royal warrant
Monarch's official approval
A royal warrant is an official authorization from a monarch granting a person or company the right to supply goods or services to the royal household.
Businesses holding royal warrants may display the royal coat of arms on their products and premises: The jam maker has held a royal warrant since 1886.
The term also covers other formal documents issued under royal authority.
- by appointmentRequiring prior arrangement
- supplierSource of goods
- emblemRepresentational sign or device
- appointedAssigned to office
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
sovereign · British monarchy · artisan · goods · decree · approval · mark · trading stamp · purveyor · heritage · insignia · Queen Elizabeth · Burberry · coat of arms · holder · tradition · tradesmen · charter
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- official documentsbirth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, passport, driver's license
- Crown Governmentsovereign, constitutional monarchy, Lord Chancellor, Exchequer, Secretary of State
- legal documentscontract, affidavit, deed, will, subpoena
- regaliacrown jewels, scepter, orb, ceremonial dress, imperial crown
royal warrantunauthorized
Not officially permitted
unlicensed · bootleg · counterfeit · black market · unendorsed
royal warrantgeneric brand
store brand · discount brand · unbranded · white label · mass market
royal warrantknighthood
Honorary title of nobility
arrest warrant · search warrant · peerage · royal charter · MBE