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Radio 4,18 Feb 2002,30 mins

An Over-Mighty Subject

Fifty Years With The Firm

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The arrival of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 provoked a new adjustment in the relationship between the Queen and her Prime Ministers. Rumours spread of tensions, rumours fuelled by interested parties and picked up by the media. But were they true?

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