Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 23 March 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 23 March 1983

0830

Hair

0900

Keep free for Central Council speech

1030-1100

Mr. T. Raison (to report on his visit to the Falklands)

1100

Keep free for Central Council speech

1200

Talks with the President of Zambia [Kenneth Kaunda]

1255

Mrs. Kaunda arrives at No. 10. Met by Mr. Thatcher

1300

Lunch in honour of President Kaunda +DT [see THCR 1/7/7/147 for attendees and seating plan]

1430

President and Mrs. Kaunda leave No. 10

1500-1530

Senor Pires (Portuguese CDS Leader) + Sir A. Royle and Senor Marques

1600

Keep free for Thursday's statement

1700

Chilean Foreign Minister-designate

1730

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1830-1900

Look in at Lady Airey's Party for Young Peers and Wives +IG [Ian Gow] - 32 Westminster Gardens [Earl of Caithness, Lord Feversham, Lord Poltimore, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord Lyell, Lord Glenarthur, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Lord Henley, Duke of Roxburghe, Lord O’Hagan, Lord Geoffrey-Lloyd, Lord McAlpine of Moffat, Lord Mackintosh of Halifax: See THCR 6/2/2/60 f116 for biographies of young peers in attendance.] [see also 2/1/4/1 f94: Cecil and Ann Parkinson, Parick Neave, Alison Ward]

To House of Commons

1900

Mr. Selwyn Gummer and Mr. Mount +IG [Ian Gow] for Central Council speech - H/C

[PM paired until 1900]

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MT Engagement Diary