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PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, Margaret Thatcher (left), and India’s Indira Gandhi at a New York hotel in September 1983 during a UN General Assembly meeting. While they remain the only women who have served as prime ministers of their respective countries, Thatcher and Gandhi also share the dubious distinction of leaving behind highly controversial legacies. In Indira, her biography of Gandhi, Katherine Frank wrote of the two women that “they were aberrations in the predominantly male world of politics. Although they both repudiated feminism, their loneliness as women leaders led them to form a bond that would endure until Indira’s death.” Thatcher died on 8 April 2013 at the age of 87.