Re motto: connections to U.K., Germany, media, Australia, and Michael Jackson!
Dieu et mon droit has been adopted along with the rest of the Royal Coat of Arms by The Times as part of its masthead. When it incorporated the Coat of Arms in 1875, half the newspapers in London were also doing so. Since 1982 the paper abandoned the use of the current Royal Coat of Arms and returned to using the Hanoverian coat of arms of 1785.[21]
Versions of the Coat of Arms, with the motto, are used by Nottingham City Council as its logo, and by various newspapers, including Melbourne’s The Age in Australia, Christchurch’s The Press in New Zealand, the UK’s Daily Mail, and Canada’s Toronto Standard. It is also used in Hardwick Hall in England on the fireplace of The High Great Chamber, also known as the Presence Chamber, though there it reads Dieu est mon droit instead creating an additional ‘ES’ monogram. The extra E and S are a superimposition on the original E. This was added at a later date after the original writing was put up; to deface the Royal Arms would have been very dangerous, hence why it was added later.
It is also found on the official belt buckle of the Jamaica Constabulary Force;[citation needed] the front page of a British passport; the rank slide of a warrant officer in the British and other Commonwealth armed forces; the arms of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Supreme Court of New South Wales; and the crests of Hawthorn Rowing Club in Melbourne, Australia, Nottingham Law School, and Sherborne School.[22]
The coined phrase was also used by Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch’s front gates. The crest on the main gates carried the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, along with the phrase at the bottom.[23]
The motto was formerly included in a scroll on the Western Australia Police Force coat of arms, before being replaced with “Protect and Serve” when the organisation changed its name from Western Australia Police Force to Western Australia Police Service.
It is the motto of Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet.
Old Customs House, Sydney AU
It is also found on the Old Customs House in Sydney, Australia. The Royal Coat of Arms is intricately carved in sandstone, located above the main entry pediment.
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