Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 12 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

Thursday 12 April 1984

0830

Hair

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine] re defence procurement [+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 [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 [+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

MT Engagement Diary