Her Majesty (Su majestad)

HER MAJESTY

Why are you stopping?

They're waiting for you.

No. Nobody told me anything.

They asked us for discretion.

Who?

CALUANA RESTAURANT

Good morning, Your Royal Highness.

Sorry to summon you on such short notice, but it's an important matter.

I didn't know I had been summoned. No one mentioned it.

Because nobody should know about this.

Please.

The work you've done these past months has been...

You've been really brilliant.

But you're not here to tell me that.

No, that's true.

We have internal reports that say that approval of The Crown has increased.

Reports? What reports?

Internal ones.

You're doing surveys to assess my popularity?

The Royal Household's popularity, yes.

Since when?

Well, since Your Royal Highness was born.

Since before that.

- Since the pregnancy. - True.

Thank you, Colonel. Thank you.

Your mother's pregnancy triggered a major spike in popularity.

And why did I know nothing about these reports?

Because since then, the popularity had only gone down.

Why am I even asking, right?

So we have to take advantage of this rebound, Your Royal Highness.

In these times of instability, the country needs a solid monarchy.

Talk about it with my father.

I said "a solid monarchy."

What is this about?

All right.

On Monday, the Army High Command met with the King.

On Tuesday, the Episcopal Conference, dined with several judges.

And last night, I met with him at the palace.

We've all tried to convince him that the situation is more serious than he thinks,

but his intention is to remain on the throne no matter what.

My father can handle whatever they throw at him.

Your father, perhaps...

but the country can't.

You have to talk to the King, Your Royal Highness.

- You're the only one who can convince him. - No. No.

You can't ask more from me. I've fulfilled my duty.

You're the heir to the throne.

The State will ask things of you your whole life.

I can't ask that of my father.

You're the only one who can.

If we had another option, we wouldn't be turning to you.

I'll also say you have a bit of a clumsy way of asking for things.

"We would never turn to you, but we have no other option..."

Thank goodness I've gone up in the polls, otherwise...

- Pilar, it's your moment. - Lady Pilar.

- Please. - What?

Refer to me as "Lady Pilar," "Royal Highness," or "Madam."

Very well. I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness.

You can't ask me to save Spain

because Spain was already in bad shape when I was born.

There's another thing, Lady Pilar.

What?

The King has already recorded his Christmas message.

Sounds great to me.

I'm guessing you haven't seen it.

No, because I don't care about his Christmas message.

You're going to care about this year's.

Are we going to the palace?

Yes. Do you want to go somewhere else?

Yes.

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM KING ALFONSO

Good evening.

I am addressing you at this special time

to wish you happy holidays and a prosperous new year.

I am aware that the new year is an opportunity

for all of us to renew our commitment to improve this country.

Me, first of all.

Spain is a great nation,

and she must regain her institutional stability,

as so must The Crown.

This is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean.

Therefore, my intention as King

is to return to serving the interests of Spain

without distancing myself from her, close to the nation to which I am obliged

with security and stability.

On behalf of my daughter, Princess Pilar,

I want to apologize for recent improvisations

and unfortunate experiments.

Enough with experiments.

It's the time for experience.

It's the time for experience.

You're not going to say anything?

How did you get it?

That's all you care about?

Who has an interest in you seeing it?

I decided to go to the television studio to see it.

It was ready to go to all the channels, even the Catalan and Basque ones.

- They never broadcast it. - This year they will.

Since I called them "motherfuckers," they'll be eager to see me humiliated.

Why are you here, Pilar?

- Did you hear the same message as me? - Other than that.

That's not enough?

It's your father, not mine.

It's my father talking about you, Guillermo.

You've been with me this whole time.

Did you know we were "an unfortunate experiment" and all that shit?

We did better than they thought.

- Did you know we went up in the polls? - I didn't know.

But it's clear from seeing what Isidro has written.

If you'd gone down in the polls, they wouldn't be against you.

This has nothing to do with Isidro.

- This is my father. - This is Isidro.

The message, everything... It's pure Isidro.

He used the "experiments" and "experience" stuff at the Epiphany Military Ceremony.

It doesn't matter who wrote it. My father is reading it. He's saying it.

You'll have to prepare something for when it's broadcast.

It won't be broadcast.

Do you want to help me or not?

There's only one thing you can do, and you have to do it alone.

I don't need your help to talk to him.

That's not why I'm here.

So?

I want to know if you're going to help me become Queen.

When I saw you, I thought you'd come to wish me happy holidays.

Merry Christmas, by the way.

I don't like Christmas.

Okay.

Hey!

Are you the type that gives books as gifts?

When I can't think of anything better, like everyone does.

And you?

Did you come here to shop

or to pretend to run into me?

I'm here to remind you about 2014.

You owe me one, Moure.

What more do you want, man? Let's have it.

I told you the Pilar situation wouldn't be temporary.

I told you Alfonso was going to fall, and you should be prepared.

- I don't think I owe you anything. - Alfonso hasn't fallen.

And it looks like he won't fall.

Well, Guillermo, you're putting me in a tight spot.

Like you did in 2014.

And I still did it.

Well? Did I do it or not?

You made it to the Supreme Court. So, yes.

I did do it. Yes.

Things are also going to come out about Pilar.

Pilar hasn't stolen anything. They've got nothing on Pilar.

No, she's done something worse.

She had an abortion.

The people who support them can forgive corruption.

A king can defraud anyone he wants.

Money comes and goes.

There will always be someone to say

that the King has given more money than he's taken.

But an abortion...

Shit, they were born to do that.

To have offspring.

The crown passes from parents to children.

It's the lineage, the dynasty, the values, damn it.

Spain...

can forgive almost anything of the royals,

other than an abortion.

The King isn't going to do that to his daughter.

Have you told the Princess what you were doing behind her back?

No, right?

Well, imagine Isidro, who's been in office for 40 years.

So you and I are even now, right?

Pili! What a surprise.

Come, sit with me. Sit down.

Would you like something? Lentil soup?

Lentil soup now?

- I felt like it. - I'm not hungry.

I missed this legume in Latin America.

Spanish food in general, but this legume most of all.

I don't know why, but starting the second week

it became an obsession.

Chickpeas, lentils... They have them, but it's not the same.

This is a horrible country for a lot of things,

but what we do in the kitchen in Spain can't be found anywhere else.

It's just...

Do you not feel like saying anything?

I won't ask you to be glad that I'm back, but you should, if only for yourself.

You'll get your life back.

You can do what you want without causing a fuss.

- Your secretary resigned, didn't he? - Guillermo, yes.

I won't send you another one.

You won't have a guard dog watching you anymore.

Consider it a Christmas gift from me.

I'll give you another gift too. You've earned it.

What do you want for a real gift? Is there something you want?

I want you to explain this.

Who gave you that?

No one.

No one gave it to me. I took it.

From where?

I didn't know you had an apartment in Madrid. A duplex.

What were you doing there?

I'd like to know what you were doing there, and for how long.