Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 4 October 1979

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/1
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 4 October 1979

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0930

Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark Carlisle, John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir John Hunt]

1230

Buffet lunch for Cabinet Ministers

1400

Left No. 10 for Northolt

1445

Took off

1730

Landed at Fiumicino Airport. Met by HE the Honourable Signor Francesco Cossiga, Signor Malfatti, HE Sir Ronald Arculus

Drove to Villa Wolkonsky

1815

Arrived Villa Wolkonsky

1845

Left Villa with HM Ambassador [Sir Ronald Arculus] for Palazzo Chigi

1900-2000

Private meeting with Signor Cossiga, plus Mr. Adams as interpreter

2045

Returned to Villa Wolkonsky

2115

Left for Villa Madama

2145

Arrived for dinner given by Signor Cossiga.

After dinner, scenic drive to places of interest in Rome

2415