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Queen wears Coronation Gown

During her first royal visit in 1954, Queen Elizabeth II opened the sitting of Australiaâ€™s federal parliament at Parliament House on 15 February 1954. As this photograph from the Western Mail shows, she wore her coronation gown and the sash of…

Tags: Australian Parliament, coronation, Coronation gown, garter, heraldry, Order of the Garter, parliament, Parliament House, queen, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal visit, sash, St George cross, star

The Order of the Thistle

Explaining the establishment of "The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle” in 1687, this article from the Western Argus first discusses the medieval adoption of the thistle as Scotland’s national emblem. This it dates to the…

Tags: battle, Battle of Largs, Hebrides, heraldry, King Alexander III of Scotland (1241-1286), King Haakon of Norway, King James II of England, King James VII of Scotland, Largs, medieval Scotland, national emblem, Norway, order of knighthood, Order of the Thistle, Scotland, St Andrew, thistle

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