Council of the Realm

Council of the Realm
Consejo del Reino
Formation1947 (1947)
Dissolved1978 (1978)
Legal statusConstitutional Body
HeadquartersMadrid
Francisco Franco
Juan Carlos I

The Council of the Realm (Spanish: Consejo del Reino) was a corporate organ of Francoist Spain, created by the Law of Succession to the Headship of the State of 1947. Within the institutional complex created to hierarchize the regime of Francisco Franco (the so-called "organic democracy"), was the high council that advised the Head of State in the decision making of its exclusive competence. An antecedent of the Council of the Realm is the institution of the same name that appears in the Draft Constitution of 1929 of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.