Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 16 May 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

Friday 16 May 1986

0830

Hair Flat

All morning Keep free for speech

1215

Depart for Buckingham Palace

1220

Arrive

1230

Attend Privy Council Meeting followed by drinks - Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen] [THCR1/7/55 f10, Privy Council Office to No.10, 15 May 1986 lists attendees: Archbishop of Canterbury (Robert Runcie), Lord President (Willie Whitelaw), Lord Chancellor (Quintin Hailsham), Lord Privy Seal (John Biffen), Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Tom King), the Lord Chamberlain (the Earl of Airlie), Lord Charteris, Sir Philip Moore, Sir William Heseltine, David Steel, Prime Minister of Belize (George Price), G.I. de Deney]

Return to No. 10

Lunch in Flat

1530

Depart No. 10

1620

Depart Northolt

1755

Arrive Scone Airport (Hector Laing's plane)

1800

Arrive Balcraig House Hotel

Meeting with Sir James Goold (Chairman of SCUA) [James Goold] and Secretary of State for Scotland (Malcolm Rifkind) [Malcolm Rifkind]

1840

Depart Balcraig House Hotel

1850

Arrive City Hall, Perth

1900

Address Scottish Conservative Conference

2000

Return to Balcraig House Hotel - change

2100

Reception and dinner with leading Scottish Tories

2240

Depart Balcraig House Hotel for

2245

Look in at Agents' Ball - Station Hotel

2340

Return to Balcraig House Hotel

Overnight at Balcraig House Hotel

MT Engagement Diary