Her husband always called her 'my Margaret', but it was not in order to distinguish her from the other Margaret in his life. Along with her husband, Margaret Tebbit — who died aged 86 in the early hours of Saturday at the couple's Suffolk home following years suffering from Lewy Body Dementia — could easily have died in the early hours of October 12, 1984. But both the Tebbits were cruelly injured and Margaret paralysed from the neck down, their lives changed irrevocably. But Margaret Tebbit found that very hard, even under royal command, because she channelled all her extraordinary willpower and effort into 'hanging on to life', as she put it. Unbreakable bond: Margaret and Norman Tebbit at the ill-fated Conservative Party conference in 1984'It tested our relationship thoroughly,' he would write in typically laconic style in his memoirs.

Source: Daily Mail December 21, 2020 22:18 UTC