“The establishment tried to destroy me, the Sunday Times, get me fired, get other people fired and so on.
“Now nobody doubts that it was true,” he told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
Neil continued: “However, what is most incredible about The Crown and this is the meeting between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen because it has Margaret Thatcher lecturing the Queen about being a grocer’s daughter whereas the Queen inherited an imperial empire and she didn’t understand things.
“Of course I wasn’t at any of these meetings but I knew Margaret Thatcher very well.
