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    The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King/Queen (or Financial Secretary to the King/Queen) is responsible for the financial management of...
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    The Privy Purse is the British sovereign's private income, mostly from the Duchy of Lancaster. This amounted to £20.1 million in net income for the year...
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    the first of only two women ever to be Keeper of the Privy Purse and the only woman ever to be Ranger of Windsor Great Park. As Keeper of the Privy Purse...
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  • Michael Stevens (accountant) (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    the Queen and from 2011, he held this office jointly with that of Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse. In 2018, he was promoted to Keeper of the Privy Purse...
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    annuity. The Keeper of the Privy Purse is Head of the Privy Purse and Treasurer's Office and has overall responsibility for the management of the sovereign's...
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    Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah was dismissed from Court. Abigail, now known as Lady Masham, took her place as Keeper of the Privy Purse. In 1711, the ministers...
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    John Tamworth (category Grooms of the Chamber)
    Tamworth was a Groom of the Privy Chamber and Keeper of the Privy Purse to Elizabeth I. An account of the purse survives in the British Library, and was...
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  • officer of state who was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI, at a time when great constitutional changes affected the management of public finance...
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    Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2011)
    (the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Keeper of the Privy Purse). Any unspent Sovereign Grant is put into a reserve fund. The level...
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  • Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse upon the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Tryon was appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen...
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    Fleetwood Edwards (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    Isham Edwards GCVO KCB ISO (21 April 1842 – 14 August 1910) was Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria from 1895 to 1901. After attending Harrow School...
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  • Keeper of the Privy Purse Keeper of the Royal Archives Legal guardian Lighthouse keeper Museum curator Prison warden Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic...
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  • Commons. The Treasurer is automatically a member of the privy council. The Comptroller of the Household is nominally the second-ranking member of the Lord...
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    Henry Ponsonby (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    served as Keeper of the Privy Purse and Private Secretary to Queen Victoria. His appointment occurred on 8 April 1870, after the death of the previous...
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    though the Master of the Household is also involved, and the Keeper of the Privy Purse has responsibility for the ceremonial bodyguards, such as the Gentlemen...
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  • Alan Reid (courtier) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
    Chairman of the Duchy of Lancaster since January 2018 and was Keeper of the Privy Purse, Treasurer to the Queen and Receiver General to the Duchy of Lancaster...
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    Chancellor: The Lord Parker of Minsmere GCVO, KCB, PC, as Lord Chamberlain, since April 2021 Secretary: Sir Michael Stevens KCVO, as Keeper of the Privy Purse, since...
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  • The royal households of the United Kingdom consist of royal officials and the supporting staff of the British royal family, as well as the royal household...
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    William Knighton (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
    Keeper of the Privy Purse. In an almost unprecedented move, the king surrendered control of his financial affairs to Knighton in 1822, on account of his...
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    Harriet Phipps (category Ladies of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert)
    Victoria. Harriet was the younger daughter of Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, a courtier and confidant of the Queen, as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Harriet was appointed...
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  • Michael Peat (category Members of the Household of the Prince of Wales)
    1993, and in 1996 was appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen and Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster. He retired from these...
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  • of the Stool Herald Intendant The Royal Fool Keeper of the Privy Purse Keeper of the seal King of arms Knight -/ Earl Marshal Lady-in-waiting Maid of...
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    over as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Harley was stabbed by a disgruntled French refugee, the Marquis de Guiscard, in March, and Anne wept at the thought...
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  • Lady Jane Lacey (category English people of Irish descent)
    carriage with Lord Tryon, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, during the procession while the other maids of honour waited at the abbey. on 2 June 1965, Lady...
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    Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    Keeper of the Privy Purse from 1914 to 1935, and as Lieutenant Governor of Windsor Castle from 1928 to 1935. In 1906, Ponsonby was appointed to the Order...
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  • Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (category Daughters of English dukes)
    2nd Baron Tryon, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, during the procession while the other maids of honour waited at the abbey. After the coronation, Spencer-Churchill...
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  • Peter Miles (courtier) (category Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst)
    Keeper of the Privy Purse, Treasurer to Elizabeth II and Receiver-General of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1981 and 1987. He was also Secretary of the...
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  • Royal Almonry (category Lists of office-holders in the United Kingdom)
    wandsmen. The Almonry is responsible to the Keeper of the Privy Purse for the arrangements for the annual Maundy service. Henry III (1216) John Leukenor,...
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  • Shane Blewitt (category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
    the age of 87. Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to HM The Queen (1975–85) Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to HM The Queen...
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    Henry Wheatley (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    was the Keeper of the Privy Purse for King William IV and Queen Victoria from 1830 to 1846. He was the third son of William Wheatley, esq. of Lesney...
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