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A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on state affairs.
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Privy councils[edit]
Functioning privy councils[edit]
Former or dormant privy councils[edit]
Kingdom | Privy Council | Notes |
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Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary | Geheimrat | |
Empire of Brazil | His Imperial Majesty's Council | (honorific title, some members were part of the Council of Ministers or the Council of State; abolished by a coup in 1889)[1] |
Konbaung dynasty | Byedaik | (abolished 1885) |
Qing dynasty | Grand Council | (abolished 1898) |
Kingdom of England | Privy Council of England | (replaced by the Privy Council of Great Britain on 1 May 1708)[2][3] |
Ethiopian Empire | Crown Council of Ethiopia | (abolished 1974, revived in pretence 1987)[citation needed] |
Kingdom of France | Conseil du Roi | (abolished 1799 and replaced by the Conseil d'État) |
German Empire | Geheimrat | (abolished 1918 and replaced with the State Council 1919–1933, and the Federal Council from 1949) |
Kingdom of Greece | Council of State | (Initially established as a Privy council by King Otto in 1835 (abolished in 1865, re-established in 1929 as the senior administrative court of Greece)) |
Electorate of Hanover | Privy Council of Hanover | (abolished 1866) |
Kingdom of Hawaiʻi | Privy Council of the Hawaiian Kingdom | (abolished after the Kingdom of Hawai'i was overthrown 1893) |
Kingdom of Ireland | Privy Council of Ireland | (retained following the coming into effect of the Act of Union 1800, but dormant from 1922) |
Empire of Japan | Privy Council of Japan | (abolished 1947) |
Kingdom of Laos | King's Council | (abolished 1975) |
Kingdom of Nepal | Rajsabha | (monarchy abolished on 28 May 2008) |
Northern Ireland | Privy Council of Northern Ireland | (made dormant 1972) |
Kingdom of Portugal | His Most Faithful Majesty's Council | (monarchy abolished in 1910) |
Russian Empire | Supreme Privy Council | (abolished 1730) |
Electorate of Saxony | Privy Council of Saxony | established in 1697 to administer jurisdiction over Lutheran institutions on behalf of the Elector who had converted to Catholicism[citation needed] |
Kingdom of Scotland | Privy Council of Scotland | (abolished on 1 May 1708, replaced by the Privy Council of Great Britain)[2][3][4] |
Sweden | Privy Council of Sweden | (abolished 1789) |
Thailand | Supreme Council of State of Siam | (abolished 1932) |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia | Privy Council of Yugoslavia | (abolished 1945, revived in pretence 1990 and replaced by the Privy Council of Serbia in 2006)[citation needed] |
See also[edit]
- Brussels Privy Council
- Council of State
- Crown Council
- Executive Council (Commonwealth countries)
- Privy Council ministry
- State Council
References[edit]
- ^ Coradini, Odaci Luiz (February 1997). "Grandes Famílias e Elite 'Profissional' na Medicina no Brasil" [Important Families and the 'Professional' Elite within Brazilian Medicine]. História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. III (3): 425–466.
- ^ a b O'Gorman, Frank (2016). The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688–1832. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 9781472507747.
- ^ a b Black, Jeremy (1993). The politics of Britain, 1688-1800. Manchester University Press. p. 13. ISBN 0719037611.
- ^ "Privy Council Records". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 8 January 2017.