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Records of the Keeper of the Privy Purse
Catalogue reference: PP
What's it about?
PP
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.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PP
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Keeper of the Privy Purse
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Date (When the record was created)
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1887-1897
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Privy Purse Office, 1800-1800
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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- Topics
- Archives and libraries
- Royalty
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C232/
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