LONDON -- Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady who ruled for 11 remarkable years imposed her will on a fractious, rundown nation -- ...

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's longest serving prime minister, is dead at 87. Known as the "Iron Lady," the conservative leader died of a stroke, according to a family spokesman. Margaret Thatcher, ...

Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady", was a towering figure in British 20th century politics, a grocer's daughter with a steely resolve who was loved and loathed in equal measure as she crushed the ...

In the first scene of The Iron Lady, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. The bulk of the movie takes ...

LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister who helped end the Cold War and was known as the "Iron Lady" for her uncompromising style, died Monday. She was 87. "She had a stroke this ...

Making a film about an iconic politician like Britain's Margaret Thatcher is akin to walking into a movie minefield, and casting an American -- even one as revered as Meryl Streep -- is asking for ...

For a thorough look at the life of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, head to the library and check out a thick biography. Meryl Streep's new Thatcher film "The Iron Lady" is not that ...

Nicknamed the "Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher served as the prime minister of England from 1979 to 1990. The daughter of a local businessman, she was educated at the local grammar school. Her family ...

With hairdo, handbag and hubris, she dominated — and divided — Britain for a decade. Now a film about Margaret Thatcher is doing it all over again. "The Iron Lady" stars Meryl Streep as Britain's ...

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Margaret Thatcher has been likened to Lady GaGa, Richard Branson and Steve Jobs "rolled into one". Steve Hilton, who worked as a strategy officer in Number 10 for two years between 2010 and 2012, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - London will stage its biggest political funeral in almost half a century on Wednesday when Britain's governing elite join the Queen and global leaders to bid farewell to former ...