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Lady Margaret Tebbit, survivor of Brighton bombing, dies aged 86 Wife of Lord Tebbit passes away at couple's home in Suffolk after suffering from Lewy Body Dementia for many years Norman and Margaret Tebbit at home in the family garden Credit: Les Wilson/Mail on Sunday  Lord Tebbit is mourning the death of his wife Margaret, 36 years after she was left paralysed by the IRA's bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.  Lady Tebbit passed away at the couple's Suffolk home in the early hours of Saturday following years suffering from Lewy Body Dementia, which left the 86-year-old needing 24-hour...

Her husband always called her 'my Margaret', but it was not in order to distinguish her from the other Margaret in his life. Instead, there was a profound tenderness in his use of the possessive. It was a mark of how, throughout their 64-year marriage, she had always been by far the most important person in his life. If anyone had ever doubted the depth of the love and devotion that Norman Tebbit gave to his wife Margaret, they had only to see him pushing her wheelchair any time in the past 36 years, smiling determinedly in the face of their shared tragedy, refusing to wince from his own perm...