Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 21 April 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

Monday 21 April 1986

0730

Hair

0930

Depart No.10 + DT

1105

Arrive St. George's Chapel

1130

Service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, to celebrate HM The Queen's 60th Birthday + DT [Denis Thatcher]

Return to London

1315

Late lunch, Flat

1430

Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne] for Scottish Conference speech [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1530

Mr. Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia [Bob Hawke] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1730-1830

Interview with Granada TV [Peter Allen] + Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham]

1845

[1830]

To House of Commons + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

1900

Vote

1910

Return to No.10

1915

Change

1945

Depart No.10 + DT [Denis Thatcher]

1955

Arrive: Met by Sir Claus Moser

2030

Gala Performance in honour of H.M. The Queen's 60th Birthday, Covent Garden, + DT (Black Tie) [Ryder minute for MT, 21 Apr 1986, THCR6/2/2/137 f36: during interval she had drinks with Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Isaiah and Lady Berlin (trustee of Covent Garden), Mr and Mrs Richard Dunn (MD Thames TV), Lord and Lady Thomson (chairman IBA)] [MT sitting next to Marcus Sieff in the Grand Tier, next to the Royal Box; Ryder minute, 17 April 1986, f39]

MT Engagement Diary