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Source (Google.com.pk)With the Caribbean sun blazing down from a clear blue sky, Sir Mark Thatcher was on sparkling form this week at one of the most exclusive addresses in Barbados.
Sipping cocktails at the £1,800-a-night Sandpiper Hotel, Sir Mark, whose fortune was once estimated at £64million before his dramatic fall from grace over his role in an illegal African coup, was talking about his next big venture.
The son of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, is buying a multi-million-pound property on the island, where he rubs shoulders with the likes of Simon Cowell, Cilla Black and Sir Cliff Richard.
Friend in need: Margaret Thatcher is helped to her door by her carer and housekeeper Kate, who spent Christmas with the former Prime Minister
Friend in need: Margaret Thatcher is helped to her door by her carer and housekeeper Kate, who spent Christmas with the former Prime Minister
While Sir Mark soaks up the Christmas sun in Barbados for the second year running, his twin sister Carol was getting into the Yuletide spirit in the Swiss resort of Klosters.
Carol, who has been living in Madrid, where she is learning Spanish, is staying with her former partner, ski instructor Marco Grass. They spent Christmas with friends. Last Christmas, Carol, who loves to travel, was in Italy staying with Lord McAlpine, the former Treasurer of the Tory Party, who is a close friend of her mother.
Missed: Lady Margaret Thatcher can go six weeks without a visit from her son Mark, who spent the festive break in Barbados
Missed: Lady Margaret Thatcher can go six weeks without a visit from her son Mark, who spent the festive break in Barbados
As for Lady Thatcher, 86, who is increasingly frail and forgetful after suffering a series of minor strokes, she was expected to spend Christmas at home alone, again, with just Kate, her faithful housekeeper and carer, for company.
It is the second year running that the former Prime Minister, whose political life is the subject of a contentious new film The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep, spent Christmas Day separated from her children in her elegant home in London’s Belgravia.
Although she is increasingly confused and forgetful, it will surely have been painfully obvious to the former PM that she was spending the festive period without her children once again.
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There is a small artificial Christmas tree, complete with twinkling lights, in one corner of her elegant drawing room. It is here where she spends most of her days listening to music and entertaining the small but loyal group of friends who still call round.
There are Christmas cards on the mantelpiece from her children and closest friends. Hundreds more from well-wishers fill her office at the House of Lords.
There are also countless invitations. But these are increasingly difficult because Lady Thatcher now suffers acute short-term memory loss which leaves her unsettled at public gatherings. It’s why trips beyond her home are severely restricted.
To try to fill the yawning gap left by her two children’s absence on Christmas Day, her police protection officers agreed to visit Lady Thatcher for a glass of fizz before she sat down to a traditional lunch with Kate. She then planned to watch the Queen’s Christmas broadcast.
But then, suddenly, she received a late invitation from a member of the Thatcher family. Not from either of her children, though. It was from Lady Thatcher’s niece Jane Mayes, the only daughter of her older sister Muriel, who died aged 83 after a long illness in 2004.
Muriel was the older of the two sisters by four years. Curiously her future husband, farmer Billy Cullen, first went out with the young Margaret. But when Margaret introduced him to Muriel at a Conservative dance in Colchester, he transferred his affections to the elder sister. Lady Thatcher was happy to be a matchmaker.
Although they were rarely seen in public together, Lady Thatcher valued her sister for telling her the truth. Muriel once said: ‘Margaret has said: “My sister is my best friend.” What she means by that is that I tell her what I really think.’
Frail: Margaret Thatcher, then 35, pictured here with Carol and Mark, aged 6, now suffers from memory loss and cannot make many trips beyond her home
Frail: Margaret Thatcher, then 35, pictured here with Carol and Mark, aged 6, now suffers from memory loss and cannot make many trips beyond her home
When Jane, who is a senior employee in the personnel and development office at the Methodist Church HQ in north London, discovered only days before Christmas that her aunt was going to be alone, she immediately changed her own plans.
Lady Thatcher and her carer Kate were invited to join Jane, her husband, and her father on Christmas Day at their family home in north-east London.
‘It was a late invitation and a very welcome one,’ says a friend of Lady Thatcher. ‘Kate accompanied her and they had a lovely day. It was very quiet. Very peaceful. But very special.’
Lady Thatcher, who is a deeply committed Christian, thoroughly approves of her niece’s career choice.
Her own father, grocer Alfred Roberts, was also a Methodist lay preacher. He even met Lady Thatcher’s mother Beatrice through the church, which he attended every Sunday.
Far apart: Carole Thatcher, who can go 6 months without visiting her mother, spent Christmas in the Swiss resort of Klosters
Far apart: Carole Thatcher, who can go 6 months without visiting her mother, spent Christmas in the Swiss resort of Klosters
The friend added: ‘Lady Thatcher was very fond of Muriel, who was a wonderful mother and sister. They used to meet on a regular basis before Lady T became Conservative leader.
‘She was a very direct person, just like Lady T. You knew exactly where you were with both of them. So it was lovely for her to be able to spend some time with Muriel’s daughter.’
Yet the unexpected Christmas with her niece can’t paper over the cracks in her difficult relationship with her two children - which is the cause of deep concern within the former PM’s inner-circle.
In the Meryl Streep film about the former PM ‘The Iron Lady’, which opens in Britain next week, Carol is a regular at her mother’s home. In real life, the reverse is true. Although Carol made a flying trip to see her mother the week before Christmas, she can go six months without visiting.
In fairness, Carol was always much closer to her father Denis, who died in 2003 at the age of 88.
While she wrote an affectionate biography of him, she opened up a rift with friends of her mother when in 2008 she wrote another book, A Swim-On Part In The Goldfish Bowl, which was peppered with anecdotes about her mother’s descent into dementia.
It had been a badly-kept secret for some time that Lady Thatcher’s once-formidable intellect has been dulled by the onset of the terrible disease. Carol wrote: ‘Sometimes she struggles with words and can’t recall what she had for breakfast.’ At a lunch party she revealed how her mother confused the Falklands War, her finest hour, with the Bosnian conflict.
But what caused the biggest fracture with Lady Thatcher’s friends, was Carol’s revelation that our most successful Prime Minister regularly has to be told that Denis, the rock on which her entire married and political life was built, is dead. When reminded of the agonising loss, Lady T would look baffled and ask if the family was with him when he died: ‘Oh, were we all there?’
The film The Iron Lady focuses heavily on Lady Thatcher’s continuing battle with dementia, and is based around a series of imagined conversations with her dead husband.
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