The coat of arms of Jersey is the heraldic device consisting of a shield charged with three gold lions on a red field.

[4] During the German occupation in the Second World War, the dependency was allowed to print its own postage stamps for the first time given its inability to access supplies from mainland Britain.

This design was approved – with the Germans apparently unaware that it was also the royal arms of the monarch – and the stamps were first issued on 1 April 1941.

[5] A Royal Warrant was issued on 10 December 1980, appending the coat of arms to the flag of the dependency and topping it with a Plantagenet crown.

The official description of the new flag was as follows – "Argent a Saltire Gules in the honour point an Escutcheon also Gules thereon three Lions passant guardant Or (being the Royal Arms as used and borne by Our Island of Jersey) ensigned by an Ancient Crown (such as has been attributed unto Our Royal Predecessors being of the House of Plantagenet) of Gold"