Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 22 February 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
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; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 22 February 1984

0845

Robin Butler, Robin Catford, Joan Porter for house decoration

0930

Lady Faithfull [6/2/2/78 f79] [to discuss her lecture on "Equal Opportunities for Women, Men and Children"]

1000

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

1045

Call by Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon & photographer [Miss Keir from DTI - No. 10]

1100

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1145

Guard of Honour - FCO quadrangle

1200-1300

Talks with President Pertini

1300-1500

Lunch for President Pertini of Italy [No DT] [Sandro Pertini, Giulio Andreotti, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Antonio Maccanico, Lady Thorneycroft, Lord Carrington, Umberto La Rocca, Mrs. Hurd, Lord Aldington, Mrs. Sherwood, Terry Duffy, Dr. Shore, Harold Mangrove Mrs. Ashford Russell, James Sherwood, Lady Acland, Professor Denis Mack Smith, Lady Campbell, John Coles, Mrs. Alison, Sir Ronald Arculus, Mrs. Sieff, Sir Hugh Rossi, Lady Evans, Michelangelo Jacobucci, Sir Timothy Bevan, Peter Shore, Giacomo Attolico, Lady Rothermere, Sir Peter Blaker, Norman St. John Stevas, Lady Carrington, Lord Rothermere, Marcello Guidi, Lady Bevan, Lord Forte, Sir Peter Ramsbotham, Lady Rossi, Michael Sieff, Lady Arculus, Mr. B. Ashford Russell, Sir Percy Cradock, Michael Alison, Mrs. Coles, Kenneth Imeson, Mrs. Mack Smith, Sir Alan Campbell, Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Sir Antony Acland, Mrs. Duffy, Lord Bridges, Lady Blaker, Sir Geraint Evans, Lady Aldington, Lord Thorneycroft, Signora Cagiati, Italian Ambassador, Lady Howe: see THCR 1/7/8 f230 also for seating plan]

1500

Meeting on Warwick tour [+MA (Michael Alison), SS (Stephen Sherbourne), DB (David Barclay), RC (Robin Catford), OL (Oliver Letwin)]

1530

Lord King re British Airways [+AT (Andrew Turnbull) & MA (Michael Alison)]

1615-1800

OD re Crown Agents; EC Budget

1800

Change for dinner

1830

Talks

2000

Dinner for Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia [not DT, Black Tie or National Dress - No. 10]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary