The statue was unveiled today in London:
Despite protests that previous prime ministers had to be dead to rate a statue in Britain's Houses of Parliament, Margaret Thatcher unveiled her silicon bronze likeness at a ceremony Wednesday.
The statue, standing 2.2 metres high, faces another of the late prime minister Winston Churchill in the member's lobby of the Palace of Westminster, the ornate parliamentary building on the bank of the Thames.
"I might have preferred iron but bronze will do," Thatcher said to laughter and applause.
Even after umpteen strokes, she evidently hasn't lost her sense of humour.
See video coverage of the event here. She was looking in fine form.
