A FAWN GABARDINE RAINCOAT

On 17th September 1986 Mrs. Thatcher visited the British troops stationed at the NATO training camp at Fallingbostel, Germany. She and the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, each boarded a tank and partook in a spot of well-choreographed target practice. This episode resulted in what has arguably come to be regarded as the most iconic image ever taken of Mrs. Thatcher - The Prime Minister - commanding a Challenger 1 Tank of The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own). Jon Snow (ITN) reported that ‘Cutting a dash somewhere between Lawrence of Arabia and Isadora Duncan, there followed an almost certainly unique Prime Ministerial chase through German scrubland. [with] Mrs Thatcher militarily and sartorially in the lead…’. The resulting images received global media coverage, firmly reinforcing Mrs. Thatcher’s reputation as ‘The Iron Lady’.