Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 10 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

Tuesday 10 April 1984

0900

Questions briefing team

0930-1000

Lord Beloff [6/2/3/12 f170] [via PO]

1030

Depart

1130

Arrive Home Park, Windsor to greet Amir of Bahrain at noon. Enter through Gate No. 1

Return to No. 10

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1550

Return to No. 10

1600

Meeting of Ministers re Soviet Union [Mr Rifkind*, S/ Def (Michael Heseltine), H/S (Leon Brittan) & Ld President (Willie Whitelaw), Sir Percy Cradock, Mr Wright, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & ‘C’ [Sir Colin Figures], *or FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe) - No. 10.]

1700

Change for reception

1715

Reception for St. Paul's School +DT

1830

Depart for H/C

1845

Vote

Change for Banquet and depart H/C

1950

Arrive Windsor for State Banquet for Amir of Bahrain +DT [handwritten original specifies Evening dress] [The Amir of the State of Bahrain, HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Mrs Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Queen Mother, the Prince of Wales, H.E. Shaikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa, the Princess of Wales, the Lord President of the Council, the Countess of Snowdon, the Duke of Kent, the Viscountess Whitelaw, the Lord Chancellor, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Madame de Margerie, the Right Hon the Speaker, the Hon. Mrs Angus Ogilvy, the Hon. Angus Ogilvy, Mrs Weatherill, the Viscount Boyne, Roger Tomkys, Major Hugh Lindsay, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lady Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson: see THCR 1/7/8 f151 also for programme with full list of attendees and seating plan]

Paired before 1830 and after 1900

MT Engagement Diary