However, in this scene (as in several others) the playwright succumbs to the temptations of parody, and a miscast Haydn Gwynne towers over the queen in the manner ofthe celebrated shaving-and-cigar-smoking "Spitting Image" caricature ofthe Iron Lady.
The most biting of all was "Spitting Image, " a satirical puppet show broadcast on Sunday evenings on ITV from 1984 until 1996 that pilloried public figures, especially Thatcher, whom the program often portrayed as an insane megalomaniac.