Olympic heraldry

For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the IOC issued a large series of FDCs from countries that issued stamps for the Olympics. For each country one FDC was made, showing an heraldic design and one of the stamps.
Strangely, the heraldic design was rarely identical to the national arms of the country, but most often a new design, which sometimes did not even bear a resemblance with the official arms.
Every FDC had an inlet describing the country, its history in the Olympics as well as the base of the heraldic design. Here is the Belgian one:

Salve

Another new member, the Kungliga Biblioteket of Berghman, Finland. Good to see our publications reaching such an international and scholarly audience: a great credit to editor Professor Floyd.

Salvete

Two new members have joined us so far in July:
Lt. Col. Binks, Edinburgh, and J.R. Struthers, Surrey.

Earl of Strathearn

HRH The Earl of Strathearn was installed as a Royal Knight of the Thistle on Thursday 5th July 2012. A large complement of heralds and pursuivants was fielded for the occasion including the Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary (Christopher Roads, Esq., TD) and the Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary (Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar, Esq., RD). Here is a picture of the latter escorting the Countess to her pew.

The event was coordinated by Snawdoun Herald who was interveiwed about it both on television and in the Scotsman. A newspaper account of the event appears HERE.

Unicorn and Ormond at Royal Jubilee

The Lyon Court was in full attendance this morning at HM's Diamond Jubilee service in Glasgow Cathedral. In this snap Unicorn and Ormond can be seen behind the royal couple.

HSS Members at Brompton Oratory

A sizeable gathering of HSS members turned up at the London Oratory for the St John's Day celebrations (anticipated) of the Order of Malta. Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Mario Conti, while the congregation included: Liam Devlin,Peter McCann of Castlecraig,Thomas Leslie, Lord Norreys, Paul Sutherland, and David Waterton-Anderson,