Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 8 May 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 8 May 1985

0900-0945

Gordon Reece [No.10]

0945-1015

Meeting of Ministers (Official history of Intelligence in World War II. Home Secretary [Leon Brittan], Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Butler)

1015

Lord Young and Mr. Turnbull

1103

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Thatcher and Mr. Alison

1107

Arrive Westminster Abbey, West Gate, Sanctuary

1130

Service of Thanksgiving re VE Day [+DT & MA (Michael Alison)] [see THCR 1/7/43 f20 for programme, including list of ministers and MPs who were to have attended]

1230 c

Return to No. 10

Lunch in Flat

1430

Interview with Chinese Journalists + Mr. Powell [No.10]

1500-1600

Meeting of Ministers (Review Body Reports. S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine], S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler], Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Gregson, Mr. Turnbull)

1600

Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir B. Cubbon, Sir A. Duff, Mr. Steel, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] re Thursday’s Statement

1645-1715

Lord Plowden, Sir Robert Armstrong and Andrew Turnbull [JOJ 7N White Rover]

1730

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell

1815

Depart

1830

Audience, Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen]