Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
A THOUSAND YEARS OF ROYALTY • 1h 12m
As a school dropout, the teenage John Major could simply never have dreamt that he would one day become a powerful political leader and get elected as Britain's Prime Minister. Major became Her Majesty's ninth Prime Minister.
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