Arms of Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV of UK

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from Richard Num
Adelaide, South Australia

Queen Adelaide was queen's consort of the UK and Hanover as spouse of William the 4th of the UK. And she had a Queen Adelaide women's club somewhere in the Australian Adelaide city with a bronze statue of her in the foyer of the Town Hall. Finding out the fanciness/queenship of the Adelaide city I decided to be a royalist (with exquisite clothes and that) and while being a royalist I would serve the queen and defend the faith. That's for the city of Adelaide. Nothing wrong with perhaps a garibaldi, milk tea and some currant scones with clotted cream (that's the joke) and, perhaps, a Dundee cake. I like drinking a cappuccino out of a goblet. :P

[Turenne]

Hello Richard

Here's Adelaide's arms impaled with those of her husband:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arms_of_Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen.svg

The right hand side (sinister) are the arms of Saxe-Meininghen, and the left hand side (dexter) are those of her husband William IV.

William's arms are Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); overall an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron (for Hanover), I Gules two lions passant guardant Or (for Brunswick), II Or a semy of hearts Gules a lion rampant Azure (for Lüneburg), III Gules a horse courant Argent (for Westphalia), overall an inescutcheon Gules charged with the crown of Charlemagne Or, the whole escutcheon surmounted by a crown.

The Saxe-Meininghen arms are explained here:

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/karten/D1871/thueringen.html

and shown here:

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The numbers go from 1 (top left) along the line to 4 (second row left) and 7 (third row left) etc.