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Lord Chamberlain
noun
- (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
Example Sentences
Defences from Sir Laurence Olivier and other theatre icons failed to stop it being censored by Lord Chamberlain, who refused to licence the play.
At the time, plays needed approval from an official known as the Lord Chamberlain, and the Royal Court was prosecuted for staging “Saved” without a license.
In 1965, the Royal Court Theater submitted “Saved,” a graphic portrait of mostly young and sometimes violent no-hopers adrift in London’s lower depths, to the Lord Chamberlain, who had held absolute power over British drama since 1737.
Mr. Bond refused to alter a line, and the Royal Court supported him by temporarily becoming a private club, and, as the law then stood, no longer needing the Lord Chamberlain’s sanction.
The Lord Chamberlain offered him a gin and tonic, but instead the pair of them watched the ceremony on TV.
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