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  Prince William of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor), born 21 June 1982, is a member of the British Royal Family, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and first son of the Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince William is second in the line of succession to the British throne, after his father and before his brother, Prince Harry.
Prince William is expected to ascend the thrones of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms sometime in the future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_William_of_Wales   (1231 words)

  
 College of Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The coat of arms of HRH Prince Henry of Wales
In accordance with normal practice, coats of arms have been given to each of the two sons of the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince Henry of Wales, on their respective eighteenth birthdays in June 2000 and September 2002.
Prince William of Wales, as second in line to the throne, uses a white label of three points like his father, but has in addition a small red ‘escallop’ or sea-shell on the central point.
www.college-of-arms.gov.uk /William.htm   (583 words)

  
 THE LAW OF ARMS IN NEW ZEALAND
Sometimes the fabrication of coats of arms, and sometimes the use of armorial insignia, such as supporters, to which the defendant was not entitled, was the cause of action(8).
A coat of arms is a fief annoblissant, similar to a Scottish territorial peerage or barony(32), the grant of which provides, as every Scottish patent of arms states, that the grantee is a "noble of the noblesse of Scotland"(33).
Coats of arms, armorial badges, flags and standards and other similar emblems of honour may only be borne by virtue of ancestral right, or of a grant made to the user under the authority of the Crown(245).
www.geocities.com /noelcox/Law_of_Arms.htm   (15446 words)

  
 Charles.y2u.co.uk - Charles, Prince of Wales
The Prince of Wales is a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, a Lieutenant-General in the British Army and an Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force.
The Prince of Wales is an avid horseman and huntsman.
The Prince of Wales is a complex character: he has admitted to occasional depression, and is a passionate man who cares deeply about issues such as the environment, architecture, inner-city renewal and the quality of life.
charles.y2u.co.uk   (2688 words)

  
 Prince Harry of Wales biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Harry is third in the line of succession to the British throne (behind his father, the Prince of Wales, and his elder brother, Prince William), and is famous for being the carefree, fun-loving, and rebellious member of the Royal Family.
In January, 2002, it was revealed that the prince had admitted smoking marijuana and allegedly engaged in underage drinking, in the summer of 2001, prompting the possibility of criminal charges being filed against him.
The Escallop Gules are in refernece to his mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, as the Escallop appears in the Spencer coat of arms.
prince-harry.biography.ms   (889 words)

  
 The Law of Arms in Mediaeval England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Coats of arms are a common sight in England, and have been since the Middle Ages.
Because of the coat of arms' use as an mark of identification, and its signifigance as a mark of gentility, it was natural that laws regarding its use and inheritance would arise.
Since grants of coats of arms were fairly uncommon, as they were a display of royal favor, most gentlemen proved their rights by demonstrating ancient use, usually by displaying old sealed documents, stained glass, or other church monuments.
pages.ripco.net /~clevin/lexarm.html   (4881 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Camilla's coat of arms heralds new era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The arms, in bright blue, red, gold and green, show both the coat of arms of her husband, the Prince of Wales, and her father, Major Bruce Shand.
The shield in the coat of arms is divided down the centre (impaled), displaying elements from Charles' arms.
In England, new coats of arms are granted to individuals by the Earl Marshal of the College of Arms, which oversees the issuing of armorial bearings.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1640862005   (844 words)

  
 CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-CHESHIRE
The gold and red quarters are derived from the arms of the the de Malbanks, holders of the barony of Wich Malbank, one of the eight baronies of the Earldom of Chester.
ARMS: Quarterly Gules and Azure on a Bar Argent a Barrulet Sable surmounted of a Pale also Argent thereon a Pallet Azure in the first quarter a Beaver in the second a Mercian Cross in the third a Garb and in the fourth a Cornucopia inverted all Gold.
The gold lozenges on red, as seen in the crest of the Runcorn UDC, are derived from the arms of William Fitznigel, one of the Norman barons of Halton.
www.civicheraldry.co.uk /cheshire.html   (3397 words)

  
 Articles - Prince Harry of Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In January 2002, it was revealed that the prince had admitted smoking marijuana and had allegedly engaged in under-age drinking, raising the possibility that criminal charges would be filed against him in the summer of 2001.
Prince Charles, who was reportedly "incandescent with rage" over the incident, ordered Harry and his brother William—who was present when Harry chose his outfit—to visit Auschwitz privately, with members of a Jewish charity, to learn about the Holocaust, its causes, and consequences.
Prince Harry's coat of arms has a label of five points, as the grandchild of the sovereign.
www.mainearth.com /articles/Prince_Henry_of_Wales   (1594 words)

