Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 17 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 17 June 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

1000

Meeting of Ministers [Procedure Committees] [C.W. (John Wakeham) & LPS (John Biffen) +TF (Tim Flesher)]

1125

Departed No.10

1130

Opened New Cannon Row Police Station [Open new Westminster Police Station +Home Secretary (Leon Brittan) +MEA (Mark Addison)] [see THCR 6/2/2/113 f76 for programme and guest list]

1220

Departed

1235

Arrived 99 High Street Kensington for launch of Carol’s book [1983 General Election]

1300

Returned to No.10

1330

Lunch at No.10 [+MA (Michael Alison)] [Sir Anthony Kershaw to MT, 19 Jun 1985 1/3/17 f119; Michael Howard, 17 Jun 1985 f129] [first “[Monday] lunch for outsiders” Lord Hugh Thomas, Lord Ralph Harris, Michael Howard, Bill Deedes, Professor Brian Griffiths, Willie Whitelaw, Malcolm Rifkind, John Moore, Peter Hordern, Sir Anthony Kershaw, Michael Alison] [2/6/3/104 part 1 f16]

1500

Sir Henry Plumb [+MA (Michael Alison)]

1530

Lord Peyton [Re London Zoo] [+FERB (Robin Butler)]

1630

Meeting of Ministers [Soc. Sec. Statement] [S/HSS (Norman Fowler) & Mr Newton, Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), S/Emp (Tom King), Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), Lady Trumpington, LPS (John Biffen), CW (John Wakeham)]

1830

Reception for St. Margaret’s Westminster Appeal + DT No.10 [Jeremy Rowe (Abbey National) to MT, 24 Jun 1985: 1/3/17 f104] [Bill Martin to MT, 21 Jun 1985 1/3/17 f105] [Bill Bowman f116; Eric Chelmer f117 also] [John Hyde, f124; Trevor Beeson, f125] [Sir Kirby Laing, 17 Jun f132]

To H/C

Supper H/C [+MA (Michael Alison)]

Midnight

Three line: VOTE

MT Engagement Diary