It was a hypothetical that requires this design to actually be the one that the Obamas commissioned and are seeking to adopt. If the president and his wife did contact family-crests.com for design consultation, rather than someone at the Army Institute of Heraldry for advice or rather than ring up Downing Street to ask how the Brits come to obtain such devices and speak to someone at the College of Arms, then I certainly can imagine the couple being convinced that a crown is an appropriate device for an elected official.
Joseph McMillan;99905 wrote:
By the way, there’s never been a prime minister of Canada who was a lord.
Actually, R.B. Bennett, who was Prime Minister 1930 to 1935, was made Viscount Bennett in 1941. He wasn’t a lord while serving, and perhaps that’s what you’d meant.
His arms, which use the viscount’s coronet:
Argent within two bendlets Gules three maple leaves proper all between two deim-lions rampant couped gules. Crest, a demi-lion Gules grapsing in the dexter paw a battle axe in bend sinister Or and resting the sinister paw on an escallop also Gules. Supporters, Dexter a buffalo, sinister a moose, both proper. Motto, To be Pressed not Oppressed.