The King of England is the Duke of Lancaster. He must visit Lancaster Castle at least once in his reign to be given the keys to the castle and has already done so. I saw a waving arm through a car window.
As Alan Moore argues, we can see ourselves either as trapped rats or as legendary beings walking streets of:
"...jewelled histories and secret legends..."
-Alan Moore, I Hear A New World (London, 2026), p. 327.
It is down to us.
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That's an -early- family image. Later on they got really complicated.
Francis Drake tried to incorporate the arms of the ancient noble Drake family (griffins, basically), but they sued to deny him.
So he made his own (complicated) set of arms with a sailing ship as the central piece.
And if you look really carefully, you can see a Griffin hanging by the neck, dead, from one of the spars.
Kaor, Paul!
Besides what Stirling wrote above, I did a quick google and the right to use/bear coats of arms by persons, families, civic and corporate bodies, etc., is closely regulated by the College of Arms, headed by an official called the Garter King of Arms (with authority in England/Wales). Scotland has a similar body regulating the use of arms in that part of the UK.
The UK royal arms used to include the arms of France, because of the old claim of the British monarch to be king of France. One of the terms of the Treaty of Amiens (1801) was the UK agreeing to remove the French arms and stop claiming the crown of France.
Ad astra! Sean
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