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Sunday, 14 June 2015

The Queen of England and Margaret Thatcher waged a war against each other for years, a shocking new book suggests

While the Iron Lady is said to have respected the Queen, the new book claims the feeling was not mutual

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 curtsies for the Queen at an event in 1995. Later in life the two women are said to have formed a stronger bond
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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