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- Margaret Thatcher’s son Mark made headlines for days in the 1980s when he vanished in the Sahara desert while on a karting race. The six-day search to find him is dramatised in series four of The Crown, which premieres on Netflix this weekend.
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Nov 16, 2020 · The Crown season 4 depicts the 1982 disappearance of Margaret Thatcher's son Mark Thatcher, who went missing during a race in the Sahara Desert.
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Nov 21, 2020 · Margaret — who at the time of the desert disappearance had been in power nearly three years — admitted in interviews that “my heart stopped” when she realized that her son, then 28 and the...
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A seasoned motor racer, Mark Thatcher was asked by a sponsor if he would like to take part in the Paris-Dakar rally in 1982, an infamous amateur endurance race staged from Paris, France, to Dakar in Senegal, stretching around 10,000 kilometres. He had already gained a name for himself on the Le Mans endurance racing circuit, the world’s oldest acti...
The Crown dramatises the situation with Ms Thatcher, played by Gillian Anderson, breaking down during her weekly audience with the Queen, played by Olivia Colman, at Buckingham Palace. Ms Thatcher’s official biographer, the journalist Charles Moore, points out that The Crownmistakenly coincides the disappearance with the Falklands War, an event tha...
Mark Thatcher, now a Sir following his father’s death with a hereditary baronetcy, left the UK after a political scandal involving a building contract in Oman in the 1980s. He then spent much of his time abroad, pursuing business deals and staying out of the public eye. He was convicted in South Africa in 2005 over his involvement in a failed coup ...
Nov 14, 2020 · As shown on The Crown, Margaret Thatcher's son Mark was lost in the desert for a few days in 1982 before being found.
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Nov 16, 2020 · Margaret Thatcher's son Mark disappeared in the Sahara Desert for six days in 1982, but where is Mark now, almost 40 years after the incident?
Nov 15, 2020 · On 12th January 1982, Mark Thatcher was reported missing in the Sahara while taking part in the Paris-Dakar rally, an international motor race. He, his French co-driver, and their mechanic...
Jul 4, 2021 · The Iron Lady’s son, Mark Thatcher, had gone missing five days earlier while racing a Peugeot 504 through the Sahara in the Paris-Dakar Rally.
