Brilliant play on the imagined
relationship between the Queen and Thatcher. Two actresses (at the time and
later) for each character, the older ones were incredibly convincing,
particularly of the Queen. Probably would not make you think about Thatcher’s
views but it did draw the audience’s attention to the Queen’s commitment to the
Commonwealth and to protocol/good manners – e.g., Thatcher not contacting the
Queen after Mountbatten’s assassination; Queen uninformed about US using
England as a staging post to Libya.
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