Usually means: Influential figure controlling leader secretly.
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  1. the power behind the throne: Merriam-Webster
  2. power behind the throne: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. the power behind the throne: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. power behind the throne: Wiktionary
  5. Power behind the throne: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. power behind the throne, the power behind the throne: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (power behind the throne)

noun:  (idiomatic) Someone who appears to be without special status, but who has great covert influence on a person in authority.

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