The relationships between the Queen and her Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 were difficult. At the time of the death of “The Queen”, on September 8 at 96, back on what was his relationship with “Maggie”.
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Between 1979 and 1990, the United Kingdom was not led by a woman, but by two. It is an understatement to say that the relationships between Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher were difficult. The two heads of the executive were the same age at the nearly six months, and more than one thing in common: both had idolized their father, tended to be wary of women, and professed a patriotism and a concern for unwavering continuity . “Maggie” was a fervent royalist and her shyness echoed that of the sovereign, even if the first compensated her by aggressiveness and the second by the reserve. However, a world separated Grantham’s daughter from Grantham and the aristocrat.
Nothing is supposed to filter the interview that brings together the Queen and her Prime Minister every week in Buckingham. Their confidentiality in fact precisely a usual time of free discussion and political leaders often described the benefit they derived from this dialogue with a queen in reality well informed and informed.
With Margaret Thatcher, the sessions have often been described as heavy, tense and not very productive. The excessive deference of “Maggie” is considered embarrassing by the sovereign, who does not bear the tone that is both gentle and authoritarian of her interlocutor. The Prime Minister’s trend to want to protect the Queen is perceived by it as a condescending. His mania to arrive very early appears as a sign of rudeness.
plethora of disagreements
Above all, M me thatcher drowns Elizabeth II under a flood of words following his agenda. She expresses her opinions, even the lesson, instead of collecting the opinions of the Queen. If the latter approves at the beginning the drastic economic recovery policy of the Iron Lady and endorses the intervention to the Falklands as a head of the armies, her disagreements with M me thatcher is growing from 1983, during the latter’s second term. The Queen, a recipient of a flow of letters from women of striking minors, is sensitive to their distress during the longest social conflict in the post-war period (1984-1985). The fall of the sterling book concerns it.
The discontent expressed spectacularly on July 20, 1986 to the “one” of the Sunday Times, which proclaims: “the queen dismayed by the insensitivity of Thatcher”. The article, in reality inspired by Buckingham, says that Elizabeth considers the policy of his Prime Minister as “aggressive and socially divisive”. What is more, it seems at a time when several Commonwealth countries, whose queen is the chief, threaten to leave the organization to protest against the refusal of Margaret Thatcher to take economic sanctions against South Africa and its system D ‘apartheid.
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