Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 21 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

Monday 21 May 1984

0800

Hair [handwritten original has this in the flat]

0930

Depart for Central Office [+MA (Michael Alison) & SS (Stephen Sherbourne) & DH (Derek Howe)]

0940

Briefing meeting

1000

[Rehearsal]

1030

Launch European Manifesto

Press Conference

1100

Meeting with Party Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]

1130

Address European Candidates

1150

Return to No. 10 [+MA (Michael Alison) & SS (Stephen Sherbourne) & DH (Derek Howe)]

1200

Keep free for speech

1240

Depart for Hilton [+DT, RB (Robin Butler) & Mr Murray]

1250

Met by Sir James Cleminson, Ballroom Entrance

Lunch

Netherlands/British Chamber of Commerce

Presentation of Anglo-Dutch awards for enterprise [+DT +RB (Robin Butler) & Ian Murray] [K. Noordzij: THCR 6/2/2/86 f14] [Top table: Mr K Edwards, Mr G Tammes, DT, Lady Cleminson, Michael Mates, Mr H K Mezger, Mr G Edwards, Mr G K C Stevens, Jhr L J B Huydecoper (Dutch Ambassador), Sir James Cleminson, Dr G M V van Aardenne (Dutch Secretary of State for Economic Affairs), Mr A P De Geus (Shell), Sir Phillip Mansfield (UK Ambassador to the Netherlands), Mr M R Angus, Mr L M Overmars, Mr R B Brooke, Mr M R Rendle, Mr L J van Hellenberg Huber, Mr L F Standen, Mr J W Semeijns de Vries van Doesburgh: see THCR 6/2/2/86 f51]

1445

Depart for No. 10

1455

View pictures in hall with Robin Catford

1500

Meeting of Ministers on public sector pay [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), SS/SS (Norman Fowler), SS/Emp (Tom King), SS/Def (Michael Heseltine), Lord Ch (Lord Hailsham), Lord Gowrie, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Mr Gregson]

1600

MISC 101

1715

Mrs. [Elizabeth] Dole: US Secretary of Transportation

1745

Change

1800

Look in at Chairman's Party for Women's Conference - No. 12 [No DT]

1830-2000

Impact 80s Reception +DT [+Michael Alison - see Alison diary, 2/6/3/8]

2000

To H/C for Women's Conference speech-writing [+MA (Michael Alison) & SS (Stephen Sherbourne)]

Supper - H/C

2200

Two Line Vote

?

[Return to No. 10]

MT Engagement Diary