One aspect is that it is quick to underline “The Crown”, in contrast to Thatcher’s humble beginnings, the monarchy’s elite. “Grocery Daughter …”, a character once commented on Prince Philip (represented by Tobias Menzies) when he first saw images of Thatcher coming down Downing Street. This contrast is further emphasized in “The Balmoral Test” when Thatcher and her husband are invited to the royal family’s palace in Balmoral and are unable to fit into the conversation, not just in costume.
For Penny Junor, this entire episode is highly unlikely. “At Balmoral, Thatcher and her husband receive an agenda, but they do not know whether to prepare for a gala dinner or just to drink. And then they decide to go to a gala and enter a room where the royal family all dress up in their hunting clothes and behave like a band of hyenas. It is so, but so impossible! “, He assured.
“Rani is the best educated woman you can ever know with manners. “He spent his entire life making people around him comfortable,” he said. “Therefore, imagining that it would make someone uncomfortable and also that it would be insulting to them is unthinkable. In the next scene, when they go hunting and Thatcher is, in fact, heels and suitcases in hand. ..That will never happen. Before she even leaves the palace, someone immediately suggests: it is probably better to take this coat and shoes first ‘.
In real life, the protocol will prevent many misstep Hence depicted in “The Crown”. But what about the spirit of the Queen’s thoughts, which come as a criticism of the Prime Minister’s economic policy? For Charles Moore, everything is just a “left-wing caricature” and the episode starts simulating with “Fagan”. In “The Crown”, the man who attacked the queen’s bedroom in real life is portrayed as a newly-unemployed, stopping to see his daughters and depressed, who would use that moment with the emperor So that he can know “what is going on in the country” and to complain about Thatcher’s policies.
The Crown team used the episode to illustrate Britain’s social upheaval in the 1980s, with rampant inflation as backfoot, rising unemployment, and a government and trade unions putting Thatcher in hand wrestling Was. Emphasis on balance of Jan Dhan accounts. But in fact, Fagan did not invade Buckingham Palace to complain about the queen. Who said it was himself in an interview Free in 2012. “I don’t know why I did it, it was something that came to my mind”, he said, adding that everything could be the result of an overdose of magic mushrooms in the soup. “I forgot that you should only take a small dose, which fits in one hand. I think after two years I was still recovering. I was stuck with mushrooms for a long, long time, ”he confessed.
If there was any doubt, it seems that “Fagan” is very well conceived in “The Crown”. But it is also true that Thatcher’s rule was anything but quiet, with a real change taking place in society. Hey Wall Street Journal He described the controversy as: “To his supporters, he transformed Britain from a man Europe’s sick man” into a dynamic economy, led by the private sector. For its culprits, it was most responsible for increasing the social divisions that Britain still faces today. Praise or insult it, it is ‘Thatcherkismo’.
The charge of social insensitivity is directly blamed on the Prime Minister in “The Crown” by the Queen. In real life, Penny Junor believes that Isabel II may actually have dissatisfaction – but she will hardly have him as prime minister directly. “She was worried. Britain was facing major industrial upheavals, racial riots, recession … It was not a good time and Mrs Thatcher had a very firm approach to solving these problems. So I think it is possible that these two women disagree about this, but I do not think they will come to the discussions depicted in ‘The Crown’. “
The biggest moment of tension between the Prime Minister and the Queen was perhaps the differences of opinion about the sanctions policy supported by other members of the Commonwealth (with the sole exception of the United Kingdom), to be implemented in South Africa, full Apartheid. “The Crown” devotes an entire episode to the subject and explains how the two leaders disagreed.
Penny Junor remembers this difference as being “absolutely true”: “The queen has always sided with the rest of the Commonwealth, which she has always felt is a very important part of her work, to be protected.” And it is true that Mrs Thatcher may have regarded the Commonwealth as a kind of obstacle.
