one will see me.
2) a.m.

Up at 4:30 for a 6 a.m. flight to Jamaica.
3) investiture

some investiture and military inspections.
4) debutante

I believe there was also a debutante you managed to make cry,
5) knighthood

Can't have people turning up for knighthood
6) newsreel

Now, what would you like me to do? For your newsreel?
7) wattle

scattered with pale yellow wattle blossom.
8) pantomime

It is an absurd pantomime, the whole thing.
9) banger

Like giving a lick of paint to a rusty old banger
10) spasm

It's a spasm. The muscles are overworked. Rest ought to fix it, though.
11) rabble

in the wake of minor incidents prosecuted by an insurgent rabble?
12) organza

To that end, we've been working a great deal with organza,
13) crepe

crepe de Chine and shantung silk.
14) interlude

I'm sorry for that little interlude. I'm sure it must happen in every marriage.
15) ostrich

Actually, I thought the old ostrich feathers rather suited you.
16) koala

Who is it you think you'd be letting down, anyway? A koala?
17) tiara

If the costumes are grand enough, if the tiara's sparkly enough,
18) gent

Just give me a moment, please, gent. I'll be right with you. Okay? Thank you.

1) hew

a piece of coal she hew herself.
2) frighten

What people want is someone to inhabit it. Not be frighten of it.
3) shatter

The minute you become yourself, you shatter the illusion, break the spell.
4) calibrate

The speech has been carefully calibrate to avoid giving offence.
5) unveil

when he unveil the statue of King George V.
6) frown

It'd be frown upon. Something to do with who I am.
7) prosecute

in the wake of minor incidents prosecute by an insurgent rabble?
8) adore

He adore you both. Did so equally. As any good father would.
9) scatter

scatter with pale yellow wattle blossom.
10) greet

Thank you. We arrive at noon to be greet by the Governor
11) prevail

-Your courage and conviction prevail. -This time, perhaps.
12) tuck

[Townsend] The office is tuck away in a remote part of the embassy
13) steer

having to steer clear of all the parties, steer clear of all the traps.
14) beg

-I beg to differ, nothing is all I do. -Are you at least alone in the office?
15) threaten

Your uncle, Edward VIII, threaten to do just that,
16) depart

[Churchill] The last time you depart on this tour,
17) propose

So, on Her Majesty's arrival in Sydney, we propose a white organza dress
18) renew

and promises a renew role for Britain in the modern world.

1) intolerably

It's intolerably dark and hot and cramped.
2) magnificently

that I think is a fair price for this magnificently-situated castle.
3) cruelly

it was cruelly cut short by the death of your dear father.
4) foremost

First and foremost, the loss of a husband.
5) positively

And positively exotic.
6) altogether

Then might I suggest we bypass Gibraltar altogether?
7) internationally

These latest events, internationally, merely strengthen our view.
8) precisely

at precisely the moment when they should be giving me more to do,
9) wherever

or the welcome of cheerful and friendly people wherever my sister may travel,
10) besides

Besides, I had rather hoped to disappear up to Scotland for a while.
11) somewhere

somewhere between Bermuda, Jamaica and Fiji.
12) abroad

while Her Majesty is abroad.
13) apparently

Apparently, Margaret was dazzling and brilliant.
14) apart

The banger is falling apart.
15) underground

Her visit to the coalface a quarter of a mile underground
16) carefully

The speech has been carefully calibrated to avoid giving offence.
17) forever

Well, it's not forever.
18) doubt

Distracted, no doubt,

1) characterless

My characterless sister.
2) unequipped

They put it all into the hands of a girl who's totally unequipped for it.
3) unshaken

A position which will, I trust, remain unshaken by the storms
4) overworked

It's a spasm. The muscles are overworked. Rest ought to fix it, though.
5) incomprehensible

the mythology incomprehensible enough, then all must still be fine.
6) insurgent

in the wake of minor incidents prosecuted by an insurgent rabble?
7) venerable

On to venerable Hobart, nestling at the cool feet of Mount Wellington.
8) ceremonial

where we're hoping to find a moment for the ceremonial planting of a tree.
9) fascist

the world would already be living under the yoke of fascist tyranny
10) dazzling

Apparently, Margaret was dazzling and brilliant.
11) graceful

-So graceful and so near... -[knocking]
12) cheerful

or the welcome of cheerful and friendly people wherever my sister may travel,
13) hearted

Afternoon in Sydney first. Then, good hearted Adelaide.
14) prudent

Perhaps it would be prudent, to take a few things out.
15) miserable

This whole thing is a circus. It's a miserable circus.
16) absurd

It is an absurd pantomime, the whole thing.
17) unacceptable

in an unacceptable level of danger.
18) ridiculous

-Philip! Don't you dare come back here! -Don't be ridiculous! Christ!

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