Never personally popular in Britain, Thatcher found her most fervent admirers among conservatives in the U.S. In February 1985, she visited her good friend Reagan in Washington and delivered a speech before the joint houses of Congress. The last British Prime Minister so honored was Winston Churchill in 1952. Dressed in a black suit and flowered blouse, Thatcher received a two-minute standing ovation as she stepped onto the podium. After noting that Churchill had enjoyed a "special advantage" because his American mother had given him "ties of blood with you," Thatcher drew laughter by dryly adding, "Alas for me, these are not matters we can readily arrange for ourselves."

Margaret Thatcher: Portrait of the Iron Lady

As Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, she transformed a nation with a social and economic revolution both admired and derided

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