Personal Life
Thatcher had a relationship with Jonathan Aitken which ended in 1979, just after the Conservatives won that year's general election. His severing of the liaison is alleged to have been the reason for Aitken being bypassed for a ministerial career; the Prime Minister reportedly told cabinet colleagues that she was damned if she was going to give a job to a man "who had made Carol cry".
Thatcher has been linked to Marco Grass, a Swiss ski instructor, since 1992. They share her homes in Klosters and London. Thatcher has never married; "I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly."
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