`Banned' royal film resurfaces

It was designed to revive public interest in the Royal Family, ushering them into the modern age and showing them as ordinary people. But it turned out Prince Charles making a salad dressing and the Duke of Edinburgh trying to barbecue sausages destroyed their mystique. In 1972, the Palace ordered the BBC documentary to be locked away, and it has not been seen in full since — until now. The 90-minute film, Royal Family, was uploaded to YouTube this month and viewed almost 10,000 times before being taken down Thursday after intervention from the BBC, which claimed copyright. But it was too late to prevent the footage being copied, ensuring it no longer remains one of TV's great secrets. According to a royal biographer, the Queen regretted her decision to allow the cameras in and it came to be seen as a “reinvention that went wrong.”