Monday, April 8, 2013

Margaret Thatcher, First Female Prime Minister of the U.K., Dead at 87

Sad, sad news today.  Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, passed away on Monday, April 8, 2013.


This picture taken at the White House in 1981 with former President Ronald Reagan.  Reagan passed away in 2004.


Margaret Thatcher, 5th from the left, at a birthday celebration for President Reagan in 1991.  (From l-r: Merv Griffin, Eva Gabor, Former President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, Margaret Thatcher.)

Mrs. Thatcher wore the moniker "The Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness.  She retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several smaller strokes after that. Her husband died in June 2003.  Rest in Peace Mrs. Thatcher.

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