The Meeting of Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher | The Crown (Olivia Colman,Gillian Anderson)

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[@deadandburied7626]

Prefer her as Dana Scully.

[@michaelmarzano2759]

❤

[@cherylhulting1301]

@@deadandburied7626 She's frighteningly good as Thatcher. Top flight acting.

[@BlackBarney]

I'm very embarrassed to say that I had no idea Gillian Anderson could act this good. She absolutely steals the room and Colman is no girl scout when it comes to acting. I sort of wish it was Helen Mirren in the role of Elizabeth II here, just to see her digest the ice coming from Thatcher. Amazing performance.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

She is far better than anyone who played Margaret Thatcher.

[@BlackBarney]

@@nicholasdickens2801 didnt Meryl Streep play the Iron Lady? I can’t imagine it being better than this. Soooooo good

[@n7y8c7]

@@BlackBarney She did, but @nicholasdickens2801 is right.

[@lamontcranston3177]

@BlackBarney I don't think X Files gave Ms. Anderson much room to demonstrate her abilities. Also; we seem to all agree here. She did a great job which means the way you do Maggie is to be a bitch. I remember those days. Trump is detestable but not half as detestable as Maggie.

[@ritasnow8319]

⁠@@BlackBarney, Anderson is actually better in this role. Shows these actresses that gripe there are "no good roles out there." There are good roles. For talented actors.

[@ThatBearHasMoxie]

Gillian Anderson WON the Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG awards with this speech. So brilliant

[@wisdomseeker0142]

The way this version of Margaret asserts herself is so subtle yet powerful. She revealed she’s older by 6months which can almost be a suggestive leading to her being more experienced if not at all more capable than the queen however she keeps her banter more respectful despite her dominating the conversation. There’s a lot of powerful body language here.

[@mindyourbusinessxoxo]

Exactly. You put it perfectly. It really is such a scene. Couldn't move my eyes away from it.

[@airdriver]

I don’t think she was being subtle at all.

[@bowlingsam6620]

Subtle, she didn't know the meaning of the word!

[@57_Triumph]

Was she really older? QE asked which was the senior. Thatcher’s response was “I am…..now”. This implies she is chronically the queen’s junior, but politically her senior since becoming PM.

[@mehmedyaqubi5951]

@@57_Triumphshe said: “I am, ma’am.”, not now. Margret thatcher was born on October 13, 1925. While The Queen was born on April 21, 1926. Thatcher was, indeed, the Queen’s senior by six months.

[@jayfielding1333]

The line "let us not forget that, of the two of us, I am the one from a small street in an irrelevant town" always struck me.

[@inigobantok1579]

most neoliberals see themselves as underdogs

[@matthewreichlin4993]

Me as well. A nice reminder that it's pretty easy to throw your opinions around and claim to be compassionate when you've lived a life of wealth and luxury all your life.

[@wengkenmak3626]

⁠@@matthewreichlin4993Well…we could also say that it is easy for one to claim to be “rational”, “unemotional” and “resilient” when one is talented, and comfortable enough to not have gone through emotional challenges or traumas in life.

[@matthewreichlin4993]

@@wengkenmak3626 true. But those claims are going to be looked on rather suspiciously by your average person

[@Rev-RN]

@@wengkenmak3626 people who haven't gone thru challenges in life are not considered unemotional and resilient. Usually, people who had affluent upbringings are rather soft.

[@AlanSmitheeman]

Two actresses over the age of 40, not dressed in skin-tight costumes or sexually objectified in any way, and neither of whom are crying, screaming, or talking about the men in their lives, in a scene all by themselves... could we have more movies and TV shows of this nature?

[@rhysioeren3203]

What the hell are you talking about? It is the queen and Margaret thatcher, not the freaking Kardashians.

[@Brakdayton]

Yes, we could if someone was brave enough to write it, if someone was brave enough to commission it, and if it was so good people clamoured for more.

