Handbagged

Handbags, hairspray and sensible shoes.  Meet Liz and Maggie. Two enduring icons born in the same year. One destined to rule, the other elected to lead.

You are invited to listen in on their weekly private meetings. What follows is a mostly true story. 40 years to the day since Thatcher entered No 10 as Prime Minister, this West End hit is a deliciously prescient, brilliantly funny and poignant look at two giants of the 20th century.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books Ltd, photos by Julian Calder (Queen Elizabeth II) & Chris Collins (Margaret Thatcher Foundation), Creative Commons Licence.