- In the History of the world, it has been noted that powerful women have a tedency to have a strange trademark, especially in England.
- Queen Elizabeth isn’t just the oldest ruling monarch in British history, she is also the only member of the royal family, who as a female served in active duty in the army, she even served during World War II.
- Also the beloved British female leader, called Margaret Thatcher, who despite her seemingly controversial policies dubbing her “Iron Lady,” also made her mark as the first female Prime Minister, and the longest-serving Prime minister in 150 years.
Thatcher had an 11 year term, a long one for someone who would have been called controversial leader. The term lasted from 1979 to 1990, a period which falls within the rulership of the Queen’s rule.
These string women had to rule together, work together, since their roles required them to be in meetings and decision making together.
Though we are not aware of the things that happened behind the doors of these meetings, but we have certainly heard a dynamic and quite interesting tale of a difficult relationship that the Queen and Thatcher had. It was so common infact, that it often made the British media headlines egged on by their similarities.
Young Margaret Thatcher lived in an apartment above a grocery store, and was born with an official name, Margaret Hilda Robert’s, in Grantham, England on October 13, 1925, six months older than Elizabeth who was born in London, on April 21, 1926 as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.
Perhaps the closeness in age affected their relationship, beyond what could have been suspected at the time that they worked together.
The two women met every week for a total of Thatcher’s term. Which was 11 years. What was mainly the Queen’s role was to organize meetings, also called Audiences.
These meetings served as “key element of the queen’s day-to-day work, and enable her to give time and focus to key individuals,” as explained by the Royal Site.
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According to sources, the tension between the queen and Margaret Thatcher began to form slowly in these meetings. In a 2014 documentary, called The Queen and her Prime ministers, it was revealed that Thatcher often arrived for these meetings 15 minutes too early and the Queen, being the Queen, always made her wait.
Though the interactions they both had was strictly professional, formal and quite difficult according to CNN the former Prime Minister also viewed her annual visit to the Balmoral royal home as an interruption to her work, and on several occasions, Called the interaction she had with the queen “Intense.”
There have been several reserves and contentions about how the tension between these two women may have been caused by their opposing personality. According to reports, the Queen is said to have a dry wit while Thatcher on the other hand didn’t have much sense of humor.
Asides from the contention about their personalities, one thing that stands out is the fact that the Queen, reportedly found Thatcher very uncaring. This was perhaps the biggest reason for the tension between them and it began in 1986 when a newspaper headline in the Sunday Times noted that the Queen was dismayed by an “uncaring Thatcher.”
The report by the Sunday Times, gave an insight into the women’s differing opinions on certain sanctions, in South Africa. This was of course, back when South Africa was still under the white led government.
Though the Buckingham palace quickly rebuked the statement by the Sunday Times, but as is expected, Sunday Times stood by its reporting, claiming that the statement from the palace was predictable.
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