PnM059  “Royalist Mounted Flagbearer”

   This bold and colourful flagbearer belongs to the Royalists’ most famous cavalry regiment ... Prince Rupert’s Regiment of Horse, raised and led by the King’s own nephew Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682).

   The different troops of horse within the Regiment carried a number of different standards and guidons. Our figure carries Rupert’s personal colours comprising two golden yellow lions in opposite quarters on a black ground alongside the traditional blue and white diamonds of Bavaria in the remaining two quarters.