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[On the Battle of Orgreave] When the horses rode through some of the miners and knocked a few down, the Queen said words [to the effect of], "Oh, tha… - Julian Haviland
" "[On the Battle of Orgreave] When the horses rode through some of the miners and knocked a few down, the Queen said words [to the effect of], "Oh, that’s awful! Oh, we shouldn’t do that!."
And for the Queen to make a political comment like that was news.
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About Julian Haviland
Julian Arthur Charles Haviland (8 June 1930 – 11 August 2023) was a British journalist. He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and was the political editor of Independent Television News (1975–1981) and The Times newspaper (1981–1986).
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