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Thatcher struggling with senility: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is suffering from dementia and often forgets that her husband is dead, her daughter, Carol, revealed in a memoir this week. Thatcher, 82, had several strokes in 2002; her husband died the following year. “Every time it finally sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years,” Carol Thatcher writes, “she’d look at me sadly and say, ‘Oh.’” Conservatives are furious at the release of the memoir. “I don’t know how Carol can believe that by writing this book, she is contributing anything other than prurience to her mother’s personal and political legacy,” said former Tory official Amanda Platell.

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