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 lord president of the Council is the presiding officer of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the fourth of the Great Officers of State, ranking above the lord keeper of the privy seal. Th
Privy Council (United Kingdom)
…Cabinet of the United Kingdom, which thus serves as the senior decision-making body of the government. The council is administratively headed by the Lord President of the Council who is a member of the cabinet, and is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. Certain judicial functions are also performed by the King-in-Council…
Alan Campbell Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024
Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester from NPG
John Dudley