Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 16 December 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 16 December 1985

Hair [Perm]

Clear out Flat all morning [Handwritten original has “Depart for Shopping” at 0930 – unclear if happened.]

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] & Chairman [Norman Tebbit] [No.10]

Depart No. 10 + Messrs Alison and Sherbourne

Attend Media Reception + Messrs Alison and Sherbourne at Conservative Central Office [Smith Sq]

Return to No. 10

Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd] and Mr. Wicks

Sir James Cleminson + Mr. Norgrove

Change

Depart No. 10 + DT

Arrive West Door: Met by Duke of Westminster.

Read Lesson at Westminster Christmas Appeal Trust Carol Concert + Mr. Alison, St. George’s, Hanover Square

Reception, Black Tie, at Sotheby’s

PAIRED ALL DAY