private secretary

noun

a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.

private secretary

a secretary entrusted with the personal and confidential matters of a business executive
a civil servant who acts as aide to a minister or senior government official Compare parliamentary private secretary

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First recorded in 1765–75

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Elizabeth Perelman - Served as Sunak's principle private secretary, a senior civil service position working in Downing Street.

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He wrote of his concerns to William's then private secretary in an email, in an apparent attempt to force Buckingham Palace to protect staff.

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The queen's private secretary was told only that Blunt had been implicated and that MI5 intended to interrogate him.

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In March 1973 another file note records that the queen's private secretary had spoken to her about the Blunt case.

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Before leaving the civil service, he was seen as a high-flier having served as principal private secretary for Sir Tony Blair and then Gordon Brown.

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