Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 23 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

Wednesday 23 April 1986

0910-0955

Mr. Nitze [Paul Nitze] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

0930

[Meeting of Ministers [Education: Radical Options - [Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chairman [Norman Tebbit] ] [cancelled because Nitze overran?]

1000-1025

Christopher Mallaby [Christopher Mallaby] + Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1100

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1125

Depart No.10

1135

Depart Room at House of Commons

1200

King of Spain [King Juan Carlos] addresses Houses of Parliament + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] H/L

Return to No.10 + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

1245

Guests assemble in White Drawing Room

1255

King and Queen of Spain arrive No.10 [King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia]

1300

Lunch for King and Queen of Spain + DT [Denis Thatcher]

1530

Jeffrey Archer + Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne] No.10

1630

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1700

MISC 126 + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1740

Work on boxes

1745

[FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe] +CDP [Charles Powell]] [?cancelled]

1815

Drinks for MPs + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] No.10 [John Carlisle, Michael Carttiss, Christopher Chope, Sir Raymond Gower, Nicholas Lyell, Michael Marshall] [2/6/3/26 part 1 f90] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]

1920

Sir Edward du Cann, M.P., + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] and Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

2020-2045

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

Supper in Flat

To House of Commons

2200

THREE LINE WHIP

Return to No.10

MT Engagement Diary