Eagle gift from Reagan fetches top price in Thatcher sale

December 16, 2015 By admin

A gift from former U.S. President Ronald Reagan fetched top price in a sale of ex British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's personal possessions which raised more than 3 million pounds ($4.5 million) overall, auctioneer Christie's said. Reagan's gift to Thatcher of an American bald eagle figure fetched the highest sum, 266,500 pounds, and was sold to an online buyer. Known as the “Iron Lady”, Thatcher was Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century.

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High heels in the Kremlin: Thatcher’s style secrets

November 27, 2015 By admin

Margaret Thatcher's bodyguard would carry her high heels into the Kremlin and the ex-prime minister wore trousers only down a coal mine, according to an auction catalogue of her belongings. Charles Powell, who acted as her private secretary, said Thatcher borrowed a fur coat and boots when she attended Soviet leader Yury Andropov's funeral because of the harsh winter weather in February 1984. “Her Special Branch bodyguard loomed behind her, his pockets bulging with what Russian security assumed to be impressive weaponry,” Powell was quoted as saying in the catalogue published this week.

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