Chapter 441: Missing Her Mother
Talia had a lot of things to take care of for the wedding. She had to select a joint coat of arms to use for statements she and Arthur will release as a couple in the future that will be printed in all their stationaries.
She had a separate coat of arms as The Princess Royal and he had one as the Marquess. Upon marriage, their coat of arms will be joined representing the both of them. Although Arthur is the heir of the Oakley castle, she wanted to include the Boswell coat of arms in their joint coat of arms.
Arthur wasn’t so keen and the courtiers suggested that as the youngest son, he won’t be able to use the Boswell coat of arms. Even the well-informed courtiers found it hard to design their combined coat of arms. Usually, the conjugal coat of arms in Rosandale Royals will include the coat of arms of the four families – the paternal and maternal families of the bride and groom.
But in Talia’s case, her maternal family is Arthur’s family since he is the heir to the Bruton family. And it led to confusion.
"Didn’t the Royal family marry their first cousins until some centuries ago? What did they do?"
Talia’s question made the experts spend time in the library and they got ideas for a lot of designs.
Talia wanted to include something from his side of the family nonetheless and she talked with her father-in-law.
Gregory Sinclair found it odd that she asked him for his coat of arms. Talia explained why she needed it, and he insisted to use the coat of arms of Arthur as the Marquess. He said that the stag and ivy leaves represented the Boswell family in the past just like and Laurel and horses represent the Brunton family.
Talia only then remembered that in the coat of arms she embroidered in Arthur’s robe, the coronet of the Brunton horse was designed like stag antlers and there were ivy leaves intertwined with the laurel leaves.