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This is a list of members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom appointed during the reign of Elizabeth II, from 1952 to 2022.
Eight Privy Counsellors resigned during Queen Elizabeth's reign—John Profumo (1963) after misleading the House of Commons, and four others upon criminal conviction carrying a sentence of imprisonment, John Stonehouse (1976), Jonathan Aitken (1997) Chris Huhne (2013) and Denis MacShane (2013); [1] one, Elliot Morley (2011) was expelled (the first expulsion since 1921). [2] Additionally, Lord Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, resigned in 2013 in protest over politicisation of handling of a press complaints charter being considered by the Council. [3] Sir Seamus Treacy, a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland, resigned shortly after his appointment in 2018. [4] Percival Patterson resigned in 2022 noting a national consensus that Jamaica should become a republic. [5]
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