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ARMORIAL ENSIGNS GRANTED BY H.M. TO GEORGE W. HELON OF TOOWOOMBA ’

by George W. Helon Esquire. Armiger, Freeman of the City of London, Kentucky Colonel and Justice of the Peace (Qual.) ust before his eldest daughter Catherine Mid- dleton married His Royal Highness Prince William, the future Duke of Cambridge on 29 April 2011 in Westminster Abbey, Michael Middleton was granted a by shall His Grace Edward Fitzalan-Howard, the 18th Duke of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a personal gift. Norfolk to design my armorial bearings. On 25 May 2018 Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of The Earl Marshal is the head of Her Majesty’s College Sussex was granted a coat of arms in her own right by the of Arms and no coat of arms other armorial ensigns may Queen; but in Meghan’s case - and partly because of her be granted by the without his Warrant. unruly clan - the privilege extended neither to her father, In the creation of my coat of arms and heraldic en- nor her family. signs I worked closely with York (Michael ‘Peter’ By Letters Patent Desmond O’Donoghue) over a period of months to create issued under Crown a design that would be bold and as simple as possible, yet authority, I GEORGE personal and WILLIAM HELON Es- representative quire of Toowoomba of me in a sub- have just been grant- tle and allusive ed a coat of arms, way. , badge and the Notwith- standing I am a standard by Her the holder and Majesty’s College recipient of a of Arms in London number of an- (College Reference: cestral and for- Grants 23/2019). eign nobiliary Her Majesty the titles of honour Queen is the ‘Fount and dignity, of Honour’ from knighthoods, whom all titles, grants medals and of arms, orders of awards (most chivalry and honours of which carry are conferred; they with them ap- are Our Sovereign’s pellations and gift and prerogative. post-nominals), Under English the foregoing heraldic law, a coat can neither of arms and armo- feature, nor be rial ensigns can be alluded to in a granted to persons coat of arms of eminence or good from the Crown standing in national as they do not or local life and for exceptional service to society at large. fall in the am- A confers upon a person and his or her bit of State legitimate descendants the exclusive right to a partic- honours and ular coat of arms or armorial bearings in perpetuity. awards within Contrary to what some may have read on the internet the Common- and believe, there is no such thing as a coat of arms for a wealth of Na- - tions. viduals, their families and descendants. Art Nouveau digital rendition of Coat of Arms Addition- (displayed Couché, or diagonally orientated, The Kings of Arms, Garter, Clarenceux, Norroy and ally, ‘foreign’ Ulster were directed by Warrant of Her Majesty’s Earl Mar- shown above) granted to me by Her and quartered Majesty’s : London; 2019. arms, or those on the top of a bearing regis- Tower a tered or controlled Rufous Owl af- ‘charges’ (the likes fronty displayed of lions, roses, or proper supporting heraldic devic- with the Wing Tips es of nations and a Boomerang Or. states) cannot be M A N - granted from the TLING: Gules Crown, so for the doubled . purposes of all my BADGE (pic- future activities tured): A Turtle within the Com- palewise monwealth (and Ed. note: I made a special point of including the Armiger’s standard, as I am quite often charged on the the fact that I was - Shell with a Sprig born in Bridgnorth, - of Golden Wattle England) I will de- oped a badge, just as the Armiger was granted, and that was included on the standard as Or. fer to my recent well. In this case, it is evident that the turtle badge held a place of higher importance to the (Lat- grant from Her armiger than the on the shield or the owl-with-boomerang in the crest. in): AVORUM Majesty’s College of Arms. HONORI (‘For the Honour of Our Ancestors’). Being elaborately illuminated on vellum with excep- STANDARD (pictured): Fragment from the Letters tionally executed hand-painted renditions of the Arms of Patent: the heraldic Standard – (L-R) the the Sovereign, the Arms of the Earl Marshal (His Grace Edward William Fitzalan-Howard, the 18th Duke of Nor- Crest, second of the Motto (in Latin), and again the folk, Hereditary Marshal and ‘First Peer of the Realm’, and Badge Head of Her Majesty’s College of Arms) and the Arms of Granting Authority: Kings of Arms Garter, Claren- Her Majesty’s College of Arms, my Letters Patent also fea- ceux, Norroy and Ulster; Her Majesty’s College of Arms: London; 2019. College Reference: Grants 23/2019 Arms: Thomas Woodcock, Garter Principal ; Preferred Style – by Letters Patent: George William Patric Laurence Dickinson, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Helon Esquire. Timothy Hugh Stewart Duke, Norroy and Ulster King of The meaning, history and symbolism of the Armiger’s Arms. granted armorial ensigns and Letters Patent are fully ex- plained at his website georgehelon.com. - Reproduced under Licence and with Permission. Copyright © tion of medieval manuscript illumination with a decorative George W. Helon: Australia; 2020. All Rights Reserved. All Imag- es Copyright © George W. Helon: Australia; 2019-2020. are signed by the granting Kings of Arms and sealed with their respec- enclosed in skippets (gold screw- lid containers) properly suspended from the vellum with blue grosgrain ribbons. I am extremely honoured to know my accomplishments and contributions to society are worthy of acknowledgement and that I have good standing locally, nationally and internationally to have even been considered for a grant of arms. So in addition to being a Free- man of the City of London and a Kentucky Colonel I am now an Ar- miger too! The (i.e. the Formal Description) of my Granted Armo- rial Ensigns ARMS (pictured): Gules an Ea- gle displayed Argent attached to each foot by a Manacle a broken Chain the Wings surmounting on ei- ther side a Scroll palewise Or. CREST: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Gules Perched