  
 The Prince of Wales - Prince William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Prince William browses through the magazine rack in the Good News newsagents, in St Andrews, during his third year at university.
Prince William has marked the end of the first term of his third year at St Andrews University with a photocall in the town.
William, who is often known for his shy nature, appeared relaxed in front of the cameras, chatting away and smiling.
www.princeofwales.gov.uk /princes/william/will_st_a3yrcopy.html   (1474 words)

  
 Prince William coins
Alderney is one of the Channel Islands, the group of British crown dependencies to the west of the French town of Cherbourg.
In the background is his personal coat of arms given to him on his 18th birthday.
Crowns sold to celebrate the wedding of the Prince and Princess of wales were sold at face value.
theinternetforum.co.uk /william/coin.html   (264 words)

  
 Hayes Coat of Arms Hughes coat of arms McHugh coat of arms O Hea coat of arms
Arms of the sept of Ó hAodha of Munster, anglicised as O Hea and Hayes.
Arms of Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, Baronet, of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal.
John Fergus O'Hea (1850-1912), artist and cartoonist, was a Cork man, and Captain William O'Hea, an officer in Nicholas Browne's infantry in King James the Second's army, was of Aghamilly Castle in Pobble O'Hea, a district retained by the sept under the overlordship of the Barrys.
www.araltas.com /features/hayes   (2002 words)

  
 Military Police Complaints Commission -- Canadian Coat of Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The arms of Canada show a royal helmet, which is a barred helm of gold looking outward and draped in a mantle of white and red which are the official colours of Canada.
At the base of the arms are the floral emblems associated with the Canadian Monarchy: the English rose, the Scottish thistle, the French fleur-de-lis and the Irish shamrock.
In 1957, when Canada's arms were slightly modified to produce a cleaner more contemporary design, the Government replaced the original Tudor crown of the 1921 design by a crown that would represent not just one of the royal families of English monarchs, but centuries of kings and queens of England.
www.mpcc-cppm.gc.ca /800/800_e.html   (1471 words)

  
 Prince Harry of Wales - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Harry is third in the line of succession to the British throne (behind his father, the Prince of Wales, and his elder brother, Prince William), and has generally been regarded as a carefree, fun-loving, and rebellious member of the Royal Family.
The prince's official surname is Windsor, according to legal documentation, but all the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II utilize the surname Mountbatten-Windsor as personal preference.
Coat of Arms of HRH Prince Harry of Wales
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Prince_Harry   (1678 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - Special kisses for Prince William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Prince William smiles at six-year-old Katherine Bennett after the US serviceman’s daughter had chased him to present him with a packet of Hershey’s Kisses, an American sweet.
As the handsome teenage prince arrived with the rest of the Royal Family at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Norfolk, he initially failed to see six-year-old Katherine Bennett, who is only 4ft tall.
Sophie, 36, seemed to have lost weight and was supported, on each arm, by her husband Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and Commodore Timothy Laurence, the Princess Royal’s husband, as she left the church.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1726542001   (769 words)

  
 Canadian Monarchist News: PRINCE WILLIAM
The design is derived from the bearings of his father, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, with an identifying addition evolved from the Arms used by his mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince William's new design incorporates the Royal Arms used by The Queen, with the addition of a white 'label' of three points with a red escallop shell on the central point.
Prince William, as heir apparent to the Heir Apparent, is the only one of The Queen's grandchildren who will be granted a label of only three points.
www.monarchist.ca /cmn/william.htm   (969 words)

  
 Kate Middleton - Photo of Prince William's Girlfriend
His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor) (born June 21, 1982) is a member of the British Royal Family, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and first son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Prince William stays in a modest apartment in the town of St Andrews and is often found in the nearby city of Edinburgh.
On 31 August 1997 Prince William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales and her companion, Dodi Fayed, was killed in a car accident in Paris, France.
www.coeh.org /staff.html   (2184 words)

  
 Articles - Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Coat of Arms of England, gules three lions passant gardant in pale or, was introduced by King Richard I in the 1190s.
Edward III expressed his claim by quartering the arms of England with the arms of France, azure a semy of fleurs-de-lis or; to indicate the importance he placed on France, the French arms were placed in the first and last quarter, and the English ones in the second and third.
The arms of Hanover were moved from the fourth quarter and instead shown on a small shield or estucheon of pretence in the centre of the shield.
www.sidepoint.com /articles/Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom   (1212 words)

  
 City of London (United Kingdom)
The current Arms of the City of London with the dragon supporters are an invention of the 17th Century.
The GLC was granted arms which were used on all civic documents and flown frequently in flag form from County Hall until its abolition by Margaret Thatcher in 1986.
This had a coat of arms (a red chief bearing a gold saxon crown with a base of wavy blue and white stripes).
flagspot.net /flags/gb-lond.html   (1778 words)

