Hear ye, hear ye, a town from an insular island principality off the coast of Spain is feuding with an exiled princess over their coat of arms. No, this is not a headline sung by your local 11th-century bard, but the honest-to-god story that multiple newspapers splashed on today.
The British press, like clockwork, is slavering over the opportunity to label Meghan Markle’s lifestyle re-brand as positively disastrous. Her crime this time? The new heraldic crest style logo for As Ever, formerly known as American Riviera Orchard, faintly resembles the crest of the medieval town of Porres in Majorca. In so much that involves trees and birds, two very commonly used symbols in this historic branding practice of the nobility.
