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This has been a work all of my own up to this point, so I will leave a few pointers for other editors:
This article is essentially meant as the modern counterpart of the armorial pages that were already in existence for the Plantagenet and Stuart dynasties. The Tudors also have a bit of one.
The other articles mentioned varied wildly, even within themselves, in the format they used to display the different ensigns, so I have not religiously copied any one of them. For now I have gone for the gallery arrangement, but other editors may wish to change that.
The "Arms of Dominion" section aims to include every coat of arms which could ever have reasonably been said to have Elizabeth II, her father, her uncle or her grandfather as its armiger since 1917. Designs which went out of use before then, or which were not adopted until after the monarch ceased to reign, should not be included.
If the same territory had more than one distinct device under Windsor rule, then both should be shown with the relevant dates in brackets.
The House of Windsor was established in 1917 as a rebranding of what had then been part of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It is generally understood to include all descendants in the legitimate male-line of King George V & Mary of Teck, but some interpretations backdate it to include all such descendants of Prince Albert & Queen Victoria. I would suggest as a general rule that George V's agnatic cousins who died before 1917 should be left out completely, and those who lived after should only be included if an image of their arms can be found which doesn't have a Saxon inescutcheon on it.
It is increasingly common for members of the royal family to have a secondary armorial achievement specifically for use in Scotland. Include these if illustrations can be found. Refer to the person by his or her highest Scottish title if possible (e.g. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge vs Prince William, Earl of Strathearn).
Wives of Windsor men are not technically members of the dynasty themselves, but the Plantagenet page included wives so I have included them here as well. Purely for completeness I have also added the husbands.
The Plantagenet page included cognatic relatives who inherited royal quarterings. I have done the same here, though there were not as many illustrations available as I would have liked.
