London: Margaret Thatcher used special 'electric' baths to stay youthful, it has been claimed.
The former Conservative Prime Minister used to visit an Indian practitioner who would run 0.3 amps of electricity through water, a new memoir recalls.
Mrs Thatcher's use of the bizarre treatment, which was thought to keep women looking youthful, was initially revealed in a 1989 profile in Vanity Fair.
She was said to have thought the baths, which were thought to have cost around £600 along with mud and oil treatments, recharged the nervous system and released any 'blocked' energy.
Now journalist Gail Sheehy, who wrote the profile, has spoken out about the interview ahead of the release of her memoir Daring.
She told Huffington Post: 'I was trying to understand how she could be 60 years old - it was her tenth year in office and she looked 20 years younger.'
At the time, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said: 'We're not saying anything about it at all because it's a personal matter. That's as far as it goes.'
The then-Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens added: 'If it is true that the prime minister does indulge in this, then it obviously works.
'She looks very good these days.'
It was also widely reported the Indian woman was called Veronique, who lived in a three-storey Victorian semi-detached house in Shepherd's Bush, west London.
The new comments come three days after a secret file revealed Mrs Thatcher wrote a list of dresses to take with her 1985 tour of Asia.
She was said to have listed a range of dresses including 'white flowers, fuchsia, blue/gold velvet, black lace/long/short, gold bows, blue silk [and] black sparkly'.
Alongside a few daytime outfits, Mrs Thatcher also scrawled the word 'cotton' as an afterthought, no doubt anticipating hot and humid climates.
The list appeared after her customary packed schedule of meet and greets, speeches and banquets.
The former Conservative Prime Minister used to visit an Indian practitioner who would run 0.3 amps of electricity through water, a new memoir recalls.
Mrs Thatcher's use of the bizarre treatment, which was thought to keep women looking youthful, was initially revealed in a 1989 profile in Vanity Fair.
She was said to have thought the baths, which were thought to have cost around £600 along with mud and oil treatments, recharged the nervous system and released any 'blocked' energy.
Now journalist Gail Sheehy, who wrote the profile, has spoken out about the interview ahead of the release of her memoir Daring.
She told Huffington Post: 'I was trying to understand how she could be 60 years old - it was her tenth year in office and she looked 20 years younger.'
At the time, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said: 'We're not saying anything about it at all because it's a personal matter. That's as far as it goes.'
The then-Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens added: 'If it is true that the prime minister does indulge in this, then it obviously works.
'She looks very good these days.'
It was also widely reported the Indian woman was called Veronique, who lived in a three-storey Victorian semi-detached house in Shepherd's Bush, west London.
The new comments come three days after a secret file revealed Mrs Thatcher wrote a list of dresses to take with her 1985 tour of Asia.
She was said to have listed a range of dresses including 'white flowers, fuchsia, blue/gold velvet, black lace/long/short, gold bows, blue silk [and] black sparkly'.
Alongside a few daytime outfits, Mrs Thatcher also scrawled the word 'cotton' as an afterthought, no doubt anticipating hot and humid climates.
The list appeared after her customary packed schedule of meet and greets, speeches and banquets.
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