‘Victorian values’ is one phrase which will be forever associated with Margaret Thacher,. Meaning self help, striving & the kind of radical free market economics associated with the Manchester School of merchants, rather than the paternalistic noblesse oblige of traditional Tories.
But how sad to hear that she died in The Ritz hotel, where she had been staying since leaving hospital in January; although this seems to have been something quite common in Victorian times, it hardly matches the classic idea of a Victorian deathbed, surrounded by family.
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Thatcher praises Victorian values
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