28 Quotes by Carol Thatcher

I never had the opportunity to become high-handed, because I had to go on earning a living as a journalist. Unlike my brother, I have never made swags of cash.

Unloved is not the right word... but I never felt I made the grade. Mark was a blond, very attractive little boy, and sporty, so Dad was always teaching him to play cricket on the lawn... I always felt I came second out of two.

All my childhood memories of my mother, is that of someone who was just superwoman, before the phrase was even invented.

You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then Gran in overdrive is not an equation that balances.

I never watch any movies or mini series regarding the Thatcher Years.

As far as 'The Crown' goes I think that it is irrelevant and ridiculous that I turn up at all!

As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though we were taken to church and Sunday school.