Carol Thatcher

It's not always easy to make polite, lunchtime conversation with a mother who for decades has had international leaders and statesmen to…

— Carol Thatcher

The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.

— Carol Thatcher

I never had the opportunity to become high-handed, because I had to go on earning a living as a journalist. Unlike my…

— Carol Thatcher

One of my fondest memories is of our skiing trips. Mum's approach to the sport was methodical, doing all the manoeuvres correctly…

— Carol Thatcher

There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her.

— Carol Thatcher

I studied law at university and wanted to go on a working holiday in Sydney. I got a job at the Sydney…

— Carol Thatcher

I never watch any movies or mini series regarding the Thatcher Years.

— Carol Thatcher

As far as 'The Crown' goes I think that it is irrelevant and ridiculous that I turn up at all!

— Carol Thatcher

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

— Carol Thatcher

Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

— Carol Thatcher

Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

— Carol Thatcher

All my childhood memories of my mother, is that of someone who was just superwoman, before the phrase was even invented.

— Carol Thatcher

My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol.

— Carol Thatcher

I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all…

— Carol Thatcher

I wrote a tennis book about Chris Evert and her then-husband, John Lloyd. It was called 'Lloyd on Lloyd' and became a…

— Carol Thatcher

That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior…

— Carol Thatcher

Unloved is not the right word... but I never felt I made the grade. Mark was a blond, very attractive little boy,…

— Carol Thatcher

I left influencing the media to other members of my family, like my Mum.

— Carol Thatcher

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough…

— Carol Thatcher

When I was a kid, I watched mainly films on TV and pop programmes like 'Top of the Pops.'

— Carol Thatcher

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then…

— Carol Thatcher

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

— Carol Thatcher

You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.

— Carol Thatcher

As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though…

— Carol Thatcher

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

— Carol Thatcher