MARGARET THATCHER
1925 - ...

Maggie Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts. She was Britain's prime minister from 1979 - 1990, and what a performance the woman gave...

Margaret Thatcher's Family
Margaret's father was Alfred Roberts. Her mother was Beatrice Ethel Stephenson.

Maggie did many things you didn't. She studied chemistry at Oxford, worked as a chemist, practiced law, had twins, became Great Britain’s first woman prime minister, led her country through the Falkland Island War, almost died in a terrorist attack, shook Ronald Reagan's hand repeatedly, was called Iron Lady, and was (finally) made Baroness.

MARGARET THATCHER QUOTES
I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

As God once said, and I think rightly...

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON Margaret Thatcher
October 12, 1984, Brighton, England - The following is a brief excerpt from the brilliant book Just 2 Seconds (Gavin de Becker et al.)

Three weeks before Thatcher was to attend the Tory conference, IRA bomber Patrick Magee checked into room 629 at the Grand Hotel.

He spent 24 days tearing down a bathroom wall, loading 100 pounds of gelignite explosive inside the space, rigging a delay timer, and then rebuilding the wall without leaving a trace.

The bomb exploded, killing four, wounding 34, and destroying the hotel. Thatcher was in her room five floors below, but was not injured. A sweep with bomb dogs had missed the bomb because it was on a floor above the conference.

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