Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, baroness Thatcher (née Roberts) (Grantham (East Midlands), 13 October 1925 – London, 8 april 2013) was a British politician. She was the first female leader of the British conservative party. Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Of all British Prime Ministers in the 20th century, it has served the longest.

She was known as the Iron Lady. She was referred for the first time on January 24, 1976 by a Soviet journalist-newspaper Red Star. [1]



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[hide] *1 youth and college years  ==Youth and college years[ Edit] == Birthplace of Margaret Thatcher in Grantham.===Descent[ Edit] === Margaret Thatcher was as Margaret Roberts born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. Her father was Alfred Roberts and lives inNorthamptonshire. Her mother was Beatrice Ethel (née Stephenson) and came from Lincolnshire. [2]  She spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father had two grocery stores . [3]  Margaret and her older sister Muriel grew up in the apartment above the larger of these two. [3]  her father was active in local politics as in the Christian Church, where he respectively as Councillor(Alderman) and served as a lay preacher kraenzlein had competed he became . [4]. Margaret was raised to a strict methodiste. Her father was born into a liberal family, but was-as was then usual in local politics- Independent as a selectable. He was Mayor of Grantham in 1945-46. He lost his position as Alderman In 1952 after the labour party the majority in the City Council of Grantham had obtained.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BeckettP8_4-1" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] ===High school and College<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Roberts visited the Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to the Kesteven and Grantham Girls ' School.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BeckettP5_5-0" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  her school reports showed that they worked hard and constantly improved; her extracurricular activities include piano playing, poetry-recitals, hockey, swimming and hiking.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BeckettP6_6-0" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  In 1942-1943 she was head girl (head girl).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  In her final year she asked a stock exchange to be able to study chemistry at the Somerville College, one of the lectures at the University of Oxford. At first she was turned down, but they still got it after another candidate, offered a place.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  she came in the autumn of 1943 in Oxford, where they "Second Class Honours" in 1947 with aBachelor of Science in chemistry degree. In her last years she specialised under supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin in the Röntgenstralings-crystallography.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]
 * 1.1 Descent
 * 1.2 high school and College
 * 1.3 working life
 * 2 political career
 * 2.1 Qualification as a candidate for the House of Commons
 * 2.2 Campaigns in Dartford
 * 2.3 Member of the House of Commons (1959-1970)
 * 2.4 Minister
 * 3 Prime Minister
 * 3.1 Leader conservative party
 * 3.2 Falklands war
 * 3.3 miners ' strike
 * 3.4 IRA attack
 * 3.5 foreign policy
 * 3.6 Poll tax
 * 4 after her political life
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 Bibliography
 * 7 external links
 * 8 Nuts

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1946 Roberts was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  she was on the University influenced by Friedrich von Hayeks political works, such as The Road to Serfdom (1944)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15], which intervene in the economy by the Government as a first step towards an authoritarian State condemned.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [16] ===Working lives<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After her graduation in 1947, Roberts moved to Colchester in Essex, where she entered the service of as onderzoekschemicus BX plastics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [17]  she was a member of the local Conservative Association. In 1948 she attended the Party Conference in Llandudno at, as a representative of the University Graduate Conservative Association.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.22_18-0" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [18] ==Political career<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Qualifying as a candidate for the House of Commons<span class="mw-editsection" len="369" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of her friends in Oxford was also a friend of the President of the Conservative Association in Dartford Kent. There was one for the conservative party looking for candidates for the House of Commons.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.22_18-1" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [18]  members of this Association were impressed by the political ideas of Roberts that they asked her to nominate themselves. In January 1951 she was selected.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Blundell-blz.36_19-0" len="187" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [19] ===Campaigns in Dartford<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At a dinner after her formal acceptance as a candidate for Dartford in February 1951 she met Denis Thatcher, a successful, wealthy, divorced businessman, who deposed her at the station to get her train to Essex.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.22_18-2" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [18] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Blundell-blz.36_19-1" len="187" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  in preparation for the election moved Roberts to Dartford, where she provided for her livelihood through as onderzoekschemicus enter the service at j. Lyons and co. in Hammersmith. She was part of a team that developed emulsifiers for ice creams .