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Margaret Thatcher Suffering From Dementia, Family Says
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| Last Edited | COSDem Aug 25, 2008 02:12pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, August 25, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The daughter of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher said Britain's "Iron Lady" is suffering from dementia, the family's first public confirmation of what has been widely rumored in Britain for several years.
Thatcher's condition has deteriorated so much that she forgets that her husband, Denis Thatcher, died in 2003, her daughter said in a memoir that is to be published next month and was serialized over the weekend in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
"I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again," Carol Thatcher wrote. "Every time it finally sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years, she'd look at me sadly and say 'Oh' as I struggled to compose myself. 'Were we all there?' she'd ask softly."
Thatcher said she first noticed her mother's failing memory over lunch in 2000, a decade after she left 10 Downing Street after leading Britain from 1979 to 1990. |
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