Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sun 5 June 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

Sunday 5 June 1983

[See THCR 2/7/3/53 for MT’s 1983 election tour schedule for the day, including notes about the sites she’d be visiting.]

1000

Briefing for Television Interview

1200

“Weekend World” recording [at No. 12 Downing Street] [THCR 2/7/3/53]

1300

[Return No. 10] [THCR 2/7/3/53]

1400-1630

[(Beating Retreat Rehearsal)]

1440

Depart for Wembley

1500

Arrive Wembley Conference Centre [To be met by: Mr. Tim Cowell, Assistant Director – Youth. Proceed to Chaucer Room via Canterbury Room. To join: The Rt. Hon. Cecil Parkinson, Chairman of the Party, Mr. Michael Spicer, Vice-Chairman] [THCR 2/7/3/53]

1525

Prime Minister and Party [sic: Party Chairman, Cecil Parkinson] leave for the stage

1535

Announced by Party Chairman [Cecil Parkinson], and escorted to the rostrum by Mr. Michael Spicer and Mr. Tim Cowell

Address Youth Rally [see THCR 2/7/3/59 f168 for list of celebrity acceptances as of 1 June]

At the conclusion of speech, leave the rostrum and walk to acknowledge the entertainers and sportsmen

To the Champion Bar for tea with the entertainers [and sportsmen] [THCR 2/7/3/53]

1625

Leave for Main Exit

1630

Depart Wembley by car

1700

Arrive Maddox Street, W1

Record PEB

Return to No. 10

2000

Supper in flat

2030

Speechwriting

MT Engagement Diary