Margaret Hilda Thatcher was Britain’s first female prime minister and served three consecutive terms in office. She was born on October 13, 1925 in Grantham, England and trained to be a research chemist at Oxford. She later became a barrister and specialized in tax law.
In 1951 she married businessman Denis Thatcher. She became a Member of Parliament in 1959 and led the Conservatives to a decisive victory in 1979. She became the first woman prime minister of the UK that year!
She introduced many reforms, including the privatization of state-owned industries and enacted measures to curb trade unions in Britain. Her leadership during the Falklands War and the subsequent victory of the UK sealed a second term in office for Thatcher, earning her the sobriquet- ‘The Iron Lady’. Her government introduced huge reforms in all sectors and some of them were quite controversial. Thatcher’s extended tenure as PM was very significant in British history.
She battled memory loss in her later years due to a stroke and died on April 8, 2013, at the age of 87. In 2011, Meryl Streep portrayed Thatcher in the biopic ‘The Iron Lady’.
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