Reel Heraldry: Anne of the Thousand Days, Part 2

Today, we're going to look at some of the Royal badges that can be seen in the movie Anne of the Thousand Days.

And unlike the line from a different movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which goes:

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

In Anne of the Thousand Days, we not only get shown badges, but they are (unlike the Royal arms on the tapestry from last time and in the first picture below) done correctly!

First off, if you look closely to the side of the right-hand page erecting the large tapestry we complained about last time, you will see the crowned portcullis badge, which King Henry VIII inherited from his grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Other Royal badges appear in the movie as well. For example, the crowned Tudor rose of the Tudors and the crowned pomegranate, a Spanish badge introduced into England as a Royal badge when Katherine of Aragon married Prince Arthur, "much displayed under Henry VIII until the dissolution of his marriage with Catherine." (Heraldic Badges in England and Wales, II.1. Royal Badges, by Michael Powell Siddons, page 197.)

Here's a closer look at these two badges behind Richard Burton portraying King Henry VIII.

The badge of a crowned Tudor rose could take any one of several different forms. The most common is a red rose charged with a white rose, but as you can see on the breast of this guardsman, it could also take the form of A rose quarterly gules and argent seeded and crowned or.

Next time, more heraldry from this classic movie!