THE PRINCE'S ARMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 2

THE PRINCE'S ARMS.

A HANDSOME ACHIEVEMENT. ;FItOV OUE OHM COSRESPOKDEST j LONDON, October 3. Owing to the fact that the Prinoe o Wales's Warrant-holders for the mos part use his Royal Highness's Plume to indicate their appointment, tji Prince's Arms are not well known t the public. Last , night, however, th Prince's Court Circular appeared witl a beautifully designed and engrave* achievement of his Arms in lieu of th' Plumes which had hitherto general!; ornamented it. . It "will be remembered that th< Prince's shield differs from the King i not only in being . insigned, like. th< supporters, with the silver la.bel o three points proper to an eldest soi in his father's lifetime, but also be cause it has in., pretence an inescut cheon of the Arms of the Principality of Wales quarterly or and gules, fou lions . passant guardani counter changed surmounted by the Prince own coronet enhanced with. & singl arch, which distinguishes it alike frofl his father's Crown, which has tw arches,- and his brothers' "coronets whch have none. The "same character istio coronet surmdunts the helme and appears above the- whole achieve ment surmounted by the labelled lioi statant. guardant of the Prince's crest The Plumes, which are unfiled by i coronet, without #.n arch, and a scrol bearing the motto Lch Dien, appear in the dexter chief of the aphivemen balanced, in the sinister by the Re Dragon "on a green mount, the Badg of Wales, whicn, in conformity witlr curious regulation. v dating_ from th last reign, is. differenced with a label although 'ordinarily heraldic - badg« are not subject to such treatment. Th motto lch Dien is repeated tijore P" minently below the shield, which i surrounded by the Gartef, on whic part of the motto of that Order aj pears. _ It may be recalled, in view of th legends which surround the "Prince c Wales's Feathers" that two at leat of the brothers of the first Prinoe c Wales to. bear that. celebrated Badge the famous Black Prince, also bor slightly different Feather Badges t their own.