  
 The Dark Prince of Great BabyLondon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Prince Charles' lineage chart shows that he is descended, through his father, from the fifth emperor of the Holy Roman Empire named Charles, of the House of Hapsburg.
Prince Charles' coat of arms and crest was designed for him by the British College of Heraldry, using a system of guidelines over 500 years old.
Both Prince Charles and his mother believe that the throne upon which the queen was crowned, the famous coronation chair at Westminster Abbey in London, is the rightful throne of King David.
www.clydelewis.com /dis/prince/prince.html   (4263 words)

  
 The Heraldry Society - coat of arms
A fine plate in the 1983 edition of Boutell's Heraldry illustrates various styles of ladies arms - a peeress in her own right, a spinster, a widow, a widow who is an heiress and, an heraldic solecism, those of a corporation whose members are all women.
Evidence drawn from seal impressions show that both lozenges and roundels were employed to contain the arms of men, and it is likely that they were the invention of matrix engravers, introduced to give variety to their creations and more conveniently to conform to prevailing sigillistic fashion.
The circular seal of Edward of Caernarvon as Prince of Wales (c1301) had the whole of the reverse devoted to the lions of England, and two seals of John of Gaunt (c1372) were treated similarly.
www.theheraldrysociety.com /publications/187.htm   (311 words)

  
 Prisk Genealogy Worldwide - Coat of Arms
Families sometimes used arms to which they were not entitled and these are mentioned in unofficial printed sources such as Burke's General Armory, an alphabet of arms which was first used in 1842.
Until 1416 when Henry V issued a proclomation a right to bear arms can only be acquired by proving descent in an unbroken male line from someone using arms before 1416 or by a grant from the Kings of Arms who were the senior Officers of Arms.
Rights to use arms in existence since 1416 were confirmed by the Heralds at the Visitations of the counties which were made approximately every thirty years between 1538 and 1689.
www.prisk.org /ww/arms.php   (1404 words)

  
 Prince William's Arms
The official picture released with the announcement that Prince William, for his 18th birthday, had received from his grandmother a new coat of arms, was reproduced in the newspapers at too small a scale to show the item most emphasised as their lead.
These are the only feature of the Spencer arms that are truly theirs, the remainder being the arms of the mediaeval Despencers to whom they were unrelated (as described in Mists of Antiquity).
The arms of William's father on this banner consist of the Royal Arms debruised by a label of three points and bearing in the centre the arms of the Principality of Wales ensigned by the coronet of the Heir Apparent.
www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-01/william1.html   (338 words)

  
 The Gorman Coat-of-Arms
A coat of arms consists of three parts: the Blazon (or what is on the shield), the Crest, and the Motto.
Later, with the development of metal armor, the coat-of-arms actually became a coat or cloak which was worn over the armor to protect it's wearer from the effects of prolonged exposure to the sun.
His son, William E Gorman was born in 1902 in Britton, South Dakota, and his son, Richard A. Gorman, born in 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is my father.
www.netservice.pair.com /gorman.htm   (2309 words)

  
 Prince Harry's Arms
And just as William has had incorporated in his arms a memento from his mother’s arms, an escallop, so too has Harry ~ he will bear three escallops on the points of his label.
(The escallops in the Spencer arms, as borne by the late Princess of Wales, are silver.)
In early heraldry the escallop was associated with pilgrimages, particularly because it was worn as a badge by pilgrims going to the shrine of St James of Compostella, and some coats may bear an escallop as a symbol of an early pilgrimage.
www.baronage.co.uk /2002d/harry-1.html   (280 words)

  
 Morgen Coat of Arms
Of all the surnames to be found in England, those that originated in Wales are comparatively few in number.
The Black Prince, or Edward, Prince of Wales, (1330-76), is thought to have gained his nickname due to the colour of his armour -- jet fl.
Their telling and retelling over those years, while it may have left them somewhat lacking in truth, has emphasized and expanded their most compelling parts, making the Arthurian saga as glorious and prolific a body of stories as any, in fact or fiction.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/morgen-coat-arms.htm   (453 words)

  
 College of Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Arms and Badge of Sir Christopher Frayling, Kt.
Click on the image to see a full-size picture of these arms together with a blazon.
Click on the image to see a full-size picture of these arms, supporters, crest and badge, with a blazon.
www.college-of-arms.gov.uk /Grants.htm   (100 words)

  
 Rice Coat of Arms
Coat of Arms > Rice Coat of Arms
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Henry Rice who settled in Virginia in 1622; John Rice settled in Virginia in 1639; Richard Rice settled in Virginia in 1650; Anne, Daniel, Edward, Mary, Michael, Thomas, and William Rice all settled in Boston between 1820 and 1860.
Rice Coat of Arms / Family Crest Mouse Pad
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/rice-coat-arms.htm   (530 words)

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