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Queen Victoria presiding at her first Privy Council meeting in 1837, by David Wilkie. 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.
England under Elizabeth I's reign, the Elizabethan Era, was ruled by the very structured and complicated Elizabethan government.It was divided into the national bodies (the monarch, Privy Council, and Parliament), the regional bodies (the Council of the North and Council of the Marches), the county, community bodies and the court system.
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 politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords .
Lord Burghley was the longest-serving minister to Queen Elizabeth I. This is a list of the principal government ministers during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, 1558 to 1603. From the outset of her reign, her chief minister was Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley. He died in 1598 and was succeeded by his son Sir Robert Cecil.
Besides these, the council includes a few members of the Royal family (usually the consort and heir apparent only), more than two hundred senior UK judges (the Supreme Court justices, the senior judges of England and Wales, as well as the senators of the College of Justice of the Inner House in Scotland) and a few clergy (the three most senior ...
[8] [page needed] On the same day, the Privy Council summoned Essex to appear before them, but he refused. He had lost his chance to take the court by surprise, so he fell back on his scheme to rouse the City of London in his favour with the claim that Elizabeth's government had planned to murder him and had sold out England to Spain. [9]
The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, drawn by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Privy Council, an eyewitness.The official witnesses, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent are seated on the scaffold at left, identified as numbers 1 and 2.
Together with those appointed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II who are still living, they make up the current membership of the Council. The oldest Privy Counsellor is Sir Stephen Brown (born 1924, aged 100). The earliest-appointed member is The Lord Hattersley (1975). The youngest Privy Counsellor is Stephen Flynn (born 1988, aged 36).