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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hospitalised with flu


Concern for frail former PM Margaret Thatcher as she is hospitalised with flu bug

By SARA NELSON
Last updated on 19th October 2010

Baroness Thatcher has been hospitalised after falling ill with the flu.

The former Prime Minister had been forced to pull out of the Downing Street celebrations for her 85th birthday last week due to the illness.

Despite not being able to attend, she insisted the party went on in her absence.


Tonight a friend said: 'The flu she has had has not cleared up and doctors want to run some tests.

'At the end of the day, she is frail and they want to keep an eye on her.

David Cameron today said he wished her a 'speedy recovery'.

Aides called in a doctor to assess her condition this afternoon. She was taken from her home to London's Cromwell Hospital shortly afterward.

Conservative MP Gerald Howarth, a former aide to Lady Thatcher, said: 'We all wish her well, and are sorry we did not see her last week.'

At her party last week, Mr Cameron read out a message from Lady Thatcher, in which she said: ‘I am so disappointed not to be with you this evening.

‘But I hope that you will appreciate that on this particular occasion I have had to accept that the Lady is not for returning. Please, please enjoy yourselves.’


An array of former Tory leaders and cabinet members were invited to the event – although Michael Heseltine, whose leadership challenge ended her political career, was left off the guest list.

A spokesman for Mr Cameron said he was ‘obviously disappointed’ at the news, and that another party would be organised once she recovers.

Lady Thatcher’s reign is set to be portrayed by Hollywood actress Meryl Streep .

It will be ‘sympathetic’, according to her co-star Jim Broadbent, who will play her late husband Denis.

He said: ‘Of course it will be a sympathetic portrayal, that's what he was, he was very sympathetic. It'll be a sympathetic portrayal of Margaret as well.’

Rev actress Olivia Colman is reported to be playing their daughter Carol, while newcomer Alexandra Roach will play Thatcher in her 20s.

On the advice of doctors, Lady Thatcher very rarely speaks in public now, but does still attend a number of high-profile functions.

In March 2008 the peer, who has suffered a number of minor strokes, was taken ill during a dinner in Westminster and spent the night in hospital as a precaution.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321992/Former-Prime-Minister-Margaret-Thatcher-hospitalised-flu.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz12qdAk8HU

Hollywood strikes again by Miscasting the arrogant airhead Meryl Streep is set to play Lady Thatcher in an upcoming film. Jim Broadbent will portray her late husband Denis.


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