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HERALDRY

inding links to published pedigrees and aristocratic blood is not uncommon - just ask stars Danny Dyer and Josh Widdicombe. Nevertheless, heraldry can seem a mystifying subject at first. The formality, the unfamiliar terms and rules, and the connection with gentry and landed classes can make many of us feel excluded. And yet a coat of arms is more than decoration. As one of this month’s sites says, heraldry is a

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