Does anyone know how they changed since her marriage on Friday?
The groom is the male-line descendant of a younger son of a baronet (the heir to the baronetcy read a reading at the service); so he is almost definitely armigerous.
That's...With all due respect pretty irrelevant to this conversation. The groom is armigerous, entitled to arms, and entitled to use them should he so wish, as opposed to someone like Mike Tindall who is and remains a non-armiger. Whether he wishes touse them or not is pretty immaterial.
I inherited my father's arms, but I never use them in public. My house is not the kind to display a banner, and I no longer wear my father's signet ring now that wax seals have disappeared. Nor do my children bother. For them heraldry is prettymuch irrelevant nowadays. In practice, they have no coat of arms. I see their point. The original purpose of heraldry, as personal identification on seals and over armour, petered out in the fifteenth century and heraldry became simply a status symbol.
Mr and Mrs Brooksbank have no title and may feel that heraldry too is not important. That seems a perfectly rational approach. The royal family and the aristocracy may still have uses for their arms. But others can only fabricate excuses to usetheirs. And when they do, nobody recognises them, so the point of the heraldry is lost.
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