Margaret Thatcher’s Grandson: A Star Football Player

Among the the reasons that we read the New York Sun is the fact that they publish stories one normally would not find elsewhere. For instance, the fact that Margaret Thatcher‘s grandson is a star high school football player in Texas. Michael Thatcher, 18, plays for (appropriately enough) the Highland Park Scots, who nearly won the Texas Division II state championship. Of course, there’s a backstory:

The son of Sir Mark Thatcher and Diane Burgdorf, the Texan-born daughter of a wealthy U.S. car dealer, he spent most of his childhood in South Africa where he enjoyed cricket and hockey.

He started playing American football – which is nicknamed gridiron – three years ago when he moved to Dallas with his mother after his father was charged in South Africa with supporting a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea. [...] His father is only able to see Michael and his 14-year-old sister, Amanda, when they travel abroad because U.S. immigration authorities barred him from entering the country after he pleaded guilty over his role in the Equatorial Guinea affair. He was fined GBP265,000 and given a four-year suspended prison sentence.

A 500k fine and a suspended prison sentence for an attempted coup? Awesome. Anyway, we’re gonna go wash away the stain of writing about Margaret Thatcher by listening to Billy Bragg or the Dead Kennedys or something. Ugh.

(Image via Daily Mail)

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