Margaret Thatcher’s appointments diary for 1984, revealed in declassified government documents, shows she visited a hairdresser 118 times in the space of 12 months.
Five of the sessions were on consecutive days in June when the coiffured PM hosted world leaders at an economic summit in London.
The diary also confirms her reputation as a workaholic who found it difficult to relax.
During her two-and-a-half-week summer holiday in Austria and Switzerland, she crammed in meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Austrian Chancellor Fred Sinowatz, former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim and the president of the Swiss Confederation.
She also attended a dinner for bankers and visited a local chipboard factory.
One morning was set aside for work and writing letters, while another was simply logged as, “Worked in library”.
Staff got a reprieve for one morning that was set aside for “swimming and relaxation”.
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