R.I.P.
Posted on 06/26/2003 3:10:58 AM PDT by kattracks
The Associated Press
LONDON June 26 —Sir Denis Thatcher, the husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, died Thursday at the age of 88, a spokesman for the family said.
Thatcher died at London's Lister Hospital, the spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He underwent coronary bypass surgery in January and had been hospitalized for several weeks.
Denis Thatcher married the former Margaret Roberts, 10 years his junior, in 1951, and they had two children.
A tall, well-dressed and wealthy man who was always one step behind his famous wife, Thatcher learned to turn the self-effacing remark into a high art. He once described himself as the most "shadowy husband of all time."
Lady Thatcher, 77, suffered a series of small strokes last year that forced her to give up most public speaking engagements.
Before that, she turned down an invitation to visit the Falkland Islands to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina because of her husband's poor health.
As a woman she is Lady Thatcher: Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven is her title.
You are confused with the case that the wife of a knight is also referred to as Lady____. But this arises from the fact that a knight is by definition a gentleman, and his wife may be presumed top be a lady.
(If knowledge of British protocol becomes widely known outside of Britain, the Brits will change it.)
R.I.P.
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