After Betty Boothroyd's death on February 26, one paper noted that having ascended to the speakership in 1992, just three years after TV cameras started to transmit #houseofcommons proceedings, she always understood she was a public performer. So she began the job as she meant to go on, grandly declaring “Call me Madam!”, rejecting the traditional long wig for greater comfort and designing her own rather theatrical robes — gold Tudor roses on navy silk. #femalespeaker https://rashmee.medium.com/when-i-met-betty-boothroyd-she-did-behave-like-a-cross-between-diva-headmistress-barmaid-d502027bc8a1
When I met Betty Boothroyd, she did behave like a cross between diva, headmistress, barmaid

Some of the odes to Betty Boothroyd at her funeral (March 29) were a vivid reminder of her knock-out qualities. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, speaker of the House of Commons said she was one of the “greatest…

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