Royal Warrant - Appointing Arundel Herald Extraordinary [2022-05-03]

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin Edward William, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Our Hereditary Marshal of England:

WHEREAS it appears by an Instrument under your hand and Seal bearing date the Twenty-first day of March Two thousand and twenty-two that being well satisfied with the abilities of Anne Elizabeth Curry and with her desire to improve her skill and knowledge in the art and science of Heraldry you have for her encouragement therein nominated and appointed the said Anne Elizabeth Curry to be a Herald of Arms Extraordinary by the name of Arundel Herald to the end that she may obtain Our Warrant to be fully invested with all the rights, privileges, pre-eminences and advantages of such Herald of Arms Extraordinary:

WE approving the character you have given of her are graciously pleased to condescend thereto: and it is Our Will and Pleasure and We do hereby authorize and require you in Our Name to create her the said Anne

Elizabeth Curry a Herald of Arms Extraordinary by the name of Arundel Herald to the end that she may be thereby qualified to have, exercise and enjoy all rights, privileges, pre-eminences and advantages whatsoever belonging to such Herald of Arms Extraordinary in as ample and beneficial a manner as any other hath heretofore held, exercised and enjoyed, or of right ought to have held, exercised and enjoyed the same:

PROVIDED always and Our Will and Pleasure is that she the said Anne Elizabeth Curry shall on the attainment of seventy-five years of age offer to resign the said Appointment such offer to be addressed in writing under her hand to you as Earl Marshal of England or to your successor in that Office for the time being and repeated annually in like manner until such time as you or your said successor deem fit to accept the same.

AND for so doing this shall be your Warrant.