Talk:Privy council

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Contents 1 Page moved and old talk 2 Canada 3 Northern Ireland 4 Toilet?

[edit] Page moved and old talk

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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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.