Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sat 6 July 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

Saturday 6 July 1985

0900

[[Miss Bury: To set up]

0930

Miss Bury, Portrait Painter [No.10, White Drawing Rm]

1200

Left No.10 with Carol

1245

Arrived Wimbledon [see THCR 6/2/2/116 f137 for guest lists for the lunch and Royal Box, the latter of which included Prince Hassan of Jordan. Also included is a note from Charles Powell about suitable topics for discussion with Prince Hassan, which MT apparently did not see until Sunday evening.]

Lunch [Chairman and Mrs (Buzzer) Hadingham, Carol Thatcher, American Ambassador and Mrs Charles Price, Sir Carl and Lady Aarvold, Mr and Mrs E.C. Peters, Mr and Mrs R. Gregson, Mr and Mrs Frank Jeffett, Basil Hutchins, Lord and Lady Taylor, Stanley Malless, Mr and Mrs D.N. Hardwick, Mr and Mrs Neil Macfarlane, Mr and Mrs Michael Heelas, General Sir Victor and Lady FitzGeorge-Balfour, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs (Robert) Runcie, Sir Henry and Lady May Abel Smith, Sir Michael and Lady Havers, Viscount and Viscountess De L'Isle - 6/2/2/116 f137]

Watched Ladies Final [DT was asked if he would like to accompany MT. His reply: “Frankly I am not all that keen on tennis”. THCR 6/2/2/116 f154]

1715

Left Wimbledon

1830

Arrived Chequers [Handwritten original says, “To Chequers via Carol’s house”.]

2230

Carol arrived Chequers

MT Engagement Diary