No Rabbit Hole Here!

After all the talk about going down rabbit holes in researching coats of arms, and their twists and turns and dead ends, today's post took no effort at all, really, beyond hitting the shutter button on the camera.

There were a couple of reasons for this. First, the coat of arms is -- or at least, should be -- instantly recognizable to most.

The other is that a different panel in the same stained glass window had a portrait and identified the armiger by name.

As you can easily see, Victoria Regina, Queen Victoria.

With, unsurprisingly, her coat of arms, which are still the arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland today.

Quarterly: 1 and 4, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or; 2, Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counterflory gules; 3, Azure a harp or stringed argent.

Though, of course, the arms of the monarch for use in Scotland place the Scottish lion and double tressure in the first and fourth quarters and the lions of England in the second quarter.

But as I said in the title of this post, "No rabbit hole here!" Just a simple, straight-forward, and easy identification of the arms.