Margaret Thatcher's bodyguard would carry her high heels into the Kremlin and the ex-Prime Minister wore trousers only down a coal mine, according to an auction catalogue of her belongings.
Auction house Christie's is selling 350 belongings of the late "Iron Lady" - including clothes, letters, books, furniture and jewellery - next month.
Charles Powell, who acted as her private secretary, said Thatcher borrowed a fur coat and boots when she attended Soviet leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in February 1984.
"Her Special Branch bodyguard loomed behind her, his pockets bulging with what Russian security assumed to be impressive weaponry," Powell was quoted as saying in the catalogue published this week.
"As they moved into the Kremlin and she removed her boots, he reached into his pockets and pulled out her high-heeled shoes."