The Iron Lady

      At her funeral, most people turned out to show their respect, but there was a significant faction that were there to protest.
      Commonly compared to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and he were contemporaries and very close allies during the Cold War. Their relationship has been compared favorably to that of FDR and Winston Churchill. Together, they saw the fall of the Berlin Wall. She also saw to the end of the Argentinian occupation of the Falkland Islands, during which members of both the British and Argentine militaries gave their lives.
      At home, she was a deeply polarizing figure. While her funeral saw many mourners, many of them famous statesmen and ambassadors, many in northern Britain held protests or burned effigies in her "memory," still bitter over her closing of Britain's coal pits which left many out of work. In Ireland, IRA supporters criticized her uncompromising stance on the rebels during her tenure.
      However, for her family, the "Iron Lady" is best summed up by the note left on her coffin by her children, "Beloved mother, always in our hearts."