48 of the Commonwealth countries are committed to imposing a policy of sanctions on Pretoria to try and bring down the apartheid regime.

But as Her Majesty knows, in order to implement those sanctions, total unanimity is required and one country remains against.

United Kingdom?

Mrs Thatcher remains opposed.

I will have an opportunity to speak to me. remains opposed.

I will have an opportunity to speak to Mrs. Secta about all this in private at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the Bahamas.

Welcome to the Crown, the official podcast. I'm Edith Bowman and this show will follow the fourth season of the Netflix original series of Crown episode by episode, taking you behind the scenes, speaking with many of the

talented people involved and diving deep into the stories. Today we're talking about episode

8, titled 48 to 1.

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the Bahamas,

48 nations back sanctions on South Africa because of the apartheid regime.

One country, the United Kingdom, under Margaret Thatcher, refuses to support sanctions,

much to the annoyance of Elizabeth.

The Queen of Thatcher come to blows over the issue and their fallout becomes public knowledge

after the story is leaked from inside the palace.

Now we'll cover specific events and scenes that feature in this episode.

So if you haven't watched episode 8 yet,

but I'd do it now or very soon.

Coming up later, we'll hear from Jillian Anderson

on finding her own Margaret Thatcher.

They kept encouraging me to go overboard.

To completely stretch to the product and then find a way to pull it back.

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