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Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet (born 15 August 1953) is the only son of Sir Denis Thatcher and Baroness Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, and twin brother of Carol Thatcher. In addition to his prominence as the only son of one of the world's best known politicians, Sir Mark has attracted headlines for his alleged arrogance, youthful playboy scrapes, troubled business associations, and his involvement in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
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Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD (May 10, 1915 – June 26, 2003) was a businessman, and the husband of the former British Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher. ...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
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Personal life
Mark Thatcher attended Harrow School. In the summer of 1969 he passed three O-levels. In November that year, he obtained two more and left school with three A-levels in the summer of 1971. He became an articled clerk at Touche Ross, a City of London firm of Chartered Accountants, but did not succeed in becoming an accountant, failing his accountancy exams three times. It has been suggested that Houses of Harrow School be merged into this article or section. ...
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Chartered Accountant (CA) is the title of members of a certain professional accountancy associations in the Commonwealth countries and Ireland. ...
He inherited the baronetcy (which carries the title "Sir") after the death of his father in 2003.
On 3 April 2005, Sir Mark, then living with his widowed mother in London, announced that his family home will be in Europe after he was refused a residence visa to live in the United States, presumably as a result of his guilty plea in the Equatorial Guinea affair. His children, he stated, will be educated in the United States.[citation needed] In September 2005, his divorce was announced. April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ...
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Under the headline "Mark Thatcher — undesirable in Monaco?" French newspaper Le Figaro reported on 20 December 2005: Le Figaro (English: ) is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. ...
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- "Margaret Thatcher's son, the former British prime minister's nefarious offspring, will not be installing himself in the principality of Monaco as he hoped." A spokesman for Prince Albert told Le Figaro that Sir Mark's residency card would not be renewed. "He has a temporary residency card valid for one year. It will not be renewed when it expires in the second half of 2006 and he will have to leave." The spokesman, Armand Deus, added: "I cannot say why it will not be renewed. But the Prince made things very clear during his investiture in July when he said that ethics will be at the centre of life in Monaco."
Albert II, Prince of Monaco (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958), styled His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince of Monaco, is the head of the House of Grimaldi and the current ruler of the Principality of Monaco. ...
Marriage and children In 1987, Mark Thatcher married Diane Burgdorf, the conservative Lutheran daughter of the millionaire Texas car dealer Theodore C. Burgdorf, on 14 February 1987 in Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, London, England. They reportedly met at a party for D Magazine, a Dallas lifestyle publication, while Thatcher was living in Texas as a representative of the luxury automotive company Lotus Cars. The family moved to South Africa possibly to avoid bad publicity because of allegations against Mark Thatcher of racketeering that resulted in a £4 million civil action in 1994. They have a son and a daughter: Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area Ranked 2nd - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²) - Width 773 miles (1,244 km) - Length 790 miles (1,270 km) - % water 2. ...
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The Queens Chapel is a Christian chapel in central London, England that was designed by Inigo Jones and built between 1623 and 1625 as an adjunct to St. ...
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D Magazine is a monthly magazine covering the city of Dallas, Texas. ...
Lotus Logo with monogram of its founder, Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. ...
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Motorsport career Thatcher was involved in some of the deals that saw Williams Grand Prix Engineering acquire a portfolio of Saudi Arabian sponsors. This article is about the Formula One team. ...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. ...
In 1982, while competing in the Paris-Dakar rally, Thatcher, his French co-driver, Charlotte Verney, and their mechanic went missing in the Sahara Desert for six days. On 9 January 1982, the trio became separated from a convoy of vehicles after they stopped to make repairs to a faulty steering arm. They were declared missing on 12 January ; after a large-scale search, a C-130 Hercules search plane from the Algerian military spotted the white Peugeot 504 some 50km off course. Thatcher, Verney and the mechanic were all unharmed. He financed his rallying under a company called "Mark Thatcher Racing" which was later dissolved because of financial problems.[citation needed] A support truck during the 2004 Dakar The Dakar Rally (or simply The Dakar; formerly known as The Paris Dakar Rally and now as The Lisbon Dakar Rally) is an annual off-road race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. ...
The Sahara is the worlds second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2. ...
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The Peugeot 504 is a midsize sedan automobile produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot. ...
Thatcher also competed, with little success but less notoriety, on the circuits in Sports 2000, Thundersports and eventually graduated to the European Touring Car Championship with BMW. Thundersports was a variety of sports car racing introduced by John Webb of Brands Hatch fame. ...
The European Touring Car Championship was an international motor racing competition organized by the FIA. It had two incarnations, the first one between 1963 and 1988, and the second on between 2000 and 2004. ...
BMW (abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is an independent German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ...
Business life Thatcher initially hoped to become an accountant but failed his accountancy exams three times. He was later employed in the jewelry business and was involved in a succession of unsuccessful career attempts in the Far East.[citation needed] His business dealings at the time that his mother was Prime Minister, that were the subject of most press attention.
