Editing Mark Thatcher (section)

==Personal life==
Thatcher moved to [[Dallas]], Texas, in the mid-1980s, where he met his first wife, Diane Burgdorf (later wife of [[James Beckett (statistician)|James Beckett]]), in 1987.<ref name=GuardianProfile2004/><ref>{{cite news|last=Cabarrouy|first=Gabriel|title=Thatcher catching on at Highland Park |url=http://www.hsgametime.com/dfw/sharedcontent/dws/spt/highschools/football/stories/121507dnspohp.226696e.html| work=The Dallas Morning News|date=14 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202002248/http://www.hsgametime.com/dfw/sharedcontent/dws/spt/highschools/football/stories/121507dnspohp.226696e.html|archive-date=2 December 2008}}</ref> Their first child was born in 1989, and their second child was born in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/after-the-iron-ladys-granddaughter-amanda-opens-funeral-service-at-st-pauls-cathedral-we-introduce-8577022.html|work=The Independent|location=London|title=After the Iron Lady's granddaughter Amanda opens funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral – we introduce you to the rest of the Thatcher family|date=17 April 2013|author=Charlie Cooper}}</ref>  In 1992, he became The Honourable Mark Thatcher when his mother was made a [[life peer]]. In 1996, he moved to [[South Africa]] following financial scandals in the United States.<ref name="profile"/>

In 2003, he became The Honourable Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet of Scotney when he succeeded to the hereditary [[Thatcher baronetcy]] awarded to his father in 1990.<ref name=strip/> He and his wife announced their intention to divorce in September 2005 after eighteen years of marriage. His wife moved back to the United States with their children, the same year that he pleaded guilty in relation to an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.  Questions were raised in the UK Parliament about whether he should be stripped of his title.<ref name=strip/>

Following his guilty plea and his divorce, he left South Africa in 2005 for [[Monaco]] on a one-year temporary residency permit, while his wife and children returned to the United States.<ref name=sunny/> Thatcher was unable to get a US visa due to his South African conviction and remains barred from entering the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/jan/19/20050119-101414-7685r/?page=all|title=Thatcher faces hurdle to U.S.|work=The Washington Times|date=19 January 2005}}</ref>

His Monaco residency was not renewed as he was said to be on a list of "undesirables" who would not be allowed further residency and he was required to leave by mid-2006.<ref name=sunny>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/21/france.uk|title=A sunny place for shady people but Monaco doesn't want Mark Thatcher|work=The Guardian|date=5 December 2005|first1=Kim|last1=Willsher}}</ref><ref name=spotlight/> He was refused residency in [[Switzerland]] and settled in [[Gibraltar]], where he married his second wife, Sarah-Jane Russell, in March 2008. Russell is the daughter of Terence J. Clemence, a property developer, and sister to [[Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere|Claudia, Viscountess Rothermere]]. She was formerly married to Lord Francis Hastings Russell, the younger son of [[John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9983947/Sir-Mark-Thatcher-visits-his-mothers-former-home.html|title=Sir Mark Thatcher visits his mother's former home|work=The Telegraph|date=10 April 2013|first=Victoria|last=Ward}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583308/Secret-wedding-for-Sir-Mark-Thatcher.html|title=Secret wedding for Sir Mark Thatcher|work=The Telegraph|date=30 March 2008|first1=Tim|last1=Walker|first2=Richard|last2=Eden}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7321184.stm|title=Mark Thatcher 'weds in Gibraltar'|publisher=BBC News|date=30 March 2008|access-date=15 November 2010}}</ref>

He was in [[Barbados]] when he received news of his mother's death. He returned to the UK to act as chief mourner at [[Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher|her funeral]], which took place at [[St Paul's Cathedral]], London, on 17 April 2013.<ref name=spotlight/>

In April 2016, Thatcher was named in the [[Panama Papers]] scandal; he has ownership of a house in Barbados as the beneficiary of a trust.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-reveal-offshore-dealings-stars |title=From Kubrick to Cowell: Panama Papers expose offshore dealings of the stars |work=The Guardian |date=6 April 2016}}</ref>

In 2019, he became a grandfather.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/20/margaret-thatchers-first-great-grandchild-born-us/ | title=Margaret Thatcher's first great-grandchild born in the US | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=20 October 2019 | last1=Dixon | first1=Hayley }}</ref>