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Britain’s Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, laid to rest with pomp and protest
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Iron Lady, was laid to rest Wednesday with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing political figure.
Bishop of London Richard Chartres referred to the strong feelings the former prime minister still evokes 23 years after leaving office in his address to the 2,300 mourners at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
“The storm of conflicting opinions centers on the Mrs. Thatcher who became a symbolic figure – even an -ism,” he said. “Today the remains of the real Margaret Hilda Thatcher are here at her funeral service.”
“There is an important place for debating policies and legacy … but here and today is neither the time nor the place.” (AFP PHOTO / POOL/ STEFAN WERMUTHSTEFAN WERMUTH,STEFAN WERMUTH/AFP/Getty Images)
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stands in a British tank during a visit to British forces in Fallingbostel, some 120km (70 miles) south of Hamburg, Germany. on Sept. 17, 1986. Thatchers former spokesman, Tim Bell, said that the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had died Monday morning, April 8, 2013, of a stroke. She was 87. (AP Photo/Jockel Fink)
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Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990, died this morning following a stroke.
A statement from her spokesman, Lord Bell, said that her children, Mark and Carol, announced that she had died “peacefully.”
Baroness Thatcher, 87, had been increasingly ill in the last few year and was rarely seen in public.
She transformed Britain by privatizing state entities, battling trade union power, and carrying out a brand of conservatism that would eventually be called “Thatcherism.”
She was admired on the right and despised on the left. (AFP PHOTO/Suzanne Plunket/PoolSUZANNE PLUNKETT/AFP/Getty Images; AFP / Getty Images)
Film Review: The Iron Lady
She is Medusa with a head of auburn snakes shellacked into a helmet, but somewhere beneath this follicular cement crown looms the elusive heart of a human being — at least, that’s how Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher, the still-vilified former British prime minister who waltzed with Ronald Reagan while the masses rioted in revolt. Illustration by Steve Murray
Power Dressing: The Iron Lady and the style of Margaret Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher, three term British Prime Minister — the first and to date only woman elected to that post — had a political career from 1959 to 1990. Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady spans over forty years, her rise from grocer’s daughter to world leader, and encompasses forty-something costume changes. Her style, in a word? Precise. And impeccable. (Photos: Alliance)
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