A former Conservative Prime Minister has revealed that Margaret Thatcher would get nervous to meet the late Queen that she would do one surprising thing each time.
Queen Elizabeth's reaction to the police charging into picketing miners in 1984 has been disclosed by Julian Haviland, former political editor of The Times, in a radio interview recorded this summer
Julian Haviland, the former political editor of The Times, told how Mrs Thatcher would drink a large scotch or two before her weekly audience with Her Majesty to settle her nerves.
The late Queen struck fear into Margaret Thatcher and the Tory ex-Prime Minister required a stiff drink before meeting her, according to a former political editor of the Times