Decades horribilis

The 1980s and 1990s brought new challenges to Queen Elizabeth’s reign, with an increasingly bold British press, a female Prime Minister, family scandals, and at the end of the Millennium, tragedy. We discuss how and why this era modernized the Monarchy and perhaps opened the Queen up to new ways of thinking. Also, would you want the spice girls to perform at your wedding? Will Meryl play Margaret Thatcher on The Crown?