The Queen and Margaret Thatcher waged a war against each other for years, a shocking new book suggests.
Author
Dean Palmer claims the Queen even did impressions of the Iron Lady,
mocked her accent and referred to her as 'that woman' to other world
leaders.
Buckingham
Palace today refused to comment on the allegations, which lift the lid
on the fraught relationship between the monarch and the grocer's
daughter who rose to become Prime Minister.
There have
long been claims about tensions between the Queen and Lady Thatcher
during her time in Downing Street, fuelled by suspicions of class
tensions
A
new book, In The Queen And Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship,
chronicles how the two women 'met and disliked each other on sight',
according to the Sunday Express.
Mr
Palmer, a TV producer, writes: 'For over a decade they quietly waged a
war against each other on both a personal and political stage,
disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the
miners' strike and allowing US planes to bomb Libya using British
military bases.
'Elizabeth found the means to snub and undermine her prime minister through petty class put-downs and Press leaks.'
Lady Thatcher was just six months older than the Queen, but their backgrounds could not have been more different.
The daughter of a grocer, she was elected as an MP at 34, became Tory leader at 50 and swept to power in 1979.
While the Iron Lady is said to have respected the Queen, the new book claims the feeling was not mutual.
It
claims the Mrs Thatcher's 'entire character was anathema' to the Queen,
who reportedly mocked her accent as 'Royal Shakespeare received
pronunciation from circa 1950'.
It also recalls a joke the Queen used to tell about Lady Thatcher visiting an old people's home.
Amazingly,
it suggests the Queen impersonated the former Tory Premier shaking the
hand of an elderly resident and asking: 'Do you know who I am?'.
The confused resident then replies: 'No but if you ask matron, she'll tell you.'
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