Lord Chamberlain

British  

noun

1. (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household

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Example Sentences

Shakespeare and his colleagues in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men—the company that had become a fixture at the Theatre a few years earlier—exercised what they claimed was their contractual right to disassemble the structure and carry it away.

From The Wall Street Journal

Defences from Sir Laurence Olivier and other theatre icons failed to stop it being censored by Lord Chamberlain, who refused to licence the play.

From BBC

At the time, plays needed approval from an official known as the Lord Chamberlain, and the Royal Court was prosecuted for staging “Saved” without a license.

From Seattle Times

In 1965, the Royal Court Theater submitted “Saved,” a graphic portrait of mostly young and sometimes violent no-hopers adrift in London’s lower depths, to the Lord Chamberlain, who had held absolute power over British drama since 1737.

From New York Times

Mr. Bond refused to alter a line, and the Royal Court supported him by temporarily becoming a private club, and, as the law then stood, no longer needing the Lord Chamberlain’s sanction.

From New York Times