Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 16 May 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, 16 May 1984

0800-0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

1000

[Rehearsal]

Worked on speech [k/f (keep free) for speech]

1100

Left No. 10 + DB [David Barclay]

1110

Arrived Queen Elizabeth Hall: coffee [Festival Hall, Artists Entrance]

1130

Addressed Annual General Meeting of NSPCC [the Duke of Westminster, Lady Holland-Martin, Mr Moore, Dr Alan Gilmour (NSPCC Director), Mr Weinberg, Sir Maurice Laing, Sir John Clark, Vivien Duffield, Raymond Horrocks, Robert Maxwell, Dennis Marler, Peter Tavoulareas, HRH Princess Margaret: 5/1/5/258 part 1 f122] [Sir Maurice Laing also, 6/2/2/85 f83]

1215

Left for Kensington Palace

1300

Lunched with HRH Princess Margaret

1400

Left Kensington Palace [for No. 10]

1500-1615

Meeting of Ministers on Economic Summit [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Mr Channon, Bullard, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Home Sec (Leon Brittan) +Sir Crispin Tickell]

1615-1750

E(A) [buses]

1755

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1825

Left for H/C [handwritten original gives time as 1810]

1815-1900

Drinks with MPs [John Moore, John Stradling Thomas, Lynda Chalker, Rhodes Boyson, Tim Raison, Richard Luce, Peter Brooke, Alan Clark, Alex Fletcher, Rodney Elton, George Young + Michael Alison + John Wakeham: 2/6/3/25 part 2 f7]

1900

VOTE: Hong Kong Debate

[Supper H/C]

MT Engagement Diary