Margaret Thatcher Reveals Her Favorite Child | The Crown (Gillian Anderson, Olivia Colman) 

Good work on your dad's part, but...maybe he should've left him there...

@@hoilst265 Mark Thatcher is a criminal.

Thank you, you just saved me from having to Google it

@@hoilst265 Don't blame children for the sins of their parents.

@@CrniWuk I think he’s actually referring to Mark’s criminal history in South Africa and funding of a coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea

And a good part too.

Is that right? I saw that movie, I don’t remember. I will have to watch it again. The movie industry is such a vast & small world at the same time!

Prove it

@@horatiohuskisson5471Prove that you can use Google to look it up

@@annec6200Yes. Meryl Streep portrayed Margaret and Olivia Colman portrayed Carol.

“Paper hankies” love that.

That’s not always necessarily true. The heart does not always follow logic.😋

If ole Andy is her favorite then it may not be 😂

bro several men cried before her 😂

I like to think the first PM to not break down there was John Major, who rarely felt a human emotion at all

Also 3 years in it took. She outlasted them all ha

Apart from the scene when they splashed tea on each other's dresses and threw crumpets at each other.

I thought the queen was going to tell a maid to serve the drink, not do it herself.

*Anne, is she's your favorite, get her name right. LOL

Anne is straight a gangsta! I wished she headed The Family, she would have nipped the issues with Megan & Harry in the bud.

​@laminage Of all th3 issues with the Royal family that's the one you pick; wow 😂

@@laminage The issues with Charles and CowMilla were the worst.

@@JimMac23 aham. andrew. I rest my case.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

This made my day. I laughed out loud at this comment!!😂😂😂❤

Yes she has the voice and appearance down to a T

A clever system! Though I do wonder what would have happened if a third child had come along

@@dayschange2 He'd had surgery to avoid that, so I think there would've been much bigger questions if we _had_ had a third sibling 😂

@@LilyGrace95 Another brilliant move on his part! Love his dedication to not having to choose a favorite kid.

I do that as well for my two children, except I use child 1 and child 1-A. That way child 1 knows she’s first and child 2 knows that while he’s not the favorite, at least I care enough to call him 1-A instead of 2.

I understood that reference, amazing but also sad movie

I don’t think that was such a difficult choice for Thatcher

HUGS!!

Sorry about your losses. Your mother may not have ever mentioned this to you, but you kept her tethered to life.

I live far from my mother but when my sister died I was home every month, then when dad died I went home every month, then she got cancer so again I was home all the time. Since my brother died I have been home but with covid in the middle it wasn't easy but I managed. My mother is now 91 and I can say that she is the ONLY person who has loved me unconditionally and when she dies that love will still be with me . I am going to stay with her in May and savour every minute of my stay with her. We are not an openly affectionate family as protestants but lately she has said that she misses me. It's comforting to be missed.@@sanjuktachatterjee6807

And she is very lucky to have such a wonderful son as yourself! I was the favorite, and it's a mixed blessing, to say the least.

I think she is a daughter not a son. Look at pro pic​@@philzmusic8098

Same, and that moment was embarrassingly long for me...

​@@fafddzfaf same😂

Yes I thought the same too

Her?

Arrested development 😂😂😂

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*Lucille Bluth, most iconique*

I think you shouldn't worry about that. When I was a child, it was clear to all in my family that I was my grandmother's favorite. On the other hand, my cousin Sara was supposed to be my grandpa's favorite. We contemplated these notions. But what did they mean really ? They meant having a special connexion, an affinity. Each relationship is a bridge between two individuals. It is not a competition, we are not competing for anyone's affection. Each relationship is an important intimate business, a bubble. It's about two people. We should be happy that such connexions happen between some people, they have their special people, and we have ours. We should not loathe in self-pity, we act the same. We don't love everyone the same, because it doesn't mean anything. I'd go as far as saying that loving everyone the same is the opposite of love.

My mom told me that I was her favorite and it confirmed what I already knew tbh

Your father admitted to you that you were his favorite. Sorry, but how often do you suppose that he said that your brother, in private? If he had apologized to you for favoring your brother, that might mean something, or dividing time as BC or AC (“Before Children” or “After Children”) as my parents did among their friends and Bridge partners might mean that neither was their favorite, permanently.

? prime minister you mean?

No - the Queen & Prince. Watch the clip in its full 😊

​@@misshotpants and who do you think was her favorite child? I'd bet on Andrew

⁠… of course it was Andrew, and I wonder how it went down with the exposure of the whole Epstein saga

unparalleled honestly. almost exactly the same

I still don't know who's her favorite xD

@@bifa5414 Read On...

​@@bifa5414Andrew

@@bifa5414 Andrew?

It’s pretty well known that Andrew was the Queen’s favourite -- until she died.

@@damnnative3188 Wow - the Queen told you that on her death bed? That's amazing - thank you for sharing such inside information.

I thought Queen's favorite was Edward...

100% agree

Someone forgetting about Angela?

No woman has ever been as powerful as Thatcher. Her reach to both the White House and the Kremlin was remarkable.

​@paulwild3676 Empress Dowager Cixi is widely acknowledged as the most powerful woman who ever lived. With Catherine the Great and Cleopatra close behind. It has been debated whether Livia Drusilla was the most powerful woman Europe has ever known, but that depends which Roman writer's propaganda you believe. In British History, it is Elizabeth I who has been the most powerful woman in our history. As an enthusiast for the Anglo Saxons, I'd have preferred it to be Æthelflæd, but there you go.

