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Scottish Shield only on funerary hatchment. The coat is per pale, to dexter the United Kingdom (for her husband, King George VI); to sinister, quarterly, I and IV argent, a lion rampant azure langued and armed gules within a double tressure fleury-counter-fleury of the second (for Lyon), II and III, ermine three bows strings palewise proper (for Bowes), her paternal arms. The entire background is black, as is appropriate for a widow (had she predeceased her husband, the hatchment would have been black on the sinister side only).


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