The First Mrs Thatcher

[Ric.ror]

I wonder whatever happened to her

[Bbbananas]

Was Dennis married previously? I didn't know that

[2sp_]

Dennis' mother?

Or was the old goat married before?

[sandyRoe]

Chemists would know well the ingredients of an acid bath.

[Barmaid]

She married again after their divorce and then died in the 1990s.

[Ric.ror]

I always wondered about her

[Gromit]

// On 28 March 1942, Thatcher married Margaret Doris Kempson (23 January 1918 – 8 June 1996), the daughter of Leonard Kempson, a businessman, at St. Mary's Church, Monken Hadley. They had met at an officers' dance at Grosvenor House the year before.


Then-U. S. Vice President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush with Margaret and Denis Thatcher at Chequers, 1984
Although initially very happy, Thatcher and his first wife never lived together. Their married life became confined to snatched weekends and irregular leaves as Thatcher was often abroad during the war. When Thatcher returned to England after being demobilised in 1946, his wife told him she had met someone else and wanted a divorce. Their childless marriage ended in the first weeks of 1948.[9] Kempson married Sir (Alfred) Howard Whitby Hickman, 3rd Baronet (1920–1979) on 24 January the same year. Thatcher was so traumatised by the event that he completely refused to talk about his first marriage or the separation, even to his daughter, as she states in her 1995 biography of him. Thatcher's two children found out about his first marriage only in February 1976. //

[2sp_]

So his first wife was called Margaret too?

[anneasquith]

thats a long time to keep a secret from your children.