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Britain has been graced with another beautiful rainbow ahead of Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral Monday. On September 8, when Buckingham Palace announced the death of Her Majesty, onlookers in England marveled at a double rainbow appearing opposite the Palace, popping up after a morning of dark clouds and rainfall.

Loose Women panellist Janet Street Porter has shared that she once attended an “extraordinary lunch” with the late Queen Elizabeth II , former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and model Kate Moss . The broadcaster and journalist says that in 2004 she was invited to the Queen’s first ever all women luncheon.

Guy Lodge Film Critic At the 1987 Conservative Party Conference in Britain, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issued one of the most grimly memorable quotes of her career: “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.” For many of us, it’s a line that now sounds so archaically out of step with contemporary life as to be comical — that “inalienable right” wording ironically appropriated by many a queer-rights cause — though you need only look at Florida’s recent Don’t Say Gay bill to know that Thatcher’s sentiments live among us still. A frank, piercing debut from British writer-director Georgia Oakley, “Blue Jean” is a Thatcher-era period piece that crisply evokes that climate of politically propagated homophobia without preserving it in amber: It effectively puts the past in tacit dialogue with the present.

one person tweeted, “Reminder that Queen Elizabeth is not a remnant of colonial times. She was an active participant in colonialism.

Before the world began mourning the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, who died at 96 years old on Thursday, the monarch's closest royal family members descended upon Balmoral Castle in Scotland to pay their final respects. Newly named King Charles III, who became the reigning monarch following Queen Elizabeth's death, his wife, Camilla, and sister, Princess Anne, arrived at Balmoral early Thursday. Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Countess of Wessex arrived at the Scotland establishment around 5:00 p.m. local time. Following earlier reports of concern for Her Majesty's health, Buckingham Palace announced Queen Elizabeth's death in a statement following her immediate family's arrival at the castle. Her death was announced around 6:30 p.m.«The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,» Buckingham Palace revealed. «The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.»Her Majesty is survived by her children, along with eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Queen Elizabeth took the throne at 25 years old, and was officially crowned during a 1953 coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

Queen Elizabeth II following her death at the age of 96. The longest reigning British monarch died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, surrounded by members of the royal family, including her four children — Prince Charles of Wales, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. The royal family announced the queen's death with an official statement on their social media pages, sharing a portrait of the late monarch. «The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,» the statement read, before referring to the newly ascended King Charles, her eldest son, who will succeed his mother on the throne.

Her last appearance. Queen Elizabeth II‘s final royal engagement came just days before her death when she appointed new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday, September 6.

Liz Truss is to be the next UK Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson and defeating Rishi Sunak to become the third woman to hold the office.

who went on to infiltrate Nato naval headquarters in Naples, Italy - tried to befriend Lady Judith McAlpine, of the wealthy construction family. But Lady McAlpine has told The Telegraph she didn’t trust the woman, who operated under the name Maria Adela. She says she would not have taken Adela’s attempts at friendship any further as she thought her to be “fake” and “self-invented”.

Scotland is more likely to become independent if Liz Truss becomes prime minister, according to a new opinion poll across the UK. The Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times shows that Truss is almost as unpopular in Scotland as Boris Johnson.

Four million Scots risk being plunged into fuel poverty by January if energy bills rise as expected, a shock report has found.

Geri Horner is said to have told Liz Truss to “go for” the role of Conservative leader amid criticism she faced for hugging MP Nadine Dorries at the Women’s Euro 2022 final.The Spice Girls singer was pictured with the Culture Secretary as the Lionesses led England to victory against Germany on Sunday evening (July 31). “Girl power radiating from Wembley tonight,” Dorries captioned the image on Twitter.Many fans subsequently pointed out Dorries’ history of voting against gay marriage and “only recently demonising the trans community”.A photo has since emerged of Horner with Truss, who is currently going up against Rishi Sunak to become the next UK Prime Minister.Speaking to MailPlus about meeting the Spice Girls star, Truss explained: “[Horner] said ‘go for it’, she was very positive.” See the photo below.How long before Geri Halliwell is the next Culture Secretary pic.twitter.com/5NLGs8kTJ7— dominic dyer (@domdyer70) August 1, 2022While some fans expressed their disappointment with Horner (née Halliwell), others said that they weren’t surprised because the singer had previously described Margaret Thatcher as the “original Spice Girl”.Horner also paid tribute to the late PM following her death in 2013, writing: “Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a green grocer’s daughter who taught me any thing is possible…x.”The final result of the Tory leadership contest will be announced on September 5.

