Why is Thatcher called Baroness?

[upaloopa]

Her father was a grocer and she worked in his store. How did she go from clerk to Baroness?
What I think of her is more of a opportunist. She came from the working class and shit on the working class when she had the power.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. She was knighted by the Queen and given that title`

With it she became a member of the House of Lords IIRC

[FarCenter]

2. She is a "life peer".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer_(United_Kingdom)

[Warpy]

3. The crown extended her a peerage

I don't know if it was a life peerage, meaning her eldest son won't inherit the title, or if it was an outright one, but I suspect the former. It's the same as knighting Paul McCartney.

Remember, royalty chooses its aristocrats.

[Scuba]

4. Because the dinner tables of British workers were barren thanks to Maggie.

[RudynJack]

5. Because she was made a Baroness?

[Cleita]

6. The Queen elevated her to a Lady.

I couldn't find anything on a quick google, but I think it's a knighthood thing.

[librechik]

7. She held a life peerage, in Keth something

which allowed her to run for Parliament and be called Baroness. No clue how she got it---cash probably changed hands!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It's fairly common for retired senior politicians to become a Lord or Lady

As well as her, earlier PMs who have include Callaghan, Wilson, Hume (who gave up a hereditary title to stand for election, so he could be PM, but was given a life peerage after he retired), Macmillan (who was given a rare hereditary one), Eden and Attlee - so that includes 3 Labour PMs.

Yes, she did shit on the working class, by and large - or, at least, the bits of the working class she didn't like.

[11 Bravo]

9. Ummm, because she was?

[upaloopa]

11. Well I didn't pay any attention to her life and I don't

Know what a Baroness is but thanks for you astute observation.

[11 Bravo]

12. OK, just FYI, she was the Baroness of Kesteven and therefore a lifetime member of ...

the British House of Lords. I don't make the rules for the British peerage. That's just the way it was/is.
I didn't much care for her politics, but that is why she is referred to as "Baroness".

[Aristus]

10. That's the female term for a robber baron.

Which she was.

[freshwest]

13. +1

[backscatter712]

14. She's literally a Baroness.

After being Prime Minister, she got knighted, joined the House of Lords, and was given land and the title of Baroness.

[JVS]

15. Her husband was made a baron and then she was made a life peer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_baronets

Long story told quickly. In 1990 her husband got a title of nobility that goes to his heirs. In 1992 she was given a title of nobility that terminates with her.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

16. She was a member of Cobra?