Margaret Thatcher funeral: a "fitting tribute?"

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Prime Minister in waiting and current Prime Minister with their wives.

 

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Samantha Cameron, the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron and Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair leave the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral

 

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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah Brown arrive or the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, outside St. Paul's Cathedral, on April 17, 2013 in London, England.

 

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Binyamin Netanyahu (left) was one of the few current foreign heads of state at the funeral. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

 

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Neither Nelson Mandela nor anyone from his family came to the funeral service.

A spokesman for the British high commission in Pretoria said: "We extended an invite to the Mandela family but we were told nobody would be attending."

But the former South African president FW de Klerk attended the service.

South Africa sent only its deputy high commissioner in London; President Jacob Zuma was in Algeria.

 

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The Obama administration opted for a low-key presence, dispatching two other former US secretaries of state from the 1980s, George Shultz and James Baker, to lead an official delegation.

Strikingly, there were no representatives from either the Clinton or the Bush families, with Hillary Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state, absent.

The former US vice-president Dick Cheney – was there in a private capacity.

 

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The last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, Thatcher's cold war contemporary, was unable to travel to London.

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, tweeted that he was going to the service representing Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.

 

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The last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, Thatcher's cold war contemporary, was unable to travel to London.

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, tweeted that he was going to the service representing Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.

May I get a "fashion roundup" .......please

:embarrassed:

 

[Ritakahama]

Thanks for the pics manake wengine hatuna hata access na TV

 

[s.crony]

Stand Britons! She was not fit to be a leader of free world....I remember one time of south africa's apartheid she said their will never be a black ruler in South Africa. ..God gracious Mandela outlived the witch! On this one God forgive me il have to say "Hope you rot in hell bitch"!

 

[Mwali]

show time!!! 😛op2:

 

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May I get a "fashion roundup" .......please

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Singer Catherine Jenkins.

 

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Chancellor George Osborne sheds a tear during the service. Photograph: BBC

 

[The Boss]

Why is it that they hate her this much?

 

[Mwali]

Why is it that they hate her this much?

aliwabana sana wakati akiwa madarakani.

 

[Gaijin]

Why is it that they hate her this much?

Alitaifisha mashirika ya serikali na kusambaratisha vyama vya ushirika vya wafanyakazi

Wanasema pia sera zake zimesababisha tofauti kubwa ya kipato baina ya matajiri na maskini

Na kwa kuongezea tu alikuwa mbaguzi wa kutupwa, akiunga mkono Apartheid huko Afrika Kusini

 

[Kaizer]

Why is it that they hate her this much?

She said "there is no such thingblike a society..only the individual families".....

 

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Neither Nelson Mandela nor anyone from his family came to the funeral service. A spokesman for the British high commission in Pretoria said: "We extended an invite to the Mandela family but we were told nobody would be attending." But the former South African president FW de Klerk attended the service. South Africa sent only its deputy high commissioner in London; President Jacob Zuma was in Algeria.

Why waliwa invite Mandela familly....in the first place...???????????

 

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Why waliwa invite Mandela familly....in the first place...???????????

Probably because of this?

 

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May I get a "fashion roundup" .......please

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No much "fashion roundup" because the dress code for the funeral called for day dress, morning dress, dark suit or "full day ceremonial without swords".