Mrs. Thatcher, Europe's "first strong woman", had an infinite life in politics in the first half of her life, why was her later years so desolate that no one cared about her?
Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she can't take care of herself, her son is not filial, her daughter is not close, she can only eat alone in front of the portrait of her deceased husband, and even her funeral, none of her children are present.
Thatcher's family
Margaret Thatcher is known as the "Iron Lady" of Britain, and in her eleven and a half years in power, she has had a profound impact on Britain's economy, culture and other fields, and has become a legend in British politics.
However, it is this "Iron Lady" who dominates the political arena, how brilliant she was in the first half of her life, and how bleak she was in her later years!
Margaret Thatcher came from a low-class family, and her father was a grocer. But the dignity of people does not depend on their background, she relied on excellent grades to be admitted to Oxford University, showed extraordinary political talent at a young age, and became a Conservative candidate at the age of 25.
Margaret Thatcher
At a Conservative event, she met Sir Dennis Thatcher, a wealthy London businessman, and the two fell in love at first sight, quickly falling in love and marrying in 1951.
The career is thriving, and love is also enviable. No matter how hard Margaret Thatcher worked outside, she had the help and support of her husband Dennis behind her.
Thatcher and her husband
On May 3, 1979, Margaret Thatcher won the general election and was successfully elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
However, at this time, Britain was suffering from severe inflation, economic depression, and high unemployment, and after coming to power, she formulated a series of reform measures, nationalizing it into privatization, cutting public social benefits for the people, and cracking down on the power of trade unions.
Although the British economy has improved immediately after the reforms, these reform measures have increased the gap between the rich and the poor in the United Kingdom, the rich are getting richer and the poor are living more and more difficult, especially the implementation of the "poll tax" policy, which completely lost the support of the middle class and enterprises at the end of her rule.
Margaret Thatcher
In 1990, Margaret Thatcher officially resigned as British Prime Minister, but she did not stay away from the center of politics and remained active.
It wasn't until December 2001 that she and her husband suffered a mild stroke while on holiday in Madeira, and as time went on, her condition began to worsen, and she completely faded out of the public eye on the advice of the hospital.
Margaret Thatcher
After that, Margaret Thatcher's memory began to deteriorate dramatically, and she gradually lost her ability to read and remember.
Maybe Margaret Thatcher was a qualified politician, but she was not a qualified mother, she had a very terrible patriarchal plot, and a pair of children were seriously differentiated.
Mrs. Thatcher put a lot of effort into her son Mark, although Mark was not outstanding when he was a child and often got into trouble, she tried her best to provide her son with the best educational resources, and also used her connections to get Mark into a prestigious university, and arranged for him to enter the business world after graduation.
However, Mark did not cherish this opportunity, but used his mother's position for personal gain, was known as a "commercial pickpocket", and was arrested for plotting the internal affairs of African countries to incite trouble, which also became a major regret and heartache in Margaret Thatcher's later life.
Margaret Thatcher
The son was too doting and protective, and she raised him to be a "waste person"; After many years of political career, Margaret Thatcher had no friends to make close to, and only her husband, who had been with her for many years, was her greatest psychological comfort.
Unfortunately, in 2003, when her husband Dennis died, Mrs. Thatcher fell into great grief, and her forgetfulness became more and more serious, and her condition gradually deteriorated.
At this time, she is no longer the tough and fierce appearance in the political arena back then, but a lonely old lady suffering from Alzheimer's.
When Mrs. Thatcher was bedridden in her later years, her bedside was full of pictures of her son, daughter and grandchildren, but none of the children wanted to be by her side.
Margaret Thatcher
On April 8, 2013, Margaret Thatcher passed away, and her children did not rush to deal with her funeral immediately, but quarreled over the distribution of the inheritance.
Margaret Thatcher
Who would have thought that the "Iron Lady", who had infinite scenery in British politics, would end up so bleak in her later years.