privy council

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The privy council announced on Friday that King Charles III had granted permission for the burial.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

In January, Franklin was summoned to appear before the privy council, the king’s most senior advisers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023

Although he was a Protestant, he was a supporter of the Scotland's Catholic regent, and in 1561 he was appointed to the privy council by the newly widowed Mary on her return to Scotland.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2022

Challenges to the ownership in the past were finally settled by the privy council of Britain’s House of Lords, he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2017

Francis, clerk, M.A., rector of St. John’s, Antigua, and member of the privy council at that island, born 8 May, 1709, admitted a student of Trinity Coll.,

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous