A woman- politician Margaret Tatcher The Iron Lady had been in power for eleven years 1979-1990
13 October, 1925- 8 April, 2013
“ Consensus is the negation of leadership.”
— Margaret Thatcher
- She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher
She led the country to victory in the Falklands war. Her admirers credit her with protecting Britain's interests in Europe, and spreading home and share ownership to the masses.
For her detractors she was the prime minister who created mass unemployment, destroyed industries - most notably mining - isolated Britain in Europe and believed there was no such thing as society.
Father Alfred Roberts
Maggy and her elder sister Muriel
New Year 1945, Alfred and Beatrice Roberts with daughters Muriel and Margaret ( on the right)
Margaret Roberts, 25 years old, the youngest candidate of the Conservative Party, 1951 ( failed)
She got married and took the name of her husband Denis Thatcher in 1951.
The election campaign of 1959 , Margaret wants to become a member of the Parliament of Finchley . ( meeting in the local pub)
Thatcher has become a member of the House of Commons .
Loving and caring mother for her twins Mark and Carol
1975 , Leader of the Conservative party
Margaret is next to a 16-year-old schoolboy. William Hague is the future leader of the party and the British Foreign Secretary. This photo made in 1977 became famous afterwards
Margaret’s first visit to her official residence of the Prime Minister in Downing street
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Margaret is wearing a dress and a hat instead of her formal suit for the first time. ( 1979, two weeks after the elections)
In 1982 Thatcher stopped the attempts of Argentina to take control over the Falklands
She led the country to victory in the Falklands war, 1983
1983 , М . Thatcher meets Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist and historian who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970
On October 12, 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people
Prime Minister visits Moscow, Russia after her third win in the election. She meets Michael Gorbachev, 1987
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M. Thatcher leaves Downing street in 1990
A special guest at the ceremony in honor of the 25- the Anniversary of Falkland’s Campaign, 2007
87- years old Thatcher
In 1992 Queen Elizabeth II gave Margaret title of Baroness Thatcher
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty .
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman .
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.