With the race to replace Boris Johnson as next UK Prime Minister now down to the final two, bosses at BBC New Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’s record on public broadcasting in minute detail.

Liz Truss has said she has the “toughness and grit” to lead the country while denying she is modelling herself on Margaret Thatcher.

Renfrewshire politicians have joined forces to heap scorn on "lame duck" Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following a confidence vote in the Commons on Monday night.

A statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was egged less than two hours after it was installed in her home town. A protester threw eggs from behind a temporary fence surrounding the memorial, with a cry of “oi” heard after one hit part of the monument.

A new statue of one of Britain's most divisive prime ministers has been lowered into place - despite threats of eggs being chucked at it. The £300,000 statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher is due to be unveiled in her home town of Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Boris Johnson has been slammed after a "desperate" attempt to revive Margaret Thatcher's Right to Buy (RTB) policy, days before the UK council elections.

The Flight Attendant , and it's a good thing that HBO Max is rolling out only the first two episodes on Thursday because your stress levels won't be able to take that much more. “As big as season one is, season two is an even bigger swing,” "I would say it's 10 times the size in scope."She's not kidding.

plans to sell Channel 4 don’t “make any business sense” and undermine the channel’s “tremendous economic and cultural achievement”.The Scottish filmmaker criticised the government’s proposals to privatise the publicly owned channel, which he clarified does not cost the taxpayer any money as Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wrongfully claimed last year, because it’s paid for by ad revenue.Iannucci, known for TV shows including The Thick Of It and I’m Alan Partridge as well as feature films such as The Death Of Stalin (2017), wrote in a The Guardian op-ed that the move has been ill-thought-out as he questioned why a broadcaster that “puts billions into the economy and promotes British culture and values internationally” should be sold off.“It doesn’t make any business sense, and it’s certainly not patriotic,” he wrote. “I regularly get asked by international broadcasters why the UK government has such a destructive agenda against the country’s main television networks.“Dorries tweeted yesterday that ‘government ownership is holding Channel 4 back’, which perhaps explains part of the problem, that she sees the network as some manifestation of the Big State.

Gillian Anderson may have lost her usual composure as she searched for words on stage in Cannes on Friday to express what she felt about being given Variety’s 2022 Icon Award.Taking to the stage at the opening ceremony of French TV festival Canneseries to pick up the award, the star – soon to be seen in Showtime’s “The First Lady,” where she plays Eleanor Roosevelt – accepted Variety’s 2022 Icon Award with a mixture of elation and humility. Sporting an elegant multicoloured leather dress, she’d been greeted when walking to the stage by an enormous, heartfelt roar of applause from the packed main auditorium at Cannes’ legendary Palais des Festivals, also site of the Cannes Festival.  “I Googled what ‘icon’ actually meant to see how I identified with being given this award,” she said hesitantly, beginning her speech.“What I can certainly say is that I have played a lot of iconic women in my very long career. Women who have come through barriers and decades to stand above the rest in dramas and in our hearts,” Anderson said. And she listed just a few:: Dana Scully, Miss Havisham, Margo Channing, Blanche DuBois, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Bowie.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFew people can say their comfort zone is in playing strong women, but for Gillian Anderson, it ’s become something of a personal brand.The American-British actor, who was once best-known for her skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully in Fox’s long-running sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” has gone on to play detective Stella Gibson in “The Fall,” notorious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and sex therapist Jean Milburn in “Sex Education.” (And you wouldn’t want to cross any of them.)Anderson — who will receive the Variety Icon Award in a ceremony at CannesSeries on April 1 — will next be seen portraying the rarely dramatized Eleanor Roosevelt, opposite Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford, in Showtime’s drama “The First Lady.” But portraying no-nonsense women didn’t begin as a conscious choice for Anderson. In 1993, she recognized a “stark difference” between the Dana Scully role and “pretty much everything else on television at the time,” though, at age 24, she wouldn’t have labelled Scully as the feminist icon she’d come to represent.“I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” she says.

