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.

Former British Prime Minister, now Baroness Margaret Thatcher arrives at her London office this week. Thatcher, 76, has suffered a series of small strokes and is retiring from public appearances.

Mrs Thatcher said: “In the eyes of the ‘wet’ Tory establishment I was not only a woman, but ‘that’ woman ... the IRA came close to killing Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.

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 ...