Good Queen Tess!

Astonishingly candid interview reveals the Ice Maiden of No 10: Sees herself as a modern Elizabeth I Can’t stand her nose – and hates bigheads Is scared of snakes (like Indiana Jones)

AS SHE approaches her 50th day in No10 on Tuesday, Theresa May is fast becoming the ‘submarine Prime Minister’.

The moment she took power on July 11, her aides said she despised what one described as the ‘soundbite-a-day’ style of ‘mediaobsessed David Cameron’.

Mrs May would be more like old-style British Prime Ministers, whose public pronouncements were few and far between, they said.

The aim was to present her as a more serious figure, and bring stability after the shock of Brexit.

Mrs May is naturally shy and has refused to surface to give interviews before or after her 12day summer holiday in the Alps – hence the ‘submarine PM’ tag.

However, a vivid picture of Maidenhead MP Mrs May is revealed in a remarkably candid ‘confessions of a PM’ interview published in full for the first time this month by her local Windsor, Maidenhead and Ascot magazine.

In the article, the ‘Brexit’ PM reveals that she sees herself as a modern-day Queen Elizabeth I – who had her own famous European victory: sinking the Spanish Armada. And she confesses that: She does not like her nose – or her habit of being late;

She hates ‘conceited’ bigheads – and ‘shares Indiana Jones’s fear of snakes’; She believes in the afterlife; Her motto is ‘Don’t let the b ******* get you down’;

Her favourite word is ‘serendipity’ – which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, means ‘the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way’.

The most striking of Mrs May’s statements is her comparison of herself to Elizabeth I, arguably England’s greatest monarch, who ruled over a ‘Golden Age’.

Asked which historical figure she most identified with, she replied: ‘Queen Elizabeth I – a woman who knew her own mind and achieved in a male environment. Remember her speech: “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the stomach of a king”.’

The remark is from Elizabeth’s rallying cry to her troops on the eve of defeating the Armada in 1588.

Elizabeth went on to vow never to let ‘any Prince of Europe’ invade England’s borders.