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Apr 10, 2013 · Analysis. How Margaret Thatcher helped end apartheid – despite herself. Richard Dowden for African Arguments, part of the Guardian Africa Network. Former PM opposed white rule in South...
- Why Was The Queen So Upset by Thatcher’s Refusal to Back Sanctions?
- Was Press Secretary Michael Shea Made to Take The Fall?
- Did Economic Sanctions Help to End Apartheid?
- Prince Andrew’s Wedding to Sarah Ferguson
The Queen’s role as head of the Commonwealth is her raison d'être, says Dominic Sandbrook, and she was gravely concerned that Thatcher’s refusal to back economic sanctions against apartheid-era South Africa could damage the Commonwealth, or even lead to its breakup. Embarrassed that Britain was “out on a limb”, she wanted Britain to fall in line wi...
In The Crown, press secretary Michael Shea is cornered into resigning after being made to take the blame for the Sunday Timesstory. The Queen’s private secretary, Martin Charteris (played by Charles Edwards), is seen telling the monarch they need “a culprit… to deflect blame from you and to put these flames out ASAP”. (Interestingly, in reality Sir...
Apartheidcame to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government, led by Nelson Mandela, in 1994. The economic sanctions imposed on South Africa in 1986 had served to isolate the country in the international community and to highlight its oppression of its people. Sanctions also “helped cripple th...
Elsewhere in episode 8 we see Prince Andrew preparing to marry Sarah Ferguson. He informs the Queen that he has chosen his younger brother, Prince Edward, rather than Charles, to be his best man, calling him an “insecure, jealous fool” who cares only about his bloodline and “to hell with the rest of us”. He tells the Queen that Charles has always b...
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Dec 6, 2020 · The ideological tension between the queen and Britain's first female prime minister comes to a head in episode 8, "48:1," which sees Queen Elizabeth taking the uncharacteristic step of publicly...
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Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD, CStJ (10 May 1915 – 26 June 2003) was an English businessman and the husband of Margaret Thatcher, who served as the first female British prime minister from 1979 to 1990; thus he became the first male prime ministerial spouse . Thatcher was granted the Thatcher baronetcy in 1990, the only baronetcy ...
- Businessman
- Conservative
- 1938–1965
- British Army
Mar 5, 2015 · The End of Apartheid by Robin Renwick review – why Thatcher got it right on South Africa. In his diary entries recalling the decline of apartheid, the former British ambassador to South...
Jun 27, 2003 · He may have crashed through various faux-pas, loved a South Africa that was ruled by apartheid, and referred to black people in Brixton as "fuzzy-wuzzies", but Denis Thatcher remained a...
Apr 9, 2013 · Thatcher was vilified as an effective supporter for apartheid rule. Notwithstanding her robust and divisive political style – what is not widely known nor acknowledged is that the apartheid government valued Thatcher as a worthy political opponent and ‘true friend of South Africa’.
