By Letters Patent

Grant of Arms

unto a Candidate of proven Diligence, that her Deeds be known and her Services recorded

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To all and singular, greeting: know ye that

Luna Lovegood

Protocol Officer

having her seat in the City of London

luna.lovegood@example.com +44 20 5550 0189 lunalovegood.example.com

Whereas the said Luna Lovegood hath petitioned that Arms be granted unto her in token of faithful service in matters of ceremony, precedence, and state visits; and whereas due inquiry hath been made into her conduct and record; now therefore these presents do assign unto her the Arms, Deeds, and Attainments hereafter set forth, to be borne by her and displayed to all who would inquire after her fitness for office.

The Petitioner Declares

I have spent 11 years in protocol and ceremonial work, most recently planning the visits of 23 foreign delegations in a single year. I keep seating plans, orders of precedence, and gift registers accurate to the last placecard, and my last three state dinners ran within 4 minutes of schedule. I own more white gloves than most people consider reasonable.

Blazon of the Arms

Or, on a fess gules three keyboards argent; in chief two sealed letters azure, garnished proper, betokening correspondence in four tongues; in base a table diapered, set with four and twenty covers all in order, signifying the marshalling of banquets; the whole within a bordure engrailed vert charged with eight placecards argent, for exactness in precedence.

Motto · Ordo Ante Omnia · Order Before All Things

Deeds of Service

Senior Protocol Officer 2019–present

Whitcombe House · Office of Ceremonial Affairs, London

  • Planned and marshalled 23 inbound delegation visits in 2025, from motorcade order to departure gifts, with zero precedence complaints lodged.
  • Rewrote the office's 140-page precedence manual into a 38-page working guide now used by 5 partner departments.
  • Ran 3 state dinners of 180 to 240 covers each; the longest overrun across all three was 4 minutes.
Protocol Officer 2015–2019

The Marlowe Association · Diplomatic Events, London

  • Managed accreditation and seating for an annual congress of 1,100 delegates from 62 countries, 4 years running.
  • Built a flag-and-anthem checklist that cut ceremonial errors from 9 incidents in 2015 to 1 in 2018.
Assistant to the Master of Ceremonies 2013–2015

Guild of St. Alban · Livery Events, London

  • Drafted 60+ orders of procession and citations for investitures and livery dinners each year.
  • Kept the guild's gift register and correspondence ledger, roughly 800 entries per annum, without a single lost record.

Charges Borne · Skills

Precedence and titles · forms of address in 4 languages
State visit logistics · motorcades, arrivals, honours
Banquet marshalling · seating plans to 240 covers
Ceremonial drafting · citations, loyal addresses, programmes
Gift and register keeping · audit-clean ledgers since 2013
Languages · English, French, German, working Italian

Letters of Learning

MA, Diplomatic Studies · Harcourt College, London · 2011–2013

BA (Hons), History · University of Wexbridge · 2008–2011

Certificate in Heraldry and Ceremonial Practice, The Pursuivants' School, 2016

In witness whereof these Letters are made patent, given under hand this eighteenth day of July in the year two thousand and twenty-six, and sealed with the seals pendent hereunder, that none may doubt the record herein contained.

Seal of
Diligence

gules, on cords of the office

Seal of
Good Order

vert, on cords azure and or