Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 12 March 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
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 12 March 1986

0620

Depart No.10

0700

Depart London Heathrow (Southside)

1005

Arrive Pisa

Greeted by Authorities

1015

Depart Pisa by helicopter for Florence

1045

Arrive Florence (Peretola Airport) then by car to Palazzo Pitti

1105

Arrive Palazzo Pitti

Formal greeting by Prime Minister Craxi [Bettino Craxi]

1115

Prime Minister's tête-à-tête with Prime Minister Craxi at Palazzo Pitti [PREM19/1819 f24, No.10 conversation record, 10 Mar 1986 lists also Charles Powell and Signor Badini]

Individual meetings between Ministers

1215

Heads of Government joined by Foreign Ministers [Giulio Andreotti, Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1245

Plenary meeting [attendees listed in PREM19/1819 f3, FCO conversation record, 10 Mar 1986: MT, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Douglas Hurd, George Younger, Geoffrey Pattie; Bettino Craxi, Giulio Andreotti, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Giovanni Spadolini, Luigi Granelli]

1345 approx

Plenary meeting ends.

Foreign Ministers sign Extradition Agreement [Giulio Andreotti, Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1400

Lunch at Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti

1540

Joint Press Conference in Palazzo Pitti

1625

Visit Sala del Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio via the Vasari Corridor and Uffizi Gallery

1705

Depart Palazzo Vecchio

1725

Depart Florence for Pisa

1805

Depart Pisa by RAF VCIO

1905

Arrive London Heathrow (Southside)

2000

Look in at Rocco Forte's Wedding Reception - Hyde Park Hotel [see 6/2/2/135] [Lord Forte, Rocco Forte, Aliai Forte]

Supper in Flat

2130

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

2155

To House of Commons

TWO LINE VOTE

2215

Meeting of Ministers [BL: S/S Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], S/S Transport [Nick Ridley], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] H/C]

MT Engagement Diary