Margaret Thatcher On Ted Heath: Who Knew!!?

Thatcher thought Edward Heath was gay. [Charles] Moore records a note that Bill Deedes, the former Tory minister and then editor of the Daily Telegraph, made after a conversation with Thatcher in 1976: "M. seems convinced TH [Ted Heath] is a homosexual. (Women have more accurate instincts than we.) I said charitably: 'an instinct sublimated in boats'." In an interview in late 1974, before she challenged him for the leadership, Thatcher referred to Heath not having a family. Moore says it is "possible" she was deliberately hinting he was gay.

From Margaret Thatcher: 6 Things You Didn't Know - a list of things we did know - on the Guardian online.
In other news, she also suspected Nelson Mandela was black...