What Do You Know About Margaret Thatcher?

Margaret Thatcher, born Margaret Hilda Robert in the year nineteen twenty five in Grantham (Lincolnshire) is known throughout history as a woman of strong substance. Nick named "the iron lady"; she was the first and the only women to become a prime minister of United Kingdom. Her tenure was for a period of twenty one years in total, from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety.  She was on of the longest serving British prime ministers in history. She was also the leader of the conservative party from nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety.

She became a familiar figure on the international front and had friends in high and influential posts. During her career as a prime minister she became acquainted with the then president of the Unites States, Reagan and the Soviet leader, Gorbachev. This acquaintance grew stronger with time.

Among a number of situations faced by her office, there was a certain issue that later on resulted in her downfall was the issue of Europe. In the year nineteen ninety Sir Geoffrey Howe, the then serving foreign secretary resigned from his post protesting at Margaret Thatcher's attitude towards Europe. The resignation buy the foreign secretary subsequently lead to her down fall in the month that followed.

She married Sir Dennis Thatcher, and has one son and one daughter

Margaret Thatcher, born in 1925, was the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom. She got chemistry degrees from the University of Oxford where she studied from 1947 to 1961 and worked as a research chemist. In 1951, she married Dennis Thatcher and two years later, having studied for the bar, she became a tax lawyer. She joined the Conservative Party and was elected to the House of Commons in 1959. She served as education and science minister from 1970 to 1974.  In 1979, she led the party to victory and became prime minister. In 1982 Argentine forces occupied Falkland Islands claimed by both Argentina and the United Kingdom. Thatcher's government sent a naval force to the Falklands that defeated Argentina.
The victory at Falklands helped Thatcher lead the Conservatives to a sweeping victory in the 1983 parliamentary elections. In October 1984 she survived an attempt on her life when a bomb planted by Irish extremists exploded in Brighton's Grand Hotel during a party conference. Thatcher again won elections in June 1987, thus becoming the first British prime minister in the 20th century to serve three consecutive terms.  She resigned in November 1990 following criticism of her economic policies.