Thursday 12 April 1984
0830 Hair
0900 Questions briefing team
0930 S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine] re defence procurement [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: +JR (John Redwood)]
1000 Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine,
George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Lord Cockfield, Tom King, Michael Jopling,
Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, John Wakeham]
After Meeting of Ministers re Liverpool [Material from handwritten original of the 1984 appointment diary: S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph),
S/TI (Norman Tebbit), H/S (Leon Brittan), CST (Peter Rees), AG (Sir Michael Havers), LPS (John Biffen), S/Def (Michael Heseltine), Ken Clarke, S/Scotland
(George Younger), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Mr Buckley.]
1300 Lunch and Questions briefing
1515 Questions
1545 Keep free for FERB [Robin Butler] - H/C
1600 Dr. David Clark MP and Min for Trade - H/C
1630 Return to No. 10
1700 Dr. Alois Mock: Chairman of the International Democrat Group + MA [Michael Alison] and SS [Stephen Sherbourne] and Dr. Andreas Kohl [6/2/3/12 f184]
1730-1830 Briefing meeting for Portugal visit
1900 Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] + Sir Robert Armstrong re Professor R. V. Jones [Material from handwritten original of the
1984 appointment diary: +FERB (Robin Butler) - No. 10.]
1930 Change
1950 Depart No. 10 +DT
2000 Arrive Dorchester
2030 State Banquet given by Amir of Bahrain +DT [handwritten original specifies Evening dress & Decorations] - Dorchester Hotel [Top table guests:
HM The Queen, Prince Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh), Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra, Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Hailsham,
Elspeth Howe, Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa al Khalifa, Bernard Weatherill, H.E. Tariq Abdul Rahman al-Moayyed, the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps,
H.E. Sayed Mahmoud al-Alawi, Viscountess Whitelaw, H.E. Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Khalifa, the Duchess of Kent, the Amir, H.E. Shaikh Mohamed
bin Mubarek al Khalifa, the Duke of Kent, H.E. Yousif Ahmed al-Shirawi, Baroness Phillips, Hon. Angus Ogilvy, Mrs Weatherill, Shaikha Lulua b. Khalifa
bin Sulman al-Khalifa, DT, Head of Amiri Court: see THCR 1/7/8 f140 also for full list of guests, seating plan, and menu; see THCR 6/2/2/82 f112 for
another version of the seating plan]
Paired all day
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