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privy seal

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privy seal
(in Britain) a seal affixed to certain documents issued by royal authority: of less rank and importance than the great seal


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The Prime Minister was busy on the toilet when an aide knocked on the door to announce the Lord Privy Seal wanted to see him.
The ex-Defence Secretary, then Sir Ian Gilmour, was sacked by Margaret Thatcher in 1981 while Lord Privy Seal.
Ian Gilmour served as defence secretary in Edward Heath's government in the 1970s and later as Lord Privy Seal in Margaret Thatcher's first government.
 
 
 
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