You can count on one hand the number of times that Queen Elizabeth II commented on political matters during her 70-year reign – and even some of those are disputed.
During a visit to the Times offices in 1985 she allegedly blamed one man, Arthur Scargill, for the miners’ strike. She was allegedly dismayed by Margaret Thatcher’s refusal to sanction South Africa’s apartheid regime – or, at least, her press secretary briefed the Sunday Times to that effect.
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