Queen Victoria presiding at her first Privy Council meeting in 1837, byDavid Wilkie .This is a list of royal members of theprivy councils ofEngland ,Great Britain and theUnited 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 dormantPrivy Council of Ireland . Royal figures have also been appointed to theKing's Privy Council for Canada , either by the British monarch (before 1931) or by theCanadian monarch (from 1931 on).
[ edit ] Total appointments byCharles II : 53
[ edit ] Total appointments byJames II : 19
[ edit ] Total appointments byWilliam III andMary II : 72
Total appointments byAnne : 70
[ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge I : 60
[ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge II : 110
[ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge III : 345
1760Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (1739–1767) 1764Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh 1766Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790) 1783George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales (1762–1830) 1787Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827) 1789Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (1765–1837) 1799Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820) 1799Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1771–1851) 1802Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850) 1804Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843) 1806Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834) [ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge IV : 61
[ edit ] Total appointments byWilliam IV : 88
[ edit ] Total appointments byVictoria : 583
[ edit ] Total appointments byEdward VII : 171
[ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge V : 415
Total appointments byEdward VIII : 11
[ edit ] Total appointments byGeorge VI : 250
[ edit ] Total appointments byElizabeth II : 1,340
[ edit ] No appointments of royal members have been made byCharles III .
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