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What if Thatcher had been assassinated?

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What if Thatcher had been assassinated?
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On Saturday, August 6, 1983, aspiring novelist Hilary Mantel was pottering around her flat in Windsor. Her home sat next to the hospital where Margaret Thatcher was being treated for an eye complaint, and Mantel just happened to spot the prime minister through the window, roaming the gardens. She realised her flat provided the perfect vantage point for an assassin. 

“Immediately your eye measures the distance,” Mantel told the Guardian many years later. “I thought, ‘if I wasn’t me, if I was som

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