Prior to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, our coat of arms was supported by two unicorns. However, when King James VI of Scotland also became James I of England, he replaced one of the unicorns with ...

The coat of arms displayed on Edinburgh's Mercat Cross. | by Andrea Pucci/Moment/Getty Images. Another possibility is that the unicorn was chosen because in folklore it was the enemy of the lion ...

The Queen Consort’s coat of arms has been updated to reflect her husband becoming King. Camilla’s coat of arms was first granted by the late Queen in 2005 to mark her 58th birthday that year ...

A Medieval Royal Herald will be on hand to talk about the Scottish coat of arms and symbols of heraldry. Visitors will then be invited to create their own heraldry or make mythical beast puppets ...

Using heraldry as our guide, we can see that the unicorn was first introduced to the royal coat of arms of Scotland around the mid-1500s. Prior to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, our coat of arms ...