God bless the Lady Thatcher.
It’s what you do when no one’s watching, and there are no photo-ops to be offered or taken, that is what really takes the measure of you as a man or a woman. I am not surprised by this story, just delighted all these years later.
She was the real thing.
It was Gorbachev who first called Thatcher "Iron Lady." Typical Soviet propoganda - they meant it as a slander, but it wound up having the opposite effect. Some fictitious history continue to try to portray Thatcher as a devil, and many leftists have swallowed the narrative whole.