Margaret Thatcher takes centre stage on Season 4 of The Crown

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 5:10 a.m.

As Season 4 of the Netflix series The Crown kicks off this weekend, there's much buzz about the agony and ecstasy of the House of Windsor as it moves into the 1980s. And many fans are looking forward to seeing how the era of "Thatcherism" plays out. We speak with June Purvis, emeritus professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., about the life and legacy of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.