BY FRANCOIS NECKAR COUTURE, CIRCA 1984

Mrs. Thatcher wore this suit and the brooch in the following lot during her groundbreaking meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Chequers on 16 December 1984 following which she declared ‘I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together’. This meeting was a key turning point in relations with the USSR and saw the birth of a relationship of mutual respect and understanding which would play a key part in ending the Cold War.