Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 9 June 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 9 June 1986

0830

Hair

0945

Guard of Honour + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] at FCO Quadrangle

1010

Courtesy call by Chinese Party Secretary [Hu Yaobang] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1030

OD + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

After OD

Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1145

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

1235

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], and Chairman [Norman Tebbit]

1310

Lunch for Colleagues [Norman Tebbit, John Wakeham, Geoffrey Pattie, Hugh Thomas, Cecil Parkinson, John Junor, Robin Harris, Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne]

1450

Lord McAlpine [Alastair McAlpine] + Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne]

1535

Keep free for Chinese briefing meeting + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell plus presumably British team from meeting which followed on: Foreign & Commonwealth Secretary (Sir Geoffrey Howe), H.M. Ambassador to China (Sir Richard Evans), Sir Percy Cradock, Dr David Wilson]

1600-1810

Talks with Chinese Party Secretary + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [PREM19/2036 f106, No.10 conversation record, 9 Jun 1986 lists as present: Foreign & Commonwealth Secretary (Sir Geoffrey Howe), H.M. Ambassador to China (Sir Richard Evans), Sir Percy Cradock, Dr David Wilson, Charles Powell; Chinese General Secretary (Hu Yaobang), Vice Premier (Li Peng), Vice-Minister (Zhou Nan), Ambassador (Hu Dingyi), Head of West European Department, MFA (Mei Zhaorong), Chinese Embassy (Zhang Zouyun)]

1820

Change

1900

Lord Barber [Anthony Barber] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1945 for 2000

Dinner for Chinese Party Secretary + Mr. Thatcher [Denis Thatcher] - Lounge Suit

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary