Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 12 April 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

Tuesday 12 April 1983

0900-0930

Questions briefing team

0930-1000

David Hart

1000

Caroline Stephens to discuss diary matters

1100-1130

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] and S/S for Scotland [George Younger] re Judges in Scotland

1130-1145

Chief Inspector Derek Edgar and Commander Bicknell

1200-1215

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Mr. Middleton, Mr. Monk

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1630

Sir Terence Beckett

1715

Depart No. 10 [DT driving separately]

1900

Arrive

2030

Dine and sleep at Windsor [Dinner: Black Tie] [The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Denis Thatcher, Jordanian Ambassador and Mrs. Izziddin, Lord Rayner, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Walker, Sir Anthony and Lady Parsons, Dame Cicely Saunders and Professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Dr. and Mrs. Peter Froggatt, Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Nuttgens, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Charteris of Amisfield and Lady Charteris of Amisfield, Sir Philip and Lady Moore, Sir Robin and Lady Mackworth-Young, Reverend Canon John White, Mary Morrison, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Ashmore, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Miller, Sir William Heseltine, Lieutenant-Colonel Blair Stewart-Wilson, Squadron Leader Adam Wise: see THCR 1/7/7 f144 also for seating chart and other details and THCR 6/2/2/62 f76 for details of PM’s arrival]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary