[ANSTHRLD] royal badges?

Alasdair MacEogan alasdair at bmhanson.net
Thu Jul 23 13:45:29 PDT 2009


Brian O'hUilliam <brianoftheloch at gmail.com> wrote:
>  However, RfS XI.1. under "Reserved Charges" leads to the Glossary which
>  shows Table 1-Reserved Charges (
>  http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#reserved) which includes
>  Crowns and Coronets as reserved charges.  It holds that Crowns and Coronets
>  may only be used for "Kingdom/Principality armory; Personal armory of
>  Society Royal Peers and Court Barons/Baronesses."
>  This leads me to believe that the Crowns must be removed from the devices of
>  the P&P in order to comply with Laurel and would also explain why
>  the orginal submissions for the devoces for the P&P did not include Crowns.
>  So it seems that the Prince could use the Kingdom arms, minus the Crown and
>  with the addition of the label and the Princess could do likewise, using the
>  Queen's arms.  Or we could just use what was registered.

I would say that the arms designated for the use of the Prince/Princess belong to the kingdom and thus meet the requirement in RfS.  Besides no one is talking about registering the arms with the label so do the RfS really apply?

Alasdair



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