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THE ROYAL ARMS: New Designs

Prior to the publication of the Royal Instrument making them official, St. George's Palace is offering a public preview of the proposed new designs for the Royal heraldic achievements of both the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Sconeland, as well as for the Royal Capital of Hanover at Oxbridge.

The designs may be previewed here:

http://sites.google.com/site/roxburgheyo...s/heraldry

Significance of the New Designs

THE ROYAL ARMS OF THE KINGDOM OF HANOVER

The golden lion has been associated with the Kingdom of Hanover from the very outset. When the original shield for His Majesty's realms was first devised, it was decided that Hanover would be represented by a red escutcheon (shield) charged with three lions passant in pale, Or (gold), two facing dexter and one sinister.

In the new design, the three lions of Hanover are preserved. This time around, however, all three charges face dexter on the escutcheon, which is now azure (blue) rather than gules (red). The escutcheon is supported by two stags rampant guardant Or unguled (having hooves of a different tincture). Respectfully referred to by gentlemen of sport as the "Monarch of the Glen", the stag was felt to be an ideal symbol by which to express our community's attachment to the cultures of the lands of the British Isles.

The proposed motto for the Kingdom of Hanover is featured on a scroll beneath the shield. "Numquam Occidit Sol", or, "The Sun Never Sets", celebrates Hanover's resilience and her stubborn refusal to disappear. It is also, admittedly, an homage to the former British Empire.

Completing the new achievement is the crowned helm of the crest, topped by another new addition to Hanover's menagerie of heraldic beasts: the dragon. A dragon passant Or langued and armed gules, imperially crowned proper, represents the return of the Royal House of Marchmain to the Throne.

THE ROYAL ARMS OF THE KINGDOM OF SCONELAND

As with the Royal Arms of Hanover, the stags make an appearance on Sconeland's new achievement, also serving as supporters. The Sconnish supporters differ from Hanover's both with respect to attitude and tincture, however: they are brunatre (not Or), and rampant (but not guardant), unguled and attired (bearing hooves and antlers of a different tincture). The Sconnish stags are, furthermore, gorged with coronets Or.

The escutcheon of the Sconnish Royal Arms evokes the heraldry of both Scotland and Ireland. The tressure flory Or, inspired by the Scottish escutcheon's double tressure flory-counterflory, also happens to suggest Sconeland's earlier cultural identity. The shield gules is also charged with a harp Or: a tribute to Ireland. The crowned helm is surmounted by a lion passant Or bearing the proposed Sconnish standard.



NB: There is a strong likelihood that the shields of Hanover and Sconeland will be quartered with that of Cambria to form a single Royal Coat of Arms representative of all three of His Majesty's realms, and therefore these individual achievements may never be officially blazoned as such by the College of Arms.

The present shield of Cambria has been deemed aesthetically incompatible with the proposed new shields of Hanover and Sconeland, and therefore will be redrawn if all three coats of arms are marshalled within a single achievement. Another possibility is that a redrawn Cambrian shield will be borne inescutcheon, rather than quartered with the Hanoverian and Sconnish shields. Currently, the Cambrian shield is gules, charged with a chevron ermine between two crosses moline Or and a horse courant argent (or perhaps more correctly said, a white horse courant proper).

More new heraldic designs for other aspects of the community will be revealed (on the webpage referenced above) in the days to come.

More heraldic designs have been displayed today:

http://sites.google.com/site/roxburgheyo...s/heraldry

Furthermore, a suggestion for a redraughted Cambrian shield has been submitted:

Or a horse courant gules between three crosses moline azure.

No final decision has yet been made concerning the Cambrian shield, however the sense of things is that it may be heraldically incorrect to feature the Cambrian shield inescutcheon, and therefore it will most likely be quartered with the Hanoverian and Sconnish shields.

Lord Mountcastle,

I suppose suggesting that garden gnomes be used as supporters would be seen as improper, and therefore I fully endorse the use of the the stag.

Also, I very much like the quartered idea.

Gottingen

(06-09-2010 11:10 PM)Duke of Gottingen Wrote: [ -> ]Lord Mountcastle,

I suppose suggesting that garden gnomes be used as supporters would be seen as improper, and therefore I fully endorse the use of the the stag.

Also, I very much like the quartered idea.

Gottingen

Your Royal Highness,

The check from Travelocity never came, so we told them to take their garden gnomes and shove them up the whoopsiedaisy.

I was, myself, fond of the idea of "nonsupporters", specifically two priests wearing wigs, dropping the shield. But that idea didn't seem to garner much enthusiasm at the palace, and they went with stags, instead.

My apologies, by the way, for my absence from the Hound & Quarry; this month's a beast: alot of family are in town. I trust the bretheren will forgive me. Rest assured of my dedication to the Craft. Without being too specific, I'll just say, here, that the...egg is still in the incubator.

Respectfully,

Brother Mountcastle *secret handshake*