“Long Live the Queen! 23 Rules for Living From Britain’s Longest-Reigning Monarch” (Turner), he explores the secrets to the royal’s enduring longevity.One of her favorites?
One-upmanship.Kozlowski recalls a time when the queen out-performed “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, who was just six months her senior.
More than once in the hit Netflix series “The Crown,” the prime minister is portrayed as the sovereign’s rival.In the 1980s, both women attended a hot, crowded annual reception at Buckingham Palace with 1,000 foreign dignitaries, spending hours pressing the flesh.
At one point, Thatcher felt faint and had to sit down, just as she had at the previous year’s event. “With hundreds of diplomats waiting in the wings, she collapsed in a pale,.
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