AUCTION OF ITEMS BELONGING TO LATE. PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER SPEAK OF HER

THE LATE PMs DRESSES AT THE AUCTION

Today, December 15, there was an auction of things that belonged to the late Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher. The auction heard to have caused a rift among her children, was carried out at the Christie’s auction house and as earlier stated were items from the collection of the late Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, (a title she got after she retired from the House of Commons in 1992), The auction which lasted some hours resulted to a sale of over £2m ($3m) and this is reported to have more than doubled the estimated target and had buyers from not only Europe but as far as Asia. Items auctioned included books, letters, brooches, papers, handbags and a red ministerial dispatch box that sold for £242,500).

RED MINISTERIAL BOX

It would be recalled that the late Prime Minister more known for her leadership style also loved to dress and so there were lots of clothes including her wedding gown which raised £25,000 (also beyond its estimate), coats, frocks, etc.

HANDBAG AND OTHER ITEMS

Her biographer Charles Moore noted that she spent freely on clothes from when she was a young barrister and aspiring MP. Known as a political power-dresser, taking to meticulously choose her dressing to suit the occasion, her dress she wore to address the House of Commons for the last time in 1990 was also among those sold. She is reputed to have been very selective in her choice of hairdos. From the collection it can be seen why there often reports of conflict between her and the queen most likely to do with the clash of their costumes.

The sale seemed to show that neither the late Prime Minister or her husband Denis were fantastic parents as it is stated that her daughter, Carol who is behind the auction claimed none of them could handle young children. The sale, however, did not go down well with both siblings as her son; Mark expressed his misgivings about the auction preferring to have the items given to the Thatcher archives at Churchill College, Cambridge.

So in the end, we have a Prime Minister Thatcher, who was more into her career, not a lover of children and of course, a power dresser who did not make light of her dress sense no matter what the queen or any other person thought of it.