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Description: Shield of arms of HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales (born 1948) son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh. The arms was granted in 1958 to him as the Heir-Apparent to the British and Commonwealth thrones. “ Quarterly, 1st and 4th Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), 2nd quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), 3rd quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), with over all a label of three points Argent, and on an inescutcheon ensigned by the coronet of the heir-apparent, quarterly, Or and Gules four lions passant guardant counterchanged (for the Principality of Wales). ”
Title: Arms of Charles, Prince of Wales
Credit: Coat_of_Arms_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales.svg
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