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The cypher for Elizabeth II was E II R, standing for Elizabeth II Regina [5] and was usually surmounted by a stylised version of St. Edward's Crown. In Scotland, as a result of the 'Pillar Box War', which was a dispute over the correct title of the new monarch (Elizabeth I of England and Ireland was not a monarch of Scotland, so the new queen would have been Elizabeth I, not II, in Scotland ...
Immediately upon becoming Queen, Elizabeth inherited the two versions of the royal standard of the United Kingdom. Since the 1960s, flags were introduced to represent the Queen in various other Commonwealth realms, which followed the same basic pattern: the nation's coat of arms in banner form with the device found on her personal flag. [4]
The Elizabeth Emblem is a national form of recognition conferred by the monarch and awarded to the next of kin of members of the United Kingdom emergency services who are killed on duty. [1] [2] It is named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. [1] [2] It is the civilian equivalent of the Elizabeth Cross. [1] [2]
Queen Camilla: The arms of the King impaled with those of Camilla's father, Major Bruce Shand, crowned with the royal crown. [80] Scottish version of the Queen's coat of arms with the royal crown. Catherine, Princess of Wales: The arms of the Prince of Wales impaled with those of Catherine's father, Michael Middleton. [81] Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
(with altered tinctures) emblem of various English national sports teams The coat of arms of England is the coat of arms historically used as arms of dominion by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England , and now used to symbolise England generally. [ 1 ]
a Rose Gules, dimidiated with a pomegranate (for his first wife; Catherine of Aragon; the pomegranate is the symbol of Granada in the royal arms of the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon) a Demi-rose Gules, impaled with a demi-roundel parted palewise Argent and Vert, charged with a bundle of arrows Argent, garnished Or (also for his first wife)
Between 1962 and 2022, the banner of arms defaced with a variant of the Queen's cypher formed the Queen's Personal Canadian Flag, for use by Queen Elizabeth II. [60] Six additional standards for use by other members of the Canadian royal family were created in the 2010s, all using a similar design with the banner of the arms as their base.
The banner is never flown at half-mast, as a symbol of the continuity of the monarchy, and also as there is always a sovereign on the throne. [ 2 ] Although almost universally called a standard, in heraldic terminology the flag is a banner of arms, as it is a coat of arms in flag form; standards are more typically tapering flags on which ...