Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 28 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

Monday 28 March 1983

0830

Hair

1000

OD(EM)

1030

Meeting of Ministers re Oman: Loan Service Costs [S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine), FCS (Francis Pym), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan) +1 off. each & Roger Jackling]

1115-1200

James Bishop: Interview for Illustrated London News plus photo in White Drawing Room

1200

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1215

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Chairman [Cecil Parkinson], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Lord President [John Biffen]

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1430-1500

Shaikh Hamad: Crown Prince of Bahrain

1515

Michael Scholar and Nicholas Owen for Cutler’s Feast speech

1600

MISC 7

1800-1830

Meeting of Ministers re Overseas Students [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan), Ld Pres (John Biffen), LPC (John Biffen), Solicitor General (Sir Ian Percival) + Mr Hiliary, FCS (Francis Pym)]

1845-1915

Look in at Crown Agents' Party - 4 Millbank [+RC (Robin Catford)]

1930 for 1945

Dinner in honour of Sir Douglas Wass [(DT away)] [Table A (MT’s table): Sir Douglas Wass, Mrs. Middleton, Sir Anthony Rawlinson, Lady Cooper, Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne, Mrs. Butler, Mr. Andrew Wass; see THCR 1/7/36 f3 also for dinner menu, full list of attendees, and seating plan]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary