Journalist W.F. Deedes, in a series for the Daily Telegraph, on the partnership of Denis and Margaret Thatcher:
"... All meals with Denis were entertaining, not least because he was so particular about the way his food was cooked. 'Waiter,' he would say affably, handing him a plate of steak only faintly pink, 'will you very kindly take this back to the kitchen and ask them to cook it, because it is practically raw.' Which explains why, when she was secretary of education, Margaret was seen one evening by the permanent secretary leaving the office early. She was going out, she explained, to buy bacon for Denis’s breakfast. There were, the permanent secretary assured her, plenty of people in the department who would be glad to do that for her. No, the bacon had to be just as he liked it, and only she know what he liked. This was a partnership to remind the world what matchless gifts marriage can bring."
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