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.22_18-3" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [18]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ns-rs_20-0" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the parliamentary elections for the House of Commons in February 1950 and October 1951, she was candidate in the safe Labour Constituency of Dartford, where she is the youngest and only female candidate media attention.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.23_21-0" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [21]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  both times she lost by Norman Dodds, but she knew the Labour majority in February 1950 with 6,000 and in October 1951 to reduce again with 1,000 votes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.23_21-1" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [21]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  During these campaigns she was supported by her future husband Denis Thatcher, whom she married in december 1951.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.23_21-2" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [21]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Denis_Thatcher_24-0" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  Denis paid the studies of his wife to join the Bar Association;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [25]  Thatcher did in 1953 as a lawyer specializing in tax law.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [26]  In the same year, her twin, Carol and Mark, born.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.26_27-0" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [27] ===Member of the House of Commons (1959-1970)<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After her experiences in Dartford Thatcher in the mid-fifties went looking for a constituency where they had security on a seat in the House of Commons. Roberts was narrowly rejected in 1955 as a candidate forOrpington,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckett-blz.26_27-1" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  but was selected for the constituency of Finchley in april 1958. After a hard election campaign she was elected to Member of Parliament in 1959.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [28]  Her maiden speech was about her Bill ("Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960"), who wrote to local authorities for her to keep in public Council meetings in future. In 1961 they voted against the official position of the conservative party by voting for the reintroduction of "birching".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [29]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 1961, by Thatcher in politics rose from now on on the first row in the House of Commons was allowed to take a seat. She was Parliamentary Secretary to Government in Harold Macmillans's pricing terms of the Ministry of pensions and National Insurance appointed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [30]  after the loss in the elections of 1964 she was spokeswoman for housing and land politics, in which they advocated the policy of her party to give tenants the right to buy their Housing Association Home .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Wapshott-blz.64_31-0" len="187" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [31]  In 1966 she moved to the shadow Treasury team. As financial spokeswoman they resisted against the mandatory price and income controls of Labour, arguing that this would produce unintended effects, which controls the economy would contort. ===Minister<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Edward Heath from 1970 to 1974 she fulfilled the role of Minister for education and science. As Minister of education they abolished the free supply of milk for primary school children.This earned her the nickname "Thatcher the milk snatcher ' on. ==Prime Minister<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Conservative Party Leader<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1975 she challenged Heath as leader of the conservative party and won the leadership election. In 1979 she won as leader of the opposition a vote of no confidence against the Government of James Callaghan, who made a pact with the Liberal Party had completed, with a majority of 311 against 310 votes. The subsequent General prefer she knew to win, after which they became Prime Minister . She was re-elected in 1983 and in 1987. Since 1988, she is the longest-serving British Prime Minister since 1827. To be precise: she served eleven years, six months and 26 days. The United Kingdom was economically bad for when Thatcher took office. The industry was obsolete, and the ongoing labour disputes prevented the necessary renewal. There was a rampant inflation, and the national self-confidence was dropped to a minimum. ===Falklands War<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Argentina, which has long made claim on the Falkland Islandson 2 april 1982, fell this British Isles rich in. Prompt corresponded Thatcher the occupation with a counter attack. On 21 May 1982 the British landed at the settlement Port San Carlos. Seventy-two days later the Islands were recaptured. A total of 236 British and 655 Argentines found death. On the eve of the war was Thatcher the least popular British Prime Minister since the Second World War. Afterwards she was immensely popular.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [32]  Thatcher made opportunistic use of her popularity to bring forward the parliamentary elections, which it won with ease in 1983.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [33] ===Miners ' Strike<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Thatcher began to strengthened its intention to many dozens of loss-making coal mines to close. The unions of miners, led by Arthur Scargill, the radical organized a massive nationwide strikein 1984. There followed a winter with violent clashes between strikers and police. Nine months later, the mines closed. ===IRA attack<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Thatcher narrowly escaped a bomb attack on October 12, 1984 by the IRA. That day came at 02: 54 pm a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where they like many other leaders of her party stayed in connection with the annual Party Congress in the city. At the time of the attack was Thatcher at work in her suite on the first floor. Right before that she had left the bathroom, which was seriously damaged in the blast. Five people were killed, but she and her husband remained unharmed. Thatcher later gave to that as they had been in the bathroom when the bomb exploded, they would have suffered only cuts and bruises.