[@khushbu1409]

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[@ParadiseVids]

Are you kidding? We don’t have any sex on television now. No glamour or romance. Everything is gritty, ugly, and depressing. Nothing is about love or passion or sex or glamour. I have to go to the 20th century for that. So not to worry. That being said, Gillian Anderson is a very beautiful woman. Very glamorous. And very talented. Both of these women are incredible.

[@AlanSmitheeman]

@@ParadiseVids Watch pop music videos of today and compare them to pop music videos of the 80s and 90s. It's gone from people singing into a camera to soft core porn. That's where your sex is.

[@artconsciousness]

Gillian Anderson's portrayal of Maggie Thatcher was so frighteningly aacurate it gave me shivers.

[@1bridge11]

Streep did it better.

[@nicobruin8618]

How would you know

[@gauravw6947]

Anderson was good in this role and deserved the win, but she was hardly the best one to play Margaret Thatcher… Her performance showed no growth in the entire season, as in she seemed frail and grumpy in the entire decade of her tenure… Meryl Streep captured Thatcher perfectly as she gradually aged in the movie…

[@chrisjenkins9978]

Her portrayal of the real Margaret Thatcher wasn’t accurate at all. It was a backhanded characterization that does nothing but smear her legacy. The real Misses Thatcher wasn’t anywhere near that cold blooded and wooden. KZbin is full of the real person and she is the antithesis of this portrayal.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

@@artconsciousness - Show me the evidence.

[@LordFirestaff]

Her posture during her curtsy projected strength and set the tone for this scene; it was a bit intimidating. She had no fear of the queen. She saw them, in that moment, as equals. What a scene!

[@himbisaquatics]

Lol😅😅😅 as equal to the Queen? Do you really think Thatcher can wage a war against Argentina with out the approval of the Monarch?

[@addarsulawal]

lol she in fact did @@himbisaquatics

[@himbisaquatics]

@@addarsulawal lol🤣🤣🤣 The Falklands Conflict did not involve a declaration of war. Argentina made a, cowardly, unprovoked attack on the Falkland Islands, without war declaration. Britain engaged in a purely police action to expel the invaders. Britain did not attack Argentina at any point.

[@addarsulawal]

lol. substance over form, my man. will you tell me that sinking the Belgrano was not an act of war?@@himbisaquatics

[@himbisaquatics]

@@addarsulawal conflict is different from state of war, On 2 April, Argentina invaded and occupied the British dependent territory of the Falkland Islands, and they took the neighbouring island of South Georgia the following day. However, neither Britain nor Argentina declared a state of war at any point, meaning the conflict remained, officially, an 'undeclared war'.

[@peterplotts1238]

I had no idea Gillian Anderson did this. She was superb. They were both superb.

[@susandunn7207]

Olivia Coleman is absolutely an amazing actress and in this scene she certainly drives that home. However, Gillian Anderson’s performance blew me away! Fantastic acting by both!

[@missc2896]

Gillian does a brilliant job at portraying Thatcher. Hats off to her.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Anderson was Off-The-Charts good here. We feel everything she has intended to convey. I'm deeply moved, and impressed.

[@Ben-fr8gi]

Wow, what an actress. Now I'll admit her accent was more in the spirit of Thatcher a lot of the time, but she nailed the pronounciation of 'money' and the pacing of Thatcher perfectly and delivered that line so well.

[@CorbalianVoss]

I have great admiration for both the players in this scene, in my humble opinion this was performed on a par with the greatest Hollywood performances of Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis. Olivia Coleman, even though she is playing The Queen, thankfully has the security in herself to allow Gillian Anderson to, rightly so, run through this entire scene with a bayonet. There has been few occasions in all the time I have been in an audience where I have found the acting as exciting and as virtuosic as what Gillian Anderson gave us in her time as Margaret Thatcher.

[@nexttsar]

The way Thatcher refused to let HM break in on her speech. She cut off HM and wagged her finger. It was brilliant.

[@AB-bm2ip]

Queen was probably thinking to say, 'I wonder if you might be in need of an nice vacation, I hear the tower of London is lovely this time of year.'

