Sleeplessmaggiestayedup for Entire Falklands War ; Whisky in Hand, She Listened to a Radio for News ... As Denis Slept On

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MARGARET THATCHER stayed up all night in her Downing Street flat throughout the three months of the Falklands War and never changed into her bedclothes, it has been revealed.

She sat fully dressed, huddled round a two-bar electric fire, nervously listening to the radio for news of the conflict, nursing a glass of whisky while husband Denis slept in the spare room.

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Sleeplessmaggiestayedup for Entire Falklands War ; Whisky in Hand, She Listened to a Radio for News ... As Denis Slept On

Baroness Thatcher survived by taking 20-minute catnaps - a 'zizz', she called it - in the day and catching up on sleep at weekends at Chequers.

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