I studied law at university and wanted to go on a working holiday in Sydney. I got a job at the Sydney Morning Herald and later on a TV station, and that was that. I stayed there for four years. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
It's not always easy to make polite, lunchtime conversation with a mother who for decades has had international leaders and statesmen to engage with… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
I never had the opportunity to become high-handed, because I had to go on earning a living as a journalist. Unlike my brother, I… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
One of my fondest memories is of our skiing trips. Mum's approach to the sport was methodical, doing all the manoeuvres correctly and carefully. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
I studied law at university and wanted to go on a working holiday in Sydney. I got a job at the Sydney Morning Herald… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
As far as 'The Crown' goes I think that it is irrelevant and ridiculous that I turn up at all! — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
All my childhood memories of my mother, is that of someone who was just superwoman, before the phrase was even invented. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all my life.… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
I wrote a tennis book about Chris Evert and her then-husband, John Lloyd. It was called 'Lloyd on Lloyd' and became a No 1 bestseller. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share
