Margaret Thatcher was famous for using her girly persona to get tough things done — conservative economic policies, encouraging the fall of communism in Europe, war in the Falkland Islands, the ...

Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who dominated British politics for two decades, died Monday, April 8, 2013, following a stroke, a spokesman for her family said. She was 87. Britain’s only ...

Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who dominated British politics for two decades, died Monday, April 8, 2013, following a stroke, a spokesman for her family said. She was 87. Britain’s only ...

Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who dominated British politics for two decades, died Monday, April 8, 2013, following a stroke, a spokesman for her family said. She was 87. Britain’s only ...

Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in British politics, was not only the the UK’s longest-serving prime minister in the 20th century, but also the first and only female to have held the post.