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
BTW, Dave Drake told me that story -- he was descended from the 'noble' Drakes.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I did a quick google, and Francis Drake really did have a claim to use those arms, because his grandfather was a younger son of that other Drake family.
David Drake descended from those Drakes? I thought their male line died out long ago.
Ad astra! Sean
I was at University with a guy who was called Francis Drake, who claimed to be in direct male line of descent from Sir Francis Drake and who dressed accordingly but I do not know whether his claim was true.
Kaor, Paul!
I am inclined to be skeptical of what that man said. If I can trust what I looked up online, Sir Francis Drake left no children despite twice marrying. His will left property to his second wife and various relatives, but the document made no mention of any children.
Ad astra! Sean
That seems conclusive.
Kaor, Paul!
It does! It's possible the man you met was descended from siblings of Drake.
Ad astra! Sean
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