A former Conservative Prime Minister has revealed that Margaret Thatcher would get nervous to meet the late Queen that she would do one surprising thing each time.
The violence erupted between 10,000 policemen and 5,000 picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant near Rotherham in a struggle which saw nearly 100 miners charged.
Queen Elizabeth's reaction to the police charging into picketing miners in 1984 has been disclosed by Julian Haviland, former political editor of The Times, in a radio interview recorded this summer
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.