Editing Peerages in the United Kingdom (section)

===Ceremonial function===
[[File:The Coronation of King Edward VII.jpg|thumb|The Coronation of King Edward VII - The moment depicted is when the Archbishop of Canterbury, with arms lifted is about to place the Imperial Crown on the head of Edward VII, who is seated, clothed in robes of State, in the Coronation chair. Princes and peers in coronation robes raise their coronets and lead the shout "God Save the King".]]
The Lord Great Chamberlain is entrusted by [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|the Sovereign]] with custody of the [[Palace of Westminster]], the seat of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]], and serves as his or her representative therein. They have jurisdiction within all areas of the palace excluding the House of Lords and House of Commons directly.{{clarify|date=January 2025}} The position is a hereditary one, held since 1780 [[hereditary in gross|in gross]] between three families descending from the [[Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven|3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]]. Under an agreement made in 1912, the right to exercise the office for a given reign rotates among the three families (of the then three joint office holders) in proportion to the fraction of the office held. At any one time, no single person actually exercises the office of Lord Great Chamberlain. The various individuals who hold fractions of the office are properly each ''Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain''. Their modern role is to serve as a ''de facto'' [[Master of ceremonies|director of ceremonies]] for the Palace of Westminster. Though the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, the Act provided that a hereditary peer exercising the office of Lord Great Chamberlain be exempt from such a rule, in order to perform ceremonial functions. They help to organise the [[State Opening of Parliament]] and direct [[Black Rod]] to summon members of the House of Commons to attend the House of Lords for the [[speech from the throne]].

The [[Lord Great Chamberlain]] and the [[Earl Marshal]] each have a role in the [[Coronation of the British monarch]]. Other invited peers also have a role in the coronation. Peers wear [[Robes of the British peerage#Coronation robes|coronation robes]] and [[coronet]]s during a specific part of the ceremony. However in 2023 peers were asked not to wear their coronets for the coronation of [[Charles III]].

Peers who are also [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|Privy Councillors]] form part of the [[Accession Council]] upon the death of a monarch to make formal proclamation of the accession of the successor to the throne.

Within the [[Royal Households of the United Kingdom]] certain roles, such as [[Lord Steward]] and [[Lord Chamberlain]], are by convention held by peers (since the 18th century), or in the case of [[Woman of the Bedchamber|Women of the Bedchamber]] (sometimes called ladies-in-waiting) the daughters of peers. Certain roles are informally attached hereditarily to certain peerages: for example, the [[Lord High Constable of Scotland]] is hereditarily held by the [[Earl of Erroll]].