Denis Thatcher
Denis Thatcher
Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TDwas a British businessman, and the husband of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was born in Lewisham, London, the elder child of a New Zealand-born British businessman, Thomas HerbertThatcher. He is the most recent person outside the Royal Family to be awarded a British hereditary title, which he was granted in 1990...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionFamily Member
Date of Birth10 May 1915
country spring party
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
good margaret next
It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
certainly sort
And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.
people
More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.
bloody
I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.
I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.
happy-life thinking objectivity
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
england balls saving
When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep
golf play
When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.
loyalty years world
For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.
giving sake gin-and-tonic
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
marriage iron house
(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.