Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 24 October 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 24 October 1983

0830

Hair

1000

OD(EM) [[Grenada + Lebanon – oral discussion] Lord Pres (Willie Whitelaw), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), SS/ MOD (Michael Heseltine) +RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)? +Chief of Defence Staff (Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall)]

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] and Chairman [John Gummer]

1430-1515

Meeting of Ministers re Bridge Street site [LPS (John Biffen), S/ Env (Patrick Jenkin), CST (Leon Brittan)]

1515

Depart for House of Commons

1530

Statements [(NIO, FCO, DTP)]

1700

Prime Minister of Tuvalu [Tomasi Puapua] [(tea)]

1800-2000

Reception for Ministers and spouses +DT

1945

Depart No. 10

2030

Dinner with Ogilvies and J.J. Louis +DT - Richmond Park [Thatched House Lodge] [Black Tie (instructions will follow)] [Princess Alexandra & Mr Angus Ogilvy; US Ambassador J.J. Louis and wife; Lord Peter and Lady Iona Carrington; Lord Arnold Weinstock and Lady Weinstock; Lord and Lady Fanshawe; Marmaduke and Lady Susan Hussey] [THCR 6/2/2/71 f182]

Meetings re Grenada

Telephone call to President Reagan

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary