The Crown season 4: Did Margaret Thatcher’s son go missing as shown in episode 4 of Netflix show?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The new season of Netflix’s hit drama charts events from 1977 to 1990, including Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as prime minister and Charles and Diana’s marriage. Thatcher is played by Gillian Anderson, which has left some viewers feeling quite “conflicted”, and the show’s fourth episode depicts the 1983 disappearance of her son, Mark. In fact, Thatcher’s biographer, Charles Moore, wrote in The Telegraph: “There are several such significant fact-skewings in the fourth season” largely involving the show’s political events. Corroborating this somewhat, The Times wrote in a profile of Mark in 1986: “The Thatchers have been a close family and Mrs Thatcher has an especially soft spot for her son.” Also, The Times was told by Larrain Goldstein, the owner of a handbag boutique in Russell Square’s imperial Hotel, that she saw Thatcher “stumble and cry” after discovering the news.