LONDON, Aug. 25 -- 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."I almost fell off my chair," wrote Thatcher, a journalist and television personality. "Watching her struggle with her words and her memory, I couldn't believe it. She was in her 75th year but I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 per cent cast-iron damage-proof. From the fateful day of our lunch, tell-tale signs that something wasn't quite right began to emerge."
LONDON, Aug. 25 -- 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.
"I almost fell off my chair," wrote Thatcher, a journalist and television personality. "Watching her struggle with her words and her memory, I couldn't believe it. She was in her 75th year but I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 per cent cast-iron damage-proof. From the fateful day of our lunch, tell-tale signs that something wasn't quite right began to emerge."
"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years" "You know I've been mad, I've always been mad"
I do not wish to mock senitle dementia, or those who suffer from it. I'm sure it's a fear that lurks in us all, but Thatcher was callous and wicked long before she lost it.
She did a few good things that even I'd concede, but the Falklands victory caused her to lose her grip on reality and the country suffered, and still suffers, from the consequences. keep to the Fen Causeway
I also hope to get some sense of how the election is going in a red state. "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
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Ten years after Frank Sinatra's death the small town of Lercara Friddi, near Corleone in northwest Sicily, has created a music festival in his honour -- even though the singer refused to acknowledge that his family hailed from the area. Throughout his life "Ol' Blue Eyes" maintained that his grandfather Francesco came from Catania. However, in Sinatra -- The Life, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan say this was because the singer was keen to distance himself from anything that would suggest he was close to the Mafia. Lercara Friddi was also the birthplace of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, regarded as the father of modern organised crime. According to the biographers, local church records and the testimony of relatives prove that Francesco was born in the town in 1857. The family for a time lived in the same street as the Luciano family. Francesco emigrated to New York in 1900 and sent for his family eventually.
Ten years after Frank Sinatra's death the small town of Lercara Friddi, near Corleone in northwest Sicily, has created a music festival in his honour -- even though the singer refused to acknowledge that his family hailed from the area.
Throughout his life "Ol' Blue Eyes" maintained that his grandfather Francesco came from Catania. However, in Sinatra -- The Life, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan say this was because the singer was keen to distance himself from anything that would suggest he was close to the Mafia. Lercara Friddi was also the birthplace of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, regarded as the father of modern organised crime.
According to the biographers, local church records and the testimony of relatives prove that Francesco was born in the town in 1857. The family for a time lived in the same street as the Luciano family. Francesco emigrated to New York in 1900 and sent for his family eventually.
the singer was keen to distance himself from anything that would suggest he was close to the Mafia
Hahahahahahahhaha ! That worked well. keep to the Fen Causeway
Silvio Berlusconi has once again put his summer holiday in Sardinia to good use, slamming the door temporarily on Italy's teeming problems to collaborate on another collection of Neapolitan love songs with his favourite singer and guitarist, Mariano Apicella. Apicella, 44, who has been the Italian Prime Minister's regular and faithful summer accompanist since the two met in 2001, said that the CD contains 14 songs, with words by Mr Berlusconi and music by himself. He hopes it will be released in time for Christmas - "but the Prime Minister has many other commitments, so that may not be possible". Its title has yet to be made public. The CD will be their third collaboration. The first, Meglio 'na canzone (Better a song), was released in 2003, during Mr Berlusconi's second term as premier. A second disc, L'ultimo amore (The last love), was released in 2006.
Silvio Berlusconi has once again put his summer holiday in Sardinia to good use, slamming the door temporarily on Italy's teeming problems to collaborate on another collection of Neapolitan love songs with his favourite singer and guitarist, Mariano Apicella.
Apicella, 44, who has been the Italian Prime Minister's regular and faithful summer accompanist since the two met in 2001, said that the CD contains 14 songs, with words by Mr Berlusconi and music by himself. He hopes it will be released in time for Christmas - "but the Prime Minister has many other commitments, so that may not be possible". Its title has yet to be made public.
The CD will be their third collaboration. The first, Meglio 'na canzone (Better a song), was released in 2003, during Mr Berlusconi's second term as premier. A second disc, L'ultimo amore (The last love), was released in 2006.
