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Today is Margaret Thatcher's 80th Birthday.

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LONDON - Margaret Thatcher turned 80 Thursday with a rare return to the limelight — a posh party attended by the queen and the former prime minister's two successors, all celebrating Britain's "Iron Lady."

Although she has grown frail following a series of small strokes, Thatcher looked healthy as she arrived at the party about 15 minutes late — a delay that an aide said was due to her taking a congratulatory phone call from President Bush.

Wearing a navy blue coat and dress, a string of pearls and — as always — a matching handbag that was her trademark, she smiled and paused for photographs before slowly making her way into the plush Mandarin Oriental Hotel near London's Hyde Park.
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What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime," outgoing Tory leader Michael Howard said in a birthday tribute. "Her political will and her iron courage saw off the threats to our way of life that Britain faced in 1979. We all owe her an enormous debt."