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Thursday, 13 December, 2001, 15:35 GMT
Thatchers celebrate 50 years together
![]() News that former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is celebrating her golden wedding anniversary was greeted with a mixture of congratulations and irreverance in the Commons on Thursday.
Baroness Thatcher married husband Dennis in a methodist chapel in the Kings Cross area of London on 13 December 1951.
He asked MPs to join him in "wishing them many years of happiness together" and paid particular tribute to Sir Dennis "without whom Thatcherism would never have been possible". Mr Forth's remarks prompted a less generous comment from Labour MP Kevin Hughes who said that anyone who had been married to Baroness Thatcher for that long "deserves a medal as big as a dustbin lid". During the 1980s Sir Dennis was ever-present at the side of his wife as she toured the world stage. Party The couple are marking the occasion of their anniversary with a cocktail party for 150 friends at the East India club before going on to a family dinner at the Ritz.
A spokeswomen said that the secret to longevity in a relationship was often "tolerating each other through the bad times as well as the good". "Anybody who has managed to stay together for that length of time knows that it won't all have been a bed of roses - but they deserve hearty congratulations. "Good on them!"
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