If you ever get a letter from the new Queen, it will have this monogram (Picture: Buckingham Palace/PA)
A new cypher which will appear on letterheads from Queen Camilla has been unveiled.
The monogram will feature on her personal letters, cards and gifts and appears more ornate than her husband the King’s cypher, which was revealed at the end of the period of royal mourning.
The King’s emblem will be used on Government buildings, state documents and new post boxes, so is more likely to be seen by people across the nation.
But the Queen’s cypher will also get public viewings, for example when it will be featured on the cross she will lay at Westminster Abbey’s Field of Remembrance later this month.
It features the initials ‘CR’ below a representation of the Crown, incorporating C for Camilla intertwined with R for Regina – Latin for Queen.
Selected from a series of designs, the cypher is the Queen Consort’s personal property.
The cypher has a colour and a black and white version (Credits: Buckingham Palace/PA)
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It was created with the help of a former Benedictine monk who later worked in America’s silicon valley.
Ewan Clayton, professor of design at the University of Sunderland, worked in collaboration with the artist behind Charles’ monogram – Tim Noad, who is heraldic artist and calligrapher at the College of Arms in London.
Professor Clayton, who trained as a calligrapher, lived as a Benedictine monk at Worth Abbey in Sussex in the mid-1980s and was later hired as a consultant to work at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Laboratory, in California’s Silicon Valley, which helped develop Ethernet and the laser printer.
The academic is a core member of staff at the Royal Drawing School, which Charles helped establish, and is a visiting lecturer in calligraphy at a number of academic institutions.
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It features the initials ‘CR’ below a representation of the Crown, incorporating C for Camilla intertwined with R for Regina – Latin for Queen.