@@zacmumblethunder7466 None of those women controlled a nuclear Arsenal. They were powerful in their eras. Indira Ghandi may trump Thatcher because of India’s huge population but I still think Thatcher is the most powerful woman in history because of her influence outside the U.K. She was instrumental in bringing down the Berlin wall and the Warsaw Pact. Her influence with both Reagan and Gorbachev changed the world forever. She saw the potential in Gorbachev as a man the West could do business with. Domestically she was less successful.

@paulwild3676 I see your point. But as far as lasting impact goes internationally, and specifically in terms of US/Russian politics, "Forever" turned out to be quite a short time. The efforts of those three leaders have come to nothing. The war in Ukraine is the latest proof of that. We have British and European military leaders advising that we should prepare for war. It's like the early eighties all over again, the same sabre rattling, the same tension. The only difference is that a large proportion of people aren't taking it all as seriously as we did back then. Domestically, "Less successful" is a bit of an understatement.

I can't imagine any normal father with an only daughter not being the favorite it's really quite more common than people think

He and his companions were luckily found 6 days later 31 miles off course. He's alive and well today.

Guess he wasn’t that great a navigator after all, lol.

The Algerian military airforce located him and rescued him

@@melissaconnellyjones2622 Takes after his mum lol

he's now a corrupt investor and coup-plotter in Africa

Well the Queen paid one of his victims £12 million to make her lawsuit go away.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I honestly don't have a favourite, and I've no reason to lie about it. 🙂

What kind of thinking is that? I'm sure it wasn't the idea behind her pausing.

@@kasskath3578 considering her dislike of Thatcher at this point, I don't this it's far off. She's only human.

​@@infonut stupid thinking. She would never think like that

I think it was more about 'da fck is she crying about? Did I say something?' It's not the first scene when Elizabeth is 'serving'

Andrew...

Safe to say Andrew. He was the “save the marriage” baby, the pretty one and look at all the crap he’s gotten away with right up to her death.

@@alisonfraser8231 He would have been my first guess, or Ed.

@@ask-128 He would have been my first guess, then Ed.

@@alisonfraser8231 I think Prince Edward was much better looking (as a young man)!!😄

Yes, he was found 6 days later (31 miles off the course) by the Algerian Air Force. He’s now a business man with his own wife and kids.

@@mandyxxxlove that’s good news, thank you very much

of course he was found

Those conversations between prime ministers and queen were quite private mind you, we don't know what exactly transpired between the monarch and her prime ministers 99.7% of the time or do you?

"She wasn;t like this/She hid her feelings and expressed them in private" Comment on a video of the Prime Minister expressing feelings in private.

@@sethcopeland4362 very good example is when someone asked her if she had a very romantic relationship with her husband. She always expressed that those types of conversations should be kept private, she didn't show/talk about those kind of emotions. So the idea she cried in front of the queen is to me ridiculous

The Queen was not happy about the Miners strike. That is well-documented. The Queen found the elocution lessons and Thatcher’s sycophancy irritating. Plus Thatcher had no sense of humour, something nobody could ever accuse the Queen of.

Since the talks with the queen WERE private, you really have no idea if she would have cried in there or not.

My 401k and dividends beg to differ.

don;t be so dramatic also, and I'm not European but isn't her party the party that led to Brexit?

@@hqi1321 Brexit was a principled cause and has yet to yield the long term benefits.

thatcheresque politicians no longer exist

@@invisible.fatman I'm gonna laugh in your face when that thing drops 90%.

Been to UK for 10 years and I've never heard anyone saying "couch"

I thought she said “couch” because it’s word more associated with therapists/psychologists’ offices. Do people in the UK say “the therapist’s sofa?”

@@JoshtheWord good point!

Not in relation to a psychiatrist The Queen wouldn’t say a psychiatrist’s sofa. 😂

Where did you read that?

@@zacmumblethunder7466 it's called body language and a known fact that Margaret Thatcher wasn't liked by the Queen. I guess she was too conservative and knew how to put her foot down. Thatcher the best Prime Minister the UK ever had - the likes of which will not be seen again.

Introvert people don't get jealous. They however have insecurities.

Not really.

Elizabeth I was more powerful. "Off with his head!"

Absolutely not.

No, she didn't. She awarded her the Dame of the Garter honor. That's the highest honor in the British honors system and granted only at the Sovereign's behest.

@@robertbendix4814 Thatcher had the Queen knight Jimmy Savile, so does that mean Thatcher loved Jimm.. yeah, you're probably right.

You obviously didn't live under her government. It was a nightmare!

@@fizzao1342 Managing a budget hurts. It's called reality.

​@@fizzao1342You're just a left wing Snowflake.

Except for Hitler

@@user-wm8no6kz6s That is such a childish default. If you don't like Margret Thatcher its probably because your a big fat loser.

She was like the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz".

hey, watch who you're calling a witch, people actually referred to her as the Iron Lady, that was her nickname

@@JimMac23 no frickin' way, watch who you're calling a witch Mister, people actually referred to her as the Iron Lady, that was her nickname

Nothing dealing with politics or government. They were talking about her child being missing which was already national news

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