Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 4 April 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 4 April 1984

0700

Depart Windsor for No. 10 +DT

0815

Hair [Carmens]

0900

David Barclay for Cabinet War Rooms speech [handwritten original specifies “if necessary”]

0930

Mr. Redwood

0945-1030

Professor Sir Alan Walters

1105

Depart No. 10 [handwritten original specifies “front door”]

1110

Arrive Cabinet War Rooms [Charles and Carol Price; Air Marshal Sir John Grandy: MT to Grandy, 5 Apr 1984, 3/2/137 f57]

1120

Opening Ceremony followed by tour

1200

Reception and buffet lunch

Return to No. 10

1415

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Sir P. [Peter] Middleton, Mr. Butler

1445

Mr. Williamson

1515

Meeting of Ministers re EC negotiations [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Chancellor (Nigel Lawson), Mr (David) Hannay, Mr (David) Williamson, Sir Michael Butler, Mr (Brian) Unwin, Ld President (Willie Whitelaw)]

1600

MISC 101

1715

E(A)

1815

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

c. 1830

[Change – No. 10] [Appears that this happened later – see 1900 entry]

c. 1840

[To H/C] [Appears that this did not happen]

c. 1845

[Look in at Lobby Party – Press Gallery Dining Room, H/C] [Appears that this did not happen]

1900

Change

1930

Depart No. 10 [handwritten original has “Depart H/C +DT” at this time]

1950

Arrive Winfield House. Dinner with the American Ambassador +DT (black tie) [Charles Price, Carol Price] [MT to Barbara Bush, 5 Apr 1984: 3/2/137 f62] [Charles Brown, President AT&T: 6/2/2/81 f18; Johnny Apple, Ed Streator, Steve Jobs (possible)]

PM paired all day

MT Engagement Diary