Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 20 December 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 20 December 1984

[Overseas]

0815

Depart Guest House

0900

Depart Peking Airport [see THCR 1/10/78 f5 for programme for MT’s official visit to China with Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lady Howe, Sir Richard Evans, Sir Percy Cradock, Sir Edward Youde, Mr F.E.R. [Robin] Butler, Dr. David Wilson, Mr R. MacLaren, Mr C.D. [Charles] Powell]

1220

Arrive Hong Kong International Airport

1235

Arrive Government House

1255

Depart Government House for Swire House

1300

Lunch

1410

Depart Swire House for Government House

1430

Depart Government House

1445

Arrive Ap Lei Chau Public Housing Estate

1447

Briefing by Secretary for Lands and Works

1500

Depart for Community Hall calling at the Ho Yan Kindergarten

1515

Arrive Community Hall

Tea Reception

1545

Depart for Government House

1600

Arrive Government House

1640

Meeting with Lord Kadoorie, Chairman China Light and Power

1700-1800

Reception at Government House

1825

Depart for Central Government Offices

1900

Legislative Council Chamber for joint meeting of Executive Council and Legislative Council

1915

Depart for Members' Area for sherry with Executive and Legislative Council

1935