Talk:Privy council

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The talk page was moved on 23 June 2005 to Talk:Privy Council of the United Kingdom, as was the article, so that a new article could be written about privy councils in other countries. --Henrygb 15:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Canada
The following statement appears incorrect as Canada GG does not grant pardons. "Canada has had its own Privy Council — the Queen's Privy Council for Canada — since 1867 ... the members of whose Privy Council advise the Governor General on the exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy." However, maybe the GG has the power do so but doesn't. Input? Shadesofgrey (talk) 00:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland now has it's own privvy council with three members of the DUP on it. Could you please update the page to unclude this.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.151.197.129 (talk) 20:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC).


 * The DUP people are members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, not of Northern Ireland. Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 13:06, 12 June 2011 (UTC).

Toilet?
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Don't want to add this, not sure if I have my facts straight. But doesn't privy mean toilet and the "queens privy council" means a close group who use the same toilet as the queen?

I think your thinking of 'the groom of the stool' who was in charge of the privy chamber in the Tudor period and tended to the kings most personal needs - stool = toilet. The privy chamber was a room adjacent to the monarchs bedchamber - I don't know if they used the same toilet???


 * "Privy" just means "private"; I'm sure the use to mean a toilet and the use to describe a private council are of common derivation, but it seems unlikely that one derives from the other. Colin Watson 13:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


 * In a BBC Radio 4 history program I heard exactly that the Privy Council _was_ (originally) formed in the way implied. Unfortunately 'I heard' doesn't make for much of a reference.  Bluntly, it was one of the more grossly overweight kings.  If anyone (with a better memory than me) can get the details straight on this point it would make for an interesting bit of background.
 * I saw what maybe what was spoken about here. On the History channel they have a segment called "Modern Marvels" episode "Bathroom Tech". A man on there, one Charles Panati, (author of Extraoridinary Origins) says the first nearly modern toilet was made by Sir John Harrington in 1596 (the god-son of Queen Liz I). His invention was for her after she banished him from the court. He supposedly wanted to butter her back-up...

The Queen however, complained of fumes coming up when it was flushed and he wrote a book about her that exposed all her private business. It was called either "Privy of Perfection" or "Privy imperfection." after it was published she became enraged and re-banished him. This is all according to that show BTW. CaribDigita (talk) 23:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Nigeria
I don't know if Nigeria ever had a Privy Council of its own, but if it did the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council wasn't it, so I've deleted it from the listing. Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 12:41, 12 June 2011 (UTC).

Australia
Did Australia have its own privy council (like some other British dominions)? The Law of Australia article suggests that what was abolished in 1986 was the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. If that is the case, I think we should delete Australia from the list of former privy councils. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:34, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Fixed by Neutrality who removed it. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:10, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Australia has a Federal Executive Council and an Executive Council in each of the states which are the direct equivalents of privy councils. I have added these. TheSciolist (talk) 13:13, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

England, Scotland and Great Britain, 1708
Sources say the Privy Council of Scotland was abolished by the Parliament of Great Britain. Although the Privy council of England came to an end and was replaced by the Privy council of Great Britain, sources do not say it was abolished in the same way as the Privy Council of Scotland. Whizz40 (talk) 11:30, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Jamaica
I have removed Jamaica from the list. I can't find evidence that Jamaica has, or ever had, a privy council. The confusion may stem from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (commonly called simply "The Privy Council"), Jamaica's final court of appeal, which is in fact a part of the British Privy Council. Jamaica does have an executive council but I can't find any source that describes the council as a "privy council". --Hazhk (talk) 11:04, 13 April 2020 (UTC)