Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Sun 21 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

Sunday 21 July 1985

0600

Mark Thatcher departs

0830

Breakfast

1230

Lunch with Mr. Thatcher [Handwritten originals says, “Early lunch at Chequers”.]

[Change]

1330

Depart Chequers [+DT]

1615

Arrive Glyndebourne for Idomeneo [see THCR 6/2/2/117 f113 for note about this engagement, MT’s hosts, Sir George and Lady Christine, and the other guests: “N.B. Sir George wrote you recently about the problems caused by cuts in the grant for Glyndebourne touring”.]

1830

Supper with Sir George and Lady Christie, Sir Emmanuel and Lady Kaye, Sir Alex and Lady Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. D. Millar, Dame Janet Baker and husband, Mr. Keith Shelley [+DT. Black Tie]

1930

Opera resumes

2100

Drinks with above

2200

Depart Glyndebourne

2340

Arrive No. 10

MT Engagement Diary