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- Mark Thatcher went missing in the Sahara for six days in January 1982, after breaking down with two team-mates during the Paris-Dakar rally. They were found by the Algerian military following a search involving four countries, planes and helicopters. Mark's father, Denis Thatcher, flew to Algeria to help with the operation.
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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 22, 2020 · In January 1982, Mark Thatcher, the son of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, went missing for six days after his car went off course during a race in the Sahara Desert.
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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 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...
Nov 20, 2020 · Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ covers the temporary disappearance of Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, during a car race. Here’s how it really went down.
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 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.
