Margaret Thatcher Queen Elizabeth
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Margaret thatcher queen elizabeth. Queen elizabeth ii margaret thatcher prince philip and lady mountbatten at the unveiling of the tribute statue to lord mountbatten november 1983. Margaret thatcher herself gave no suggestion of anti queenism at least in public. In her memoirs she said that stories of clashes between two powerful women were just too good not to make up.
Queen elizabeth iis real feelings about margaret thatcher are contained in a diarists journalgiving a clue to the real life meetings that inspired season 4 of the crown. Media far too often gives in to the temptation to pit two powerful women against each other even if theres little evidence of a dispute. But any hope that theyll have a unique bond.
But in the case of margaret thatcher and queen elizabeth. In the series her majesty and. Born margaret hilda roberts in grantham england on october 13 1925 thatcher was just six months older than princess elizabeth alexandra mary who was born in london on april 21 1926.
The latter allied with ronald. Queen elizabeth ii and prime minister margaret thatcher attend a ball to celebrate the commonwealth heads of government meeting hosted by president kenneth kaunda on. Margaret thatchers relationship with elizabeth ii has always fascinated their biographers.
All her previous premiers had been men and they had roughly fallen into two groups. When queen elizabeth first meets margaret thatcher in the crown shes excited about the opportunity to connect with her first woman prime minister. The grantham grammar school girl was the queens eighth prime minister and by far the most unusual.