BY AQUASCUTUM, 1986

On 17th September 1986 Mrs. Thatcher visited the British troops stationed at the NATO training camp at Fallingbostel, Germany. She and the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, each boarded a tank and partook in a spot of well-choreographed target practice. This episode resulted in what has arguably come to be regarded as the most iconic image ever taken of Mrs. Thatcher - The Prime Minister - commanding a Challenger 1 Tank of The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own). Jon Snow (ITN) reported that ‘Cutting a dash somewhere between Lawrence of Arabia and Isadora Duncan, there followed an almost certainly unique Prime Ministerial chase through German scrubland. [with] Mrs Thatcher militarily and sartorially in the lead…’. The resulting images received global media coverage, firmly reinforcing Mrs. Thatcher’s reputation as ‘The Iron Lady’.