Sify (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
A new Channel 4 series, set in 1986, has dramatised the tense relationship that existed between Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE prime minister tells the Queen she is buying a retirement home in the comfortable London suburb of Dulwich. The monarch’s reply is as sarcastic as it is snobbish: “That’s near Peckham, isn’t it'” The Queen then makes another cutting remark about politicians who “come and go”, drawing a vigorous riposte from Margaret Thatcher. The scene of barely suppressed hostility, set in 1986,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
PARIS – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher warned France’s ambassador months before German’s 1990 reunification of a domineering chancellor, Helmut Kohl, who “sees himself as the master”, diplomatic notes reveal.
Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
“The British soldier’s premature release, just 15 months into a 34-year prison sentence imposed last summer, is widely considered to have been linked to his testimony during his trial that the bungled coup’s organising team included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher” Also see: Mark Thatcher faces court...
Cape Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
British coup plotter Simon Mann returned home from prison yesterday saying he wants the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and others to face justice for a conspiracy to oust Equatorial Guinea's government.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
MARGARET Thatcher warned France's ambassador months before Germany's 1990 reunification that domineering chancellor Helmut Kohl "sees himself as the master",
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
MARGARET Thatcher warned France's ambassador months before Germany's 1990 reunification that domineering chancellor Helmut Kohl "sees himself as the master",
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
PARIS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned France's ambassador months before German's 1990 reunification of a domineering Chancellor Helmut Kohl who "sees himself as the master," diplomatic notes revealed Thursday.
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
President Lyndon Johnson and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made stark warnings about global warming decades ago, but convincing evidence for action only amassed in recent years, experts say. A 190-nation U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December is due to agree a new U.N. pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow a rise in temperatures to prevent floods, droughts, wildfires...
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The British mercenary, Simon Mann, who was convicted of an attempt to bring about a coup in equatorial New Guinea, has stated that he would be willing to give evidence against Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, and and the oil tycoon Eli Calil; who were both rumoured to be co-conspirators in the botched attempt to take over the west African state. Speaking as he flew back to Britain from...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The former French president Jacques Chirac has expressed his admiration for Margaret Thatcher despite their bitter clashes.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Historians will have to revise an enduring legend from Margaret Thatcher’s time in office — that she fought tooth and nail with France.
IOL (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Before leaving Equatorial Guinea, freed coup-plotter Simon Mann said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others should face justice.
A little about .... (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
London, Nov 2- ANI: A series of French diplomatic files have revealed that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 as part of a German threat to peace and stability led by then German Chan
Sify (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Former French president Jacques Chirac has expressed a grudging admiration for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher despite their bitter clashes over Europe.
