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- The privy council is formally a body of advisers to the King. It serves as an important link between the executive powers of ministers and the constitutional authority of the sovereign and is comprised primarily of current and former senior ministers and members of the judiciary.
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The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council (Latin: concilium familiare, concilium privatum et assiduum), was a body of advisers to the sovereign of the Kingdom of England.
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This is a list of royal members of the privy councils of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, who have been appointed counsellors by each monarch from 1679 to the present. It is followed by a list of royal members of the dormant Privy Council of Ireland.
The Privy Council was originally the executive arm of English government from as early as the 13 th century, although its powers declined as political authority shifted to the Cabinet in the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries. Formally, it remains an advisory body to the monarch and its members are known as Privy Counsellors.
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