"Janitor of Lunacy" wrote in message
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> "Adrian" wrote in message
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>> "M.I.5Y" gurgled happily, sounding much
>> like they were saying:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> None whatsoever. Denis Thatcher is just plain
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>> dead...
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> 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.
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Denis did NOT get a peerage - as is pointed out above he got a Baronetcy, an
award which made him Sir Denis, and which was capable of being passed on
through the male line, but which did not carry a seat in the House of Lords.
She has a Life Peerage and is Baroness Thatcher.
Andrew McGee
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