Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sat 17 December 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

Saturday 17 December 1983

1000

Mrs. Scrimgeour and Mr. Neckar arrive

1040

M. Neckar leave

1245

[Early lunch at Chequers]

1330

Leave Chequers for Festival Hall [Royal Festival Hall, London]

1450

[Arrive Front Door: To be met by chairman of Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children & General Administrator]

1500

Carol Concert [Guests in the Ceremonial Box: MT, DT, The Very Reverend William Baddeley, Mrs. Yvonne Moores, Dr. and Mrs. John Henderson, Mrs. Robin Sheepshanks (accompanied by her son), The Detective: THCR 6/2/2/74 f119 provides additional details] [see THCR 6-2-2-74 f126 for note dated 16 November, asking DT if he would like to attend. His reply: ‘OK. Another weekend up the spout!’]

Return to No. 10

Visit to Westminster, St. Stephen's and St. Thomas' Hospitals (Harrods' bomb blast victims)

2200

Return to Chequers

MT Engagement Diary