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From Churchill to Truss: The Queen's Prime Ministers: Directed by Sarah Findley. With Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, James Callaghan, David Cameron. From war to strikes, Brexit to Westminster scandals, Queen Elizabeth II witnessed vast changes over the course of her 70 year reign.
- Sarah Findley
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- Documentary
- Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, James Callaghan
9 de sept. de 2022 · The Queen and her 15 prime ministers - From Winston Churchill to Liz Truss The Queen had to 'prove herself' with Churchill and had difficult relations with Thatcher. Friday 9 September 2022 09:22, UK
- Winston Churchill 1951-1955
- Anthony Eden 1955-1957
- Harold Macmillan 1957-1963
- Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964
- Harold Wilson 1964-1970 and 1974-76
- Edward Heath 1970-1974
- James Callaghan 1976-1979
- Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990
- John Major 1990-1997
- Tony Blair 1997-2007
Elizabeth was just 25 when her father King George VI died and she became Queen on February 6, 1952. Then prime minister Winston Churchill's first reaction to the King's death was to complain that the new Queen was "only a child", but he was won over within days and eventually became an ardent admirer. "All the film people in the world, if they had ...
Many of Anthony Eden's audiences with the Queen were spent discussing Princess Margaret's potential engagement to divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend. Before 2002,the Church of England did not allow divorcees to remarry in church, making the marriage "unsuitable" and an issue of political contention. Margaret gained worldwide sympathy in 1955 whe...
In 1957, the Queen was called on to appoint a new British Prime Minister following Eden's sudden resignation. Conservative politician Harold MacMillan accepted her invitation. Macmillan once noted that Elizabeth II "means to be a queen and not a puppet", and that she had the "heart and stomach of a man". The new prime minister praised the Queen's k...
After Macmillan became ill and resigned, Alec Douglas-Home was chosen to succeed him. Douglas-Home was well known to the Queen, having been a childhood friend of her mother. But he served for just under a year. After narrow defeat in the general election of 1964, Douglas-Home resigned from the leadership of his party. His premiership was the second...
Harold Wilson was the Queen's first Labour prime minister. His tenure saw the relaxing of many of the United Kingdom's social conservatisms, including the abolishment of capital punishment and the decriminalising of male homosexuality in England and Wales, as well as relaxing divorce laws and liberalising birth control and abortion law. In response...
The Heath government is best remembered for bringing the United Kingdom into closer economic relations with Europe, eventually joining the European Communities, a collection of organisations that would later become the European Union. Heath was reported to have had a difficult relationship with the Queen. He died in 2005 at the age of 89, and alleg...
James Callaghan's years in government were dominated by economic recession and trouble with unions. By 1976, inflation had hit almost 17 per cent. His controversial decision to seek an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund created significant tensions within the cabinet at the time. Callaghan was known as a devoted royalist and he est...
Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister to be appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and the relationship between the two figures was often scrutinised. Thatcher would later write on the accusations of their fraught relationship that "stories of clashes between 'two powerful women' were just too good not to make up". Thatcher was given the ...
John Major was the first Prime Minister to be appointed by the Queen who was younger than her. After usurping Thatcher as Conservative leader, Major would continue to champion his predecessor's social and fiscal conservative policies: entering the Gulf War, steering the country through a recession, and the privatisation of various industries. It wa...
Tony Blair was the first prime minister to have been born during the queen's reign — a fact the monarch brought up at their first meeting. He recalled that she told him: "You are my 10th prime minister. The first was Winston. That was before you were born." A key player in the global war on terror, Blair campaigned on the promise of a 'new Labour',...
From Churchill to Truss: The Queen's Prime Ministers. From war to strikes, Brexit to Westminster scandals, Queen Elizabeth II witnessed vast changes over the course of her 70 year reign but the late Queen remained a figure of calm and constancy during periods of political turmoil and division. 1 h 15 min 2023. 13+. Documentary.
About. From Churchill to Truss: The Queen's Prime Ministers. DOCUMENTARY. From war to strikes, Brexit to Westminster scandals, Queen Elizabeth II witnessed vast changes over the course of her 70 year reign.
- Sarah Findley
- Liz Truss MP
13 de sept. de 2022 · News. The Queen’s 15: Every prime minister who served Elizabeth II. From Churchill to Truss, the Queen was a figure above politics for her premiers to look up to. Liam James....
8 de sept. de 2022 · In seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II saw 15 British prime ministers come and go, from Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher to Boris Johnson to Liz Truss. Here is a...
