Although no word has ever really emerged of what the Queen has really thought of her prime ministers, there has always been a sense that she did not get on terribly well with Thatcher. Some of this is doubtless wishful thinking, but there were sufficient straws in the wind to give it some credence, such as the story that the prime minister asked what the sovereign intended to wear to an event so as to avoid a clash, only to be told frostily that Her Majesty did not pay any attention to what other people wore.

Upon this fetuous board doth stand / Something for shew-bread, and at hand / (Just in the middle of the altar) / Upon an end, the Fairy-psalter.

The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.

2018 September 1, Spohr, Mike, “19 Mind-Blowing Things People Learned When They Were Today Years Old”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 11 August 2020.