Author: Matthew Dessem / Source: Slate Magazine
Whether you blame it on participation trophies, a rotten economy, or Sir John Vanbrugh’s disastrous tenure as the College of Arms’ Clarenceux King of Arms from 1704 to 1725, the facts are indisputable: Californians, millennials, and Californian millennials have long been more interested in “blazing it up” than “blazoning it up.
” But one young woman is trying to usher in a return to traditional heraldry: Suits star Meghan Markle! The 36-year-old Northwestern graduate and Duchess of Sussex has been assigned a California-inspired coat of arms designed by Mr. Thomas Woodcock (the Garter King of Arms and Senior Herald in England) and approved by the Queen of England herself. In an apparent effort to reach out to young people who might consider heraldry “stuffy” or “old fashioned,” the news went out on Kensington Palace’s Twitter account, complete with a color picture:While baby boomers may cringe at the kind of shorthand the internet encourages—is that the coat of arms or the full heraldic achievement?—the up-and-coming generation of nobility grew up with social media and can switch fluently between Twitter lingo and the euphonious Latin of Bartolus de Saxoferrato’s fourteenth-century treatise Tractatus de Insigniis et Armis. But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
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