Margaret Thatcher, prime minister 1979-90
Margaret Roberts – as she was then – in a school photograph in the 1930s
1948: Roberts playing the piano and singing with a group of voters at the Bull Inn in the constituency of Dartford, Kent, where she was standing as the Conservative candidate. She lost the seat in 1950 and 1951
1950: Roberts – the youngest candidate for any party in the 1950 general election – at work in a laboratory where she was a research chemist
1951: Roberts as candidate for Dartford
1951: Roberts on her wedding day, with husband Denis (1915-2003), wearing a royal blue velvet dress and a halo-style hat trimmed with ostrich feathers
1953: Margaret Thatcher aged 28 with her twins Carol and Mark. She had been married for two years and was trying to juggle her new career as a lawyer with her political ambitions
1962: Thatcher, parliamentary secretary to the ministry of pensions, waves as she leaves Euston station on the start of a journey to Llandudno to attend the annual Conservative conference
1971: Thatcher, now minister of education, tries on different hats in her Lamberhurst home near Tunbridge Wells
1971: Thatcher visits a school. She was bitterly attacked as 'milk snatcher' in the press after presiding over the abolition of free milk for schoolchildren aged seven to 11
1974: Thatcher, the Conservative environment spokeswoman, with party chairman William Whitelaw at the Conservative conference
1975: Thatcher leaves her house in Chelsea, London, for her first day's work as the new Conservative leader. She was the first woman ever to head a political party in Britain
1975: Thatcher shows her European colours in Parliament Square as she links up with three of the young pro-market campaigners starting a vigil beneath the statue of Sir Winston Churchill, on the day before polling for the common market referendum
1976: Thatcher jogs around the Rotherham constituency with the Conservative candidate Douglas Hinckley
1979: Thatcher speaks at the Conservative local government conference at Caxton Hall, London, angrily accusing the Labour government of having tried to whip up non-existent emotions during the referendum campaigns
1979: Thatcher outside 10 Downing Street following her election as prime minister in May. She was Britain's first female prime minister
1980: Thatcher in white overalls and a miner's helmet and donkey jacket for her trip down a mine shaft at the Wistow colliery in the Selby coalfield
1982: Thatcher with her son Mark, who returned to Britain after going missing for six days in the Sahara Desert during the Paris-Dakar car rally
1983: Thatcher visiting British troops on the Falkland Islands
1983: A jubilant Thatcher waves to well-wishers after winning a second election victory
1984: The Grand hotel in Brighton, after a powerful IRA bomb meant for Thatcher and her cabinet exploded, killing five people and injuring more than 30 others
1984: Thatcher reaches up to shake someone's hand at the Liverpool festival
1985: Thatcher helps Ronald Reagan, the US president, walk his dog Lucky on the White House lawn
1986: Thatcher at the opening of the M25 motorway
1986: Thatcher out for spin in a Challenger tank during manoeuvres at the Nato training ground near Fallingbostel, Germany
1987: Thatcher with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the start of talks at the Kremlin
1987: Spitting Image puppets of Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, David Steel and David Owen with a model of the Houses of Parliament
1987: Thatcher in Downing Street at the start of her third term in office
1989: Thatcher stands on top of the nuclear reactor at Torness Power Station, East Lothian
1990: Thatcher leaves Downing Street after formally tendering her resignation
1992: Thatcher shows a gentler side
2000: Lady Thatcher and Iain Duncan Smith at the Conservative party conference in Bournemouth
2003: Thatcher and her husband, Sir Denis, who had just returned home after a coronary bypass operation
2003: Lady Thatcher and her daughter, Carol, outside the Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, where the funeral of Sir Denis Thatcher took place
2003: Thatcher sits alone as she waits for the start of the state opening of parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London Photograph: PA
2007: Thatcher shakes hands with Tony Blair during commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of the Britain-Falklands conflict Photograph: Ian Jones/AFP
2007: Thatcher outside 10 Downing Street with the then prime minister, Gordon Brown Photograph: Alessandro Abbonizio/AFP/Getty Images
2009: Thatcher stands at the front door of her home after returning from the Chelsea and Westminster hospital after an operation on her broken arm Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
2010: Thatcher is assisted in the House of Lords during the state opening of parliament at the Palace of Westminster in May
2010: Thatcher smiles as she meets David Cameron inside 10 Downing Street
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