The Canadian government actually holds two slightly different versions of the shot — one showing Thatcher with her eyes open, as in the May 2022 post, and the other with her eyes closed.

Margaret Thatcher’s astonishing rise to become Britain’s first woman Prime Minister and the extraordinary mix of brute force and glamour that she brought to the role intriguing.

In their eyes, Thatcher was the most reviled British leader since Cromwell. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves from the podium at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in ...