Margaret Thatcher: Images of an inspiring life

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Margaret Thatcher: Images of an inspiring life

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has passed away at the age of age 87 after suffering a stroke.

British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher waving poses with her husband, Denis, from window at 10 Downing Street St., London on June 9, 1983. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)

During her one-day visit to 1st British corps units and soldiers training in Lower Saxony, West-Germany in September 1983, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed and closely followed a full scale Battle-Group Attack. Margaret Thatcher sitting in a Chieftain. (AP Photo/Heinz Kreifelts)

FILE - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher listens to the opening debates during the Conservative Party's conference at Blackpool in this file photo dated October 1983. Papers from 1981, released Saturday March 17, 2012, by the Margaret Thatcher archive at Cambridge University in England, reveal a thoughtful softer side to the British leader who earned her nickname "The Iron Lady", and also show something of the personal relationship between Margaret and her husband Denis. (AP Photo/David Caulkin, File)

Britain?s Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher made a ?surprise? visit to the Falkland Islands arriving at Stanley airport by Hercules Transporter on Saturday, Jan. 8, 1983. She spent five days there with husband Denis Thatcher arriving back in the UK at RAF Brize Norton on Thursday, January 13. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher meets personnel aboard HMS Antrim during her visit to San Carlos Water. (AP Photo/Press Association )

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walk together behind the hotel where the North-South Summit is being held in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, October 23. (AP Photo)

FILE - This is a Sept. 24, 1982 file photo of China's Chairman of the Communist Party Deng Xioping as he meets with Britains' Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/File)

Conservative candidate at 23 years old and holder of an Oxford diploma, Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher) shows she is no ?blue stocking," 1950. After a brief political argument in the bar of the Bull Inn, Dartford, England in 1950, she accompanies four voters on the piano in a sing along. (AP Photo)

Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative M.P. for Finchley and Friern Barnet, is shown Nov. 1959 at her Farnborough, Kent, England, home with her twins, Mark and Carol, aged six. (AP Photo/Press Association)

Margaret Roberts is shown at work as a research chemist in 1950. Roberts, the youngest candidate in this year's general election, is standing as Tory candidate in the Socialist stronghold of Dartford. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Britain�s new Secretary of State for Education and Science, at her desk at the Department of Education and Science in London�s Curzon Street, June 23, 1970. (AP Photo)

The Education Secretary, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, is seen at the Methodist Church's Kings Cross Regional Training and Conference Centre in London on April 15, 1972, when it was officially opened. She was the guest speaker. The center is for youth work in London and will provide consultations for ministers and community workers. (AP Photo)

Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher stands with her portrait entitled ?True Blue? during a tour this afternoon of the Royal Academy?s Summer Exhibition in London, May 29, 1975. The portrait, in all blue, is by Ruskin Spear. (AP Photo/Press Association)

American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, who is in London for a two-day Ministerial meeting of the Control Treaty Organization, photographed with Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Opposition, at Claridges hotel in London on May 26, 1976. (AP Photo/Rider)

Margaret Thatcher, left, leader of the British Conservative Party, talking with George H.W. Bush, right, former CIA Director on Friday, Sept. 9, 1977 at Houston, prior to her dinner address before the English-Speaking Union. Bush introduced her to the guests. (AP Photo/)Ed Kolenovsky)

EMBARGOED UNTIL 23:59 GMT FRIDAY MARCH 18, 2011 FILE - This is a Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1977 file photo of British Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher meeting with President Jimmy Carter on in Washington at the White House. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were political soulmates, right-wing Cold Warriors who helped define the 1980s. But politics makes strange bedfellows. Newly released papers from the former British prime minister's personal archive reveal a surprising rapport between the Iron Lady and Reagan's politcal antithesis liberal, Democrat President Jimmy Carter. (AP Photo/ Bob Daugherty, File)

Britain?s conservative party leader Margaret Thatcher with son Mark campaigning in 1979. (AP Photo/Robert E. Dear)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears on NBC?s Today television, Friday, Feb. 27, 1981 in Washington. The segment of the show was televised live from the Blair House, Mrs. Thatcher?s residence while in Washington. (AP Photo/Daugherty)

French President Francois Mitterrand and the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, chat together after the morning session of the Ottawa Summit held in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 21, 1981. (AP Photo)

Nancy Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, respectively wife of President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister, provide a contrast in styles as they meet, Saturday, July 25, 1981 at Chequers, the official country residence of British Prime Ministers in Oxford, England. (AP Photo/Peter Tyrell)

The Argentine magazine Tal Cual, which at time depicted British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on its cover as a pirate a devil in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 4, 1982, as Hitler an a vampire, on Friday shows her as the popular comic book and TV character Wonder Woman. The bold type on the cover says: ?Thatcher is crazy. She thinks she is the Wonder Woman.? (AP Photo)

U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan, left, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher are shown talks at 10, Downing Street, Tuesday, June 5, 1984, London, England. (AP Photo)

Mikhail S. Gorbachev widely believed to be the second man in the Soviet hierarchy. Gorbachev, for a one-week visit, Dec. 15, 1984 in London was to visit Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Chequers and Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was accompanied by his wife, Raisa. (AP Photo)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher address a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1985 in Washington as Vice President George H. Bush looks on. Mrs. Thatcher, who is having political troubles in Britain, asked to be the first British Prime Minister to address Congress since Winston Churchill in 1952. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher cradles her two-month-old grandson Michael at 10 Downing Street London on May 3, 1989, with her American daughter-in-law Diane. (AP Photo/Malcolm Croft)

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British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher waving poses with her husband, Denis, from window at 10 Downing Street St., London on June 9, 1983. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)

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