66. The Queen Mother, the greatest royal Thatcher fan, greets the Prime Minister at a Lancaster House reception congratulating Her Majesty on her eightieth birthday. Mrs Thatcher was notable for curtsying very low to royalty. Lord Soames, like many of the establishment, found this funny.
67. Ronald Reagan ensured that Mrs Thatcher was the first European to visit him in the White House after he became president in January 1981. ‘She’s the only one with balls.’
68. With Airey Neave, soldier, man of secrets, queenmaker, assassination victim.
69. Bernard Ingham, Mrs Thatcher’s blunt but wily press spokesman. He sometimes seemed to know her thoughts before she did.
70. Gordon Reece, the PR and political strategist who, despite admiring her, was determined to keep her out of any television debate.
71. With Ian Gow, her Parliamentary Private Secretary, and perhaps her most faithful servant. ‘Whatever the future holds in store’, he told her, she had given him ‘the privilege of trying to help the finest chief … and the kindest and most considerate friend that any man could hope to serve’.
72. The ‘Gang of Four’: David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins spent so much time breaking the Labour left that they did not take Mrs Thatcher seriously enough, which helped her.
73. At the feet of Harold Macmillan. But he had no time for her economic policies, and she knew it.
74. Jim Prior was the only ‘Wet’ brave enough to take on Mrs Thatcher about economic policy. She successfully exiled him, to Northern Ireland.
75. Mrs Thatcher and Michael Foot in his ‘donkey jacket’ at the Cenotaph Remembrance Day ceremony, November 1981. ‘He was a little uncertain about what to do,’ she wrote charitably.
76. With Geoffrey Howe, her Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–1983). The relationship was never really warm but he was the ‘tapestry master of Thatcherism’.
77. Keith Joseph, Mrs Thatcher’s dearest political friend and the man who made way for her to be leader. She loved him, but could be rude to him for his lack of political sense.
78. Norman Tebbit, Employment Secretary from 1981, the ‘bovver boy’ of Thatcherism. Of Mrs Thatcher’s colleagues on the right, only he could match her passion, and he exceeded her in wit.
79. Willie Whitelaw – first her opponent then her loyal deputy (and Home Secretary). ‘Everyone needs a Willie,’ she said, not seeing why others might laugh. Whitelaw was really one of the ‘Wets’, but he let them down, not her.
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Deedes, W. F., private diary
Fraser, Lady Antonia, private diary
Hoskyns, Sir John, private diary
Luce, Richard, private memoir
Neave, Airey, private diary
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