Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 23 October 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 23 October 1984

0900-0930

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

1030

MISC 101

1200

Depart No. 10 [(Day Dress & Hat)]

1210

Arrive Hudson's Place

1230

President and Madame Mitterrand arrive at Victoria Station

Return to No. 10

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1630-1700

Emma Nicholson +SS [Shephen Sherbourne] [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1900

Change

1945

Depart No. 10 +DT

State Banquet +DT - Buckingham Palace [handwritten original specifies Evening Dress] [Francois Mitterrand, HM The Queen, Prince Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh), Madame Mitterrand, Claude Cheysson, the Queen Mother, the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Runcie, the Duke of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, Mrs Weatherill, Robert Badinter, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Madame de Margerie, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), the Hon. Mrs. Angus Ogilvy, the Hon. Angus Ogilvy, the Viscountess Whitelaw, Roland Dumas, Jacques Attali, Henry Delisle, Senateur Robert Pontillon, Michel Vauzelle, Jacques de la Ferriere, Hubert Vedrine, Elisabeth Guigou, Lady Susan Hussey, the Lord Somerleyton, Sir John Fretwell, Major Hugh Lindsay, Serge Moatti, Carole Ivaldi, Daniel Bernard, Francois Plaisant, Alain Grenier, Viscount Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lady Howe: see THCR 1/7/8 f79 also for programme with full list of attendees and seating plan]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary