Thanks for the reminder about Thatcher, Harvey. I, too, was diving - up the M23 - and whooped and cheered for all I was worth, then floored the pedal. My mate in the car, was was a Tory, was distinctly uneasy! When Wilson resigned I was in a biology class whe the pan technician came in and told us. Bizarrely, we all started talking politics with the teacher and the tech in a surprisingly mature fashion for a bunch of teenagers.
And the Queen Mum? Don't remember, don't really care...