Margaret Thatcher: Reaction to her death

Flowers placed by well-wishers surround a portrait of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher outside her home in Belgravia, London. — Image caption,
Tributes have been pouring in from home and abroad to Baroness Thatcher, one of the dominant political figures of the 20th Century. These flowers were placed outside her home in London's Belgravia.

A private ambulance is escorted by a police outrider as it leaves the Ritz hotel in London on 8 April 2013 following the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who was staying at the hotel.

Baroness Thatcher suffered a stroke on Monday, 8 April, while staying at the Ritz Hotel in central London. She had been staying there since being discharged from hospital at the end of last year. It is believed her body was removed by a private ambulance to an undisclosed location on Monday evening.

A view of the front pages of national newspapers on a news stand in central London, the day after Baroness Thatcher died at the age of 87.

Her death dominates newspapers in the UK, with many pages of pictures and analysis. These front pages give an indication of the range of opinions held about her.

People gather to celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher in Brixton, south London.

The Iron Lady, as she was known, was a controversial figure who polarised opinion. In some parts of the UK, including Brixton, south London, impromptu street parties were held after her death. Brixton saw two outbreaks of rioting during Baroness Thatcher's premiership.

A group of former British paratroopers, who fought in the Falklands War, salute as they leave a wreath for former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at a street sign in her name.

These former paratroopers salute as they leave a wreath at a street sign in her name in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. The 74-day Falklands War in 1982 became one of the defining moments of her leadership.

A boy stands in front of a statue of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, on display in the Guildhall Art Gallery in the city of London. Date: 8 April 2013. In 2002 a man decapitated the statute on display but it was later restored

While some people will be too young to remember Baroness Thatcher, her political philosophy still dominates British politics to this day. A protester decapitated this statue in 2002, an act of vandalism which shows how divided Britain was and still is over her policies.

People gathered to celebrate the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Glasgow's George Square.

There were no tears for the UK's only female prime minister at this gathering in Glasgow's George Square. Her privatisation of heavy industry, curbs on union power and the introduction of the poll tax proved deeply unpopular in Scotland.

A man walks in front of a news stand with the portrait of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Sydney on 9 April.

Baroness Thatcher was a towering figure on the international stage and her death has made headlines around the world, including Sydney. Australian prime minister Julia Gillard praised her "strength of conviction".

A woman reads about the news of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's death in a Chinese newspaper in Shanghai on 9 April 2013.

The news of her death featured on the front pages of most major Chinese newspapers.

Messages are displayed in a book of condolence in honour of former prime minister Baroness Thatcher at the Grantham Museum in her hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Many books of condolence have been opened in the UK and around the world. This one is at a museum in Baroness Thatcher's hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in 1925, the daughter of a local grocer.