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    The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King/Queen (or Financial Secretary to the King/Queen) is responsible for the financial management of...
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    The Privy Purse is the British sovereign's private income, mostly from the Duchy of Lancaster. This amounted to £20.1 million in net income for the year...
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    the first of only two women ever to be Keeper of the Privy Purse and the only woman ever to be Ranger of Windsor Great Park. As Keeper of the Privy Purse...
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  • Michael Stevens (accountant) (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    the Queen and from 2011, he held this office jointly with that of Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse. In 2018, he was promoted to Keeper of the Privy Purse...
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    annuity. The Keeper of the Privy Purse is Head of the Privy Purse and Treasurer's Office and has overall responsibility for the management of the sovereign's...
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    Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah was dismissed from Court. Abigail, now known as Lady Masham, took her place as Keeper of the Privy Purse. In 1711, the ministers...
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  • officer of state who was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VI, at a time when great constitutional changes affected the management of public finance...
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    John Tamworth (category Grooms of the Chamber)
    Tamworth was a Groom of the Privy Chamber and Keeper of the Privy Purse to Elizabeth I. An account of the purse survives in the British Library, and was...
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    Sovereign Grant Act 2011 (category Monarchy of the United Kingdom)
    (the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Keeper of the Privy Purse). Any unspent Sovereign Grant is put into a reserve fund. The level...
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  • Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse upon the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Tryon was appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen...
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