Crown Council may refer to:
- Crown Council of Belgium, the King, his Ministers and the Ministers of State, meeting on rare occasions to advise the King
- Crown Council of Ethiopia, the constitutional body advising the reigning Emperors of Ethiopia
- Crown Council of Monaco, a seven-member administrative body meeting at least twice annually to advise the Prince of Monaco
Famous quotes containing the words crown and/or council:
“‘Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
...
Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
Who with a body filled and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)