Extraordinary Lady Thatcher anecdote

Lovely story recounted by Charles Moore in a v good article for Vanity Fair on Lady Thatcher: 

She and the German chancellor Helmut Kohl reacted allergically to each other. On one occasion in Salzburg, Kohl, desperate to escape a meeting in which he thought she was lecturing him, falsely pleaded an emergency and cut out early. Finding herself at a loose end, Mrs. Thatcher toured the city’s shops. To her surprise she spotted Kohl sitting in a café eating buns.

Lady T had an idle moment for shopping? Hard to believe.

 

Joe Murphy

@JoeMurphyLondon

 

 

Comments

[Walter Ellis]

An old story, but a good one. King Kohl was in fact indulging his passion for kaffee und küchen.