Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 17 July 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 17 July 1984

0900

Questions briefing team [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

0930

M. Dumas +FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1000

OD(K)

1130

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ [FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], AG [Sir Michael Havers], S/Emp [Tom King], Lord Pres [Willie Whitelaw], LPS [John Biffen], Ch Wh [John Wakeham], RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong], Mr [Peter] Marychurch] FCS bilateral [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [if time]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement [ on GCHQ]

1645

Cecil Franks MP and Mr. Gregory to present Cumbria crystal - H/C [+photographer] [handwritten original has this at 1630, followed by “Depart H/C for Buckingham Palace” at 1640]

1645 onwards

[Tea in Royal Tent [no DT]]

c. 1800

[Return to No. 10: Change]

1830-2000

Cocktail Party for Members and wives +DT

Supper in flat [handwritten original puts this after MT’s meeting with Mr. du Cann below]

2000

Mr. du Cann

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary