That time Margaret Thatcher refused to fly with a panda

Yaron Steinbuch
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:26:13 -0500

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once found the idea of flying to the US with a panda simply unbearable. The “Iron Lady” lived up to her nickname when she rejected a request to carry London’s adorable Chia Chia aboard her Concorde flight to visit President Ronald Reagan in 1981, newly released documents show. The...