[@RobertodelaVega-t3w]

Yes! ...Off with her Head! ...Thatcher was rude and overbearing as PM.

[@mhazevedo]

Indeed. One became 'unprecedentedly close' to be sent to that lock-up.

[@JimMac23]

Henry VIII would have had her head removed for such rudeness to the crown.

[@cambs0181]

Not really, constitutional monarchy.

[@francescomunizmiranda4425]

"And who's the senior?" "I am, ma'am."

[@AdelZaghdoudi-nx4qq]

Hhh,very confident mt

[@Geker3]

The Crown has now 5 seasons and this is my favorite 5 minutes of the whole thing.

[@ashively1]

I hope this is how the conversation went down! Maggie was spot on!! The world needs her strength and clarity today!

[@johnallen8680]

Thinking of yourself and bollocks to everyone else is at the route of humanity... Thankfully that is untrue..

[@catgladwell5684]

@@johnallen8680 It was the root cause of the"success" of the Leave campaign.

[@Ed9870]

Of all the portrayals I've seen of Mrs. Thatcher, this one by Gillian Anderson captures her essence the best. With an honorable mention to Andrea Riseborough in The Long Walk to Finchley.

[@splinterbyrd]

Sorry, but Meryl Streep's was the greater performance

[@Ed9870]

@@splinterbyrd Ms. Streep is a great actress and did a superb performance, especially with Mrs. Thatcher's accent. However, the other two actresses did a more authentic rendition of their subject.

[@townsley2]

Meryl Streep nailed it

[@keithgoodrick-meech3921]

Things even worse.

[@gauravw6947]

Anderson was good in this role, but she was hardly the best one to play Margaret Thatcher… Her performance showed no growth in the entire season as the character aged, she seemed frail and grumpy in the entire decade of her tenure… Meryl Streep captured Thatcher perfectly as she gradually aged in the movie… Also, I feel Colman as Queen Elizabeth was better in this scene than Anderson as Thatcher…

[@kno6ndg7]

I am very glad for Gillian Anderson. She was a beautiful young woman and classy lady today, it's comforting to see her getting good roles.

[@donaldstraub2170]

Brilliant - what a Lady Thatcher was, & Gillian deserves an Oscar for this performance - well done 😊

[@johnmanor5236]

These 2 together... how could it get better? Magnetic performances from both!

[@AE-zv1lw]

“This is the business ma’am, the only business.” Thatcher told the Queen to stay in her place.

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

Two very amazing, strong-willed, determined, but very different women. Like two perfectly-matched prize fighters. Mad respect for both of them.

[@charlesmichael9188]

I LOVE every scene where Thatcher shuts up the queen....priceless.

[@girl1213]

She was not afraid to tell Elizabeth the harsh reality of how far removed she actually is from "the one from a small street in an irrelevant town." She wasn't just talking about herself: she was talking about all those who came from where she was. This will come ahead with Diana after all and later when Castle Windsor burns.

[@annierichards]

This series completely changed my views on Gillian Anderson, for an American actress to seize the role of Thatcher so well was a total shock!

[@Gazzerdaman]

She lived in the UK till the age of 11

[@cherylhulting1301]

I suggest you broaden your knowledge of Gillian's work. 🙂

[@michaeldonlan5343]

You know she did spend many years in the UK growing up. She's not like this wide-eyed country girl never setting foot outside of small-town Nebraska (or the mamy many equivalents)

[@sebastiankinnunen5549]

Gillian Anderson is superb. Fantastic. Love from Finland❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Irishgirl7]

I thinking the acting across the whole series is top class. Can’t wait for the final instalment due out soon on Netflix!

[@trojanleo123]

The two went toe to toe in this scene. Gillian was amazing but Colman was right up there with her. Two peerless actresses at the absolute top of their game. What a treat to watch this was.

[@hinas_for_life]

Margaret really slayed this scene, I wonder if any of the dialogue was actually real.