Thatcher is alleged by a Saudi dissident, Mohammed al Khilewi, as well as by former Labour MP Tam Dalyell, and The Guardian newspaper, to have received a multimillion-pound commission on the £20,000,000,000 Al Yamamah arms contract with Saudi Arabia, which his mother signed in 1985 as Prime Minister. According to The Guardian, "Sir Mark has always denied receiving this payment or exploiting his mother's connections in business dealings." Mohammed Abdalla al-Khilewi is a former Saudi Arabian diplomat noted for his brazen May, 1994 defection in which he issued a declaration on embassy letterhead proclaiming King Fahd to be despotic and calling for a redistribution of the countrys wealth and power. ...
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Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born 9 August 1932), more commonly known as Tam Dalyell (pronounced ), is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. ...
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RSAF Tornado IDS Al Yamamah (The Dove) is the name of a series of massive arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, which have been paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels of oil per day to the UK government. ...
Other widely reported Thatcher embarrassments include allegations of U.S. tax evasion (a criminal case was eventually dropped) and a racketeering case in Texas which was settled out of court. According to "The Telegraph" (26 August 2004), "In 1998, he was at the centre of a scandal after he lent huge sums of money at exorbitant interest rates to more than 900 local police officers and civil servants in Cape Town. He admitted lending the cash but insisted that he had done nothing wrong. He is also thought to have profited from contracts to supply aviation fuel in various African countries." August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (239th in leap years). ...
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City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population - Total (2004) - Density Not ranked 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2...
Equatorial Guinea affair On 25 August 2004, Thatcher was arrested at 10 Dawn Avenue, his thatched-roof mansion in Constantia, a rich district of Cape Town, South Africa. He was charged later that day with contravening two sections of South Africa's "Foreign Military Assistance Act", which bans South African residents from taking part in any foreign military activity. The charges related to "possible funding and logistical assistance in relation to [an] attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea" organized by Simon Mann. He was released on bail of 2 million rand and spent a period of time under house arrest, but was bailed to London to live with his widowed mother while his wife and children moved to the family's home in Highland Park, an up-market section of her hometown, Dallas, Texas. August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ...
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Constantia is the name of a CDP, a town in Oswego County, New York, and a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae): Constantia (CDP) Constantia (town) Constantia (orchid) Constantia (wine) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population - Total (2004) - Density Not ranked 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2...
A coup détat (pronounced ), or simply coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government through unconstitutional means by a part of the state establishment — mostly replacing just the high-level figures. ...
Simon Mann (1953) is a security expert, mercenary and former British Army officer, now holding South African citizenship. ...
The word bail as a legal term means: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial. ...
The old R1 and new R10 bank notes The Rand is the currency of South Africa. ...
In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. ...
Tree-lined street in Highland Park Highland Park is a town located in central Dallas County, Texas (USA). ...
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On 24 November 2004, the Cape Town High Court upheld a subpoena from the South African Justice Ministry that required him to answer under oath questions from Equatorial Guinean authorities regarding the alleged coup attempt. He was due to face questioning on 25 November 2004, regarding offences under the South African Foreign Military Assistance Act; however, these proceedings were later postponed until 8 April 2005. Ultimately, following a process of plea bargaining, Thatcher pleaded guilty to negligence in investing in an aircraft "without taking proper investigations into what it would be used for". He was fined three million rand (approximately $500,000 USD) and received a four-year suspended jail sentence. November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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The High Court of South Africa is a court of law in South Africa. ...
Motto: Unidad, Paz, Justicia(Spanish) Unity, Peace, Justice Anthem: Caminemos pisando la senda Capital (and largest city) Malabo Official languages Spanish, French[1] Government Republic - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - Prime Minister Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea Independence - from Spain October 12, 1968 Area - Total 28,051 km² (144th) 10,828...
November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal or copping a plea) is an agreement in a criminal case in which a prosecutor and a defendant arrange to settle the case against the defendant. ...
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Titles The coup scandal outraged left-wing Members of Parliament[citation needed], who demanded that Thatcher be stripped of his baronetcy. No action was taken, however. The title, created in 1990, was the first new baronetcy since 1964. It was not the first honour to be granted to the spouse of a British Prime Minister: John Major's wife Norma was created a Dame, and the wives of both Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill were given peerages in their own right, although the former also excited controversy at the time. Dame Norma Major DBE (born 1942), née Norma Wagstaff, (sometimes referred to as Lady Major) is the wife of Sir John Major, the former British Prime Minister. ...
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander...
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier, and author. ...
Timeline of titles August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
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December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - "Telegraph" news story: "Richest member of a famous family and its most accident-prone"
- Guardian news story: "Mark Thatcher arrested in South Africa"
- Guardian news story: "Out of Arms Way" – additional details on the Al Yamamah situation
RSAF Tornado IDS Al Yamamah (The Dove) is the name of a series of massive arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, which have been paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels of oil per day to the UK government. ...
Profiles - The Guardian: "Profile: Sir Mark Thatcher. Playboy-turned-businessman dogged by rumours of financial impropriety"
- Guardian profile: "'Scratcher', the millionaire fixer"
- Independent profile: "Sir Mark Thatcher: How 'the charmless Mark' pocketed a fortune trading on his mother's name"
- The Times profile: "The son and heir who made Iron Lady unbend"
- The Scotsman profile: "In trouble again, mummy's boy always in her shadow"
- BBC profile
- Mail on Sunday article
References The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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