what does she know???????

Thatcher ready to quit Britain

Sir Mark Thatcher once told me that his mother, Baroness Thatcher, could never contemplate living anywhere else but Britain. Mandrake learns that Carol Thatcher – Sir Mark's twin sister – seems not to share her sense of commitment.

 

Tim Walker 
Published: 9:55PM BST 05 Sep 2009

Carol Thatcher Photo: PA

"I'm becoming increasingly despondent about the state of this country, and I am beginning to look elsewhere," Carol admitted at the Tabasco British Oyster Opening Championship in the City of London. "When it comes to buying abroad, the abysmal state of the pound hardly helps, though." Happily, Carol, 56, already has a bolthole in Switzerland to which she fled after BBC hirelings told the press that she had, during a private chat in the green room of The One Show, called a French-Congolese tennis player a "golliwog".

Baroness Thatcher was also fond of Switzerland, where she and Denis stayed with Lady Glover, whose husband, Sir Douglas, was a Tory MP, at the Schloss Freudenberg estate on Lake Zug near Geneva.