Previous MessageThe post boxes, police uniforms etc all through the late Queen's reign regardless of what reginal number you would wish to give her displayed ER. This was after the huge outcry and disruption there was here in Scotland in the 1950s. I can guarantee the disruption and outcry there will be if the cypher for William will be WVR will make the 1950s display appear to be a mere squabble.
‘ER’ just means ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in this context; it doesn’t mean “Queen Elizabeth I”. A future King William V similarly bending to such sensitivities would use ‘WR’, not “WIIR”.
Other monarchs with regnal numbers greater than 1 have, in the past, occasionally also used cyphers without regnal numbers.
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