Do let's have a Lady Thatcher suite at the Ritz

 
P32 Margaret Thatcher
11 April 2013

Will the Ritz hotel honour Lady Thatcher by naming the suite where she spent her final days after her? Her close friend Carla Powell, whose husband Baron Powell of Bayswater was one of the last people to see Mrs Thatcher alive on Sunday night, thinks the plan is an excellent idea.

“Lady T”, as Powell refers to her, used to stay at their house outside Rome every May to “pick cherries” and spend time with the Powells’ menagerie of pets. “She adored animals,” says Lady Powell, the Italian-born wife of Mrs Thatcher’s former foreign policy adviser. “I have a dachshund puppy called Maggie that she loved. I name all my animals after friends and distinguished people. I have two black sheep called Obama and Colin Powell.”

Carla adds: “Smart hotel rooms across the world are named after people who stayed there. My favourite room at the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok is the Somerset Maugham room.”

The Ritz press office says that while “these matters will pan out over time, at present there are no plans” to name a suite, a pudding or even a Ritz cocktail after the late Prime Minister.

Only a matter of time, surely.

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