The name's Thatcher … but don't expect inside scoops from Margaret's daughter
Carol Thatcher may be the late British leader's daughter but she has no exclusive tales to tell
Life under the shadow of a top stateswoman may yield an original script on the person but hardly any inside scoops, the journalist daughter of Britain's first female prime minister says.
Carol Thatcher, a twin daughter of the late Margaret Thatcher, dismissed suggestions she had preferential treatment as a family member of the "Iron Lady", who governed from 1979 to 1990.
"Sometimes when you are in a family of politicians, you're not the first one to know, and you may not know anything in the long run," said Thatcher, who is to speak at 5pm today at a forum titled "How and What and Why do Writers Write?" at the book fair in Wan Chai.
"Just because you have a politician in the family doesn't mean necessarily you always got an insider's track, I can tell you that."
But unlike the children of sports or showbusiness celebrities, she "had to listen to awful lots of politics … because everyone has a view about politics".
The jesting aside, Thatcher, 61, could not help but turn solemn when she recalled the last days of her mother, who died in 2013 at age 87.