Catalogue description Privy Council: Executive Coronation Committees: Minutes and Papers

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Reference: PC 22
Title: Privy Council: Executive Coronation Committees: Minutes and Papers
Description:

This series consists of minutes and papers of the Privy Council Executive Coronation Committees formed to make the arrangements for the coronations of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, George V and Queen Mary, George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Date: 1831-1953
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 12 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Custodial history: Probably held by the Privy Council Office until the creation of the Ceremonial Branch in the Treasury in 1937; the Treasury until the transfer of the Ceremonial Branch to the Civil Service Department in 1968; the Civil Service Department until the transfer of the Ceremonial Branch to the Cabinet Office in 1982.
Accumulation dates: File series ran from 1901 to 1902
Selection and destruction information: Four volumes of minutes and papers have survived, and they have all been selected for preservation in accordance with the published Acquisition Policy, being records of one of the fundamental constitutional procedures of the state.
Accruals: Series is not accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Executive Coronation Committee was constituted under the chairmanship of the Earl Marshall the Duke of Norfolk, to make the arrangements for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901.

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