By Chris Boffey

At the height of the Thatcher government in 1986 a headline was splashed across the Sunday Times reading “Queen dismayed by ‘uncaring’ Thatcher”. The story had come direct from the press office at Buckingham Palace, a bombshell remark to a political reporter making a routine call.

Because the story was of such massive proportions, the palace and its eminent press secretary Michael Shae were given numerous opportunities to backtrack that weekend but never did.

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Source: The Drum