“The Gilded Age” star — who plays the penniless blue-blood Marian Brook — discussed some of the three-time Oscar winner’s most annoying habits a recent late-night appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!“Host Jimmy Kimmel asked the 30-year-old if Streep, 72, irks the young starlet from time to time.“Of course,” Jacobson replied. She also divulged the cute nickname the “Don’t Look Up” star has for her youngest child: “Pickle!”Jacobson recalled a moment when her mom was worried about her.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World.  A post shared by BBC Three (@bbcthree)These are the following shady combatants:Baga is a British queen with great comedy chops. She displayed them time and time again throughout her season. Who can forget her uncanny impersonation of the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher? This performance earned her a Snatch Game victory with her bestie and the winner of the season, the Vivienne.

Molly-Mae Hague has defended herself following the backlash she received for suggesting anyone can be a millionaire if they simply work hard enough.

Manori Ravindran International EditorIt doesn’t get more ironic than the hand that’s been dealt the U.K.’s Channel 4.The publicly owned broadcaster set up by then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — and known overseas as the creative incubator of shows like “Derry Girls” and “It’s a Sin” — is facing a potential sale by Boris Johnson’s government at the exact moment it delivers the highest content budget in its 39-year history and eyes a record-breaking £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in revenues for

Gillian Anderson won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress Sunday night for her portrayal of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Netflix’s “The Crown,” and was promptly asked if she’d consulted with Thatcher prior to filming. Thatcher, of course, died in 2013.After a reporter asked Anderson what it meant to her to introduce Thatcher and her legacy to a new generation, Tanya Hart of American Urban Radio Networks said, “Congratulations.

Gillian Anderson and Tobias Menzies both took home awards at the 2021 Emmys!

Gillian Anderson earned an Emmy win tonight in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category for her role as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. This is her second Emmy win, her first win being in 1997 for her role as Dana Scully in The X Files.

Emmy Awards in Los Angeles (all times local):5: 50 p.m.Gillian Anderson has turned the Iron Lady into Emmy gold.Anderson won best supporting actress in a drama series on Sunday night for playing British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of “The Crown.”It was already the third Emmy of the night for the Netflix show, whose winners are accepting their awards at a viewing party in London.And it was the second career Emmy for Anderson, who won her first 24 years ago for “The

cabinet reshuffle, explained her radical, left-wing roots in an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson. She told the veteran interviewer how she spent part of her childhood in Scotland where her Labour-supporting parents were involved in anti-nuclear marches in the 1980s dominated by one particular political chant.She said: “So we lived in Scotland, in Paisley near Glasgow.

Glasgow caused controversy among its Scottish viewers after praising former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. On yesterday's show, a woman called Mary phoned in as the panel discussed tax and elderly care.She spoke to Jeremy Vine and Owen Jones and said she was very thankful for Margaret Thatcher as, because of her, she was able to buy her flat.

Thatcher made a “big early start” to tackling climate change when she closed so many mines. Speaking to journalists, Johnson was speaking about the environment and whether a timetable should be set for ending oil and gas exploration.He responded: “Look at what we’ve done already.

Margaret Thatcher the mines closed and chuckled as he said it.

Queen Elizabeth II and Gillian Anderson as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.For Netflix, which led the way for the rise of streaming services but has yet to claim a top series trophy, “The Crown” may represent its best bet.

For The Crown‘s fourth season, Peter Morgan brought his decades-spanning royal drama into more familiar territory for many of its viewers. Starting with the election of famously abrasive Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) in 1979, Netflix’s The Crown also saw the debut of newcomer Emma Corrin, playing the young Lady Diana Spencer.