The Presence that Changed the World


Privy Council


This picture shows the young Queen Victoria consulting her first Privy Council in 1837. The Privy Council went on to play a crucial role in legitimising colonial governments and laws and still has a role in Commonwealth and Dependent Territory legal systems to this day.


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Luscombe