She wasn’t exactly famed for her small-talk, but Lady Thatcher nonetheless came up with a splendidly disarming icebreaker when she was first introduced to Mandy Rice-Davies. It was the late-Eighties, and our then Prime Minister had agreed to accompany her husband Denis to an intimate dinner with a business acquaintance of his, called Ken Foreman, and his new wife. Worryingly, for all concerned, that new wife just happened to be Rice-Davies — the former model and nightclub dancer who, as a key player in the Profumo scandal, had come within a whisker of bringing down a Conservative government. Scroll down for video
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Mandy Rice-Davies died from cancer last week at the age of 70
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The former model was at the heart of the controversial Profumo scandal
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It has been revealed she shared a long friendship with Lady Thatcher
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The women spent time on holiday together along with their husbands
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