The Queen Doesn't Want To Make Up With Thatcher | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell)

so you can expect it to have little impact the bad news is it won't be long before bigger more influential newspapers realize this warrant's further scrutiny so I think the time might have come for your majesty to make some kind of preemptive statement uh what what kind of statement one of support even dare I say uh personal affection for the prime minister about the job she's doing something that would kill the gossip stoned dead but what if I'm not happy with the job she's been doing what if on this occasion I'd be happy for people to know the displeasure was actually real that I am personally concerned about her lack of compassion you know how seriously I take my constitutional responsibility to remain silent but each of us has our Line in the Sand and if it were to become public knowledge that there had been an unprecedented Rift between Sovereign and Prime Minister would that really be so bad well uh if if that really were your intention and for the record ma'am I must say I think that would be a misjudgment and risk doing serious and irreparable harm to the relationship between Buckingham Palace and Dow Street then today would not be the newspaper I I would go to I'd go somewhere with more heft somewhere that also had a clear sense of the unprecedented nature of this where they understood the rules of the game right well can I leave that with you then Michael you are the expert ma' ma'am it's Reckless it's Reckless Martin and IR responsible I'm as surprised as you are it goes against my professional advice and I want my objection noted noted noted Mar it's noted it's noted [Music]

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