A Tory Wind of Change
For the first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional "kissing hands upon appointment"—a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party.
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Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral Cost $5.6 million – Much Less Than Reported
The procession through central London and ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral on 17 April—together with a huge security operation involving some 4,000 police...
Ronnie's Friend Maggie
The phrase, inevitably, is Winston Churchill's. Long an advocate of Anglo-American alliance, the wartime British Prime Minister often spoke of what he called the...
Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral: Protesters and Supporters Line Procession Route
When Paul Dooley was a police officer in the 1980s, he faced off against striking coal miners in the north of England. And although many in Britain at the time...
Inside Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral, an Elegy of Decline and Fall
No matter how grand a funeral, there is no hiding from its principle message, and the grand funeral of Margaret Thatcher communicated that message more starkly...
Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral: VIP Guests and Angry Protesters Gather in London
Throughout her life and political career, Margaret Thatcher was a divisive figure. On the eve of her funeral, Scotland Yard has been attempting to predict just...
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Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral
The Queen, British Prime Minister David Cameron and more than 2,000 dignitaries pay their last respects to Baroness Thatcher at St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday ...
Margaret Thatcher: Portrait of the Iron Lady
As Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, she transformed a nation with a social and economic revolution both admired and derided
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Five Protest Songs About Margaret Thatcher
Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her controversial conservative policies inspired a slew of protest songs during the 1980s.
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher on TIME’s Covers
Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at 87, was a hard-charging, outspoken leader who spent 11 years as Britain’s Prime Minister, serving in the post longer than...
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Thatcher posters banned from Tube
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Letter From Europe: Muddling the Legacy of Thatcher
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Thatcher Handbag Sales Soar
While Britain paid its respects to Margaret Thatcher, the market is still feeling the force of her economic impact. ...
The Funeral of Margaret Thatcher
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