Victoria & Abdul

00:32:13,070 --> 00:32:14,100 Why ever not? 461 00:32:14,310 --> 00:32:15,900 You are the Empress of India. 462 00:32:16,550 --> 00:32:19,460 You should learn Urdu, language of the Mughals. 463 00:32:20,230 --> 00:32:22,340 There are a thousand languages in India. 464 00:32:22,710 --> 00:32:25,060 But Urdu is the most noble. 465 00:32:27,630 --> 00:32:29,580 In Hindi, 466 00:32:29,790 --> 00:32:32,820 you write like this. 467 00:32:34,590 --> 00:32:38,900 But in Urdu, you write like this. 468 00:32:42,430 --> 00:32:43,650 "I am the Queen." 469 00:32:43,790 --> 00:32:44,930 I see. 470 00:33:04,630 --> 00:33:06,820 He's teaching her Hindu. 471 00:33:07,590 --> 00:33:09,180 Is that allowed? 472 00:33:10,750 --> 00:33:12,780 I think you will find it is Urdu. 473 00:33:13,510 --> 00:33:14,570 The Muslim version. 474 00:33:14,710 --> 00:33:16,340 Oh, my goodness me! 475 00:33:19,670 --> 00:33:20,700 That's it. 476 00:33:21,430 --> 00:33:23,020 You are the Queen. 477 00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:26,740 The Queen is very wise. 478 00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:40,140 You see? 479 00:33:40,390 --> 00:33:42,580 Now, you write it down. 480 00:34:01,670 --> 00:34:03,940 She's writing in her journal. 481 00:34:04,110 --> 00:34:07,100 And she's speaking in Hindustani. 482 00:34:08,830 --> 00:34:10,460 No, it's Urdu, actually. 483 00:34:10,910 --> 00:34:12,580 The Muslim version. 484 00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:26,100 Knee. Knee. Knee. 485 00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:34,410 Yes! Yes! 486 00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:45,580 Thank you, Abdul. 487 00:34:46,150 --> 00:34:49,020 You are an excellent teacher. 488 00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:53,730 Bertie! 489 00:34:53,830 --> 00:34:54,860 Mother! 490 00:34:55,030 --> 00:34:56,170 Were you spying on me? 491 00:34:56,390 --> 00:34:57,580 Were you learning Urdu? 492 00:34:57,750 --> 00:34:58,960 Yes, I was, as a matter of fact. 493 00:34:58,990 --> 00:35:01,100 You think that's entirely appropriate? 494 00:35:01,230 --> 00:35:03,550 Well, I'm Empress of India. What could be more appropriate? 495 00:35:03,710 --> 00:35:06,380 But in front of the entire Household? 496 00:35:07,670 --> 00:35:09,660 You're absolutely right. 497 00:35:10,710 --> 00:35:12,700 I have no privacy here. 498 00:35:13,510 --> 00:35:14,860 Sir Henry, 499 00:35:15,230 --> 00:35:18,020 I would like to go with Abdul to Glassalt Shiel. 500 00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:20,260 Glassalt Shiel? Alone. 501 00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:26,900 But I've only just got here! 502 00:36:17,470 --> 00:36:24,100 Oh, to be by oneself and live a simple, rudimentary existence. 503 00:36:27,830 --> 00:36:29,900 They don't understand anything, 504 00:36:30,270 --> 00:36:32,980 those stupid aristocratic fools. 505 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:37,260 Toadying around. Jockeying for position. 506 00:36:37,590 --> 00:36:39,460 I've had it all my life. 507 00:36:41,990 --> 00:36:45,260 They couldn't bear me bringing dear John Brown here. 508 00:36:46,790 --> 00:36:50,620 Yet I was happier here than anywhere in the entire world. 509 00:36:52,630 --> 00:36:54,620 Oh, I miss him, Abdul. 510 00:36:57,630 --> 00:36:59,460 And Albert. 511 00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:06,220 It's 30 years now, and I think of him every day. 512 00:37:09,670 --> 00:37:11,540 I'm so lonely. 513 00:37:14,030 --> 00:37:19,300 Everyone I've really loved has died, and I just go on and on. 514 00:37:29,870 --> 00:37:31,010 Your Majesty. 515 00:37:36,510 --> 00:37:38,700 It's an impossible position. 516 00:37:40,390 --> 00:37:43,540 No one really knows what it's like to be Queen. 517 00:37:47,350 --> 00:37:50,860 I'm hated by millions of people all over the world. 518 00:37:52,870 --> 00:37:57,060 I have had nine children, all vain and jealous, 519 00:37:57,230 --> 00:38:00,060 and at loggerheads with each other. 520 00:38:00,750 --> 00:38:03,660 And Bertie's a complete embarrassment. 521 00:38:05,190 --> 00:38:06,380 And look at me! 522 00:38:07,750 --> 00:38:11,740 A fat, lame, impotent, silly old woman. 523 00:38:13,630 --> 00:38:16,060 What is the point, Abdul? 524 00:38:18,790 --> 00:38:21,060 What is the point? 525 00:38:23,630 --> 00:38:24,740 Service. 526 00:38:26,270 --> 00:38:27,270 Service? 527 00:38:28,270 --> 00:38:31,420 I think we are not here to worry about ourselves. 528 00:38:31,590 --> 00:38:33,260 We are here for a greater purpose. 529 00:38:34,110 --> 00:38:38,580 In the Koran it says, "We are here for the good of others." 530 00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:39,750 The Koran? 531 00:38:39,870 --> 00:38:42,940 Yes, I am a hafiz. I know the Koran by heart. 532 00:38:43,110 --> 00:38:44,940 By heart? Isn't it very long? 533 00:38:45,110 --> 00:38:49,380 114 surahs, containing 6,236 verses. 534 00:38:49,550 --> 00:38:50,900 And you know every word? 535 00:38:51,11