[@robertfishman3742]

I don’t think so in that Mrs. Thatcher was too much in awe of the monarchy as an institution to be that confrontational toward the Queen. Some have said that she was even more of a monarchist than the Queen was.

[@lucbeau6343]

An example as of why Baroness Thatcher was called the "IRON LADY". She was able to deliver a clear and precise example of the real world and international politics to a woman that lived in a fantasy world! God bless Baroness Thatcher always!

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Absolutely right!

[@danielbamford3015]

Gotta love the milk snatcher 😂

[@fig1115]

Gillian Anderson is one the best actresses of her generation.

[@yannyrocha5289]

These are two great actress, GA is so underrated ...

[@slicksalmon6948]

Wonderful performances, and a brilliant scene.

[@patriciaa4451]

2:07 the Queen rolling her eyes always makes me laugh

[@xhighone]

I wonder... is this one of, if not the most, high-level importance, most powerful meeting of all-fking-time, of two women in positions of authority ever in the history of "mankind"? I've seen this when it was first aired, and then on re-watch, but it now just occurs to me, probably after 3-4 watchings now, that this might have been the highest profile meeting of two women in power the world has ever known. If anyone has another occurrence of such a thing, please for the love of God, let me know. Now to the point... what performances between an unexpected casting (Gillian Anderson), and an expected, yet genius casting, of Olivia Coleman as the Queen... two EXTREMELY polarizing, if not the most polarized, women who ever existed. It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. How do you even BEGIN to tackle that as a performer? How do you start to work your way into this kind of situation as an artist, let alone execute such exquisite choices in every tiny mannerism, pitch, look, pose.... just amazing to me.

[@dillonchavez5390]

Thatcher became too obsessive with power and even started to act like it was an entitlement for her personally. If she had to tear down her own allies in government, she would. I think it’s because of that, partly, that she was ousted from her position and rightfully so.

[@dalane5196]

Oh yes she was totally useless, the fact she out lasted any other PM in the last 100 years seems to escape you. Yes she was eventually ousted as all PM are, but heavens above it was after a long long run. If you have ever held power, which I have in a limited way, the more decision you make the further you go, the more enemies you make, like a ship collects barnacles until it eventually stops moving. For every decision I ever took I had to way up the pros and cons, winners and losers, I would then make decision, the winners would think yes and so he should as I am right, the losers hated my guts and would never forget, so the more decisions the more hatred, it is the job. Thatcher did very well making it 12 years, a miracle really, especially with the unions on going hatred of her.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

​@@dalane5196Noone said that she was "useless" though.

[@dalane5196]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 No but you did say she was ousted from power because she thought it was an entitlement of hers personally, which is not the case. She was ousted because she had spent that much political capital she was losing popularity, that is why she was ousted, because her political enemies detected her weakness and moved on her. As Jim Hacker said, "loyalty in a cabinet minister is his fear of losing his job is slightly greater than his hope of getting mine" never a truer word spoken. She had been there too long was her greatest weakness, and there was nothing she could do to avoid that.

[@JSK010]

Just imagine if she was an unelected monarch

[@leehighland5435]

Labour bankrupted the country, she turned the country around. Probably the best PM we have had. I hated her at the time, I thought she was ruthless, just didn't appreciate what she did for the country, I just believed in the leftie Labour lies. Labour run up a £180B deficit in 2010, that caused lots of pain, but of course it was the Tories who had to inflict it on us, so they got the blame, again. Labour can't be trusted with the economy, they are morons. People forget how wilfully incompetent they are.

[@НиколайМ-щ5х]

Miss Gillian is great actress.

[@indrajitgupta3280]

"...from being dependent to self-reliant..." What a brilliant job she made of it, to be sure. If there was one single architect of Britain's decline, of her divided, perhaps permanently divided society, it was Thatcher. The Good Samaritan was important, not because of good intentions, but because he had money. Quite.

[@craigwilliams516]

She read the queen from Genesis to Revelation. SNAP!!!

[@philzmusic8098]

It amazes me that anyone would keep interrupting the Queen like that. great scene.

