Tuesday 18 November 1980
0830 Hair
0915-0930 Dr. Joseph Wayas - President of Nigerian Senate - and Mr. Waziri - Chairman Foreign Relations Committee of Senate - plus High Commissioner and
photographer
0945 OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1205 Left for Victoria Station [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Detectives have labels [with hat].]
1210 Arrived Hudson’s Place
1230 Arrival of King and Queen of Nepal
1300 Lunch with Treasury Ministers [Sir Geoffrey Howe, John Biffen, Nigel Lawson, Peter Rees, Lord Cockfield]
1430 E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott,
John Biffen]
1515 Meeting of Ministers - monetary policy [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Governor of
Bank of England (Gordon Richardson), Chief Secretary (John Biffen), Financial Secretary (Nigel Lawson), Wass, Burns, Middleton, RTA (Sir Robert
Armstrong)].] [Also in attendance were the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Mr Goodhart, Mr (Eddie) George, and Mr Ibbs. See here.]
1715-1815 Kept free for Queen’s Speech
1900 Defence Secretary [Francis Pym]
1950 Left No. 10 +DT
2030 State Banquet for King of Nepal +DT - Buckingham Palace [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Evening Dress & Decorations.
Detectives have tickets.]
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