Arms of the Princess of Wales, Impaled by the Prince of Wales. Impalement or marshalling is a combination of two coats of arms side by side in one divided heraldic shield to denote a union, most often that of a husband and wife, in this case the Prince and Princess of Wales. From The National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published

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