The Privy Council, formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors, are mainly senior
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson titled Privy Council of a King (1815); enthroned is George IV, then Prince Regent.
Queen Victoria convened her first Privy Council on the day of her accession in 1837.
The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with t
The monarch's cypher on a ministerial folder
The English Bill of Rights of 1689 curtailed the sovereign's governmental power.
King Charles III with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, 2025