Read Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography Online
Authors: Margaret Thatcher
Presenting medals on board HMS
Hermes
, 21 July 1982.
On the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral following the memorial service for the Falklands War, July 1982, with Lord Lewin, Chief of Defence Staff, standing beside me.
With Cecil Parkinson at Central Office on the night of our victory in the 1983 general election.
At my desk in No. 10.
The Grand Hotel in Brighton after it was bombed in October 1984.
Leaving the hotel with Denis, following the blast.
Photocall at Chequers with the Gorbachevs during their first visit to Britain in December 1984.
Meeting Den Xiaoping in Peking in December 1984.
With President Reagan at Camp David in December 1984.
Signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough Castle, 15 November 1985, with Dr Garret FitzGerald, the Irish Taoiseach.
Greeting the Queen outside No. 10.
Signing and exchanging the Channel Tunnel Agreement with President Mitterrand in 1986.
Some of the Commonwealth leaders who attended the Special Commonwealth Conference in London, August 1986. From l-r:
back row
Rajiv Gandhi, Brian Mulroney, Sonny Ramphal, Bob Hawke, Robert Mugabe;
front row
myself, Sir Lynden Pindling, Kenneth Kaunda.
In the kitchen at No. 10, being filmed for a BBC series.