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12/11/2005:

"Carol Thatcher: 'I partly blame Mark for Mummy's anguish'"

Carol Thatcher yesterday revealed that her mother, Baroness Thatcher, the former prime minister, is suffering from a deteriorating memory that has wiped out the present, while sharpening her recall of wartime events.

In an frank insight into the Thatcher family, Carol - who recently chewed kangaroo testicles on the way to being crowned Queen of the Jungle in the game show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! - also launched a bitter attack on her disgraced businessman brother, Mark, blaming his escapades for aggravating their mother's decline.

Lady Thatcher, Carol reveals, is now "very frail". "She cannot remember the beginning of the sentence by the time she reaches the end." According to Carol, Lady Thatcher, 80, is now far more able to remember her Spam recipes from the 1940s than absorb and retain new information.
independent.co.uk