LONDON
Britain's former Premier Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke on Monday.
Thatcher's spokesman Lord Bell said, "it is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."
Known as the "Iron Lady", Thatcher was Britain's first and only woman prime minister. She held the post from 1979 to 1990.
She had been admitted to hospital frequently in recent years due to health problems.
Thatcher was credited with transforming a nation in one decade, putting Britain back among the leading industrial nations of the world.
