Newly released National Archive files reveal late PM failed to declare diamond and emerald gifts and how the US president prepared for a cold war arms summit
A diamond and emerald necklace allegedly given to Margaret Thatcher by a Middle Eastern oil minister but never declared as a gift caused consternation inside No 10, newly released documents reveal.
Downing Street press officers were alerted when a Guardian journalist called about the supposed clandestine donation in October 1985, according to documents released by the National Archives in Kew on Wednesday.
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