Editing William III of England (section)

==Titles, styles, and arms==
[[File:Hampton Court Avri 2009 46.jpg|thumb|Joint monogram of William and Mary carved onto [[Hampton Court Palace]]]]

===Titles and styles===
* 4 November 1650 – 9 July 1672: [[His Highness]]<ref>Troost, p. 5</ref> The Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau<ref>{{Cite book |last=S. and J. Sprint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sf1TImE7aN0C&q=+%22William+III%22++%22Count+of+Nassau%22++%22Prince+of+Orange%22&pg=PP14 |title=The life of William III. Late King of England, and Prince of Orange |date=1703 |publisher=Google eBoek (scanned version) |page=28 |access-date=1 September 2011}}</ref>
* 9–16 July 1672: His Highness The Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland
* 16 July 1672 – 26 April 1674: His Highness The Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland
* 26 April 1674 – 13 February 1689: His Highness The Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel
* 13 February 1689 – 8 March 1702: [[Majesty|His Majesty]] The King

By 1674, William was fully styled as "Willem III, [[by God's grace]] [[Prince of Orange]], [[Count of Nassau-Dillenburg|Count of Nassau]] etc., Stadtholder of [[County of Holland|Holland]], [[County of Zeeland|Zeeland]], [[Utrecht]] etc., Captain- and [[Admiral-General]] of the United Netherlands".<ref>Troost, p. 77</ref> After their accession in Great Britain in 1689, William and Mary used the titles "[[King and Queen of England]], [[King of Scotland|Scotland]], [[British claims to the French throne|France]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Fidei defensor|Defenders of the Faith]], etc."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan0000unse/page/709 |title=The Guinness Book of Answers |date=1991 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |isbn=0-8511-2957-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan0000unse/page/709 709]}}</ref>

===Arms===
As Prince of Orange, William's coat of arms was: [[Quartering (heraldry)|Quarterly]], I [[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]] [[Semé|billetty]] a lion [[rampant]] [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] (for [[House of Nassau|Nassau]]); II Or a lion rampant guardant [[Gules]] crowned Azure ([[Katzenelnbogen]]); III Gules a [[fess]] [[Argent]] ([[Vianden]]), IV Gules two lions [[passant guardant]] Or, armed and langued azure (Dietz); between the I and II quarters an [[inescutcheon]], Or a fess [[Sable (heraldry)|Sable]] ([[Moers]]); at the fess point an inescutcheon, quarterly I and IV Gules, a [[Bend (heraldry)|bend]] Or ([[Châlons]]); II and III Or a bugle horn Azure, stringed Gules Orange) with an inescutcheon, Nine pieces Or and Azure ([[Geneva]]); between the III and IV quarters, an inescutcheon, Gules a fess counter embattled Argent ([[Buren]]).<ref>{{Citation |last1=Pinches |first1=John Harvey |title=The Royal Heraldry of England |date=1974 |pages=191–192 |series=Heraldry Today |place=Slough, Buckinghamshire |publisher=Hollen Street Press |isbn=0-9004-5525-X |last2=Pinches, Rosemary}}</ref>

The coat of arms used by the king and queen was: Quarterly, I and IV Grand quarterly, Azure three [[fleurs-de-lis]] Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]] Or ([[Royal Arms of England|for England]]); II Or a lion rampant within a double [[tressure]] flory-counter-flory Gules ([[Royal coat of arms of Scotland|for Scotland]]); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent ([[Coat of arms of Ireland|for Ireland]]); over all an escutcheon Azure billetty a lion rampant Or.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Maclagan |first1=Michael |title=Line of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe |last2=Louda |first2=Jiří |date=1999 |publisher=Little, Brown & Co |isbn=1-8560-5469-1 |pages=29–30}}</ref>

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|style="text-align: center" |The coat of arms used by William III as [[Prince of Orange]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rietstap |first=Johannes Baptist |title=Armorial general |date=2003 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co. |isbn=0-8063-4811-9 |volume=2 |page=297}}</ref>
|style="text-align: center" |Royal coat of arms outside Scotland, 1689–1694
|style="text-align: center" |Royal coat of arms in Scotland, 1689–1694
|style="text-align: center" |Royal coat of arms outside Scotland, 1694–1702
|style="text-align: center" |Royal coat of arms in Scotland, 1694–1702
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