He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the ...

LONDON -- Conservative politician Norman Tebbit, a key ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her free-market ...

In January 1982, Mark Thatcher, the son of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, went missing for six days after his car went off course during a race in the Sahara Desert. It was a relatively minor ...

While Mark Thatcher's weird story of getting lost in during a car race is portrayed on "The Crown," in reality, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has also had much shadier ...

Season 4 of Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ covers the temporary disappearance of Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, during a car race. Here’s how it really went down.

MARGARET THATCHER's son Mark features in Season 4 of The Crown because he went missing during his mother's premiership but the businessman actually became more controversial later in life.

Netflix series The Crown sees Margaret Thatcher's favourite child, Mark Thatcher, go missing during a motor rally in Algeria.

As shown on The Crown, Margaret Thatcher's son Mark was lost in the desert for a few days in 1982 before being found.

But did Margaret Thatcher’s son really disappear? Margaret Thatcher gave birth to Mark and his twin sister, Carol, in 1953, when she was a barrister, six years before entering Parliament.

Margaret Thatcher herself paid £1,784 for a desert search to find her missing son rather than using public cash, archives from 1982 show.

Mark Thatcher, left, wearing suit, the son of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher is escorted by police outside his home in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2004.