Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 3 June 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

Monday 3 June 1985

0800

Hair [Flat]

0930

Worked on statement [Handwritten original says, “Kf for Statement”.]

1000

Welcoming ceremony for Zhao Ziyang - FCO Courtyard

Worked on statement

1200

[Chief Whip (John Wakeham)]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], LPS [John Biffen], Chairman, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] [+MA (Michael Alison)]

1300-1300

[[Possible meeting with Chairman - more in w/e Box]

1300

Lunch in flat and statement [Handwritten original says, “Lunch in flat + kf for Statement”.]

1430

Left for H/C

1530

Statement on Brussels

Remained on bench for Soc. Sec. statement

1645

Returned to No.10

1700

Talks with Chinese Prime Minister [Zhao Ziyang]

c1900

[Change]

1945

Dinner in honour of Chinese Prime Minister [Zhao Ziyang] + DT No.10 [Informal] [see 1/10/67 f32 for table plan, programme and guest list]

Paired all day

2000 & 2130

[Beating Retreat]

MT Engagement Diary