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=== Margot Kempson === On 28 March 1942, Thatcher married Margaret Doris<ref name=telegraph/> "Margot" Kempson, the daughter of a businessman,{{sfn|Collins|2009}} at St Mary's Church in [[Monken Hadley]]. They met at an officers' dance at [[Grosvenor House]] the year before.{{sfn|Thatcher|1996|pp=49–50}} Thatcher and his first wife never lived together.<ref name=theguardian/> Their married life became confined to snatched weekends and irregular leaves as Thatcher was often abroad during the war. When Thatcher returned to England after being demobilised in 1946, his wife told him she had met someone else and wanted a divorce.{{sfn|Thatcher|1996|p=51}} Thatcher was so traumatised by the event that he completely refused to talk about his first marriage or the separation, even to his daughter, as she states in her 1996 biography of him.{{sfn|Thatcher|1996}}{{Page needed|date=March 2021}} Thatcher's two children found out about his first marriage only in 1976 (by which time, their mother had become [[Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)|Leader of the Opposition]]) and then only when the media revealed it.{{sfn|Thatcher|1996|pp=46–47}}
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