[@gw7477]

Every criticism Elizabeth made was 100% accurate

[@HomeSkillit]

No

[@markc-ru4qz]

Thatcher was brilliant and Britain would be a third world patch of mud now without her.

[@ganjagoblin25]

​@@markc-ru4qzBritain and U.S. have been shit swirling in a toilet bowl since Thatcher and Regan.

[@G.D.9]

@@markc-ru4qz How long will that last? 😂

[@boredlawyer3382]

Even if true, it was not her place to say it.

[@maxperez1181]

This is a superb acting class! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Michael-fv8lg]

Brilliant acting. But there’s zero possibility that Thatcher ever spoke to the Queen in this manner, or that the Queen was ever so brusque with any Prime Minister. Lots of dramatic licence!

[@kevinpoole6122]

Thatcher was a cold-hearted, cruel woman-Anderson captures her viciousness *FAR* more accurately than did Meryl Streep in “Iron Lady.”

[@Robert-tl2vg]

Nonsense, you were probably work shy and upset that you couldn’t just sit around at home taking handouts for the entirety of the 1980’s 🎉🎉

[@kevinpoole6122]

@@Robert-tl2vg No, precious, I was hard at work in South Africa, earning a living. 💋

[@barracuda7018]

​@@VinterixMeryl Streep is generally considered as the greatest actress in history..3 Oscars and 20 nominations, nobody comes even close to it..

[@stevecallum7933]

No PM should hold THAT kind of power of their monarch. Whilst Gill Anderson played Thatcher with amazing talent, tjis scene serves to remind me why she truly was a cold, cruel, unempathic dictator. A homophobic, manipulative, dictatorial personage who thought EVERYONE should think as she did. A better advert for narcassism i have never seen. The Queen should have put her in her place. The Queen was right... Without the backing of a nation or her ministers, Thatcher wasnt in a position to flex her sagging muscles. Done, finished and not a moment too soon.

[@liamanderson4992]

Everything you say is true, but I wish we had someone like her to deal with Putin.

[@2002honda954]

Gillian killed it! Bravo.

[@Avallachgrey]

As a kid watching Gillian play Skully, I would have never guessed she would make an amazing Iron Woman.

[@patricksullivan2261]

And of course, in the end, the Queen once again had the last laugh as she outlasted Thatcher and got to watch her go down in flames.

[@briangasser973]

The monarch is always going to outlast a PM. Thatcher changed Britain forever. Except for Atlee, she has had the most impact of any post war PM.

[@JanMartin-m3j]

Gillian Anderson did a grand job of Mrs T close your eyes think it was Mrs T herself. Olivia Coleman and Imelda Staunton great portrayals of the Queen. No love lost of two of the most powerful women in the world but there was always mutual respect and Her Majesty had very kind words about Mrs T after her passing in 2013 in fact think it is this month makes eleven years of Mrs T

[@h.l.malazan5782]

Rugged individualism only works under an abundance in natural resources which both North America and England were renown for. My forefathers volunteered and fought for the likes of Margaret Thatcher because we had the natural resources on our landscape to keep her kind in check, to leverage against her compulsions. There was enough for everyone, where she can have her ambitions satiated and at the end of the day, my great grandfather could always return to a quiet plot of land and a creek to fish in. Thatcher was keenly aware that her existence was only possible because of WW2 and the war economy we are subjected to ever since then. You can see it in her demeanor, the ever brimming tension, bounding from one threat after another.

[@bthorn5035]

Brilliant acting. Amazing writing. This was the best scene in the entire series. Thatcher was right. There is no "compassion" in govt, nor should there be. Govt should be looked at as a corrupt soulless entity, given minimal powers, and audited at every opportunity. Cynicism and suspicion should be the only emotions felt about those in power.

[@andrewromero5008]

This is such made up drama. Thatcher was a monarchist and would never have spoken to the Queen like that. This series was a drama and not an accurate account of the day.

