Tim meets HRH The Prince of Wales, Patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, at the presentation of their Royal Charter.
Category: Royal Charters
Royal Hillsborough Letters Patent
Broderers’ Company Royal Charter
Detail from Royal Charter of the Worshipful Company of Broderers. The craft of embroidery influenced many aspects of the design.
Scientific Instrument Makers’ Royal Charter
Detail of Royal Charter of the Scientific Instrument Makers, showing area dedicated to biology.
Worshipful Company of Insurers Royal Charter, detail of initial E
A detail from the Royal Charter of the Worshipful Company of Insurers, showing heraldic motifs in the border and the initial ‘E,’ decorated with the UK floral emblems.
Her Majesty the Queen
Illuminated initial E from Royal Letters Patent creating Windsor Herald. The Queen has very rarely been depicted on Letters Patent.
Worshipful Company of Insurers Royal Charter, detail of salamander
Detail showing a gilded salamander unharmed in the flames, from the border of the Royal Charter of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.
MCC Royal Charter: detail of Royal Arms
The Royal Arms in a detail from the Royal Charter of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Royal Charter detail
The emblem of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, written and gilded in Arabic script, in the centre of their Royal Charter.