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privy purse
noun
- a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- a member of the royal household in charge of paying these expenses.
privy purse
noun
- (in Britain) an allowance voted by Parliament for the private expenses of the monarch: part of the civil list
- (in other countries) a similar sum of money for the monarch
- an official of the royal household responsible for dealing with the monarch's private expenses Full nameKeeper of the Privy Purse
Word History and Origins
Origin of privy purse1
Example Sentences
But a spokeswoman for the duchy says that none of the unclaimed money following a death goes to the private income known as the "privy purse".
Behind them, members of the queen’s household, including her private secretary and keeper of the privy purse, walked in a final gesture of service.
The couple paid privately for “substantially all fixtures and fittings,” said Sir Michael Stevens, keeper of the privy purse, responsible for the Queen’s accounts.
“She could have married me only if she had been prepared to give up everything — her position, her prestige, her privy purse,” he wrote, The New York Times reported in Townsend’s 1995 obituary.
The privy purse is a private income for the Queen, which is primarily used to pay for expenses incurred by other members of the Royal Family.
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