[@jayargonauts]

Absolutely outstanding performance by Gillian Anderson. When someone can capture the essence of an individual; their mannerisms and idiosyncrasies to such an extent that one momentarily believes one is listening to Thatcher then they have done their job. Coleman although a competent actress never captured the voice of the late Queen.

[@kev3d]

To finding Aliens with Mulder to commanding the British Fleet to the Falklands, the Iron Lady gets around!

[@americanitalianisrael4008]

What an amazing scene. Mrs Gillian Anderson is trully an Superb Actress. What an Exquisite portrail of one of the Greatest Woman from Great Britain. PM. Mrs Margaret Thatcher. Loved it.

[@kimricautumn6918]

I wonder how many people get away with interrupting the queen over and over.

[@Shads5]

I had no idea who’s was Gillian Anderson until the credits. Amazing work

[@LordOfLight]

Anderson played it perfectly. Who else could have shown, with such forensic brilliance, how utterly objectionable Thatcher was.

[@nicholassilverio2227]

Awesome scenes, amazing actresses, portraying gorgeously two of the most popular and most powerful women in the world in a very scintillating scene. Winner! 👍👍👍

[@Bruno-tm3xo]

I am absolutely and utterly in love with Olivia Coleman. 😅 she is just pure charm

[@Ton369]

pretty damn good impression for a girl from chicago

[@flankspeed]

To be fair, that article sounds pretty much spot on. 👌

[@1Kent]

At the end of Thatcher's life the queen showed compassion, something Thatcher was incapable of.

[@paulrath7764]

Still hating on Thatcher, eh? Amazing how hate burns in the hearts of the left even after 4 decades, and in spite of the weight of historical evidence

[@etiennenobel5028]

Brilliant! What a performance.

[@steveom5479]

It sounds like the queen was spot on about dear Maggies damage to the country

[@CornellSandifer]

Wow! What a scene, there are two conversations going on here at the same time, the words that are being spoken and naked inuendo in what is really being said, such a powerful scene a cat fight that only two women could pull off, I had to watch it again.

[@SalemGhassanHanna]

I'm no Thatcherite but it was so good seeing the Prime Minister stand up for herself here, especially after the way the Royal Family mocked her and Dennis earlier in the season.

[@Afroman29]

Royal families and PMs should be neutral. I bet the queen hated Thatcher in RL.

[@patricklacey4946]

"this is the business", powerful statement between powerful people

[@phj223]

That was an amazing performance by Gillian Anderson, so much so that it was also uncanny. It's like her face and body were taken over by the real Margaret Thatcher. o.O

[@Dabhach1]

Not quite. Gillian Anderson is not physically ugly.

[@panorama4526]

Gillian Anderson is just outstanding here…

[@teresabarbieri3894]

Only one woman in that room had power, Thatcher. Elizabeth and her family are ornaments for the tourists to gaze at, that's it.

[@scottfrazerful]

Gillian Anderson owned this scene!

[@yipee44]

Nick's & Otis's mums are the best 🥺

[@eshaxcx]

She ate that omg, Gillian Anderson you’ll always be famous

[@carlpacheco2058]

This was absolutely fierce! OMG

[@strykermoonfall2220]

Excellent dialogue.

[@geoffdb9638]

I recall that period of time, her tenure in office - parallel to her counterpart Ronald Reagan - and her cold policy decisions. While I admired her tenacity, education, scope of knowledge, she really failed when it came down to being an emphatic leader who could understand the common man. And, her approach to apartheid was sick!

[@gaddyfree1085]

What was her approach

[@deshawnebanks2591]

@@gaddyfree1085 constructive engagement.

[@vittoriobollo3408]

@@deshawnebanks2591 Yes, a delightfully Orwellian term that propped up a racist, amoral regime in my country, all in the name of 'fighting communism' and other such bullshit.

[@xYSarenArteriusxY]

Yeah, she was so bad that she was only the longest tenured Prime Minister of the century. People really hated her.

[@martianunlimited]

@@xYSarenArteriusxY Do you forget that not even her own party wanted her at the end, or people's reaction to the poll tax and the falkland war?

