Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 12 February 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
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; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
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Wednesday 12 February 1986

0815

Hair [Flat]

0900

Meeting of Ministers: Personal taxation. [S/S Employment [Lord Young], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], S/S Health and Social Services [Norman Fowler], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Messrs. Moore [John Moore], Newton [Tony Newton], Unwin, Wiggins and Norgrove [Brian Unwin, A.J. Wiggins, David Norgrove]]

1000

Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger] + CDP [Charles Powell]

Then

OD [file currently closed] [+CDP [Charles Powell]]

1115

Depart No. 10 + CDP [Charles Powell], Messrs Ingham [Bernard Ingham] and Norgrove.

1135

Depart from Chelsea Barracks by helicopter for RAF MANSTON. [Flight Lieutenant Brown: see MT to Brown, 14 Feb 1986 in PREM19/1992 f251; Wing Commander T.J. Hindmarsh f253; f263 for list of Prime Ministerial party including [Sir Geoffrey Howe]; [Nicholas Ridley]]

1205

Arrive RAF MANSTON

Coffee in Officers' Mess.

Meet Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma [Patricia, Lady Brabourne].

1230

President Mitterrand arrives [François Mitterrand]

1240

PM departs while President Mitterrand inspects Guard of Honour.

1310

Arrive King's School, Canterbury.

Met by the Vice Dean (Canon John de Sausmarez), the Archdeacon (The Venerable John Simpson), Canon Peter Brett, Canon Peter Pilkington and the Mayor of Canterbury (Councillor Mrs. H. McCabe).

1315

President Mitterrand arrives at King's School

Pre-lunch drinks

1325

Lunch

1440

Tête-à-tête meeting with President Mitterrand [PREM19/1992 f263 records also Roland Dumas, M. Auroux; however, CDP letter to FCO, 12 Feb 1986 f265 records that the formal meeting did not in fact take place, the only conversation between MT and Mitterrand taking place over lunch]

Tour round Cathedral

1510

Depart Deanery

1515

Arrive The Chapter House for Treaty Signature

1525c

Speeches by the Prime Minister and President Mitterrand for the Channel Tunnel

1555

Leave the Chapter House

1600

Arrive Green Court

1605

Leave Green Court by car

1635

Arrive RAF MANSTON

Bid farewell to President Mitterrand

1645

Depart RAF MANSTON by helicopter for Wellington Barracks

1700

Arrive No. 10

[Change for Reception]

1750

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1800

Queen's Award for Industry Reception - Buckingham Palace

1930

Return to No. 10

Work on boxes

2015

Meeting of Ministers: [Nuclear Waste] NIREX [S/S Environment [Ken Baker], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]]

2100

Depart No. 10

2115

Supper with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Powell, 11 Roland Way

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary