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The Queen was 'the only person in the world' who Margaret Thatcher was frightened of - and the Prime Minister would drink a large scotch before her weekly audience with the monarch, ex-Times ...

The late Queen struck fear into Margaret Thatcher and the Tory ex-Prime Minister required a stiff drink before meeting her, according to a former political editor of the Times ...

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Julian Haviland, the former political editor of The Times, told how Mrs Thatcher would drink a large scotch or two before her weekly audience with Her Majesty to settle her nerves.