[@nicholasdickens2801]

If the Queen said that she was completely right.

[@zackerythomas3675]

Yes, indeed. Magnificent acting. 👌👍👍👍 I so do love that Netflix series.

[@anthonysmith8800]

Excellent clip. Both ladies excelled in their acting abilities. The same criticisms of the PM could accurately be used now. Ironically under another Tory government.

[@rebal1681]

Thatcher was a great leader!

[@mlbp2567]

Tell that to the mine-workers! Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead!

[@CrazyWatcher670]

Maggie was correct at this time. But again it was not Queen’s fault. It was her staff that spilled the beans. Imagine Britain today had Maggie not been the PM.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

I fully agree.

[@TheMormonPower]

Don't nobody mess with Maggie and come up the winner. Maggie puts the Q in her place 😅😅😅

[@TheFever77]

4:43 Elizabeth pressed the bell after that comment! Lol

[@camhamster3891]

That dragon lady. I was heartened to hear Glenda Jackson, an MP, call Thatcher out posthumously, in session. Jackson was unsparing.

[@briandelaney9710]

Glenda captured Thatcher’s era completely

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

Just about the kind of Class we have come to expect of Socialists.

[@canalesworks1247]

@@stevenwiederholt7000 The irony being that Glenda Jackson, if born 20 years later, would have played Thatcher in a film, and gladly taken the money.

[@camhamster3891]

I'd entertain a socialist over a that husk of a heartless neoliberal, any old day. @@stevenwiederholt7000

[@pwp8737]

@@stevenwiederholt7000 because the misanthropic class war waged by tories is classy?

[@blurdreamer]

Thatcher wrecked the Queen into pieces in this scene. This is why democracy is important for a country.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Absolutely right.

[@lynryall1317]

Most excellently portrayed a wonderful actress.

[@CFox.7]

Seem Andersons talent has been under utilised. AND she makes Thatcher look hot AF

[@leeladharmalla]

One of the best conversations they have

[@CardinalFanSince]

Just remember, the people celebrated in the streets when Thatcher was ousted and when she died.

[@jamesl9520]

Gillian Anderson has this down. I never saw the series but think I need to now

[@jacktfowler246]

I loved her majesty the Queen. But she made mistakes just like any other human being. There were indeed times she was wrong, but too proud to admit it.

[@PADARM]

Was supporting a sanction against racist Apartheid South Africa a mistake? I doubt it

[@bauhaushm2011]

"This is the business, ma'am. The ONLY business"

[@glennhubbard5008]

The Prime Minister was right. Many forget her party was consistently returned to a majority in the Commons during those eleven years and then after. Some only worry about "social divisiveness" if it's liberals on the losing end.

[@alexos8741]

Anderson imitates Thatcher's behavior when she spoke in public, in front of journalists or other politicians. I assume that she did not have access, or there is no material of Thatcher speaking in private, in a less "dramatic" way.

[@paixx12]

Thatcher rightly admonished the Queen in this scene. Superb acting.

[@dosman3458]

No the Queen rightly spoke against Apartheid Barbie

[@paixx12]

This scene is not about apartheid nor about the merits of sanctions on South Africa, but about the apparent indiscretion of the Queen through the indiscretion of one of her secretaries or courtiers who spoke to the media about her personal opinion on the matter, an indiscretion which placed the Queen's own ministers in an awkward situation. In a constitutional monarchy, the Queen does not get to rule. A constitutional monarch who wants to keep his or her lifestyle of privilege and comfort learns to keep his/her mouth shut.

[@camhamster3891]

@@paixx12 Liz knew what she was doing.

[@briandelaney9710]

She was always admonishing people. That was her trouble. Her party finally had too much of it and kicked her to the curb

[@canalesworks1247]

@@paixx12 Exactly.

[@MARTY_ytb]

Powerful scene. Thatcher was a leader

[@splinterbyrd]

The Queen's Speech, November 1990: "Ha Ha Ha She's gone!"