Sir Adrian Beamish is a former member of the British Diplomatic Service. Beamish has served at missions in Tehran, Paris, New Delhi, Brussels and Bonn. He was head of the Falkland Islands Department in the FCO from 1985 to 1987. He left this position to become the British Ambassador to Peru from 1987 to 1989. Following this post, he returned as Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Americas; a post whose responsibilities included, inter alia, the Falkland Islands and Argentina. He was appointed as British Ambassador to Mexico in 1994. He held this position until 1998. He was knighted in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas Honours List in 1999. Beamish is an assistant college lecturer in the School of History, UCC.

Lord Timothy Bell of Belgravia is a British communications and advertising executive. He is best known for his close working relationship with Thatcher as an executive for the Saatchi & Saatchi communications agency. He worked on all three of Thatcher's general election campaigns in 1979, 1983 and 1987. A staunch Conservative, he was a life-long friend and confidant to Thatcher. In 1989, he established his own communications agency, Lowe Bell Communications. He was knighted in 1990 after a nomination by Thatcher. Bell became chairman of Chime Communications in 1994 (which includes the Bell-Pottinger Group). He was a made a life peer as Lord Bell of Belgravia in 1998. Lord Bell still sits today as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords.

Lord Peter Carrington of Upton KG GCMG CH MC PC DL is a former British Conservative Party politician. Thatcher appointed him as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in 1979. He held this position until he resigned as a result of the Falklands War in 1982. He was Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. Following the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington was given a life peerage as Lord Carrington of Upton, Nottinghamshire. Lord Carrington still sits today as a Conservative peer and is the longest-serving member of the House of Lords.