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [34]  Thatcher insisted that Congress that day as scheduled at 9: 30 pm would be. noon to 2: 30 pm she stopped her speech.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [35] Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in 1986.===Foreign policy<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The United Kingdom was or became a member of the European communities, but Thatcher was suspicious towards any kind of supra-nationalism and went to the United States.With us president Ronald Reagan could they get along well. In Europe she felt less at home. Her "I want my money back" led only after very hard negotiations to compensatory measures in the social sphere and in the agricultural contributions for Europe.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Government of Thatcher supported the coalition around the Khmer Rougein 1979, after the Khmer Rouge was deposed by Vietnamese Communist troops.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [36]  During theChino-Russian Conflict, the Vietnamese Communists at the side of the Soviet Union, while the Khmer Rouge was on the side of China . With the support of the Government coalition around the Pol Pot could Thatcher the official Cambodian seat in the United Nations retained. In addition, supported the Government of Thatcher the coalition around the Khmer Rouge with money, food and trainers. In 1991 the Government recognized that the SAS indeed the troops of the coalition led by the Khmer Rouge had partially trained.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [37] the British Government Officially supported only the non-communist parts of the Coalition, but the Khmer Rouge had a lot of benefit from the British support.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [38]  Thatcher claimed that "the more reasonable people by the Khmer Rouge will have to play a certain role in the future Government."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [39]  during the preceding reign from 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge an estimated two million people were murdered. ===Poll tax<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">United Kingdom In 1990 broke in the riots when Thatcher an income independent tax, the poll tax, wanted to enter. That led to her resignation: the party wanted rid of her and several conservatives challenged Thatcher to the leadership of the party. Thatcher decided, partly on the advice of her husband, this resignation was display our hypocrisy and impotence than be beaten. At her last Cabinet session resulted for the second time tears in public: the first time was when her son Mark Thatcher six days was missing during the famous Paris-Dakar car rally in Algeria.The leadership of the party and the Premiership went to John Major, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Thatcher. ==After her political life<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After her resignation Thatcher held lectures all over the world. In 2001 she had to stop on medical advice. On 13 October 2005 she celebrated her 80th birthday with a lavish dinner for about 650 guests including QueenElizabeth II, Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, singer Shirley Bassey and actress Joan Collins.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 7 december 2005 she was hospitalized overnight for observation after she suddenly started to feel unwell at the hairdresser. Her daughter Carol Thatcher announced that the short-term memory of her mother seriously regressed. Other sources reported that they probably on the Alzheimer's disease would suffer. In 2008 this was confirmed by her daughter Carol in her book: A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowl: A Memoir '¹

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the death of Pinocheton 11 december 2006, which had been politically helpful in the Falklands war, let them know that they are distressed was. Thatcher was still In 2007 for the conservative party in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In mid-2008, there was a controversy in the United Kingdom or whether or not they after her death would get a State funeral . This honor was so far only reserved for Winston Churchill and members of the Royal family.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Thatcher died on 8 april 2013 to the effects of a stroke.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [40]  she got by the British Government a ceremonial funeral service with full military honours offered in the St. Pauls Cathedral, which they themselves had chosen as a location. The funeral service on april 17, got the same status as that of Princess Diana in 1997 and that of Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [41]  More than 2,300 invited guests attended the funeral ceremony, including Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip. A total of 170 countries representatives were present.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [42]  after she was cremated.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the same month of her death was known to exist in London, a museum annex library comes in honor of Thatcher. The complex is going to get the name Margaret Thatcherbibliotheek.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [43] ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In the English program the greatest Briton of all time ended Thatcher as sixteenth, the highest placed living person. She finished as the worst Briton in third place; It should be taken into account that only living persons were eligible.
 * At a meeting, long after her reign, she said once: "I saw that you were expecting me. On the way here I passed a poster of The Mummy Returns. "
 * On 21 February 2007 unveiled a bronze statue of Thatcher himself, in the Parliament building. It stands opposite the statue of Thatcher's example and predecessor Winston Churchill. After the unveiling of the statue she said in her speech: "I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do..."