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The crown season 43/31/2023 The Queen asks the Prime Minister about Howe’s “direct challenge” to Thatcher’s authority and whether the PM expects a leadership challenge. ![]() Princess Diana is off to New York alone, at the request of the Government Charles tells her it is pure self-advancement.Īt the next weekly meeting between the Queen and Thatcher, they talk about the crisis in the Gulf, which Thatcher sees as the preeminent problem facing them. They leave him on the school steps after the game, Diana hugging and kissing him and Charles patting him on the shoulder. Mrs Thatcher is in number 10, devastated at what she sees as treachery.ĭiana and Charles meet up from separate cars in a motorway lay-by, and travel together to Ludgrove, William’s prep school, to watch him play rugby. They are interrupted by Philip who puts on the TV to watch what’s happening to Mrs Thatcher. He also asks others to think of their own response to this conflict within government, effectively suggesting Mrs Thatcher should be ousted for the good of the nation.Ĭharles tells the Queen that Diana is seeing James Hewitt again and that he wants a formal separation. The deputy prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe uses his resignation speech in the House of Commons to lay into Thatcher’s aims and strident approach: “the conflict of loyalty to my Right Honourable friend the Prime Minister… and of loyalty to what I perceive to be the true interests of the nation… has become all too great”. ![]() “A spoilt, immature man endlessly complaining unnecessarily, married to a spoilt, immature woman endlessly complaining unnecessarily. Or read my episode recaps: episode 1 (Gold Stick), episode 2 (The Balmoral Test), episode 3 (Fairytale), episode 4 (Favourites), episode 5 (Fagan), episode 6 (Terra Nullius), episode 7 (The Hereditary Principle), episode 8 (48:1), and episode 9 (Avalanche).
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