How Thatcher floored Rajiv, Sonia with Cambridge tryst remark

April 09, 2013 10:47

A speech by Baroness Thatcher during Rajiv Gandhi's visit in the October of 1985 iconized such humour. Her speech at a dinner hosted for then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at 10 Downing Street in October 1985 personified it.

"I know that neither you nor your wife are strangers here; indeed it was Britain's privilege to provide the place where you met. Indeed now I come to think of it, it's about the best thing that Cambridge has done being in all other respects unable to match up to," she told Rajiv. Read

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