List of Royal members of the Privy Council

This is a list of Royal Privy Counsellors of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, including the total of counsellors created by each monarch from 1679 to the present.

Queen Victoria presiding at her first Privy Council meeting in 1837, by David Wilkie.

Charles II (1679–1685)

Total Creations = 53

James II (1685–1688)

Total Creations = 19

1685 Prince George of Denmark (1653–1708)

William III and Mary II (1689–1702)

Total Creations = 72

Anne (1702–1714)

Total Creations = 70

George I (1714–1727)

Total Creations = 60

1714 George Augustus, Prince of Wales (1683–1760)

George II (1727–1760)

Total Creations = 110

1728 Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707–1751)
1742 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)

George III (1760–1820)

Total Creations = 345

1760 Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany (1739–1767)
1764 Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1766 Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790)
1783 George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales (1762–1830)
1787 Prince Frederick, Duke of York (1763–1827)
1789 Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (1765–1837)
1799 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820)
1799 Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1771–1851)
1802 Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850)
1804 Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843)
1806 Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834)

George IV (1820–1830)

Total Creations = 61

William IV (1830–1837)

Total Creations = 88

Victoria (1837–1901)

Total Creations = 583

1840 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861)
1856 Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819–1904)
1863 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841–1910)
1866 Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900)
1871 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942)
1874 Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853–1884)
1894 Prince George, Duke of York (1865–1936)
1894 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831–1917)
1894 Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858–1896)

Edward VII (1901–1910)

Total Creations = 171

George V (1910–1936)

Total Creations = 415

1910 Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883–1938)
1914 Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854–1921)
1920 Edward, Prince of Wales (1894–1972)
1925 Prince Albert, Duke of York (1895–1952)
1931 The Earl of Athlone (b. Serene Highness ) (1874–1957)
1935 Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)

Edward VIII (1936)

Total Creations = 11

George VI (1936–1952)

Total Creations = 250

1937 Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)
1947 The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma (b. Serene Highness ) (1900–1979)
1951 Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (b. 1926)
1951 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)

Elizabeth II (1952–present)

1977 Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)
1997 The Rt Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy (husband of Princess Alexandra) (1928–2004)
2016 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1982)
2016 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1947)

Royal members of the Privy Council for Canada

1927 Edward, Prince of Wales (1894–1972)
1957 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
2014 Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)

References

Leigh Rayment's Privy Council Page
Haydn, Joseph Timothy and Ockerby, Horace. The Book of Dignities, 3rd ed. (1894, reprinted Baltimore, 1970).
Members of the British Privy Council
Gay, O; Rees, A (2005). "The Privy Council" (PDF). House of Commons Library Standard Note. SN/PC/2708. Archived from the original (pdf) on 21 March 2006. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
Begent, P.J. and Chesshyre, H. The Most Noble Order of the Garter: 650 Years. Spink and Son Ltd. 1999.

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