"Adrian" wrote in message
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> "M.I.5Y" gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>
>>> If a man is given a life peerage, he becomes known as Lord X and his
>>> wife as Lady X. If a woman is given a life peerage, she becomes known
>>> as Baroness X but what handle does her husband get?
>
>> None whatsoever. Denis Thatcher is just plain
>
> dead...
but he got his hereditary peerage a year before Maggie got her life peerage,
so he was a baronet and she was entitled to be called Lady Thatcher even
while sitting in the Commons. Then she got one in her own right. This is why
Mark Thatcher is a Baronet - he inherited his father's peerage, not his
mother's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Thatcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thatcher
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