Overview

• Journalist Tina Gaudoin’s The Incidental Feminist claims Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital relationships during her political career.
• Gaudoin cites multiple interviews, including Jonathan Aitken, describing an early-career affair and a possible later relationship with Sir Humphrey Atkins.
• The book also describes an 'extracurricular friendship' with PR chief Tim Bell, including accounts of him touching her knee during dinners.
• Lord Moore, Thatcher’s authorised biographer, says he has seen no evidence and deems the Atkins and Bell claims 'vanishingly unlikely.'
• Gaudoin outlined the claims at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, with coverage referencing The Times, and the assertions remain uncorroborated.