Perhaps one of the more surprising items, given her love of suits and tailoring, this is one of a pair of North African kaftans (left, £400 starting bid) in the sale. A Francois Neckar suit (right, £700 - £1,000), this time in rust red boucle tweed, circa 1984. She wore this for her groundbreaking meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at Chequers in December 1984 after which she said they could ‘do business together’