Welly boots were a must during stays with the queen, but King Charles may take a new approach
Margaret Thatcher reportedly described it as “purgatory”, while Tony Blair needed a stiff drink to survive it.is expected to meet the King during a weekend trip to Balmoral Castle, continuing a long-held tradition of the monarch hosting the prime minister at the Scottish royal retreat.For past prime ministers, it was not always the most relaxing of weekends.
While The Crown may have indulged in some artistic licence, Thatcher reportedly did once send the queen a pair of washing gloves as a Christmas gift after observing the sovereign washing up the dishes without a pair after one of Philip’s barbecues. And she often had to borrow Wellington boots. But protocol was never really absent. In his autobiography, A Journey, Blair wrote that he found the Balmoral experience to be “a vivid combination of the intriguing, the surreal, and the utterly freaky”, from the personal valet offering to iron his underpants and draw his bath, to the hearty breakfasts “straight out of Trollope or, perhaps better, Walter Scott”.
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