LONDON: Personal items belonging to Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Margaret Thatcher, including some of her famous handbags, are to be sold in London next month, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday. Around 350 lots including clothes and jewellery accrued during her 87 years ,11 of which were spent in Downing Street are being sold after the Victoria & Albert Museum turned them down. An emerald and diamond Chaumet necklace, valued at $185,000 1is expected to fetch highest price, with proceeds to be split between Thatcher’s children Mark and Carol, and her grandchildren.