23-12-2016 17:47 via theguardian.com

If Theresa May can't trust the Queen, it bodes ill for their future relationship | Stephen Bates

Her Majesty tends to get on best with PMs confident enough to gossip with her. May’s silence on Brexit even to famously discreet monarch speaks volumesWhen a leak emerges from Buckingham Palace, and especially when that leak tells us what the Queen supposedly thinks, interest is unsurprisingly intense. Regal unknowability – as exemplified in the recent Netflix series The Crown, where the young Elizabeth II is portrayed as learning that she must stay publicly above the fray at all tim
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