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Charles was appointed a Dame of the British Empire in 1991 and retired from politics in 1995, just before the general elections which her party would go on to lose. She did some work for the Carter Center, a human rights NGO set up by former US President Jimmy Carter and took on speaking engagements in various countries. Mostly, though, she stayed in Dominica where, like the other Iron Lady of the era, she commented periodically and generally caustically on the activities of her successors. She died, aged 86, of a pulmonary embolism.