Viceroy's House Page #3

for that goodwill.

Why don't you listen

to what he has to say?

Because I've heard it all before.

Ubba, maybe the Mountbattens

will be different.

He is the King's cousin.

He has empire in his blood.

My husband's study

is the first priority.

It has to be refurbished.

It needs light and brightness.

He says it reeks of failed negotiations.

Consider it done, ma'am.

I'll continue my tour after breakfast,

Miss Reading,

but in the meantime,

would you put your heads together

with the ADCs

and rethink the guest lists?

From now on almost half of all guests

at all occasions must be Indian.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Also, I want to meet Indian women.

Thank you.

Sarojini Naidu, Pandit Nehru's sister,

Mrs Aruna Ali Asif,

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.

- Have you got that, Miss Noor?

- Yes, ma'am.

Here are the riders.

I have a feeling, Pammy,

that might be the only hour of the day

I get to spend with you.

Each day is so crammed.

Two poached eggs, tomatoes,

sausages, tea.

Lots to do.

Darling, did you know that 92%

of the population is illiterate?

Good morning.

And that one in five babies dies

before they're four months old?

Edwina, I could not be blessed

with a more active, able wife,

- but sometimes we have to accept...

- I know.

what we cannot change.

But we can change a lot, Dickie.

We really can,

and we absolutely have to.

India's problems are not just political.

They are social and economic.

Almost half the babies born here

die before they're five.

That cannot be the legacy the British

leave India after three centuries.

We have enough time

to improve the infrastructure

- so that when we leave...

- That is not why we're here.

- Yes.

- You'll wear yourself out.

You mean I'll wear you out.

No...

Edwina, I have the governors

arriving from the provinces.

I know. I'm entertaining their wives.

And I'm very grateful

for everything you do.

Miss Hudson, is there something

the matter?

Nothing at all, ma'am, only I do wish

they wouldn't come so close.

Perhaps your very able gifts

would be better used in Surrey.

I beg your pardon, ma'am?

Would you please pack your bags

and go home?

Have you got the papers? I'll need

them for the meeting after this one.

Yes, ma'am.

Miss Noor?

I have a message for you, from home.

Go on.

I had to see you.

How is your father?

Jeet, what are you doing?

Nothing has changed.

I see you are still unmarried.

I am still promised to another.

I have tried every day for the past

two years to forget you.

Then try harder.

The violence is escalating

day by day.

This hatred between Hindu, Sikh

and Muslim

is poisoning everything we've built.

In Bengal the violence is

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