Privy Council 
noun
1A body of advisers appointed by a sovereign or a Governor General (now chiefly on an honorary basis and including present and former government ministers).The Privy Council is an unelected body; constitutionally it is answerable only to the reigning monarch....
- The reference by the Prime Minister to the Privy Council is merely a sop to overactive consciences.
- I have noted that there have been no appointments to the Privy Council in terms of members of this House.
1.1chiefly historical A sovereign’s or Governor General’s private counsellors.