Catalogue description Records of the Keeper of the Privy Purse

Details of PP
Reference: PP
Title: Records of the Keeper of the Privy Purse
Description:

The only records of the Privy Purse Office now preserved at the Public Record Office are the Jubilee addresses to Queen Victoria in PP 1, other records (in PP 2 and PP 3) having been transferred to the Royal Archives at Windsor in May 1967.
Date: 1887-1897
Held by: Royal Archives
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Privy Purse Office, 1800-
Physical description: 3 series
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Keeper of the Privy Purse is the Royal Household official charged with all payments out of the sum set apart in the civil list for the private and personal use of the sovereign. The department assumed its existing shape in the earlier years of the nineteenth century. During most of Queen Victoria's reign the keepership was combined with the now separate appointment of private secretary to the sovereign.

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