Lady Thatcher's children, Sir Mark and Carol Thatcher, said they appreciated the "great honour".
Instead of criticising from the sidelines, Lady Thatcher let Messrs Major and Blair proceed unhindered.
Bishop Chartres recalled Lady Thatcher's courage and perseverance, and offered a glimpse of her personality.
But, in a scathing tone, Lady Thatcher insisted to me that a single currency was impossible.
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Despite frequent clashes before his 1989 resignation, Lord Lawson remains a strong admirer of Lady Thatcher.
And, in yet another echo of Lady Thatcher, he has learnt from previous experience.
In her own memoirs, Lady Thatcher describes this as a period of intellectual foundation-building.
The last time I spent any time discussing politics with Lady Thatcher was some years ago.
Lady Thatcher had been staying at the hotel since being discharged from hospital at the end of last year.
Lady Thatcher set up none in 11 years, but Tony Blair has managed two in two.
Ms Butler offered her condolences to Lady Thatcher's family after what she called "a very dignified service".
Lady Thatcher was accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
Supporters of Lady Thatcher had gathered to watch the funeral at the Conservative Club in nearby Pontefract.
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Against a dark background, Lady Thatcher is pictured dressed in black, wearing jewellery and a radiant smile.
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Now Lady Thatcher's eruption in Blackpool this week has left much of this careful work in shreds.
So was Lady Thatcher a "draconian militarist" whose actions prolonged the Northern Ireland conflict, as Gerry Adams contends?
This, at Lady Thatcher's personal request, is a funeral service, not a Memorial Service with the customary eulogies.
He declares Lady Thatcher's greatest virtue to have been how little she cared about whether people liked her.
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Lady Thatcher, who granted Mr Hague a 40-minute interview last week, was apparently unimpressed by what she heard.
The Scottish Parliament will debate Lady Thatcher's legacy on the day of her funeral, following moves by the Green-Independent group.
Lady Thatcher was born Margaret Roberts, the daughter of a shopkeeper and Conservative councillor in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1925.
Yes, he was asserting that Lady Thatcher had, like Labour's Clement Attlee before her, forged a new political consensus.
Mr Connick, from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, met Lady Thatcher several times as secretary of the South Atlantic Medal Association.
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said she had been reminded of Lady Thatcher's "forthright style and plain speaking".
Ten members of staff from the Ritz hotel, where Lady Thatcher was staying when she died, have been invited.
World leaders and senior UK figures have been paying tribute to Lady Thatcher.
Lady Thatcher's daughter Carol has returned to the UK ahead of the funeral.
Lady Thatcher's supporters were certainly present - and so too were her detractors.
The Conservative Party has already suffered much since Lady Thatcher's downfall from a leader who sat on the fence.
His liberalism is a far cry from Mr Madelin's, let alone Lady Thatcher's.
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