Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 14 July 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 14 July 1986

0040

Arrive Heathrow Southside

0830

Hair [Flat]

1000

Keep free to clear boxes [unpack etc]

1130

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham] [Honours]

1150

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] [Business]

1230-1320

General Abrahamson + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1300

Lunch in Flat: clear boxes

1430

Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher] and Mr. Addison [Mark Addison]

1500

Mr. Shevardnadze [Eduard Shevardnadze] + Mr. Powell [No.10 conversation record (1500-1700), 14 Jul 1986, PREM19/3184 f46 lists Charles Powell; Sir Geoffrey Howe and Bryan Cartledge also present; Leonid Zamyatin, N.N. Uspensky, S.P. Tarasenko, G.P. Gusarov] [Russian Foreign Minister]

1630

[FCS & CDP] [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Charles Powell – but Shevardnadze meeting ran until 1700 so presumably this separate meeting did not take place]

1710

MISC 122 + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1800

Change

1830-2000

Cocktail party for Members and wives

Supper in flat

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary