Margaret Thatcher’s private desk, at which she wrote many of her speeches, is to be sold at auction with a guide price of up to £2,000. Carol and Sir Mark Thatcher, the former prime minister ...

Mark Thatcher read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College Oxford, and then qualified as a Barrister. Thereafter he took his doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford. He spent five years ...

It has been reported that these sales were instigated by Thatcher’s daughter, Carol, but that her twin brother, Sir Mark Thatcher, was not well pleased, wishing to keep the collection intact ...