Margaret Thatcher failed the Balmoral Test, if there is such a thing. At least not sartorially. For one thing, by all accounts, the Queen goes out of her way to smooth the path for visitors and avoid embarrassment.
Quiet instructions on the appropriate kit would have been issued well before the visit. For another, of the many things Maggie has been accused, idiocy wasn’t one of them.
She would have done her own research - not that you need much to work out that court shoes and flesh coloured tights are unlikely to cut it on several thousand acres of soggy Scottish moor.The test I do think she would fail however is Political Dressing 2.0.
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