Ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher was caught in racism. Allegedly she believed that the South African Republic should be a state for whites. Such a sensational statement was made by the former head of the British diplomatic service, Sir Patrick Wright (Patrick Wright), extracts from the diary entries of which leads the tabloid Daily Mail. Sir Patrick remembers what Thatcher dreamed of. that in South Africa again established the order that was there before the 1910-ies. , and to timid attempts to protest that this is impossible, and that Britain is accused of apartheid, reacted very violently. "Do not you think about our strategic interests at all" - the premier was indignant. Opened Wright and some piquant details of Thatcher's personal preferences. He recalls that the Prime Minister has always liked high imposing men - she considered them competent workers. One day, the Prime Minister refused to approve a candidate for an official post because he was too small. Also, the Iron Lady could not stand beards and mustaches. According to Thatcher, moustached men look like hairdressers. Also, Sir Patrick wrote that Thatcher had germanophobia, and that she was enraged at any talk about the unification of East and West Germany. In support of the view that Margaret was a racist, Wright remembers how the then foreign minister of the United Kingdom, Douglas Hurd, said that xenophobia reigns in the office.

Sir Patrick also noted that Thatcher's departure from the political horizon could be caused by her personal problems - rumored that her Dennis Thatcher drank too much. Baroness (she won the title in 1992) Margaret Thatcher was the first woman in the history of Britain and all Europe - the Prime Minister. On this post, she stayed the longest in the twentieth century - from 1979 to 1990. The nickname "Iron Lady" Thatcher received for her tough domestic and foreign policy.